The awaited in ; and when the land of the Maghreb was added to it. And he informed that he was there to repay the true debt.

This religious factor, added to the intellectual factor, strengthened their call to respond to the call of the Mahdi. And it began to meet a deep desire in their souls.

Ibn Tumart did not fail to exploit these givens politically. Here he is determined to resist the Almoravids. And what that entails of his followers rallying around him, and attracting more tribes and supporters.

He would not have announced to his companions without prior preparation that he was the awaited Mahdi, lest this saying be difficult for some of them to believe, despite their absolute belief in the idea of the Mahdi.

But from the beginning, as he began to choose followers in Milala, he used to mention the Mahdi to them, his person, and his lineage.

his appearance. And when his followers increased upon his arrival in his village, he began to "long for him" and gathered the hadiths that came about him from the "compilations." And he continued in that way until he "decided in their souls the virtue of the Mahdi, his lineage, and his description. He claimed it for himself. . . And he declared his claim of infallibility for himself and that he was the infallible Mahdi.

Historians have mentioned different dates for this event, all ranging between the year 1122 AH / 1516 AD and the year 1120 AH / 1514 AD. After comparing the different narrations, reference number 118 and see page 22. See: Al-Abadi, Al-Muwahhidun and Islamic Unity: (14) See: Saad Zaghloul, Muhammad ibn (15) Tumart: 24 Regarding the political aspect of Ibn Tumart's Mahdism. See: Abdullah Kanun, The Doctrine of the Guide to the Mahdi Ibn Tumart: (16) 254 Al-Marrakshi, Al-Mu'jib: (17) Same source and page. See also Ibn Al-Athir, Al-Kamil: (18) 296 Ibn Al-Qattan, Nazm (19) Al-Juman: and returned in the year 516 and 514. He mentioned in the events of the year 516 that the Mahdi announced his affair and people pledged allegiance to him. And Ibn Idhari, a piece published in Hesperis magazine: And Ibn Abi 515 in the year And Ibn Al-Rashiq and Ibn Sahib Al-Salat, as narrated by Ibn Al-Qunfudh, Al-Farisiyyah: 100 Rawd Al-Qirtas: - Zar' Rawd - from them Ibn Abi Zar'. And perhaps this difference in the date, despite the importance of 127 Rawd Al-Qirtas: the event, is due to the confusion between the date of the declaration of the Mahdism and the date of the naming of the Mahdi. This happened after the declaration of the Mahdism.

In the year five hundred and twelve. He was named . Muhammad ibn Tumart, the one called the Mahdi. But Ibn Al-Qattan believes that the naming of the Mahdi happened much earlier. And he mentioned that he came across a book written by Ibn Tumart and what was in it: "I am Muhammad ibn Abdullah Tumart, and I am the Mahdi of the End of Time."

511 Nazm Al-Juman: and its date is the month of Ramadan in the year 114