Tacit and Explicit Testimony as proof of abu al-Hassan Musa’s  عليه السلام Divine Authority over the people after abu ‘Abdallah  عليه السلام — report 12

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

12ـ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ عَنِ ابْنِ مُسْكَانَ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ خَالِدٍ قَالَ دَعَا أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) أَبَا الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) يَوْماً وَنَحْنُ عِنْدَهُ فَقَالَ لَنَا عَلَيْكُمْ بِهَذَا فَهُوَ وَالله صَاحِبُكُمْ بَعْدِي.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

12. Ahmad ibn Idris has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbar from Safwan from ibn Muskan from Sulayman ibn Khalid who has said the following. “Abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام one day called abu al-Hassan عليه السلام while we were in his presence and said to us, “You must take hold of this man. He, by Allah, will be your Master after me.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 71, report 12

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · صحيح · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/337)

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

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Arabic witness SHA-256: 4d925e423cc68f640383f8ec1122736ef1c0351193e478799c27d16cfb272553

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/71/12. 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.