The Source of Traditions on Imam al-Riḍā (Vol 1) · Hadith 269 (#Ḥadīth #61)

61 - حَدَّثَنا أَحْمَدِ بْنِ زِيادِ بْنِ جَعْفَر الْهَمَذانيّ رَضِىَ اللهُ عَنْهُ قالَ: حَدَّثَنا عَلِىِّ بْنِ إِبراهِيمِ بْنِ هاشِمعَنْ عَلِىِّ بْنِ معبد، عَن الحُسَيْنِ بْنِ خالِد قالَ سَأَلْت أَبَا الحَسَن عَلِىِّ بْنِ مُوسَى الرِّضا a.sُ، عَن قَوْلَ اللَّه عَزَّ وَجَلَّ (إِنَّا عَرَضْنَا الأَمانَةَ عَلَى السَّماواتِ وَالأَرْضِ وَالْجِبالِ فَأَبَيْنَ أَنْ يَحْمِلْنَها) فَقالَ الأمانة الوِلايَة من ادعاها بِغَيْرِ حَقٌّ فَقَدْ كفر.

28-61 Ahmad ibn Ziyad ibn Ja’far al-Hamadani - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Ali ibn Ibrahim ibn Hashem quoted on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ali ibn Ma’bad, on the authority of Al-Hussein ibn Khalid, “I asked Abul Hassan Ali ibn Musa Al-Ridha (s) about the following Words of the Honorable the Exalted God, ‘We did indeed offer the Trust to the Heavens and the Earth and the Mountains; but they refused to undertake it, being afraid thereof: but man undertook it;- He was indeed unjust and foolish.’“ The Imam (s) said, “The Trust is the same as the Mastery. Whoever makes a false claim of Mastery is an unbeliever.”

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