What People will Have to Do about the Occultation

Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṣaffār, from al-ʿAbbās b. Maʿrūf, from ʿAlī b. Mahziyār, from al-Ḥasan b. Maḥbūb, from Ḥammād b. ʿĪsā, from Isḥāq b. Jarīr, from ʿAbd Allāh b. Sinān, who narrated: “My father and I entered upon Abī ʿAbd Allāh عليه السلام, whereupon he said: “How will you be when your condition becomes one in which you cannot see your Imam of guidance, nor a visible signpost (the like thereof), nor will anyone be saved from it except he who supplicates like the supplication of the drowning man?” So, my father said to him: “If this occurs by night, what are we to do?,” to which he replied: “As for you, you will not (live to) see it. But when that is the case, you (people) are to continue adhering to what is in your hands, until the matter is clarified to you.”