The list of the Names of those who saw the Twelfth Imam  عليه السلام — report 12

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

12ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْكُوفِيِّ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْمَكْفُوفِ عَنْ عَمْرٍو الاهْوَازِيِّ قَالَ أَرَانِيهِ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) وَقَالَ هَذَا صَاحِبُكُمْ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

12. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Ja‘far ibn Muhammad al-Kufi from Ja‘far ibn Muhammad al-Makfuf from ‘Amr al-Ahwazi who has said the following. “Abu Muhammad عليه السلام showed him (the twelfth Imam عليه السلام to me and said, “This will be your master (Leader with Divine Authority).”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 77, report 12

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/14)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/77/12. 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.