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The birth of al-Mahdi is often compared in Twelver sources to the birth of Moses in the Quran, who was miraculously saved from the pharaoh. [44] 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]
The term Mahdi is derived from the Arabic root h-d-y (ه-د-ي), commonly used to mean "divine guidance". [2] Although the root appears in the Qur'an at multiple places and in various contexts, the word Mahdi never occurs in the book. [3] The associated verb is hada, which means to guide.
Into this well, al-Mahdi is said to have disappeared. [26] [27] [28] Thus began a period of about seventy years, later termed the Minor Occultation (al-ghaybat al-sughra, 260-329 AH, 874–940 CE), during which it is believed that four successive agents who represented the Hidden Imam. [29]
Mahdism (Persian: مَهدَویّت, [1] Arabic: المهدوية) in the Twelver branch of Shia Islam, derived from the belief in the reappearance of the Twelfth Shiite Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, as the savior of the apocalypse for the salvation of human beings and the establishment of peace and justice.
Shaykh al-Saduq and Shaykh al-Tusi transmit the hadith that Muhammad al-Mahdi, in response to Ishaq ibn Yaqub, through Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Umari expresses that: "As for the events that may occur (al-hawadith al-waqi'a) [when you may need guidance] refer to the transmitters (ruwat) of our teachings who are my hujjah (proof) to you and I am ...
Some of the conditions for the return of al-Mahdi are said to have been fulfilled by modern technology. For instance, al-Zanjani suggests that a hadith attributed to Ja'far al-Sadiq, the sixth Imam, refers to television. The hadith predicts that, in the time of al-Mahdi, a believer in the east can see another believer in the west and vice versa ...
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.
The Twelvers believe that their twelfth Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, is in occultation. During his Minor Occultation (874-941), the twelfth Imam is believed to have remained in regular contact with four successive agents, [7] collectively known as the Four Deputies (al-nuwwab al-arba'). [8]