8, h 5 A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn...

8, h 5 A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Muhammad ibn Sinan from abu Khalid al-Qammat from abu al_hassan al-'Attar who has said that he heard Imam abu 'Abdallah (a.s.) saying, "Of the matters common among the successors and the messengers themselves one is that to obey them all is obligatory." H 465, Ch.

8, h 6 Ahmad ibn Muhammad has narrated from Muhammad ibn abu 'Umayr from Sayf ibn ibn 'Umayr from abu al-Sabah al-Kinani who has said that Imam abu 'Abdallah (a.s.) who has said the following. "We are a people obedience to whom is obligatory by the command of Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High. The Anfal (twenty percent in tax) is for us and we have been given the authority to choose the best out of the property seized from the enemy. We are the people very firmly established in knowledge.

We are the ones who are considered as subject to the jealousy of people in the following verse of the holy Quran, "Are they jealous of the favors that God has done to some people? . . . (4:54) H 466, Ch.

8, h 7 Ahmad ibn Muhammad has narrated from Ali ibn al-Hakam from al-Husayn ibn abu al-'Ala' whos has said that I mentioned to Imam abu 'Abdallah (a.s.) our expression about the successors (of the Prophets (s.a.)) "That obedience to them is obligatory", the Imam (a.s.) said, 'It is very true because they are the people about whom Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, has said, "Believers, obey God, His Messenger, and your (qualified) leaders. . .

.' (4:59) It is they about whom Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, has also said, 'Only God, His Messenger, and the true believers who are steadfast in prayer and pay alms, while they kneel during prayer, are your guardians (5:55)'" H 467, Ch.

8, h 8 Through the same chain of narrators it is narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Mu'ammar ibn Khallad who has said that a man from Persia asked Imam abu al-Hassan (a.s.) "Is obedience to you obligatory?" The Imam (a.s.) replied, "Yes, it is obligatory." The man then asked is in the same way as obedience to Amir al-Mu'minin Ali ibn abu Talib (a.s.)?" The Imam (a.s.) replied "Yes, it is obligatory in the same way," H 468, Ch.

8, h 9 Through the same chain of narrators it is narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn al-Hakam from Ali ibn abu Hamza from abu Basir who has said that I asked Imam abu 'Abdallah (a.s.) about the Imams whether in the matters of the obligation of obedience to them they are all the same or not.