Weak Reflection of Messianic Traditions in "Sahih Bukhari" and its analysis

Belief in the Mahdi, is indeed rooted in the traditions of Islam and undermining this belief is only possible by denying such traditions and reports about Mahdi. Therefore, the deniers of Mahdi, consider the absence of traditions related to Mahdi in Sahih Bukhari's as a reason to discredit this religious orientation. Since in fact Bukhari retains only a brief account of the Messianism in which the name of the Mahdi is not specifically mentioned, it seems that during the heat of Anti-Alavite policies Abbasid intensified during the reign of unsympathetic Caliph called Mutawakkil, Bukhari is compelled by the policies to adapt and therefore avoided quoting Mahdavi or Mahdi related traditions and Hadiths. The ending of Messianistic tendencies in Abbasid Dynasty was an attempt to improve legitimacy of Abbasids and coincided with their intensified hostility to Al-e-Ali (Ali's family and descendents). This was the most important political strategy at the time and therefore, the practical move was to direct religious and ideological orientations in line with Caliphate. Thus, apart from Bukhari, the citation to Mahdavi traditions in Hadith books of that era drops dramatically. In this paper, we show by) analyzing Bukhari that those narrated traditions as well as traditions citing the virtues of Ahlul-Bayt (Prophet's and Ali's descendents) are only short and very sparse or few. This can be an evidence of such (political) influence of the era discussed.