''Al-Mahdi, May Allāh Be Pleased With Him, Whose Appearance in the End Times is Foretold by Mutawātir Hadiths'' titled this book of ours is in FOUR PARTS.

IN THE FIRST PART, regarding Al-Mahdi, May Allāh Be Pleased With Him, whose appearance in the end times as a descendant of the Ahl al-Bayt of the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers, the Arab, Qurayshi, Hashimi, Muttalibi, Unlettered Prophet Muhammad, May Allāh’s Blessings and Peace Be Upon Him, is foretold by authentic, Mutawātir Hadiths; we have recorded his signs, birth, character, appearance, justice, and jihad; the Melhamet al-Kubrā [Great War-Armageddon] he will wage between Hatay [Antioch]-Sham in the Aʻmāk-Amīq Plain against an Infidel Army of 960,000; his conquest of the entire world, primarily China, India, Constantinople-Rūmiyyet al-Sughrā [Istanbul], and Rūmiyyet al-Kubrā [Rome]; the appearance of Al-Dajjāl; and as established by the Book, Sunnah, and Ijmāʻ of the Ummah, the descent from heaven of Al-Masīh Īsā, Son of Maryam, May Prayers and Peace Be Upon Them—whom Allāh Subhanahu wa Taʻālā protected from being crucified and killed by the Infidel Jews and raised alive to heaven—to attain the honor of being of the Ummah of the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad, May Allāh’s Blessings and Peace Be Upon Him, to rule the world with the Sharīʻah of Muhammad, May Allāh’s Blessings and Peace Be Upon Him, as a perfectly just Judge and Imām, to break the Cross, kill the Swine, abolish the Jizyah—meaning to bring all Infidels, whether People of the Book or not, into the Religion of Islām according to the Sharīʻah of Muhammad, May Allāh’s Blessings and Peace Be Upon Him—his meeting with Al-Mahdi, May Allāh Be Pleased With Him, and his killing of Al-Dajjāl; the death and burial of Al-Mahdi, May Allāh Be Pleased With Him, in Jerusalem; the appearance of the tribes of Ya’jūj and Ma’jūj; the reign of Īsā, Son of Maryam, May Prayers and Peace Be Upon Him, over the world for about 40 years as a perfectly just Judge and Imām ruling by the Sharīʻah of Muhammad, May Allāh’s Blessings and Peace Be Upon Him, his marriage, his death in Madīnat al-Munawwarah, his burial beside the Messenger of Allāh, May Allāh’s Blessings and Peace Be Upon Him, and other major signs of the Hour. We have compiled these from Authentic, Mutawātir Hadiths and the statements of the Sahābah, Tābiʻūn, and Tābiʻ al-Tābiʻūn, May Allāh Be Pleased With Them All, by translating from the works of the Scholars of the Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamāʻah, May Allāh Have Mercy Upon Them All—including the Kutub al-Sittah—in the fields of Hadith, Jarh wa Taʻdīl, ‘Ilal, Asāmī, Rijāl, Alqāb wa Kunā, ‘Aqā’id, Fitan, Malāhim, Maghāzī, Fadā’il, Shamā’il, Manāqib, Siyar, Fatwa, and Tārīkh, and have included color facsimiles of the pages of the oldest dated manuscript copies of these books and treatises, some of which are in the authors' own hands, found in libraries in Turkey and around the world, pertaining to our translations.

Furthermore, in this part of our book, we have identified and proven the erroneous beliefs of the deviant Shīʻa sects regarding Al-Mahdi, May Allāh Be Pleased With Him, and the refutations of these and false Mahdīs by the investigative and meticulous Scholars of the Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamāʻah, May Allāh Have Mercy Upon Them All, as well as how these deviant Shīʻa sects distorted some of the books of the investigative and meticulous Scholars of the Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamāʻah, May Allāh Have Mercy Upon Them All, in order to validate their erroneous beliefs regarding Al-Mahdi, May Allāh Be Pleased With Him. This part of our book is 325 pages.

IN THE SECOND PART, we have recorded the statements and fatwas of the investigative and meticulous Scholars of the Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamāʻah, May Allāh Have Mercy Upon Them All, regarding the denial of the appearance of Al-Mahdi, May Allāh Be Pleased With Him, and the descent of Īsā, Son of Maryam, May Prayers and Peace Be Upon Them, and have provided color facsimiles of these. This part of our book is 18 pages.

IN THE THIRD PART, we have provided a concise translation of the book "Ikd al-Durar" by Al-Maqdisī-Sulamī, May Allāh Have Mercy Upon Him, and the treatise "Al-Arf al-Wardī fī Akhbār al-Mahdī" by Imām al-Suyūtī, May His Secret Be Sanctified. This part of our book is 42 pages.

IN THE FOURTH PART, we have listed the citations of 270 books—excluding the different manuscripts we utilized for this book and for which we provided color facsimiles of pages relevant to our subject—consisting of 237 Arabic manuscripts and 15 printed books, 14 Persian manuscripts, and 4 manuscripts written in Ottoman Turkish. This part of our book is 19 pages.

With its original sources and color facsimiles thereof, this book of ours is the most detailed work written to date regarding Al-Mahdi, May Allāh Be Pleased With Him.