The Awaited Imam

Imām Mahdī (علیہ السلام) is the true Imām and is from the family of Fātimah (رضي الله عنها)


01. “Sa‘īd ibn Musayyab relates that he heard Umm Salamah (رضي الله عنها) say: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم) mention Mahdī. He said: yes, Mahdī is the Truth (that is, his appearance is true and imminent) and he will be from the family of Fātimah.”

02. “Anas ibn Mālik (RA) narrates: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم) say: we, the children of ‘Abd-ul-Muttalib, will be the chiefs of the people of Paradise, that is, myself, Hamzah, ‘Alī, Ja‘far, Hassan, Hussein and Mahdī.”

03. “Umm Salamah (رضي الله عنها) says that Allāh’s Messenger (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم) mentioned Mahdī (and he said:) he will be from the children of Fātimah.”

04. “‘Ā’ishah (رضي الله عنها) relates that the Prophet (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم) said: Mahdī will be from my children who will fight (to establish) my sunnah as I fought according to the divine revelation.”

05. “Sulaymān ibn Habīb says that he heard Abū Umāmah (RA) narrate: The Messenger of Allāh (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم) said: there will be peace between you and Rome four times and the fourth time the leader of the Romans will be a person belonging to the children of Heraclius. This ‘peace’ will last seven continuous years. A man from ‘Abd al-Qays, Mustawrid ibn Khaylān, asked the Messenger of Allāh (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم): who will be the Imām of the Muslims at that time? He (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم) replied: that person will be from (my) children and he will be forty years old. His face will be bright like a star and there will be a black beauty spot on his right cheek, and he will be dressed in two cotton gowns and it will seem as though he is exactly like one of the Children of Israel. He will rule for ten years, discover treasures from beneath the earth and conquer the cities ruled by the polytheists.”

06. “‘Abdullāh ibn Mas‘ūd (رضي الله عنهما) has related it from the Prophet (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم): he said: The name of Mahdī will be Muhammad.”

01. Related by Hākim in al-Mustadrak (4:557 # 8671), while Dhahabī kept silent about it.

02. Ibn Mājah narrated it in as-Sunan, b. of fitan (turmoils) 4:455 (#4087); Hākim, al-Mustadrak (3:211 # 4940); Mizzī, Tuhfat-ul-ashrāf bi-ma‘rifat-il-atrāf (1:86 # 195); and Hindī in Kanz-ul-‘ummāl (12:97 # 34162).

03. Hākim related it in al-Mustadrak (4:557 # 8672); and Suyūtī in al-Hāwī lil-fatāwā (2:74).

04. Ibn Hammād narrated it in al-Fitan (1:371#1092); and Suyūtī copied it in al-Hāwī lil-fatāwā (2:74).

05. Tabarānī narrated it in al-Mu‘jam-ul-kabīr (8:101#7495), Musnad-ush-shāmiyyīn (2:410#1600); and Haythamī in Majma‘-uz-zawā’id (7:318,319).

06. Related by Suyūtī in al-Hāwī lil-fatawā (2:73).

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