Mehdînin Nesebi Hakkındaki Rivâyetlerin Yorumlanmasında Mezhebî Temâyül.

It is stated in the narrations that Mahdī, who is declared to come in the endo of times, will bring peace to humanity and establish the broken justice. Thus, the Mahdī expectation was effective in the first centuries of the Hijrī when political and sectarian events were intense. The ancestry of this savior, who is reported to be the descendant of Prophet Muhammed (Pbuh), appears to be in conflict with the sects. The lineage of the absent (ghâib) 12th Imam Muhammed b. Hasan, who is believed to be a Mahdī in the Shiite creed, is based on Husayn. However, the nattations in the Shiite sources that Mahdī will be a descendant of Hasan causes an intra-sectarian problem. In addition, the fact that claims of Mahdī in the context of imam and caliphate were seen in the generation of ʻAli’s sons after the death of Prophet Muhammed shows that this expectation was not made exclusive to the generation of Husayn. Also, the narratives that Hasan made peace by leaving the caliphate to Muʻawiya and that this event was reported by Prophet Muhammed, brought Hasan to the forefront in the Sunnī viewpoint. Thus, these narratives have become one of the most important arguments used in the claim that Mahdī will come from Hasan’s lineage in the Sunnī world. In line with the aforementioned information, the article aims to reveal the sectarian tendency in the narrations that point to the lineage of Mahdī between Imami Shīʻa and Ahl al-Sunnah and their interpretation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]