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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Book of Occultation Verses About the Rise of the Qa’im 1- Tafsīr al-Qummi : And if We postpone the punishment from them until the numbered company.

He**[1]** said, It means if We should grant them bounties in this world until the rise of the Qā'im (a.s) and then We bring them back and punish them, They will verily say, ‘What is holding him back?’ it means they will say in a fashion of jest, ‘Why does not the Qā'im come and rise?’ So Allah says, Behold the day he comes to them. He is not turned aside from them and they will be encompassed by what they mocked at.

[Hūd: 8] Ahmad Ibn Idrīs narrated through the chain of narration on the authority of Hishām Ibn ‘Ammār’s father, who was from the companions of the Prince of the Believers ‘Ali (a.s), that the holy Imam said in the context to the verse, And if We postpone the punishment from them until the numbered company, they will certainly say, ‘What is holding him back?’ “The numbered company ( al-ummah al-ma‘dūda ) is the companions of the Qā'im, the three hundred and ten and some odd men.” ‘Ali Ibn Ibrāhim said, Ummah is used in a variety of senses in the Divine Book.

Of its meanings is madhab or creed or denomination, such as in the verse, People were a single ummah , [Al-Baqara: 213] meaning, they followed a single creed. Of its meanings is jamā’a or congregation of people, such as in the verse, Moses found over the waters of Midian an ummah of the people drawing water, [Al-Qasas: 22] meaning he found a congregation of people. Of its meanings is one entity, such as the verse, Verily Abraham was an ummah obedient to Allah and of righteous faith.

[Al-Nahl: 120]. Of its meanings is the genera of all animals, such as in the verse, And there is not an ummah but a warner has gone among them. [Fātir: 24] Of such meanings is the Ummah of the Messenger of Allah Muhammad (a.s), such as in the verse, And thus we sent you in an ummah before which ummahs have passed . [Al-Ra‘d: 32] [1] Researchers have mentioned that all of the narrations of Tafsīr al-Qummi are from Imam al-Bāqir and Imam al-Sādiq (a.s).