The Issue of Disappearance (of the twelfth Imam  عليه السلام from Public Sight — report 24

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

24ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَيُّوبَ بْنِ نُوحٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الثَّالِثِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ إِذَا رُفِعَ عِلْمُكُمْ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَظْهُرِكُمْ فَتَوَقَّعُوا الْفَرَجَ مِنْ تَحْتِ أَقْدَامِكُمْ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

24. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from certain ones of our people from Ayyub ibn Nuh from abu a1-Hassan, the third, عليه السلام who has said the following. “When your knowledge that is with you will banish then expect glad news to emerge beneath your feet.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 80, report 24

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مرسل · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/56)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · لم يخرجه · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/80/24. 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.