Imam Mahdi (PBuH), the Reviver of the Religious Law (3)

There is a book with the title: Usulu Madhab-al-Shia-al-Imamiyya-al-Ithna Ashariyya (Principles of the Faith of Shiites of twelve Imams) in the from of both presentation and criticism. The writer of this book claims that the Shiites regard Imam Mahdi (PBuH) to be at the status of a prophet. They believe that the Imam will abolish the religion of Islam when he appears and replaces it with a new religious law. The writer of this book has relied on various traditions to prove his claims.In this article, we have cited the eight groups of traditions to which the claimers referred and with which they found faults. Then we have investigated and criticized their reasons. Now, regardless of the fact that, in our opinion first of all, such traditions must be assessed and evaluated in their own place as to whether they are based on reasons and really documented or not, we have referred to three essential points:One, some of these traditions are not approved by any of Shiite scholars at all.Two, some others of these traditions have been narrated in some Sunnite sources with similar purports and remarks. Three, some of the difficulties that the writer has brought about generate from his intentional choice of some traditions but his significant feigning negligence of other related traditions; whereas, we can easily understand the real meaning of what has been meant by surveying the whole collection of narrations.