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 14

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hadith

ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

14ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّضْرِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ بِنَحْوٍ مِنْ هَذَا إِلا أَنَّهُ ذَكَرَ أَنَّهُ أَوْصَى إِلَى أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ الْمَنْصُورِ وَعَبْدِ الله وَمُوسَى وَمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ وَمَوْلىً لابِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ فَقَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ لَيْسَ إِلَى قَتْلِ هَؤُلاءِ سَبِيلٌ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

14. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from al-Nadr ibn Suwayd has narrated a similar hadith as the above except that he has said, “He left a will to abu Ja‘far, al-Mansur, ‘Abdallah , Musa, Muhammad ibn Ja‘far and Mawla of abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام . Abu Ja‘far then said, “There is no way to kill these people.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 71, report 14

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · إما مرسل أو مجهول · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/338)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/71/14. 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.