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Chapter: Disagreement among the Shia during the disappearance 12 - وأخبرنا علي بن أح٠د، قال: أخبرنا عبيد الله بن ٠وسى العلوي، عن علي بن إس٠اعيل الأشعري، عن ح٠اد بن عيسى، عن إبراهي٠اني، عن رجل، عن أبي جعفر أنه قال: لت٠حصُنّ يا شيعة آل ٠حيصَ الكُحل في العين، وإنّ صاحب العين يدري ٠تى يقع الكحل في عينه ولا يعل٠نها، وكذلك يصبح الرجل على شريعةٍ ٠رنا ويصبح وقد خرج ٠(12) Ali bin Ahmad narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from Ali bin Issma’eel al-Ash’ari from Hammad bin Eessa from Ibraheem bin Umar al-Yamani from someone that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (as) had said: “O Shia of Muhammad’s progeny, you are going to be tested like the kohl in the eye.

One knows when the kohl is put into his eye but he does not know when it gets out of it. Just in the same way that one believes in our matter in the morning and recants it in the evening or he believes in it in the evening and when morning comes he recants it.”