Introductory Traditions
Al-Imāma wa’l-Tabṣira min al-Ḥayra|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 1
وقالت الزهراء عليها السلام: أما والله لو تركوا الحقّ على أهله، واتّبعوا عترة نبيّه، لما اختلف في الله اثنان، ولورثها سلف عن سلف، وخلف بعد خلف، حتى يقوم قائمنا، التاسع من ولد الحسين.
Al-Zahrāʾ عليها السلام said: “By Allāh! Were they to leave the right (of leadership of the Islamic community) to its people and follow the offspring of His Prophet, no two would dispute about Allāh, and one predecessor would inherit from another, and one successor after another, until our Qāʾim, the ninth of al-Ḥusayn’s descendants, would arise.”