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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Book of Occultation Occultations of the Apostles and the Qā'im 1- Ikmāl al-Dīn : Zaid al-Shahhām narrates from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s) that the Imam said, “Sālih disappeared from his nation from a long time and the day he disappeared from them, he was an aged man of open stomach, beautiful body, dense beard, delicate abdomen, small cheeks, and when he returned to his people, they did not recognized him with the appearance he had.

When he came back, they were of three categories: One category rejected him saying, ‘Do not ever come back.’ One category doubted in him. And the last group of people was on certainty. When he came back, he began with the doubting congregation and said to them, ‘I am Sālih’; they belied, cursed, and turned him down and said to him, ‘Allah has turned away from you.

Sālih was in a figure other than yours.’” The Imam said, “He then came to the rejecters, but they did not listen to his word and dispersed from him in a very cruel manner. Then he walked to the third category, which were people of certainty about him, and said to them, ‘I am Sālih.’ They said, ‘Give us a word with which we will not doubt you are Sālih, for we do not doubt that Allah, the Exalted, is the Creator and He transfers and transforms His servants into any figure He desires.

Sālih had informed us and taught us when we he was amongst us the sign of the Qā'im when comes. A word is true before us when it comes from the heavens.’ Sālih said, ‘I am the Sālih who brought you the calf.’ “They said, ‘You spoke the truth. This is what we have been studying.

What are its signs?’ “He said, ‘There is a drink for the calf, and a drink for you on a known day.’ “They said, ‘We believe in Allah and in what you have brought to us.’ At that time, did Allah, the Exalted, say, Sālih is a messenger from his Lord.

The people of certainty said, We believe what he has been sent with; and said the people who were haughtily, who were the doubters and the rejecters, We disbelieve in that which you believe in.” Zaid al-Shahhām says, I asked, “Was there at that day a scholar amongst them?” The Imam said, “Allah, the Exalted, is more just than to leave the earth without a scholar who would guide to Allah, the Exalted.