He said, ‘, ” He said, “I said, ‘How many (years) will he possess?’ He said, ‘Five plus two.’” He said, “I said, ‘What are five plus two?’ He said, ‘I don’t know.’”, Abu Bakr al-Bazzar published in his Musnad, and at-Tabarani in his al-Mu’jam al-Kabir and al-Awsat from Qurrah ibn Iyas, that he said, “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ‘, . Jazaak Allahu Khayran. With us will Allah conclude, as with us He began. Whoever of you reaches that let him come to them even if it were crawling on the snow.”, Criticism: This hadith is known among the scholars of hadith as the “hadith of the banners”. He will fill it with justice and equity, just as it was filled with tyranny and injustice. Criticism: Al-Hakim said, “This is a sahih hadith according to the conditions of the two shaykhs.” And it is only on the condition of Muslim, because ‘Ammar adh-Dhahabi, Yunus ibn Abi Ishaq are in it, and al-Bukhari did not narrate from the two of them. 2, Tradition No. Muhammad ibn al-Fadeel said, “One of the great Imams of the Shi’ah.” Ahmad ibn Hanbal said, “He was not a hafidh (memoriser of the hadith),” and he said one time, “His hadith is not that.” Yahya ibn Mu’in said, “Weak.” Al-‘Ijli said, “His hadith are permissible, and he used at his end to yulaqqinu* *.”Abu Zar’ah said, “Soft; he writes his hadith, and a proof cannot be made by him.” Abu Hatim said, “He is not strong.” Al-Jurjani said, “I heard them declaring his hadith to be weak.” Abu Dawud said, “I don’t know of anybody who abandoned his hadith, and (anyone) other than him is preferable to me.” Ibn ‘Adi said, “He is one of the Shi’a of the people of Kufah, and along with his weakness he writes his hadith.” Muslim did narrate from him except coupled with others (not as an independent source). They argue in favour of this matter using hadith which the Imams published. The beginning of the End of Time, including the emergence of the Imam Mahdi (Mehdi), is most likely in 2021, while Jesus Christ (p)'s return [or second (2 nd) coming] will most likely be around 2025, in-sha-Allah (if God is willing).. Website by TMV Agency. Imam Mahdi’s primary position is that of a leader who will lead and govern Muslims before the end of time. ». He used to say, ‘Ali is in the clouds’, and he would sit with us and, seeing a cloud, he would say, ‘This is ‘Ali who has passed in the clouds’.”, “At-Tabarani published from ‘Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “There will be a trial at the end of time in which men will be extracted as gold is extracted from the mines, so do not curse the people of Syria, but curse their worst ones, because among them are the Abdal. there is none who will speak in the cradle (mahd) except for ‘Isa, trying through this interpretation (ta’weel) to refute the line of argumentation utilizing it, or to synthesis between it and the (other) hadith, and it is rebutted by the hadith of Juraij and the like of it of the extraordinary (hadith).” –, Then there also occurred among later Sufis some talk about unveiling and what lies behind the sensory realm. That is his right as a human who possesses his own intellect and understanding. There isno Hadith that tells us explicitly the actual name of the Mahdi. Your support will help us achieve this goal, and enable us to produce more original content. The one who will destroy Caesar and who will spend his treasures in the way of Allah is this awaited one when he conquers Constantinople, so blessed is its Amir and blessed is that army, and in that manner spoke the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and the extent of his rule will be several [years] and ‘several’ is from three up to nine, and it has been said ten. Al-Hakim narrated it in al-Mustadrak and said, “A sahih isnad and the two of them (al-Bukhari and Muslim) did not narrate it.” In his narration of it, there is, “Then later the Hashimi will appear and Allah will return people to their union.” Ibn Luhay’ah is not in this isnad, and it is a sahih isnad as he mentioned.”. As for al-Mansur, he will be given half of the victory over his enemy which the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was given, for his enemy feared from the distance of a two month’s journey, and al-Mansur’s enemy will fear him from the distance of a month’s journey. In a hadith in Abu Dawud, it is stated that Hazrat Mahdi will rule seven years 44 and in a hadith in Ibn Majah that he will rule seven years if he lives short, otherwise nine years. In fact, there is no authentic chain of narration going back to the Blessed Messenger (saw) on the subject of ‘Mahdi‘ that is not disputed or challenged. © Copyright The Muslim Vibe 2019. The fact that the hadiths tell us that, - Hazrat Mahdi (as) will assume the spiritual leadership of all Muslims, - That he will be instrumental in uniting the whole Islamic world, - … We are now in the early part of the 15th Islamic century. The man will stand and say, ‘Mahdi! You will find an opportunity to discuss their isnads in what has been transmitted from the Imams of hadith about that.”, “Abu Bakr ibn Abi Khaythamah went excessively far, according to that which as-Suhaili transmitted from him, in his collecting the hadith which have been related concerning the Mahdi, so he said, “One of the strangest of them in isnad is that which Abu Bakr al-Iskaf mentioned in his Fawa’id al-Akhbar with an isnad to Malik ibn Anas from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir from Jabir that he said, “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ‘Whoever denies the Mahdi has become a kafir, and whoever denies the Dajjal has become a liar’.” And he said, “In The Rising of the Sun from its Place of Setting is the like of it, I think,” and this is enough for excessive behaviour, and Allah knows best about the soundness of its path to Malik ibn Anas, because Abu Bakr al-Iskaf is suspected of forgery by them (the scholars of hadith).”, “As for at-Tirmidhi, he and Abu Dawud published, with their two isnads to Ibn ‘Abbas by way of ‘Asim ibn Abi an-Nujud, one of ‘The Seven’ Qur’an reciters, to Zirr ibn Hubaysh from ‘Abdullah ibn Mas’ud from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, “If there did not remain of the world anything but one day, Allah would lengthen that day until Allah would send in it a man from me, or from the people of my house, whose name coincides with my name and whose father’s name coincides with my father’s name.” This is the wording of Abu Dawud, and he remained silent about it, and he said in his famous letter/treatise, “What he was silent about in his book is correct.” The wording of at-Tirmidhi is, “The world will not depart until a man of my house will take control of the Arabs, whose name coincides with my name,” and in another wording, “…until a man from the people of my house rules…”, Criticism: And both of them are good sound hadiths, and he related them also by a path that stops short at Abu Hurairah. I have found it curious time and time again how certain partisans and sectarians among the Muslims will claim time and time again many certain views are only espoused by ‘, ’. Jazka’Allahu khayran for the links. He will spread justice and equality & eradicate tyranny and opression. According to some weak narrations, his name will be Urwa bin Muhammad and his kunniya 'Abu Utbah'. He also wrote that according to his knowledge and all his understanding of the Ahadeeth and the Qur'an the year of the Imam Mahdi will be some time in the 15th Islamic century . He used to write his hadith and he is not used as a proof.” Yahya ibn Mu’in said in another narration, “Nothing,” and he said one time, “He writes his hadith and he is weak.” Al-Jurjani said, “One who holds on strongly.” Abu Zar’ah said, “He is not strong, baseless hadith, weak.” Abu Hatim said, “He is not that, and Shu’bah narrated from him.” An-Nasa’i said, “Weak.” Ibn ‘Adi said, “The mass of what he narrates and those from whom it was narrated are weak, except that Shu’bah narrated from him, and perhaps Shu’bah narrated from nobody weaker than him.”, “It has been said, “The hadith of at-Tirmidhi came about as a commentary for that which Muslim narrated in his Sahih of the hadith of Jabir. So if Allah has completed His religion, completed His favor on us, and chosen for us Islam as our Deen, then why would Isa (Peace be upon him) need to come back? It has been said that it is one of the narrations of Qatadah from Abu’l-Khaleel, and Qatadah was a mudallis (who neglected to mention an intermediary in the isnad between him and the first man in the isnad). Abu Hatim ar-Razi said, “He was a mudallis (i.e. He will remain among you seven, or eight or nine,’ meaning years.”. Since the Qur’an speaks so much about the Day of Judgment, the paradise, the hellfire, and many other crucial matters but yet no mention of the so-called Mehdi and the Dajjal. 2, P. 519), “The promised Mahdi will be among my progeny, among the descendants of Fatima.”, – Prophet Muhammad, narrated by Umm Salmah, the Prophet’s wife (Abu Dawud, Sahih, Vol. Is this the madhhab of ‘Alqamah? Furthermore, Imam Qurtubi states that there are unknown transmitters in the chain of the narration of this hadith and that it is therefore weak. He will be an uncompassionate rebel and his rule will last for […] There are some hadith in which we are commanded to follow an army carrying black flags from Khorasan, and therefore we should pledge allegiance to some armed groups carrying black flags we see today. Section 51 (of the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun). Atheist Argument Against the Veracity of the Qur’an. http://www.khalidzaheer.com/qa/347 He said, ‘The Hour will not arise until a man from the people of my house comes out against them and strikes them until they return to the truth.’” He said, “I said, ‘How many (years) will he possess?’ He said, ‘Five plus two.’” He said, “I said, ‘What are five plus two?’ He said, ‘I don’t know.’”, Criticism: This isnad is not used in argument or proof. This idea of a savior type figure such as the Mahdi seems a bit far fetched especially if so many scholars have labelled such hadeeths regarding him as ‘Weak’. the one who obtains the rank which is the seal of wilayah just as the Seal of the Prophets obtained the rank which is the seal of prophethood, the commentator alluding to this concluding rank as the brick of the house in the aforementioned hadith. The wording of al-Hakim is, “The Mahdi is from us, the people of the house, proud-nosed, hooked, clear (browed), he will fill the earth with equity and justice just as it was filled with tyranny and injustice; he will live like this,’ and he spread out (the fingers of) his left hand and two fingers of his right hand, the index finger, and the thumb, and he bent down (the other) three (fingers).”, Criticism: Al-Hakim said, “This is a sahih hadith according to the conditions of Muslim, and the two of them (Bukhari and Muslim) did not publish it.” There is disagreement about seeking to prove something by means of ‘Amran al-Quttan. The Qur’an is a Book of guidance, a blessing, a healing, a mercy, a giver of glad tidings, and a warner. Many of them began to talk in an unqualified manner about incarnation and unity, in which they shared with the Imamiyyah and Rafidah because of their saying about the divinity of the Imams and the incarnation of God in them.” —, Ibn al-Arabi al-Hatimi named him, in his book,‘Unqa al-Maghrib from among his authorship, the Seal of the Awliya, and nicknamed him the Brick of Silver indicating the hadith of al-Bukhari in the chapter of the “Seal of the Prophets”. The earth will give its produce and nothing of it will be stored, and wealth on that day will be in heaps so that a man will stand up and say, ‘Mahdi, give me!’ and he will say, ‘Take’.”, Criticism: (As for) Zayd al-‘Ammi, even if ad–Daraqutni, Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Yahya ibn Mu’in said about him that he was right-acting, and Ahmad said moreover that he was above Yazid ar-Rafashi and Fadl ibn ‘Isa yet Abu Hatim said about him, “(He was) Weak. Ibn Abi Wasil said in his commentary on the book Khal’ an-Na’layn, “The awaited wali who undertakes the command of Allah and who is indicated by Muhammad al-Mahdi and the Seal of the Awliya, and he is not a prophet, but he is only a wali whose ruh and whose beloved dispatched him. If you could but see how the wicked fare in the flood of confusion at death! “Allah … Before I begin with the honourable scholar Ibn Khaldun, let me give you a quote from Professor Mohammad Hashim Kamali: “Muhammad Zubayr Siddiqi has similarly stated that “In spite of the great care of their compilers, there are still some weak or forged traditions in the standard collections; which have been discussed and criticized by their commentators.”  Siddiqi then commented that “most of the traditions concerning the coming of Dajjal and the Mahdi, and those concerning Khidr in the various collections of hadith are declared by the traditionalist as forged ones, and are included in the works on Mawdu’at.”, Source: (pg 204 A Textbook of Hadith Studies: Authenticity, Compilation, Classification, and Criticism of Hadith by Mohammad Hashim Kamali), Interestingly the above quote is under the section of the book entitled: “Conclusion and Reform Proposals.”. For us, the Ahl Istiqamah, we have never really given any credence to narrations concerning any Mahdi. the best of all possible isnads, was Malik from Nafi’ from ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar from the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Salafi Shaykh Nasiruddin al-Albani admits: Bukhari has weak hadith and mistakes! He said in another place, “Harun is one of the offspring of the shi’ah.” And as-Sulaymani said, “There is an opinion about him.” Abu Dawud said about ‘Umar ibn Abi Qays, “No harm. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. “As for the Sufis, the early generations did not plunge into anything of this. the one who obtains the rank which is the seal of wilayah just as the Seal of the Prophets obtained the rank which is the seal of prophethood, the commentator alluding to this concluding rank as the brick of the house in the aforementioned hadith. Arrival of Mohammad Ibn Abdullah, Imam Al-Mahdi. – the angels stretch forth their hands, saying,” Yield up your souls: this day you will receive your reward,- a penalty of shame, for that you used to tell lies against Allah, and scornfully to reject of His signs!” (Qur’an 6:93). Even if one day remains for this world (to come to an end) Allah will prolong that day until he sends a man from my progeny (sons). The Sufis Did not concern themselves with this. Then the extent of the kingdom of the non-Arabs after their acceptance of Islam with ‘Isa will be one hundred and sixty years according to the number of the dotted letters, which are Qaf, Ya, Nun, of which the just state will be forty years.” – Ibn Khaldun, “Ibn Abi Wasil said, “That which is narrated of his saying ‘There is no Mahdi except for ‘Isa,’ means that there is no Mahdi whose guidance will equal his [‘Isa’s] guidance, and it has been said that no one will speak in the cradle [mahd] except for ‘Isa, and this is refuted by the hadith of Jurayj and others.” – Ibn Khaldun, “It has been narrated in the Sahih [hadith] that, “This matter will continue to stand until the Hour rises or there will have been [in command] over them twelve khalifahs” meaning from Quraysh, and existence has given that of them there are some who were at the beginning of Islam, and of them some who will be at the end of it. Most of their discussion of his affair is enigmas and metaphors, and probably they, or the commentators on their words, speak clearly the least. Allah will put things right by him in one night’.”, Criticism: Even if Ibn Mu’in said about Yasin al-‘Ijli, “There is nothing wrong with him,” yet al-Bukhari had said, “There is an opinion about him,” and this expression is one of his technical terms which very strongly expresses his view of him as being weak. Al-Hakim said about it, “It is a hadith whose isnad is sahih, and the two of them did not publish it,” although none of the six published anything from Sulayman ibn ‘Ubaid, Ibn Hibban mentioned him among the trustworthy and he did not relate that anyone had said anything (negative) about him. Que mon père et ma mère soient sacrifiés pour cette personne qui porte le même nom que moi et qui a reçu le même titre que moi et il est la septième personne (de ma progéniture) après moi…. The two great Imams of Hadith, Bukhari, and Muslim (May Allah have mercy on them) neither of them mentions hadiths on Imam Mahdi. he covered up gaps in his isnads by not mentioning missing persons or by saying so-and-so “from” so-and-so rather than the more explicit so-and-so “heard” it from so-and-so), and he is not accepted until he declares that ‘Ali ibn Ziyad heard (the hadith directly).” Adh-Dhahabi said in al-Mizan, “We don’t know who he was,” then he said, “The correct statement concerning him ‘Abdullah ibn Ziyad and Sa’d ibn ‘Abd al-Hamid even if Ya’qub ibn Abi Shaybah declared him to be trustworthy.” Yahya ibn Mu’in said about him, “There is no harm in him.” Ath-Thawri spoke against him, they say because he saw him giving fatwas on some issues and making mistakes in them. The Qur’an has no mention of any Imam Mahdi. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: If you were to come to the people of ‘Oman, they would have neither reviled you nor beaten you. An expeditionary force will be sent against him from Sham (Syria) and the earth will swallow them up in the water-less desert between Makkah and Madinah. He will appear to spread equality and Justice, eliminate oppression and tyranny. The Sufyani (a descendant of Abu Sufyan) will emerge before Imam Mahdi from the depths of Damascus. Imam Mahdi in the Verse (4:159) (2) 2- Other commentators said that the pronoun hi in “ qabla mawtihi ” refers to ‘Isa himself and that the faith of the People of the Book in ‘Isa before the death of ‘Isa will occur at the moment of 'Isa's descent from Heaven. Our predictions for Muslims, Christians and others, regarding the future:. Moreover, al-Hakim narrated it by way of Asad ibn Musa from Hamad ibn Salamah from Matar al-Warraq and Abu Harun al-‘Abdi from Abu as-Sadeeq an-Naji from Abu Sa’id that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “The earth will be filled with tyranny and injustice, then a man from my offspring will come out and he will have seven or nine, and the earth will be filled with justice and equity as much as it was filled with tyranny and injustice.”, Criticism: Al-Hakim said about it, “This is a sahih hadith according to the condition of Muslim since it was published from Hamad ibn Salamah and from his shaykh, Matar al-Warraq,” but as for his other shaykh, Abu Harun al-‘Abdi he did not publish anything from him and he is extremely weak and suspected of lying, and there is no need to publish the sayings of the Imams in which they expose his weakness.” “As for the one who narrated to him from Hamad ibn Salamah, Asad ibn Musa who was nicknamed Asad as-Sunnah (The Lion of the Sunnah), even if al-Bukhari said, “His hadith are well-known,” and he used him as evidence in his Sahih, and Abu Dawud and an-Nasa’i sought to use him in proof, yet he said about him another time, “(He is) trustworthy; if only he did not compile (hadith) it would be better for him.” Muhammad ibn Hazm said about him, “(His) hadith are rejected.”, “At-Tabarani narrated it in his al-Mu’jam al-Awsat in the narration of Abu al-Wasil ibn ‘Abd al-Hamid ibn Wasil from Abu as-Sadeeq an-Naji from al-Hasan ibn Yazid as-Sa’di one of Bani Bahdalah from Abu Sa’id al-Khudri that he said, “I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, saying, ‘A man from my Ummah will come out speaking by my Sunnah. There is no hadith about Mahdi in the Al-Jami’i Al-Salih, otherwise known as the Musnad Al-Imam Al Rabii. ( Log Out /  He was born on the 15th of Shaban 255 A.H. His name is Muhammad and titles are Mahdi, Hujjat, Qaim, Muntazar, Sahibuzzaman, and Khalaf al-Saleh, among others, the same names and agnomen of Muhammad. Are Ibadi Muslims Kharijites? Is this the madhhab of Ibrahim? He said, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, “The Khalifate after me will be thirty, or thirty-one or thirty-six” and it ended during the Khalifate of al-Hasan and at the beginning of the Khalifate of Mu’awiyyah, so that the beginning of Mu’awiyyah’s affair was a khalifate, taking by the beginnings of the names, so he is the sixth of the khulafah. Their number will be as the number of the people of Badr the first ones will not outrace them and the last ones will not reach them and as the number of Talut’s companions who crossed the river with him.’” Abu at-Tufail said, “Ibn al-Hanafiyyah said, ‘Do you want it?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘He will come out from between these two rugged mountains.’ I said, ‘By Allah, I will not leave it until I die.’” And he died in it, i.e. They reviled him and beat him. There have been many claimants to be the ‘, This particular entry will focus on the subject of the Mahdi. 4085). The year 1400 is the beginning of this Islamic century, two Ahadith collected by Imam Tabarani and Imam al Barzanji mention that the Mahdi will be 40 years old when he emerges, “he will be from my progeny and he will be 40 years of age”, “He will appear at the age of 40”. Hopefully, this will be an eye-opener for many in regards to one of the great scholars of the past who raised questions on the various well-known and widely reported oral traditions as they relate to the ‘Mahdi‘. 2 A pre-Islamic Christian Wali accused of having made a young girl pregnant. The Shi’a believe that Imam al-Mahdi is the only son of Imam Hasan al-Askari (the 11th Imam) who was born on the 15th of Sha’ban 255/869 in Samarra, Iraq. Then, of them, there came the Isma’iliyyah claiming the divinity of the Imam with a type of incarnation and others claiming the return of Imams who had died with a type of metempsychosis and there are others who are awaiting the coming of one of them who was cut off by his death. Examining the claim of some Quranist. The Ahadith regarding the Sufyani specify that he is a tyrant who will spread corruption and mischeif on the earth before Imam Mahdi. Soon a rain-cloud from the sky will be sent against the people of Syria which will divide up their community, so much so that if foxes were to fight them they would conquer them. He said to him ‘How remote from the truth!’ Then he counted with his hand seven, and said, ‘That one will come out at the end of time, when if a man says, “Allah, Allah,” he will be killed. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! The baby spoke and exonerated him. As you see they are not free of criticism except for a few which are the very least of them.”, “Those who reject his business probably seize hold of that which Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Jundi related from Aban ibn Salih ibn Abi ‘Ayyash from al-Hasan al-Basri from Anas ibn Malik from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, that he said, “There is no Mahdi but ‘Isa ibn Maryam.”, Criticism: Yahya ibn Mu’in said of Muhammad ibn Khalid, “He is trustworthy.” Al-Baihaqi said, “Only Muhammad ibn Khalid had it (narrated it).”Al-Hakim said about him, “He is an unknown man.” There is disagreement about its isnad, so that sometimes they narrate it as above, and that is ascribed to Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi’i, and sometimes they narrate it from Muhammad ibn Khalid from Abban from al-Hasan from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, as a mursal (hadith). As for the second isnad, Abu’l-Hasan and Hilal ibn ‘Umar in it are unknown and Abu’l-Hasan is not known except in Mutarrif ibn Tarif’s narration from him.”. He said, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, “My likeness with respect to whoever was before me of the prophets is like a man who built a house and completed it until there only remained the place for one brick, and I am that one brick,” and they interpret the Seal of the Prophets as the Brick, “until I complete the building.” Its meaning is the Prophet who received complete prophethood, and they liken wilayah with its different degrees to prophethood, and they make the possessor of perfection in it to be the Seal of the Awliya, i.e. The two great Imams of Hadith, Bukhari, and Muslim (May Allah have mercy on them) neither of them mentions hadiths on Imam Mahdi. The “Qaem” (Imam Mahdi) of the Shia will rule according to the Laws of David and the family of David, according to the Shia narrations they attribute to their Imams in Al-Kafi, the book most relied upon by Shia scholars out of the four Shia Hadith books. A very respected and respectable man. The Qur’an has no mention of any Imam Mahdi. At that time one of the people of my house will come out with three banners; the one who estimates (their number) high would say, ‘They have fifteen thousand,’ and the one who estimates low would say, ‘They have twelve thousand,’ and their mark is ‘Amit! On the matter of the Fatimi (The Mahdi) and the position people take concerning him, removing the veil from all of that. He said, and they claimed that the uprising of the Dajjal would be 743 years after the Muhammadan day, and the Muhammadan day begins according to them from the day of the death of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, up until the completion of a thousand years. They advanced further into the sect with their madhhabs so much so that they made the support of their path, in respect of the wearing of the Khirqah (patched robe), that ‘Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, had robed al-Hasan al-Basri in it and had taken a promise from him on that occasion to stick to the path, and that had continued from them until al-Junaid, one of their Shaykhs. Ibn Hibban said, “He was one of those whose giving was excessive, so no proof can be derived from him.” Ahmad ibn Hanbal said, “Sa’id ibn ‘Abd al-Hamid claims that he heard the review of the books of Malik, and people reject that, and here he is in Baghdad and no-one takes him as a proof, so how could he have heard them?” Adh-Dhahabi regarded him as one of those whom the words of those who talk against him do not injure.”, “Al-Hakim published in al-Mustadrak in the narration of Mujahid from Ibn ‘Abbas stopping short at him, that Mujahid said, “Ibn ‘Abbas said to me, ‘If I had not heard that you are like the people of the house I would not have told you this hadith.’” He said, “Mujahid said, ‘Then it is in a veil and I will not mention it to whoever dislikes it’.” He said, “Ibn ‘Abbas said, ‘From us, the people of the house, there are four: there is as-Saffah, there is al-Mundhir, there is al-Mansur, and from us, there is the Mahdi.’” He said, “Mujahid said, ‘Explain to me these four.’ Ibn ‘Abbas said, ‘As for as-Saffah, most likely he will kill his friends and pardon his enemies. There have been many claimants to be the ‘Mahdi‘ in the past. Identification of the Prophesied Imam Mahdi. Prophet Mohammad (SM) said of him the following: “The world will not come to an end until the Arabs are ruled by a man from my family whose name is the same as mine and whose fathers name is the same as my father’s name.”. Is this the madhhab of ‘Abdullah?‘”Al-‘Aqeeli narrated this hadith among the weak, and adh-Dhahabi said, “It is not sahih.”, “Ibn Majah narrated from ‘Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, by the narration of Yasin al-‘Ijli from Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Hanafiyyah from his father from his grandfather (‘Ali) that he said, “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, ‘The Mahdi is from us, the people of the house. I have provided it here for the relevance of hadith studies. The Evidence is that the early Shi’a themselves did not delve into this idea of a Mahdi.