- Ikmaaluddin: Shaibani has narrated from Asadi from Sahal from Abdul Azeem Hasani from Imam Ali Naqi (a.s.) from his honorable forefathers from Amirul Momineen (a.s.) that he said:
“Our Qaim will have an occultation, the duration of which is long. As if I see the Shia, roving about like cattle searching for pasture and not finding it. Behold, whoever from them stays firm on his religion and will not become stone-hearted because of delay in occultation of his Imam, he will be with me in my rank on Judgment Day.” Then he said: “When he rises, our Qaim will not have allegiance to anyone on his shoulders. For this reason, his birth will be concealed and his person will be hidden.” 1
- Ikmaaluddin: It is narrated from Hamadani from Ali from his father from Ali bin Mabad from Husain bin Khalid from Imam Reza (a.s.) from Amirul Momineen (a.s.), that he said to Imam Husain (a.s.):
“The ninth from your sons, O Husain, is the Establisher of the Right (Qaim bil-Haqq), the Manifester of the Religion and the Deliverer of Justice.”
Husain (a.s.) says, “I said: O Amirul Momineen (a.s.), is that to happen?” He said: “Verily so, by the One Who sent Muhammad with Prophethood and chose him over all of creation! It will happen, however, after an occultation and a bewilderment in which no one remains on his religion, but the sincere ones who are touched by the spirit of certainty, people from whom Allah has taken covenant for our guardianship and inscribed faith in their hearts and has endorsed them with a spirit from Himself.” 1
- Ikmaaluddin: Shaykh Saduq narrates from his father from Ali bin Ibrahim from Muhammad bin Sinan from Ziyad Makfuf from Abdullah Ibne Abi Afif, the poet that he said:
I heard Amirul Momineen Ali Ibne Abi Talib (a.s.) say, “It is as if I see, O congregation of Shia, you will be striding like camel herds searching for a pasture, yet you will not find him.” 1
Ikmaaluddin narrates this tradition again through another chain of narration.
- Muqtadhib: It is narrated from Ayyash from Shaykh Thiqa Abul Hasan bin Abdus Samad bin Ali in Sunnat Khamsa wa Thamaneen wa Miyatain with Ubaid bin Kathir from Nuh bin Darraj from Yahya from Amash from Zaid bin Wahab from Abu Jahifa and Harith bin Abdullah Hamadani and Harith Ibne Sharb that:
They were all with Amirul Momineen (a.s.). It was customary that when his son Hasan would come, he would say, “Blessed be you, O son of Allah’s Messenger.” And when his son Husain would come, he would say, “My father be the ransom of you, O father of the son of the best of bond maids.”
He was asked, “O Chief of believers, why do you address Hasan this way and Husain that way? And who is the son of the best of slave girls?” He said: “He is the lost one, the fugitive, the abandoned one, MHMD Ibne Hasan Ibne Ali Ibne Muhammad Ibne Ali Ibne Musa Ibne Ja’far Ibne Muhammad Ibne Ali Ibne Husain,” putting his hand on Husain’s head. 1
- Ghaibat Tusi: It is narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad from Muhammad bin Husain from Ibne Yazi from Asim from Ibne Siyabah from Imran bin Mitham from Abaya Asadi that he says: I heard Amirul Momineen (a.s.) say:
“How would you be like when you are left without an Imam of guidance or a visible standard, when some of you are turning away one from the other with disdain!” 1
- Ghaibat Nomani: It is narrated from Ibne Hamam from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik from Ishaq bin Sinan from Ubaid bin Kharja from Ali bin Uthman from Harab bin Ahnaf from Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s.) from his forefathers, saying:
“Euphrates swelled at the time of Amirul Momineen (a.s.). At this time, he and his two sons, Hasan and Husain (a.s.) rode their courses and passed by the tribe of Thaqif. They said: Ali is coming. He will made the water recede.’
Amirul Momineen (a.s.) said: ‘By Allah, I and these two sons of mine will be killed and Allah will send a man from my progeny in the last period of time, who will avenge our blood. He will go into hiding from them in order to be away from the people of misguidance, so the ignorant would say, Allah does not have any need to Ahle Bayt (a.s.).” 1
- Ghaibat Nomani: It is narrated from Muhammad bin Hamam and Muhammad bin Hasan bin Muhammad bin Jamhur together from Hasan bin Muhammad bin Jamhur from his father from some of his men from Mufaddal Ibne Umar that he said: Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s.) said:
“One tradition, which you comprehend well, is better than ten you narrate. Verily, every truth has a reality and every veracity has an illumination.” Then he said: “We, by Allah, do not consider a man from our Shia to be a Faqih unless when he is addressed through hints and allusions, he understands them.
Amirul Momineen (a.s.) said on the pulpit of Kufa, ‘Dark, blind and gloomy mischiefs are ahead of you. None will be rescued from it, but the nauma.’ He was asked, ‘What is nauma, O Chief of believers?’ He said: ‘He is the one who does not know the people and people do not know him.
Behold, the earth does not remain without a Hujjah of Allah; however, Allah will blind His creation from him due to their oppression, injustice and their excesses on themselves. If the earth would remain one hour without a Hujjah of Allah, the earth will be injested along with its dwellers. However, the Hujjah will know the people and the people will not know him, as Yusuf knew the people, while they knew him not.’
Then he recited this verse:يَا حَسْرَةً عَلَى الْعِبَادِ ۚ مَا يَأْتِيهِمْ مِنْ رَسُولٍ إِلَّا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ
“Alas for the servants! there comes not to them an apostle but they mock at him.” (Surah Yasin 36:30) 1
- Nahjul Balagha: Amirul Momineen (a.s.) says in a tradition:
“When it will be like that, the Master of the Religion will journey along with the trail of his followers. They will gather around him like the clouds of autumn. And he and his followers will be steadfast.”
The author says: This statement is on the basis of unseen knowledge of the Imam with regard to the Mahdi. 1
- Nahjul Balagha: Amirul Momineen (a.s.) says in one of his sermons:
References:[Quran Chapter 30:5-6] 5. In Allah's support. He supports whomever He wills. He is the Almighty, the Merciful. 6. The promise of Allah—Allah never breaks His promise, but most people do not know.“He has appareled himself with the garment of wisdom, and has seized it with all of its protocols by proclivity towards it and cognition of it and dedication to it. For him, wisdom is his lost commodity which he seeks, and it is his wish for which he yearns. He will go far away at a time when Islam disappears like a feeble camel leaves while beating the end of its tail and dragging its neck on the earth. He is the heir of the heirs of His Hujjah and a vicegerent from the vicegerents of His apostles.” 1
