Hadith

Imam Muhammad ibn Hasan [a]

2 sayings

1. Look carefully at those people who relate our traditions with deliberation upon our permitted and prohibited things, and know our precepts and commandments. Select one of them for adjudication, since I have appointed such a person for the said task. If his verdict is rejected then it is as if the command of Allah is deemed light and our ordinance refuted. Certainly the one who refutes our ordinance has refuted the ordinance of Allah. Verily such a person has stepped into the boundary of Shirk (Polytheism)."

   Greater Sins Vol 1, Part 3, page 68; Al-Kafi link

2. Im?m al-M?hd? (a.s.), when Sa'd b. 'Abdillah al-Qummi asked him the reason why people cannot elect an Imam for themselves, replied, 'Would he be a righteous man or a corrupt man?' I said, 'Righteous.' He said, 'Is it possible that the selected individual be actually corrupt, for no one really knows what passes through another's mind, in terms of their righteousness or corruption?' I said, 'Yes'. He said, 'That is the reason why.'

   Nur al-Thaqalayn, v. 2, p. 76, no. 283; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 545 link

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