سعد بن عبداللّه، قال: حدّثنا الحسن بن موسى الخشّاب عن اسحاق ابن محمد بن أيوب، قال: سمعت أبا الحسن عليّ بن محمد بن علي بن موسى عليه السلام يقول: صاحب هذا الأمر من يقول الناس: لَمْ يولد بَعْد.
Saʿd b. ʿAbd Allāh said: “Al-Ḥasan b. Mūsā al-Khashshāb narrated to us from Isḥāq b. Muḥammad b. Ayyūb, who narrated: “I heard Abā’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Mūsā (as) saying: “The Master of this Ordinance is he about whom people will say: “He has not yet been born.”
سعد بن عبداللّه، قال: حدّثنا المعلّى بن محمد البصري عن محمد بن جمهور وغيره (عن « محمد » بن أبي عمير) عن عبداللّه بن سنان، عن أبي عبداللّه عليه السلام قال: سمعته يقول: في القائم عليه السلام سنّة من موسى بن عمران علیه السلام. فقلت: وما سنّته من موسی بن عمران؟ قال: خفاء مولده، وغيبته عن قومه. فقلت: وكم غاب موسى عن أهله وقومه؟ فقال: ثماني وعشرين سنة.
Saʿd b. ʿAbd Allāh said: “Al-Muʿallā b. Muḥammad al-Baṣrī narrated to us, from Muḥammad b. Jumhūr and another (from Muḥammad b. Abī ʿUmayr) from ʿAbd Allāh b. Sinān, from Abī ʿAbd Allāh (as). He (ʿAbd Allāh b. Sinān) expressed: “I heard him (Imam al-Ṣādiq) saying: “In regard to the Qāʾim (as), there is a precedent from Mūsā b. ʿImrān (as).” I asked: “And what is the precedent from Mūsā b. ʿImrān?,” to which he replied: “The concealment of his birth, and his occultation from his people.” I followed up: “For how many years was Mūsā b. ʿImrān occulted from his family and his people?” He said: “Twenty-eight years.”
