Hadith 78

(The book) ‘Ikmal Al Deen’ – Ibn Al Waleed, from Al Saffar, and Sa’ad and Al Himeyri altogether from Ibn Al Khattab, from Ali Bin Al Numan, from Fuzeyl Bin Usman, from Abu Ubeyda who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah-asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! Salim Bin Abu Hafs met me and said to me, ‘Aren’t you (Shias) narrating that someone who dies and there is no Imam-asws for him, so his death would be a death of the pre-Islamic period? ’ I said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘Abu Ja’far-asws has passed away, so who is your Imam-asws today? ’ I disliked it, may I be sacrificed for you-asws, that I should be saying to him, ‘Ja’far-asws). I said, ‘My Imams-asws are the Progeny-asws of Muhammad-saww’. He said, ‘I don’t see you doing anything’. He-asws said: ‘Woe be unto Salim Bin Abu Hafs, may Allah-azwj Curse him! And does Salim know what is the status of the Imam-asws? The status of the Imam-asws is greater than what Salim and the people altogether can go to. Surely, no Imam-asws from us-asws passes away at all except and he-asws leaves from after him-asws one-asws who knows the like of his-asws knowledge, and conducts like his-asws conduct, and calls to similar to that which he-asws had called to. Allah-azwj did not Forbid what He-azwj Gave Dawood-as (except) He-azwj Gave Suleyman-as superior than it’’. [77]