Would the Imams عليه السلام not receive new knowledge their previous know would be Exhausted

2. Muhammad ibn Yabya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from an-Nadr ibn Suwayd from Yahya al-Halabi from Dharih al-Muharibi who has said that abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام has said to him the following. “O Dharih, “Would we not receive (new knowledge) we will diminish (in knowledge).”said:

3. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from abu Nasr from Tha‘labah from Zurarah who has said that he heard abu Ja‘far عليه السلام say the following. “Would we not receive additional (knowledge) we would diminish (in knowledge).” The narrator has said that he asked the Imams عليه السلام “Do receive additional something that the Messenger of Allah does not know?” The Imam عليه السلام said, “The fact of the matter is that when that happens, it is presented to the Messenger of Allah then to the Imams and then it reaches us.”

4. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from Yunus ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman from some of his people from abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام who has said the following. “Nothing comes from Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, except that first it begins with the Messenger of Allah then Amir al-Mu’minin Ali عليه السلام then the Imams one after the other so that the last us would not be more knowledgeable than the first of us.”