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Characteristics of Shiite Belief about Imam al-Mahdi Part 1

Mahdi the Twelfth Successor of the Prophet (S) What has been analyzed until now in this book about “great universal peacemaker” and “revolutionary programs of Mahdi” was in two parts, one part in a general rational form and another part in a general Islamic form; but belief of Shiites

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Imam al-Mahdi is the twelfth and last Imam (A.S.) Part3

The traditions that indicate he will have two occultations and one will be shorter than the otherComprised of ten traditions 599. Al-Kāfī1: Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā, from Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn, from ibn Maḥbūb, from Isḥāq b. `Ammār, from (Imam) Abū `Abd-Allah, peace be on him, who said: “The Qā’im will have …

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Imam al-Mahdi is the twelfth and last Imam (A.S.) Part 2

592. Ghaybat of al-Shaykh10: Through his chain of narrators [meaning Ibrāhīm b. Salma, from Aḥmad b. Mālik al-Fazārī, from Ḥaidar b. Muḥammad al-Fazārī, from `Abbād b. Ya`qūb, from Naṣr b. Muzāḥim, from Muḥammad b. Marwān, from al-Kalbī, from Abū Ṣāliḥ,] concerning the saying of Allah, the Exalted: “Know that Allah …

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