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1. Ibn Masʿud by Ahmad, Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, and Ibn Majah;
2. Umm Salama by Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah, and al-Hakim;
3. ʿAli ibn Abi Talib by Ahmad, Abu Dawud, and Ibn Majah;
4. Abu Saʿid al-Khudri by Ahmad, Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah, Abu Yaʿla, and al-Hakim;
5. Thawban by AHmad, Ibn Majah, and al-Hakim;
6. Qurra ibn Iyas al-Muzani by al-Bazzar and al-Tabarani in al-Kabir and al-Awsat;
7. ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Harith ibn Jaz' by Ibn Majah and al-Tabarani in al-Awsat;
8. Abu Hurayra by Ahmad, al-Tirmidhi, Abu Yaʿla, al-Bazzar, al-Tabarani in al-Awsat, and others;
9. Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman by al-Ruwyani;
10. Ibn ʿAbbas by Abu Nuʿaym in Akhbar al-Mahdi;
11. Jabir ibn ʿAbd Allah by Ahmad and Muslim, the latter not mentioning al-Mahdi by name;
12. ʿUthman by al-Daraqutni in al-Afrad;
13. Abu Umama by al-Tabarani in al-Kabir;
14. ʿAmmar ibn Yasir by al-Daraqutni in al-Afrad, al-Khatib, and Ibn ʿAsakir;
15. Jabir ibn Majid al-Sadafi by al-Tabarani in al-Kabir;
16. Ibn ʿUmar by al-Tabarani in al-Awsat;
17. Talha ibn ʿUbayd Allah by al-Tabarani in al-Awsat;
18. Anas ibn Malik by Ibn Majah;
19. ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAwf by Abu Nuʿaym;
20. ʿImran ibn Husayn by Abu ʿAmr al-Dani in his Sunan and others.
Tawatur was reported on the subject by al-Sakhawi in Fath al-Mughith from Abu al-Husayn al-Abirri al-Sijistani's (d. 363) Sharh al-Risala, Manaqib al-Shafiʿi, and Maghani al-Wafa bi Maʿani al-Iktifa; also Abu al-ʿAla' Idris ibn Muhammad ibn Idris al-Husayni al-ʿIraqi in his epistle on the topic; also al-Saffarayini in his Sharh ʿAqidat al-Imam Ahmad; Ibn Khaldun said of the narrations that he was able to gather according to his competence, that the hadiths to that effect contain weaknesses, but it was replied to him that the narrations are too numerous not to reach the level of tawatur and they are in Ahmad, al-Tirmidhi, etc.... and cannot be denied; al-Shawkani in his epistle al-Tawdih fi Tawatur ma Ja'a fi al-Mahdi wa al-Dajjal wa al-Masih; Ibn Hajar al-Haytami in al-Sawwaiq al-Muhriqa and al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi ʿAlamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar...
Al-Kattani also says: "I have seen in our time many people expressing doubt about al-Mahdi, saying: 'Are the hadiths pertaining to him really decisive as evidence or not' and many of them choose to stand with Ibn Khaldun and rely on him, although he is not one of the experts in this field. And truth demands that we go back, in every discipline, to those that master it, and ironclad knowledge belongs to Allah Most High and Exalted."
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[2000-07-10]
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