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I heard Abu Naeem Muhammad bin Ahmad Ansari narrate the same.

Narrated to me Muhammad bin Ali bin Bilal from Hakima an identical tradition

I and Ahmad Ibn Abi Abdullah were at Askar when a messenger came from “the man” and said: “Ahmad Ibn Ishaq Ashari, Ibrahim Ibn Muhammad Hamadani and Ahmad Ibn Hamza Ibn Yasa are all trusted men.”

“You still expect (deliverance) until Allah sends for this matter one, whom you do not know whether he is created or not.” These traditions are clear in referring to the twelfth imam (al-Mahdi) because there has not been any disagreement about the birth of any one of the other eleven imams or about their existence or inexistence besides that none of people has said that any of these eleven imams has disappeared or that seditions have occurred in religion during their periods or confusion has spread among people about the condition of those imams except this imam (al-Qa’im). Imam Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as) has declared that when saying: “If three names (of the imams); Muhammad, Ali and al-Hasan succeed, the fourth (imam) will be al-Qa’im.” The will of Allah has determined to make this imam disappear in order to try the people during this disappearance of the authority of Allah and to sift the pure ones, who submit to Allah by believing in His authority even if the authority is not among them and who believe that Allah will never leave the world without an authority even if the person of that authority is absent.

“Al-Qa’im will rise and he has not paid homage to anyone at all.”

“As if I see the Shia of Ali with the Qur’an in their hands teaching people the divine principles.”

I heard the Messenger of Allah (s) say: The Mahdi is from my progeny from the children of Fatima.

“The companions of Talut have been tried by the river. Allah has said, ‘Allah will try you by a river.’ The companions of al-Qa’im also will be tried like that.”

“Permission (to fight) is given to those upon whom war is made because they are oppressed, and most surely Allah is well able to assist them:” “It concerns al-Qa’im (as) and his companions.”

The Messenger of Allah (s) said: Mahdi would stage an uprising in the last period of time.

“The master of this matter (deliverance) will be from my progeny. It is he, about whom it will be said: Has he died or perished? Or which valley has he followed?”

Once al-Qa’im was mentioned before Abul Hasan ar-Redha (as); he said: “Today you are at ease more than that day (when al-Qa’im will appear).” They said: “How is that?” He said: “When our Qa’im (as) appears, there will be nothing save blood, sweat and sleeping on the saddles. His cloths are not but rough and his food is not but coarse.”

“The companions of al-Qa’im will be young men. There will be no old men among them except like the kohl in an eye or like the salt in the food and the least part of food is the salt.”

“When al-Qa’im (as) rises, people will deny him because he comes as a young man. No one will still keep to him save the true believers, whom Allah has covenanted since the first Creation.” During the disappearance of al-Qa’im (as), people separate, disagree with each other, become desperate and their faith becomes weak for they find that the period of the disappearance of the imam has become too long. Therefore when Imam al-Mahdi (aj) reappears as a young man, they deny him. The infallible Imams (as) have declared that when saying: “They (people) separate into different sects, walk in various ways of seditions and are deceived by the mirage of the infatuates’ speech. So when he (al-Qa’im) appears to them after these many years, which definitely make one too old, too weak and with curved back, as a young man, those, whose hearts are full of diseases, will deny him but the true believers, whom Allah has favored with His kindness, will still believe in him and keep to him.” They, who believe in all that the infallible imams (as) have said and wait for the expected imam faithfully and with no a bit of doubt or confusion and who are not deceived by the fabrications of the Satan and his followers, definitely will win in the afterlife.

“I came to Imam Hasan Askari (a.s) at Samarrah and felicitated him for the birth of our Master, the Master of the Age.”

“And his son, may Allah protect him, has always been our man of trust during the lifetime of his father. He is to us like his father and in his place. He orders to our command and according to our command he acts. May Allah cherish him. Pay heed to his word and let this assertion of ours be known.”

Ali (as) often said: “The Shia come to a day that they become like the goats. The lion does not know which of them to catch. They will have no honor nor will they have a supporter to depend upon in their affairs.”

I heard Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s) say: “Allah will bring forth in this Ummah, a man who belongs to me and I belong to him. Allah will send the blessings of the heavens and the earth through him. The heavens will rain down its drops; and the earth will grow out its seeds: and its beasts and brutes will live in harmony; and it will be full of equity and justice, as it had been replete with oppression and injustice. He will put so many on the sword that the ignorant will say, ‘If he were from the progeny of Muhammad, he would have been merciful.”

“Al-Qa’im will come from the defile of Mountain Thi Tuwa with three hundred and thirteen men as the number of the Muslims, who have fought in the battle of Badr. He will lean his back against the Black Rock (in the Kaaba) and will shake his victorious banner.” Ali bin Abu Hamza said: “I mentioned that to Abul Hasan Musa bin Ja’far al-Kadhim (as) and he said: “It is an evidenced book.”

We ordered him to take a hundred thousand dinars for himself; again we ordered him to take a hundred thousand dinars, but he refused to accept it and left it all with us. People do not have the right to interfere in the matters in which we have not included them.