(How can a nation perish whose beginning is the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, whose middle is the Mahdi, and whose end is the Messiah, peace be upon them)

Ja'far, on his father's authority, told that his grandfather reported God's messenger as saying, "Rejoice and rejoice again. My people are just like the rain, it not being known whether the last or the first of it is better; or it is like a garden from which a troop can be fed for a year, then another troop can be fed for a year, and perhaps the last troop which comes may be the broadest, deepest and finest. How can a people perish of which I am the first, the Mahdi the middle and the Messiah the last? But in the course of that there will be a crooked party which does not belong to me and to which I do not belong." Razin transmitted it.