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The Book of Occultation · Hadith 380 (#Ḥadīth #1)

Chapter 16 | Forbidding timing and naming al-Qa’im

1 - أخبرنا أحمد بن محمد بن سعيد قال: حدثنا علي بن الحسن، قال: حدثنا الحسن بن علي بن يوسف ومحمد بن علي، عن سعدان بن مسلم، عن أبي بصير، عن أبي عبد الله قال: قلت له: ما لهذا الأمر أمد ينتهي إليه ويريح أبداننا؟ قال: بلى، ولكنكم أذعتم، فأخره الله.

(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 as-Sadiq : “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.”

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