We have not fixed the time before and we shall not fix it in future.

We have not fixed the time before and we shall not fix it in future.”[^10] Through the author’s own chain of narrators it is narrated from Abdur Rahman bin Kathir that he said: I was in the assembly of Imam Ja’far Sadiq (as) when Muhzim Asadi arrived and said: May I be sacrificed on you, tell me about that which you are waiting for; that when it would come to pass; so that I can await for it.

His Eminence (aj) replied: The time-fixers have lied and the haste-makers were destroyed and the submitters were saved.

And they come toward us.[^11] And through a correct chain of narrators it is narrated from Imam Ja’far Sadiq (as) that he said: Reject without fear, one who fixes a time for it, as I have not mentioned any time.2[^12] In Ihtijaj of Shaykh Tabarsi it is narrated from Muhammad bin Yaqoob Kulaini from Ishaq bin Yaqoob that he said: I requested Muhammad bin Uthman Amari (r.a.) to write a letter to the Imam of the Time (as) asking him some questions that were difficult for me. So an epistle…