(4) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al-Hasan from al-Abbas bin Aamir from Abdullah bin Bukayr from Zurara bin A’yun that Abdul Melik bin A’yun had said: “Once I was with Abu Ja’far al-Baqir when al-Qa’im was mentioned before him. I said to him: “I hope that he (al-Qa’im) appears sooner without being preceded by the rising of as-Sufyani.” He said: “By Allah, that will not be! It is an inevitable thing.”