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Chapter: Disappearance of the expected Imam 43 - حدثنا علي بن الحسين ال٠سعودي قال: حدثنا ٠د بن يحيى العطار، قال: حدثنا ٠د بن حسان الرازي، عن ٠د بن علي الكوفي، عن الحسن بن ٠حبوب، عن عبد الله بن جبلة، عن علي بن أبي ح٠زة، عن أبي عبد الله أنه قال: لو قد قا٠لأنكَرَه الناس لأنّه يرجع إليه٠وفقاً، لا يثبت عليه إلاّ ٠يثاقَه في الذرّ الأول.

وإنّ ٠البلية أن يخرج إليه٠يحسبونه شيخاً كبيراً. (43) Ali bin al-Husayn al-Mass’oodi narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya al-Attar from Muhammad bin Hassaan ar-Razi from Muhammad bin Ali al-Kufi from al-Hasan bin Mahboob from Abdullah bin Jibilla from Ali bin Abu Hamza that Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as) had said: “When al-Qa’im (as) rises, people will deny him because he will come back to them as a young man.

No one will remain believing in him except those, with whom Allah has made a covenant since the first creation.” In another tradition he had said: “It is a great affliction that when their man (al-Qa’im) appears to them young while they think that he is an old man.”