73. Muhammad in Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn Mahbub from al-Husayn ibn Na‘im al-Sahhaf who has said the following.

“I asked abu ‘Abdallah about the words of Allah. “. . some of you have accepted the faith and some of you have not. .” (64:2) The Imam said, “Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most gracious, has defined their faith through their love for us. He has defined their disbelief in the same fact. This took place on the day He asked all the offspring of Adam (in the form of minute beings) to make a covenant.” I then asked him about the words of Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most gracious. “Obey God and the Messenger, but if you turn away, know that the only duty of Our Messenger is to clearly preaCh” (64:12). The Imam said, “By Allah, no one of those who were destroyed before or those who will be destroyed up to the time of the rise of al-Mahdi with Divine Authority but because of disregarding of our Wilaya (Leadership with Divine Authority) and the denial of our rights. The Messenger of Allah did not leave this world before establishing the great responsibility on this ’Umma to observe our rights. Allah guides to the right path whomever he wants.”