Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Promised Mahdi (part One) 21 Chapter Twenty-one: The Emissaries who communicated between the Shia and the Qaim during the minor occultation قَدْ رُوِيَ فِي بَعْضِ الْأَخْبَارِ أَنَّهُمْ قَالُوا خُدَّامُنَا وَ قُوَّامُنَا شِرَارُ خَلْقِ اللَّهِ وَ هَذَا لَيْسَ عَلَى عُمُومِهِ وَ إِنَّمَا قَالُوا لِأَنَّ فِيهِمْ مَنْ غَيَّرَ وَ بَدَلَ وَ خَانَ عَلَى مَا سَنَذْكُرُهُ 1- Ghaibat Tusi: Shaykh Tusi has recorded in certain narrations that they have said: “Our servants and our caretakers are the most evil of Allah’s creation.” This statement is not meant to be general and all inclusive.
They have said so because these individuals included non-Shia and traitors, as we shall mention. Muhammad Ibne Abdullah Ibne Ja’far Himyari narrates on the authority of his father from Muhammad Ibne Salih Hamadani, saying, I wrote to the Master of the Age (a.s.) that my family was abusing me and were rebuking me with the tradition that has been narrated from your forefathers, peace be with them, “Our servants and our caretakers are the most evil of Allah’s creation.” The holy Imam wrote back, “Do you not read what Allah, the High, has said: وَجَعَلْنَا بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ الْقُرَى الَّتِي بَارَكْنَا فِيهَا قُرًى ظَاهِرَةً “And We made between them and the towns which We had blessed (other) towns to be easily seen…” (Surah Saba 34:18) Saduq in Ikmaaluddin has narrated this report from the same chain of narrators and then he says: Abdullah Ibne Ja’far said: Ali Ibne Muhammad Kulaini narrated this hadith on the authority of Muhammad Ibne Salih from the Master of the Age (a.s.).
(1) Abu Amr Uthman bin Saeed Amri The author says: Then Shaykh Tusi mentions some of the companions of the Imams, Divine bliss be for them, who have been praised. And then he says, Of the emissaries in the time of the minor occultation, who have been extolled, their first one is the person appointed by Abul Hasan Ali Ibne Muhammad Askari and his son Abu Muhammad Hasan Ibne Ali Ibne Muhammad, peace be with them all.
He was the reliable scholar Abu Amr Uthman Ibne Saeed Amari and was from the tribe of Asad. He has been called Amari on the virtue of the narration of Abu Nasr Hibatullah Ibne Muhammad Ibne Ahmad Katib Ibne binte Abi Ja’far Amari saying, He was from the Asad, and is known by his grandfather’s name and therefore, it is said Amari.