| A Clear Statement Regarding the Imam Al-Mahdi Affair | 05 |

The narrator says: Then, the people of Qubd Farah, the Ansar, were many, and they brought him. He said to them: "O people! Take what is lawful as lawful, and if the property of one of you is mixed with the property of the people, let him leave it." 52 .

And it was said: Al-Bughan bin 'Araara - and he was a governor - and the Ansar used to insult him and criticize him. So he said to him: "You used to insult him, and now you praise him?!" He said: "Indeed, good news came to me from 'Abd Allah bin 'Amr, from the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, who said: 'Indeed, people are judged by their love for those who love them, and by their hatred for those who hate them.'" 53 .

It was said: "A partner was brought to Al-Mahdi, and he said: 'One of three must happen: either you accept the judgment, or you discipline my son and teach him, or you bring me a gift.' He thought for an hour, then said: 'A gift is more pleasing to me.' So Al-Mahdi ordered the tax collector to bring him a gift from the treasury, and he did. Then the tax collector said: 'O Commander of the Faithful, it is not possible to bring it after this.' He said: 'Then he told him about it, and taught him, and he accepted the judgment.'" 54 . The tax collector said: "It is not possible to bring it after this!" So, the people of the North are not from the North, but from the South. And the Sufi tribes of the North are from the South, and they do not have any Sufi scholars who have been taught by them. I do not know where the Sufi scholars of the North will come from, from the fitna of the people of the North after they have been struck by the Arabs on their sides. And if the disagreement is with the Arabs, then it is known that the Arabs are the leaders of the year, after they called for him who guided them. What is the matter with the elected leaders of the North? Some of them tried to escape from the interpretation of the Hadith to Qubd Al-Yaman, and said: "It is Qubd Al-'Ara!" And the Abbasid Caliphate stood with Al-'Ara for a long time, and its pulpit shook justice. As for Qubd Al-Yaman, it was a caliphate in it, as was the case with the reformist movement that left it.

52 Narrated by Abu Dawud.

53 Tahdhib al-Kamal (6/275).

54 Siyar A'lam al-Nubala (8/207).