Whoever has Died Without having an Imam Died a Death of the pre-Islamic Age of Ignorance

Al-Imāma wa’l-Tabṣira min al-Ḥayra|Volume 1|Book 2|Chapter 18

Al-Imāma wa’l-Tabṣira min al-Ḥayra

Book 2, Chapter 18

Whoever has Died Without having an Imam Died a Death of the pre-Islamic Age of Ignorance

3 hadiths

...الحذّاء قال: سمعت أبا جعفر عليه السلام، يقول: من مات لا يعرف إمامه، مات ميتة جاهلية كفر ونفاق وضلال.

…Al-Ḥadhdhāʾ said: “I heard Abā Jaʿfar (as) saying: “Whoever has died without having recognised his Imam has died a death of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, and of disbelief, hypocrisy and misguidance.”[1]

Hadith 2

وعنه، عن محمّد بن عيسى، عن الحسن بن عليّ بن فضّال، عن أبي جميلة، عن أبي بكر الحضرمي عن أبي عبداللّه عليه السلام، قال: من مات وليس له إمام، مات ميتة جاهليّة.

And from him, from Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā, from al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Faḍḍāl, from Abī Jamīla, from Abī Bakr al-Ḥaḍramī, from Abī ʿAbd Allāh (as), who said: “Whoever has died without having an Imam has died a death of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance.”

Hadith 3

وعنه، عن محمّد بن عيسى، عن الحسن بن محبوب، عن أبي سعيد المكاري، عن عمّار: عن أبي عبداللّه عليه السلام: قال: سمعته يقول: من مات وليس له إمام، مات ميتة جاهلية كفر وشرك وضلال.

And from him, from Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā, from al-Ḥasan b. Maḥbūb, from Abī Saʿīd al-Makkārī, from ʿAmmār, from Abī ʿAbd Allāh (as). ʿAmmār narrated: “I heard him saying: “Whoever died without having an Imam died a death of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, and of disbelief, polytheism and misguidance.”