From the signs of his emergence are...

From the signs of his emergence are: the emergence of al-Sufyānī from Syria, the emergence of al-Yamānī [from Yemen], a loud cry from the sky in the month of Ramaḍān, and an announcer calling out his name and the name of his father from the sky.” Kamāl al-dīn[^3]: Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq al-Ṭāliqānī, from Aḥmad b.

`Alī al-Anṣārī, from Abū l-Ṣalt al-Harawī who said: I asked (Imam) al-Riḍā, peace be on him, “What are the signs of your Qā’im when he emerges?” He replied, “His sign is that he will be old in age [but] young in appearance. When someone looks at him he will guess his age to be forty years or less. And from his signs is that he will not become old with the passing of the days and nights until the arrival of his death. `Iqd al-durar[^4]: From Imam Abū `Abd-Allah al-Ḥusayn b.

`Alī, peace be on him: “[When] the Mahdī rises, the people will refute him because he will return to them as a healthy youth.

One of the greatest tests is that their master will emerge for them as a youth while they had thought he would be a very old man.” Ghaybat al-Nu`mānī[^5]: From Abū `Abd-Allah [al-Ṣādiq], peace be on him, in a tradition: “One of the greatest tests is that their master will emerge for them as a youth while they had considered him a very old person.” Ghaybat al-Nu`mānī[^6]: Narrated to us `Alī b. al-Ḥusayn al-Mas`ūdī, from Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā al-`Aṭṭār, from Muḥammad b.

Ḥassān al-Rāzī, from Muḥammad b. `Alī al-Kūfī, from al-Ḥasan b. Maḥbūb, from `Abd-Allah b. Jabala, from `Alī b. Abī Ḥamza, from (Imam) Abū `Abd-Allah, peace be on him, who said: “[When] the Mahdī rises the people will refute him because he will return to them as a healthy youth.

No one will keep faith in him except those whose covenant Allah has taken in the first [world of] particles (al-dharr al-awwal).” Ghaybat al-Shaykh[^7]: It has been narrated in a tradition that the Master of Time has a similarity with Jonah (Yūnus): “His return from his occultation while he is in the prime of his youth.” Some of the traditions which we mentioned or will soon mention, interpret and clarify other traditions like the following two: Ghaybat al-Shaykh[^8]: Sa`d b.

`Abd-Allah, from Muḥammad b. `Īsā b. `Ubaid, from Ismā’īl b. Abān, from `Amr b. Shimr, from Jābir al-Ju`fī, from (Imam) Abū Ja`far, peace be on him, who said: Umar b. al-Khaṭṭāb asked Amīr al-Mu’minīn `Alī b.