Khasf al-Bayda'

According to hadiths, there are five[8] (or more) certain signs which will happen prior to the reappearance of the twelfth (last) Imam of Shia Islam, al-Mahdi.[9]

Al-Shaykh al-Saduq has narrated --from Ja'far al-Sadiq-- that: five signs are decisive before the rising of Ghaem (قائم):

• Yamani
• Sufyani
• Heavenly cry (calling) from the sky
• The murder of (Nafs-e-Zakiyyah)
• Khasf-e-Bayda[10][11]

In regards to the event of Khasf-al-Bayda,[12][13][14][15] there have been narrated diverse Hadiths concerning the numbers of the presented ones in the army of Sufyani (who will be swallowed in the Earth), including:

• 12,000;[16][17]

• 170,000[18][19]

• or 300,000;[20]

and it was narrated that all of its army are going to be sunk (in the land of Bayda) except 2 or 3 individuals.[21]

• The Occultation
• Seyyed Hassani
• Seyed Khorasani
• Al-Yamani (Shiism)
• The voice from sky
• The Fourteen Infallibles
• Nafs-e-Zakiyyah (Pure soul)
• Signs of the reappearance of al-Mahdi