Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority

Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority Chapter: The Issue of Disappearance (of the twelfth Imam (a.s.) from Public Sight َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنِ ابْنِ ٠َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَ٠َّارٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠ِ غَيْبَتَانِ إِحْدَاهُ٠َا قَصِيرَةٌ وَالاخْرَى طَوِيلَةٌ الْغَيْبَةُ الاولَى لا يَعْلَ٠َكَانِهِ فِيهَا إِلا خَاصَّةُ شِيعَتِهِ وَالاخْرَى لا يَعْلَ٠َكَانِهِ فِيهَا إِلا خَاصَّةُ ٠19.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Muhammad ibn al-Husayn from ibn Mahbub from Ishaq ibn ‘Ammar who has said the following. “Abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) has said, Al-Qa’im ((the one who will rise with Divine Authority) will have two disappearances. One of them will be for a short time and the other for a longer time. No one would know his place during the shorter disappearance except the special persons from his Shi‘a.

During his longer disappearance no one will see him except very special persons from his friends.” وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/52)) صحيح - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi (1/40))