Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): People will continually decrease [in faith] until the name of Allah is no longer mentioned. When the situation becomes such, it is as if the queen of the honeybees stings [and creates commotion among the bees, and the Imam of the Age (may Allah hasten his noble reappearance) will appear], and Allah will raise up a people around the Imam of the Age (may Allah hasten his noble reappearance) who will gather like the scattered patches of autumn clouds. By Allah! I truly know their names, their tribes and their leader; they are a people whose tribes Allah moves [toward Mecca] as He wills — one man, two men, up to nine men. Then from the horizons, three hundred and thirteen men [will come] equal to the number of the people of Badr, [and thus their number] is completed. This is the saying of Allah: أَیْنَ ما تَکُونُوا یَأْتِ بِکُمُ اللهُ جَمِیعاً إِنَّ اللهَ عَلی کُلِّ شَیْءٍ قَدِیرٌ [Wherever you are, Allah will bring you all together; surely Allah has power over all things]. And in this manner Allah brings that man (a companion of the Imam of the Age (may Allah hasten his noble reappearance)) — while he is seated with his hands and feet drawn in — in that very state [and swiftly] to the Imam of the Age (may Allah hasten his noble reappearance).