Then onwards...

Then onwards, all undertakings were accomplished through Abu Ja’far and the Shia remained unanimous on his uprightness and trustworthiness and honesty due to the narration recorded during his father’s lifetime that enunciated his honesty and uprightness and commanded the Shia to refer to him in the lifetime of Hasan (a.s.) as well as after his death.

Ahmad Ibne Ali Ibne Nuh Abul Abbas Sairafi narrates on the authority of a number of named narrators in a long well-known narration, in which they all say, We gathered before Abu Muhammad Hasan Ibne Ali (a.s.) to ask him about the Hujjah after him. There were forty men in the gathering. Uthman Ibne Saeed Ibne Amr Amari rose and said: “O son of the…