Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority

Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority Chapter: The Time When the Imam Learns the Knowledge of the Imam before him (a.s.) َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَسْبَاطٍ عَنِ الْحَكَ٠ِسْكِينٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا قَالَ قُلْتُ لابِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠َتَى يَعْرِفُ الاخِيرُ ٠َا عِنْدَ الاوَّلِ قَالَ فِي آخِرِ دَقِيقَةٍ تَبْقَى ٠1.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from Ali ibn Asbat from al-Hakam ibn Miskin from certain persons of our people who has said the following.

“I asked abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.), ‘When does the succeeding one (Imam) come to know of what the one preceding him knew?” The Imam (a.s.) said, “At the last minute of the life of the Imam before him.” يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/175))