5—Umm Salama, may Allah be pleased with her, reported: I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say: “The Mahdi is one of my descendants, through the line of Fatima.” (1).
6—Jābir, may Allah be pleased with him, reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Jesus son of Mary will descend, and their leader, the Mahdi, will say, ‘Come and lead us in prayer.’ He will reply, ‘No; some of them are leaders over others, as an honor bestowed by Allah upon this nation.’” (2).
7—Abū Saīd al-Khudrī, may Allah be pleased with him, reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “The one behind whom Jesus son of Mary will pray is from among us.” (3).
= Yahyā ibn Saīd al-Qattān, whereas Yahyā ibn Maīn and al-Nasā’ī deemed him weak.” *Awn al-Mabūd*, 11:375.
Al-Dhahabī said in *al-Mīzān*: “Ahmad said: ‘I hope that his hadith is acceptable.’ Abū Dāwūd said: ‘He is weak.’” *Mīzān al-Itidāl*, 3:236.
Ibn Hajar said of him: “He was truthful but made mistakes, and he was accused of holding Kharijite views.” *Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb*, 2:83.
Ibn al-Qayyim described Abū Dāwūd’s chain of transmission as “sound.” *al-Manār al-Munīf*, p. 144, ed. Shaykh Abd al-Fattāh Abū Ghudda.
Al-Albānī said: “Its chain of transmission is *hasan* (good).” *Sahīh al-Jāmi*, 6:22–23, hadith no. 6612.
(1) *Sunan Abī Dāwūd*, 11:373; and *Sunan Ibn Mājah*, 2:1368.
Al-Albānī graded it “authentic” in *Sahīh al-Jāmi*, 6:22, hadith no. 6610.
See Abd al-Alīm’s treatise on the Mahdi, p. 160.
(2) Narrated by al-Hārith ibn Abī Usāma in his *Musnad*, as cited in Ibn al-Qayyim’s *al-Manār al-Munīf*, pp. 147–148, and al-Suyūtī’s *al-Hāwī fī al-Fatāwī*, 2:64.
Ibn al-Qayyim said: “This is a sound chain of transmission.”
Abd al-Alīm also graded it authentic in his treatise on the Mahdi, p. 144.
(3) Narrated by Abū Nuaym in *Akhbār al-Mahdī*, as stated by al-Suyūtī in *al-Hāwī*, 2: =