The Issue of Disappearance (of the twelfth Imam  عليه السلام from Public Sight — report 10

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

10ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ الْخَزَّازِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) يَقُولُ إِنْ بَلَغَكُمْ عَنْ صَاحِبِ هَذَا الامْرِ غَيْبَةٌ فَلا تُنْكِرُوهَا.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

10. Ali b. Ibrahim has narrated from from his father from Ibn Abi Umayr from Abu Ayyub al-Khazzas from Muhammad b. Muslim who said: I heard abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام say, “‘If an occultation reaches you all regarding the Master of this command, then do not reject it.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 80, report 10

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · حسن · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/46)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · صحيح · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 40

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/80/10. 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.