٦ - حدثنا أحمد بن محمد بن يحيى العطار رحمه الله، عن أبيه، عن سهل بن زياد، عن يعقوب بن يزيد، عن محمد بن سنان، عن أبي سلام، عن بعض أصحابنا عن أبي جعفر عليه السلام، قال: نحن المثاني التي أعطاها الله نبينا صلى الله عليه وآله  ونحن وجه الله نتقلب في الأرض بين أظهركم، عرفنا من عرفنا، ومن جهلنا فأمامه اليقين . قال مصنف هذا الكتاب رضي الله عنه: معنى قوله: نحن المثاني أي نحن الذين قرننا النبي صلى الله عليه وآله إلى القرآن وأوصى بالتمسك بالقرآن وبنا، فأخبر أمته بأن لا نفترق حتى نرد عليه حوضه . 
6. Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya al-`Attar, may Allah have mercy on him, on the authority of his father on the authority of Sahl ibn Ziyad on the authority of Ya`qub ibn Yazid on the authority of Muhammad ibn Sinan on the authority Abu Sallam on the authority of some of our scholars that Abu Ja`far al-Baqir  said: We are the Oft-Repeated1 Ones that Allah bestowed to our Prophet ﷺ. We are the Face [wajh] of Allah. And (wih all this) we live among you. Whoever recognizes us, and whoever is ignorant of us faces certain death [yaqin]. The Compiler of this book, may Allah be pleased with him, says: The meaning of his  statement: “We are the oft-repeated” is that we are the ones that the Prophet ﷺ joined with the Qur`an, and made a will to remain attached to the Qur`an and to us. Hence, he ﷺ informed his Ummah that we will not separate from each other, until we meet him at the Pool (of Kawthar in Paradise).