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 Thirty-Four
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The traditions that indicate he will not have pledged allegiance with
anyone

Comprised of twelve traditions

660. Ghaybat al-Nu\`mānī[^1]: \`Alī b. al-Ḥusayn, from Muḥammad b.
Yaḥyā, from Muḥammad b. Ḥassān al-Rāzī, from Muḥammad b. \`Alī al-Kūfī,
from Ibrāhīm b. Hishām, from Ḥammād b. \`Īsā, from Ibrāhīm b. \`Umar
al-Yamānī, from (Imam) Abū \`Abd-Allah, peace be on him, who said: “The
Qā’im will rise and he will not have pledged allegiance with anybody.”

661. Al-Kāfī[^2]: Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā, from Aḥmad b. Muḥammad, from
al-Ḥusayn b. Sa\`īd, from ibn Abī \`Umair, from Hishām b. Sālim, from
(Imam) Abū \`Abd-Allah al-Ṣādiq, peace be upon him, who said: “The Qā’im
will rise while he will not have pledged an oath, promise, or allegiance
to anybody.”

662. Ithbāt al-Waṣiyya[^3]: al-Ḥimyarī from Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn, from
Muḥammad b. Sinān, from Abū l-Jārūd, from Uthmān b. Nashīṭ, from Amīr
al-Mu’minīn, peace be on him, who said: “The Master of this affair will
not have pledged an oath, promise, or pact to anybody.”

663. Kamāl al-dīn[^4]: Narrated to us Muḥammad b. Mūsā al- Mutawakkil,
may Allah be satisfied with him, from Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā al-\`Aṭṭār, from
Muḥammad b. \`Īsā b. \`Ubaid, from Muḥammad b. Abī \`Umair, from Sa\`īd
b. Ghazwān, from Abū Baṣīr, from (Imam) Abū \`Abd-Allah, peace be on
him, who said: “The birth of the master of this affair will be concealed
from [these] people so that he will not have pledged allegiance with
anyone when he emerges.”

664. Kamāl al-dīn[^5]: Narrated to us my father and Muḥammad b.
al-Ḥasan, may Allah have mercy on both of them, from Sa\`d b.
\`Abd-Allah, from Muḥammad b. \`Ubaid and Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. Abū
l-Khaṭṭāb, from Muḥammad b. Abī \`Umair, from Jamīl b. Ṣāliḥ, from Abū
\`Abd-Allah, peace be on him, who said: “The Qā’im will be sent while he
will not have pledged allegiance to anyone.”

665. Kamāl al-dīn[^6]: My father, may Allah have mercy on him, narrated
to me from Sa\`d b. \`Abd-Allah, from Ya\`qūb b. Yazīd and al-Ḥasan b.
Ẓarīf, both from Muḥammad b. Abī \`Umair, from Hishām b. Sālim, from Abū
\`Abd-Allah, peace be on him, who said: “The Qā’im will rise while he
will not have pledged allegiance to anybody.”

The following traditions also establish the aforementioned concept: 539,
601, 610, 634, 654, and 656.

[^1]: Ghaybat al-Nu\`mānī, chap. 10, p. 191, no. 45.

[^2]: Al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 342, no. 27; Ghaybat al-Nu\`mānī, chap. 10, p.
171, no. 4.

[^3]: Ithbāt al-waṣiyya, p. 223.

[^4]: Kamāl al-dīn, vol. 2, chap. 44, p. 479, no. 1.

[^5]: Kamāl al-dīn, vol. 2, chap. 44, pp. 479–480, no. 2; Ithbāt
al-hudāt, vol. 6, chap. 32, p. 453, no. 208.

[^6]: Kamāl al-dīn, vol. 2, chap. 44, p. 480, no. 3; Ithbāt al-hudāt,
vol. 6, chap. 32, p. 436, no. 209.


