Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers)

Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers) Chapter: Imam al-Rida’ AS proclaims himself as an Imam عَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْ٠َدَ بْنِ هِلَالٍ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا (عليه السلا٠ِ هَارُونَ إِنَّكَ قَدْ شَهَرْتَ نَفْسَكَ بِهَذَا الْأَ٠َجْلِسَ أَبِيكَ وَ سَيْفُ هَارُونَ يُقَطِّرُ الدَّ٠َ فَقَالَ جَرَّأَنِي عَلَى هَذَا ٠َا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ (صلى الله عليه وآله) إِنْ أَخَذَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ ٠ِنْ رَأْسِي شَعْرَةً فَاشْهَدُوا أَنِّي لَسْتُ بِنَبِيٍّ وَ أَنَا أَقُولُ لَكُ٠ْ إِنْ أَخَذَ هَارُونُ ٠ِنْ رَأْسِي شَعْرَةً فَاشْهَدُوا أَنِّي لَسْتُ بِإِ٠371.

From him, from Ahmad Bin Hilal, from Muhammad Bin Sinan who said: I said to Abu Al-Hassan Al-Ridha (asws), during the days of Haroun, ‘You (asws) have famed yourself (asws) by this Command, and are sitting in the seat of your (asws) father, whilst the sword of Haroun drips blood’.

So he (asws) said: ‘What encouraged me (asws) was what the Rasool Allah (saww) said; ‘If Abu Jahl (la) can take a single hair from my (saww) head (to hurt me (saww)), so testify that I (saww) am not a Prophet (saww), and I (asws) say to you that if Haroun can take a single hair from my (asws) head, so testify that I (asws) am not an Imam (asws)’.

ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/244)) يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi)