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Disappearance of the expected Imam
9 - حدثنا محمد بن يعقوب قال: حدثنا عدة من أصحابنا، عن سعد بن عبد الله عن أيوب بن نوح قال: قلت لأبي الحسن الرضا:إنا نرجو أن تكون صاحبَ هذا الأمر وأن يسوقه الله إليك عفواً بغير سيف، فقد بويع لك، وقد ضُربتْ الدراهم باسمِك. فقال: ما منّا أحدٌ اختلفت الكتب إليه وأشير إليه بالأصابع وسئل عن المسائل وحملت إليه الأموال إلاّ اغتيل أو مات على فراشه حتى يبعث الله لهذا الأمر غلاماً منّا خفيَّ المولد والمنشأ، غيرَ خفيٍّ في نسبه.
(9) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob narrated from some of his companions from Sa’d bin Abdullah that Ayyoob bin Noah had said: “I said to Abul Hasan ar-Redha (as): “We hope that you are the man of the matter and that Allah may pave the way to you peacefully and without fighting. Homage has been paid to you and money is coined with your name.” He said: “None of us that letters has been sent to, has been pointed at with fingers, has been asked about religious matters and monies (legal religious rights) have been sent to, unless he is killed or he dies in his bed until Allah will send for this matter a boy from our progeny, whose birth and early life will be unknown but his lineage will be not unknown.”
10 - وحدثنا محمد بن همام قال: حدثنا جعفر بن محمد بن مالك، قال: حدثنا عباد بن يعقوب، عن يحيى بن يعلي، عن أبي مريم الأنصاري، عن عبد الله بن عطاء قال: قلت لأبي جعفر الباقر: أخبرني عن القائم . فقال: واللهِ ما هو أنا ولا الذي تمدّون إليه أعناقكم، ولا يُعرف ولادته. قلت: بما يسير. قال: بما سار به رسول الله ، هدر ما قبله واستقبل.
(10) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik from Abbad bin Ya’qoob from Yahya bin Ya’la from Abu Maryam al-Ansari that Abdullah bin Atta’ had said: I said to Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (as): “Would you tell me about al-Qa’im?” He said: “By Allah, it is not me and it is not one, whom you stretch your necks towards. It is the one, whose birth will be unknown.” I said: “What will he do?” He said: “He will do as the Prophet (S) has done. He will annul all heresies that have been established before him and he will establish new principles.”
11 - حدثنا محمد بن همام قال: حدثنا عبد الله بن جعفر الحميري، عن محمد بن عيسى، عن صالح بن محمد، عن يمان التمار قال: قال أبو عبد الله: إنّ لصاحب هذا الأمر غيبةً، المتمسّكُ فيها بدينه كالخارط لشَوك القتاد بيده. ثم أطرق ملياً، ثم قال: إنّ لصاحب هذا الأمر غيبةً فليتّقِ الله عبدٌ وليتمسّكْ بدينه. لا تستوحِشوا في طريق الهدى لقلّة مَن يسلكه.
(11) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Abdullah bin Ja’far al-Himyari from Muhammad bin Eessa from Salih bin Muhammad from Yaman at-Tammar that Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as) had said: “The man of this matter will disappear for a period of time, during which one, who still keeps to his religion, is like one, who lathes thorns of al-Qatad with his bare hand. Which of you can grasp at the thorns of al-Qatad?” Then he pondered for a while and said: “The man of this matter will disappear for a time so people are to fear Allah and to keep to their faith.” The same was narrated by Muhammad bin Ya’qoob al-Kulayni from Muhammad bin Yahya and al-Hasan bin Muhammad from Ja’far bin Muhammad al-Kufi from al-Hasan bin Muhammad as-Sayrafi from Salih bin Khalid from Yaman at-Tammar. Who is this one, who will disappear, but the expected Imam? Who is this one, whose birth and early life most of people will doubt? Who is this one, whom people will be indifferent to and will not believe in his rising nor in his existence even? It is he, whom the infallibles imam (as) have mentioned and described his loyal believers during his disappearance as ones, who grasp at the thorns of al-Qatad with bare hands. It is this little sincere group that is distinguished from the great masses of people, whose fancies have taken them too far away and whose hearts have become too narrow to bear the truth and its bitterness. They find themselves unable to believe in the existence of the Imam while his person is absent and his disappearance has lasted long. Only the little group has believed and kept on believing in the expected Imam (as) following, by that, the saying of Amirul Mo’mineen (as): “Do not feel desolate in the way of guidance when its followers are very few!”
1 - حدثنا أحمد بن محمد بن سعيد بن عقدة قال: حدثنا علي بن الحسن التيملي، عن عمر بن عثمان، عن الحسن بن محبوب، عن إسحاق بن عمار الصيرفي قال: سمعت أبا عبد الله يقول: للقائم غيبتان إحداهما طويلة، والأخرى قصيرة. فالأولى يعلم بمكانه فيها خاصةٌ من شيعته، والأخرى لا يعلم بمكانه فيها إلاّ خاصة مواليه في دينه.
(1) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed bin Oqda narrated from Ali bin al-Hasan at-Taymali from Umar bin Uthman from al-Hasan bin Mahboob from Iss’haq bin Ammar as-Sayrafi that Abu Abdullah Ja’far bin Muhammad as-Sadiq (as) had said: “Al-Qa’im disappears twice; one is a short disappearance and the other is long. In the first disappearance some of his close Shia knows his place and in the other one no one knows his place except the guardians of his religion.”
2 - حدثنا محمد بن يعقوب، عن محمد بن يحيى، عن محمد بن الحسين، عن الحسن بن محبوب، عن إسحاق بن عمار قال: قال أبو عبد الله: للقائم غيبتان إحداهما قصيرة، والأخرى طويلة، الغيبة الأولى لا يعلم بمكانه فيها إلاّ خاصة شيعته، والأخرى لا يعلم بمكانه فيها إلاّ خاصة مواليه في دينه.
(2) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya from Muhammad bin al-Husayn from al-Hasan bin Mahboob from Iss’haq bin Ammar that Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as) had said: “Al-Qa’im disappears twice; one is a short disappearance and the other is long. In the first disappearance some of his close Shia knows his place and in the other one no one knows his place except his guardians of his religion.”
3 - حدثنا أحمد بن محمد بن سعيد قال: حدثنا علي بن الحسن، قال: حدثنا عبد الرحمن بن أبي نجران، عن علي بن مهزيار، عن حماد بن عيسى، عن إبراهيم بن عمر اليماني قال: سمعت أبا جعفر يقول: إنّ لصاحب هذا الأمر غيبتَين. وسمعته يقول: لا يقوم القائم ولأحد في عنقه بيعة.
(3) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al-Hasan from Abdurrahman bin Abu Najran from Ali bin Mahziyar from Hammad bin Eessa from Ibraheem bin Umar al-Yamani that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (as) had said: “The man of this matter disappears twice.” Also he had said: “Al-Qa’im will rise and he has never paid any homage to anyone on the earth.”
4 - حدثنا محمد بن يعقوب قال: حدثنا محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد، عن الحسين بن سعيد، عن ابن أبي عمير، عن هشام بن سالم، عن أبي عبد الله قال: يقوم القائم وليس لأحدٍ في عنقه عقد ولا عهد ولا بيعة.
(4) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya from Ahmad bin Muhammad from al-Husayn bin Sa’eed from ibn Abu Omayr from Hisham bin Salim that Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as) had said: “Al-Qa’im will rise and he has never paid any homage to anyone nor has he had a covenant or a bond with anyone.”
5 - وأخبرنا أحمد بن محمد بن سعيد قال: حدثنا القاسم بن محمد بن الحسن بن حازم من كتابه قال: حدثنا عبيس بن هشام، عن عبد الله بن جبلة، عن إبراهيم بن المستنير عن المفضل بن عمر الجعفي، عن أبي عبد الله الصادق قال: إنّ لصاحب هذا الأمر غيبتين إحداهما تطول حتى يقول بعضهم: ماتَ، وبعضهم يقول: قُتل، وبعضهم يقول: ذهبَ، فلا يبقى على أمره من أصحابه إلاّ نفر يسيرٌ، لا يطلع على موضعه أحدٌ من وليّ ولا غيره إلاّ المولى الذي يلى أمره.
(5) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from al-Qassim bin Muhammad bin al-Hasan bin Hazim from Obayss bin Hisham from Abdullah bin Jibilla from Ibraheem bin al-Mustaneer from al-Mufadhdhal bin Umar al-Ju’fi that Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as) had said: “The man of this matter disappears twice. The first one lasts long until some people say that he has died, some say that he has been killed and others say that he has gone. None of his companions will still believe in him except a very few people. No one knows his place except the guardian, who manages his affairs.” If there is no any other tradition narrated about the disappearance except this one, it will be sufficient for whoever ponders on it.
6 - وبه، عن عبد الله بن جبلة، عن سلمة بن جناح، عن حازم بن حبيب قال: دخلت على أبي عبد الله فقلت له: أصلحك الله، إن أبويّ هلكا ولم يحجّا وإن الله قد رزق وأحسن فما تقول في الحج عنهما؟ فقال: افعل فإنه يبرد لهما. ثم قال لي: يا حازم، إنّ لصاحب هذا الأمر غيبتَين يظهر في الثانية، فمن جاءك يقول إنه نفضَ يده من تراب قبره فلا تصدقْه.
(6) Abdullah bin Jibilla narrated from Salama bin Janah that Hazim bin Habeeb had said: I came to Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as) and said to him: “My parents died without performing the hajj. Allah has granted to me good livelihood. May I offer the hajj on behalf of them?” He said: “Yes, you may because that will benefit them.” Then he said to me: “O Hazim, the man of this matter disappears twice and he reappears after the second disappearance. Do not believe whoever comes to you saying that he (al-Qa’im) has died.” Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah narrated from Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Rabah az-Zuhri from Ahmad bin Ali al-Himyari from al-Hasan bin Ayyoob from Abdul Kareem bin Amr from Abu Haneefa as-Sayiq that Hazim bin Habeeb had said: “I said to Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as): “My father, who was a foreigner man, died and I wanted to offer the hajj and give charities in favor of him. What do you say about it?” He said to me: “Do that because he will be rewarded by it.” Then he said: “O Hazim, the man of this matter will disappear twice….” He mentioned the rest of the tradition as the one above.
7 - أحمد بن محمد بن سعيد بن عقدة قال: حدثنا محمد بن المفضل بن إبراهيم بن قيس وسعدان بن إسحاق بن سعيد: وأحمد بن الحسين بن عبد الملك ومحمد بن أحمد بن الحسن القطواني قالوا جميعاً: حدثنا الحسن بن محبوب، عن إبراهيم بن زياد الخارقي، عن أبي بصير قال: قلت لأبي عبد الله: كان أبو جعفر يقول: لقائم آل محمّد غيبتان إحداهما أطول من الأخرى. فقال: نعم، ولا يكون ذلك حتى يختلف سيفُ بني فلان وتضيق الحلقة ويظهر السفياني ويشتد البلاء ويشمل الناسَ موت وقتل يلجأون فيه إلى حرم الله وحرم رسوله .
(7) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed bin Oqda narrated from Muhammad bin al-Mufadhdhal bin Ibraheem bin Qayss, Sa’dan bin Iss’haq bin Sa’eed, Ahmad bin al-Husayn bin Abdul Melik and Muhammad bin Ahmad bin al-Husayn al-Qatawani all from al-Hasan bin Mahboob from Ibraheem bin Ziyad al-Khariqi that Abu Baseer had said: I said to Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as) that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (as) often said: “Al-Qa’im of Muhammad’s progeny will disappear twice; one will be longer than the other.” He said: “Yes, but that will not be until the army of the tribe of so and so disagrees, life becomes so difficult, as-Sufyani rises, distresses and calamities increase and death and killing spread among people until they resort to the sanctum of Allah (the Kaaba) and the sanctum of the Prophet (S) (the Prophet’s mosque).”
