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: O 'Ali b. Muhammad al-Samuri! You will die within six days. So, finish your works and do not recommend anyone as your successor, because the second occultation has now started, and there will be no Reappearance until God permits.<ref>Irbilī, ''Kashf al-ghumma'', vol. 2, p. 530; Ṣadūq, ''Kamāl al-dīn wa tamām al-niʿma'', vol. 2, p. 516.</ref>
: O 'Ali b. Muhammad al-Samuri! You will die within six days. So, finish your works and do not recommend anyone as your successor, because the second occultation has now started, and there will be no Reappearance until God permits.<ref>Irbilī, ''Kashf al-ghumma'', vol. 2, p. 530; Ṣadūq, ''Kamāl al-dīn wa tamām al-niʿma'', vol. 2, p. 516.</ref>


After al-Samuri's death, the connection through Special Deputies came to an end and the Occultation entered a new phase. This phase of the Occultation came to be known in recent sources as the [[Major Occultation]]. According to most Shiite sources, the fourth deputy died in 329/941, but [[al-Shaykh al-Saduq]] and [[al-Fadl b. al-Hasan al-Tabrisi]] take it to be in 318/930.<ref>Ṣadūq, ''Kamāl al-dīn wa tamām al-niʿma'', vol. 2, p. 503.</ref>
After al-Samuri's death, the connection through Special Deputies came to an end and the Occultation entered a new phase. This phase of the Occultation came to be known in recent sources as the [[Major Occultation]]. According to most Shiite sources, the fourth deputy died in 329/941, but [[al-Shaykh al-Saduq]] and [[al-Fadl b. al-Hasan al-Tabrisi]] take it to be in 318/930-1.<ref>Ṣadūq, ''Kamāl al-dīn wa tamām al-niʿma'', vol. 2, p. 503.</ref>


==Reappearance of Imam al-Mahdi (a)==
==Reappearance of Imam al-Mahdi (a)==
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