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Much doubt and skepticism existed in al-Nu'mani' time about the occultation (ghayba) of the last Twelver Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi in 873–4 (260 AH).In his book al-Nu'mani wrote that, having noticed how the Shia followers were perplexed by the event of the occultation, he wanted to try and save them from this perplexity.