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People claiming to be the Mahdi have appeared across the Muslim world and throughout history since the birth of Islam (AD 610). A claimant Mahdi can wield great temporal, as well as spiritual, power: claimant Mahdis have founded states (e.g. the late 19th-century Mahdiyah in Sudan), as well as religions and sects (e.g. Bábism, or the Ahmadiyya ...
The epithet of "Mahdi" has been mentioned many times in the book "Musnad" by Ahmad ibn Hanbal (founder of the Hanbali school of Sunni jurisprudence — one of the four major orthodox legal schools of Sunni Islam, and also one of the four Sunni Imams) and various hadiths about the signs of the reappearance of the "Promised Mehdi" (and Jesus in ...
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.
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Similarly, Momen reckons that al-Askari's network of representatives (wukala) likely continued to operate during the Minor Occultation of al-Mahdi. [58] There were also deputy claimants who were officially rejected by the Imamite community, such as Ibn Nusayr, who was known for his connections to the Ghulat (lit. ' exaggerators ' or ...
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.
Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Mahdi (Arabic: محمد بن الحسن المهدي, romanized: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mahdī) is believed by the Twelver Shia to be the last of the Twelve Imams and the eschatological Mahdi, who will emerge in the end of time to establish peace and justice and redeem Islam.
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