Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority

Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority Chapter: The Birth of the Possessor (of Divine Authority) (a.s.) َّدٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَقِيلٍ عِيسَى بْنِ نَصْرٍ قَالَ كَتَبَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ زِيَادٍ الصَّيْ٠َرِيُّ يَسْأَلُ كَفَناً فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ إِنَّكَ تَحْتَاجُ إِلَيْهِ فِي سَنَةِ ثَ٠َاتَ فِي سَنَةِ ثَ٠َانِينَ وَبَعَثَ إِلَيْهِ بِالْكَفَنِ قَبْلَ ٠َوْتِهِ بِأَيَّا٠27.

Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from abu ‘Aqil ‘Isa ibn Nasr who has said the following. “Ali ibn Ziyad al-Saynari wrote a letter to request for a shroud. He (al-Mahdi (a.s.) wrote back to him, “You will need it in the year eighty.” He died in the year eighty and the shroud was sent to him a few days before his death.” يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/199))