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Chapter: Disappearance of the expected Imam د بن سعيد بن عقدة قال: حدثنا علي بن الحسن التي٠حبوب، عن إسحاق بن ع٠ار الصيرفي قال: س٠عت أبا عبد الله يقول: للقائ٠ا طويلة، والأخرى قصيرة.

فالأولى يعل٠ن شيعته، والأخرى لا يعل٠كانه فيها إلاّ خاصة ٠(1) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed bin Oqda narrated from Ali bin al-Hasan at-Taymali from Umar bin Uthman from al-Hasan bin Mahboob from Iss’haq bin Ammar as-Sayrafi that Abu Abdullah Ja’far bin Muhammad as-Sadiq (as) had said: “Al-Qa’im disappears twice; one is a short disappearance and the other is long.

In the first disappearance some of his close Shia knows his place and in the other one no one knows his place except the guardians of his religion.”