Analysis and Examination of the reasons behind Ahmad al-Ḥasan al-Baṣri’s movement and its conflict with the narratives of partial resurrection (Rajˈat)

Analyzing the false claimants of Mahdism and their allegations is one of the main subjects in the discourse of Mahdism. Regarding this, several prestigious works have been compiled by researchers in this field. But since these claims and movements have continued till now and novel claimants are trying to mislead a part of the Islamic community, it is necessary for Muslim researchers to continuously critique these straying movements through their scientific study and a new outlook. The objective of this research is specifically on Ahmad Ismāˈil al-Basri’s view and criticizing his claim about the Imamate of the Twelve Mahdis. Ahmad Ismāˈil has fallen into misunderstanding through some Hadiths like “the Hadith of Twelve Mahdis, the Hadith of Will, and traditions of Thirteen Imams”. The main issue of this research is the examination of the Twelve Imams’ position in Islamic narrative sources. In the present paper, by putting together the Hadiths of the "Twelve Mahdis" after the narrations of “Twelve Imams” and the narrations of “Coming (Rajˈat) the Imams at the End of Time”, his claim will be disallowed, and the conflict between the Hadiths will be eliminated.