According to these reliable, authentic, and universally accepted narrations, Mahdi will:
Be from among the family of Prophet(SAW), among the descendants of Fatima(RA);
Have a broad forehead and pointed noise;
Appear in one night;
Appear just before the day of judgment;
Have same name as hazrat Muhammad(SAW);
Escape from Madina to Makkah where people will pledge allegiance to him;
Receive pledge and help of Iraqi people;
Fight in battles;
Rule over the Arabs for seven years according to Sunnah;
Spread justice and equity on earth;
Eradicate tyranny and oppression;
Lead a prayer in Mekkah which Jesus(pbuh) will follow in;
NOT be the same individual as the Promised Messiah (Jesus).
http://www.irshad.org/islam/prophecy/mahdi.htm
According to these hadith, Mahdi will:
Be from the Family of Prophet(SAW) and descend from Hussain(RA), son of Fatima(RA);
Appear at the end of time;
Appear when earth is filled with injustice and tyranny and believers are severely oppressed;
Appear when a severe earthquaker will occur and green grass will grow (presumably in Arabia);
Fill the earth with justice and equity;
Spread brotherhood, equity, and devotion among Muslims;
Rule over Muslim community, according to Hadith, for seven or nine years;
Live and act with the qualities of the holy Prophet(SAW).
According to the various hadith quoted, they can’t seem to agree with themselves...
Thanks FN!
The joker who was claimed to be the mahdi and led that group that seized the grand mosque in Mecca back in the 1970s fit one of the prophecies to a ‘t’.
Those nutjobs were convinced that the waters of zamzam (the spring inside the enclosure, near the kaaba) would cure any ills sustained during their “liberation” of the mosque.
The “mahdi” was also convinced that he could not be harmed or killed, and was *picking up live grenades* thrown by the semi-competent Saudi security forces and throwing them back during the last above-ground assault.
Until the last one he picked up happened to explode in his hand, killing him.
There used to be catacombs under the the complex, which is where the really desperate fighting took place; subsequent to this fiasco, the catacombs were filled with rubble and concrete.
This angry, gullible mob of mahdists had a surprising number of survivors after the denouement, so the Saudis paraded them as captives, forcing them to view the body of their mighty leader. That pretty much took the rest of the fight out of them.
Some of them were from the US, and were repatriated, isn’t that nice?
“No virgins for you!!!”
Ka’aba under siege (1979 Grand Mosque Seizure by fake Mahdi)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TOsizlpOss
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mosque_Seizure
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Juhayman_al-Otaibi.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Officers_Juhayman_al-Otaibi-1.jpg
