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4286. It was narrated from Mu'ādī bin Hishām (he said): "My father narrated to me, from Qatādah, from Ṣāliḥ Abī Al-Khalīl, from a companion of his, from Umm Salamah, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ, that the Prophet ﷺ said: 'There will be a dispute following the death of a Khalifah, and a man from Al-Madinah will go out, fleeing to Makkah. Some of the people of Makkah will come to him and will bring him out against his will, and they will pledge allegiance to him between the Corner (Black Stone) and the Maqām. An army will be sent against him from Ash-Shām, which will be swallowed up by the earth in Al-Baidā', between Makkah and Al-Madinah. When the people see that, the devoted worshipers from Ash-Shām and the best people from Al-'Irāq will come to him and pledge allegiance to him. Then there will arise a man from the Quraish whose maternal uncles are from Kalb, who will send an army against him and he will prevail over them. That (defeated army) will be the force of Kalb. The real loser will be the one who is not present when the wealth of Kalb is divided. He (the Mahdī) will divide the wealth and rule the people in accordance with the Sunnah of their Prophet ﷺ. Islam will become established on earth and he will remain for seven years, then he will die and the Muslims
will offer the funeral prayer for him.” (Da'if)
Abū Dāwud said: Some of them narrated from Hishām: “Nine years.” And some said: “Seven years.”
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Other authentic narrations indicate that the Mahdī would already have appeared at the time of the decent of 'Eisā, peace be upon him.
