So when he was lost...

So when he was lost, that was a great (problem) for them as they did not know what to do. Then they met in a gathering, and decided to take a trunk and make it to look like a man. So they did that and clothed that with a coat of iron armour. Then they wrapped it in the shroud. So no one from the people knew about it except for myself -asws and his children’.

[4] Finally, Imam Ja’far Al-Sadiq ‑asws condemn the believers of reincarnation (Hadith cited in the next section) and says: Thus, it obligated upon them (those who believe in reincarnation) that they should not eat anything from the meat because the animals with them, all of them, who (could be human before)?

A son of Adam -as could have been transformed into the (goat/cow) image, therefore it is not allowed to eat the meat of the ones of (their) proximity (close relative, i.e., their father being reincarnated into an image of a goat) ’’.

[5] NB: The concept of Raj’a is another unique belief closer to the resurrection, when some selected human beings from believers and disbelievers will be resurrected in the human form as they had died prior to the Day of Judgement, see an article on this topic for further details; http://hubeali.com/articles/Rajja_Return_to-Life.pdf Introduction: In the following sections, Ahadith are presented covering the topics of reincarnation, metamorphosed and the resurrection.