اكمال الدين: عمرو بن ثابت از پدر خود نقل كرد كه حضرت ابو جعفر عليه السّلام فرمود اگر زمين يك روز خالى از امامى از خانواده ما باشد اهلش را فرو مىبرد و خدا مردم را ببدترين عذاب شكنجه مىكند خداوند ما را حجت در روى زمين قرار داده و امان براى اهل زمين هستيم تا وقتى ما در ميان آنها باشيم از فرو بردن در امان هستند. اگر خدا تصميم بگيرد كه مردم را هلاك كند و مهلت بايشان ندهد ما را از ميان آنها بر ميدارد و بلند مىكند آنگاه آنچه بخواهد و دوست داشته باشد انجام مىدهد.
(The book) ‘Ikmal Al Deen’ – My father and Ibn Al Waleed both together, from Al Himeyri, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad Bin Abu Saeed Al Gazanfari, from Amro Bin Sabir, from his father, ‘From Abu Ja’far , he (the narrator) said, ‘I heard him saying: ‘If the earth were to remain for a day without an Imam from us , it would collapse with its inhabitants, and Allah would Punish them with the severest of His Punishments. Surely, Allah Blessed and Exalted Made us Divine Authorities in His earth, and a security in the earth for the inhabitants of the earth. They will never cease to be safe from the earth collapsing with them for as long as we are in their midst; and when Allah Wants to Destroy them and not Respite them and not Consider them, He will Take us away from between them and Allah would Raise us (to the sky). Then Allah will Do whatever He so Desires and Loves’’.