(7) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed bin Oqda narrated from al-Qassim bin Muhammad bin al-Hasan bin Hazim from Obayss bin Hisham from Abu Khalid al-Makfoof from some of his companions that Imam as-Sadiq had said: “He, who pretends this thing (being an imam) secretly, has to show the evidence openly.” The narrator asked: “What evidence that is to be shown openly?” He said: “To permit what Allah has permitted, to prohibit what Allah has prohibited and to be truthful apparently and internally.”