Thread by @Faran_Rabbani

When is #ImamMahdi supposed to come?
Short Answer: 14th Century after Hijra.
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#ImamMahdi has always been destined to appear in the fourteenth century after hijra. Following are some of the proofs from ahadith and the scholars of the past millennia.

#ImamMahdi is a savior, messianic figure whose advent has been foretold in the Islamic literature. This central figure is supposed to come at a time when Islam would be at its lowest and the Muslims would be in their worst condition spiritually, morally and otherwise.

Islam could not digress within the first 3 centuries as per the hadith of the Holy Prophet (sa).
خیر القرون قرنی، ثم الذین یلونھم، ثم الذین یلونھم
The best century (in terms of guidance) is mine, then the one after it, then the one after it.

Hadith 1
Hudaifa ibn al-yamān (ra) narrates:
Holy Prophet (sa) said, “When 1240 years would have passed, then after that Allah will send the Mahdi”. [an-Najmus Saqib, part 2, pg 209]

It is narrated in the above-mentioned book that this hadith was so famous among the scholars that the teacher of Imam Bukhari and Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal, Hadhrat Yahya Bin Saeed al-Qattan has quoted it in his collection of ahadith.

Famous compilers of ahadith from the 3rd Islamic century, Abdullah Bin Muhammad Bin Abi Shaibah and Abd bin Umaid (author of Musnad Kabir Wa Tafsir) has quoted this hadith.

Regarding Ibn Abi Shaibah, Imam Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani had written that he was the most significant muhaddith of his time who had committed the largest numbers of ahadith to his memory. Imam Bukhari has quoted 30 ahadith from him while Imam Muslim has quoted 1540 ahadith from him.

Hadith 2
Among the Shia circles a hadith has been quoted in the book ‘Dabistane Mazahib’ pg 258 published in Lucknow that, “The sun will rise from the west when 1300 years would pass (from this day)”.

According to Syedna Ali (ra) and many other scholars of the Ummah the sun rising from the west after 1300 years is none other than the #ImamMahdi (Biharul Anwar, vol 13, pg 153, printed in Iran)

Hadith 3
Abu Qatadah Ansari (ra) narrated that the Holy Prophet (sa) said “the signs of the emergence of #ImamMahdi will begin to manifest after ‘The 2 hundred years’”. (Ibn Maja, Kitabul Fitan)

Scholar 1
Famous Muhaddith from South East Asia Allama Imam Ali al-Qari (rh) commenting on this hadith wrote, “it is possible that the “laam” in “al-mi’atain” (the 2 hundred years) in this hadith refers to the 200 years after the first 1 thousand years of Islam...

which makes it 1200 years. These signs will become manifest after the 1200 years and that would be the time when #ImamMahdi will emerge”. (Mirqātul Mafātih Sharh Mishkāt al-Masābih, Juz 10, pg 182)

Scholar 2
The famous poet from the Indian subcontinent Maulānā Altāf Hussain Hāli has written in his urdu poem in 1296 hijra that the condition of Muslims is at its worst and that no one is here to man the ship of Islam.

Scholar 3
A famous Ahle Hadith scholar Nawāb Siddiq Hassan Khan at the end of the 13th century hijra and the beginning of 14th century hijra wrote in his book Tajumānul Qur’ān vol 3, pg 567 (published 1306 hijra) that, “1300 + few years have passed...

since the time of the Holy Prophet (sa) and the Qiyamah is at hand, Islam is at its weakest, elements of misguidance are spread everywhere and faith of Muslims is only superficial”. He further stated, “Although according to the promise of the Holy Prophet (sa)...

at least a group of Muslims throughout the ages remain victorious or powerful, but this overall downfall of the Muslims does not seem to be reversed without the help of #ImamMahdi whose emergence shall happen” v.1, p.145

He then stated, “The big sign of the ‘nearing of the hour’ is this overwhelming of ignorance towards the faith and over indulgence in the love and matters of this world which is increasing by the day in this 14th century since the hijra” pg 82.

Scholar 4
Shah Waliullah Muhaddath Dehlavi (rh) (d.1171 hj) wrote in his will that, “It is the desire of this Faqir that if I am alive at the time of Hadhrat Ruh Allah (as) then I be the first to extend the salām of Rasool Allah (sa). And if I do am not alive at that time...

then my children or someone from my followers, whoever is blessed to be alive at that time extend the salām because that would be the last army/group of Islam”. (Majmua Wasāyā Arba’, pg. 84, Published in Hyderabad, Pakistan)

He has also mentioned that the year of the emergence of #ImamMahdi is mentioned in the word Charāgh Deen which according to the numerical value (ilm abjad/hisāb jamal) is 1268 hj.

Scholar 5
Similarly, the reformer of 13th Islamic century Syed Ahmad Barelvi, martyr of Balakot (d. 1256 hj), one of his disciples Hadhrat Momin Dehlavi in his couplet wrote, “O Momin! if you are alive at the time of the Promised Mahdi, then you be the one to extend the salām.

Scholar 6
Abu Qabīl Hāni bin Nādir al-Misri (rh) (d. 128 hj) known for his work on ilm al-Malāhim wa al-fitan has famously written that people have ijma’ that #ImamMahdi will be emerge after 1204 years. (Quoted in Hijaj al-kirāmah, Nawāb Siddiq Hassan Khan, published 1296 hj).

Scholar 7
Maulānā Abul Khayr Nurul Hassan has also mentioned the same in his book Iqtirābus Sa’a (published 1301 hj (beginning of the 14th Islamic century)).

Scholar 8
Among the Shia’ scholars, Imām Bāqar (as)’s son abu Abdullah Imām Ja’far Sādiq (as) (d. 148 hj) has stated, “#Mahdi will emerge in the year 200” (after the first 1000 years). (Quoted in Iqtirābus Sa’a by Abul Khayr Noorul Hassan)

Scholar 9
A Wali’ullah from the 6th century hijra Nai’matullah Wali (rh) spoke of a vision which was shown to him by Allah, “After 1200 years would pass, I see many strange things would come to pass. Many tribulations would come to pass in (India) and around its corners...

there will be war and cruelty. Revolutions would come about. The previous kingdom would cease to exist and a new coin would be issued lesser in value. When the autumn (reference to the 13th century hijra) would have passed then the Sun of Spring shall come forth...

(at the head of the 14th century) [reference towards the reformer of the 14th century = #ImamMahdi]

Scholar 10
Imām Abdul Wahhāb Shi’rāni (rh) (d. 976 hj) has stated that the birth of #ImamMahdi shall take place in Sha’bān 1255 hijra. (Kitāb Noorul Absār Fi Manāqib āal Bait)

Scholar 11
Author of al-isha’at fi ashrātis Sa’a, Syed Muhammad Bin Abdur Rasool Bin Abdul Syed al-Hussaini al-Barzenji (rh) has deduced from the narrations about #ImamMahdi that he will either emerge in the 12th or the 13th century after hijra.

Scholar 12
Sufi Abdur Rahim Garori (rh) (martyred 1192 hj) was shown by Allah that #ImamMahdi will appear in the beginning of the 13th century hijra. He penned this in a sindhi poem of his. “The span of the world is 7000 years. 5600 years have passed before the advent

of Ahmad of Medina (sa). Remaining 1400 years are about to pass as well and that would be the ākhira. At that time, piety will cease to exist, those who stop from the path of sins would also not be found anywhere. That would be the time of the emergence of #ImamMahdi.

What Allah has opened up before me is that the #Mahdi will appear in the beginning of the 13th century hijra”.

Scholar 13
Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi (rh) (d. 1239 hj) has stated that the ‘signs after 200 years’ refers to the emergence of signs after 1200 years since the hijra (of the Holy Prophet [sa])’.

Hadhrat Shah Ism’ail Shaheed of Balakot (rh) has also quoted this and has stated that the birth of Mahdi is to be in the first part of the 13th century and his emergence in the later half (al-Arb’een Fi Ahwāl al-Mahdiyyeen, pg 44, published 1268 hj from Calcutta).

SUFIS of the 13th century

Here are 9 notable Sufis (Muslim Mystics and Sages) just to name a few, from the 13th century hijra from various Muslim countries on whom Allah revealed that it is this century (13th) destined for the emergence of #ImamMahdi.

1.Hazrat Qādhi Thanaullah of Pani Pat (d. 1225 hj).
2.Hazrat Sheikh Ali Asghar al-brojardi of Iran (d. 1231 hj).
3.Hazrat Pir Sahib of Kotha Sharif, Sarhad (d. 1294 hj).
4.Nawab Siddiq Hassan Khan of Bhopal (d. 1307 hj)
5.Maulānā Abdul Ghafoor scholar of Ahle Hadith (d. 1307 hj)

6.Maulānā Syed Muhammad Hassan of Amroha (alive in 1291 hj).
7.Maulānā Syed Abdul Hayy of Ilahabad (d. 1923CE)
8.Makhdoom Shah Muhammad Hassan of Rāmpur (Sābri Chishti)
9.Syed Gulāb Shah of Ludhiāna

This begs the question. If the birth of #ImamMahdi was destined in the 13th century and his emergence in the beginning of the 14th century of hijra, then where is he?

I got good news for you.
#ImamMahdiHasCome

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in Islam believes that the promised #ImamMahdi was none other than Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) of Qadian. He was born in 1250h and was commissioned by Allah to call people towards Allah in the year 1307 hj in the beginning of the 14th Islamic cent

fulfilling the prophecies.

So, my dear fellow Muslim brothers and sisters, next time your ulema tell you that no one believed that #ImamMahdi was to appear in the 14th Islamic century, show them this thread because clearly they have been lying to you.
والسلام علی من اتبع الھدی