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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Selected Narrations about the Twelfth Imam volume 2 Section Fifty The traditions that describe his standard/flag, its bearer, and what is written on it Comprised of nine traditions Al-Fitan[^1]: Rushdain narrated to us, from ibn Lahī`a, from Abū Zur`a, from ibn Zarīr, from `Ammār b. Yāsir who said: “The standard-bearer of the Mahdī will be Shu`ayb b.

Ṣāliḥ.” It also mentions: Al-Walīd and Rushdain narrated to us, from ibn Lahī`a al-Kūfī, from Abū Zur`a, from ibn Zarīr, from `Ammār b. Yāsir who said: “When al-Sufyānī reaches Kūfa and kills the helpers of the family Muḥammad, the Mahdī will emerge and his flag-bearer will be Shu`ayb b. Ṣāliḥ.” Al-Fitan[^2]: Narrated to us al-Walīd and Rushdain, from ibn Lahī`a, from Ka`b b.

`Alqama, from Sufyān al-Kalbī who said: “The standard-bearer of Mahdī will be a male—very young in age—with a scarcely grown yellow beard (al-Walīd did not mention yellow). If he fights against the mountains, he will shake them (al-Walīd said ‘he will break them down’) until ‘Īliyā descends.” Al-Fitan[^3]: Narrated to us Yaḥyā b.

al-Yamān, from Sufyān al-Thaurī, from Abī Isḥāq, from Nauf al-Bikālī who said: “It is written on Mahdī’s flag: Allegiance is only for Allah (al-bay`atu li-llāh).” Al-Bayān fī akhbāri Ṣāḥib al-Zamān[^4]: Al-Ṭabarānī has recorded in al-Ausaṭ from ibn `Umar who said: The Prophet, Allah's blessings be on him [and his family], held `Alī’s hand, [peace be on him], and said, “From his descendants will emerge a youth who will fill the earth with fairness and justice.

When you see this, then it is necessary for you to look out for the Tamīmī youth. Surely, he will come from the East and he is the standard-bearer of the Mahdī. Kamāl al-dīn[^5]: It has been narrated that on the standard of the Mahdī is written: “Highness is only for Allah, Mighty and Majestic be He (al-raf`atu li-llāh `azza wa jal).” Biḥār al-anwār[^6]: From al-Sayyid `Alī b. `Abd al-Ḥamīd, through his chain of narrators to the Book of al-Faḍl b.

Shādhān who said: “It has been narrated that on the standard of the Mahdī is written, ‘Listen and obey.’” Al-`Arf al-wardī[^7]: He (meaning al-Nu`aim) has also recorded from ibn Sīrīn that, “On the flag of the Mahdī is written, ‘Allegiance (al-bay`a) is only for Allah.’” Al-Fitan[^8]: Rushdain narrated to us, from ibn Lahī`a, from `Abd al-Raḥmān b.