the messenger of allah may allah bless him and grant him peace with prayer fasting zakat and hajj. his statement may allah bless him and grant him peace in specifying the caliphate after him to a group of people is not a statement to be belittled and thus concealed nor is hearing it to be taken lightly and thus neglected. rather the motives for spreading it are abundant and souls do not permit concealing it or remaining silent about it and they do not permit remaining silent about news and conditions that fall below that in rank. this is conclusive evidence of the invalidity of their claim the mutawatir report. in short their claim is not distinguished from the claim of albakriyyah where they said that the prophet may god bless him and grant him peace appointed abu bakr may god be pleased with him with an explicit and continuous text and not with the claim of the rawandiyyah when they said that he appointed alabbas with a continuous text. these statements are contradictory because they were not known and did not appear after the death of the messenger of god may god bless him and grant him peace when discussing the imamate.
رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم بالصلاة والصيام والزكاة والحج فان قوله عليه السلام في التنصيص على الخلافة بعده على ملأ من الناس ليس قولا يستحقر فيستر ولا يتساهل في سماعه فيهمل بل تتوفر الدواعي على اشاعته ولا تسمح النفوس بإخفائه والسكوت عنه ولم تسمح بالسكوت عن أخبار وأحوال تقع دون ذلك في الرتبة فهذا قاطع في بطلان دعواهم الخبر المتواتر وعلى هذه الجملة فلا تتميز دعواهم عن دعوى البكرية حيث قالوا إن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم نص على أبي بكر رضي الله عنه نصا صريحا متواترا ولا عن دعوى الروندية إذ قالوا إنه نص على العباس نصا متواترا وهذه الاقاويل متعارضة لانها لم تعرف ولم تظهر بعد وفاة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عند الخوض في الإمامة