نشریه مطالعات مهدوی
پیاپی 48 (تابستان 1399)

This article examines the position and extent of the Arabs' support for the Mahdavi uprising by focusing on the narration of Ibn Abi Yifur from Imam Sadegh (A.S). The narrations that have been included in this regard in hadith books have caused two different approaches to this issue due to the apparent differences in their content. Because some narrations indicate that they do not accompany their Imam. Some people refer to this news and introduce Imam Mahdi as an anti-Arab person. While a group of news promises their (arabs’) cooperation and help with the uprising of the Imam. With the formation of a hadith family in Shiite sources and based on external evidences such as the narrations of the similarity of Imam Mahdi's biography with the Prophet's biography and the principle of non-racism in Islam, it becomes clear that naturally believers from any group and tribe, Arabs and Non-Arabs have no prohibition on helping the Imam rise. Accordingly, if in some narrations there is a talk of the Arabs not accompanying the Imam and the Imam confronting them, assuming that the document is correct, they refer to certain groups of Arabs who insist on their misguidance.

Despite the many similarities in the comparative study of the Safavid state and the Islamic Revolution, there are fundamental differences in the two independent Shiite governments in Iran. These differences are in different areas. One of the main differences is between the Safavid view and that of Islamic Revolution to the doctrine of Mahdism, which can be discussed in issues such as the divine and religious legitimacy of the government, the role of scholars and jurists, and the groundwork for the Appearance. The present study seeks to compare the type of attention paid to them in these two Shiite governments. This issue has been studied through the library method and analytical-descriptive approach.

By examining the Mahdavi narrations and forming a hadith family in the field of timing (Tawghit), we know that expressing any sign and symptom of Appearance, if it leads to some kind of timing, is a deviation and its narrator is considered a liar. This issue is strictly forbidden in the narrations; because in some narrations, the time of Appearance has been considered as one of the divine secrets or like the time (of resurrection). Some contemporary scholars have expressed timing in a probabilistic and concise way. As a result of the issue of timing, many damages will be imposed on the religion and the Islamic society. The most important findings in this article, which have been prepared in a descriptive and analytical manner, are that timing is strictly forbidden in narrations. In addition, setting the time will damage the basis of the belief in the promised Savior. It may also lead to the denial of the principle of Mahdism, despair, misuse of beliefs, and the emergence of false claimants in Islamic society.

Mahdism is one of the most important issues for Islam and the Imami Shiite religion, which has always been abused by some claimants and their followers over time. Waqifite was one of the deviant movements that at the beginning of the Imamate of Imam Reza (A.S), while confronting the Shiite Imamate, changed the course of Mahdism and broke the unity of the Shiite community. The actions of this movement in order to establish its position in spiritual distortion and misinterpretation of narrations related to Mahdism were such that it provoked a special reaction from Imam Reza (A.S). This article, with a brief reference to the misuse of Waqifite from some narrations related to the subject of Mahdism, and presentation of misinterpretations and manipulations of the text of the hadith, has examined some of the actions of the followers of the Waqifite in the spiritual and verbal distortion of Mahdavi narrations.