Tacit and Explicit Testimony as proof of abu al-Hassan al-Rida’s عليه السلام Divine Authority over the people after abu al-Hassan Musa عليه السلام

Al-Kāfi|Volume 1|Book 4|Chapter 72
Al-Kāfi

Book 4, Chapter 72

Tacit and Explicit Testimony as proof of abu al-Hassan al-Rida’s عليه السلام Divine Authority over the people after abu al-Hassan Musa عليه السلام

9ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ الْمُخْتَارِ قَالَ خَرَجَ إِلَيْنَا مِنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) بِالْبَصْرَةِ أَلْوَاحٌ مَكْتُوبٌ فِيهَا بِالْعَرْضِ عَهْدِي إِلَى أَكْبَرِ وُلْدِي يُعْطَى فُلانٌ كَذَا وَفُلانٌ كَذَا وَفُلانٌ كَذَا وَفُلانٌ لا يُعْطَى حَتَّى أَجِي‏ءَ أَوْ يَقْضِيَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ عَلَيَّ الْمَوْتَ إِنَّ الله يَفْعَلُ مَا يَشَاءُ.
9. A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn al-Hakam from ‘Abdallah ibn al-Mughirah from al-Husayn ibn al-Mukhtar who has said the following. “In Basra (wherein the Imam عليه السلام was imprisoned) certain tablets came out to us from abu al-Hassan عليه السلام on which, it was written horizontally, ‘My instructions and directives to the my eldest son (Ali ibn Musa al-Rida عليه السلام who should give such and such to so and so. As far so and so is concerned do not give him anything until I will come or Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, will decree that I must die, Allah certainly does what He wills.”
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