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Chapter: Issma’eel, the son of Imam as-Sadiq يد بن زياد، قال: حدثنا الحسن بن ٠اعة، قال: حدثنا أح٠د بن إسحاق، عن أبيه قال: دخلت علي أبي عبد الله فسألته عن صاحب الأ٠ن بعده فقال لي: هو صاحب البه٠وسى في ناحية الدار صبياً و٠كية وهو يقول لها: اسجدي لله الذي خلقك.

(5) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Hameed bin Ziyad from al-Hasan bin Muhammad bin Suma’a from Ahmad bin al-Hasan bin Muhammad al-Maythami from Muhammad bin Iss’haq that his father had said: “I came to Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as) and asked him who the imam would be after him. He said to me: “He is the keeper of the lamb.” His son Musa (al-Kadhim), who was a little boy then, was in a corner of the house with a lamb.

He said to the lamb: “Prostrate yourself before Allah, Who has created you!”