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Imam Mahdi in the Verse (4:159) (3) - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Imam Mahdi in the Verse (4:159) (3) 2023-03-01 448 Views Imam Al-Mahdi , The Holy Quran In continuation of the discussion on verse 159 of Chapter 4, we shall focus on other relevant points in relation to Imam Mahdi.

Again, according to the author, this is narrated in the same book from ibn Marduwayh who reported from Abu Hurayra that he said: “The Prophet said: “Soon the son of Mary will descend among you and will kill the Antichrist and the pigs (that Christians consider as lawful from a religious point of view)– the meaning here may be that he will prohibit them from consuming pork – and he will break the Cross which is one of the Christians’ religious symbols (he will annihilate those symbols) and re-introduce the taxes (that had been abandoned) among the People of the Book so that they pay taxes to the Islamic government; at that time wealth will increase and only God, the Lord of the Worlds, will be worshipped.” Abu Hurayra then said: “If you wish, recite the verse: “And there is none of the People of the Book but must believe in him before his death” ,(1) which means ‘before the death of ‘Isa’” and he repeated ‘the death of ‘Isa’ three times.”(2) Tabataba’i comments that the traditions concerning the descent of Jesus at the time of the appearance of Mahdi are numerous both from Shi’ite and Sunnite sources, and reported either from the Prophet or from the .

Allama then reports another view concerning the Prophet apart from the one mentioned above. He reports from the tafsir al-‘Ayyashi , a tradition reported from Harith ibn Mugheerah who reported from Imam Sadiq who said that the following verse “And there is none of the People of the Book but must believe in him before his death, and on the Day of Judgment he will be a witness against them” (3) is about the Prophet.

The author comments that although this tradition seems to be in contradiction with the verses concerning ‘Isa, however, it is possible to say that the aim of these traditions may be to clarify that when the Prophet was appointed and brought a Book and a Divine Law ( Shari’a ), which abrogated the Law brought by Jesus, it became compulsory for the People of the Book to believe in the as well as in Jesus and the Prophets who came before Jesus.