Validation of Textual Hadiths Related to "Bishārat al-Rasūl (pbuh) bil Mahdi (as)" in the manuscript of "Minhāj Ulil Albāb bi Nuhaj al-Sidād wa Turuq al-Rashād" with an Attitude on the Evidence and Sources of the Two Sects

Belief in the reappearance of a savior in the end of time is one of the issues agreed upon by the two sects, and this issue has been emphasized and clarified in Sunni and Shia narrative sources. Manuscript of the book "Minhāj Ulil Albāb bi Nuhaj al-Sidād wa Turuq al-Rashād" authored by Ahmad ibn Sharif (eighth century A.H.) about arguing the authenticity of Shia with reference to the accepted narratives and hadiths found in Sunni Hadith Collections, among other valuable works in which Mahdism and the Prophet's promise of the reappearance of Imam Mahdi (as) are also discussed, and it has expressed several hadiths in this context through the ways of the Sunnis and with reference to their accepted books under the title "Bishārat al-Rasūl (pbuh) bil Mahdi (as)". In this article, according to the evidence and sources of the two sects and textual validation, the narratives of this chapter of the manuscript have been analyzed in a descriptive and analytical method, and it was found that although it is not possible to achieve frequency in the documents of hadiths and their words, however, the frequency of meaning and the reliability of their issuance leads us to be sure and certain about the principle of the reappearance of the Savior and his attribution to the Prophet (pbuh) and the companionship and imitation of Jesus to him and the purpose of the reappearance of the Savior.