Aside from the Holy Prophet (s.

Aside from the Holy Prophet (s.a.), we see that all the other infallibles (a.s.) have also lend significance to this issue and spoke about it on numerous occasions. Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) says, “Verily, O Allah, the earth cannot be 14 (Al-Kafi by Shaikh Kulayni, vol. 1, p. 527, 528; Kamaaluddin by Shaikh Saduq, p. 308-311).

void of a divine proof”15 and on another occasion he says, “The Mahdi of this nation is from my descendant.”16 When people objected at him for signing the peace treaty with Muaviyah, Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba (a.s.) justified his action in the following words, أما علِمتُم أنّه ما مِنّا أحد. إلّا و ي.قَع. في ع.نقِه ب.يعه. لِطاغيهِ ز.مانهِ, اِلّا القائم. الّذي ي.صلّي روح اللّه » .« .

عيسي بنْ مريم خَلفه “Do you not know that each one of us (Imams) has to wear the allegiance of the tyrant of his time around his neck, except the Qaem, behind whom Allah’s Spirit, Isa Bin Maryam, will perform namaz?”17 Imam Husain (a.s.) has talked about Imam-e-Zaman (a.t.f.s.) in various places. In the sermon that he delivered in the Umayyide Mosque, Imam Sajjad (a.s.), while enumerating the virtues…