H 423 - It is narrated from Husain bin Ubaidullah from Abu Ja’far Muhammad bin Sufyan Bazufari from Ahmad bin Idris from Ali bin Muhammad bin Qutaibah from Fadhl bin Shazan Nishaburi from Ismail bin Sabbah that he said: “I heard from an elder that Saif bin Umaira narrated: Once I was in the company of Abu Ja’far Mansur Dawaniqi. I heard him say: O Saif bin Umaira, it is inevitable that the name of a man from the descendants of Abu Talib will be announced from the sky. I asked: Has someone reported a tradition about it? He replied: By the one in whose control my life is, I have directly heard that an announcement will be made from the sky in the name of a person. I said: O chief of believers, but I have never heard any such report? He replied: O Saif, when there is such an announcement, I will be the first to harken to it, except that it would be in favor of one of my cousins. I asked: Which cousins. Mansur said: From the descendants of Lady Fatima (s). Then he said: O Saif, if I had not heard this from Abu Ja’far Muhammad bin Ali (a.s) I would not have believed it even if the whole world had stated thus.
