حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى الْعَطَّارُ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سَعْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عِيسَى بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ بَزِيعٍ عَنْ مَنْصُورِ بْنِ يُونُسَ عَنْ جَلِيسٍ لَهُ عَنْ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ عليه السلام قَالَ: قُلْتُ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ هالِكٌ إِلَّا وَجْهَهُ قَالَ يَا فُلَانُ فَيَهْلِكُ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ وَ يَبْقَى وَجْهُ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ اللَّهُ أَعْظَمُ مِنْ أَنْ يُوصَفَ وَ لَكِنْ مَعْنَاهَا كُلُّ شَيْءٍ هَالِكٌ إِلَّا دِينَهُ وَ نَحْنُ الْوَجْهُ الَّذِي يُؤْتَى اللَّهُ مِنْهُ وَ لَنْ يَزَالَ فِي عِبَادِ اللَّهِ مَا كَانَتْ لَهُ فِيهِمْ رُوبَةٌ قُلْتُ وَ مَا الرُّوبَةُ قَالَ الْحَاجَةُ فَإِذَا لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ فِيهِمْ رُوبَةٌ رَفَعَنَا اللَّهُ فَصَنَعَ مَا أَحَبَّ.
Narrated to us Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Yahya al-Attar 
that he said: Narrated to us Saad bin Abdullah: Narrated to us Muhammad bin Isa bin Ubaid from Muhammad bin Ismail bin Bazee from Mansur bin Yunus from a companion of his from Abi Hamza that he asked from Abi Ja’far regarding the verse: Everything is perishable except His face. (28:55) The Imam said: “O so and so, (do you think that) everything will be destroyed and only the face of Allah will remain? Allah is much above than what is attributed to Him. It actually means that everything will be destroyed except His religion and we are that face through which Allah is reached. And there is always someone among the people who is Rubah.” I asked: “What is Rubah?” He replied: “Need, thus when the people don’t need the Divine Proof anymore Allah will take us up and will do what He likes.”
