There is nothing True with People unless it has Come from the Imams and Whatever that has not Come from Them عليه السلام is False
Al-Kāfi|Volume 1|Book 4|Chapter 101
Al-Kāfi
Book 4, Chapter 101
There is nothing True with People unless it has Come from the Imams and Whatever that has not Come from Them عليه السلام is False
2ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ عَنْ مُثَنًّى عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ كُنْتُ عِنْدَ ابي جعفر (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) فَقَالَ لَهُ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكُوفَةِ يَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ قَوْلِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) سَلُونِي عَمَّا شِئْتُمْ فَلا تَسْأَلُونِّي عَنْ شَيْءٍ إِلا أَنْبَأْتُكُمْ بِهِ قَالَ إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ أَحَدٌ عِنْدَهُ عِلْمُ شَيْءٍ إِلا خَرَجَ مِنْ عِنْدِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) فَلْيَذْهَبِ النَّاسُ حَيْثُ شَاءُوا فَوَ الله لَيْسَ الامْرُ إِلا مِنْ هَاهُنَا وَأَشَارَ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى بَيْتِهِ.
2. A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn abu Basir from Muthanna from Zurara who has said the following. “Once I was in the presence of abu Ja‘far عليه السلام. A man from Kufa asked him about the words of Amir al-Mu’minin عليه السلام, “Ask me whatever you would like. Whatever you may ask I will give you the answer.” The Imam عليه السلام said, “No one has any piece of knowledge of anything that has not come through Amir al-Mu’minin عليه السلام People may go wherever they may like, however, by Allah, the truth comes from no where else except from here, he pointed out with his hand towards his house.”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/308)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 48