[^2]: `Iqd al-durar, chap.

[^2]: `Iqd al-durar, chap. 2, pp. 31–32; al-Bayān, chap. 13, p. 129, through his chain of narrators from Ḥudhayfa. [^3]: Al-Bayān fī akhbār Ṣāḥib al-Zamān, chap. 9: “The Prophet’s declaration that the Mahdī is from progeny of al-Ḥusayn, peace be on him,” pp. 121–122; al-Fuṣūl al-muhimma, pp. 195–196; Biḥār al-anwār, vol. 38, chap. 56, pp. 10–11, no. 17, and vol. 51, p. 91; Kashf al-ghumma, vol. 2, pp. 481–482; Dalā’il al-imāma, p. 234. [^4]: Al-Fitan, “Nisbat al-Mahdī,” vol. 5, p.

199; al-Bayān, chap. 16, p. 93. He writes: “al-Ṭabarānī and Abū Nu`aim have narrated it from him”; al-Malāḥim wa -Fitan, pp. 85–86, chap. 195, citing al-Fitan, with the difference that he has narrated from `Abd-Allah b. `Umar and he has said “he will break them up.” ; `Iqd al-durar,…