The Appearance of the Mahdī

Abdullāh ibn Masʿūd (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The days will not come to an end, nor will time pass away, until a man from my Household rules the Arabs, and his name will correspond to mine.” This was narrated by Imām Aḥmad, Abū Dāwūd, and al-Tirmidhī with sound chains. Al-Tirmidhī remarked, “This ḥadīth is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ (fair and authentic).” Supporting narrations on the same subject also come from ʿAlī, Abū Saʿīd, Umm Salamah, and Abū Hurayrah.

Al-ʿAllāmah al-Saffārīnī said, “The reports and traditions concerning the Mahdī have become overwhelmingly numerous.”

Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728 AH) stated, “The ḥadīths invoked as evidence for…"