Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority

Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority Chapter: The Conditions of the Imams in the Matters of Age َّدٍ وَغَيْرُهُ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ ٠َسْعَدَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ أَبُو بَصِيرٍ دَخَلْتُ إِلَيْهِ وَ٠ْ يَبْلُغْ فَقَالَ لِي كَيْفَ أَنْتُ٠ْ إِذَا احْتَجَّ عَلَيْكُ٠ِثْلِ سِنِّهِ أَوْ قَالَ سَيَلِي عَلَيْكُ٠4.

Ali ibn Muhammad and others have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ya‘qub ibn Yazid from Mus‘ab From Mas‘da from abu Basir who has said the following. “Once I went to see him. Along with me there was a of five years old boy who had not yet attained puberty. The Imam (a.s.) said, “How would you feel if people will debate you about the divine authority of someone of his age?

Or he said about the Divine authority of one who will come and will be of the same age as his.” يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/247))