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Hadith 722
Hadith #
722
Book
Kitāb al-Ghayba
Volume
1
Section
51
Part
Content
Chapter
Signs preceding the reappearance of Imam Mahdi (a.s)
Source
Shaykh Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī
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H 453 - It is narrated from Fadhl from Ismail bin Mahran from Uthman bin Jabla from Umar bin Aban Kalbi from Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s) that he said
“As if I can see the Sufyani or a representative of Sufyani camped outside Kufa and his statements are being announced to the people: Anyone who brings a severed head of a Shia of Ali (a.s) would be rewarded a thousand Dirhams. Then a neighbor would attack his neighbor and say: ‘he is from them’, and he would cut off his head and collect a thousand Dirhams. And indeed the rulership and kingdom at that time would not be in the control of anyone, except the illegitimate born. As if I can see the veiled one. I asked: ‘Who is the veiled one?’ He replied: ‘He is a man from you who would be talking just like you. He would be veiled and he would identify each of you so that you may be captured, he is not, but a bastard.”
453-عنه، عن إسماعيل بن مهران، عن عثمان بن جبلة، عن عمر بن أبان الكلبي، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال
كأني بالسفياني أو لصاحب السفياني قد طرح رحله في رحبتكم بالكوفة، فنادى مناديه: من جاء برأس [رجل من] شيعة علي فله ألف درهم، فيثب الجار على جاره يقول: هذا منهم، فيضرب عنقه ويأخذ ألف درهم. أما إن إمارتكم يومئذ لا تكون إلا لأولاد البغايا، (و) كأني أنظر إلى صاحب البرقع. قلت: ومن صاحب البرقع؟. فقال: رجل منكم يقول بقولكم يلبس البرقع فيحوشكم فيعرفكم ولا تعرفونه، فيغمز بكم رجلا رجلا، أما [إنه] لا يكون إلا ابن بغي.
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