An inquiry on the Mahdavi Hadiths transmitted by Aḥmad b. Muhammad b. Saʿīd known as Ibn-e ʿUqdah

A large part of the narrations and Hadiths of the Prophet and Imams has been dedicated to the issue of Mahdism and coming a divine savior at the End of Time; and some scholars, especially the scholars of the minor occultation, have played a more key role in promoting and publishing such narrations than other narrators. Among them, we can mention Aḥmad b. Muhammad b. Saʿīd known as Ibn-e ʿUqdah. This article aims to analyze Ibn-e ʿUqdah’s Mahdavi narrations with a descriptive-analytical method. With the typology of the narrations transmitted by him, this essay depicts the breadth and diversity of the Hadiths. Also his narrations, despite the fact that he believed in Zaydiyyah, shows the consistency of his narrations with the narrations of the Twelver Shia narrators, and also the incompatibility of some of his narrations with the beliefs of the Zaydism. And it tells about his confrontation with deviant sects such as Ismāiliyyah, Wāqifiyyah, and even the claim of being the promised Mahdi by some Zaydi leaders