5- وَ بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو صَالِحٍ خَلَفُ بْنُ حَمَّادٍ الْكَشِّيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سَهْلُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ قَالَ قَالَ الرِّضَا ع مَا أَحْسَنَ الصَّبْرَ وَ انْتِظَارَ الْفَرَجِ أَ مَا سَمِعْتَ قَوْلَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ وَ ارْتَقِبُوا إِنِّي مَعَكُمْ رَقِيبٌ فَانْتَظِرُوا إِنِّي مَعَكُمْ مِنَ الْمُنْتَظِرِينَ فَعَلَيْكُمْ بِالصَّبْرِ فَإِنَّهُ إِنَّمَا يَجِيءُ الْفَرَجُ عَلَى الْيَأْسِ فَقَدْ كَانَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ أَصْبَرَ مِنْكُمْ.
5 - And through the same chain of narrators from Muhammad bin Masud that he said: Narrated to me Abu Salih Khalaf bin Hammad Kashshi that he said: Narrated to us Sahl bin Ziyad: Narrated to me Muhammad bin Husain from Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Abi Nasr that he said: Ar-Reza said:
“How good is patience and awaiting for the reappearance? Have you not heard Allah, the Mighty and Sublime say?
وَارْتَقِبُواْ إِنِّي مَعَكُمْ رَقِيبٌ
And watch, surely I too am watching with you
فَانتَظِرُواْ إِنِّي مَعَكُم مِّنَ الْمُنتَظِرِينَ
Wait then, I too with you will be of those who wait
Thus you must be patient because there is deliverance after despair and those before you were more patient than you.”