After Hasan and Husain عليه السلام No Two Brothers Can Be Imams

1 - Narrated to us my father and Muhammad bin Hasan - May Allah be pleased with them – they said: Narrated to us Saad bin Abdullah and Abdullah bin Ja’far Himyari, all of them from Muhammad bin Isa bin Ubaid from Yunus bin Abdur Rahman from Husain bin Thuwair bin Abi Fakhta from Abi Abdullah عليه السلام that he said: “The Imamate will never be diverted between two brothers after al-Hasan and Husain; it proceeds from Ali Ibn Husain, as Allah, the Blessed, the Sublime, said: Some of those who are bound by blood are closer (to each other) than others in the Book of Allah. There was no one after Ali Ibn Husain عليه السلام, except it went to the next descendant or the next descendant of the next descendant.”