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Existence of Imam Mahdi in Hadith “My caliphs are twelve persons” (3) - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Existence of Imam Mahdi in Hadith “My caliphs are twelve persons” (3) 2023-03-02 855 Views Imam Al-Mahdi , The Twelfth Imam , Sunni Sources In this part of the article titled “Existence of Imam Mahdi in Hadith “My caliphs are twelve persons””, we shall focus on Shia’s interpretations of the hadith.

Contents B: Shias’ point of view 1: Allameh Seyed “Ali Hamadani” 2: Allameh “Qunduzi” Imams of “” , instance of “Twelve caliphs”, affirmed by Sunni Sunni scholars confession on that Hadrat “Mahdi” 1: “Ibn Kathir Damascene” 2: “Jalal al-Din Suyuti” B: Shias’ point of view In Shias’ opinion, the only instance of these narratives is imams of “” [a.s] not others and there is authentic narrative in this regard in which numbers, names and parentage of imams of “” [a.s] were introduced.

The best and the most comprehensive narrative is this regard is the tablet of “Jabir ibn Abdullah Ansari” that was given to messenger of Allah by god on which the names of all “” [a.s] are written and skillful hadith narrator “Kulayni” has quoted this narrative with authentic document. In our opinion, caliphs of the Messenger of Allah [PBUH] are from “Bani Hashim” and his dynasty, not that they’re just from “Quraysh” tribe and this issue is written in their valid resources.

According to the affirmation of some of Sunni scholars and researchers, last part of this narrative has been distorted and this fact has been said by two Sunni scholars.

1: Allameh Seyed “Ali Hamadani” According to the report of “Yanabi’ al-Mawadda” by Seyed “Ali Hamadani” has quoted this narrative with the same document and text written in “Sahih Bukhari” and other resources but instead of quoting this sentence “All of them are from “Quraysh”, he quotes “All of them are from “Bani Hashim”, but it’s written in “Sahih Bukhari” differently: … عن جابر بن سمرة قال: كنت مع أبي عند النبي صلي الله عليه وآله فسمعته يقول: بعدي إثنا عشر خليفة، ثم أخفي صوته، فقلت لأبي: ما الذي أخفي صوته؟ قال: قال: كلهم من بني هاشم.

وعن سماك بن حرب مثل ذلك “Jabir ibn Samurah” said: my father and I were with messenger of Allah [PBUH] and heard that he said: “They’ll be twelve caliphs after me” then he said a sentence that I didn’t hear: I said to my father: what did he say: he said: messenger of Allah said: all of them are from “Bani Hashim”. {Author says:} such narrative has been quoted via “Sammak ibn Harb”.