The definitive statement regarding the Imam Al-Mahdi affair.

'Abbas Effendi, if he speaks the truth, then it is his right to speak, and if he speaks falsely, then he should be left alone. As for you and your kin, what have you to do with it?

Therefore, it is common for him to be concerned with the love of knowledge and the pursuit of hadith. For during the era of Ibn Rumayh and his like, they were hesitant to transmit hadith and refused to follow them.

35 From the "I'lam al-Mu'allimin" by Ibn al-Qayyim (2/198).