How to respond to those who deny the hadiths of the expected Mahdi?
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The Shaykh : The second paragraph?
The questioner : The second paragraph is about the hadiths of the expected Mahdi.
The Shaykh : As for the hadiths of the Mahdi, they are divided into four categories:
Fabricated hadiths, weak hadiths, and good hadiths which, taken together, reach the level of authenticity, being authentic due to other supporting evidence.
In fact, some scholars have said that some of them are authentic in their own right.
However, this is not the claimed Mahdi, who is said to be in a cellar in Iraq, for this has no basis; it is a myth and has no truth to it.
But the Mahdi whose existence is affirmed by the hadiths is a man like any other of the children of Adam; he is created and born at his appointed time, and he emerges to the people at his appointed time.
This is the story of the Mahdi. Denying him absolutely is an error, and affirming him absolutely is an error. How is that?
Affirming him in a way that includes the expected Mahdi who is said to be in the cellar is an error, because believing in this hidden Mahdi is a defect in reason and misguidance in the Shari'ah, and it has no basis. Affirming the Mahdi about whom the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) informed, regarding whom the hadiths are numerous, and who will be born at his time and emerge at his time, is the truth.
The questioner : The second paragraph is about the hadiths of the expected Mahdi.
The Shaykh : As for the hadiths of the Mahdi, they are divided into four categories:
Fabricated hadiths, weak hadiths, and good hadiths which, taken together, reach the level of authenticity, being authentic due to other supporting evidence.
In fact, some scholars have said that some of them are authentic in their own right.
However, this is not the claimed Mahdi, who is said to be in a cellar in Iraq, for this has no basis; it is a myth and has no truth to it.
But the Mahdi whose existence is affirmed by the hadiths is a man like any other of the children of Adam; he is created and born at his appointed time, and he emerges to the people at his appointed time.
This is the story of the Mahdi. Denying him absolutely is an error, and affirming him absolutely is an error. How is that?
Affirming him in a way that includes the expected Mahdi who is said to be in the cellar is an error, because believing in this hidden Mahdi is a defect in reason and misguidance in the Shari'ah, and it has no basis. Affirming the Mahdi about whom the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) informed, regarding whom the hadiths are numerous, and who will be born at his time and emerge at his time, is the truth.