H 281 - Narrated to us Husain bin Abdullah from Abu Ja’far Muhammad bin Sufyan Bazufari from Ahmad bin Idris from Ali bin Muhammad bin Qutaibah from Fadhl Ibn Shazan Nishaburi from Ibn Abi Najran from Muhammad bin Mansur from his father that he said: “Some of us were talking about the Qaim in the presence of Imam Ja’far Sadiq ; he turned to us and asked: “What are you talking about? How far! How far! That, which you anticipate, will not be until you are tested. How far! That, which you anticipate, will not be until your good and bad are not separated. How far! That, which you anticipate, will not be until you are sifted. That, which you anticipate, will not be, except after despair. That, which you anticipate, will not be until he, who is to be wretched, becomes wretched and he, who is to be fortunate, becomes fortunate.”

H 282 - Saad bin Abdullah Ashari has narrated from Muhammad bin Husain bin Abil Khattab from Hasan bin Ali bin from Thalaba bin Maimoon from Malik Jahni from Asbagh bin Nubatah that he said: I came to Amirul Momineen Ali Ibn Abi Talib and found him thoughtful. He was drawing lines on the ground. I said: “O Chief of believers, why do I see you thoughtful and making lines on the earth? Is it out of desire for the earth?” He said: “No, by Allah, I have never desired it, nor for what is in the world even for a day. I was thinking about the son, who will be born from my seed – my eleventh descendant. He is the Mahdi and he will fill the earth with equity as it will be full of oppression and injustice. There will be perplexity and occultation regarding him, in which communities will go astray and communities will be guided.”

H 283 - It is narrated from Ahmad bin Idris from Ali bin Muhammad bin Qutaibah from Fadhl Ibn Shazan from Ahmad bin Abi Nasr Bazanti that he said: Imam Musa Kadhim said: “By Allah, that to which you look forward to, will not come about, except after you are distinguished and subjected to a test till, except for a few, none of you Shia will remain…then he recited the following verse: “What! do you think that you will be left alone while Allah has not yet known those of you who have struggled hard …” (9:16) …and those who are patient.

H 284 - It is narrated from Saad bin Abdullah from Husain bin Isa Alawi from his father from his grandfather from Ali bin Ja’far from his brother, Musa bin Ja’far that he said: “You must continue to protect your religion for the sake of Allah, till the fifth descendant of the seventh Imam does not go into occultation. You must not lose it in any case. Occultation is definite for the master of this affair and it will be such occultation that even those who have faith in it will recant it. It will be a time of a tough examination from the Almighty Allah.”

H 286 - Muhammad bin Ja’far Asadi has narrated from Abu Saeed Adami from Muhammad bin Husain for Muhammad bin Abi Umair Abi Ayyub from Muhammad bin Muslim and Abu Basir that he said: We heard Abi Abdullah say: “It will not take place till two-third of the human population does not perish.” He was asked: “If two-third perishes, who will remain?” He replied: “Are you not satisfied that one-third will remain?”

H 287 - It is narrated from Jabir Jofi that he said: I asked Imam Muhammad Baqir : “When will you come to power?” He replied: “It’s a pity that it will not be so till you are all sieved like grain is sieved to separate it from chaff. And then you are sieved again and again, till there does not remain any impurity and only the clean grain is left.”

H 288 - It is narrated from Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Ja’far Himyari from his father from Yaqub bin Yazid from Hammad bin Isa from Ibrahim bin Umar Yamani from a man from Imam Muhammad Baqir that he said: “O Shia of Muhammad’s progeny, you are going to be tested like the kohl in the eye. One knows when the kohl is put into his eye, but he does not know when it gets out. In the same way one believes in our matter in the morning and recants it in the evening or believes in it in the evening and when morning comes, he recants it…”

H 289 - It is narrated from Muhammad Himyari from his father from Ayyub bin Nuh from Abbas bin Aamir from Rabi bin Muhammad Musalli that he said: Imam Ja’far Sadiq said to me: “By Allah, people will be broken up like glass, however glass can be joined together again. By Allah, people will be broken up like earthen pots; which if once broken cannot be joined again. By Allah, you people shall be crushed; by Allah, you shall be sieved, like wheat is sieved from the chaff.”

H 290 - Narrated Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Malik Kufi from Ishaq bin Muhammad bin Abu Hashim from Furat bin Ahnaf that he said: Amirul Momineen mentioned the Qaim and said: “He will go into hiding, so the ignorant will say that Allah does not have any need of Aale Muhammad .”

H 291 - It is narrated from Ja’far bin Muhammad from Muhammad bin Husain bin Abil Khattab from Muhammad bin Ismail bin Yazid from Abdullah bin Abdur Rahman Asim from Abdur Rahman bin Siyabah from Imran bin Mitham from Abaya bin Rabi Asadi that he said: I heard Amirul Momineen say: “How would you be when you are left without an Imam of guidance or a visible standard, when some of you turn away from the other with disdain?”

H 292 - It is narrated from Ali Ibn Yaqtin that he said: Imam Musa Kadhim said to me: “O Ali, the Shia have been brought up with hopes since two hundred years.” Yaqtin said to his son, Ali: “What is the matter?! What had been said (by the infallible Imams) to us occurred, but what had been said to you did not – he meant the fate of the Abbasids.” Ali said: “What had been said to you and what had been said to us were from the same source, but the time of your matter came and it occurred as it was told to you whereas the time of our matter has not come yet; so we justified that by hopes and wishes. If it was said to us that this matter would occur after two hundred or three hundred years, our hearts would have become hard and most people would have apostatized, but they said to us that it is near in order to attract the hearts of people and to make them feel that deliverance was near.”

293- It is narrated from Shalmaghani in Awsiya that Abu Ja’far Marwazi narrated that: Ja’far Ibn Muhammad Ibn Umar and a number of others came to Askar and were present there during the time Imam Hasan Askari was alive. Amongst them was Ali Ibn Ahmad Ibn Tanin. Ja’far Ibn Muhammad Ibn Umar wrote a letter asking permission to enter the tomb. Ali Ibn Ahmad said to him, “Do not write my name. I am not seeking permission.” Ja’far Ibn Muhammad did not write his name and the reply came, “Enter you and the one who did not seek permission.”