The Sufficient (Vol 1) · Hadith 865 (#Ḥadīth #2)

2ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ وَكَانَ أَسَنَّ شَيْخٍ مِنْ وُلْدِ رَسُولِ الله ﷺ بِالْعِرَاقِ فَقَالَ رَأَيْتُهُ بَيْنَ الْمَسْجِدَيْنِ وَهُوَ غُلامٌ (a.s )

2. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Muhammad ibn ’Isma‘il ibn Musa ibn Ja‘far, the most senior (in his time) of the descendants of the Messenger of Allah, in Iraq has said the following. “I saw him (the twelfth Imam ) between the two mosque while he was a boy.”

Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).