Musa al-Kazim Denied Claiming Imamate

 بِسۡمِ اللّٰہِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ الرَّحِیۡمِ 

In the Name of Allah, the Rahman, the Merciful

الصلاة والسلام عليك يا سيدي يا رسول الله

The pious Imam, Musa al-Kazim, may Allah have mercy on him, is considered the seventh divinely appointed Imam by the Twelver Shia sect. However, Musa al-Kazim himself did not make such a claim, but rather, in reply to his cousin, Yahya bin Abdullah, who accused him of laying claim to Imamate, said:

 أَتَانِي كِتَابُكَ تَذْكُرُ فِيهِ أَنِّي مُدَّعٍ وأَبِي مِنْ قَبْلُ ومَا سَمِعْتَ ذلِكَ مِنِّي

Your letter came to me in which you mentioned that I am a claimant and that my father was before me, but you did not hear that from me (Usul al-Kafi, v.1, p.228, ch.138, #19)

Sayyid Zafar Hasan Amrohi translated the statement of Imam Musa al-Kazim into Urdu

تمہارا خط آیا جس میں تم نے لکھا ہے

 کہ میں مدعی امامت ہوں اور مجھ سے پہلے میرے باپ تھے اس کی گواہیاں لوگ دیتے ہیں ان سے پوچھو مجھ سے تو دعوےٰ نہ سنا ہوگا