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 Twenty-Four
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The traditions that mention when the three names, Muḥammad, \`Alī, and
al-Ḥasan, come after one other, then the fourth of them will be the
Qā’im

Comprised of 2 traditions

578. Dalā’il al-imāma[^1]: Narrated to us Abū l-Mufaḍḍal, from Muḥammad
b. al-Ḥasan al-Kūfī, from Muḥammad b. \`Abd-Allah al-Farsī, from Yaḥyā
b. Maimūn al-Khurāsānī, from \`Abd-Allah b. Sinān, from his brother
Muḥammad b. Sinān al-Zuhrī, from our master, (Imam) Abū \`Abd-Allah
Ja\`far b. Muḥammad, from his father, from his grandfather, from his
father al-Ḥusayn, from al-Ḥasan, from Amīr al-Mu’minīn, from the
Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be on him and his family, who said
to \`Alī, peace be on him: “O \`Alī! When the eleven Imams from your
descendants are completed, the eleventh will be the Mahdī from my Ahl
al-Bait.”

And through the same chain of narrators from the Messenger of Allah,
Allah’s blessings be on him and his family, who said: “When the four
names, Muḥammad, \`Alī, and al-Ḥasan come consecutively, then the fourth
of them will be the Qā’im, the wished, the awaited.”

579. Kamāl al-dīn[^2]: Narrated to us Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq, may
Allah be satisfied with him, from Abū \`Alī Muḥammad b. Hammām, from
Aḥmad b. Mābundād, from Aḥmad b. Hilāl, from Umayyat b. \`Alī al-Qaysī,
from Abū l-Haytham al-Tamīmī, from (Imam) Abū \`Abd-Allah, peace be on
him, who said: “When three names Muḥammad, \`Alī, and al-Ḥasan come
consecutively, the fourth of them will be their Qā’im.”[^3]

[^1]: Dalā’il al-imāma, chap. “Ma\`rifat wujūb al-Qā’im,” p. 236, no. 9;
Ithbāt al-hudāt, vol. 3, chap. 9, sect. 69, p. 103, no. 832, citing the
book Manāqib Fāṭima wa wuldihā through his chain of narrators from Amīr
al-Mu’minīn, from the Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be on him
and his family.

[^2]: Kamāl al-dīn, vol. 2, chap. 32, p. 334, no. 3 and similar to it,
pp. 333–334, no. 2. He has recorded it in the preface of Kamāl al-dīn
from ibn Qubba in his answers to the objections of ibn Bashshār: “When
the three names Muḥammad, \`Alī, and al-Ḥasan come consecutively, the
fourth will be the Qā’im” (vol. 1, p. 55); Kifāyat al-athar, p. 280,
under the fourth tradition from the chapter on what has come from Imam
Abū Ja\`far Muḥammad b. \`Alī al-Riḍā, peace be on him: “Through his
chain of narrators from Abū al-Haytham al-Tamīmī who said that (Imam)
Abū \`Abd-Allah, peace be on him, said, ‘When the three names come
consecutively, the fourth of them will be their Qā’im: Muḥammad, \`Alī,
and al-Ḥasan.’”; Ghaybat al-Nu\`mānī, p. 179, no. 26; I\`lām al-warā, p.
403. He has recorded ‘come together’ instead of ‘come consecutively’.

[^3]: It is clear who these names refer to: Muḥammad refers to Imam
Muḥammad b. \`Alī b. Mūsā al-Riḍā, \`Alī refers to his son Imam \`Alī b.
Muḥammad b. \`Alī b. Mūsā al-Riḍā, and al-Ḥasan refers to his son Imam
al-Ḥasan al-\`Askarī, Allah’s blessings be on them all.


