When he reached me...

When he reached me, he looked at me and said, ‘Your prayer was accepted; your life will be long and you will own many children and much property.’ I was shocked of the unseen tidings, but I said nothing to my companions about it. Then I returned to Isfahan. I gained much property. I have a million dirhams only in my house, not to mention what I possess outside. The Exalted Allah granted me ten children. Now I am more than seventy years old.

I believe in the Imamate of the man who was aware of my thoughts and his prayer about me was accepted.’”[^10] Virtues Shiykh Mufid has written, “After Imam Abu Ja’far (a.s.), his son, Abul Hasan Ali Ibn Muhammad (a.s.) reached the Imamate position, because he possessed all Imamate qualities. There was no other person as qualified as he was at that time for occupying this position. He was appointed to the Imamate by his father.”[^11] Ibn Shahr ‘ashub has described Imam Ali Al-Naqi (