Third Objection: Rejection of the Imamate of isma'il

Narrated to us my father from Saad bin Abdullah quoting from Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Isa from Muhammad bin Ismail bin Bazi from Abul Hasan Tharreef bin Naseh from Hasan ibn Zaid that he said: When a daughter of Abu Abdillah عليه السلام died, he mourned for her a whole year. After that another son died and he mourned him also for a whole year. Then Ismail died; and the Imam was extremely aggrieved for sometime but stopped mourning after that. The narrator says: Abu Abdillah عليه السلام was asked: “May Allah bless you, does your family mourn and lament in this way?” He replied: “When Hamza passed away the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم said: Hamza must be mourned because there is no one to weep on him.”