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 2

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

2ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ الْخَزَّازِ عَنْ ثُبَيْتٍ عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ كَثِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ أَسْأَلُ الله الَّذِي رَزَقَ أَبَاكَ مِنْكَ هَذِهِ الْمَنْزِلَةَ أَنْ يَرْزُقَكَ مِنْ عَقِبِكَ قَبْلَ الْمَمَاتِ مِثْلَهَا فَقَالَ قَدْ فَعَلَ الله ذَلِكَ قَالَ قُلْتُ مَنْ هُوَ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ فَأَشَارَ إِلَى الْعَبْدِ الصَّالِحِ وَهُوَ رَاقِدٌ فَقَالَ هَذَا الرَّاقِدُ وَهُوَ غُلامٌ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

2. A number of our people has narrated Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn al-Hakam from Abu Ayyub al-Khazzaz from Thubayt from Mua‘dh ibn Kathir who has said the following: "I said to Abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام , ‘I pray to Allah who has granted your father because of you such a high position to grant you also such high position through your successor before you will leave this world.' He then said, 'Allah has already granted such favor.' The narrator has said that he then asked the Imam عليه السلام , 'Who is he, ‘May I be your ransom?' He pointed out towards the pious servant (of Allah), who was asleep, saying this man who is asleep. He was a young boy.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 71, report 2

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · حسن · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/330)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/71/2. 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.