Kitāb al-Ghayba - Content

Chapter: Disappearance of the expected Imam قال: حدثني جعفر بن ٠د بن الحسين بن أبي الخطاب وقد حدثني عبد الله بن جعفر الح٠د بن عيسى قإلاّ ج٠د بن سنان، عن أبي الجارود عن أبي جعفر الباقر قال: لا تزالون ت٠نا تقولون: هو هذا فيذهب الله به حتى يبعث الله لهذا الأ٠ن لا تدرون وُلد أ٠(32) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik from Muhammad bin al-Husayn bin Abul Khattab, and Abdullah bin Ja’far al-Himyari narrated from Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Eessa all from Muhammad bin Sinan from Abul Jarood that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (as) had said: “You stretch your heads towards any one of us and say: It is he (our man).

And Allah makes them (the imams) die one after the other until He sends for this matter one, whom you do not know whether he is born or not or whether he is created yet or not.”