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[39] [40] The Meccans will kill two successive deputies of al-Mahdi, according to a hadith ascribed to Ja'far al-Sadiq, the sixth Imam. [41] Soon, however, the Hejaz, Iraq, the east, Egypt, Syria, and then Constantinople would fall to the army of al-Mahdi before the complete extermination of the forces of evil, after which the rule of justice ...
The coming of Imam Mahdi. [Hadith 59] [45] The Antichrist (Masih Ad-Dajjal) will appear and travel to Jerusalem. [Hadith 60] [45] The descent (or Second Coming) of Jesus Christ (Al-Maseeh 'Isa ibn Maryam); [Hadith 52] [45] and all the people of the book will convert to Islam after his second coming. [Quran 3] The killing of the Antichrist ...
The Mahdi features in both Shia and Sunni branches of Islam, though they differ extensively on his attributes and status. Among Twelver Shias, the Mahdi is believed to be Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi, twelfth Imam, son of the eleventh Imam, Hasan al-Askari (d. 874), who is said to be in occultation (ghayba) by divine will. This is rejected by Sunnis ...
As a child Imam, al-Mahdi is also often compared to Jesus, since both are viewed as the proof of God (hujja) and both spoke with the authority of an adult while still a child. [45] Al-Mahdi is said to have been born to Narjis, a slave-girl whose name is given by various sources as Sawsan, Rayhana, Sayqal, [46] [37] [47] and Maryam.
According to some narrations, there are five certain signs that will occur prior to the appearance of the Mahdi.The hadith of Ja'far al-Sadiq mentions these signs: "the appearance of Sufyani and Yamani, the loud cry in the sky, the murder of Nafs-e-Zakiyyah, and the earth swallowing (a group of people) in the land of Bayda which is a desert between Mecca and Medina.
The final letter of Muhammad al-Mahdi, known as the Hidden Imam in Twelver Shi'ism, to his agent, Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad al-Samarri, predicted the latter's imminent death and announced the beginning of the Major Occultation (941–present). In Twelver belief, the Major Occultation concludes with the rise of al-Mahdi in the end of time to ...
Al-Mahdi was born in 744 or 745 AD in the village of Humeima (modern-day Jordan). His mother was called Arwa, and his father was al-Mansur. When al-Mahdi was ten years old, his father became the second Abbasid Caliph. [1] When al-Mahdi was young, his father needed to establish al-Mahdi as a powerful figure in his own right.
Ahmad al-Hassan, an engineer from Basra and leader of the Shia Iraqi movement Ansar of Imam al-Mahdi [40] declared in 1998 that the Hidden Imam had designated him as his representative (wassi). He has denounced the errancy of religious seminaries in Najaf, and established a militia dubbed the Supporters of the Iman Mahdi (Ansar al-Imam al-Mahdi ...