Kitāb al-Ghayba - Content

Chapter: Forbidding timing and naming al-Qa’im د بن يعقوب قال: حدثني الحسين بن ٠اعيل الانباري، عن الحسن بن علي، عن إبراهي٠، عن أبيه، عن أبي عبد الله قال: ذكرنا عنده ٠لوك آل فلان، فقال: إن٠ر، إن الله لا يعجل لعجلة العباد، إن لهذا الأ٠ر غاية ينتهي إليها، فلو قد بلغوها ل٠(15) Muhammad bin Ya’qoob narrated from al-Husayn bin Muhammad from Ja’far bin Muhammad from al-Qassim bin Issma’eel al-Anbari from al-Hasan bin Ali from Ibraheem bin Muhzim from his father that Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as) had said when the (Abbasid) rulers had been mentioned before him: “People perished because they hastened this matter (deliverance).

Allah does not become hasty just because that people urge on their matters to be achieved. This matter (the appearance of al-Qa’im) has a precise time that it must reach. If it reaches its time, it will occur neither an hour sooner nor an hour later.”