Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Promised Mahdi (part One) 4 Chapter Four: Attributes, traits and lineage of Imam Zamana (a.s.) مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ الْبَغْدَادِيُّ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ عَنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ الْقَصْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ الْعَسْكَرِيِّ عَنْ آبَائِهِ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ لَا يَكُونُ الْقَائِمُ إِلَّا إِمَامَ بْنَ إِمَامٍ وَ وَصِيَّ بْنَ وَصِيٍّ 1- Uyun Akhbar Reza: Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Husain Baghdadi has narrated from Ahmad bin Fadhl from Bakr bin Ahmad Qasri from Imam Hasan Askari (a.s.) from his forefathers, from Musa Ibne Ja’far (a.s.) that he said: “No one can be the Qaim but an Imam the son of an Imam and a Successor the son of a Successor.” 2- Ikmaaluddin: It is narrated from Ahmad bin Harun, Ibne Shazuyah, Ibne Masrur and Ja’far bin Husain together from Himyari from his father from Ayyub bin Nuh from Abbas bin Aamir and narrated to us Ja’far bin Ali bin Hasan bin Abdullah bin Mughira from his grandfather Hasan from Abbas bin Aamir from Musa bin Hilal Zabi from Abdullah Ibne Ata that he said: I asked Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s.), “Your Shia in Iraq are many and by Allah, there is no one in the Ahle Bayt like you.
So why don’t you stage an uprising?” He said: “O Abdullah Ibne Ata, base people have filled your ears. By Allah, I am not your Awaited Patron.” I asked, “So who is our Awaited Patron?” He said: “Watch for the one whose birth will be hidden from the people. He will be your Patron.” The author says: That is, you listen to the words of ignorant members of the Shia community and accept their assertion that we have extensive numbers of supporters and that we must rise and that I am the promised Qaim.
3- Ghaibat Tusi: A group has narrated from Talakbari from Ahmad bin Ali Razi from Muhammad bin Ishaq Muqri from Ali bin Abbas from Bakaar bin Ahmad from Hasan bin Husain from Sufyan Jurairi that he said: I heard Muhammad bin Abdur Rahman Ibne Abi Laila say, “By Allah, the Mahdi will not be but from the progeny of Husain (a.s.).” 4- Ghaibat Tusi: Also it is mentioned through the same chain of narration on the authority of Jurairi from Fudhail Ibne Zubair that he said: I heard Zaid bin Ali bin Husain (a.s.) say, “The Awaited Savior is from the progeny of Husain Ibne Ali, from the children of Husain and from the heirs of Husain.