Tacit and Explicit Testimony as proof of the owner of the House’s  عليه السلام Divine Authority over the people abu Muhammad al-Hassan  عليه السلام — report 4

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

4ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ حَمْدَانَ الْقَلانِسِيِّ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِلْعَمْرِيِّ قَدْ مَضَى أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ فَقَالَ لِي قَدْ مَضَى وَلَكِنْ قَدْ خَلَّفَ فِيكُمْ مَنْ رَقَبَتُهُ مِثْلُ هَذِهِ وَأَشَارَ بِيَدِهِ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

4. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Hamdan al-Qalanisi who has said the following. “The narrator has said, ‘I said to al-‘Amri, “Has abu Muhammad عليه السلام left this world?” He said, “He has left this world but has appointed for (a Leader with Divine Authority) whose neck is like this. He made a sign with his hand.” (The hand gesture was an indication of Imam’s good health or perhaps age). *1. Al-‘Amri was the first of the twelfth Imam’s representatives.

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 76, report 4

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف على المشهور · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/2)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/76/4. 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.