The distresses al-Qa’im meets from people

(1) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed bin Oqda narrated from Muhammad bin al-Mufadhdhal bin Ibraheem from Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Zurara from Muhammad bin Marwan that al-Fudhayl bin Yasar had said: I heard Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq عليه السلام saying: “When our Qa’im appears, he will receive harms from the ignorant people more and bitterer than that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم had received from the ignorant people of the pre-Islamic age.” I said: “How is that?” He said: “The Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم came to people while they used to worship sculptured stone and wood whereas when al-Qa’im comes to people, they will protest against him by interpreting the Book of Allah according to their fancies. By Allah, he (al-Qa’im) will insert his justice into their houses like the entering of hot and cold.”