Messenger - For Sunni Muslims, Jesus will play a very important role. kill the last Dajjal (Anti-Christ). - For the Shia, the Mahdi's role is far more important than Jesus' role. Shia even claim that the Mahdi will kill Satan. Bothgroups believe in a Hidden Imam, Ismail in the case of the Seveners, and the twelfth imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, in the case of the Twelvers. Both groups believe that the Hidden Imam will return Abd Allah b. 'Umar mentioned the name of Mahdi in the presence of an Arab who said: Mahdi is Mu'awiya b. Abu Sufyan. 'Abd Allah said: "It is not as you say. Mahdi is a person behind whom Jesus will offer his prayers43." 'Umar b. Qays asked Mujahid if he knew anything about the Mahdi, since he did not believe in what the Shi'a were saying about Sittingover there in the west, he has abandoned the idea of coexistence and cooperation with the Sunnis. It just shows his disconnection with the idea of the Muslim World. You have to clearly understand something. That us Shias consider Abu Bakr, Umar, Usman and their close collaborators as traitors and hypocrites. Well Sunni Muslims believe in four Califs after the holy prophet S.A the fourth of which being the first Imam of Shia Muslims. However, they respect all The Fourteen Infallibles (not sure about how they believe in Imam Mahdi Aj. though) in Shia Islam according to both Quran (verses about Ahl-ol-Beit A.S.) and Hadith from the holy Prophet S.A. . Now the question is if Sunni Muslims agree on TheTwelfth Imam will appear and the Prophet Jesus come with him and with his 313 companions will bring the world to justice. (With the rise of Imam all good time and blessings will be gifted to people on the earth. All nations will be learned how to love well with the guidance and help of twelfth Imam. When twelfth Imam comes, it's the time PostedNovember 18, 2012. The earliest Imamite scholar to give an account of the Twelfth Imam's mother is al-Mas'udi. He reports that she was a slave-girl called Narjis [ithbat, 248. For the later authors who named her as Narjis see al-Irshad, 390; T. al-Ghayba, 153, 158; 'Uyun, 32-3.]. Al-Shahid (d. 786/1384) states that her name was Maryam b. ZO9KQho.

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