The Sufficient (Vol 1) · Hadith 939 (#Ḥadīth #4)
Chapter 82 | Setting-up a Time Limit for the Reappearance of the Twelfth Imam an Antipathetic Issue
4ـ أَحْمَدُ بِإِسْنَادِهِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبَى الله إِلا أَنْ يُخَالِفَ وَقْتَ الْمُوَقِّتِينَ.
4. Ahmad has narrated through his chain of narrators from the Imam the following. “Allah disdains to make the people’s time set for it (reappearance of the one who will rise with Divine Authority) to come true.”
Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).