Then he said to the testimony bearers, "You may go now, may Allah bless you.

Then he said to the testimony bearers, "You may go now, may Allah bless you." I then asked him after they had left, "O father, you did not need to make a will for such matters." He said, "My son, I did not like when you will be over come they would say, "No directive will was made in his favor." I just wanted to establish a defence authority in your favor." Chapter 71 : Tacit and Explicit Testimony as proof of abu al-Hassan Musa's (a.s.) Divine Authority over the people after abu 'Abdallah (a.s.) H 798, Ch.

71, h 1 Ahmad ibn Mihran has narrated from Muhammad ibn Ali from 'Abdallah al-Qalla' from al- Fayd ibn al-Mukhtar who has said the following. "I said to abu 'Abdallah (a.s.), 'Please, take my hand out of fire. Who is for us after you (leave this world)?" Then abu Ibrahim (Musa ibn Ja'far (a.s.) came and he was a young boy in those days. The Imam (a.s.) said, "This is your companion hold fast to him." H 799, Ch.

71, h 2 A number of our people has narrated Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn al-Hakam from abu Ayyub al-Khazzaz from Thubayt from that Mu'dh ibn Kathir who has said the following. "I said to abu 'Abdallah (a.s.), 'I pray to Allah who has granted your father because of you such a high position to grant you also such high position through your successor before you will leave this world.

" He then said, "Allah has already granted such favor." The narrator has said that he then asked the Imam (a.s.), "Who is he, 'May Allah take my soul in service for your cause?" He pointed out towards the pious servant (of Allah), who was asleep, saying this man who is asleep." He was a young boy." H 800, Ch. 71, h 3 Through the same chain of narrators it is narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad who has said the following.

"Abu Ali al-Arjani al-Farisi narrated to me from 'Abd al-Rahman al- Hajjaj in the year ( 179 AH /795 AD) in which former abu al-Hasan, Imam Musa (a.s.) was detained. I (Hajjaj) said to him ('Abd al-Rahman), "This man (abu al-Hassan Musa (a.s.) has been detained in his (Mansur, current ruler) hands. We do not know how his conditions are. Have you heard anything from him about his sons?" He ('Abd al-Rahman) said to me, "I did not think anyone would ask me about this issue.

Once I went to see Ja'far ibn Muhammad (a.s.) in his home. He was in such and such a room at the prayer area. He was praying to Allah and on his right side was Musa ibn Ja'far (a.s.) saying Amen for his prayer.