And the women behind him so that they all heard his words. Then he exhorted the people until midday. Then he said: "Know me and recognize me. I am traveling far away from you." The people cried out in weeping, and his sister Zaynab said to him: "Where will you disappear to from us? Was it not enough that you were absent from us for fifteen years?" And those present said to him: "If you are referring to the journey, we will go with you." He said: "This is not a journey that anyone can travel with me; rather, I travel alone." Then he entered, and no one ever saw him again.

Al-Baydaq mentioned the news of Al-Mahdi. It is said that Al-Mahdi felt his death approaching before he died, by hearing a caller in his house six days before his death saying to him: "It is as if I see this house, its people have perished, and its inhabitants have been destroyed."

Al-Mahdi replied to him: "Thus are the affairs of the judge, and every young man will surely have his qualities tested."

He said to him: "Take provisions from this world, for you are departing, and you will be held accountable. So what will you say?"

He replied: "I say that God is true. I have witnessed Him, and that is a statement whose virtues are not hidden."

Al-Baydaq mentioned the news of Al-Mahdi. Al-Mahdi was buried in Tinmel, where the Almohad princes visited his grave after him. However, his grave has no trace today. I visited the place (twelve kilometers south of Marrakesh). All that remains of the ruins are the walls of a mosque that appears to have been magnificent, surrounded by the ruins of an old cemetery. Some people in the area claim that Al-Mahdi's grave is under a tree not far from the mosque ruins. It seems that the Marinid policy hostile to the Almohads played a role in erasing the landmarks of the Almohads, and Al-Mahdi's grave in particular.