Al-Mahdi (a.s.)

ali-ibn-isa further says: i inquired about this incident from sayed safi'uddin muhammad-ibn-muhammad and najm'uddin haider-ibn-amir too and they informed me of this incident and said: 'we had seen ismail before and after his recovery'.

moreover his son related to me that his father after his recovery, went to samerra for forty times so that he would perhaps get the honour of visiting him once again.

second: sayed baaqi athwah alawi hasani related to me that his father athwah did not acknowledge the existence of Mahdi. he would often say: 'whenever Mahdi comes and cures me, i will confirm the people's saying' (about Mahdi). when we had all gathered for the 'isha' (night) prayers, we heard a shriek from our father. we went close to him and he said: 'imam passed from here at this very moment. look out for him.' we went in search for him but could not find anyone. we returned back and then our father said: someone approached me and said: 'o athwah! i replied: 'at thy service'. he said: 'i am Mahdi. i have come to cure you'. he stretched out his hand, pressed my thing and then left.

narrator says: after this incident, he used to run like a deer and there was not a trace left.

ali-ibn-isa says: i in this incident from sayed baaqi's son and he too admitted it.

chapter six

«traditions on «ghaibat»
(occultation)»

the author of 'yanabi-ul-muwadda' (page 447) narrates from the book «fara'ed-us-semtain» a tradition from imam muhammad baqir (a.s.) who narrates from his father who narrates from ali-ibn-abi talib who narrates from the holy prophet (s.a.w.a.) as such: 'Mahdi is from my progeny. there shall be an occultation for him. when he emerges, he will fill the earth with equity and justice just as it had been filled with cruelty and oppression.

in the same book, on page 448 its author narrates from saeed-ibn-jubair who narrates from ibn-abbass that the holy prophet (s.a.w.a.) said: 'ali is my 'wasi' (legatee) and from his progeny shall come the expected qaem, Mahdi who shall fill the earth with equity and justice just as it had been filled with cruelty and oppression. i swear by Allah who appointed me as a warner and glad-tider that those whose belief will be firm in the imamat of Mahdi during the period of his occultation will be more rare than red matches.

jaber-ibn-abdullah ansari stood and said: 'o messenger of Allah! shall there be an occultation for your 'qaem' from your progeny? he replied: 'yes, i swear by Allah that he shall test the believers and destroy the un-believers (by means of Mahdi's occultation) thereafter he said: 'o jabir, this affair is a divine affair and this secret is a divine secret. so be on guard against any kind of doubt in this affair, because suspicion in divine affair is blasphemy.