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 6

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

6ـ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مِهْرَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ مَرْوَانَ الْقَنْدِيِّ وَكَانَ مِنَ الْوَاقِفَةِ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَعِنْدَهُ ابْنُهُ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) فَقَالَ لِي يَا زِيَادُ هَذَا ابْنِي فُلانٌ كِتَابُهُ كِتَابِي وَكَلامُهُ كَلامِي وَرَسُولُهُ رَسُولِي وَمَا قَالَ فَالْقَوْلُ قَوْلُهُ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

6. Ahmad ibn Mihran has narrated from Muhammad ibn Ali from Ziyad ibn Marwan al-Qandi, from the Waqifa sect who has said the following. “Once I went to see abu Ibrahim at that time his son abu al-Hassan al-Rida was with him. The Imam عليه السلام said to me, “O Ziyad, this is my son so and so. His writing is my writing, his words are my words, his messenger is my messenger and the true words are his words.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 72, report 6

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/343)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/72/6. 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.