The Sufficient (Vol 1) · Hadith 1388 (#Ḥadīth #2)
Chapter 126 | The Statements and the Explicit Texts on Leadership with Divine Authority) of the Twelve Imams
2ـ وَحَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الصَّفَّارِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله عَنْ أَبِي هَاشِمٍ مِثْلَهُ سَوَاءً قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى فَقُلْتُ لِمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ يَا أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ وَدِدْتُ أَنَّ هَذَا الْخَبَرَ جَاءَ مِنْ غَيْرِ جِهَةِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله قَالَ فَقَالَ لَقَدْ حَدَّثَنِي قَبْلَ الْحَيْرَةِ بِعَشْرِ سِنِينَ.
2. Also Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Muhammad ibn al-Hassan al-Saffar from Ahmad ibn abu ‘Abdallah from abu Hashim a similar hadith. Muhammad ibn Yahya has said, “I said to Muhammad ibn al-Hassan, “O abu Ja‘far I wish this would have been narrated through a chain of narrators other then Ahmad ibn ‘Abdallah .” He said, “He Ahmad ibn ‘Abdallah had narrated this to me ten years before the confusion.”
Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).