Ibn Mas'ud Hadith and the Twelve Imams

Ibn Mas'ud, who is one of the great companions and the prominent narrators of the Prophet's narrations, has quoted several hadiths of the Messenger of God (SA), as some great Sunni narrators have cited about nine hundred narrations from the Messenger of God (SA) through him. One of these narrations is a valid hadith in which the twelve successors of the Prophet (SA) are mentioned. In this hadith, which is noted in the most authoritative sources of the Sunnis, and accepted by the narrators and other scholars of both major sects of Islam, the Messenger of God(AS) announced the number of his successors, and the leaders of the Islamic Ummah after him as twelve and analogized them to the heads and leaders of the Children of Israel tribes . The above-mentioned Hadith, with the characteristics cited in it, cannot be applied to anyone other than the Imams of the Prophet Progeny(AS).