Abu Sahl al-Nubakhti and early documents on the era of occultation

Abstract

Abstract:

The absence of Imam XII "Imam Mahdi" is one of the most important issues inherent in the history of  Islamic thought, and the most controversial issues in the modern era, although it is the subject of  agreement between the majority of Islamic doctrines and groups, and at the same time contained other  heavenly religions (Judaism and Christianity) as well as positivist religions but came up with different  words and terms such as savior or Savior. 

However, the Shia and Imami narrative groups in particular dealt with the topic at length and did not  reach the limit of length only, but exceeded the usual frequency, because it is one of the main pillars of  the forward-thinking, so it was necessary to study the topic at different angles and devote surveys and  not narrative, in order to clearly understand the early Imami, in addition to a high understanding of  doctrine, unless there is. An analytical study of precise and fundamental details of Shiites in general and  the early Imamate in particular. 

From here we see analysis based on parts of the doctrine without taking into account the doctrine as a  whole at a given time can only lead to theses founded on part of the whole. These theses therefore risk  breaking away from other aspects of the doctrine, which remain forgotten or unremarkable. In order to  

gain a full understanding of the basic details of the doctrine, each of its underlying and interrelationships  must be analyzed. At the same time, it must be recognized that in these details lies the whole that must  be understood before understanding its constituent elements all the dogmatic qualities, and all  technical terms and ideas can be seen through these lenses, because the dogma is an attempt to give a  clear and understandable expression to the Shia faith. 

It is very self-evident that the doctrines were not written in quiet periods of history but in those  moments of historical intensity when the conversion was engaged by his enemies from the outside, or  when his message or life was compromised from the inside. This does not mean that the doctrine is  merely a product of external forces pushing on the funeral without conflict or within it, it could be the  company's doctrines even if there weren't a fad, ideas and misleading during the early centuries, even if  there were no internal disagreements about the content of beliefs. However, the Shia faith of its own  volition comes to a kind of clear expression even if there are no internal disagreements about the  content of many doctrinal axioms and their role in Shia society and on the intellectual scale. 

The importance of the topic of research, which will be limited to the study of an important and accurate  stage of the history of the Shia Imamate and its connection with many details of the life of Abu Sahl al nubakhti (237-311 ah), who modernized this period, the era of the minor ghaybah (), called the era of  "hayrah" (), and extended to the middle of the fourth century

Explaining the DU site unseen small and revolves around two main areas: the first fear on the life of  Imam al-Mahdi the Abbasid ( ), second: create the entire nation of the Unseen, which began with the  year 329 E with the ambassador IV mission (IMF ). 

Participation and decades of subsequent generations of Shiite about this important topic has become  the reflections situational embodied in the creeds, part of the memory which is the source and the  decisions of the previous stage in all her pictures and details. None of the dogmas were produced  independently of what the thinkers of that stage thought. Similarly, history judges doctrine as it is  produced in history. The doctrine of" Alibi " is an outstanding example of a doctrine that had to wait for  the confirmation of history. It was discussed by Islamic scholars on their various doctrines and sects  from early times and over the course of two centuries before it became a consensus by Shia scholars  and thinkers when it became a reality after its textual embodiment only during the earlier stages. 

For more information on this topic, consider, for example, studies : Siddiqui, Muhammad Al-Nasser, the  idea of the savior, a treatise on Mahdawi thought, (Beirut, Dar Tabal, 1434 Ah/2012 ad), al-firtoussi,  Salah, the savior among Jews, Christians and Muslims, (Iran, Shams behind the clouds, 1434 Ah/2013  ad), Halim, according to Allah Awad, the greatness of the Savior and the splendor of salvation, (Egypt,  Dar Al-Brotherhood publishing, 1430 Ah/2008 ad) Tawila, Abdel Wahab Abdel Salam, the Messiah and  the end of the world, (Beirut, Dar es Salaam, 1424 Ah/2003).