The Sufficient (Vol 1) · Hadith 1400 (#Ḥadīth #14)
Chapter 126 | The Statements and the Explicit Texts on Leadership with Divine Authority) of the Twelve Imams
14ـ أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الاشْعَرِيُّ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ الله عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مُوسَى الْخَشَّابِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ سَمَاعَةَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ رِبَاطٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أُذَيْنَةَ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ يَقُولُ الاثْنَا عَشَرَ الامَامَ مِنْ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ كُلُّهُمْ مُحَدَّثٌ مِنْ وُلْدِ رَسُولِ الله ﷺ وَوُلْدِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَرَسُولُ الله ﷺ وَعلي هُمَا الْوَالِدَانِ.
14. Abu Ali al-Ash‘ari has narrated from ‘Ubaydallah from al-Hassan ibn Musa al-Khashshab from Ali ibn Sam‘Abdallah from Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Ribat from ’Udhayna from Zurara who has said the following. “I heard abu Ja‘far say, ‘There will be twelve Imams from the family of Muhammad and they all will be (Muhaddathun), persons to whom angles speak. They will of the descendants of the Messenger of Allah and Ali ibn abu Talib . The Messenger of Allah and Ali are their anscesters.”
Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).