Tacit and Explicit Testimony as proof of abu ‘Abdallah Ja‘far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq’s  عليه السلام Divine Authority over the people after Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn  عليه السلام — report 4

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

4ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ طَاهِرٍ قَالَ كُنْتُ عِنْدَ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) فَأَقْبَلَ جَعْفَرٌ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) فَقَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) هَذَا خَيْرُ الْبَرِيَّةِ أَوْ أَخْيَرُ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

4. A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn al-Hakam from Tahir who has said the following: “Once I was in the presence of Abu Ja‘far عليه السلام when Ja‘far عليه السلام came. Abu Ja‘far عليه السلام said, “He (Ja‘far) is the best of the people or the best of best among them.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 70, report 4

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مجهول · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/327)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · صحيح · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 36

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Arabic witness SHA-256: 4d4ec4214d45e78a8c8654fedf58263ed0e9cb9ad15a716632db0f3c35c14fdc

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/70/4. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.