Editors Notes

Author’s Preface

Chapter Three: The Proofs About The Reappearance of The Mahdi,

Section One

Section Two

Section Three

Section Four

Section Five

Section Six

Section Seven

Section Eight

Section Nine

Section Ten

Section Eleven

Section Twelve

Section Thirteen

Section Fourteen

Section Fifteen

Section Sixteen

Section Seventeen

Section Eighteen

Section Nineteen

Section Twenty

Section Twenty-One

Section Twenty-Two

Section Twenty-Three

Section Twenty-Four

Section Twenty-Five

Section Twenty-Six

Section Twenty-Seven

Section Twenty-Eight

Section Twenty-Nine

Section Thirty

Section Thirty-One

Section Thirty-Two

Section Thirty-Three

Section Thirty-Four

Section Thirty-Five

Section Thirty-Six

Section Thirty-Seven

Section Thirty-Eight

Section Thirty-Nine

Section Forty

Section Forty-One

Section Forty-Two

Section Forty-Three

Section Forty-Four

Section Forty-Five

Section Forty-Six

Section Forty-Seven

Section Forty-Eight

Section Forty-Nine

Section Fifty

Section Fifty-One

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

This text, which is available in two volumes and is authored by
Ayatullah Lutfullah as-Safi al-Gulpaygani, presents a handful of
precious narrations about the 12th Awaited Imam. The narrations in this
volume focus on the reappearance of the Awaited Imam and this text
presents the implications and interpretations of these authentic
traditions.


Selected Narrations about the Twelfth Imam volume 2

Section Ten
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The traditions that mention he is from the nine Imams from the
descendants of (Imam) al-Ḥusayn, peace be on them

Comprised of 165 traditions

532. Kifāyat al-athar[^1]: Muḥammad b. \`Abd-Allah b. al-Muṭṭalib, from
Ibrāhīm b. \`Abd al-Ṣamad b. Mūsā b. Isḥāq al-Hāshimī, from his father,
from \`Abd-Allah b. Bukair [or Bakr] al-\`Anawī [or al-Ghanawī], from
Ḥakīm b. Jubair, from Abū l-Ṭufail \`Āmir b. Wāthila, from Zaid b.
Thābit, from the Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be on him and his
family, who said:

\`Alī b. Abī Ṭālib is the leader of the righteous and the annihilator of
the transgressors. Whoever helps him will be helped and whoever deserts
him will be deserted. One who has doubts about \`Alī, peace be on him,
has doubts about Islam. He is the best [person] that can succeed me
after me. The best of my companions is \`Alī; his flesh is my flesh and
his blood is my blood. He is the father of my two grandsons. From the
loins of al-Ḥusayn, peace be on him, will emerge nine Imams and from
them is the Mahdī of this nation.

The traditions with the following numbers also show the aforementioned
concept: 127, 129, 168, 170, 173, 181, 191, 193, 205–308, 533–541, 543,
545, 550, 551, 558, 560–571, 590, 786–807, 859, 902, and 973.

[^1]: Kifāyat al-athar, “What has been narrated from Zaid b. Thābit from
the Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be on him and his family,
concerning the reports about the twelve Imams, Allah’s blessings be on
them”, chap. 12, pp. 96–97, no. 2; Biḥār al-anwār, vol. 36, chap. 41, p.
318, no. 168. I say: \`Abd-Allah b. Bukair is al-Ghanawī al-Kūfī; it has
been mentioned in al-Lisān that ibn Ḥibbān has mentioned him amongst the
reliable ones (al-thiqāt) narrators. He has narrated from Ḥakīm b.
Jubair.


