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The 12th Infallible Shia leader, Imam Ḥujjat ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mahdī, Imam Zamān (af) was born on the 15th of the month of Sha‘bān, in the year 255 Hijrī, in the city of SāmarrāÞ.[1] He has the same name and agnomen (Abū al-Qāsim) as the Prophet of Islam (ṣ).[2] The Infallible Imams (‘a) have refrained from mentioning his primary name.[3]
From amongst the titles of the Imam (‘a) are the following: Ḥujjat, QāÞim, Khalf Ṣāliḥ, Ṣāḥib al-Zamān,[4] and Baqīyatallah[5]; the most famous of these is that of the Mahdī (‘a).[6] His father was the 11th leader of the Shia, Imam Ḥasan ‘Askarī (‘a) and his mother was the honorable lady Narjīs,[7] who has also been mentioned by the names of Rayḥānah, Sūsan, and Ṣaqīl.[8] The degree of the virtue and spirituality of the lady Narjīs Khātūn was considered to be so high, that Ḥakimah, the daughter of Imam Hādī (‘a), (who was herself a very lofty individual), considered her as being the master from amongst her family and named herself as being her servant.[9]
Imam Mahdī (‘a) has had two distinct periods of Ghaybah: one of these periods was short in duration (Ghaybat al-Sughrā) and the other is long (Ghaybat al-Kubrā). The first period began from the time of his birth until the era of the ‘Select Representatives’, and the second began from the end of the first, and will continue until the time of his reappearance and revolution.[10]
From amongst the titles of the Imam (‘a) are the following: Ḥujjat, QāÞim, Khalf Ṣāliḥ, Ṣāḥib al-Zamān,[4] and Baqīyatallah[5]; the most famous of these is that of the Mahdī (‘a).[6] His father was the 11th leader of the Shia, Imam Ḥasan ‘Askarī (‘a) and his mother was the honorable lady Narjīs,[7] who has also been mentioned by the names of Rayḥānah, Sūsan, and Ṣaqīl.[8] The degree of the virtue and spirituality of the lady Narjīs Khātūn was considered to be so high, that Ḥakimah, the daughter of Imam Hādī (‘a), (who was herself a very lofty individual), considered her as being the master from amongst her family and named herself as being her servant.[9]
Imam Mahdī (‘a) has had two distinct periods of Ghaybah: one of these periods was short in duration (Ghaybat al-Sughrā) and the other is long (Ghaybat al-Kubrā). The first period began from the time of his birth until the era of the ‘Select Representatives’, and the second began from the end of the first, and will continue until the time of his reappearance and revolution.[10]
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