On Various Traditions From Imam Ali Ibn Musa al-Ridha صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم

28-3 Ja’far ibn Muhammad ibn Masroor - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Al-Hussein ibn Muhammad ibn Aamir quoted on the authority of al-Mo’alla ibn Muhammad al-Basri, on the authority of Al-Hassan ibn Ali al-Washsha’, “I asked Abil Hassan Al-Ridha صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم, ‘Will the Earth be left without a Divine Leader?’ The Imam صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم said, ‘No.’ I said, ‘It has been narrated for us that it will not be left without one. Otherwise God deals hard with the servants.’ The Imam صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم said, ‘It will not be left without a Divine Leader, otherwise it will take in all its residents.”