Similar narrations

• Al-Kāfi #958 “Whoever would claim to be the Imam and in fact he would not be the Imam he would be a unbeliever.”
• Kitāb al-Ghayba #75 “Whoever invites people to follow him and there is someone better than him among people, is a deviate and heretic and whoever pretends that...
• Kitāb al-Ghayba #72 “He, who pretends our position (the imamate), is an unbeliever-or he said: a polytheist.”
• Thawāb al-Aʿmāl wa ʿiqāb al-Aʿmāl #825 “A person who claims to be an Imam while he is not, is an infidel.”