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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Blessed Birth of Imam Mahdi The Days of the Newborn In this part, we will read about the ceremony of immolation of a sacrificial lamb for Imam Mahdi (may God hasten his reappearance) and his conversation with the servants as a little example of the numerous miracles of the newborn infant, Imam Hasan’s order to keep the news of his son’s birth a secret, and the episode in which Imam Mahdi shone in his cradle in front of Lady Hakimah.

We will then read about the brilliant perfect horoscope of Imam Mahdi which stupefied many great astrologists in this final chapter. Performing the ceremony of `Aqiqah (a prescribed ritual ceremony seven day after the birth of a child, the parents offer a sacrifice to God and then shave the child’s hair and give alms to the destitute by the weight of the baby’s hair) for Imam Mahdi was a ritual that Imam Hasan respected and complied to it happily.

When Imam Mahdi (may God hasten his reappearance) was born, Imam Hasan ordered his servants to immolate three hundred sheep for his son. Narrating this occasion, one of the followers says, “I remember one day, Imam Hasan sent a sacrificed sheep for me and said that it was a sacrifice for his newborn son.” According to another narration, one of the Imam’s servants said that when Imam Mahdi was born, all of them congratulated each other for this happy, joyful event.

One day, Imam Hasan summoned his assistant and ordered him to buy twenty five thousand measures of bread, along with twenty five thousand measures of meat. He was to distribute all these things to the poor families of Banu-Hashim. Ibrahim ibn Idris narrated in his turn: “One day, Imam Hasan sent four sheep to me and in his letter to me, he had written: In the name of God.

Please, immolate these sheep for your lord and master Mahdi who is also my son, and give them to your brothers and the poor families.” Hiding The News of Mahdi’s Birth Hamzah ibn Abu’l-Fath narrated: “One day, a man came to my house and congratulated me for the birth of the newborn of Imam Hasan. He then insisted that I should keep this news to myself.

I asked him what was the name of Imam’s son, and he replied that the name was Muhammad and the surname Abu-Ja`far.” The Episode of the Sneeze One of Imam Hasan’s servants narrated the following: One night after the birth of our master Imam Mahdi, I went to see him.