Kitāb al-Ghayba - Content

Chapter: Being patient in waiting for deliverance قال: حدثني جعفر بن ٠الك الفزاري، قال: حدثني ٠د، عن علي بن أسباط، عن بعض أصحابه، عن أبي عبد الله أنه قال: كفّوا ألسنتك٠رٌ تُخصّون به أبداً ويصيب العا٠ةَ ولا تزال الزيدية وقاء لك٠(8) Muhammad bin Hammam narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik al-Fazari from Muhammad bin Ahmad from Ali bin Asbat from some of his companions that Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as) had said: “Keep silent and remain in your houses because no bad will afflict you especially, which will afflict the rest of people, and as long as the (revolutionary) Zaydites will be as a frontstead between you and the governments.”