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 3

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

3ـ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مِهْرَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ وَإِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ عَبَّادٍ الْقَصْرِيِّ جَمِيعاً عَنْ دَاوُدَ الرَّقِّيِّ قَالَ قُلْتُ لابِي إِبْرَاهِيمَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ إِنِّي قَدْ كَبِرَ سِنِّي فَخُذْ بِيَدِي مِنَ النَّارِ قَالَ فَأَشَارَ إِلَى ابْنِهِ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) فَقَالَ هَذَا صَاحِبُكُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِي.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

3. Ahmad ibn Mihran has narrated from Muhammad ibn Ali from Muhammad ibn Sinan and Isma‘il ibn ‘Abbad al-Qasri, all from Dawud al-Raqqi who has said the following. “I said to abu Ibrahim عليه السلام , ‘May Allah take my soul in service for your cause, I have become old, take my hand out of fire.” The narrator has said that the Imam عليه السلام pointed to his son, abu al-Hassan عليه السلام and then said, “This is your guardian after me.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 72, report 3

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف · 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: b283d2142f17ec0be886819ba98abf5480003840e43bfc99ab822eff41e3fe82

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/72/3. 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.