Disappearance of the expected Imam

(43) Ali bin al-Husayn al-Mass’oodi narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya al-Attar from Muhammad bin Hassaan ar-Razi from Muhammad bin Ali al-Kufi from al-Hasan bin Mahboob from Abdullah bin Jibilla from Ali bin Abu Hamza that Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq عليه السلام had said: “When al-Qa’im عليه السلام rises, people will deny him because he will come back to them as a young man. No one will remain believing in him except those, with whom Allah has made a covenant since the first creation.” In another tradition he had said: “It is a great affliction that when their man (al-Qa’im) appears to them young while they think that he is an old man.”