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Chapter: Disappearance of the expected Imam د بن الحسين، عن الحسن بن ٠حبوب، عن إسحاق بن ع٠ار قال: قال أبو عبد الله: للقائ٠ا قصيرة، والأخرى طويلة، الغيبة الأولى لا يعل٠كانه فيها إلاّ خاصة شيعته، والأخرى لا يعل٠كانه فيها إلاّ خاصة ٠(2) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya from Muhammad bin al-Husayn from al-Hasan bin Mahboob from Iss’haq bin Ammar that Abu Abdullah 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 his guardians of his religion.”