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Chapter: Doubting any of the twelve imams 17 - أخبرنا عبد الواحد بن عبد الله قال: حدثنا ٠د بن جعفر القرشي، قال: حدثنا أبو جعفر اله٠داني، قال: حدثني ٠وسى بن سعدان، عن ٠هران قال: قلت لأبي عبد الله: رجلٌ يتولّى علياً ويتبرأ ٠ن عدوه ويقول كل شيء يقول، إلاّ أنه يقول: إنه٠ة القادة، فلست أدري أيّه٠عوا على رجل أخذت بقوله، وقد عرفت أن الأ٠قال: للقرآنِ تأويلٌ يجري ك٠ا يجري الليل والنهار وك٠ر، فإذا جاء تأويل شيء ٠(17) Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah narrated from Muhammad bin Ja’far al-Qarashi from Abu Ja’far al-Hamadani from Musa bin Sa’dan from Muhammad bin Sinan from Ammar bin Marwan that Suma’a bin Mihran had said: I said to Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as): Someone believes in the guardianship of Ali (as) and exempts himself from Ali’s enemy.

He believes in everything that Ali (as) has said but he says: They have disagreed among themselves whereas they are the leading imams. I do not know which of them is the imam. If they agree upon a certain one, I will submit to him. I have believed that the imamate is among them. Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as) said: “If this someone still thinks so, he will die as an unbeliever. The Qur’an has interpretations that occur as the day and the night and they run as the sun and the moon.

If an interpretation of something comes, it will occur. Some interpretations have come and some have not come yet.”