Setting-up a Time Limit for the Reappearance of the Twelfth Imam  عليه السلام an Antipathetic Issue — report 4

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

4ـ أَحْمَدُ بِإِسْنَادِهِ قَالَ قَالَ أَبَى الله إِلا أَنْ يُخَالِفَ وَقْتَ الْمُوَقِّتِينَ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

4. Ahmad has narrated through his chain of narrators from the Imam عليه السلام the following. “Allah disdains to make the people’s time set for it (reappearance of the one who will rise with Divine Authority) to come true.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 82, report 4

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · مرسل · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/175)

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/82/4. 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.