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in his childhood. Also, Shabrawi in Al‐ Ettehaf (on page 79) mentions his successorship to havestarted at the age of five after his father's demise and reckons his birth to have occurred in thenight of 15th Shaban. Ibn‐Khallkan too (in Wafiyat‐ul‐A'ayan vol. 1 pg. 451) has mentioned thebirth of Hazrat to be on the 15th Shaban 255. Suyedi in "Saba'ek‐ uz‐Zahab" (page 78) hasmentioned his age at the time of his father's demise to be five years.Also Abul‐Fidah vol. 2 pg. 45 mentions the birth of Hazrat to have occurred in the year 255.85‐Tarikh‐e‐Qamari (page 117): His age at the time of his father's demise was five years and <strong>All</strong>ahgranted him wisdom at that very time just as He granted wisdom to Yahya when he was only achild. Also, Muhamnuad Khawand Shah in 'Raudhat‐us‐Safa' (page 18) writes: The birth of ImamMahdi (Peace be upon him) who is similar in name and agnomen the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.A)secretly took place in the night of l5th Shaban, 255 Hijri.Chapter Five : Mahdi and His BirthA group of scholars, amongst them being the learned and mystic traditionist Muhammad KhawjaBukhari in his book 'Fasl‐ul‐Khetab' (as per what has been written on page 387 of 'Yanabi‐ul‐Muwadda') have narrated that Hadimah, the daughter of Hazrat Imam Muhammad Jawad (A.S.)and aunt of Abu Muhammad Hassan Askari (A.S.) used to always pray and lament and ask <strong>All</strong>ah tomake her succeed in meeting Hazrat's son. Thus it was about the midnight of 15th Shaban, 205when she visited Hazrat Hassan and the latter asked her to stay with them because of the eventwhich lay ahead. So she stayed behind in the very place. It was the time of dawn when Nargis(mother of Hazrat Mahdi) felt uneasy. Then Hakimah hastened towards her and a few momentslater Nargis delivered a blessed child while circumcised. When Hakimah's looks fell on the childshe took him in her arms and went towards Hazrat Hassan (A.S.).Hazrat embraced him and rubbed his blessed hands over his back and eyes and then placed hismouth over his mouth. Thereafter he recited 'Azan' (call to prayer) in his right ear and 'Eqamah'(establishment of prayers) in his left ear and then said: "O aunt, take him to his mother." Hakimahobeyed and took the child back to his mother. Hakimah says: "Once again, I visited AbuMuhammad Hassan Askari's house. <strong>All</strong> of a sudden, I saw Hazrat carrying a child who was wearinga yellow dress and the baby's face was beaming with light." Then, his love superseded my heart and I said: 'O my Master, what have you to say about thisPresented by http://www.alhassanain.com & http://www.islamicblessings.com

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