The list of the Names of those who saw the Twelfth Imam  عليه السلام — report 8

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

8ـ عَلِيٌّ عَنْ أَبِي عَلِيٍّ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ إِدْرِيسَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ رَأَيْتُهُ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) بَعْدَ مُضِيِّ أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ حِينَ أَيْفَعَ وَقَبَّلْتُ يَدَيْهِ وَرَأْسَهُ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

8. Ali has narrated from abu Ali Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Idris from his father who has said the following. “I saw him (the twelfth Imam) after the death of abu Muhammad عليه السلام when he had reached adolescence. I kissed his hand and head.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 77, report 8

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مجهول · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/11)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/77/8. 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.