English
Saeed Abu Othman told us, on the authority of Jabir, on the authority of Abu Jaafar, he said: “Then the Mahdi will appear in Mecca at the evening prayer, with the banner of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s prayers and peace be upon him), his shirt, his sword, and signs, light, and clarification. Then when he prays the evening prayer, he calls out at the top of his voice, saying: I remind you of Allah, O people, and your position is in the hands of your Lord. He has taken the proof, sent the prophets, and revealed the Book, and commanded you not to associate anything with Him, and to maintain obedience to Him. And to obey His Messenger, and to live what the Qur’an has brought to life, and to destroy what it has killed, and to be helpers in guidance and a burden on piety, for the world has approached its annihilation and demise, and it has declared farewell. I call you to Allah, and to His Messenger, and to act according to His Book, and to kill falsehood, and to revive its Sunnah, and three hundred and thirteen men will appear, the number of the people of Badr, without an appointment, with a lottery like the autumn lottery, monks. By night, he is a lion by day, and Allah will open the land of Hijaz to the Mahdi, and extract those from Bani Hashim who were in prison, and the black banners will descend on Kufa, and he will send the pledge of allegiance to the Mahdi, and the Mahdi will send his soldiers in the horizons, and he will kill oppression and its people, and the countries will be straightened for him, and Allah will conquer Constantinople at his hands.”