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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Kamaaluddin wa Tamaamun Ni’ma Vol. 2 Chapter 40: After Hasan and Husain (a.s.) no two brothers can be Imams 1 - Narrated to us my father and Muhammad bin Hasan - May Allah be pleased with them – they said: Narrated to us Saad bin Abdullah and Abdullah bin Ja’far Himyari, all of them from Muhammad bin Isa bin Ubaid from Yunus bin Abdur Rahman from Husain bin Thuwair bin Abi Fakhta from Abi Abdullah (a.s.) that he said: “The Imamate will never be diverted between two brothers after al-Hasan and Husain; it proceeds from Ali Ibn Husain, as Allah, the Blessed, the Sublime, said: وَأُوْلُواْ الأَرْحَامِ بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلَى بِبَعْضٍ فِي كِتَابِ اللّهِ Some of those who are bound by blood are closer (to each other) than others in the Book of Allah.[^1] There was no one after Ali Ibn Husain (a.s..), except it went to the next descendant or the next descendant of the next descendant.” 2 - Narrated to us Muhammad bin Hasan bin Ahmad bin Walid (r.a.): Muhammad bin Hasan al-Saffar from Yaqoob bin Yazid from Muhammad bin Isa bin Ubaid from Husain bin Hasan Farisi from Sulaiman bin Ja’far Ja’fari from Hammad bin Isa from Abi Abdullah (a.s.) that he said: “The Imamate will never come together in two brothers after Hasan and Husain (a.s.).
It will continue in his (Husain’s) progeny one generation after another.” 3 -Narrated to us Muhammad bin Musa bin Mutawakkil (r.a.): Narrated to us Ali bin Husain Saadabadi from Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Khalid from his father from Muhammad bin Sinan from Yunus bin Yaqoob from Abi Abdullah (a.s.) that he said: “Allah does not accept to appoint to it (the Imamate) two brothers after al-Hasan and Husain (a.s.).” 4 - Narrated to us Muhammad bin Hasan bin Ahmad bin Walid (r.a.): Narrated to us Husain bin Hasan bin Aban from Husain bin Saeed from Muhammad bin Sinan from Abi Salam from Surah bin Kulaib from Abi Baseer from Abi Ja’far (a.s.) regarding the words of Allah, the Mighty and Sublime: وَجَعَلَهَا كَلِمَةً بَاقِيَةً فِي عَقِبِهِ And he made it a word to continue in his posterity.
[^2] That it is regarding Imam Husain (a.s.).
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