WILAYAH NEWS VOICE OF THE GLOBAL AWAKENING
Related Articles
The Forty Hadiths from Imam al-Ridā about Imam al-Mahdi (peace be upon them) – 3
The Fifth Hadith
The Master of this Affair bears a resemblance to five of the prophets.
Narrated by Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Wāsitī and Muhammad ibn Yūnus, who said: al-Hasan ibn Qiyāmā al-Ṣayrafī narrated to us. He said: I asked Abū al-Hasan al-Ridā (peace be upon him) and said, “May I be your ransom, what happened to your father?”
He said: “He passed away, just as his forefathers (peace be upon them) passed away.”
I said: “Then what should I do about a hadith that Zar‘ah ibn Muhammad al-Ḥaḍramī narrated to me, from Samā‘ah ibn Mihrān, that Abū ‘Abdullāh (peace be upon him) said: ‘This son of mine bears a resemblance to five of the prophets: he will be envied as Joseph (peace be upon him) was envied, and he will go into occultation as Joseph went into occultation,’ and he mentioned three others?”
He said: “Zar‘ah has lied; this is not how Samā‘ah’s hadith is. Rather, he said: ‘The Master of this Affair’—meaning the Qā’im—bears a resemblance to five of the prophets, and he did not say ‘my son’.” [8]
I say: This report, like the previous one, shows that Imam al-Ṣādiq (peace be upon him) did not say ‘my son’ such that the report would apply to Imam Mūsā ibn Ja‘far (peace be upon him). Rather, he said ‘the Master of this Affair’, meaning the Qā’im, al-Mahdī, the Proof, son of al-Hasan (peace be upon them).
[8] Rijāl al-Kashshī, p. 476.
