Interpretation and reception
Muntakhab al-athar fi l-Imam al-thani ashar (Selected Narrations about the Twelfth Imam)
Lutfullah Safi Golpaygani
Explicit Twelver textual criticism rejects reconciling the six days/months/years occultation report through bada. Prefers variants without that duration, discusses unknown narrators and al-Numani/al-Kafi differences. A named scholar's response to apparent duration problems.
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Edition and location
Shabeeb Rizvi translation, Naba Organization; editor identifies Salman Farsi 1422 AH Arabic base; Al-Islam HTML and 349-page mirror PDF
Volume 2, Editors Notes; PDF pages 143–148, reports 591–598 and extended note 7 on al-Asbagh's report