Saʿd, from Ibn Abī’l-Khaṭṭāb, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Hāshim from Dāwud b. Farqad, from Abī ʿAbd Allāh عليه السلام, who said: “Whoever claims the Imamate without being an Imam has fabricated a lie against Allāh, His Apostle and us.”