Kitāb al-Ghayba - Content

Chapter: Disappearance of the expected Imam قال: حدثنا جعفر بن ٠ديني، قال: حدثنا علي بن أسباط، عن ٠د بن سنان، عن داود بن كثير الرقي قال: قلت لأبي عبد الله: جعلت فداك، قد طال هذا الأ٠ر علينا حتى ضاقت قلوبنا و٠داً. فقال: إن هذا الأ٠أبيه.

فقلت له: جعلت فداك ٠(29) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik from Muhammad bin Ahmad al-Madeeni from Ali bin Asbat from Muhammad bin Sinan that Dawood bin Katheer ar-Riqqi had said: I said to Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as): “May I die for you! Deliverance has not come.

Our hearts are depressed and we are about to die of sadness.” He said: “Deliverance comes when people become desperate and distressed to the full and then a caller will call out from the Heaven with the name of al-Qa’im and the name of his father.” I said: “May I die for you! What is his name?” He said: “His name is like the name of one of the prophets and his father’s name is like the name of one of the guardians.”