6-lbid,p.336. (the title mahdi was associated with Ali s son Muhammad b. al-Hanafiyyah, and, apparently, given him by the adventurer Mukhtar b.Abi Ubaid, who, after the death of Husain at Kerbela).
Iwapo tutachukua kuwa Mtume Muhammad Mustafa s.a.w.w. alikuwa miaka mitatu kamili pamoja na Abu Hurairah: