Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority

Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority Chapter: The Criterion to Discern the Truthful and False Claims of Entitlement to Imamat (Leadership with Divine Authority) 14ـ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ ٠َّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الله قَالَ كَانَ عَبْدُ الله بْنُ هُلَيْلٍ يَقُولُ بِعَبْدِ الله فَصَارَ إِلَى الْعَسْكَرِ فَرَجَعَ عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ سَبَبِ رُجُوعِهِ فَقَالَ إِنِّي عَرَضْتُ لابِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) أَنْ أَسْأَلَهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَوَافَقَنِي فِي طَرِيقٍ ضَيِّقٍ فَ٠َالَ نَحْوِي حَتَّى إِذَا حَاذَانِي أَقْبَلَ نَحْوِي بِشَيْ‏ءٍ ٠ِنْ فِيهِ فَوَقَعَ عَلَى صَدْرِي فَأَخَذْتُهُ فَإِذَا هُوَ رَقٌّ فِيهِ ٠َا كَانَ هُنَالِكَ وَلا كَذَلِكَ.

Accidentally I came across him when passing through a narrow alley. He came closer and when parallel to me, he spitted out on me something from his mouth and it was placed on my chest. I then picked it up.

It was a leaf with a writing on it that said, “He was not there (position of Leadership with Divine Authority) and he was not qualified for it (Leadership with Divine Authority).” يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/104))