Machine summary:
This research, in a descriptive-analytical way, aims to identify and examine the criteria of the false claimants of Mahdism, and tries to collect the necessary data from various sources.
The obtained results from the analysis and combination of these data show that some of the most important criteria for identifying the false claimants of Mahdism are: To feign to be a faithful man and violate it, secular spiritualism, distortion, and forgery and to intersect sources and texts.
Analysis and Examination of the reasons behind Ahmad al-Ḥasan al-Baṣri’s movement and its conflict with the narratives of partial resurrection (Rajˈat) Mahdi Akbari Analyzing the false claimants of Mahdism and their allegations is one of the main subjects in the discourse of Mahdism.
The main issue of this research is the examination of the Twelve Imams’ position in Islamic narrative sources.
Keywords: Ahmad al-Hasan, Mahdism, the Twelve Imams, straying movement, partial resurrection.