Claim to be the Imam without qualification
Al-Kāfi|Volume 8|Book 1|Chapter 362
عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍعَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) إِنَّ مِمَّنْ يَنْتَحِلُ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ لَيَكْذِبُ حَتَّى إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لَيَحْتَاجُ إِلَى كَذِبِهِ.
362. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr, from Hashaam Bin Saalim who said: Abu Abdullah عليه الصلاة والسلام said: ‘Whosoever (other than us عليه الصلاة والسلام) claims to have the Command (Wilayah), he has lied to the extent that the Satan (la) would be needy of his lie’.
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/237)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 3, p. 397