حدثنا أبي، ومحمد بن الحسن - رضي الله عنهما - قالا: حدثنا عبد الله بن جعفر الحميري، عن أحمد بن هلال، عن عبد الرحمن بن أبي نجران، عن فضالة بن أيوب، عن سدير قال: سمعت أبا عبد الله عليه السلام يقول: إن في القائم سنة من يوسف، قلت كأنك تذكر خبره أو غيبته؟ فقال لي: وما تنكر هذه الأمة أشباه الخنازير أن إخوة يوسف كانوا أسباطا أولاد أنبياء تاجروا يوسف وبايعوه وهم إخوته وهو أخو هم فلم يعرفوه حتى قال لهم: " أنا يوسف وهذا أخي " فما تنكر هذه الأمة أن يكون الله عز وجل في وقت من الأوقات يريد أن يستر حجته عنهم لقد كان يوسف يوما ملك مصر وكان بينه وبين والده مسيرة ثمانية عشر يوما فلو أراد الله تبارك وتعالى أن يعرفه مكانه لقدر على ذلك والله لقد سار يعقوب وولده عند البشارة في تسعة إيام إلى مصر، فما تنكر هذه الأمة أن يكون الله عز وجل يفعل بحجته ما فعل بيوسف أن يكون يسير فيما بينهم ويمشي في أسواقهم ويطأ بسطهم وهم لا يعرفونه حتى يأذن الله عز وجل له أن يعرفهم نفسه كما أذن ليوسف عليه السلام حين قال لهم: " هل علمتم ما فعلتم بيوسف وأخيه إذ أنتم جاهلون * قالوا إنك لأنت يوسف * قال أنا يوسف وهذا أخي".
Narrated to us my father; and Muhammad bin Hasan - may Allah be pleased with them - they said: Narrated to us Abdullah bin Ja’far al-Himyari from Ahmad bin Hilal Isa from Abdur Rahman bin Abi Najran from Fadala bin Ayyub from Sadeer who said: I heard Aba Abdullah say:
“The Qaim is also having a similarity to Prophet Yusuf .” The narrator says: I said: Perhaps you want to tell us abut him or his occultation. He told me: “In this Ummah, the opponents who resemble swine, don’t oppose that Yusuf’s brothers were among the children of prophets but they sold away Yusuf while all of them were his brothers and he was also a brother to them, yet when they met they could not recognize him till Yusuf introduced himself and said: “I am Yusuf and this is my brother.” Thus how can this Ummah deny if the Almighty Allah wants to keep His Proof concealed from them in a period of time? And one day Yusuf became the king of Egypt and the distance between him and his father was only of 18 days’ travel. When Allah, the Blessed and the High wanted that his status and value be recognized, by Allah, the people of his house covered this distance in nine days after getting the glad news. Thus how can this Ummah deny that Allah, the Mighty and Sublime can do with His Proof the same as what He had done with Yusuf? His Proof should walk among them, pass by them in the markets and sit among them and they could not recognize him. Until Allah, the Mighty and Sublime permits the Divine Proof to introduce himself as He had permitted Yusuf
to do so when he said: «Do you know how you treated Yusuf and his brother when you were ignorant? They said: Are you indeed Yusuf? He said: I am Yusuf and this is my brother» (12:89-90)