9ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ الْمُخْتَارِ قَالَ خَرَجَ إِلَيْنَا مِنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) بِالْبَصْرَةِ أَلْوَاحٌ مَكْتُوبٌ فِيهَا بِالْعَرْضِ عَهْدِي إِلَى أَكْبَرِ وُلْدِي يُعْطَى فُلانٌ كَذَا وَفُلانٌ كَذَا وَفُلانٌ كَذَا وَفُلانٌ لا يُعْطَى حَتَّى أَجِيءَ أَوْ يَقْضِيَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ عَلَيَّ الْمَوْتَ إِنَّ الله يَفْعَلُ مَا يَشَاءُ.
9. A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn al-Hakam from ‘Abdallah ibn al-Mughirah from al-Husayn ibn al-Mukhtar who has said the following. “In Basra (wherein the Imam (a.s.) was imprisoned) certain tablets came out to us from abu al-Hassan (a.s.) on which, it was written horizontally, ‘My instructions and directives to the my eldest son (Ali ibn Musa al-Rida (a.s.) who should give such and such to so and so. As far so and so is concerned do not give him anything until I will come or Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, will decree that I must die, Allah certainly does what He wills.”