ABSTRACT
Since it is the unchanging custom and practice of God to return matters to their beginning after they have reached their extreme end, His wisdom and will made necessary the revival (iḥyā’) of the matter of Prophecy by the manifestation of the good news of the Lord of Mankind (sayyid al-anām), through whom God revived the signs of Islam, [7] the expected Fāṭimī Imam, 4 Muḥammad al-Mahdī b. ‘Abdallah. The following Traditions announce him:
