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Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Mahdī , also known as Imām Zamān , is believed by Muslims to be the Mahdī, an eschatological redeemer of Islam and ultimate savior of humankind and the final Imām of the Twelve Imams who will emerge with Isa in order to fulfill their mission of bringing peace and justice to the world. Twelver Shī‘a believe that al-Mahdī was born in 869 and assumed Imamate at 5 years of age following the killing of his father Hasan al-Askari. In the early years of his Imamate, he is believed to have had only contact his followers through The Four Deputies. After a 69-year period, known as Minor Occultation, a few days before the death of his fourth deputy Abul Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad al-Samarri in 941, he is believed to have sent his followers a letter. In that letter that was transmitted by al-Samarri he declared the beginning of Major Occultation during which Mahdi is not in contact with his followers.

Followers of Sunni Islam and other minority Shias mostly believe that the Mahdi has not yet been born, and therefore his exact identity is only known to Allah, other than the idea that he is to be from the descendants of Muhammad. Aside from the Mahdi's precise genealogy, Sunnis accept many of the same hadiths which Shias accept about the predictions regarding the Mahdi's emergence, his acts, and his universal Caliphate. Sunnis also have a few more Mahdi hadiths which are not present in Shia collections.

✵ 29. July 869 – 14. May 941
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Famous Muhammad al-Mahdi Quotes

“The oppressors alleged that Allah’s proof is invalid, and if we were permitted to speak out, the uncertainty would disappear.”

Muhammad al-Mahdi

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.51 p. 4
Religious-based Quotes

“I am The Mahdi (the guided one), I am the Imam of the time, and I am the one who fills it (the Earth) with justice just as it was filled with injustice and tyranny.”

Muhammad al-Mahdi

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.52 p. 2
Religious-based Quotes

“There will come to my devotees those who will claim seeing (me). Verily, whosoever claims the seeing before the rising of al-Sufyānī and the Cry, is a liar and a forger; and there is no power except with Almighty Allah.”

Muhammad al-Mahdi

al-Tabarsi, Al-Ihtijaj, vol.2, p. 478
Religious-based Quotes

“Whenever an authority disappears, another one appears; and if a star sets, another one rises.”

Muhammad al-Mahdi

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.53 p. 185
General Quotes

“If our devotees’ (may Allah give them success in obeying Him) hearts are gathered on meeting their obligation, their good fortune of meeting us would not have been delayed, and their joy of seeing us would have been expedited.”

Muhammad al-Mahdi

al-Tabarsi, Al-Ihtijaj, vol.2, p. 499
Religious-based Quotes

“Indeed, right is with us and in us, and there is no one else who says this but that he is a liar and an impostor.”

Muhammad al-Mahdi

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.53, p. 191
Religious-based Quotes

Muhammad al-Mahdi Quotes

“Increase praying for the expediting of my manifestation because indeed it is your release from suffering.”

Muhammad al-Mahdi

Shaykh Sadūq, Kamāl ad-Dīn, Ch.2, p. 485
Religious-based Quotes

“Knowledge is ours; do not care about the unbeliever’s unbelief.”

Muhammad al-Mahdi

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.53, p. 151
Religious-based Quotes

“If Allah were to permit us to speak, the truth would emerge and falsehood would vanish and be pulled away from you.”

Muhammad al-Mahdi

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.25 p. 183
Religious-based Quotes

“If you ask for guidance, you shall have it; and if you pursue something, you shall find it.”

Muhammad al-Mahdi

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.51 p. 339
General Quotes

“And as for the occurrence of the manifestation, it is up to Allah, and those who appoint a moment lie.”

Muhammad al-Mahdi

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.53 p. 181
Religious-based Quotes

“I am a remainder from Adam, a relic of Noah, a choice from Abraham, and an elite of Mohammad.”

Muhammad al-Mahdi

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.52, p. 238
Religious-based Quotes

“Indeed, I am a safeguard to the inhabitants of earth as the stars are safeguards to the inhabitants of heaven.”

Muhammad al-Mahdi

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78 p. 380
Religious-based Quotes

“(There will be) No manifestation but after Allah’s permission, and that will be after the passing of a long term, the hardening of the hearts, and the filling of the Earth with tyranny.”

Muhammad al-Mahdi

al-Tabarsi, al-Ihtijāj, Ch.2, p. 478
Religious-based Quotes

“Indeed, Earth could not be without a Hujja (a proof, a prophet or his vice), either manifest or occult.”

Muhammad al-Mahdi

Shaykh Sadūq, Kamāl ad-Dīn, Ch.2, p. 115
Religious-based Quotes

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