50. AlMehdi

Mehdi comes before the destruction of the Ka’bah, but we’re listing him after because he relates the major signs of the day of Judgement, like ‘Isa and Ad-Dajjaal, etc.

The ahadith leave no doubt about the truth of the coming of AlMehdi. We, as the Ummah of Muhammad, believe that there is someone who is called AlMehdi, who will come at the end of time and rule this Ummah with justice, after it was ruled with oppression. And he is from Ahl Al-Bayt, the house of RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam. His name will be Muhammad ibn ‘Abdillah, or Ahmad ibn ‘Abdillah. He will be a descendant of Hasan ibn Abi Taalib and Faatimah az-Zahra, the daughter of RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam. He will rule over this Ummah for 7 or 8 years.

Some hadith about AlMehdi:

[Muslim] RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “There will be a group of this Ummah, fighting on truth, prevailing until the day of judgement.”

This Ummah will always have a group that is fighting for truth.  Even during the lowest times, RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said that there will be people fighting for truth, for the sake of this religion. Therefore, there will always be good in his Ummah. What happened to other nations before will not happen to this Ummah. What happened to the other nations is that they received the message from the messengers and stayed on it for awhile, and then they kept declining and declining until they were absolutely gone and astray from the religion. There is no good in them anymore, and that is why Allah sent another Prophet. But with this Ummah, there isn’t any other Prophet after RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam.

Therefore, the ones who will revive this Ummah are members of this Ummah. They will survive until the end of time because of the Qur’aan that Allah has protected and because of the good in this Ummah.

RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam says, My Ummah is like rain, you don’t know where the benefit is. When the rain falls down, you have sudden bursts of rain where a lot of waterfalls. (In areas where a lot of waterfalls, you don’t have the same amount all of the time. You have different bursts of amount.) Therefore, you don’t know if the blessing is going to be in the beginning or the end. RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said that my Ummah is like this – you think the Ummah is going down, and then you see a big wave of righteousness that shows up again. You think that the Ummah is dead and cannot be arrived, but Allah subhaana wa ta’aala revives it again.

Another hadith: RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam says that there will be one of your khulafaa` that will give out money without counting. And this khalifa will be AlMehdi. He’s not going to count money and give you a specific amount. There will be so much blessing during his time that he will just hand it out.

The next hadith is in Muslim and Imam Ahmad. Abu Sa’eed AlKhudri reported that the Prophet sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “I am giving you the good news of AlMehdi, who will be sent to Ummah during times of disputes. And there will be a lot of earth problems (they could be earthquakes or other catastrophes). He will replace the oppression and injustice of the world with justice.” RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam is saying that the world will be filled with oppression and injustice, and he will come and fill the world with justice. “The dwellers of this earth will be pleased with him and the dwellers of the heaven will be pleased with him.” So not only will the humans be pleased with him, but the angels will be pleased with him as well. “He will divide money sihaahan.” One of the companions asked, “What does sihaahan mean?” RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “He will give out money equally to the people.” One of the biggest injustices that exist today in the Muslim world is the way money is handled – if you have the right connections, you get what you want. If you are someone who is righteous, trustworthy and honest, you get thrown aside. And we find that the wealth of the Ummah is plundered and abused and used for reasons against what Allah subhaana wa ta’aala has willed for the wealth to be spent.

One of the most important roles of a government is to hand over money in the right way. When we’re talking about injustice in money, it’s not a simple thing. When people in high positions take the money and use it as they want and wish, that is one of the greatest abuses of power and one of the greatest injustices. This is not something we can overlook; it is a great sin.

[A continuation of the hadith? ] “And he will fill the hearts of the Ummah of Muhmmad sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam with satisfaction and content.” It is not only the bodies pleased. SubhanAllah, you will find people who are ‘bought off’ with money, but their hearts and minds are not happy. “And his justice will encompass all of them. And he will announce to the public, ‘Who needs money?’ and no one would respond, except one man would stand up and say, ‘I.’ AlMehdi will tell him, ‘Go to the treasurer and tell him that AlMehdi is telling him to give you money. (The order of AlMehdi was to throw money on him and not count.) The man goes and conveys that to the treasurer, so he fills all of his clothes with money. When that man sees all of that money and leaves, he regrets it. He says, ‘I was the most greedy of the Ummah of Muhammad. Why wasn’t I content as they were?’ So he would go back and try to return the money. The treasurer would say, ‘There are no returns.’” SubhaanAllah, you beg the treasurer to take the money back and he tells you that there is no return policy! “It will be like that for seven or eight or nine years and then there will be no good in living after that.”

In another hadith by Ahmad, ‘Ali ibn Abi Taalib said that RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “AlMehdi belongs to us, the household of RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, and Allah would guide him in one night.” When something is broken and you fix it, it’s called islaah. When something is bought to its best condition, it’s called islaah. When something is improved, it’s called islaah. What is means by [Arabic of hadith: usliha wallahu fi layla] Allahu ‘Alam. It could mean that Allah would give him the strength and the power in one night. It could mean that Allah would give him understanding of religion in one night. Whatever the case, it happens in one night.

In the next hadith by Abu Dawood, RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “If there was only one day left in the world, Allah would make it longer until he sends a man from my household, his name is like my name and the name of his father is like the name of my father. He would fill the world with justice like it was filled with injustice and oppression.” Therefore, the name of AlMehdi would be either Muhammad or Ahmad and his father’s name would be ‘Abdullah.

These are the descriptions of AlMehdi, and now we are done with the minor signs of the day of judgement.