Al-Kafi: It is narrated from Ali bin Muhammad from Abu Abdullah Salihi that:
Our scholars urged me after the demise of Imam Hasan Askari (a.s.) that I should ask about the name and the place. The answer came to me, “If you should guide them to the name, they will divulge it, and if they should know the place, they would guide others to it.” 1
Ikmaaluddin: It is narrated from Muzaffar Alawi from Ibne Ayyashi from Adam bin Muhammad Balkhi from Ali bin Husain Daqqaq and Ibrahim bin Muhammad together from Ali Ibne Asim Kufi that he says:
The following has come in the epistles of the Imam of the Time (a.s.):
“Accursed, accursed, is the person who mentions me by my name among people.” 1
Ikmaaluddin: Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Ishaq says: I heard Abi Ali Muhammad bin Hamam say: I heard Muhammad bin Uthman Amari, may Allah sanctify his soul, say:
“An epistle came in a handwriting, which I recognize: Whoever mentions me by name in a group of people, on him is the curse of Allah.“ 1
Ikmaaluddin: Shaykh Saduq has narrated from his father from Saad from Ibne Yazid from Ibne Mahbub from Ibne Raab from Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s.) that he said:
“The Master of this Affair is a man that no one will mention him by his name, except an infidel.” 1
Ikmaaluddin: Shaykh Saduq has narrated from his father and Ibne Walid from Saad from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik from Ibne Fuddal from Rayyan bin Sult that he said:
I asked Imam Reza (a.s.) about the Qaim (a.s.). The Imam said: “His body is not seen and he is not mentioned by his name.” 1
Ikmaaluddin: Shaykh Saduq has narrated from his father and Ibne Walid from Saad from Yaqtini from Ismail bin Aban from Amr bin Shimr from Jabir that Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s.) said:
“Umar asked Amirul Momineen (a.s.) about the Mahdi (a.s.), saying, ‘O Ibne Abi Talib, tell me about the Mahdi. What is his name?’ Amirul Momineen (a.s.) said: ‘As for his name, my beloved (the Prophet) has bound me not to speak to anyone of his name until Allah, the Exalted, raises him. It is of the things that Allah, the Exalted, has entrusted its knowledge to his Messenger.’”
In Ghaibat of Shaykh Tusi it is mentioned that Saad narrates the same report. 1
