Since the subject” Imam Mahdi (hgr)” is so important item, and on the other hand, “Al-sihāh Al-sittah”[1] are the most valid and authentic narration books of Sunni, in next posts you will read some contents which are documented to these six books.
I hope Sunni brothers address the issue of Mahdaviiat [Mahdism] more accurately, God willing.
Most Sunni scholars believe that after the Qur’an, there hasn’t been revealed any book, as great and authentic as the book “Sahih Bukhāri.
In the eighth volume of the book Sahih Bukhāri it reads:
Do you know the meaning of “Tawātor”?
If a narration has too much narrators
to collude on falsity, it will be called “Motawāter”.
It means there is no doubt about its correctness.
Ibn Khalkān wrote, “The mentioned Imam [Imam Mahdi (hgr)] was born on Rabi’ al-Awal 9th, 258 A.H
It also has been said that he was born on the eighth of the same, 258 A.H; which is correct to us.”
(Vafiyāt al-A’yān, Vol.1, P.571)
Kamāl al-Din Muhammad Shafe’I said:
۱- “Sunan” of Abu Dāwood has 5274 ʼAḥādīth [Hadiths].
And twelve of them in the volume four, part “Kitāb al-Mahdi” are about Imam Mahdi (hgr).
۲-“Sunan” of Tirmidhi: In Abwāb al-Ghadr, there is a chapter named “Mā Jā’a fi al-Mahdi”.
In this chapter four ʼAḥādīth are explicitly [mentioned] about Imam Mahdi (hgr).
They say [the twelve caliphs] are as follows: Abubakr, Umar, Uthmān, Imam Ali (pbuh), Yazid, Mu’āwiyah bin Yazid, Marwān ibn Hakam, Abd-ol-Malik ibn Marwān, Walid ibn Abd-ol-Malik, Solaymān ibn Abd-ol-Malik and Umar ibn Abd-ol-Aziz. (‘Awn al-Ma’bud, V.11, P.361)
But there is a question as:
Did Yazīd who martyred the Prophet’s very dear grandson [Imam Ḥusayn (pbuh)],
A lot of Sunni scholars have written books regarding Imam Mahdi (hgr).
For example, the first one who wrote an independent book about Imam Mahdi (hgr)
was “Ibād ibn Ya’qūb Rawajati”.
His book is “Akhbār Al-Mahdi”.
He lived in Imam Askari (pbuh)’s lifetime,
A large number of Sunni scholars have stated that, believing in the Promised Mahdi (hgr) is an agreement case for Muslims.
Evan some people say, “The denier of Mahdi (hgr)’s emergence, is a heathen.” They also have quoted some narrations in this area.
Some of them believe that “The denier of Mahdi (hgr) must be kiled.”
[Here are] the names of some Non-Shiites poets whom composed poems about Ahl Al-Bayt1 and their love toward them; especially to Imam Mahdi (hgr):
Shams Al-Din Muhammad Ibn-Ali [deceased 955 AH], who was of Sunnite scholars and had high dignity to Damascus’s scholars.
Ahmad Jāmi who was entitled as “Shaykh Al-Islam” [deceased 536 AH] was Sunni and of the Sufi [mystic]’s great men.
Attār Neyshāburi [deceased 618 AH], who was of famous Sunni and Hanafi’s mystics [in Islam].
“Abulfazl Yahyā Ibn-Salāmah” was from Shafe’ei sect and one of prominent scholars of sixth century [deceased 551 AH], who was probably the first Sunnite that expressed his believes in poem format about Imams (pbu th); specially Imam Mahdi (hgr).
Among his poets [are these verses]:
Oh you! Who ask me about the Ahl Al-Bayt’s[1] kindness
