Kitāb al-Ghayba

Hadith 393
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191- عنه عن محمد بن الحسين بن أبي الخطاب عن سليمان بن جعفر عن حماد بن عيسى الجهني قال: قال أبوعبدالله عليه السلام: لا تجتمع الإمامة في أخوين بعد الحسن والحسين عليهما السلام. إنما هي في الأعقاب وأعقاب الأعقاب.
H 191 - Narrated to us Muhammad bin Husain bin Abil Khattab from Sulaiman bin Ja’far from Hammad bin Isa Jehni from Abi Abdullah (a.s) that he said: “The Imamate will never come together in two brothers after Hasan and Husain (a.s). It will continue in his (Husain’s) progeny one generation after another.”
Source: Shaykh Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī

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