Tacit and Explicit Testimony as proof of abu Muhammad al-Hassan ‘s  عليه السلام Divine Authority over the people after Ali ibn Muhammad  عليه السلام — report 1

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

1ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ النَّهْدِيِّ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ يَسَارٍ الْقَنْبَرِيِّ قَالَ أَوْصَى أَبُو الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) إِلَى ابْنِهِ الْحَسَنِ قَبْلَ مُضِيِّهِ بِأَرْبَعَةِ أَشْهُرٍ وَأَشْهَدَنِي عَلَى ذَلِكَ وَجَمَاعَةً مِنَ الْمَوَالِي.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

1. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Nahdi from Yahya ibn Yasar al-Qanbar who has said the following. “Abu al-Hassan عليه السلام prepared his directive will to his son, al-Hassan four months before his leaving this world. He appointed me to bear testimony to his will as well as a group of the follower friends.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 75, report 1

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مجهول · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/387)

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

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Arabic witness SHA-256: 615cea934049346548d3560a056fbfa0173cbb75b38e7422ebda61b7dc042e88

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/75/1. 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.