\n Muhammad ibn al-Hassan has narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad...

\n Muhammad ibn al-Hassan has narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Muhammad ibn Ali and \u2018Abdallah ibn al-Marzuban from (Muhammad) ibn Sinan who has said: \n “Once I went to see Abu Al-Hassan Musa -asws one year before he -asws would leave for Iraq. His -asws son Ali -asws was also in the meeting. He -asws looked at me and said, “O Muhammad, during this year a movement will take place do get carried away by it!

\n The narrator has said that he then asked the Imam -asws , “\u2018May Allah -azwj Sacrifice me for you -asws , what that will be (taking place)? What you -asws said has made me very anxious.” \n The Imam -asws said, “I -asws will journey to the tyrant.

From this and one after him I will not suffer any serious harm.” The narrator has said that he then asked The Imam -asws , “\u2018May Allah -azwj Sacrifice me for you -asws , what then will happen?” The Imam -asws said, “Allah -azwj Causes the unjust to go astray and He -azwj does whatever He -azwj wills.” The narrator has said that he then asked the Imam -asws , “\u2018May Allah -azwj Sacrifice me for you -asws , what is that will happen?” The Imam -asws said, “Whoever will do injustice to my son -asws this one -asws , rejecting his Imamat (the Leadership with Divine Authority) after me -asws it would like doing injustice to Ali -asws Ibn Abu Talib -asws and rejecting his -asws Imamat after Rasool Allah -saww .” [14] (an extract \u2013 complete Hadith is given later on).

\n Introduction: \n A reply to \u2018three Waqifites articles\u2019, reproduced in Appendix II, is presented.\u00a0 The three Waqifites articles preferentially select those Ahadith which indirectly infer the Ghayba of the 7 th Imam -asws , but by ignoring several Ahadith, even from the same Ahadith book(s), which include clear and unimbigious Ahadith in favour of twelve Imams -asws after Rasool Allah -saww .

\n For fair and unbiased analysis, it is extremely important to quote all Ahadith pertinent to a particular issue, without prejudice and\/or supporting preconceived ideologies.\u00a0 With this approach in mind, one has to go back to the earlier Ahadith books.

For example, the first Shia book, which has the stamp of two Infallible Imams (Zain ul-Abadeen -asws and Jafar Al-Sadiq -asws ), contains several Ahadith which categorically state that there will be twelve Infallible Imams -asws from Qurash\/Ahl Al-Bayt -asws after Rasool Allah -saww , without any direct or indirect reference being made to less than twelve Imam -asws .