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 Forty-One
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The traditions that indicate the people will assist his government

Comprised of three traditions

697. Sunan ibn Māja[^1]: Narrated to us Ḥarmalat b. Yaḥyā al-Miṣrī and
Ibrāhīm b. Sa\`īd al-Jauharī, from Abū Ṣāliḥ \`Abd al-Ghaffār b. Dāwūd
al-Ḥarrānī, from Abū Lahī\`a, from Abū Zur\`a Amr b. Jābir al-Ḥaḍramī,
from \`Abd-Allah b. al-Ḥarth b. Jaz’ al-Zubaidī, from the Messenger of
Allah, Allah’s blessings be on him and his family, who said: “A [group
of] people will emerge from the East and will prepare for the
Mahdī—meaning his government.”

698. Sunan Abī Dāwūd[^2]: From Hārūn, from \`Amr b. Abī Qays, from
Muṭarrif b. Ṭarīf, from Abū l-Ḥasan, from Hilāl b. \`Amr, from \`Alī,
may Allah be satisfied with him, from the Messenger of Allah, Allah’s
blessings be on him and his family, who said:

A person will emerge from Mā Warā’ al-Nahr. He will be called al-Ḥārith
b. al-Ḥarrāth; in the vanguard [of his army] will be a person called
Manṣūr. He will organize or prepare for the family of Muḥammad just as
the Quraish prepared for the Messenger of Allah, Allah’s blessings be on
him [and his family]. It is compulsory for every believer to assist
him—or he said—to respond to his [call].

Tradition no. 720 also establishes the above concept.

[^1]: Sunan ibn Māja, vol. 2, chap. “The emergence of the Mahdī,” p.
1368, citing Kitāb al-fitan, chap. 34, no. 4088; \`Iqd al-durar, chap.
5, p. 125, citing Sunan ibn Māja and al-Bayhaqī. He has also recorded it
in al-Tadhkira, p. 240, from Abū Dāwūd with the difference: “they will
prepare for the Mahdī the throne of his kingdom”; Farā’id al-simṭain,
vol. 2, chap. 61, p. 333; al-Ṭabarānī, al-Mu\`jam al-ausaṭ, vol. 1, p.
200, no. 287, with minor variation; al-Munār al-munīf, sect. 50, p. 145,
no. 332; Nihāyat al-bidāya wa l-nihāya, vol. 1, p. 41; al-Burhān fī
\`alāmāt Mahdī ākhir al-zamān, chap. 7, p. 147, no. 2, which says: “they
will prepare for the Mahdī his kingdom”; Mukhtaṣar tadhkirat al-Qurtubī
by al-Sha\`rānī, p. 40, which says “they will prepare for the Mahdī the
throne of his kingdom”; al-Idhā\`a, p. 124; Kanz al-\`ummāl, vol. 14, p.
263, no. 38657; Majma\` al-zawā’id, vol. 7, p. 318, and many more
references.

[^2]: Sunan Abī Dāwūd, vol. 4, “Kitāb al-Mahdī,” pp. 108–109, no. 4290;
Maṣābīḥ al-sunna, vol. 2, p. 194; \`Iqd al-durar, chap. 5, p. 130,
citing Abū Dāwūd, Sunan al-Nisā’ī, al-Bayhaqī, and al-Maṣābīḥ; Jam\`
al-jawāmi\`, vol. 1, p. 997, citing Abū Dāwūd; al-Tadhkira, p. 240, with
the difference: “a person from the ministers of al-Mahdī will emerge who
will be called al-Ḥarth b. al-Ḥarrāth” and “or he said—to help him”;
Yanābī\` al-mawadda, chap. 72, p. 430; al-Tāj al-Jāmi\` lil-uṣūl, vol.
5, p. 344, and many other references.


