H 144- It is narrated from a group from Abi Ja’far Muhammad Ibn Abu Sufyan Bazufari from Ahmad bin Idris from Ali bin Muhammad Ibn Qutaibah Nishapuri from Fadhl bin Shazan from Nasr bin Muzahim from Abu Lahia from Abu Qabil from Abdullah bin Amr Ibn Aas that he narrated a long tradition, in which the Messenger of Allah (s) says: “...And then will be the rise of the Mahdi, and he is a man from the offspring of this one,” pointing to Ali Ibn Abi Talib (a.s). “Through him, Allah will take away lies. Through him time will take away severity. He will remove the disgrace of slavery from your necks.” Then he said: “I am the first of this Ummah, Mahdi is the middle of it, and Isa is the last of it. And in between there are calamities and tyrant rulers.”
