جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « minor occultation » در نشریات گروه « علوم قرآن و حدیث »

“Muhammad ibn Othman” is the second representative and one of the pillars of the four representatives during the Minor Occultation and the mediator between Imam Mahdi (A.S) and the Shia during this period. The present research is seeking the answer to this question that how far and to what extent Muhammad ibn Othman impacted the confrontations with Imamate problems during the Minor Occultation; a period in which Imamate, on one hand, had faced the crisis of the absence of its Imam for the first time and on the other hand, encountered all types of social problems; in a way that the Imamate family has been attacked from all aspects. The present paper, with a library method, and using the analysis of historical data, investigates the life of Muhammad ibn Othman and explains this important fact that Muhammad ibn Othman behaved according to the various affairs of Imamate, one of the most important components in the field of legal representation, with his constant communication with Imam Mahdi (a.s). he acted according to Imam’s orders in receiving letters and religious taxes and delivering them to Imam or spending them, and had special role in dealing with the claimants of attorney and some disobedient lawyers.

Some scholars at the Minor Occultation era, in addition to transmitting the teachings of the People of the Household in the form of narrations and works of the past people, also played the role of advocate in the so-called foundation for delegation; among them, we can mention Muhammad Ibn Homam Eskafi.
This paper, with a descriptive-analytic method, intends to investigate the position and role of Muhammad ibn Homam in the so-called foundation for delegation.
This study, by investigating and searching the historical and hadith sources, proves that Muhammad ibn Homam was one of the members of the so-called foundation for delegation during the second and third lawyer period and was in charge of the so-called foundation for delegation for short time. Moreover, by investigating his role in the so-called foundation for delegation, we mention that he had played a significant role in consolidating the delegation of Muhammad ibn Othman and Hussain ibn Noah, and in confronting the false claimants and devious attorneys, especially Shalmaghani, and has used the strategy of prevarication to conceal the name and the location of the Twelfth Imam.

With the passage of prolonged centuries of historical trends of the minor Occultation, changes have occurred in some of the vocabularies of that time, so that it seems some related words have lost their past meaning and are understood differently and of course many of these words have preserved the originality of their concept with the passage of time. Anyway, further analysis and correct recognition of these concepts guide us to a precise understanding of some of the historical concepts. Meanwhile, the components such as “the Twelvers” have been fertile with the passage of time during the minor Occultation and their conceptual originality is preserved. While other concepts such as “absence”, “the message-taker”, and “representative” have lost their past meaning to some extent after the minor Occultation and a different concept is provided for them.

Investigating the atmosphere of Minor Occultation period leads us to conclude that Imamites at that time had a great movement in different social fields. It seems despite various theories on the whyness of such an encounter، the dissimulation of one’s faith as Mokhtār’s theory had the most implication on the pragmatic approach of Imamites at that period; in a way that the representation network as a pre-designed institution based its mechanism on strict secrecy and not only was the place of Imam disclosed for the Imamites، but also they did not reveal the name of the Imam. Moreover، Imamites hadith sources and theological speculations have been considerably affected by the emerged conditions. After examining the theories in this regard، this article tries to understand Mokhtār’s perspective using historical-anecdotal (hadithi) texts.

The emergence of the false messianic claimants was the major challenge of Imamites at the time of minor Occultation. “Ahmad Ibn HelālAbartāie” was one of the well-known false claimants at that period. The present research with an aim to investigate the false claims of deputyship of Imam Mahdi at the minor Occultation explains the false claims of Ahmad Ibn HelālAbartāie. This paper is organized on the basis of descriptive-analytic method and based on the research’s aim, it is an explanatory research and in terms of data used, it is exploratory-qualitative. Moreover, while we present the biography of Ahmad Ibn HelālAbartāie, we point to the reasons that caused the emergence of such claims by him. The Imam Mahdi’s ethology in confrontation with him is among the issues raised in this study. At the end, we explore Ahmad Ibn HelālAbartāie’s dignity’s character. The ending discussion is devoted to the mass of traditions transmitted from him. Due to Imam Mahdi’s decisive encounter with him, his claims did not attract enough followers to itself. However, that he died in the same year as of his false claims has affected this area.