The Sufficient (Vol 1) · Hadith 814 (#Ḥadīth #3)
Chapter 72 | Tacit and Explicit Testimony as proof of abu al-Hassan al-Rida’s Divine Authority over the people after abu al-Hassan Musa
3ـ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مِهْرَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ وَإِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ عَبَّادٍ الْقَصْرِيِّ جَمِيعاً عَنْ دَاوُدَ الرَّقِّيِّ قَالَ قُلْتُ لابِي إِبْرَاهِيمَ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ إِنِّي قَدْ كَبِرَ سِنِّي فَخُذْ بِيَدِي مِنَ النَّارِ قَالَ فَأَشَارَ إِلَى ابْنِهِ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ فَقَالَ هَذَا صَاحِبُكُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِي.
3. Ahmad ibn Mihran has narrated from Muhammad ibn Ali from Muhammad ibn Sinan and Isma‘il ibn ‘Abbad al-Qasri, all from Dawud al-Raqqi who has said the following. “I said to abu Ibrahim , ‘May Allah take my soul in service for your cause, I have become old, take my hand out of fire.” The narrator has said that the Imam pointed to his son, abu al-Hassan and then said, “This is your guardian after me.”
Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).