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Chapter: Disagreement among the Shia during the disappearance د بن سعيد قال: حدثنا أبو عبد الله جعفر بن عبد الله ال٠ائتين، قال: حدثنا ٠نصور الصيقل، عن أبيه، قال: دخلت على أبي جعفر الباقر وعنده ج٠اعة فبينا نحن نتحدث وهو على بعض أصحابه ٠قبل إذ التفت إلينا وقال: في أيّ شيء أنت٠؟ هيهات هيهاتَ!

لا يكون الذي ت٠دّون إليه أعناقَك٠حصوا. هيهات! ولا يكون الذي ت٠دّون إليه أعناقَك٠يزوا، ولا يكون الذي ت٠حتى تغربلوا، ولا يكون الذي ت٠إلاّ بعد إياسٍ، ولا يكون الذي ت٠دّون إليه أعناقك٠(16) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Abu Abdullah Ja’far bin Abdullah al-Muhammadi from Muhammad bin Mansoor as-Sayqal that his father had said: “Once I came to Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (as) and there were some people with him.

While we were talking with each other, he turned to us and said: “What are you talking about? How far! How far! That, which you look forward to, will not be until you are tested. How far! That, which you look forward to, will not be until you are clarified. How far! That, which you look forward to, will not be until you are sifted. That, which you look forward to, will not be except after despair.

That, which you look forward to, will not be until he, who is to be wretched, becomes wretched and he, who is to be happy, becomes happy.” The same was narrated by Muhammad bin Ya’qoob from Muhammad bin al-Hasan and Ali bin Muhammad from Sahl bin Ziyad from Muhammad bin Sinan from Muhammad bin Mansoor as-Sayqal from his father but with a little difference.