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People Claiming To Be The Mahdi

The following individuals (or their adherents on their behalf) have claimed to be the Mahdi:

The first historical reference to a movement using the name of Mahdi is al-Mukhtar’s rebellion against the Umayyad caliphate in 686 CE, almost 50 years after Muhammad’s death. Al-Mukhtar claimed that Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, a son of the fourth caliph, Ali, was the Mahdi and would save the Muslim people from the rule of the Umayyads. Ibn al-Hanifiyyah himself was not actively involved in the rebellion, and when the Umayyads successfully quashed it, they left him undisturbed;

Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (985 – 13 February 1021), founder of the Druze sect;

Ibn Tumart (1080-1130) founder and religious leader of the Almohad Caliphate in Morocco and Al-andalus;

Muhammad Jaunpuri (1443–1505), founder of the Mahdavi sect;

Ahmed ibn Abi Mahalli (1559–1613), from the south of Morocco, was a Qādī and religious scholar who proclaimed himself mahdi and led a revolution (1610–13) against the reigning Saadi dynasty;

The Báb, (`Alí-Muḥammad Shírází), from Iran, founded a new religion in 1844 A.D. (1260 A.H) that came into opposition with the clergy of the time. In 1850 he was executed by firing squad in the town of Tabriz.

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908) claimed to be both the Mahdi and the second coming of Jesus in the late nineteenth century in British India and founded the Ahmadiyya religious movement in 1889;

Muhammad bin abd Allah al-Qahtani was proclaimed the Mahdi by his brother-in-law, Juhayman al-Otaibi, who led over 200 militants to seize the Grand Mosque in Mecca in November 1979. The uprising was defeated after a two-week siege in which at least 300 people were killed;

Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Aftah ibn Ja’far al-Sadiq;

Musa al-Kadhim (according to the Waqifite Shia);

Muhammad ibn Qasim (al-Alawi);

Yahya ibn Umar;

Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hadi;

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (according to Messiah Foundation International);

Wallace Fard Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam;

Seydina Imamou lah Al Mahdi, founder of the Layene community in Dakar Senegal in 1883. He ruled for 40 years and was replaced by Insa Ibn Mariam at the age of 33. Insa ruled for 40 years;

Muhammad Bayazeed Khan Panni (1925-2012).

People Claiming To Be The Mahdi

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