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Originally Posted by rahat
Which hadith say the Khurasan army will "decide" the Mahdi? Ive never seen that in any sect's hadith.
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The hadith doesn't actually say that, it's just somewhat implied and interpreted that way.
Here is the hadith:
'Abdullāh said:
Whilst we were with the Prophet, some young men from Banu Hashim approached us. When the Prophet saw them, his eyes filled with tears and the colour of his face changed. I said, We can see something has changed in your face, and it upsets us. The Prophet said,
"We are the people of a Household for whom Allāh has chosen the Hereafter rather than this world. The people of my Household (Ahl al-Bayt) will suffer a great deal after my death, and will be persecuted until a people carrying black banners will come out of the east. They will instruct the people to do good, but the people will refuse; they will fight until they are victorious, and the people do as they asked, but they will not accept it from them until they hand over power to a man from my household. Then the earth will be filled with fairness, just as it had been filled with injustice. If any of you live to see this, you should go to him even if you have to crawl across ice."
(Ibn Majah, No. 4082)
Some may interpret that to mean that the Khurasan army decides who the Mahdi is.