A Survey of Traditions Concerning the Uprising Prior to the Uprising of Imam Mahdi (AJ)

The issue of admissibility or inadmissibility of uprising for establishing a rule be fore the advent of Imam Mahdi (AJ) has been a crit ical discussion among the Islamic sclolars. In this article, twenty nar rations from Wasa¥ 'il al-Shi a and Mustadrak al-Wasa¥ 'il concerning the inadmissibility of uprising are brought up and reviewed. After translating the narrations and discussing their chain of transmission, the author has proceeded with a review of their content and significations In the and, he states that given the reliability of some narrat ions, chain of t ransmission and signification, the ir cont ent is incompatible with the narrations confirming the uprising. Furthermore, these narrations do not match up to the general Islamic rules, conclusive proofs of defensive Jihad (holy war), and Forbidding evil.