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 2

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

2ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ حُكَيْمٍ عَنْ نُعَيْمٍ الْقَابُوسِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) أَنَّهُ قَالَ إِنَّ ابْنِي عَلِيّاً أَكْبَرُ وُلْدِي وَأَبَرُّهُمْ عِنْدِي وَأَحَبُّهُمْ إِلَيَّ وَهُوَ يَنْظُرُ مَعِي فِي الْجَفْرِ وَلَمْ يَنْظُرْ فِيهِ إِلا نَبِيٌّ أَوْ وَصِيُّ نَبِيٍّ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

2. A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Mu‘awiya ibn Hakim from Nu‘aym al-Qabusi from abu al-Hassan عليه السلام who has said the following. “My son, Ali is the eldest of my sons and the most virtuous among them to me and the most beloved of them to me. He looks into the Jafr (a secret source of knowledge) with me. No one looks into it except a prophet or the executor of the will of a prophet.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 72, report 2

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · موثق · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/342)

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

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Arabic witness SHA-256: 31a79920d8b093e12a5474ad07275c554eb5155c12d3b77a1916aaf998f96b29

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/72/2. 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.