The signs preceding the appearance

(65) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Muhammad bin al-Mufadhdhal, Sa’dan bin Iss’haq bin Sa’eed, Ahmad bin al-Husayn bin Abdul Melik and Muhammad bin Ahmad bin al-Hasan from al-Hasan bin Mahboob from Ya’qoob as-Sarraj from Jabir that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir عليه السلام had said: “O Jabir, al-Qa’im will not appear until the people of Sham will be afflicted with a sedition, from which they try their best to be free but they cannot, terrible killing will occur between Kufa and Heera and a call that will come from the Heaven.”