Al-Kāfi

Hadith 940
imam-mahdireappearance-signs
4ـ أَحْمَدُ بِإِسْنَادِهِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبَى الله إِلا أَنْ يُخَالِفَ وَقْتَ الْمُوَقِّتِينَ.
4. Ahmad has narrated through his chain of narrators from the Imam (a.s.) the following. “Allah disdains to make the people’s time set for it (reappearance of the one who will rise with Divine Authority) to come true.”
Source: Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī