= It is in *Musnad Ahmad* (3571).

On this topic, from Abu Hurayrah: recorded by al-Tirmidhi (2381) and Ibn Hibban (5953), and its chain is sound.

From Abu Sa'id al-Khudri: recorded by Ahmad (11313), Abu Ya'la (987), Ibn Hibban (6823), al-Hakim 4/557, and Abu Nu'aym in *al-Hilyah* 3/101, with the wording: "The Hour will not come until the earth is filled with oppression and hostility. Then a man from my *'itrah* — or from my household — will come forth, one who will fill it with justice and equity, just as it was filled with oppression and hostility." This is Ahmad's wording, and its chain is sound. Abu Nu'aym said: It is well-known from the hadith of Abu al-Siddiq on the authority of Abu Sa'id. We say: Part of it will come later with the author under number (4285).

From 'Ali ibn Abi Talib: it will come later with the author after this. Its chain is sound.

From Ibn 'Abbas: recorded by Ibn Abi Shaybah 15/196 and Abu 'Amr al-Dani in *al-Sunan al-Waridah fi al-Fitan* (559), who said: "The days and nights will not pass until a young man from us, the people of the household, assumes authority — one whom tribulations have not touched, nor has he touched them." Its chain is sound. And something like this cannot be said on the basis of personal opinion.

Indeed, those whose word is reckoned with and to whom recourse is had among the verifying scholars of knowledge have affirmed the correctness of the emergence of the Mahdi, which the people of the Sunnah and the community believe in. For al-Hafiz Abu Ja'far al-'Uqayli said in *al-Du'afa'* 2/76, in the biography of Ziyad ibn Bayan: "Concerning the Mahdi, there are hadiths with sound chains that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: 'A man will come forth from me — and it is said: from my household — whose name matches my name, and whose father's name matches my father's name.' As for the one from the descendants of Fatimah, there is some issue with its chain, as al-Bukhari said." We say: He means by that the hadith of Ziyad ibn Bayan, which will come later with the author under number (4284).

Al-Hafiz al-Mizzi transmitted in *Tahdhib al-Kamal*, in the biography of Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Jundi 25/149, from Imam al-Bayhaqi his statement: "The hadiths explicitly stating the emergence of the Mahdi are sounder in chain."

And Imam Abu Bakr ibn al-'Arabi said in *'Aridat al-Ahwadhi* 9/77, after mentioning several hadiths about the Mahdi, his description, and that he is from the descendants of Fatimah: "What is sound from all of this is that a man from his household will rule over it, whose name matches his name."