Alghayba-occultation chapter3

chapter 

14

 THE SIGNS PRECEDING THE APPEARANCE ( (1) ) Abu Sulayman Ahmad bin Hawtha al-Bahili narrated from Abu Iss~haq Ibraheem bin Iss~haq an-Nahawandi from Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari from Abban bin Uthman that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: p: 243 

Page243-Alghayba-occultation

One day while the Prophet (s) was in al-Baqee, (1) Ali (s) came and asked where the Prophet (s) was. It was said to him that he had been in al-Baqee. Ali (s) went to al-Baqee. He greeted the Prophet (s) and the Prophet (s) asked him to sit down on his right hand. Then Ja’far bin Abu Talib (Ali s brother) came and greeted the Prophet (s). The Prophet (s) asked him to sit down on his left. Then al-Abbas (the Prophet s uncle) came, greeted the Prophet (s) and the Prophet (s) seated him before him. The Prophet (s) turned to Ali (s) and said: O Ali, shall I tell you of good news? Ali (s) said: Yes please, O messenger of Allah. The Prophet (s) said: Gabriel has just been with me a moment ago. He has told me that al-Qa’im, who will appear at the end of time and fill the world with justice after it will have been filled with injustice and oppression, will be from your progeny and from the descendants of al-Husayn. Ali said: O messenger of Allah, whatever goodness we have gotten from Allah is by means of you. Then the Prophet (s) turned to Ja’far bin Abu Talib and said: O Ja’far, shall I tell you of good news? Ja’far said: Yes please, O messenger of Allah. The Prophet (s) said to Ja’far: Gabriel has just been with me and told me that the one, who will deliver the banner to al-Qa’im, will be from your progeny. Do you know who he is? Ja’far said: No, I do not. The Prophet (s) said: It is he, whose face will be like a dinar, whose teeth will be like a saw and whose sword will be like a flame of fire. He will enter into the mountain lowly and will come out of it nobly surrounded by Gabriel and Michael. p: 244 

Page244-Alghayba-occultation

Then the Prophet (s) turned to al-Abbas and said to him: O the uncle of the Prophet, shall I tell you of what Gabriel has told me? Al-Abbas said: Yes please, O messenger of Allah. The Prophet (s) said: Gabriel said to me: How much distresses your progeny will receive from the progeny of al-Abba! Al-Abbas said: O messenger of Allah, do I avoid sleeping with women? The Prophet (s) said: Allah has already determined what will happen. (2) ( (2) ) Ali bin Ahmad al-Bandaneeji narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Khalid from Ibraheem bin Muhammad bin al-Mustaneer from Abdurrahman bin al-Qassim from his father that Abdullah bin Abbas had said: The Prophet (s) said to my father: O Abbas, how much misfortunes my progeny will get from your progeny and then how much woes will come upon your progeny from my progen! Al-Abbas said: Do I avoid sleeping with women? The Prophet (s) said: The will of Allah has already been determined and the decision is in His hand. But the end will be in the control of my progeny. (3) ( (3) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed bin Oqda narrated from Hameed bin Ziyad al-Kufi from Ali bin al-Sabah from Abu Ali bin al- Hasan bin Muhammad al-Hadhrami from Ja’far bin Muhammad from Ibraheem bin Abdul Hameed from Sa d bin Tareef from al-Asbugh bin Nabata that Imam Ali (s) had said: After one hundred and fifty years unbeliever rulers, untrusted treasurers and dissolute officials will control the rule. Then the merchants increase but the profits decrease. Usury spreads, illegitimate sons will be everywhere, adultery increase, relatives deny each other, the crescent is regarded as greater than it is, a woman is satisfied with a woman (in lesbianism) and a man is satisfied with a man. p: 245 

Page245-Alghayba-occultation

A man said to him: What will we do when such a time comes? Imam Ali said: Escap! Escap! The justice of Allah will still spread among this umma as long as the ulama do not incline to the rulers and as long as the pious still forbid the dissolute from committing sins. If they do not do so and then they are alerted and say: There is no god but Allah, Allah will say from on His Throne: You say it falsely. You are not truthful. (4) ( (4) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ahmad bin Mabindath from Ahmad bin Hilal from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Fadhdhal from Sufyan bin Ibraheem al-Jareeri from his father from Abu Sadiq that Amirul Mo’mineen (s) had said: During the rule of the Abbasids there will be ease and wealth. Their state will be so strong that even if the Turks, the Daylams, the Sindese, the Indians, the Berbers and the Taylasanese (5) unite together, they will not shake it. They will still live at ease until their followers and commanders deviate from them and until Allah empowers a severe man, who will rise from the place, in which their rule has been established. He will conquer every town he passes by. He will defeat every army standing against him. He will remove every ease and wealth. Woe will be upon whoever resists him. He will still do so until he triumphs. Then he will deliver his victory to a man from my progeny, who will say the truth and will act according to the truth. (6) p: 246 

Page246-Alghayba-occultation

( (5) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Abdullah bin Ja’far al- Himyari from al-Hasan bin Mahboob from Ali bin Ri ab that Muhammad bin Muslim had said: Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Before the rising of al-Qa’im there will be some signs, with which Allah tries His faithful people. I said: What are they? He said: It is the saying of Allah, And We will most certainly try you with somewhat of fear and hunger and loss of property and lives and fruits; and give good news to the patient. (7) When Allah says (We will try you) He means the believers, when He says (with somewhat of fear) , He refers to the fright that is caused at the end of the rule of the family of so- and-so, (hunger) is because of expensive prices, (loss of property) is corruption of trade and littleness of profits, (lives) is quick deaths, (fruits) is little production of plants and little blessing of fruits and (give good news to the patient) when al-Qa’im appears. Then he said to me: O Muhammad, this is the interpretation of the verse. Allah says, But none knows its interpretation except Allah and those who are firmly rooted in knowledge (8) (9). ( (6) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed bin Oqda narrated from Ahmad bin Yousuf bin Ya’qoob from Abul Hasan al-Ju fi from Issma’eel bin Mihran from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Abu Hamza from Abu Baseer that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: There must be a sedition before the appearance of al-Qa’im, during which people become hungry, terrified by killing and they lose their properties and lives. This has been clarified by the Book of Allah. Allah has said, And We will most certainly try you with somewhat of fear and hunger and loss of property and lives and fruits; and give good news to the patient. (10) p: 247 

Page247-Alghayba-occultation

( (7) ) Ali bin Ahmad narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from Ali bin Ibraheem bin Hashim from his father from Muhammad bin Hafs from Amr bin Shimr that Jabir al-Ju fi had said: Once I asked Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) about the meaning of this saying of Allah, We will most certainly try you with somewhat of fear and hunger , and he said: O Jabir, it has a general meaning and a special meaning. The special meaning is that hunger will afflict Kufa and especially the opponents of Muhammad s progeny and will perish them. As for the general meaning, there will be terror and hunger in Sham (11) that have never been faced before. Hunger will be before the rising of al-Qa’im (s) but terror will be after his rising. (12) ( (8) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Muhammad bin al-Mufadhdhal bin Ibraheem bin Qays from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Fadhdhal from Tha laba bin Maymoon from Ma mar bin Yahya from Dawood ad-Dajaji that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: Once Amirul Mo’mineen (s) was asked about (the meaning of) this Qur anic verse, The sects among them disagreed. (13) He said: Expect deliverance when three signs appear. He was asked: What are they? He said: Disagreement among the people of Sham, the black banners coming from Khurasan and terror in the month of Ramadan. He was asked: What terror is in Ramadan? He said: Have you not heard the saying of Allah in the Qur’an, If We please, We should send down upon them a sign from the heaven so that their necks should stoop to it? (14) It is a sign that will bring the girls out of their veils, awaken the sleepers and terrify the awake. (15) p: 248 

Page248-Alghayba-occultation

( (9) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik al-Fazari from Abdullah bin Khalid at-Tameemi from some of his companions from Muhammad bin Abu Omayr from Abu Ayyoob al-Khazzaz from Umar bin Handhala that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Before the appearance of al-Qa’im there will be five signs; the rising of al-Sufyani, the rising of al-Yamani, (16) a cry from the Heaven, killing the pure innocent man and sinking in the desert. (17) ( (10) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik al-Fazari from Musa bin Ja’far bin Wahab from al-Hasan bin Ali al-Washsha from Abbas bin Abdullah (18) from Dawood bin Sarhan that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Before the year of the cry (from the Heaven) , there will be a sign in the month of Rajab. He was asked: What is it? He said: A face will appear on the moon and a protruding hand. (19) ( (11) ) Ali bin Ahmad al-Bandaneeji narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from Ya’qoob bin Zayd from Ziyad bin Marwan from Abdullah bin Sinan that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: The cry (from the Heaven) , the rising of al-Sufyani, the rising of al-Yamani, killing the pure innocent man and a hand appearing in the sky will be inevitable. There will be also a fright in Ramadan, which will awaken the sleepers, terrify the awake and bring the girls out of their veils. (20) ( (12) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik from Ali bin Aasim from Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Abu Nasr that Imam Abul Hasan ar-Redha (s) had said: p: 249 

Page249-Alghayba-occultation

Before the appearance of al-Qa’im, there will be the risings of al-Sufyani, al-Marwani, al-Yamani and Shu ayb bin Salih. Then how does this one (Muhammad bin Ibraheem bin Issma’eel known as ibn Tabataba) claim such a thing (to be al-Qa’im)? (21) ( (13) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed bin Oqda narrated from Ahmad bin Yousuf bin Ya’qoob Abul Hasan al-Ju fi from Issma’eel bin Mihran from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Abu Hamza from his father and Wuhayb bin Hafs from Abu Baseer that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: If you see a great fire burning in the east for three days or seven days, then wait for the deliverance of Muhammad s progeny inshallah. Allah is Mighty, Wis! Then he said: The cry will not occur except in the month of Ramadan because Ramadan is the month of Allah and the cry is the cry of Gabriel to the people. Then he added: A call will come from the Heaven with the name of al-Qa’im. It will be heard by everyone in the east and everyone in the west. The cry will make every sleeper awake, every stander sit and every sitter stand because of fright. Allah will have mercy upon whoever submits to the cry and obeys the caller because the first cry will be the cry of Gabriel (s) Then he said: The cry will be in the month of Ramadan, in a night of a Friday, which will be the twenty-third of the month. Do never doubt that. Listen and obe! At the end of the day there will be the voice of Iblis the cursed calling out: So-and-so (Uthman) is killed unjustly just to make people doubt and become confused. On that day much many people will doubt and become confused and then go to Hell. If you hear the call in Ramadan, do not doubt it. It will be the voice of Gabriel. The evidence is that he will call out the name of al- Qa’im and the name of his father. The call will be heard by everyone until the virgins in their veils instigate their fathers and brothers to rise (to join al-Qa’im). p: 250 

Page250-Alghayba-occultation

These two calls must occur before the appearance of al-Qa’im. One will be from the Heaven calling out the name of al-Qa’im and the name of his father. It will be the call of Gabriel. The other will be from the earth and it will be the call of Iblis calling out the name of someone claiming that he has been killed unjustly just to create sedition among people. Obey the first call and beware of being deceived by the second on! He also said: Al-Qa’im will not appear except after a great terror among people, earthquakes, seditions, calamities, plague, terrible killing among the Arabs, great disagreements among people, separation in the religion and bad living until one will wish to die in the morning or in the evening because of the oppression of people and their striving to eat each other. Al-Qa’im will disappear after the people will have become so desperate and hopeless to get any deliverance. How blessed is he, who lives until the appearance of al-Qa’im and becomes one of his assistants and woe unto whoever opposes him, objects to his orders and become one of his opponents. He said: When he (al-Qa’im) rises, he will rule with a new method, new principles, new Sunna and new judgements. He will be severe with the Arabs. He will kill great numbers of people without forgiving anyone and without caring for any blame because he will act according to the will of Allah. He said: If the people of the family of so-and-so disagree among themselves, then you wait for deliverance to come soon because your deliverance will not come except after their disagreement. If they disagree, then expect the cry in Ramadan and the appearance of al-Qa’im. Allah does what he will! Al-Qa’im will not appear and you will not get what you look forward to unless those people disagree among themselves. If that occurs, people will seize the opportunity against them, separation will occur and then al-Sufyani will rise. p: 251 

Page251-Alghayba-occultation

He said: The family of so-and-so must rule. When they rule and disagree among themselves, their state will be separated and lost. 

Page252-Alghayba-occultation

Al-Khurasani (22) and al-Syfyani will rise against them; this from the east and that from the west. They will compete towards Kufa as two racehorses until that family will be perished by them. He said: The risings of al-Sufyani, al-Yamani and al-Khurasani will be in the same year, in the same month and on the same day. They will be like the beads of a rosary; one following the other. Sufferings will be from every side. Miserable will be whoever resists them. From among the three banners, only the banner of al- Yamani will be a banner of guidance because he will invite to the mission of your man (al-Qa’im). When al-Yamani rises, he will forbid selling weapons for all of the people and for the Muslims as well. When al-Yamani rises, you are to join him because his banner will be a banner of guidance. It is not permissible for any Muslim to turn away from him and whoever does so, will be in Hell, because al-Yamani will invite to the truth and to the straight path. He said: The loss of the rule of the family of so-and-so will be like the breaking of pottery or like a man, who has a piece of pottery in his hand while he is walking. It falls from his hand while he is inattentive but immediately he becomes attentive to find that it is broken. So is the loss of their rule. They will be so inattentive when their state will be lost. p: 252 

Page252-Alghayba-occultation

One day Amirul Mo’mineen (s) said from on the minbar of Kufa: Allah has determined that it is inevitable for the Umayyads to be killed by the sword openly and for the family of so-and-so to be defeated unexpectedly. He said: There must be grinding querns. When they (the querns) begin to turn around their axis, Allah will send a severe man, whose mention is obscure, against them. Victory will be always with him. His companions will be longhair and with long moustaches. Their cloths will be black and their banners will be black too. Woe unto whoever opposes them. They will kill their opponents excitedly. By Allah, as if I see them, their actions and what distresses the dissolute and the rude nomads will get from the! Allah will make them defeat those rude people with no mercy. They will kill them in their city at the shore of the Euphrates as a reward to what they have committed and Allah is not in the least unjust to the servant! (23) ( (14) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ahmad bin Yousuf bin Ya’qoob from Issma’eel bin Mihran from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Abu Hamza from his father from Shurahbeel that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said when he had been asked about al-Qa’im: Al-Qa’im does not appear until a caller from the Heaven will call out that everyone in the east and in the west will hear the call even the girls in their veils. (24) ( (15) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan from Ya’qoob bin Zayd from Ziyad al-Qandi from some of his companions that it was said to Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s): p: 253 

Page253-Alghayba-occultation

Is the rising of al-Sufyani inevitable? He said: Yes, it is. Killing the pure innocent man, the sinking of the desert, the appearance of a hand in the sky, the call that comes from the Heaven and the appearance of al-Qa’im are also inevitable. It was said to him: What is the call? He said: A caller calling out the name of al-Qa’im and the name of his father (s). (25) ( (16) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan from Ali bin Mahziyar from Hammad bin Eessa from al-Husayn bin Mukhtar from bin Abu Ya foor that Abu Abdullah al- Sadiq (s) had said to him: Keep in mind the perishment of so-and-so (he mentioned a name of a man from the Abbasids) , the rising of al-Sufyani, killing the pure innocent man, the sinking and the call, by which the man of this matter (al-Qa’im) will be known. The entire deliverance will be after the perishment of that man of the Abbasids. (26) ( (17) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan from Ali bin Mahziyar from Hammad bin Eessa from al-Husayn bin Mukhtar from Abdurrahman bin Siyaba from Imran bin Maytham that Abaya bin Rib iy al-Asadi had said: Once we came to Amirul Mo’mineen (s). We were five persons and I was the youngest of them. I heard him saying: My brother, the messenger of Allah, has said to me: I am the last of a thousand prophets and you are the last of a thousand guardians. I have been entrusted with what they have not entrusted with. p: 254 

Page254-Alghayba-occultation

I said: People were not just to you. He said: It is not as you think, O my nephew. (27) By Allah, I know a thousand words (facts, data, information etc. ) that no one other than me and other than Muhammad (s) knows. People recite a verse from the Qur’an, which is (And when the word shall come to pass against them, We shall bring forth for them a creature from the earth that shall speak unto them, because people did not believe in Our communications) (28) but they do not ponder on it deeply. Do I tell you about the end of the rule of the family of so-and-so? We said: Yes please, O Amirul Mo’minee! He said: (when) killing an innocent sacred man on a sacred day and in a sacred place. I swear by Him, Who has split the seed and created man, they will not rule after that except for fifteen nights. We said: will something occur before or after that? He said: A cry in Ramadan, that will terrify the awake, awaken the sleepers and bring the girls out of their veils. (29) ( (18) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Abu Abdullah Yahya bin Zakariyya bin Shayban from Abu Sulayman Yousuf bin Kulayb from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Abu Hamza from Sayf bin Omayra from Abu Bakr al-Hadhrami that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: The Abbasids must rule. When they rule, they will disagree and their state will separate. Al-Khurasani and al-Sufyani will rise against them. One will come from the east and the other from the west. They will hurry towards Kufa as tow racehorses. The decline of the Abbasids will be caused by these two leaders. None of them (the Abbasids) will remain alive. (30) p: 255 

Page255-Alghayba-occultation

( (19) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan al-Taymali from Amr bin Uthman from al-Hasan bin Mahboob that Abdullah bin Sinan had said: Once when I was with Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) , a man from Hamadan said to him: People criticize us and say to us that we claim that a caller from the Heaven will call out the name of the man of deliverance. Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) became so angry. He changed his sitting and said: Do not narrate this from me but narrate it from my father and you are not to be blamed for that. I have heard my father saying: By Allah, it has been mentioned in the Qur’an. Allah has said, If We please, We should send down upon them a sign from the heaven so that their necks should stoop to it. (31) Everyone on the earth then will submit to that (the call coming from the Heaven) and his neck will stoop when a call is heard from the Heaven announcing that: The right is with Ali bin Abu Talib and his followers. The next day Iblis will rise in the space until he disappears from the people of the earth and calls out: The right is with Uthman bin Affan and his followers. He has been killed unjustly so you are to avenge his blood. Allah will confirm the believers, who believe in the first call and then those, whose hearts are full of diseases, will doubt and become confused. By Allah, the disease of the heart is the enmity towards us. Then they will turn away from us and begin to criticize us. They will say that the first p: 256 

Page256-Alghayba-occultation

call is a piece of magic of the people of this house (Ahlul Bayt). Then Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) recited this Qur anic verse, And if they see a miracle they turn aside and say: Transient magic. (32) The same was narrated by Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed from Muhammad bin al-Mufadhdhal bin Ibraheem, Sa dan bin Iss~haq bin Sa’eed, Ahmad bin al-Husayn bin Abdul Melik and Muhammad bin Ahmad bin al-Hasan al-Qatawani from al- Hasan bin Mahboob from Abdullah bin Sinan. (33) ( (20) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from al-Qassim bin Muhammad bin al-Hasan bin Hazim from Obayss bin Hisham an-Nashiry from Abdullah bin Jibilla from Abdus-Samad bin Basheer that Imara al-Hamadani had said to Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s): May Allah make you succee! Some people criticize us and say that we claim that there will be a voice calling out from the Heaven. Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: My father often said: It has been mentioned in the Book of Allah: (If We please, We should send down upon them a sign from the heaven so that their necks should stoop to it). All the people of the earth will believe in the first call. The next day Iblis will rise high in the sky until he disappears and then he will call out: Uthman has been killed unjustly. You are to avenge his blood. Some people will apostate and say that it is the magic of the Shia. Therefore Allah has said: (And if they see a miracle they turn aside and say: Transient magic). (34) p: 257 

Page257-Alghayba-occultation

( (21) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from al-Qassim bin Muhammad from Obayss bin Hisham from Abdullah bin Jibilla from his father that Muhammad bin al-Samit had said: I asked Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s): Will there be certain signs before this matter (the appearance of al-Qa’im)? He said: Yes, there will. I asked: What are they? He said: The perishment of the Abbasids, the rising of al-Sufyani, killing the pure innocent man, the sinking of the desert and the call from the Heaven. I said: May I die for yo! I am afraid that these things may take a long tim! He said: No. They will be like the beads of a rosary; one coming after the other. (35) ( (22) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ahmad bin Yousuf bin Ya’qoob Abul Hasan al-Ju fi from Issma’eel bin Mihran from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Abu Hamza from his father and Wuhayb from Abu Baseer that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: Al-Qa’im (s) will rise in an odd year; one, three, five, seven or nine. When the Umayyads rule and disagree among themselves, their state will decline and then the Abbasids will rule. Their state remains strong and they live at ease and wealth until they disagree among themselves. Then their state will decline and the people of the east and of the west will disagree. People will face difficult times full of terror. They will remain so until a caller calling out from the Heaven. When you here the call, you are to hurry up (to join al-Qa’im). By Allah, as if I see him (al-Qa’im) between the corner (of the Kaaba) and the temple (of Abraham). He will be paid p: 258 

Page258-Alghayba-occultation

homage to rule over the people with a new method, new principles and a new rule determined by the Heaven. None of his armies will be defeated until he dies. (36) ( (23) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan from his father from Ahmad bin Umar al-Halabi from al-Husayn bin Musa from Fudhayl bin Muhammad, the freed slave of Muhammad bin Rashid al-Bajali that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: The call coming from the Heaven and calling out the name of al-Qa’im is clear in the Book of Allah. He was asked: Where is it in the Book of Allah? He said: Allah has said, If We please, We should send down upon them a sign from the heaven so that their necks should stoop to it. When people hear the call, they will become as if there are birds on their heads (because of astonishment and confusion). (37) ( (24) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ahmad bin Yousuf bin Ya’qoob al-Ju fi from Issma’eel bin Mihran from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Abu Hamza from his father from Abu Baseer that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: If the Abbasid ruler ascends the minbar of Marwan, (38) the state of the Abbasids will begin to decline gradually. My father has said to me: There must be a fire coming from Azerbaijan that will destroy everything. When that occurs, you are to stay at homes as long as we have stayed. When our man (al-Qa’im) rises, then hurry up to him even crawling. By Allah, as if I see him between the corner and p: 259 

Page259-Alghayba-occultation

the temple being paid homage to rule over the people with a new method. He will be severe with the Arabs. Woe unto the Arabs from a soon evi! (39) 

Page260-Alghayba-occultation

( (25) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Husayn at-Taymali from Muhammad and Ahmad, the sons of al-Hasan, from Ali bin Ya’qoob al-Hashimi from Haroon bin Muslim from Obayd bin Zurara that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: The name of al-Qa’im will be called out (from the Heaven). It will be said to him while he is behind the temple (of Abraham): Your name has been called out. What are you waiting for? Then his hand will be taken to be paid homage. Zurara said: Praise be to Alla! We often heard that al-Qa’im would be paid homage unwillingly and we did not know the reason behind that. Then we knew that the unwillingness of the homage was not guilt. (40) ( (26) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Haroon bin Muslim from Abu Khalid al-Qammat from Hamran bin A yun that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: The inevitable things that must occur before the appearance of al-Qa’im are the rising of al-Sufyani, the sinking of the desert, killing the pure innocent man and the call that will come from the Heaven. (41) ( (27) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ahmad bin Yousuf bin Ya’qoob from Issma’eel bin Mihran from al-Hasan bin Ali from his father and Wuhayb bin Hafs from Najiya al-Qattan that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: p: 260 

Page260-Alghayba-occultation

The caller will call out that al-Mahdi is from Muhammad s progeny. He will call out the name of al-Mahdi (42) and the name of his father. Then the Satan will call out that the truth is with soand- so (Uthman) and his followers. (43) ( (28) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al-Hasan from al-Abbas bin Aamir bin Rabah ath-Thaqafi from Abdullah bin Bukayr that Zurara bin A yun had said: I heard Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) saying: A caller will call out from the Heaven that so-and-so is the emir and that Ali and his followers are the triumphants. I said: Then who will fight al-Mahdi after that? He said: The Satan will call out that so-and-so and his followers are the triumphants-a man of the Umayyads (Uthman). I said: Then who will know which the truthful is and which the liar is? He said: Those, who used to narrate our traditions, will know that and will know that they are with the truth. (44) ( (29) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan at-Taymali from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Yousuf from al-Muthanna that Zurara bin A yun had said: I said to Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s): May Allah make you succee! I wonder how people will fight against al-Qa’im in spite of all the miracles they will see; like the sinking of the desert with the army and the divine call that will come from the Heave! He said: The Satan will not let them free until he calls out as he has called out against the Prophet (s) on the day of al-Aqaba. (45) p: 261 

Page261-Alghayba-occultation

( (30) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan from Muhammad bin Abdullah from Muhammad bin Abu Omayr that Hisham bin Salim had said to Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s): Al-Jareeri says to us that you have said that there will be two calls coming from the Heaven then which of them is truthful and which is false? Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: Say to him: He, who has told us of that, is the truthful although you deny i! (46) ( (31) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated that Hisham bin Salim had said: I heard Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) saying: There will be two cries; one at the beginning of night and the other will be at the end of the second night. I asked: How will that be? He said: One will be from the Heaven and the other will be from Iblis. I said: How one will be distinguished from the other? He said: He, who has known about them before they occur, will know which of them is from the Heaven. (47) ( (32) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan at-Taymali from his father from Muhammad bin Khalid from Tha lba bin Maymoon that Abdurrahman bin Maslama al-Jareeri had said: I said to Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s): Some people blame us and say that how the truthful call is distinguished from the false one when they both occur. He said: With what do you answer them? I said: With nothing. He said: Say to them: He, who has believed in them before they occur, will know which of them is true and which is false. Allah has said, Is He then Who guides to the truth more worthy to be followed, or he who himself does not go aright unless he is guided? What then is the matter with you; how do you judge? (48) (49) p: 262 

Page262-Alghayba-occultation

( (33) ) Ahmad narrated from Ali bin al-Hasan at-Taymali from Muhammad bin Umar bin Yazeed and Muhammad bin al-Waleed bin Khalid al-Khazzaz from Hammad bin Uthman from Abdullah bin Sinan that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: A caller from the Heaven will call out: So-and-so the son of soand- so is the man of this matter. Then what is the fight for? (50) ( (43) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa eed narrated from Abu Sulayman Ahmad bin Hawtha al-Bahili from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq an-Nahawandi from Abullah bin Hammad al-Ansari from Abdulla bin Sinan that Abu Abdulla al-Sadiq (s) had said: This matter, which you stretch your necks to, will not be until a caller from the Heaven calls: So and so is the man of this matter so what is this fighting for? ( (35) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Muhammad bin al-Mufadhdhal bin Ibraheem, Sa dan bin Iss~haq bin Sa’eed, Ahmad bin al-Husayn bin Abdul Melik and Muhammad bin Ahmad bin al-Hasan al-Qatawani from al-Hasan bin Mahboob az-Zarrad from Abdullah bin Sinan that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Death and killing will spread among people until they resort to the Kaaba. Then a caller (from the heaven) will call out when fighting and killing become so violent: (What are all these fights and killings for? Your man is so-and-so. (51) ( (36) ) 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 Muhammad bin Sulayman from al-Ala from Muhammad bin Muslim that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: p: 263 

Page263-Alghayba-occultation

The rising of al-Sufyani and the rising of al-Qa’im will be in the same year. (52) ( (37) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ahmad bin Yousuf bin Ya’qoob from Issma’eel bin Mihran from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Abu Hamza from his father and Wuhayb bin Hafs from Abu Baseer that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: While people are standing on Arafat, (53) a rider on a quick she-camel will come to inform them of the death of a caliph, after whose death the deliverance of Muhammad s progeny and the deliverance of all the people will come. He also said: When you see a sign in the sky; a great fire burning for some nights in the east, then deliverance will come. It will occur a little before the appearance of al-Qa’im (s). (54) ( (38) ) Ali bin Ahmad al-Bandaneeji narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from Muhammad bin Musa from Ahmad bin Abu Ahmad al-Warraq al-Jurjani from Muhammad bin Ali from Ali bin al-Hakam from Amr bin Shimr from Jabir that Abut-Tufayl had said: Once ibn al-Kawwa asked Amirul Mo’mineen (s) about anger. Amirul Mo’mineen (s) said: How far anger i! A death after a deat! The rider of the quick she-camel and what the rider of the quick she-camel i! He will inform people of something and they will kill him. Then anger come! (55) ( (39) ) Abu Sulayman Ahmad bin Hawtha al-Bahili narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq an-Nahawandi from Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari from Abu Malik al-Hadhrami from Muhammad bin Abul Hakam from Abdullah bin Uthman from Aslam al-Mekki from Abut- Tufayl that Huthayfa bin al-Yaman had said: p: 264 

Page264-Alghayba-occultation

A caliph, whom no one in the Heaven will forgive nor will he have any supporter on the earth, will be killed and another caliph, who will have no chance of getting forgiveness in the afterlife, will be deposed and then the son of the bondmaid will become the caliph. Abut-Tufayl said (to Aslam): O my nephew, I wish we would live in his tim! Aslam said: O uncle, why do you wish so? Abut-Tufayl said: Because Huthayfa has told me that the rule will return to the Prophet s family. (56) ( (40) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ahmad bin Yousuf bin Ya’qoob from Issma’eel bin Mihran from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Abu Hamza from his father and Wuhayb that Abu Baseer had said: Once Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) was asked about the interpretation of the Qur anic verse, We will soon show them Our signs in the Universe and in their own souls, until it will become quite clear to them that it is the truth, (57) and he said: Allah will show them His signs in the skies and in their selves. The saying, until it will become quite clear to them that it is the truth, means the appearance of al-Qa’im, who is the truth that Allah will make His people see inevitably. (58) ( (41) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan at-Taymali from Ali bin Mahziyar from Hammad bin Eessa from al-Husayn bin al-Mukhtar that Abu Baseer had said: I said to Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s): Allah has said, The chastisement of disgrace in this world’s life. (59) What is the chastisement of disgrace in this life? p: 265 

Page265-Alghayba-occultation

He said: O Abu Baseer, is there a disgrace worse than that when a man is in his house and among his family and then his family begins to cry and weep and people ask what the matter is to be said to them that that man is metamorphosed? I said: Will that happen before or after the appearance of al-Qa’im (s)? He said: It will happen before the appearance of al-Qa’im (s). (60) ( (42) ) Ali bin Ahmad al-Bandaneeji narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from Ahmad bin Abu Ahmad al-Warraq that Ya’qoob bin al-Sarraj had said: I asked Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s): When will the deliverance of your Shia come? He said: When the Abbasids disagree, their rule will become weak, those, who have never thought of the rule, will seize the opportunity to gain their (the Abbasids) rule, the Arabs will become uncontrolled, al-Sufyani will rise, al-Yamani will come with his army, al-Hasani will move with his troops and then al- Qa’im will appear in Medina and move towards Mecca with the heritage of the Prophet (s). I said: What is the heritage of the Prophet (s)? He said: The heritage of the Prophet (s) is his sword, armor, turban, garment, banner, stick, horse and saddle. (61) ( (43) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Muhammad bin al-Mufadhdhal, Sa dan bin Iss~haq bin Sa’eed, Ahmad bin al- Husayn bin Abdul Melik and Muhammad bin Ahmad bin al-Hasan al- Qatawani from al-Hasan bin Mahboob that Ya’qoob al-Sarraj had said: I asked Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s): When will the deliverance of your Shia be? p: 266 

Page266-Alghayba-occultation

He said: If the Abbasids disagree, their rule will become weak until the end of the previous tradition. Then he added until he (al-Qa’im) stops at the outskirt of Mecca. He will take the sword out of its sheath, put on the armor, spread the banner and the garment, put on the turban, hold the stick with his hand and will ask Allah permission to appear. He will inform some of his guardians of that. He will go to inform al-Hasani. Immediately al-Hasani will rise but the people of Mecca will kill him and send his head to Sham. Then al-Qa’im will appear. People will pay homage to him and follow him. The ruler of Sham then will send an army to Medina but the will of Allah will make them perish before reaching Medina. Then all of Ali s progeny in Medina will flee to Mecca and join al- Qa’im. Al-Qa’im will move towards Iraq and send an army towards Medina ordering its people to go back to it. (62) ( (44) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik from Mo awiya bin Hakeem that Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Abu Nasr had said: I heard Imam ar-Redha (s) saying: Before this matter (the appearance of al-Mahdi) there will be (bayooh). I did not know the meaning of (bayooh). When I went to offer the hajj, I heard a nomad saying: This is a (bayooh) day. I asked him: What does (bayooh) mean? He said: It means very hot. (63) ( (45) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al-Hasan at-Taymali from Ahmad and Muhammad, the sons of al-Hasan, from their father from Tha laba bin Maymoon that Badr bin p: 267 

Page267-Alghayba-occultation

 al-Khaleel al-Asadi had said: Once I was with Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) and he said that two signs would appear before the appearance of al-Qa’im that had never appeared since Allah had sent Adam down to the earth. He said that the sun would be eclipsed in the middle of Ramadan and the moon would be eclipsed in the end of Ramadan. A man said: O son of the messenger of Allah, it is the moon that will be eclipsed in the middle of Ramadan and the sun will be eclipsed in the end of it. (64) Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) said: I do know what I say. They are two signs that have never occurred since Adam (s) has descended to the earth. (65) ( (46) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from al-Qassim bin Muhammad bin al-Hasan bin Hazim from Obayss bin Hisham an-Nashiri from Abdullah bin Jibilla from al- Hakam bin Ayman from Ward, al-Kumayt s brother, that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: Before the appearance of al-Qa’im, the moon will be eclipsed five days before the end of the month and the sun will be eclipsed in the middle of the month. That will occur in Ramadan and then the calculations of the astrologers will fail. (66) ( (47) ) Ali bin Abu Hamza narrated from Abu Baseer that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: One of the signs that precedes the appearance of al-Mahdi will be the eclipse of the sun in the middle of Ramadan. (67) ( (48) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik from Muhammad bin al-Husayn bin Abul Khattab from al- Hasan bin Ali from Salih bin Sahl that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said when talking about the verse, A questioner asked about a Penalty to befall: (68) p: 268 

Page268-Alghayba-occultation

It is not a questioner asked. it is a flowing that flowed (69) and it is a fire that will flame in ath-Thawiyya (70) and then it will move to the tribe of Asad and then to the tribe of Thaqeef. It will burn the enemies of Muhammad s progeny. This will be before the appearance of al-Qa’im (s). (71) ( (49) ) Abu Sulayman Ahmad bin Hawtha narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq an-Nahawandi from Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari from Amr bin Shimr that Jabir had said: Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) said: How do you recite this verse? I said: Which verse? He said: A questioner asked about a Penalty to befall. Then he said: It is not a questioner asked. it is a flowing that flowed and it is a fire that will flame in ath-Thawiyya and then it will move to the tribe of Asad and then to the tribe of Thaqeef. It will burn the enemies of Muhammad s progeny. This will be before the appearance of al-Qa’im (s). (72) ( (50) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan from his brother Muhammad bin al-Hasan from his father from Ahmad bin Umar al-Halabi from al-Husayn bin Musa from Ma mar bin Yahya bin Sam from Abu Khalid al-Kabuli that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: As if I see some people rising in the east. They will ask for the truth but they will not be given it. They will ask for it again and they will not be given it. Then they will unsheathe their swords and they will be given what they will ask for but they will not accept it. They will revolt and deliver their victory to your man (al-Mahdi). p: 269 

Page269-Alghayba-occultation

Their killed ones will be martyrs. If I live until that time, I will sacrifice myself to the man of this matter. (73) ( (51) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan from Ya’qoob bin Yazeed from Ziyad al-Qandi from ibn Othayna that Ma roof bin Kharrabooth had said: Whenever we go to Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) , he says: Khurasa! Khurasa! Sajista! Sajista! (74) As if he wants to tell us good news (about deliverance). (75) ( (52) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan from al-Hasan and Muhammad, the sons of Ali bin Yousuf, from their father from Ahmad bin Umar al- Halabi from Salih bin Abul Aswad from Abul Jarood that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: When people pay homage to the young boy, every young boy will try to rise. (76) ( (53) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan from Muhammad bin Abdullah from Muhammad bin Abu Omayr from Hisham bin Salim that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Al-Qa’im will not appear except after that every class of people will have ruled over people so that no one may say: If we have ruled, we will have spread justice then al-Qa’im will rise to rule with truth and justice. (77) ( (54) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from the same previous narrators from Hisham bin Salim that Zurara had said: Once I asked Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) if the call (from the Heaven) would be true. He said: Yes, by Allah, until every nation will hear it with its own language. He also said: Al-Qa’im will not appear unless nine tenths of people perish. (78) p: 270 

Page270-Alghayba-occultation

( (55) ) Ali bin Ahmad narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari from Ibraheem bin Obaydillah bin al-Ala from his father that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Amirul Mo’mineen (s) informed of some things that would happen after him until the appearance of al-Qa’im. Al-Husayn (s) asked him: O Amirul Mo’mineen, when does Allah clear the world from the unjust people? Amirul Mo’mineen (s) said: Allah does not clear the world from the unjust until the sacred blood is shed. He mentioned the story of the Umayyads and the Abbasids in a long tradition then he said: When al-Qa’im rises in Khurasan, defeats Kufa and the two nations, passes the island of Bani Kawan, (79) and another revolter from us rises in Jeelan, who will be supported by the people of Aabir and Daylaman, (80) then the banners of the Turks will rise in different countries to support my son (al-Qa’im). Then some things will happen here and there. Basra will be destroyed and the emir of the emirs will rule in Egypt. He told a long story and then said: When armies get ready, different leaders rise, revolters rebel and unbelievers perish then the expected Qa im and the unknown imam will appear with honor and virtue. O Husayn, he is your descendant, who has no like at all. He will appear between the two corners (of the Kaaba) in ragged cloths. He will rule over all the peoples and will clear the world of every evil. Blessed is he, who lives until his (al-Qa’im s) age and enjoys his rule. (81) p: 271 

Page271-Alghayba-occultation

( (56) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik from Muhammad bin Ahmad from Muhammad bin Sinan from Younus bin Dhabyan that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: When the night of Friday comes, Allah sends down an angel to the lower heaven. When dawn comes, the angel sits on a throne on the House (the Kaaba) and sets minbars of light for Muhammad, Ali, al-Hasan and al-Husayn (peace be upon them). They ascend the minbars. The angels, the prophets and the believers are invited to gather before them. The gates of the heavens are opened. When the sun declines, the Prophet (s) says: O my Lord, carry out Your promise that You have promised of in Your Book by this verse, Allah has promised to those of you who believe and do good that He will most certainly make them rulers in the earth as He made rulers those before them, and that He will most certainly establish for them their religion which He has chosen for them, and that He will most certainly, after their fear, give them security in exchange. (82) The angels and the prophets say the same thing. Then Muhammad, Ali, al-Hasan and al-Husayn prostrate themselves and pray Allah: O our Lord, aveng! Your sanctum has been dishonored, Your choice have been killed and Your faithful slaves have been degraded. Then Allah does as He wills and that will be a great day. (82) ( (57) ) Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah bin Younus narrated from Muhammad bin Ja’far al-Qarashi from Muhammad bin al-Husayn bin Abul Khattab from Muhammad bin Sinan from al- Husayn bin Mukhtar from Khalid al-Qalanisi that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: p: 272 

Page272-Alghayba-occultation

When the wall of the mosque of Kufa is destroyed from the back next to the house of ibn Mass ood, then the rule of the family of so-and-so will decline. He, who destroys the wall, will not restore it (he perishes before that). (83) ( (58) ) Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah narrated from Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Rabah from Ahmad bin Ali al-Himyari from al-Hasan bin Ayyoob from Abdul Kareem bin Amr al-Khath ami from someone that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Al-Qa’im will appear after when twelve men will have agreed upon that they have seen him but they will be considered as liars. (84) ( (59) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Hameed bin Ziyad from al-Hasan bin Muhammad bin Suma a from Ahmad bin al-Hasan al-Maythami from Abul Hasan Ali bin Muhammad from Ma ath bin Matar from someone (Abu Sayyar) that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Before the appearance of al-Qa’im, the war of (tribe of) Qays will break out. (85) ( (60) ) Ali bin al-Husayn narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya al-Attar from Muhammad bin Hassaan ar-Razi from Muhammad bin Ali al-Kufi from Muhammad bin Sinan that Obayd bin Zurara had said: Once al-Sufyani was mentioned before Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s). He said: He (al-Syfyani) will not rise except after the rising of the one in Sana a. (86) ( (61) ) Ali bin al-Husayn narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya from Muhammad bin Hassaan ar-Razi from Muhammad bin Ali al-Kufi from Ibraheem bin Abul Bilad from Ali bin Muhammad bin al-A lam al-Azdi from his father from his grandfather that Amirul Mo’mineen (s) had said: p: 273 

Page273-Alghayba-occultation

Before the appearance of al-Qa’im, there will be red death, white death and attacks of locusts in time and out of time. Red death is the killing by the sword and white death is by plague. (87) ( (26) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al-Hasan at-Taymali from Muhammad bin Umar bin Yazeed and Muhammad bin al-Waleed bin Khalid al-Khazzaz from Hammad bin Uthman from Abdullah bin Sinan from Muhammad bin Ibraheem bin Abul Bilad from his father from his grandfather that al-Asbugh bin Nabata had heard Imam Ali (s) saying: Before the appearance of al-Qa’im there will be deceitful years, in which a truthful one will be considered as a liar, a liar will be considered as truthful and a cheater will be respected. (88) ( (63) ) Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah narrated from Muhammad bin Ja’far al-Qarashi from Muhammad bin al-Husayn bin Abul Khattab from Muhammad bin Sinan from Huthayfa bin al-Mansoor that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Allah will have a banquet. A caller from the Heaven will call out: O birds of the sky and beasts of the earth, come to eat and be satiate of the flesh of the tyrants. (89) ( (64) ) Abu Sulayman Muhammad bin Hawtha al-Bahili narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq from Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari from Abu Baseer that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: A caller (from the Heaven) will call out the name of al-Qa’im: O you the son of so-and-so, get u! (90) ( (65) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Muhammad bin al-Mufadhdhal, Sa dan bin Iss~haq bin Sa’eed, Ahmad bin al-Husayn bin Abdul Melik and Muhammad bin Ahmad bin al-Hasan from al-Hasan bin Mahboob from Ya’qoob al-Sarraj from Jabir that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: p: 274 

Page274-Alghayba-occultation

O Jabir, al-Qa’im will not appear until the people of Sham will be afflicted with a sedition, from which they try their best to be free but they cannot, terrible killing will occur between Kufa and Heera (91) and a call that will come from the Heaven. (92) ( (66) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from the previous four narrators from al-Hasan bin Mahboob from al-Ala bin Razeen from Muhammad bin Muslim that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: Expect the cry to come to you surprisingly from the direction of Damascus. Then great deliverance will come to you. (93) ( (67) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from the four men from al-Hasan bin Mahboob, Muhammad bin Ya’qoob al-Kulayni narrated from Ali bin Ibraheem bin Hashim from his father, Muhammad bin Imran narrated from Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Eessa from Ali bin Muhammad and others from Sahl bin Ziyad from al-Hasan bin Mahboob and Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah narrated from Abu Ali Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Abu Nashir from Ahmad bin Hilal from al-Hasan bin Mahboob from Amr bin Abul Miqdam from Jabir bin Yazeed al-Ju fi that Abu Ja’far al- Baqir (s) had said: O Jabir, keep quiet until you see some signs that I will mention to you-if you remain alive until then: The first is the disagreement of the Abbasids. I do not think that you live until then but narrate this from me after my death. Other signs are a call from the Heaven, a cry comes from the direction of Damascus, one of the villages of Sham called al-Jabiya 

Page275-Alghayba-occultation

sinks, a part of the mosque of Damascus falls p: 275 

Page275-Alghayba-occultation

down, a group of the Turks apostates and then commotion in Rome. The Turks come and occupy the island whereas the Romans come to settle in ar-Ramla. O Jabir, that year will be full of events everywhere from the direction of the west. The first country that will be ruined is Sham. Then people will disagree and divide into three armies; the army of the reddish one, the army of the spotted one and the army of al- Sufyani. al-Sufyani will fight the spotted one and he will kill him with his followers and then he will fight the reddish one and he will kill him. Then he will move towards Iraq. He will pass by Qarqeesiya. (94) A fight will break out. al-Sufyani will kill about one hundred thousands of the arrogants. Then he will send an army of seventy thousand warriors towards Kufa. They will kill, crucify and capture many of the people of Kufa. While they are doing so, an army will come from the direction of Khurasan. With this army there will be some companions of al-Qa’im. A faithful man from Kufa with weak followers will revolt but he will be killed by the leader of al-Sufyani s army between Kufa and Heera. al-Sufyani will send a troop to Medina. Al- Mahdi will flee from Medina to Mecca. The leader of the army will be informed that al-Mahdi has gone to Mecca so he will send a troop to follow after him but with no use. Al-Mahdi will enter Mecca frightfully and cautiously like Prophet Moses (s). p: 276 

Page276-Alghayba-occultation

The army of al-Sufyani will stop in the desert. A caller from the Heaven will call out: O desert, destroy these peopl! The desert will sink with the army and none of them will escape death except three persons, whom Allah will turn their faces towards their backs. It is about them that this verse has been revealed, O you who have been given the Boo! believe that which We have revealed, verifying what you have, before We alter faces then turn them on their backs. (95) On that day al-Qa’im will be in Mecca leaning his back against the Kaaba. He will announce: O people, we resort to Allah to make us succeed. Whoever of you wants to support us, let him join us. We are the progeny of your Prophet Muhammad (s). We are worthier of Allah and Muhammad than other people. Whoever argues with me about Adam, I am the worthiest of Adam. Whoever argues with me about Noah, I am the worthiest of Noah. Whoever argues with me about Abraham, I am the worthiest of Abraham. Whoever argues with me about Muhammad (s) , I am the worthiest of Muhammad (s). Whoever argues with me about the prophets, I am the worthiest of the prophets. Has Allah not said in his Book, Surely Allah chose Adam and Noah and the descendants of Abraham and the descendants of Imran above the nations; offspring one of the other; and Allah is Hearing, Knowing? (96) I am a remainder of Adam, a relic of Noah, elite of Abraham and a choice of Muhammad, peace be upon them all. Whoever argues with me about the Book of Allah, I am the p: 277 

Page277-Alghayba-occultation

worthiest of the book of Allah. Whoever argues with me about the Sunna of the messenger of Allah, I am the worthiest of the Sunna of the messenger of Allah. I adjure everyone, who hears my speech today, to inform the absent of it. I ask you with the right of Allah, the right of His messenger and with my right, for I have a right of kinship to the messenger of Allah, to support us and to protect us from those, who have wronged us. We have been wronged, offended, expelled from our homes, separated from our families, deprived of our rights and our honor and virtues have been distorted by the evil people. For the sake of Allah, do not fail us. Support us that may Allah supports yo! Allah will make his (al-Mahdi s) three hundred and thirteen companions join him without any previous appointment. O Jabir, it is the verse that Allah has revealed in His Book, Wherever you are, Allah will bring you all together; surely Allah has power over all things. (97) People will pay homage to him between the corner (of the Kaaba) and the temple (of Abraham). With him there will be a covenant from the Prophet (s) that has been inherited by the descendants; one after the other. O Jabir, al-Qa’im is one of al-Husayn s descendants. Allah will make him succeed within a night. O Jabir, if people doubt all that, let them not doubt his descending from the Prophet (s) and his inheriting knowledge from the ulama (the infallible imams) one after the other. If all these things become confusing to them, then the call that will come from the Heaven and will call out his name and his parents names certainly will not be confusing to them at all. (98) p: 278 

Page278-Alghayba-occultation

( (68) ) Abu Sulayman Ahmad bin Hawtha al-Bahili narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq an-Nahawandi from Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari from Abu Baseer that Abu Abdullah al- Sadiq (s) had said: Al-Qa’im will appear on the day of Ashura. (99) (100) All these signs that have been mentioned by the infallible imams (s) throughout the current true traditions, which are so numerous, must occur before the appearance of al-Qa’im (s) because the infallible imams (s) have said that they are inevitable and surely their sayings are the most truthful. It has been said to them: We hope that al-Qa’im (s) appears without being preceded by the rising of al-Sufyani. They said: By Allah it is inevitable and it must occur. They have confirmed that the five signs will be the greatest evidences, after which al-Qa’im (s) will appear. They have denied timing (101) and said: Whoever narrates from us traditions talking about timing, do not hesitate in considering him as a liar whoever he is because we do not time. This is clear evidence showing the falseness of whoever claims that he is al-Qa’im before the occurrence of these signs. 

Page278-Alghayba-occultation

Footnote 

(1) Al-Baqee is the graveyard of the Muslims in Medina. (2) Biharul Anwar, vol. 51 p. 76, Muntakhab al-Athar p. 200, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 1 p. 195. (3) Men la Yahdhuruhu al-Faqeeh, vol. 1 p. 252, Ilal ash-Sharayi p. 348, Biharul Anwar, vol. 22 p. 291, vol. 28 p. 48. (4) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 228. (5) Taylasan is a region in Persia. (6) Iqd ad-Durar p. 47, Minhaj al-Karama p. 109, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 2 p. 470, Biharul Anwar, vol. 8 p. 359, Bisharatul Islam p. 45, Mo’jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p: 279 

Page279-Alghayba-occultation

p. 80. (7) Qur’an, 2: 155. (8) Qur’an, 3: 7. (9) Kamal ad-Deen p. 649, Dala’il al-Imama p. 259, Al-Irshad p. 361, I’lam al-Wara p. 427, al-Khara’ij wel Jara’ih, vol. 3 p. 1153, Kashul Ghumma, vol. 3 p. 52, Mo’jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 42. (10) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 734, Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 1 p. 167, Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 608, al-Mahajja p. 47, 48, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 228, Mo’jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 43. (11) Nowadays Damascus. But then Sham encompassed Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine. (12) Tafseer al-Ayyashi, vol. 1 p. 68, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 734, 740, Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 610, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 229, Mo’jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 41. (13) Qur’an, 19: 37. (14) Qur’an, 26: 4. (15) Iqd ad-Durar p. 104, Ta’weel al-Aayat, vol. 1 p. 387, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 734, Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 3 p. 179, 180, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 229, Mo’jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 238, 291. (16) Coming from Yemen. (17) Iqd ad-Durar p. 111, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 735, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 204, Mo’jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 299. (18) He might be Abbas bin Otba. (19) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 735, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 233, Mo’jam Ahadeeth al- Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 488. (20) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 735, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 233, Mo’jam Ahadeeth al- Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 464. (21) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 735, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 233, Mo’jam Ahadeeth al- Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 4 p. 166. (22) From Khurasan (Persia). (23) Refer to chap. 13 no. 19, 22 and refer to ar-Raj’a by al-Astrabady p. 157 and Mo’jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 253. (24) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 736, Muntakhab al-Athar p. 250, Mo’jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 282. (25) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 736, Muntakhab al-Athar p. 455, Mo’jam Ahadeeth al-Imam p: 280 

Page280-Alghayba-occultation

al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 450. (26) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 736, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 234, Bisharatul Islam p. 116, Mo’jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 467. (27) The Arabs often use this word “my nephew” although the addressed one is not the talker’s nephew. (28) Qur’an, 27: 82. (29) Ar-Raj’a by al-Astarabadi p. 154, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 234, Madeenatul Ma’ajiz, vol. 3 p. 89. (30) Ar-Raj’a by al-Astarabadi p. 154, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 234, Madeenatul Ma’ajiz, vol. 3 p. 89. (31) Qur’an, 26: 4. (32) Qur’an, 54: 2. (33) Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 3 p. 179-180, al-Mahajja p. 157-158, Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 611-612, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 292, Mo’jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 294. (34) Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 3 p. 180, Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 612, al-Mahajja p. 158, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 293, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 295. (35) Iqd ad-Durar p. 49, Burhan by al-Muttaqi al-Hindi p. 114, Fara id Fawa id al-Fikr p. 114, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 235, Lawa ih by al-Safareeni, vol. 2 p. 8, 9, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 450. (36) Tajul Mawaleed p. 150, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 235, Bisharatul Islam p. 91, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 214. (37) Al-Mahajja p. 156, 157, Tafseer al-Buran, vol. 3 p. 180, Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 614, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 293, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 297. (38) The Abbasid ruler may refer to the rulers of Iraq and the Minbar of Marwan may refer to Sham (Syria). (39) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 293. (40) Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 615, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 294, Kashful Astar by Mirza an-Noori p. 223, Muntakhab al-Athar p. 467, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 454. (41) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 294, Muntakhab al-Athar p. 455, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 450. (42) Al-Mahdi is a surname of the twelfth imam, whose name is Muhammad and p: 281 

Page281-Alghayba-occultation

whose father s name is al-Hasan. (43) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 294, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 281. (44) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 736, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 294, Mo jam Ahadeeth al- Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 457. (45) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 295, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 456. (46) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 295, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3. 457. (47) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 295, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 456. (48) Qur’an, 10: 35. (49) Al-Kafi, vol. 8 p. 208, al-Mahajja p. 99, Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 2 p. 185, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 296, 299, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 161. (50) Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 615, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 296, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 453. (51) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 296, Bisharatul Islam p. 139, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al- Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 445. (52) Iqd ad-Durar p. 87, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 737, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 239, Muntakhab al-Athar p. 458, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 273. (53) Arafat is a mountain near Mecca. Standing on Arafat is one of the rituals when performing the hajj. (54) Iqd ad-Durar p. 106, Burhan by al-Muttaqi al-Hindi p. 109, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 737, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 240, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 485. (55) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 240. (56) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 240. (57) Qur’an, 41: 53. (58) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 737, al-Mahajja p. 188, Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 4 p. 114, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 241, Yanabee ul Mawadda p. 427, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 390. (59) Qur’an, 10: 98, 41: 16. (60) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 737, Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 4 p. 107, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 241, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 166, 387. (61) Al-Kafi, vol. 8 p. 224, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 242, 301, Bisharatul Islam p. 133, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 497. p: 282 

Page282-Alghayba-occultation

(62) Al-Kafi, vol. 8 p. 224, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 242, 301, Bisharatul Islam p. 133, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 497. (63) Qurb al-Isnad p. 170, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 242, Bisharatul Islam p. 156, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 4 p. 164. (64) According to the astrologers the eclipse of the sun often occurs in the middle of a month and the eclipse of the moon often occurs in the end of a month. (65) Al-Kafi, vol. 8 p. 212, Irshad al-Mufeed p. 359, al-Ghayba by at-Toossi p. 444, I lam al-Wara p. 429, al-Khara’ij wel Jara’ih, vol. 3 p. 1158, Kashful Ghumma, vol. 3 p. 250, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 251. (66) Kamal ad-Deen p. 655, al-Odad al-Qawiyya p. 66, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 723, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 207, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 251. (67) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 242, Bisharatul Islam p. 125, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam alMahdi, vol. 3 p. 460. (68) Qur’an, 70: 1. (69) In Arabic: sa ala sa ilun -a questioner asked- and sala saylun -a flowing flowed. (70) It is a place in Kufa. (71) Al-Mahajja p. 233, Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 4 p. 382, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 243, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 459. (72) Al-Mahajja p. 233, Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 4 p. 382, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 243, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 458. (73) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 243, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 269. (74) Khurasan and Sajistan are provinces in Persia. (75) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 243. (76) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 244. (77) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 738, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 244, Bisharatul Islam p. 121, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 426. (78) Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 682, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 244, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 441. (79) A big island in the Persian Gulf between Oman and Bahrain. p: 283 

Page283-Alghayba-occultation

(80) Jeelan, Aabir and Daylaman are cities in Iran. (81) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52, p. 235, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 16. (81) Qur’an, 24: 55. (82) Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 3 p. 146, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 297, Mo jam Ahadeeth al- Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 283. (83) Irshad al-Mufeed p. 360, al-Ghayba by at-Toossi p. 446, al-Khara’ij wel Jara’ih, vol. 3 p. 1163, Kashful Ghumma, vol. 3 p. 250, Iqd ad-Durar p. 51, al-Odad al-Qawiyya p. 77, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 481. (84) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 738, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 244, Bisharatul Islam p. 122, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 488. (85) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 738, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 244, Bisharatul Islam p. 123, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 479. (86) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 245, Bisharatul Islam p. 123, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al- Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 478. (87) Irshad al-Mufeed p. 359, al-Ghayba by at-Toossi p. 438, I lam al-Wara p. 427, al- Khara’ij wel Jara’ih, vol. 3 p. 1152, Iqd ad-Durar p. 65, Kashful Ghumma, vol. 3 p. 249, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 20. (88) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 738, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 245, Mo jam Ahadeeth al- Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 187. (89) Iqd ad-Durar p. 87, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 739, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 246, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 471. (90) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 739, Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 614, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 246, 297, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 454. (91) Heera is a place in Iraq near Kufa. (92) Iqd ad-Durar p. 51, Fara id Fawa id al-Fikr p. 14, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 582, 739, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 271, 297, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 213. (93) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 739, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 298, Bisharatul Islam p. 97, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 281. (94) a village near the Euphrates. p: 284 

Page284-Alghayba-occultation

(95) Qur’an, 4: 47. (96) Qur’an, 3: 33-34. (97) Qur’an, 2: 148. (98) Irshad al-Mufeed p. 359, al-Ghayba by at-Toossi p. 441, I lam al-Wara p. 427, al- Khara’ij wel Jara’ih, vol. 3 p. 1156, Iqd ad-Durar p. 49, Kashful Ghumma, vol. 3 p. 249, al-Fusool al-Muhimma p. 301, Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 1 p. 162, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 237, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 20. (99) Ashura is the tenth day of Muharram, when Imam al-Husayn (s) and his companions have been martyred. (100) Irshad al-Mufeed p. 361, al-Ghayba by at-Toossi p. 452, Rawdhatul Wa idheen p. 263, I lam al-Wara p. 430, al-Malahim by ibn Tawoos p. 194, Kashful Ghumma, vol. 3 p. 252, al-Fusool al-Muhimma p. 302, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 489. (101) Timing is to put a fixed time for the events that happen in the future. 

Page284-Alghayba-occultation

Chapter 15

 THE DISTRESSES BEFORE THE APPEARANCE OF AL-QA’IM 

( (1) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Husayn at-Taymali from al-Abbas bin Aamir bin Rabah ath-Thaqafi from Musa bin Bakr from Basheer an-Nabbal, Ali bin Ahmad al- Bandaneeji narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from Ayyoob bin Noah from Safwan bin Yahya that Basheer an-Nabbal had said: When I came to Medina I went to the house of Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s). I found that his mule was saddled at the door. I sat in front of the house. He came out. I greeted him. He got down of his mule and came towards me. He asked me: Where are you from? I said: I am from Iraq. He said: Which part of Iraq? I said: From Kufa. He said: Who has accompanied you in your way? p: 285 

Page285-Alghayba-occultation

I said: Some people of al-Muhadditha. He said: What is al-Muhadditha? I said: Al-Murji a (the Murjites). (1) He said: Woe unto these Murjite! To whom will they resort tomorrow when our Qa im appears? I said: They say: If that occurs, we and you will be the same before justice. He said: Whoever repents, Allah accepts his repentance, whoever conceals hypocrisy, Allah damns him and whoever announces something of hypocrisy, his blood is to be shed. Then he said: By Allah, he (al-Qa’im) will slaughter them as a butcher slaughtering a sheep. He pointed to his throat with his hand. I said: They say: If he appears and controls the affairs, he will not shed even a drop of blood. He said: It is not as they say. I swear by Him, in Whose hand my soul i! It will be so terrible until we and you wipe blood and sweat together. (2) ( (2) ) The same was narrated by Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed from Muhammad bin Salim bin Abdurrahman al-Azdi from Uthman bin Sa’eed at-Taweel from Ahmad bin Sulayman from Musa bin Bakr al-Wasiti from Basheer an-Nabbal. (3) ( (3) ) Ali bin Ahmad al-Bandaneeji narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from al-Hasan bin Mo awiya from al-Hasan bin Mahboob from Eessa bin Sulayman that al- Mufadhdhal bin Umar had said: I heard Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) mentioning al-Qa’im (s). I said: I hope that his matter (rising) will be so easy. He said: It will be not so until you wipe blood and sweat together. (4) ( (4) ) Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah bin Younus narrated from Muhammad bin Ja’far al-Qarashi from Muhammad bin al-Husayn bin Abul Khattab from Muhammad bin Sinan from Younus bin Ribat p: 286 

Page286-Alghayba-occultation

that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: The followers of the truth have always been in distress, but their distress lasts for a short time and their good end will last forever. The same was narrated by Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed from some of his companions from Ali bin Iss~haq al-Kindi from Muhammad bin Sinan from Younus bin Ribat. (5) ( (5) ) Ali bin al-Husayn narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya al-Attar from Muhammad bin Hassaan ar-Razi from Muhammad bin Ali al-Kufi that Ma mar bin Khallad had said: Once al-Qa’im was mentioned before Abul Hasan ar-Redha (s) ; he said: Today you are at ease more than that day (when al-Qa’im will appear). They said: How is that? He said: When our Qa’im (s) appears, there will be nothing save blood, sweat and sleeping on the saddles. His cloths are not but rough and his food is not but coarse. (6) ( (6) ) Salama bin Muhammad narrated from Ahmad bin Ali bin Dawood al-Qummi from Muhammad bin al-Hasan al-Saffar from Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Eessa from some of his companions that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Prophet Noah (s) asked Allah to torment his nation. Allah revealed to him to plant a stone of a date. If it grew and he ate from its fruit, Allah would torment his (Noah s) people and perish them. Prophet Noah (s) planted the stone and told his companions of that. The palm grew and fruited. He ate from its fruit and made his companions eat from it. His companions said to him: O prophet of p: 287 

Page287-Alghayba-occultation

Allah, what about the promise that you have promised us of? Prophet Noah (s) prayed Allah to carry out the promise that He had made. Allah revealed to him to plant another stone and when it grew and fruited, Allah would torment them. Noah (s) told his companions about that. They divided into three groups. One group apostatized, the other dissembled and the third one still kept to Noah (s). Prophet Noah (s) planted a stone again. It grew and fruited. He ate from its fruit and fed his companions. They said: O prophet of Allah, what about the promise that you have made? He prayed Allah. Allah revealed to him to plant a third stone and if it grew, fruited and he ate from its fruit, then Allah would perish his people. Noah (s) told his companions of that. The two groups (the hypocrites and the believers) divided into three groups; one apostatized, one dissembled and the third still kept to Noah (s). Prophet Noah (s) did that ten times and his companions divided every time into three groups. In the tenth time some of his sincere companions came to him and said: O prophet of Allah, whether you do what you have promised or you do not do, you are truthful. You are a prophet sent by Allah and we never doubt you whatever you do to us. In this way Allah perished the people of Noah (s) except the loyal companions, who kept to Noah (s). Noah and his sincere followers rode on the Ark and so Allah saved them after they had been tried, sifted and cleared. (7) p: 288 

Page288-Alghayba-occultation

( (7) ) Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah bin Younus narrated from Abu Sulayman Ahmad bin Hawtha al-Bahili from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq an-Nahawandi from Abdullah bin Hammad al- Ansari that al- Mufadhdhal bin Umar had said: Once I was with Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) during the circumambulation (around the Kaaba). He looked at me and said: O Mufadhdhal, you seem distressed and eas! What is the matter? I said: May I die for yo! I think of the Abbasids and their prevailing rule and tyranny. If it (the rule) is in your hands, then we will be with yo! He said: O Mufadhdhal, if it is so, it will be politics in the night, achieving people s affairs in the day, eating coarse food and wearing rough cloths like Amirul Mo’mineen (s) ; otherwise it will be (going to) Hell. It has gone away from us. We eat and drink. Have you ever seen an oppression that Allah has made as a blessing like this?! (8) ( (8) ) Abu Sulayman narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq from Abdullah bin Hammad that Amr bin Shimr had said: Once I was with Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) in his house. The house was crowded of people. They began to ask about different things. Whatever he was asked about something, he gave the sufficient answer. I began to cry. He asked: O Amr, why are you crying? I said: May I die for yo! How do I not cry? Is there any other one like you in this umma? You are imprisoned here, the door is closed and the curtain is lowered before yo! p: 289 

Page289-Alghayba-occultation

He said: O Amr, do not cr! We eat good foods and wear soft cloths. If what you say occurs, we will eat coarse foods and wear rough cloths like Amirul Mo’mineen Ali bin Abu Talib (s) ; otherwise putting on ties in Hell. (9) Footnote (1) one of the earliest Islamic sects to believe in the postponement of judgment on committers of serious sins, recognizing God alone as being able to decide whether or not a Muslim had lost his faith. (2) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 543, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 356, Mo jam Ahadeeth al- Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 305. (3) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 358 and refer to the previous references. (4) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 543, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 358, Mo jam Ahadeeth al- Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 4 p. 36. (5) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 543, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 358. (6) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 543, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 358, Muntakhab al-Athar p. 307, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 4 p. 164. (7) Biharul Anwar, vol. 11 p. 339. (8) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 358. (9) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 360 

Page289-Alghayba-occultation

Chapter 

16

 FORBIDDING TIMING AND NAMING AL-QA’IM ( (1) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Yousuf from Muhammad bin Ali from Sa dan bin Muslim that Abu Baseer had said: I said to Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s): Does this matter (the appearance of al-Mahdi) not have an end so that we relieve ourselves? He said: Yes, it does. But you (people) announced it; therefore Allah put it off. (1) ( (2) ) Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah bin Younus narrated fromMuhammad bin Ja’far al-Qarashi from Muhammad bin al-Husayn bin Abul Khattab from Muhammad bin Sinan from Muhammad bin Yahya al-Khath ami from ad-Dhurays that Abu Khalid al-Kabuli had said: p: 290 

Page290-Alghayba-occultation

After the death of Ali bin al-Husayn (Imam al-Sajjad) (s) , I went to Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s). I said to him: May I die for yo! You know that I have kept to your father, felt so happy when being with him and left people aside. He said: O Abu Khalid, that is right. What do you want then? I said: May I die for yo! Your father has described to me the man of this matter (al-Qa’im) in a way that if I see him anywhere, I shall catch his hand. He said: Then what do you want? I said: I want you to name him so that I shall know him by the name. He said: O Abu Khalid, by Allah you asked a so difficult question. You asked me about something that I have never told anyone of. If I have told someone of that, I shall have told you. You asked about something that if the Prophet s progeny themselves have known it, they will have tried their best to hide it. (2) ( (3) ) Ali bin Ahmad narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from Ya’qoob bin Yazeed from Muhammad bin Abu Omayr from Abdullah bin Bukayr from Muhammad bin Muslim that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: O Muhammad, whoever narrates to you a tradition from us talking about timing, do not hesitate to consider him as a liar because we do not time to anyone. (3) ( (4) ) Abu Sulayman Ahmad bin Hawtha narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq an-Nahawandi from Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari from Abdullah bin Sinan that Abu Abdullah al- Sadiq (s) had said: p: 291 

Page291-Alghayba-occultation

Allah does not consent save to reverse the timing of the diviners. (4) ( (5) ) Ali bin Ahmad narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from Muhammad bin Ahmad al-Qalanisi from Muhammad bin Ali from Abu Jameela from Abu Bakr al-Hadhrami that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: We (the prophet s progeny) do not time this matter (the appearance of al-Qa’im). (5) ( (6) ) Ali bin al-Husayn narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya al-Attar from Muhammad bin Hassaan ar-Razi from Muhammad bin Ali al-Kufi from Abdullah bin Jibilla from Ali bin Abu Hamza that Abu Baseer had said: I said to Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s): May I die for yo! When will al-Qa’im appear? He said: O Abu Muhammad (Abu Baseer) , we, Ahlul Bayt, do not time. Prophet Muhammad (s) has said: May Allah damn the diviner! O Abu Muhammad, before this matter there will be five sings; a call (from the Heaven) in Ramadan, the rising of al- Sufyani, the rising of al-Khurasani, killing the pure innocent man, and a sinking in the desert. Before the appearance of al-Qa’im there must be two plagues; the white plague and the red plague. I said: What are they? He said: The white plague is a torrential death and the red plague is killing by the sword. Al-Qa’im does not appear until his name will be called out from the Heaven in the twenty- third night of Ramadan, which will be a night of Friday. I said: What will be called out? He said: The caller will call out the name of al-Qa’im and the name of his father and will say: So-and-so the son of so-and-so is al-Qa’im of Muhammad s progeny. You are to listen to him and to obey him. Every alive thing of the creatures will hear the call. The sleepers will awake and get out to courtyards and the virgins will get out of their veils. Then al-Qa’im will appear after hearing the call. It will be the call of Gabriel (s). (6) p: 292 

Page292-Alghayba-occultation

( (7) ) Ali bin Ahmad narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa from Abdurrahman bin al-Qassim from Muhammad bin Amr bin Yousuf from Ibraheem bin Harasa from Ali bin al-Jazwar that Muhammad bin Bishr had said: I heard Muhammad bin al-Hanafiyya (7) (may Allah be pleased with him) saying: Before our banner (the banner of al-Qa’im) there will be a banner (rule or state) of the family of Ja’far and another one of the family of Mardas. (8) As for the banner of aal (9) Ja’far, it will begin with nothing (important) and will end to nothing. I became angry on hearing that. I said to him: May I die for yo! Will there be banners before yours? He said: Yes, there will. By Allah, aal Mardas will have a strong rule but with no goodness. Their state will be full of difficulties but with no easiness. They will bring the foreigners closer and will remove the near. When they feel that they are safe from the punishment of Allah and that their state does never decline, a cry will come upon them and then no ruler will remain to gather them, no one to listen to them and no people to support them. Allah has given an example in His Book when saying, Until when the earth puts on its golden raiment and it becomes garnished, and its people think that they have power over it, Our command comes to it, by night or by day. (10) Then Muhammad bin al-Hanafiyya swore by Allah that this verse had been revealed concerning those people. p: 293 

Page293-Alghayba-occultation

I said to him: May I die for yo! You have told about a great thing concerning those people, then when will they perish? He said: O Muhammad (bin Bishr) , Allah reverses the timing of the diviners. Prophet Moses (s) promised his people (that Allah would do away with their enemy) after thirty days but Allah had determined further ten days and He had not told Prophet Moses (s) of that. When the appointment of the promise passed, the people of Moses disbelieved and began to worship the calf. Prophet Younus (Jonah) (s) warned his people that they would be tortured but Allah had willed to forgive them but without informing Prophet Younus (s) of that and then happened what had happened to them. When you see neediness spread and one says that he has spent his night without eating anything and when one receives you in a manner and the other day he receives you in a different manner then you expect i! I said: I know what neediness is. What is the other thing? He said: It is when one meets you smilingly but when you go to borrow something from him, he will meet you in a different manner. Then the cry (from the Heaven) will occur somehow soon. (11) ( (8) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed bin Oqda narrated from Muhammad bin al-Mufadhdhal bin Ibraheem bin Qays, Sa dan bin Iss~haq bin Sa’eed, Ahmad bin al-Husayn bin Abdul Melik and Muhammad bin Ahmad bin al-Hasan al-Qatawani from al-Hasan bin Mahboob az-Zarrad from Iss~haq bin Ammar al-Sayrafi that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: p: 294 

Page294-Alghayba-occultation

There has been an appointment for this matter (deliverance). It has been determined (by the Heaven) that it will occur in the year one hundred and forty (12) (A. H. ) but when you announced the matter, Allah has put it off. (13) ( (9) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from the previous narrators from al-Hasan bin Mahboob from Iss~haq bin Ammar that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: This matter has been put off twice. (14) ( (10) ) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob al-Kulayni narrated from Ali bin Muhammad and Muhammad bin al-Hasan from Sahl bin Ziyad and Muhammad bin Yahya from Ahmad bin Muhammad from al-Hasan bin Mahboob that Abu Hamza ath-Thimali had heard Abu Ja’far al- Baqir (s) saying: Allah had timed this matter to occur in the year seventy (A. H. ) but when al-Husayn (s) was killed, He became so angry and put it off until the year one hundred and forty. We told you of that and you announced it and uncovered the secret, so after that Allah did not reveal any timing to us concerning this matter. Allah said: (Allah makes to pass away and establishes what He pleases, and with Him is the basis of the Book). (15) Abu Hamza said: I told Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) of that and he said: Yes, it was so. (16) ( (11) ) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya from Salama bin al-Khattab from Ali bin Hassaan that Abdurrahman bin Katheer had said: Once I was with Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) when Muhzim came to him. Muhzim said to Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s): May I die for yo! Please tell me when this matter, which we are waiting for, p: 295 

Page295-Alghayba-occultation

occur! Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: O Muhzim, the diviners often tell false things, the hasteners perish and only the submissive believers are saved. (17) ( (12) ) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob narrated from some of his teachers from Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Khalid from his father from Ali Abu Hamza that Abu Baseer had asked Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) about al-Qa’im (s) and he said: The diviners tell lies. We, Ahlul Bayt, do not time. Allah dose not consent save to reverse the timing of the diviners. (18) ( (13) ) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob narrated from al-Husayn bin Muhammad from Mu alla bin Muhammad from al-Hasan bin Ali al-Khazzaz from Abdul Kareem bin Amr al-Khath ami that al-Fudhayl bin Yasar had said: I asked Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) if that matter (the appearance of al-Qa’im) had a certain appointment and he said: The diviners tell lie! The diviners tell lie! When Prophet Moses (s) devoted himself to his Lord, he promised his people that after thirty days Allah would do away with their enemy. When Allah added ten days to the thirty, the people said that Moses had broken his promise and then they disbelieved and made a metallic calf as their god. When we tell you of something and Allah does as we have told you, you are to say that Allah has fulfilled His promise and when we tell you of something but a different thing occurs, also you are to say that Allah has fulfilled his promise. Then you will be rewarded twice. (19) ( (14) ) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya and Ahmad bin Idreess from Muhammad bin Ahmad from al-Sayyari from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Yaqteen from his brother al-Husayn that p: 296 

Page296-Alghayba-occultation

his father Ali bin Yaqteen had said: Abul Hasan Musa bin Ja’far al-Kadhim (s) said to me: O Ali, the Shia have been brought up with hopes since two hundred years. Yaqteen said to his son Ali: What is the matter?! What had been said (by the infallible imams) to us occurred but what had been said to you did not occur-he meant the fate of the Abbasids. Ali said: What had been said to you and what had been said to us were from the same source but the time of your matter came and it occurred as it had been said to you whereas the time of our matter did not come yet so we justified that by hopes and wishes. If it was said to us that this matter would occur after two hundred or three hundred years, our hearts would be hard and then most of people would apostatize but they said to us that it would be so near in order to attract the hearts of people and to make them feel that deliverance was about to come. (20) ( (15) ) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob narrated from al-Husayn bin Muhammad from Ja’far bin Muhammad from al-Qassim bin Issma’eel al-Anbari from al-Hasan bin Ali from Ibraheem bin Muhzim from his father that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said when the (Abbasid) rulers had been mentioned before him: People (21) perished because they hastened this matter (deliverance). Allah does not become hasty just because that people urge on their matters to be achieved. This matter (the appearance of al-Qa’im) p: 297 

Page297-Alghayba-occultation

has a precise time that it must reach. If it reaches its time, it will occur neither an hour sooner nor an hour later. (22) 

Page297-Alghayba-occultation

Footnote 

(1) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 117. (2) Al-Ghayba by at-Toossi p. 333, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 509, Biharul Anwar, vol. 51 p. 31, vol. 52 p. 98, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 229. (3) Al-Ghayba by at-Toossi p. 426, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 103, 104, 117, Bisharatul Islam p. 282, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 377. (4) Al-Kafi, vol. 1 p. 368, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 360, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al- Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 378. (5) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 118. (6) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 119, Bisharatul Islam p. 150, Muntakhab al-Athar p. 425, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 472. (7) He is Imam Ali s son. (8) The Abbasids. (9) Aal means the family of. (10) Qur’an, 10: 24. (11) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 246. (12) It was the time of the imamate of al-Qa’im (s) because his father Imam al- Hasan al-Askari (s) died in 114 A. H. and he disappeared in 148 A. H. (13) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 117. (14) Ibid. (15) Qur’an, 13: 39. (16) Al-Kafi, vol. 1 p. 368, Tafseer of al-Ayyashi, vol. 2 p. 218, Ithbat al-Wassiyya p. 131, al- Ghayba by at-Toossi p. , 428, al-Khara’ij wel Jara’ih, vol. 1 p. 178, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 261. (17) Refer to chap. 11 no. 8 and refer to Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 379. (18) Refer to chap. 11 no. 8 and refer to Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 379. (19) Al-Kafi, vol. 1 p. 368, al-Ghayba by at-Toossi p. 425, Biharul Anwar, vol. 4 p. 132, vol. 52 p. 103, 118, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 260. (20) Al-Kafi, vol. 1 p. 369, al-Ghayba by at-Toossi p. 341, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 102, p: 298 

Page298-Alghayba-occultation

Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 4 p. 136. (21) Like Zayd (bin Ali) , some descendants of al-Hasan (s) and their likes. (22) Al-Kafi, vol. 1 p. 369, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 118, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al- Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 418. 

Page299-Alghayba-occultation

Chapter 17 

THE DISTRESSES AL-QA’IM MEETS FROM PEOPLE 

( (1) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed bin Oqda narrated from Muhammad bin al-Mufadhdhal bin Ibraheem from Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Zurara from Muhammad bin Marwan that al-Fudhayl bin Yasar had said: I heard Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) saying: When our Qa im appears, he will receive harms from the ignorant people more and bitterer than that the Prophet (s) had received from the ignorant people of the pre-Islamic age. I said: How is that? He said: The Prophet (s) came to people while they used to worship sculptured stone and wood whereas when al-Qa’im comes to people, they will protest against him by interpreting the Book of Allah according to their fancies. By Allah, he (al-Qa’im) will insert his justice into their houses like the entering of hot and cold. (1) ( (2) ) Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah bin Younus narrated from Muhammad bin Ja’far al-Qarashi from Muhammad bin al-Husayn bin Abul Khattab from Muhammad bin Sinan from al- Husayn bin Mukhtar from Abu Hamza ath-Thimali that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: When the man of this matter (al-Qa’im) appears, he will receive (harm) from people worse than what the Prophet (s) has received. (2) ( (3) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Hameed bin Ziyad al- Kufi from al-Hasan bin Muhammad bin Suma a from Ahmad bin al-Hasan al-Maythami from Muhammad bin Abu Hamza from some of his companions that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: p: 299 

Page299-Alghayba-occultation

Al-Qa’im will face (difficulties) in his wars more than what the Prophet (s) has faced. The Prophet (s) came to people while they used to worship stone and wood whereas the people of al-Qa’im will protest against him by the means of the Book of Allah and will fight him by the means of the Book of Allah. (3) ( (4) ) Ali bin Ahmad narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from Muhammad bin al-Husayn from Muhammad bin Sinan from Qutayba al-A sha that Abban bin Taghlub had said: Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: When the banner of the truth (al-Mahdi) appears, the people of the east and the west will curse it. Do you know why? I said: No, I do not. He said: That is because of what harms the people receive from his (al-Mahdi s) family before his appearance. (4) ( (5) ) Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah narrated from Muhammad bin Ja’far al-Qarashi from Muhammad bin al-Husayn from Muhammad bin Sinan from Qutayba al-A sha that Mansoor bin Hazim had said: Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: When the banner of the truth is raised, it will be cursed by the people of the east and the west. I said: What for? He said: That is because of what people receive from the Hashemites (before the appearance of al-Qa’im). (5) ( (6) ) Ali bin Ahmad bin Obaydillah bin Musa and Ahmad bin Ali al- A lam narrated from Muhammad bin Ali al-Sayrafi from Muhammad bin Sadaqa, ibn Othayna al-Abdi and Muhammad bin Sinan from Ya’qoob al-Sarraj that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: p: 300 

Page300-Alghayba-occultation

Al-Qa’im will fight the people of thirteen cities and nations and they will fight him; Mecca, Medina, Basra, Dast Maysan, (6) Sham, the Umayyads, the Kurds, the Arab nomads, the people of the tribes of Dhabba, Ghaniy, Bahila, Azd and the people of ar-Riy (a town in Iran). (7) Footnote (1) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 544, Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 630, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 362, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 501. (2) Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 631, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 362, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 297. (3) Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 631, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 362, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 544, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 501. (4) Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 631, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 363, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 500. (5) Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 631, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 363. (6) A town between Basra and Ahwaz. (7) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 544, Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 632, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 363. 

Page300-Alghayba-occultation

Chapter 

18

 THE RISING OF al-SUFYANI ( (1) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed bin Oqda narrated from Muhammad bin al-Mufadhdhal bin Ibraheem bin Qays from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Fadhdhal from Tha laba bin Maymoon Abu Iss~haq from Eessa bin A yun that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: The rising of al-Sufyani is an inevitable matter. He will rise in the month of Rajab. It will take, since his rising until his end, fifteen months. He will fight for six months. When he conquers the five districts, he will rule for nine months no more no less. (1) ( (2) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from al-Qassim bin Muhammad bin al-Hasan bin Hazim from Obayss bin Hisham from Muhammad bin Bishr al-Ahwal from Abdullah bin Jibilla from Eessa bin A yun from Mu alla bin Khunays that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: p: 301 

Page301-Alghayba-occultation

Some things are inevitable and others are not. From among the inevitable things is the rising of al-Sufyani in Rajab. (2) ( (3) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan at-Taymali from al-Hasan bin Mahboob from Abu Ayyoob al- Khazzaz from Muhammad bin Muslim that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: Fear Allah, be pious and patient before the distresses of life and try your best to obey Allah. The utmost happiness of a faithful is when he thinks of the afterlife and turns his back to this life and its transient pleasures. If one reaches this degree of faith, he will know that he will get bliss, honor and the reward of being in Paradise. He will feel safe from what he has feared and will be certain that he has been with the truth and those, who oppose his beliefs, are certainly on the wrong path and surely will perish. Be delighted that you will get what you look forward to. Do you not see that your enemies hurry towards sins and kill each other just for the pleasures of this life while you are safe in your houses and away from them? It suffices you that al-Sufyani will avenge you on your enemies. It is one of the signs to you. Although he is sinful but you will be safe for a month or two after his rising until he kills much many people other than you. Some of his companions said: What about our families if that occurs? p: 302 

Page302-Alghayba-occultation

He said: Men are to hide from him (al-Sufyani). His rage is against our followers and women will be safe inshallah. It was said to him: Whereto do men escape from him? He said: Whoever wants to get away is to go to Medina or Mecca or other countries. Then he said: But what do you do in Medina?! His army will attack Medina. You are to go to Mecca. It will be the place of your meeting. It will be a sedition that will not last more than nine months inshallah. (3) ( (4) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan from al-Abbas bin Aamir from Abdullah bin Bukayr from Zurara bin A yun that Abdul Melik bin A yun had said: Once I was with Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) when al-Qa’im (s) was mentioned before him. I said to him: I hope that he (al-Qa’im) appears sooner without being preceded by the rising of al-Sufyani. He said: By Allah, that will not b! It is an inevitable thing. (4) ( (5) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan from Muhammad bin Khalid al-Assamm from Abdullah bin Bukayr from Tha laba bin Maymoon from Zurara from Hamran bin A yun that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said when talking about this verse, Then He decreed a term; and there is a term named with Him: (5) They are two terms; one is inevitable and one is pending. Hamran asked him: What is the inevitable one? He said: It is a thing that has been determined by the will of Allah. Hamran said: I hope that the term of al-Sufyani is of the pending ones. Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) said: No, it is not. By Allah, it is of the inevitable ones. (6) p: 303 

Page303-Alghayba-occultation

( (6) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Muhammad bin Salim bin Abdurrahman al-Azdi from Uthman bin Sa’eed at-Taweel from Ahmad bin Sulaym from Musa bin Bakr from al-Fudhayl bin Yasar that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: Matters are of two kinds; pending and inevitable. The rising of al-Sufyani is inevitable that must occur. (7) ( (7) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik from Abbad bin Ya’qoob from Khallad al-Sa igh that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: The rising of al-Sufyani is inevitable. He will rise in Rajab. A man asked: O Abu Abdullah, when he rises, what shall we do? He said: When he rises, you are to keep to us (Ahlul Bayt). (8) ( (8) ) Abu Sulayman Ahmad bin Hawtha narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq an-Nahawandi from Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari from Amr bin Shimr that Jabir al-Ju fi had said: Once I asked Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) about al-Sufyani and he said: al-Sufyani does not rise until ash-Shaysabani rises before him. He (ash-Shaysabani) will rise from Kufa. He will flow like water. He will kill your delegation. After that you expect the rising of al-Sufyani and then al-Qa’im (s). (9) ( (9) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Yasar ath-Thawri from al-Khaleel bin Rashid that Ali bin Abu Hamza had said: One day I accompanied Abul Hasan Musa bin Ja’far al-Kadhim (s) from Mecca to medina. He said to me: O Ali, if the inhabitants of the heavens and the earth revolt against the Abbasids, the earth will be watered with their bloods (without defeating the Abbasids) until al-Sufyani rises. p: 304 

Page304-Alghayba-occultation

I said to him: O my master, is his rising inevitable? He said: Yes, it is. He pondered for a while then he raised his head and said: The rule of the Abbasids is based on cunning and deceit. It will go until it will be said that nothing of it has remained and then it will return as if nothing has happened. (10) ( (10) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Abdullah al-Khalanji that Abu Hashim Dawood bin al-Qassim al-Ja fari had said: Once we were with Abu Ja’far Muhammad bin Ali al-Jawad (11) (s) when al-Sufyani was mentioned and that his matter was inevitable. I said to Abu Ja’far al-Jawad (s): Does Allah change His determination concerning the inevitable matters? He said: Yes, He does. We said to him: We fear that He may change his determination concerning the matter of al- Qa’i! He said: The matter of al-Qa’im is a part of the promise of Allah and Allah dose not fail to perform His promise. (12) ( (11) ) Ali bin Ahmad al-Bandaneeji narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from Muhammad bin Musa from Ahmad bin Abu Ahmad from Muhammad bin Ali al-Qarashi that al-Hasan bin al- Jahm had said: Once I said to Imam ar-Redha (s): May Allah make you succee! People narrate that al-Sufyani will rise after the rule of the Abbasids declines. He said: They tell but falsenes! al-Sufyani will rise while the rule of the Abbasids is still prevailing. (13) ( (12) ) Ahmad bin Hawtha al-Bahili narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq an-Nahawandi from Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari from al-Husayn bin al-Ala from Abdullah bin Abu Ya foor that Abu Ja’far p: 305 

Page305-Alghayba-occultation

al-Baqir (s) had said: The Abbasids and al-Marwani (14) will meet in Qarqeessiya in a terrible battle that causes a young boy to age. Allah will preclude them from gaining victory and will reveal to the birds in the sky and the beasts on the ground to satiate themselves with the flesh of the tyrants. After that al-Sufyani will rise. (15) ( (13) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan at-Taymali from al-Abbas bin Aamir bin Rabah ath-Thaqafi from Muhammad bin ar-Rabee al-Aqra from Hisham bin Salim that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: When al-Sufyani conquers the five districts, then you count to him nine months (the period of his rule) Hisham claimed that the five districts were Damascus, Palestine, Jordan, Hims (16) and Halab. (17) ( (14) ) Ali bin Ahmad narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from Abdullah bin Muhammad from Muhammad bin Khalid from al-Hasan bin al-Mubarak from Abu Iss~haq al- Hamadani from al- Harith al-Hamadani that Amirul Mo’mineen (s) had said: Al-Mahdi (s) will come from the east but before that al-Sufyani will rise in Sham. He (al-Sufyani) will rule for nine months only. All the people of Sham will submit to him except a very few believers, who will still keep to the truth and whom Allah preserves from following him. He will move towards Medina with a great army but when they reach the desert of Medina, Allah will make the desert sink with them. It is the saying of Allah in His holy Book, And could you see when they shall become terrified, but (then) there shall be no escape and they shall be seized upon from a near place. (18) (19) p: 306 

Page306-Alghayba-occultation

( (15) ) Ali bin Ahmad narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa from Ibraheem bin Hashim from Muhammad bin Abu Omayr from Hisham bin Salim that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Al-Yamani and al-Sufyani will rise like two racehorses. (20) ( (16) ) Ali bin Ahmad narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa from Muhammad bin Musa from Ahmad bin Abu Ahmad, who was known as Abu Ja’far al-Warraq, from Issma’eel bin Ayyash from Muhajirbin Hakeem from al-Mugheera bin Sa’eed that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: Amirul Mo’mineen (s) said: When the two spears (two armies) disagree in Sham, it will not come to an end except with a sign of Allah. He was asked: What is it, O Amirul Mo’mineen (s)? He said: It is an earthquake in Sham, by which more than one hundred thousands of people will perish. Allah will make it as mercy to the believers and torment upon the disbelievers. When that occurs, you will see the riders of the gray horses with the yellow banners coming from the west until they stop at Sham. There will be great terror and red death. Then you will see a sinking of one of the villages of Damascus called Harasta. (21) Then the son of the livers-eater (22) will come out of the dry valley to sit on the minbar of Damascus. After that you expect the appearance of al-Mahdi (s). (23) ( (17) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik from al-Hasan bin Wahab from Issma’eel bin Abban from Younus bin Abu Ya foor that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: p: 307 

Page307-Alghayba-occultation

When al-Sufyani rises, he will send an army to fight us (the= Hashemites) and an army to fight you (the Shia). If that takes place, hurry to us by any mean! (24) ( (18) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Hameed bin Ziyad from Ali bin al-Sabah bin ad-Dhahak from Abu Ali al-Hasan bin Muhammad al-Hadhrami from Ja’far bin Muhammad from Ibraheem bin Abdul Hameed from Abu Ayyoob al-Khazzaz from Muhammad bin Muslim that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: al-Sufyani is red, blond and blue. He has never worshipped Allah at all. He has seen neither Mecca nor Medina. He says: O my God, I take revenge even if I go to hel! O my God, I take revenge even if I go to Hel! (25) 

Page307-Alghayba-occultation

Footnote 

(1) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 739, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 248, Mo jam Ahadeeth al- Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 462. (2) Kamal ad-Deen p. 65, Jami ul Akhbar p. 142, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 721, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 204, 248, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 463. (3) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 140, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 271. (4) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 249. (5) Qur’an, 6: 2. (6) Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 1 p. 517, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 249, Mo jam Ahadeeth al- Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 96. (7) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 739, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 249. (8) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 249, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 3 p. 463. (9) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 250, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 268. (10) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 740, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 250, Mo jam Ahadeeth al- Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 4 p. 132. (11) Al-Jawad (s) is the ninth imam of the Shia. p: 308 

Page308-Alghayba-occultation

(12) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 544, 740, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 250, Bisharatul Islam p. 160, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 4 p. 183. (13) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 251, Bisharatul Islam p. 156, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al- Mahdi, vol. 4 p. 166. (14) (From Syria). (15) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 251, Bisharatul Islam p. 102, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al- Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 272. (16) Hims and Halab are two cities in Syria. (17) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 252 and refer to references of the first tradition. (18) Qur’an, 34: 51. (19) Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 3 p. 354, al-Mahajja p. 177, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 252, Yanabee ul Mawadda p. 427, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 357. (20) Al-Amali by at-Toossi, vol. 2 p. 275, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 253, 275, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 478. (21) A village near Damascus on the way to Hims. (22) The livers-eater was Hind, the wife of Abu Sufyan and the mother of Mo awiya. This refers to the Umayyads or the people of Sham (Syria). (23) Al-Ghayba by at-Toossi p. 461, al-Khara’ij wel Jara’ih, vol. 3 p. 1151, al-Odad al- Qawiyya p. 76, Fara id Fawa id al-Fikr p. 14, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 86. (24) Dala il al-Imama p. 261, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 253, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al- Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 470. (25) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 253, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 274. 

Page309-Alghayba-occultation

Chapter 19 

THE PROPHET S BANNER

 ( (1) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ahmad bin Mabindath from Ahmad bin Hilal from Muhammad bin Abu Omayr from Abul Maghra from Abu Baseer that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: When Imam Ali (s) met with the people of Basra (in the battle of al-Jamal-the camel) , he raised the banner of the Prophet (s) and their (people of Basra s) legs began to shake. They were so until before the sunset when they said: O ibn Abu Talib, safeguar! p: 309 

Page309-Alghayba-occultation

Then Imam Ali (s) said to his army: Do not kill the captives. Do not finish off the wounded. Do not follow after the fleers. Whoever lays down his arms is to be safe and whoever closes his door (stays at home) is to be safe. When the battle of Siffeen broke out, Imam Ali s companions insisted on him to raise the banner of the Prophet (s) but he refused. They sent to him his two sons al-Hasan and al-Husayn (s) and his close companion Ammar bin Yassir as mediators. He said to al-Hasan: O my son, the people have a term that they must reach. No one is to raise this banner after me except al-Qa’im (s). (1) ( (2) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Abu Abdullah Yahya bin Zakariyya bin Shayban from Younus bin Kulayb from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Abu Hamza from his father that Abu Baseer had said: Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: Al-Qa’im will not appear until the chain is completed. I said: How is the chain completed? He said: With ten thousand (fighters) , Gabriel will be on his (al- Qa’im s) right hand and Michael will be on his left hand. Then he will shake the banner and move. Every one in the east and in the west will curse the banner. It is the banner of the Prophet (s) that Gabriel has brought (from the Heaven) on the day (battle) of Badr. It is not of cotton, flax or silk. He said: It is of the leaves of Paradise. The Prophet (s) has spread it on the day of Badr and then he has folded it and given it to Imam Ali (s). It has been still with Imam Ali (s) until when he has spread it on the day of the battle of al-Jamal against the people of Basra and has gained victory. Then he has folded and kept it safe. It has= been with us and no one is to spread it until al-Qa’im (s) appears. p: 310 

Page310-Alghayba-occultation

When he appears, he will spread it and then every one in the east and the west will curse it. Terror will move a month before it, a month behind it, a month on its right side and a month on its left side. Then he said: O Abu Muhammad, he (al-Qa’im) will appear depressed and angry because of the anger of Allah with the human beings. He will appear wearing the Prophet s shirt, which the Prophet has put on in the battle of Badr, turban, armor and holding the Prophet s sword Thulfaqar. He will unsheathe the sword for eight months. He will kill hurly-burly. He will begin with Bani (2) Shayba. He will cut their hands and will hang them on the Kaaba. Then his caller will call out: These are the thieves of the Kaaba. Then he will move to kill the people of Quraysh. He will not leave any one of them safe from his sword. Al-Qa’im (s) will not appear except after that two books will have been read openly; one in Basra and the other in Kufa. By these books people will declare their acquittance of (believing in) Ali (s). (3) ( (3) ) Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah bin Younus narrated from Muhammad bin Ja’far al-Qarashi from Muhammad bin al-Husayn bin Abul Khattab from Muhammad bin Sinan from Hammad bin Abu Talha that Abu Hamza ath-Thimali had said: Once Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) said to me: O Thabit, (4) as if I see al- Qa’im of my family coming near to your Najaf. (5) p: 311 

Page311-Alghayba-occultation

He pointed with his hand towards Kufa and then added: When he comes to your Najaf, he will spread the banner of the Prophet (s) and then the angels of Badr (6) will descend to him. I asked him: What is the banner of the Prophet (s)? He said: Its pole is from the pole of the Throne of Allah and from His mercy. The rest of it is from the assistance of Allah. Everything that he swoops on with this banner Allah will make it perish. I said: Is it kept with you until al-Qa’im (s) appears or it is brought then? He said: No. It is brought then. I said: Who brings it? He said: Gabriel (s). (7) ( (4) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan at-Taymali from al-Hasan and Muhammad, the sons of Ali bin Yousuf, from Sa dan bin Muslim from Umar bin Abban al-Kalbi that Abban bin Taghlub had said: I heard Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) saying: As if I see al-Qa’im on the hill of Kufa wearing a dress of brocade and the armor of the Prophet (s) , riding a black horse and holding the banner of the Prophet (s). I said: Has the banner been kept somewhere or it will be brought then? He said: Gabriel will bring it. Its pole is from the poles of the Throne of Allah and the rest of it is from the assistance of Allah. Everything that he swoops on with this banner Allah will make it perish. Nine thousand and three hundred and thirteen angels will come down with the banner. p: 312 

Page312-Alghayba-occultation

I said: May I die for yo! Will all these angels be with him? He said: Yes, they will. It is they, who have been with Prophet Noah (s) in the Ark, with Abraham (s) when he has been thrown into the fire, with Moses (s) when the sea has been cleft to him, with Jesus Christ (s) when he has been raised to the Heaven and four thousand angels, who have been with Prophet Muhammad (s) and three hundred and thirteen angels, who have fought with him in the battle of Badr besides four thousands that have ascended to the Heaven asking permission to fight with al-Husayn (s) but when they have descended they find that al-Husayn (s) has been martyred. They have remained near his tomb weeping for him until the Day of Resurrection. They are waiting for the appearance of al- Qa’im (s). (8) ( (5) ) Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah bin Younus narrated from Muhammad bin Ja’far al-Qarashi from Abu Ja’far al-Hamadani from Musa bin Sa dan from Abdullah bin al-Qassim al- Hadhrami from Umar bin Abban al-Kalbi that Abban bin Taghlub had said: Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: As if I see al-Qa’im standing on the hill of Najaf, wearing a dress of brocade and the armor of the Prophet (s) and riding a black horse. He will spread the Prophet s banner, whose pole is from the poles of the Throne of Allah and whose rest is from the assistance of Allah. Whatever he swoops on with the banner Allah will make it perish. p: 313 

Page313-Alghayba-occultation

I said: Has the banner been hidden somewhere or it will be brought then? He said: Gabriel (s) will bring it. When he shakes it, every believer s heart will become like iron. He will be given a power of forty men. Then every dead believer will feel happy in his grave. The dead will begin to visit each other in their graves and they bring the good news of the appearance of al-Qa’im to each other. Thirteen thousand and three hundred and thirteen angels will descend with al-Qa’im then. I asked: Have these angels been with any of the prophets before him (al-Qa’im)? He said: Yes, they have been with Prophet Noah (s) in the Ark, with Abraham (s) when he has been thrown into the fire, with Moses (s) when the sea has been cleft to him, with Jesus Christ (s) when he has been raised to the Heaven besides four thousands, who have been with Prophet Muhammad (s) , three hundred and thirteen angels, who have supported the Prophet (s) on the day of Badr and four thousands, who have asked permission to fight with al-Husayn (s) but they have not been permitted. They have descended to find that al-Husayn (s) has been Martyred. They have remained near his tomb weeping for him until the Day of Resurrection. Their chief is an angel called Mansoor. They receive every visitor coming to visit al-Husayn (s) , escort everyone farewelling him, visit every sick person and no one dies unless they offer the prayer for him and ask Allah to forgive him after his death. All these angels are waiting for the appearance of al-Qa’im (s). (9) p: 314 

Page314-Alghayba-occultation

Footnote (1) Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 632, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 367, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 386. (2) Bani means the family of. Bani Shayba were the doorkeepers of the Kaaba in the pre-Islamic age and during the Islamic age and the keys of the Kaaba were with them. (3) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 545, Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 633, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 367, Bisharatul Islam p. 190, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 387. (4) Thabit is the name of Abu Hamza. (5) Najaf is a city in Iraq. (6) The angels who have supported the Muslims in the battle of Badr. (7) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 545, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 298. (8) Kamil az-Ziyarat p. 119, Kamal ad-Deen p. 671, al-Odad al-Qawiyya p. 74, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 325, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 4 p. 16. (9) Dala il al-Imama p. 243 and refer to the references of the previous tradition. 

Page314-Alghayba-occultation

Chapter 

20

 THE ARMY OF ANGER ( (1) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Hameed bin Ziyad al- Kufi from Muhammad bin Ali bin Ghalib from Yahya bin Olaym from Abu Jameela al-Mufadhdhal bin Salih from Jabir from someone that al-Musayyab bin Nujba had said: One day a man came to Amirul Mo’mineen (s) with another man called ibn al-Sawda and said: O Amirul Mo’mineen, this man ascribes lies to Allah and His messenger and he mentions you to be the source of that. Amirul Mo’mineen (s) said: What he says? The man said: He mentions an army of anger. Amirul Mo’mineen (s) said: Set the man fre! The army of anger will come at the end of time. They will gather like the cloudlets of autumn. A man, two or three will come from every tribe until they become nine (from each tribe). By Allah, I know their emir and his name and I know the place where their sumpters stay at. p: 315 

Page315-Alghayba-occultation

Then he got up saying: Baqi! Baqi! Baqi! (1) He is a man of my descendants. He will cut open traditions so extensively. (2) ( (2) ) Ali bin al-Husayn al-Mass oodi narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya al-Attar from Muhammad bin Hassaan ar-Razi from Muhammad bin Ali al-Kufi from Abdurrahman bin Abu Hammad from Ya’qoob bin Abdullah al-Ash ari from Otayba bin Sa dan bin Yazeed that al-Ahnaf bin Qays had said: Once I went to Imam Ali (s) for some business. Then Ibnul Kawwa and Shibth bin Rib iy came and asked permission to meet him. Imam Ali (s) said to me: If you like to permit them, you can do that because you are the first to have your business achieved. I said: O Amirul Mo’mineen (s) , permit them to come in. When they came in, he said to them: What made you secede from me in Haroora (3)? They said: We wanted to be with the army of anger. He said: Woe unto yo! Is there any kind of anger in my guardianship? Anger comes after when many kinds of calamities and distresses occur. Then they (the army) gather like cloudlets of autumn; one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine or ten from every tribe. (4) ( (3) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed bin Oqda narrated from Ali bin al-Hasan at-Taymali from al-Hasan and Muhammad, the sons of Ali bin Yousuf, from Sa dan bin Muslim from a man that al- Mufadhdhal bin Umar had said: Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: When the imam (al-Mahdi) calls out the azan, he will pray Allah with His Hebrew name and then his companions, who will be three hundred and thirteen men, will be permitted to join him. They will gather like the cloudlets of autumn. They will be the bearers of the banners. Some of them will be missed in their beds in the night and in the morning they will find themselves in Mecca. Some of them will be seen walking on the clouds during the day. They will be known by their names, p: 316 

Page316-Alghayba-occultation

their fathers names and their lineages. I said: May I die for yo! Which of them is greater in faith? He said: It is those, who walk on the clouds during the day. They are the missed ones. About these companions Allah has revealed this verse, Wherever you are, Allah will bring you all together. (5) (6) ( (4) ) Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah bin Younus narrated from Muhammad bin Ja’far al-Qarashi from Muhammad bin al-Husayn bin Abul Khattab from Muhammad bin Sinan from Dhurays from Abu Khalid al-Kabuli that Ali bin al-Husayn or Muhammad bin Ali (s) had said: Al-Fuqada (7) are persons, who will be missed in their beds and in the morning they will be found in Mecca. It is they, who are concerned by this Qur anic verse, Wherever you are, Allah will bring you all together. They are al-Qa’im s companions. (8) ( (5) ) Abu Sulayman Ahmad bin Hawtha al-Bahili narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq an-Nahawandi from Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari from Abdullah bin Bukayr that Abban bin Taghlub had said: One day I was with Ja’far bin Muhammad al-Sadiq (s) in a mosque in Mecca. He said to me: O Abban, Allah will bring three hundred and thirteen men in this mosque. The people of Mecca know that neither their (those men s) fathers nor grandfathers have been created yet. They will come with their swords on their shoulders. On each sword the name of its keeper, his father s name, his aspect and lineage are written. Then a caller will call out: This is al-Mahdi. He judges with the judgments of Prophet David (s) and p: 317 

Page317-Alghayba-occultation

Prophet Solomon (s). He is not asked to show evidence for his judgements. (9) ( (6) ) Ali bin Ahmad narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from Haroon bin Muslim from Mas ada bin Sadaqa from Abdul Hameed at-Ta iy from Muhammad bin Muslim that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said when talking about this verse, Or, Who answers the distressed one when he calls upon Him and removes the evil, and He will make you successors in the earth: (10) This verse has been revealed about al-Qa’im (s) where Gabriel has sat on a drain in a shape of a bird. Gabriel will be the first one, who pays homage to al-Qa’im and then the three hundred and thirteen companions will pay homage. Those (of al-Qa’im s companions) , who are to walk, will arrive in time and those, who are not to walk, will disappear from their beds. It is the saying of Allah, Therefore hasten to (do) good works; wherever you are, Allah will bring you all together. (11) The good work is the belief in the guardianship of Ahlul Bayt. (12) ( (8) ) Ali bin al-Husayn narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya al-Attar from Muhammad bin Hassaan ar-Razi from Muhammad bin Ali al-Kufi from Issma’eel bin Mihran from Muhammad bin Abu Hamza from Abban bin Taghlub that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Allah will send three hundred and thirteen men to a mosque in Mecca. The people of Mecca know that those men s fathers and grandfathers have not created yet. They will have swords, on which one thousand words are written. Each word is a clue for one thousand words. Then Allah will send the wind from every valley to say: This is al-Mahdi. He rules like the rule of Prophet David (s). He does not need any evidence. (13) p: 318 

Page318-Alghayba-occultation

( (9) ) Abu Sulayman Ahmad bin Hawtha narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq an-Nahawandi from Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari from Abul Jarood that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: The companions of al-Qa’im will be three hundred and thirteen men. They will be foreigners. Some of them will be carried on the clouds during the day. They will be known by their names, their fathers names, their qualities and lineages. Some of them will be taken from their beds to be in Mecca in the morning without any appointment. (14) ( (10) ) Ali bin al-Husayn narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya from Muhammad bin Hassaan ar-Razi from Muhammad bin Ali al-Kufi from Ali bin al-Hakam from Ali bin Abu Hamza from Abu Baseer that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: Al-Qa’im will come from the defile of Mountain Thi Tuwa with three hundred and thirteen men as the number of the Muslims, who have fought in the battle of Badr. He will lean his back against the Black Rock (in the Kaaba) and will shake his victorious banner. Ali bin Abu Hamza said: I mentioned that to Abul Hasan Musa bin Ja’far al-Kadhim (s) and he said: It is an evidenced book. (15) (11) Ali bin al-Husayn narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya al-Attar from Muhammad bin Hassaan ar-Razi from Muhammad bin Ali al-Sayrafi from Abdurrahman bin Abu Hashim from Amr bin Abul Miqdam from Imran bin Dhabyan from Abu Yahya Hakeem bin Sa d that Imam Ali (s) had said: The companions of al-Qa’im will be young men. There will be no old men among them except like the kohl in an eye or like the salt in the food and the least part of food is the salt. (16) p: 319 

Page319-Alghayba-occultation

( (12) ) Abu Sulayman Ahmad bin Hawtha narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq an-Nahawandi from Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari from Ali bin Abu Hamza that Abu Abdullah al- Sadiq (s) had said: While the young men of the Shia are sleeping on the roofs of their houses, they will be taken to their companion (al-Qa’im) within the same night without any appointment. In the morning they will find themselves in Mecca. (17) ( (13) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan bin Fadhdhal from Muhammad bin Hamza and Muhammad bin Sa’eed from Uthman bin Hammad bin Uthman from Sulayman bin Haroon al-Bajali that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: The companions of al-Qa’im are reserved for him. Even if all the peoples will have gone, Allah will bring him his companions. It is they, about whom Allah has said, Therefore if these people disbelieve in it We have already entrusted with it a people who are not disbelievers in it, (18) and has said, Then Allah will bring a people, He shall love them and they shall love Him, lowly before the believers, mighty against the unbelievers, they shall strive hard in Allah’s way and shall not fear the censure of any censurer. (19) (20) ( (14) ) Ali bin al-Husayn narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya al-Attar from Muhammad bin Hassaan ar-Razi from Muhammad bin Ali al-Kufi from Abdurrahman bin Abu Hashim from Ali bin Abu Hamza from Abu Baseer that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: The companions of Talut have been tried by the river. Allah hassaid, Allah will try you by a river. (21) The companions of al-Qa’im also will be tried like that. (22) p: 320 

Page320-Alghayba-occultation

Footnote 

(1) Baqir is one, who cuts open knowledge and science widely. (2) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 247. (3) A place near Kufa. (4) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 248. (5) Qur’an, 2: 148. (6) Tafseer of al-Ayyashi, vol. 1 p. 67, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 548, al-Mahajja p. 20, Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 1 p. 162, 164, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 368, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 32. (7) Missing or absent persons. (8) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 546, al-Mahajja p. 19, Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 621, Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 1 p. 1652, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 368, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al- Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 18. (9) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 546, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 4 p. 11. (10) Qur’an, 27: 62. (11) Qur’an, 2: 148. (12) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 546, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 369, Mo jam Ahadeeth al- Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 308. (13) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 546, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 286, 369, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 4 p. 11. (14) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 547, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 369, Mo jam Ahadeeth al- Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 283. (15) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 547, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52, 370, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 243. (16) Al-Ghayba by at-Toossi p. 476, al-Malahim by ibn Tawooss p. 144, Ithbat al- Hudat, vol. 3 p. 517, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 333, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 102. (17) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 370, Bisharatul Islam p. 198, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al- Mahdi, vol. 4 p. 6. (18) Qur’an, 6: 89. (19) Qur’an, 5: 54. (20) Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 1 p. 478, al-Mahajja p. 64, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 370, Yanabee ul Mawadda p. 422, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 93, 100. (21) Qur’an, 2: 249. (22) Al-Ghayba by at-Toossi p. 472, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 516, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 332, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 48. p: 321 

Page321-Alghayba-occultation

Chapter 21 

THE SHIA WHEN AL-QA’IM APPEARS

 ( (1) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed bin Oqda narrated from Hameed bin Ziyad from Ali bin al-Sabah from Abu Ali al-Hasan bin Muhammad al-Hadhrami from Ja’far bin Muhammad from Ibraheem bin Abdul Hameed from someone that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: When al-Qa’im (s) appears, those, who have thought themselves as his followers, will apostatize and those, who are somehow like the worshippers of the sun and the moon, will believe in him. (1) ( (2) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ahmad bin Yousuf bin Ya’qoob al-Ju fi from Issma’eel bin Mihran from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Abu Hamza from al-Mufadhdhal bin Muhammad al-Ash ari from Hurayz from Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) from his father (s) that Ali bin al-Husayn al-Sajjad (s) had said: When al-Qa’im appears, Allah will cure every sick believer and restore to him his power. (2) ( (3) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan at-Taymali from al-Hasan and Muhammad, the sons of Ali bin Yousuf, from Sa dan bin Muslim from Sabah al-Muzni from al- Harith bin Haseera from Habba al-Orani that Amirul Mo’mineen (s) had said: As if I see our Shia in the mosque of Kufa setting up pavilions to teach the people the Qur’an as it has been revealed but when our Qa im appears, he will destroy it (the mosque) and level its mihrab to the ground. (3) ( (4) ) Ali bin al-Husayn narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya al-Attar from Muhammad bin Hassaan ar-Razi from Muhammad bin Ali from Abdullah bin Muhammad al-Hajjaal from Ali bin Aqaba bin Khalid p: 322 

Page322-Alghayba-occultation

that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: As if I see the Shia of Ali with the Qur’an in their hands teaching people the divine principles. (4) ( (5) ) Abu Sulayman Ahmad bin Hawtah narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq an-Nahawandi from Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari from Sabah al-Muzni from al-Harith bin Haseera that al-Asbugh bin Nabata had said: I heard Ali (s) saying: As if I see the Persians setting up their pavilions in the mosque of Kufa and teaching people the Qur’an as it has been reveale! I said: O Amirul Mo’mineen, is the Qur’an not as it has been revealed? He said: No, it is not. The names of seventy ones of Quraysh have been removed from it. (5) The name of Abu Lahab has been left (in the Qur’an) just to remind the Prophet (s) of something because he is the Prophet s uncle. (6) ( (6) ) Ali bin Ahmad al-Bandaneeji narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from someone from Ja’far bin Yahya from his father that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: How about you when the companions of al-Qa’im (s) set up their pavilions in the mosque of Kufa and then he (al-Qa’im) appears with new ideals and a new rule? He will be severe with the Arabs. (7) ( (7) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik from Abu Tahir al-Warraaq from Uthman bin Eessa that Abus-Sabah al-Kinani had said: Once I was with Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) when an old man came to him and said: My sons became undutiful to me and my brothers turned away from me. p: 323 

Page323-Alghayba-occultation

Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: Do you not know that the truth has a government and the untruth also has a government? Each of them is low in the state of the other. Whoever enjoys the ease of the untruth will be punished in the state of the truth. (8) ( (8) ) Abu Sulayman Ahmad bin Hawtha narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq an-Nahawandi from Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari from Muhammad bin Ja’far bin Muhammad that his father (Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq) (s) had said: When al-Qa’im appears, he will send a man to every country of the world. He will say to him: Your covenant is in your hand. Whenever a matter faces you that you do not understand or do not know how to judge on it, you are to look at (the covenant in) your hand and act according to it. Then he will send an army to Constantinople. When the army reaches the sea, the soldiers will write on their feet something and will walk on the surface of the water. When the Romans see them walk on the water, they will say: These are his companions walking on the water so how about him? Then they will open to them the gates of the city. They enter the city and rule as they like. (9) ( (9) ) Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah bin Younus narrated from Muhammad bin Ja’far al-Qarashi from Muhammad bin al-Husayn bin Abul Khattab from Muhammad bin Sinan from Hurayz that Abban bin Taghlub had said: Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: This life does not end until a caller from the Heaven will call out: O people of the truth, come togethe! They will crowd in one place. Then the caller will call out again: O people of falsehood, come togethe! They will crowd in one place. p: 324 

Page324-Alghayba-occultation

I said: Can these people mix with those people? He said: No, by Allah, they cannot. Allah has said, On no account will Allah leave the believers in the condition which you are in until He separates the evil from the good. (10) (11) ( (10) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ahmad bin Yousuf bin Ya’qoob al-Ju fi from Issma’eel bin Mihran from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Abu Hamza from his father and Wuhayb from Abu Baseer that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Every one of you is to prepare himself for the appearance of al- Qa’im even with one arrow because if Allah knows that one intends that sincerely, He may prolong his life that he may live until the appearance of al-Qa’im and then he becomes one of his assistants and supporters. (12) Footnote (1) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 363, Bisharatul Islam p. 222, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al- Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 501. (2) Al-Khissal p. 541, Rawdhatul Wa idheen, vol. 2 p. 295, al-Sirat al-Mustaqeem, vol. 2 p. 261, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 496, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 316, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 192. (3) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 364, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 126. (4) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 364. (5) The apparent meaning of this saying shows that the Qur’an is distorted but the real opinion of the Shia concerning the Qur’an is not so. (6) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 364. (7) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 365, Bisharatul Islam p. 223, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al- Mahdi, vol. 4 p. 47. (8) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 365. (9) Dala il al-Imama p. 249, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 573, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 365, p: 325 

Page325-Alghayba-occultation

Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 317. (10) Qur’an, 3: 179. (11) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 365. (12) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 366, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 4 p. 6. 

Page326-Alghayba-occultation

Chapter 22 

ISLAM BEGAN STRANGE AND RETURNS STRANGE

 ( (1) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al- Hasan at-Taymali from his brothers Muhammad and Ahmad from their father from Tha laba bin Maymoon and Jamee al-Kinasi from Abu Baseer from Kamil that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: When al-Qa’im appears, he will invite the people to a new mission as the Prophet (s) has invited the people to a new mission. Islam has begun strange and it will return strange as it has begun. Blessed are the stranger! (1) ( (2) ) Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah bin Younus narrated from Muhammad bin Ja’far al-Qarashi from Muhammad bin al-Husayn bin Abul Khattab from Muhammad bin Sinan from ibn Miskan from Abu Baseer that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Islam has begun strange and it will return strange as it has begun. Blessed are the stranger! Abu Baseer said to him: Please, explain to me what this mean! He said: Al-Qa’im will invite to a new mission as the Prophet (s) has done. The same was narrated by Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah from the previous narrators from Muhammad bin Sinan from al-Husayn bin al-Mukhtar from Abu Baseer from Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s). (2) ( (3) ) The previous narrators narrated from Muhammad bin Sinan from Abdullah bin Miskan that Malik al-Juhani had said: I said to Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s): We describe the man of this matter (al-Qa’im) with the aspects that no one of the people has ever had. p: 326 

Page326-Alghayba-occultation

He said: No, By Allah, it is not so. It is he himself, who will argue with you about that and will invite you to it. (3) ( (4) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Muhammad bin al-Mufadhdhal bin Ibraheem from Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Zurara from Sa d bin Abu Amr al-Jallab that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Islam has begun strange and it will return strange as it has begun. Blessed are the stranger! (4) ( (5) ) Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah bin Younus narrated from Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Ali bin Rabah az-Zuhri from Muhammad bin al-Abbas bin Eessa al-Hasani from al-Hasan bin Ali al-Bata ini from Shu ayb al-Haddad that Abu Baseer had said: I asked Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) to explain to me the saying of Amirul Mo’mineen (s) Islam has begun strange and it will return strange as it has begun. Blessed are the stranger! He said to me: O Abu Muhammad, when al-Qa’im (s) appears, he will invite to a new mission as the Prophet (s) has done. I got up, kissed his head and said to him: I witness that you are my imam in this life and in the afterlife. I support your guardians and resist your enemies. I witness that you are the guardian of Allah. He said: May Allah have mercy upon yo! (5) Footnote (1) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 366, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 319. (2) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 366. (3) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 366. (4) Kamal ad-Deen p. 308, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 191. (5) Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 367, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 4 p. 52. p: 327 

Page327-Alghayba-occultation

Chapter 23 

THE AGE OF AL-QA’IM

 ( (1) ) Ali bin Ahmad narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa from Muhammad bin al-Husayn (from) ibn Abul Khattab from Muhammad bin Sinan from Abul Jarood that Abu Ja’far al- Baqir (s) had said: This matter (deliverance) will be carried out by the youngest and obscurest one of us. The same was narrated by Ali bin al-Husayn from Muhammad bin Yahya al-Attar from Muhammad bin Hassaan ar-Razi from Muhammad bin Ali al-Sayrafi from Muhammad bin Sinan from Abul Jarood from Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s). (1) ( (2) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ahmad bin Mabindath from Ahmad bin Hilal from Abu Malik al-Hadhrami from Abu al-Safatij that Abu Baseer had said: I said to one of them-Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) or Abu Ja’far al- Baqir (s): Can this matter (imamate) be entrusted to one, who is not adult yet? He said: It will be so. I said: How does he (the young imam) act? He said: Allah grants him with knowledge and wisdom and does not make him follow his fancies. (2) ( (3) ) Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah bin Younus narrated from Muhammad bin Ja’far al-Qarashi from Muhammad bin al-Husayn bin Abul Khattab from Muhammad bin Sinan from Abul Jarood that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) had said: This matter (deliverance) is not carried out except by the obscurest and youngest one of us. (3) ( (4) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ahmad bin Mabindath from Ahmad bin Hilal from Iss~haq bin Sabah that Imam Abul Hasan ar-Redha (s) had said: The imamate will be entrusted to one, who is so young and obscure. (4) The infallible imams (s) have confirmed that al-Qa’im (s) will be entrusted with the imamate while he is too young yet and that his p: 328 

Page328-Alghayba-occultation

mention is so obscure to the most of people. None of the other imams has been entrusted with the imamate when he is as young as al-Mahdi (s). When they mention that he is the obscurest one among them, they refer to his disappearance and that his news will be unknown by people. The traditions about this concern are too many, true and current. Doubting this matter must be away from the minds of the believers, whom Allah has guided and lit their hearts. Footnote (1) Biharul Anwar, vol. 51 p. 42. (2) Biharul Anwar, vol. 51 p. 43. (3) Biharul Anwar, vol. 51 p. 43. (4) Biharul Anwar, vol. 51 p. 43. 

Page328-Alghayba-occultation

Chapter 

24

 ISSMA’EEL, THE SON OF IMAM al-SADIQ ( (1) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Abu Abdullah Ja’far bin Abdullah al-Muhammadi from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Fadhdhal from Safwan bin Yahya that Iss~haq bin Ammar al-Sayrafi had said: Once my brother Issma’eel bin Ammar described his faith and beliefs to Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) by saying: I witness that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah Then he declared his faith in the imams, one after the other until he reached Imam Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) and then he said: and I witness that Issma’eel (Imam al-Sadiq s son) is the imam after you. Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: No, Issma’eel is not the imam after me. (1) ( (2) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Hameed bin Ziyad from al-Hasan bin Muhammad bin Suma a from Ahmad bin al-Hasan al-Maythami from Abu Nujayh al-Masma iy that al-Faydh bin al- p: 329 

Page329-Alghayba-occultation

Mukhtar had said: I said to Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s): What do you say about a piece of land that I take from the ruler and then I hire it and take a half or a third or less or more than that from its products? Is that permissible? He said: Yes, it is. His son Issma’eel said: O father, you have not memorized well. Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said to his son: Have I dealt with such a matter differently? O my son, it is for this that I often say to you to keep to me but you do not do. Issma’eel got up and left. I said: May I die for yo! No blame is on Issma’eel if you are going to inform him of every thing before your death (to be the imam after you) as you have been informed of every thing by your fathe! He said: O Faydh, Issma’eel to me is not as I have been to my father (concerning the imamate). I said: May I die for yo! I have never doubted that he will be the imam after you. If what we fear (your death) occurs, then to whom we resort? He kept silent and turned aside from me. I kissed his knee and said to him: Be merciful to my old ag! It is Hell that I fear. By Allah, if I know that I die before you, I will never mind but I fear that I live after you. He said to me: Stay her! He went behind a curtain in some place in the house. He stayed for a while and then called: O Faydh, come i! I went in. I found him in his place of praying. He had offered prayer and then turned away from the qibla. I sat before him. His son Abul Hasan Musa (s) , who was a young boy then, came in. He had a stick in his hand. His father seated him on his thigh and said to him: May I die for yo! What is this stick in your hand? He said: I passed by my brother Ali and found him beating p: 330 

Page330-Alghayba-occultation

an animal with this stick. I took it out of his hand. Then Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said to me: O Faydh, Prophet Muhammad (s) has been entrusted with the scriptures of Abraham and Moses (s) and he has entrusted Ali with them. Then Ali has entrusted al-Hasan with them, al-Hasan has entrusted al-Husayn with them, al-Husayn has entrusted his son Ali with them, Ali bin al-Husayn has entrusted his son Muhammad with them and then my father (Muhammad bin Ali al-Baqir) has entrusted me with them. They have been with me and I have entrusted my son, this, with them even though he is still too young. They are with him now. I understood what he wanted to say. I said to him: May I die for yo! Tell me more pleas! He said: O Faydh, whenever my father wanted Allah to respond to his praying, he seated me beside him on his right hand. He prayed Allah and I said: Ame! Now I do the same with my son. I cried because of delight and said to him: O my master, tell me more pleas! He said: When my father traveled and I was with him, I approached my sumpter near to his if he felt sleepy to put my arm under his head for a mile or two until he somehow took his need of sleep. Now my son, this, does the same to me. I said: Tell me more pleas! May I die for yo! He said: O Faydh, I see in this son as Prophet Jacob (s) has seen in his son Joseph (s). I said: Tell me more please, O my maste! He said: He is your man (the imam after me) , whom you have asked about. Get up and confess his righ! I got up and kissed his hand and head. I prayed Allah to protect him. Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: In the first time I was not p: 331 

Page331-Alghayba-occultation

permitted to inform you. I said: May I narrate this from you? He said: Yes, you may narrate it to your wife and children and to your companions. My wife and children were with me and of my companions was Younus bin Dhabyan. When I told them of that, they praised Allah too much. Younus said: By Allah, I shall not be satisfied until I hear this from him himself. He left hastily. I followed after him. When I arrived at the door, I heard Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) saying to Younus: It is as Faydh has told you. Keep silent and accept that from hi! Younus said: I listen and obey. I came in. Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said to me: O Faydh, make him your companio! I said: I have done. (2) ( (3) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from al-Qassim bin Muhammad bin al-Hasan bin Hazim from Obayss bin Hisham from Durust bin Abu Mansoor that al-Waleed bin Subayh had said: There was an argument between me and a man called Abdul Jaleel. He said that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had appointed his son Issma’eel as the imam after him. I told Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) of that. He said: O Waleed, by Allah, it is not so. If I have done, I should have appointed the proper one. He mentioned the name of Abul Hasan Musa (al- Kadhim) (s). (3) ( (4) ) Abdul Wahid bin Abdullah bin Younus 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 al-Khath ami p: 332 

Page332-Alghayba-occultation

that Jama a al-Sa igh had said: I heard al-Mufadhdhal bin Umar asking Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s): Does Allah impose (upon people) to obey someone and then the divine revelation keeps that secret? Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: Allah is more glorified, merciful and kinder to His people than to impose upon them obeying someone but the divine revelation keeps that secret day and night. Then his son Abul Hasan Musa (s) appeared. Abu Abdullah al- Sadiq (s) said to al-Mufadhdhal: Would you like to look at the keeper of Imam Ali s book? Al-Mufadhdhal said: And is there anything else that makes me more delighted than this?! Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: This is the keeper of Ali s hidden book, about which Allah has said, None shall touch it save the purified ones. (4) (5) ( (5) ) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Hameed bin Ziyad from al-Hasan bin Muhammad bin Suma a from Ahmad bin al-Hasan bin Muhammad al-Maythami from Muhammad bin Iss~haq that his father had said: I came to Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) and asked him who the imam would be after him. He said to me: He is the keeper of the lamb. His son Musa (al-Kadhim) , who was a little boy then, was in a corner of the house with a lamb. He said to the lamb: Prostrate yourself before Allah, Who has created yo! (6) ( (6) ) Abu Sulayman Ahmad bin Hawtha narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq an-Nahawandi from Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari that Mo awiya bin Wahab had said: Once I went to Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) and I saw his son Abul Hasan Musa, who was then three years old. There was a lamb with him. He said to the lamb: Prostrate yourself before Allah, Who has created you. He repeated that three times. A little boy said to him: p: 333 

Page333-Alghayba-occultation

O my master, ask it to di! Musa (s) said: Woe unto yo! Do I give life (to creatures) and make them die? It is Allah, Who gives life (to His creatures) and makes (them) die. (7) ( (7) ) From among the famous speech of Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) is this saying that he has said when visiting the grave of his son Issma’eel: My pity for you is more than my grief on you. O Allah, I have forgiven Issma’eel all that he has failed to achieve due to my right upon him. O Allah, forgive him all that he has failed to achieve due to Your rights upon hi! (8) ( (8) ) It was narrated that Zurara bin A yun had said: One day I visited Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s). On his right side there was the master of his sons Musa (al-Kadhim) (s) and before him there was a covered coffin. He said to me: O Zurara, send for Dawood bin Katheer, Hamran and Abu Baseer to come. Then al-Mufadhdhal bin Umar came in. I left to bring those persons. People began to come one after the other until we became about thirty men inside the house. When the house became crowded, Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: O Dawood, uncover the face of Issma’ee! Dawood uncovered Issma’eel s face. Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: O Dawood, is he alive or dead? Dawood said: O my master, he is dead. Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) asked everyone in the house the same question after showing them the dead body of his son and all of them answered that he was dead. Then he said: O Allah, witnes! He ordered to wash the dead (according to the Islamic rituals) and to put him into his last p: 334 

Page334-Alghayba-occultation

clothing. When everything was finished, Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said to al-Mufadhdhal: O Mufadhdhal, uncover his fac! Al-Mufadhdhal did. Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said to him: Is he alive or dead? He said: He is dead. Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: O Allah, be the witness over the! Then Issma’eel was carried to his grave. When he was put into the grave, Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said: O Mufadhdhal, uncover his fac! He asked the all: Is he alive or dead? We said: He is dead. He said: O Allah, witness and you, O people witness because those, who follow falsehood, will doubt. They want to put out the light of Allah with their mouths-he pointed to his son Musa-and Allah will not consent save to perfect His light. Then we began to pour soil over the dead. He asked us again: Who is the dead buried inside this grave? We said: He is Issma’eel. He said: O Allah, witnes! Then he held the hand of his son Musa and said: He (al-Qa’im) is a truth and the truth is from him until Allah inherits the earth and all there is on it. (9) I have found this tradition with somone of our companions, who said that he had written it from Abul Murajja bin Muhammad al-Ghamr at-Taghlubi and he mentioned that Abu Sahl had narrated it to him from Abul Faraj the clerk of Bundar al-Qommi from Bundar from Muhammad bin Sadaqa and Muhammad bin Amr from Zurara. Abu al-Murajja mentioned that he had shown this tradition to some of his companions, who had said that al-Hasan bin al-Munthir had narrated it to him from Zurara and added that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: p: 335 

Page335-Alghayba-occultation

By Allah, your man will appear to you and he will not have had any homage to anyone at all. And he said: Your man will not appear until the people of truth will suspect him. Say: It is a message of importance. (And) you are turning aside from it. (10) ( (9) ) Abu Sulayman Ahmad bin Hawtha narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq an-Nahawandi from Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari that Safwan bin Mihran al-Jammal had said: Mansoor bin Hazim and Abu Ayyoob al-Khazzaz said to Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) while I was present with them: May Allah make us die for yo! One does not know when death comes. Who is our imam after you? He said: If death comes, your man will be this. He patted his son Musa, who was then five years old. Abdullah bin Ja’far was also present in the house on that day. (11) 

Page335-Alghayba-occultation

Footnote 

(1) Biharul Anwar, vol. 47 p. 261. (2) Biharul Anwar, vol. 47 p. 259, Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 290. (3) Biharul Anwar, vol. 48 p. 22, Awalim al-Uloom, vol. 21 p. 43. (4) Qur’an, 56: 79. (5) Biharul Anwar, vol. 48 p. 22. (6) Biharul Anwar, vol. 48 p. 23, Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 291, Awalim al-Uloom, vol. 21 p. 37. (7) Biharul Anwar, vol. 48 p. 117, Awalim al-Uloom, vol. 21 p. 316. (8) Biharul Anwar, vol. 48 p. 23. (9) Biharul Anwar, vol. 48 p. 21, Awalim al-Uloom, vol. 21 p. 48. (10) Qur an, 38: 67-68. (11) Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 289. 

Page336-Alghayba-occultation

Chapter 25

 KNOWING ONE'S IMAM 

( (1) ) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob narrated from Ali bin Ibraheem from his father from Hammad bin Eessa from Hurayz from Zurara that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: p: 336 

Page336-Alghayba-occultation

Know your imam because if you know him, it does not harm you whether deliverance comes soon or late. (1) ( (2) ) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob narrated from al-Husayn bin Muhammad bin Aamir from Mu alla bin Muhammad from Muhammad bin Jumhoor from Safwan bin Yahya from Muhammad bin Marwan that al-Fudhayl bin Yasar had said: I asked Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) about the Qur anic verse ( (Remember) the day when We will call every people with their Imam) (2) and he said: O Fudhayl, know your imam because if you know your imam, it does not harm you whether this matter (the appearance of al-Qa’im) comes soon or late. He, who knows his imam and dies before the appearance of al-Qa’im, is like one, who will be in the camp of al-Qa’im or like one, who will be under the banner of al-Qa’im. Some of our companions narrated the tradition with this addition like one, who has been martyred (while fighting) with the Prophet (s). (3) ( (3) ) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob narrated from Ali bin Muhammad from Ali bin Abu Hamza that Abu Baseer had said: I said to Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s): May I die for yo! When does deliverance come? He said: O Abu Baseer, are you from those, who love this life? Whoever believes in this matter is delivered for his waiting for it. (4) (4) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob narrated from Ali bin Ibraheem from Salih al-Sindi from Ja’far bin Basheer that Issma’eel bin Muhammad al-Khuza iy had said: Once I heard Abu Baseer asking Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s): Do you think that I live until al-Qa’im appears? p: 337 

Page337-Alghayba-occultation

Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) said to him: O Abu Baseer, Do you not know your imam? Abu Baseer said: I know him. By Allah, it is you. Abu Abdullah (s) took Abu Baseer s hand and said: O Abu Baseer, by Allah, never mind if you are not under the shadow of al-Qa’im s tent with your swor! (5) ( (5) ) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob narrated from some of his companions from Ahmad bin Muhammad from Ali bin an-Nu man from Muhammad bin Marwan from al-Fudhayl bin Yasar that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Whoever dies and has not had an imam he dies as unbeliever and whoever dies while believing in his imam, it does not harm him whether the appearance of al-Qa’im occurs soon or late. He, who dies while believing in his imam, is like one, who will be with al-Qa’im in his pavilion. (6) ( (6) ) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob narrated from Ali bin Muhammad from Sahl bin Ziyad from al-Hasan bin Sa’eed from Fudhala bin Ayyoob from Umar bin Abban that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Know (the sign of your) imam. If you know him, it does not harm you whether this matter comes soon or late. Allah has said, Remember the day when We will call every people with their Imam. He, who knows his imam, is like one, who will be with al-Mahdi (s) in his pavilion. (7) ( (7) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Yahya bin Zakariyya bin Shayban from Ali bin Sayf bin Omayra from his father from Hamran bin A yun that Abu Abdullah al- Sadiq (s) had said: p: 338 

Page338-Alghayba-occultation

Know your imam. If you know him, it does not harm you whether this matter comes soon or late because Allah has said, Remember the day when We will call every people with their Imam. Whoever knows his imam is as if he is with al-Qa’im (s) in his pavilion. (8) Footnote (1) Al-Kafi, vol. 1 p. 371, 372, al-Ghayba by at-Toossi p. 459, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 515, Ghayatul Maram p. 273, Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 2 p. 429, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 131, 141, 142, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 5 p. 231. (2) Qur’an, 17: 71. (3) Refer to the same references of the previous tradition. (4) Al-Kafi, vol. 1 p. 371, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 142, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al- Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 416. (5) Al-Kafi, vol. 1 p. 371, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 142, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al- Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 405. (6) Al-Mahassin by al-Barqi p. 155, Al-Kafi, vol. 1 p. 371, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 1 p. 86, Biharul Anwar, vol. 23 p. 77, vol. 52 p. 142, Muntakhab al-Athar p. 516, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 344. (7) Refer to references of the first tradition. (8) Ibid. 

Page339-Alghayba-occultation

Chapter 26 

THE PERIOD OF AL-GHA'IM'S RULE

 ( (1) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed bin Oqda narrated from Ali bin al-Hasan at-Taymali from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Yousuf from his father and Muhammad bin Ali from his father from Ahmad bin Umar al-Halabi from Hamza bin Hamran from Abdullah bin Abu Ya foor that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Al-Qa’im (s) will rule for nineteen years and some months. (1) ( (2) ) Abu Sulayman Ahmad bin Hawtha narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss~haq an-Nahawandi from Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari from Abdullah bin Abu Ya foor (2) that Abu Abdullah al- p: 339 

Page339-Alghayba-occultation

Sadiq (s) had said: The rule of al-Qa’im will last for nineteen years and some months. (3) ( (3) ) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Muhammad bin al-Mufadhdhal bin Ibraheem bin Qays from Sa dan bin Iss~haq bin Sa’eed, Ahmad bin al-Husayn bin Abdul Melik az-Zayyat and Muhammad bin Ahmad bin al-Hasan al-Qatawani from al-Hasan bin Mahboob from Amr bin Thabit that Jabir bin Yazeed al-Ju fi had said: I heard Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (s) saying: By Allah, a man from us, Ahlul Bayt, will rule for three hundred and thirteen years and then for other nine years. I asked him: When will that be? He said: After the death of al-Qa’im (s). I said: How long will al-Qa’im rule until he dies? He said: It will be nineteen years since his rising until the day of his death. (4) ( (4) ) Ali bin Ahmad al-Bandaneeji narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from some of his companions from Ahmad bin al-Hasan from Iss~haq from Ahmad bin Umar bin Abu Shu ba al-Halabi from Hamza bin Hamran from Abdullah bin Abu Ya foor that Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq (s) had said: Al-Qa’im (s) will rule for nineteen years and some months. (5) As we have achieved the aim that we have tried to achieve and as we have reached what we have wished to reach with all these sufficient evidences as a message for one, who has a heart or gives ear with full intelligence, so we thank Allah as He deserves for all His blessings and favors upon us and we pray Him to bless Muhammad and his pure progeny and to guide us to the path of the truth in this life and the afterlife and to grant us with knowledge, wisdom and perceivance. p: 340 

Page340-Alghayba-occultation

Our Lord, make not our hearts deviate after Thou hast guided us aright, and grant us from Thee mercy; surely Thou art the most liberal Giver. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds and blessings and peace be upon Muhammad and his pure progeny. Footnote (1) Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 547, Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 640, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 298, ar-Raj a p. 133, Bisharatul Islam p. 187, 188, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al- Mahdi, vol. 4 p. 76. (2) The name of one of the narrators has been omitted accidentally; either Hamza bin Hamran or al-Husayn bin Abul Ala. (3) The same references of the previous tradition. (4) Tafseer of al-Ayyashi, vol. 2 p. 326, al-khtisas p. 257, al-Ghayba by at-Toossi p. 478, Mukhtasar Basa ir ad-Darajat p. 38, 49, 213, Muntakhab al-Anwar al-Mudhee a p. 202, al-Eeqadh min al-Haj a p. 337, Ithbat al-Hudat, vol. 3 p. 557, Hilyatul Abrar, vol. 2 p. 640, Tafseer al-Burhan, vol. 2 p. 465, Biharul Anwar, vol. 52 p. 298, vol. 53 p. 100, 103, 146, ar-Raj a p. 71, Mo jam Ahadeeth al-Imam al-Mahdi, vol. 3 p. 329. (5) The same references of the first tradition. 

Page340-Alghayba-occultation