Testing before deliverance
interpretation
On: without being tested
Source quotation · Al-Mufid, al-Irshad II, transmitted report with its full chain; new Rainbow Watch English translation from Arabic
English translation — Rainbow Watch
Al-Fadl ibn Shadhan, from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Nasr, from Abu al-Hasan al-Rida, peace be upon him, who said, “What you stretch your necks toward will not happen until you are sifted and tested, so that only a few of you remain.” Then he recited, “Alif Lam Mim. Do people think they will be left to say, ‘We believe,’ without being tested?” Then he said, “Among the signs of deliverance is an event between the two mosques: so-and-so, a descendant of so-and-so, will kill fifteen leading men of the Arabs.”
Arabic source
الفضلُ بن شاذان ، عن أَحمدَ بن محمد بن أبي نصر ، عن أَبي الحسن الرضا عليهالسلام قالَ : «لا يكونُ ما تَمُدُّونَ إِليه أَعْناقَكُمْ حتى تميّزوا وتُمَحَصوا فلايَبْقى منكم إِلاّ القليلُ ، ثم قَرَأ : ( ألم * أحسِبَ الناَّسُ أَنْ يُتْركوا أَنْ يَقُولوا آمَنَّا وهُمْ لا يُفْتَنُونَ ) ثم قال : إِنّ من علاماتِ الفَرَجِ حدثاً يكون بين المسجدين ، ويقْتُلُ فلانٌ من ولدِ فلانِ خمسةَ عَشَرَكَبْشاً من العربِ » .
Kitab al-Irshad · New Rainbow Watch English translation prepared with AI assistance directly from the identified Arabic, 2026; independently reviewed. Arabic witness differences are preserved.
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English translation — Rainbow Watch
Al-Fadl ibn Shadhan, from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Nasr, from Abu al-Hasan al-Rida, peace be upon him, who said, “What you stretch your necks toward will not happen until you are sifted and tested, so that only a few of you remain.” Then he recited, “Alif Lam Mim. Do people think they will be left to say, ‘We believe,’ without being tested?” Then he said, “Among the signs of deliverance is an event between the two mosques: so-and-so, a descendant of so-and-so, will kill fifteen leading men of the Arabs.”
Arabic source
الفضلُ بن شاذان ، عن أَحمدَ بن محمد بن أبي نصر ، عن أَبي الحسن الرضا عليهالسلام قالَ : «لا يكونُ ما تَمُدُّونَ إِليه أَعْناقَكُمْ حتى تميّزوا وتُمَحَصوا فلايَبْقى منكم إِلاّ القليلُ ، ثم قَرَأ : ( ألم * أحسِبَ الناَّسُ أَنْ يُتْركوا أَنْ يَقُولوا آمَنَّا وهُمْ لا يُفْتَنُونَ ) ثم قال : إِنّ من علاماتِ الفَرَجِ حدثاً يكون بين المسجدين ، ويقْتُلُ فلانٌ من ولدِ فلانِ خمسةَ عَشَرَكَبْشاً من العربِ » .