The Book of Occultation · Hadith 144 (#Ḥadīth #10)

10 - محمد بن همام قال: حدثنا جعفر بن محمد بن مالك وعبد الله بن جعفر الحميري جميعاً قالا: حدثنا محمد بن الحسين بن أبي الخطاب ومحمد بن عيسى وعبد الله بن عامر القصباني جميعاً، عن عبد الرحمن بن أبي نجران، عن محمد بن مساور، عن المفضل بن عمر الجعفي قال: سمعت الشيخ - يعني أبا عبد الله - يقول: إيّاكم والتنويه، أما والله ليغيبنّ سبتاً من دهركم، وليخملنّ حتى يقال: مات، هلك، بأيّ وادٍ سلك؟ ولتدمعنّ عليه عيون المؤمنين وليكفأن تكفّأ السفينة في أمواج البحر فلا ينجو إلاّ مَن أخذ الله ميثاقه وكتب في قلبه الإيمان وأيّده بروح منه، ولترفعنّ اثنتا عشرة رايةً مشتبهة لا يدرى أيّ من أيّ. (قال) فبكيت ثم قلت له: كيف نصنع؟ فقال: يا أبا عبد الله، - ثم نظر إلى شمس داخلة في الصفّة - أترى هذه الشمس؟ فقلت: نعم. فقال: لأمرُنا أبْيَنُ من هذه الشمس.

(10) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik and Abdullah bin Ja’far al-Himyari from Muhammad bin al-Husayn bin Abul-Khattab, Muhammad bin Eessa and Abdullah bin Aamir al-Qasabani from Abdurrahman bin Abu Najran from Muhammad bin Musawir that al-Mufadhdhal bin Umar al-Ju’fi had said: I heard the sheikh-he meant Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq - saying: “Beware of allusion! By Allah he (Imam al-Mahdi) will be hidden (by the will of Allah) for a period of time and he will be ignored until it will be said that he has died, perished or be lost in an unknown valley. The eyes of the believers will shed a lot of tears for him. Turning over will occur as a ship in a rough sea. No one will be saved except those, whom Allah has promised, fixed faith in their hearts and assisted with His mercy. Twelve suspicious banners will be raised, none of which will be distinguished from each other.” I began to cry and then I asked him: “What will we do then?” He looked at a ray of the sun shining into the shed and said to me: “O Abu Abdullah (al-Mufadhdhal), do you see this sun?” I said: “Yes, I do.” He said: “By Allah, our matter is clearer than this sun.” The same was narrated by Muhammad bin Ya’qoob al-Kulayni from Muhammad bin Yahya from Ahmad bin Muhammad from Abdul-Kareem from Abdurrahman bin Abu Najran from Muhammad bin al-Musawir from al-Mufadhdhal bin Umar. Imam Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq intended by his saying to refer to the serious troubles that the Shia would face such as the terrible deviating seditions, the invalid and confused doctrines, the suspicious banners pretending to have inherited the imamate from the progeny of Ali bin Abu Talib and the many mutinous people, who looked forward to the rule and leadership in every age. Whoever tries to deprive Ahlul Bayt of their rights-and how many they are-will perish no doubt and just a few, who have believed in the infallible imams and whom Allah has fixed faith in their hearts and assisted with His mercy, will be saved from that rough sea of seditions. Definitely Allah will fix the true believers on the straight path of His guardians in spite of the seditions, the different doctrines, the contradicted opinions and the betraying of the apostates, who have deviated from the right path of the divine imamate and will reward them with the best of His favors by joining them to His honored guardians.

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