(3) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa'eed bin Oqda narrated from...

(3) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa'eed bin Oqda narrated from Ahmad bin Younus bin Ya’qoob al-Ju’fi Abul Hasan from Isma’eel bin Mihran from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Abu Hamza that Abdul A’la bin A’yun had said: “Abu Abdullah Ja’far bin Muhammad (Imam as-Sadiq) said to me: “O Abdul A’la, undertaking our matter[^3] is not by knowing and accepting it. It is by preserving and keeping it secret from those, who are not reliable.

Deliver to them (the Shia) my greeting and tell them that he (Imam as-Sadiq) says to you: May Allah have mercy upon one, who brings himself and us people’s love by showing them what they know and refrain from telling them what they deny.

(4) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa'eed narrated from Abu Abdullah Ja’far bin Abdullah from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Fadhdhal from Safwan bin Yahya from Iss’haq bin Ammar as-Sayrafi from Abdul A’la that Imam Abu Abdullah Ja'far bin Muhammad as-Sadiq (as) had said: “Knowing this matter is not enough to prove your loyalty unless you keep it secret from those, who are not reliable. It suffices you to say what we have said and to be silent on what we have been silent on.

If you tell of what we have said and submit to what we have kept silent, then you have believed in what we have believed in. Allah says***: (And if they believe*** in the like of that which ye believe, then they are rightly guided).