Historical investigation - the validity of the claim of connection and the grounding of the promised appearance of the end of time in Fariqin sources and its validation

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Document Type : Research Article

Author

• Seyed Morteza Hosseini Shirg

PhD student, Department of Quran and Hadith Sciences, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

10.22067/jquran.2025.91901.1802

Abstract

Belief in Mahdism and the claim of connection with the Promised Mahdi have been among the justifications of legitimacy in some political currents. In the meantime, we can come across historical claims and also a few hadiths in narrative sources that speak of a government and a government that, with a special Chinese introduction, are the foundation for the appearance of the promised Mahdi, and in fact, their government is connected to the Mahdavi government. What is worthy of question and debate is the evaluation of the validity of the narrations that have been narrated in the sources of Fariqin in this field. In order to answer the question raised by the content analysis method, firstly, the historical course of the claims about the connected state will be discussed, and then several narratives related to the debate will be listed from the sources of the parties and their textual and documentary criticism will be discussed. In the meantime, the hadith mentioned in the book Ghaibat Nu'mani can be cited to some extent, and as a result, it can be cited. and finally, with seriousness, they prepared the preparations for the appearance of the promised Mahdi and put their facilities at the disposal of the Mahdavi uprising.

Keywords

• Mahdism
• politics
• Abbasids
• hadith jurisprudence

Main Subjects

• Quran and Hadith Studies

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