Coversation between the two Imams, ʿAbdullāh al-Maḥḍ and Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq

It is narrated by al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Zaydī, with his chain of transmission, from Abū Khālid ʿAmr ibn Khālid, who said:

Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad entered the mosque, while ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Ḥasan was at the side of the grave of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him and his family. He came forward until he stood before ʿAbdullāh, greeted him, and said: “Peace be upon you, O uncle.”
ʿAbdullāh replied: “And peace be upon you, O son of my brother. What is this that reaches me about you—that you are an Imam whose obedience is obligatory, and that whoever does not recognize that dies the death of ignorance?”

Jaʿfar said: “By God, besides Whom there is no god, and by the right of the one in this grave, I have never said this about myself at all. Indeed, lies are being told about me.”

ʿAbdullāh said: “You are truthful and righteous, and they are lying transgressors.”

Then Jaʿfar departed, and ʿAbdullāh said: “By God, if I had sought from him an oath of divorce, he would have sworn it for me.”

Source

Al-Muḥīṭ bi-l-Imāma