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Chapter 139 of 1482 min read
4. يعتقدون بهذه العقيدة الفاسدة التي لا علاقة لها
with Amir d-Mu'mineeu 'Ali and his sons and grandsons (may Allah he pleased with them).415 3.3. Appointment by name is one of the conditions of imamate according to the Twelver Imami Shia The RZdi Shia believe that imamate is like prophethood and can only be by divine instruction on the lips of Allah's Messenger (B). They believe that imamate, like prophethood, is a mercy from Allah, and that no era should be without an Imam, to whom obedience is obligatory and who is appointed by Allah (g). The people do not have the right to choose and appoint the Imam, and the Imam does not have the right to appoint his successor. They fabricated and attributed to their Imams dozens of reports conce~ning this, including the reports attributed to Imam Muhammad d-Iliqir (may Allah have mercy on him), in which he is supposed to have said: "Do you think that this matter is up to us to decide as we wish? No, by Allah, it is a covenant from the Messenger of Allah, in which man after man is named until the last man."416 The Twelver Shia believe that the Messenger (g) spoke of and mentioned by name the Imams who were to come after him, and that there are twelve Imams, no more and no less. Their names are: 1. 'Ali ihn Abi T%b (d. 40 AH)