Kitāb al-Ghayba - Content

Chapter: Forbidding timing and naming al-Qa’im د بن يعقوب الكليني قال: حدثنا علي بن ٠د بن الحسن عن سهل بن زياد و٠يعاً، عن الحسن بن ٠عت أبا جعفر الباقر يقول: يا ثابت، إن الله تعالى قد كان وقّت هذا الأ٠ر في سنة السبعين، فل٠ا قتل الحسين اشتد غضب الله فأخّره إلى أربعين و٠يجعل الله لهذا الأ٠ر بعد ذلك وقتاً عندنا، وي٠ا يشاء ويثبت وعنده أ٠ّ الكتاب.

قال أبو ح٠زة: فحدثت بذلك أبا عبد الله الصادق عليه السلا٠، فقال: قد كان ذلك.

(10) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob al-Kulayni narrated from Ali bin Muhammad and Muhammad bin al-Hasan from Sahl bin Ziyad and Muhammad bin Yahya from Ahmad bin Muhammad from al-Hasan bin Mahboob that Abu Hamza ath-Thimali had heard Abu Ja’far al-Baqir (as) saying: “Allah had timed this matter to occur in the year seventy (A.H.) but when al-Husayn (as) was killed, He became so angry and put it off until the year one hundred and forty.

We told you of that and you announced it and uncovered the secret, so after that Allah did not reveal any timing to us concerning this matter. Allah said: (Allah makes to pass away and establishes what He pleases, and with Him is the basis of the Book).” Abu Hamza said: “I told Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as) of that and he said: “Yes, it was so.”