ملخص الجهاز:
"2. Other characteristics of "the network of agents" In addition to the previously mentioned features of this network’s characteristics, there are some others as the following: I Leadership [At every age] a leader who was the Infallible Imam (A) would carefully supervise agents’ activities; he (A) would also handle several affairs such as appointing local agents, supervising their functionality, introducing local agents to Shi‘a, making their virtues and personalities known to others, dismissing corrupted and treacherous agents and replacing them with new agents, explaining movements of false agency and how to treat them, guiding agents in their duties and the way they had to deal with the Abbasid government, financially supporting agents and also dismissing accusations from them.
Sulaymān, the Abbasid minister, was informed about agents’ secret activities, he consulted with the Caliph and decided to identify the agents; therefore, he sent some people pretending to be some Shi‘a who wanted to pay their religious taxes to whom he thought they would be the agents, but all of a sudden act, a Tawqi‘ was issued by Imam (A) forbidding all the agents from taking any payment from anyone.
9 Sheykh qūsī stated about Rey in his book, Al-Ghaybah, that: "And at the time of honourable deputies, there were some trustees who carried decrees [from Imam (A)] before the originally appointed ones, among whom were Abu al-pusayn, Muoammad b."