Reviewing the Traditions about the World after Imam Mahdi (P.B.U.H) from Shia's Perspective

About the world after the death of Imam Mahdi (P.B.U.H), there are traditions and proposed opinions. Some have pointed to the fifty years of chaos, some others have referred to the occurrence of the Resurrection, others have mentioned the continuation of governance by the Mahdi followers, and the rest have talked about the Return of the Saint Imams (Peace be upon them). Each one of these four views which requires the analysis and investigation, has some believers among the ancient and the contemporary people. The importance of this issue is in the fact that a group of diverging flows in the Mahdaviyyat atmosphere by resorting to the Mahdi followers’s view have tried to prove their own view and denied in particular the Return of the Saint Imams (P.B.U.T) and the pure believers and unbelievers in the period after the appearance of Imam Mahdi (P.B.U.H) and through this, they have claimed the presence of twenty four Imams for the Shia. The method used for this research is analytic-descriptive and after compensating for the shortcomings of the previous studies, including the lack of complete presentation of theories and complete criticism of other views, we have proved the Return of the Saint Imams (P.B.U.T) and their governance and thereby invalidated the argument of some of those claiming flows through this research.