Tacit and Explicit Testimony as proof of abu al-Hassan al-Rida’s  عليه السلام Divine Authority over the people after abu al-Hassan Musa  عليه السلام — report 10

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

10ـ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مِهْرَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنِ ابْنِ مُحْرِزٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ يَقْطِينٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ كَتَبَ إِلَيَّ مِنَ الْحَبْسِ أَنَّ فُلاناً ابْنِي سَيِّدُ وُلْدِي وَقَدْ نَحَلْتُهُ كُنْيَتِي.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

10. Ahmad ibn Mihran has narrated from Muhammad ibn Ali from ibn Muhriz from Ali ibn Yaqtin who has said the following. “Abu al-Hassan عليه السلام wrote to me from prison that so and so my son is the master and guardian of my children and I have gifted my own (Kunya, Arabic) surname.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 72, report 10

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف على المشهور · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/346)

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

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Arabic witness SHA-256: 03d9403f7f283f9ef43a2551633e330b21de48fcc7ff3f4d73841b9f59a403a5

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/72/10. 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.