Note: Allamah Tabarsi (r.

📌Note: Allamah Tabarsi (r.a.) has written in Elamul Wara that it is mentioned in authentic reports that there will be no rule of anyone after the rule of Imam Qaim and only his sons will be his successors, if Allah wills. And it is mentioned in most traditions that Imam Qaim (a.s.) will pass away only forty days before Qiyamat during which the dead will emerge from the graves and the Qiyamat will be established and Allah knows best. Shaykh Saduq has mentioned in Ikmaaluddin (Vol. 1, Pg.

339.that: “There is always a Divine Proof on the earth who is aware of the lawful and the prohibited and who calls the people to Allah, the Mighty and Sublime. And the earth shall not be without Divine Proof but forty days prior to Judgment Day. When that Divine Proof will be taken up by Allah, the door of repentance shall be closed and the faith of those who accept it after the going away of Divine Proof will be of no use. They shall be the worst of creatures.

The Judgment Day will be established after that.” Also Barqi has mentioned in Mahasin quoting from Masabihuz Zulam (Chapter 21, Tradition 202, Pg. 236) the same with a sight difference and this shows that Shia had the same belief in the early period also. Thus Allamah Kulaini has narrated in Usul Kafi (Vol. 1, Pg.

329, “Chapter of the names of those who have seen him” from Abdullah bin Ja’far Himyari that: “I and ash-Shaykh Abu Amr, may Allah bless him, met at Ahmad Ibne Ishaq’s and Ahmad Ibne Ishaq intimated to me that I should ask him about the heir ( khalaf ) [to Imam Askari (a.s.)], so I said to him: ‘O Abu Amr, I wish to ask you about something - not that I have any doubt about what I wish to ask you - for my belief and my religion is that the earth is never bereft of a Divine Proof, except for forty days prior to the Day of Resurrection; and when that day comes, the Divine Proof will be taken away and the door of repentance will be shut: On the day that one of thy Lord’s sign comes, it shall not profit a soul to believe that never believed before, or earned some good in his belief, and they will be the most evil of the creatures of Allah, to Whom belong Might and Majesty, and it is in their time that the Resurrection will rise.” In any case these traditions prove that the earth will never remain devoid of Divine Proof; only forty days before Qiyamat will the Divine Proof go away from the world and that will be the awaited Mahdi, seven years after whom the Qiyamat will be established.

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