The Book of Occultation — al-Ṭūsī · Hadith 116 (#Ḥadīth #33)

56- قال: وروى أحمد بن الحارث رفعه إلى أبي عبد الله عليه السلام أنه قال: لو قد يقوم القائم لقال الناس: أنى يكون هذا وبليت عظامه؟

H 56 - Ahmad bin Harith has narrated directly from Imam Ja’far Sadiq that he said: If the Qaim arises in these circumstances, people would say: How can this person be the Qaim, when his bones have also decomposed?

Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).