(12) Ali bin Ahmad narrated from Obaydillah bin Musa al-Alawi from Ali bin Issma’eel al-Ash’ari from Hammad bin Eessa from Ibraheem bin Umar al-Yamani from someone that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir had 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 of it. Just in the same way that one believes in our matter in the morning and recants it in the evening or he believes in it in the evening and when morning comes he recants it.”