Regarding the Designation of Al-qa'im4- حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى الْعَطَّارُ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ عَنْ خَالِهِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ زَكَرِيَّا قَالَ: قَالَ لِيَ الرِّضَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُوسَى ع أَيْنَ مَنْزِلُكَ بِبَغْدَادَ قُلْتُ الْكَرْخُ قَالَ أَمَا إِنَّهُ أَسْلَمُ مَوْضِعٍ وَ لَا بُدَّ مِنْ فِتْنَةٍ صَمَّاءَ صَيْلَمٍ تَسْقُطُ فِيهَا كُلُّ وَلِيجَةٍ وَ بِطَانَةٍ وَ ذَلِكَ عِنْدَ فِقْدَانِ الشِّيعَةِ الثَّالِثَ مِنْ وُلْدِي.
4 - Narrated to us Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Yahya al-Attar (r.a.): Narrated to us my father from Muhammad bin Ahmad from Muhammad bin Mehran from his uncle Ahmad bin Zakariya that: Ar-Reza Ali bin Musa asked me:
“Where is your house in Baghdad?” I said, “At al-Karkh.” He said, “That is the safest of places. There has to happen the deaf catastrophe mischief in which every secret and close relation will be dropped. That will happen after the Shia will miss my third descendant.”
