Imamate Does Not Pass between any Two Brothers after al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn عليهما السلام

Saʿd, from Muḥammad b. al-Walīd, from Yūnus b. Yaʿqūb, from Abī ʿAbd Allāh عليه السلام, that he—Yūnus b. Yaʿqūb—heard him saying: “Allāh has decreed that He will not invest it in any two brothers after al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn عليهما السلام.”

And from him, from Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. Abī’l-Khaṭṭāb, from Sulaymān b. Jaʿfar al-Jaʿfarī, from Ḥammād b. ʿĪsā al-Juhnī, from Abī ʿAbd Allāh عليه السلام, that he said: “Imamate will not be conferred jointly on any two brothers after al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn عليهما السلام. It is only for the descendants (of al-Ḥusayn عليه السلام), generation after generation.”

ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaʿfar, from Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Baghdādī, from his paternal uncle, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥāritha, from Yūnus b. Yaʿqūb, from a man, from Abī ʿAbd Allāh عليه السلام—the man said: “I heard him saying: “Allāh has decreed that He will not invest it in any two brothers after al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn عليهما السلام.”

And from him, from Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Najrān, from Sulaymān al-Jaʿfarī, from Ḥammād b. ʿĪsā, from a man, from Abī Jaʿfar عليه السلام, who said: “Imamate will not pass between any two brothers after al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn عليهما السلام, but it is for the descendants (of al-Ḥusayn عليه السلام), generation after generation.”

And from him, from Yaʿqūb b. Yazīd, from al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Yaqṭīn, from some of his associates, from Abī ʿAbd Allāh عليه السلام, who said: “Imamate will not pass between any two brothers after al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn عليهما السلام.”