The Signs of the Mahdī’s Reappearance

Saʿd b. ʿAbd Allāh, from Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd, from Muḥammad b. Jumhūr, from Aḥmad b. Abī Harāsa, from Abī Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq, from ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥammād al-Anṣārī, who said: “ʿAmrū b. Shimr narrated to us, from Jābir b. Yazīd, from Abī Jaʿfar عليه السلام, who said: “It is as though I see the companions of the Qāʾim عليه السلام, and they have encompassed whatever is between the two horizons. There is no thing that does not obey them, even the wild beasts of the earth and the birds of prey, seeking their satisfaction in everything, to the point that one part of the earth will exult over another, saying: “A man among the Qāʾim’s عليه السلام companions passed over me today.”