Grounding for the Absence of Imam Mahdi in the letters of Imam Hassan Askari (pbuh)

One of the most important issues in the history of Islam has been to study the actions of Shiite Imams to make people aware of the absence of Imam Mahdi and to accept this issue. Imams living in Samarra, especially Imam Hassan Askari (pbuh), had an important role in this issue. It is important to examine the actions of these individuals based on the texts that remain. The main issue of this research is that Imam Hassan Askari (pbuh) has used what methods to explain the issue of the absence of Imam Mahdi and lay the groundwork for it in the Islamic society? And what kind of actions have they taken? For this purpose, in this research, using the content analysis method as one of the best interdisciplinary research methods for text research, the narrations and letters of that Imam have been analyzed. In this article, an attempt has been made to obtain a comprehensive understanding of their structure through quantitative, qualitative and descriptive analysis, and finally to discover and explain the function of these texts to explain the issue of the absence of Imam Mahdi (pbuh). What shows the necessity of such researches is paying attention to the educational role of Shiite Imams (pbuh) in the Islamic society and the importance of textual study of hadiths as one of the most important religious sources for recognizing different cultural and social dimensions of historical events.