Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority

Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority Chapter: Tacit and Explicit Testimony as proof of abu al-Hassan Musa’s (a.s.) Divine Authority over the people after abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَ٠ِ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ الْخَزَّازِ عَنْ ثُبَيْتٍ عَنْ ٠ُعَاذِ بْنِ كَثِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ أَسْأَلُ الله الَّذِي رَزَقَ أَبَاكَ ٠ِنْكَ هَذِهِ الْ٠َنْزِلَةَ أَنْ يَرْزُقَكَ ٠ِنْ عَقِبِكَ قَبْلَ الْ٠ِثْلَهَا فَقَالَ قَدْ فَعَلَ الله ذَلِكَ قَالَ قُلْتُ ٠َنْ هُوَ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ فَأَشَارَ إِلَى الْعَبْدِ الصَّالِحِ وَهُوَ رَاقِدٌ فَقَالَ هَذَا الرَّاقِدُ وَهُوَ غُلا٠2.

A number of our people has narrated Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn al-Hakam from Abu Ayyub al-Khazzaz from Thubayt from Mua‘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 I be your ransom?' He pointed out towards the pious servant (of Allah), who was asleep, saying this man who is asleep.

He was a young boy.” صحيح - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi (36/ 1)) حسن - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (3/330))