Hadith 14

eft a Divine Authority to be from after him-asws, and that the Divine Authority from after him-asws is Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws, and obedience to him-asws was Obligatory’. He-asws said: ‘May Allah-azwj have Mercy on you’. I kissed his-asws head and said, ‘And I testify upon Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws, he-asws did not go away until he-asws left a Divine Authority to be from after him-asws, and that the Divine Authority from after him-asws is Muhammad-asws Bin Ali Abu Ja’far-asws, and obedience to him-asws was Obligatory’. He-asws said: ‘May Allah-azwj have Mercy on you’. I said, ‘May Allah-azwj Keep you-asws well! Give me your-asws head’. I kissed his-asws head. He-asws laughed, so I said, ‘May Allah-azwj Keep you-asws well! I know that your-asws father-asws did not go away until he-asws left a Divine Authority to be from after him-asws, just as his-asws father-asws had done. Thus, I testify with Allah-azwj that surely you-asws are the Divine Authority from after him-asws, and that obeying you-asws is Obligatory’. He-asws said: ‘Stop, may Allah-azwj have Mercy on you! ’ I said, ‘Give me your head, I shall kiss it’. He-asws laughed. He-asws said: ‘Ask me-asws about whatever you so desire to, and I-asws will not deny you after today, ever! ’’
(The book) ‘Rijaal Al Kashy’ – Ja’far Bin Muhammad Bin Ayoub, from Safwan, from Mansour Bin Hazim who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah-asws, ‘Allah-azwj is more Majestic and more Benevolent that to be recognised through His-azwj creatures, but the creatures are recognised through Allah-azwj’. He-asws said: ‘You speak the truth’. I said, ‘One who recognised that there is a Lord-azwj for him, so it is befitting that he recognises that, for that Lord-azwj is Pleasure and Wrath, and that His-azwj Pleasure and His-azwj Wrathfulness cannot be recognised except through Messengers-as. So, the one to whom the Revelation does not come, it is befitting that he seeks the Messengers-as, and when he meets them-as, recognises that they-as are the Divine Authorities and that the obedience to them-as is Obligatory. I said to the people, ‘Don’t you know that Rasool-Allah-saww, he-saww was the Divine Authority from Allah-azwj upon His-azwj creatures? ’, and he continued the Hadeeth up to its end approximate to what has passed, and in it he said, ‘This one said, ‘I don’t know’, and this one said, ‘I don’t know’, and did not deny upon him. His word was his word’’. [13]