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 6

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

6ـ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مِهْرَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ فُضَيْلِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ طَاهِرٍ قَالَ كُنْتُ قَاعِداً عِنْدَ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) فَأَقْبَلَ جَعْفَرٌ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) فَقَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) هَذَا خَيْرُ الْبَرِيَّةِ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

6. Ahmad ibn Mihran has narrated from Muhammad ibn Ali from Fudayl ibn ‘Uthman from who has said the following. “Once I was in the presence of abu Ja‘far عليه السلام that Ja‘far عليه السلام came. Abu Ja‘far عليه السلام said, “This (Ja‘far) is the best of the people.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 70, report 6

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

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · لم يخرجه · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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Arabic witness SHA-256: a8061dc8913e88fa85d71163969484e9b7ebd80826e44985bb80331096c07d7c

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/70/6. 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.