The Birth of the Possessor (of Divine Authority)  عليه السلام — report 27

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

27ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَقِيلٍ عِيسَى بْنِ نَصْرٍ قَالَ كَتَبَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ زِيَادٍ الصَّيْمَرِيُّ يَسْأَلُ كَفَناً فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ إِنَّكَ تَحْتَاجُ إِلَيْهِ فِي سَنَةِ ثَمَانِينَ فَمَاتَ فِي سَنَةِ ثَمَانِينَ وَبَعَثَ إِلَيْهِ بِالْكَفَنِ قَبْلَ مَوْتِهِ بِأَيَّامٍ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

27. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from abu ‘Aqil ‘Isa ibn Nasr who has said the following. “Ali ibn Ziyad al-Saynari wrote a letter to request for a shroud. He (al-Mahdi عليه السلام wrote back to him, “You will need it in the year eighty.” He died in the year eighty and the shroud was sent to him a few days before his death.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 125, report 27

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مجهول · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/199)

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/125/27. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.