Hadith 676

(The book) ‘Tahzeeb Al Ahkam’ – Al Saffar, from Ibn Abu Al Khattab, from Ja’far Bin Bashir and Muhammad Bin Abdullah Bin Hilal, from Al A’ala, from Muhammad who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah-asws about Al-Qaim-ajfj, ‘When he-ajfj rises, by which conduct will he-ajfj be conducting among the people? ’ He-asws said: ‘By the conduct of what Rasool-Allah-saww had conducted with, until prevails’. I said, ‘And what was the conduct of Rasool-Allah-saww? ’ He-asws said: ‘He-saww nullified whatever had been happening during the pre-Islamic period and faced the people with the justice, and like that would be Al-Qaim-ajfj. When he-ajfj rises, he-ajfj will nullify whatever had been happening during the truce from what would be in the hands of the people, and he-ajfj would face them with the justice’’. [288]
Footnote: Our Sheykh Tabarsee said in the book ‘I’lam al Wara’, ‘If it is said when it has resulted in the consensus that there will be no Prophet-as after Rasool-Allah-saww, and you (Shias) are alleging that Al-Qaim-ajfj, when he-ajfj rises, will not accept the tax from the people of the Book (Jews and Christians), and he-ajfj will kill the ones who reach (age of) twenty and does not ponder in the religion, and would order with demolishing the Masjids and the shrines, and he-ajfj will judge with the judgment of Dawood-as, not asking for any proof, and matters resembling that from what has been referred in your Ahadeeth, and this would be an abrogation of the Law and invalidation of its rulings. Thus you are affirming the meaning of the Prophet-hood and even though you are not wording it with its name. So what is your answer about it? ’
The answer – ‘We do not know what the question included from him-ajfj not accepting the taxes from people of the Book, and he-ajfj will kill the one who reaches (age of) twenty and did not ponder in the religion. So if a report has arrived with that, it would not be cut out with it. As for demolishing the Masajids and the shrines, it is allowed that he-ajfj would particularise the demolition of what had had been built from based upon without fearing Allah-azwj Allah-azwj the Exalted and based upon opposing what Allah-azwj the Glorious had Commanded with, and this is an undertaking which the Prophet-saww had done. And as for what is reported that he-ajfj would judge by the judgment of family of Dawood-as, not asking for any proof, so this as well is not being cut out with, and even though it is correct. I interpret it that he-ajfj would judge by the judgment with his-ajfj knowledge regarding what he-ajfj knows, and when the knowledge of the Imam-ajfj, or the ruler, a matter from the matters, it is upon him that he judged by his knowledge and not ask about it, and there is no abrogation of the Law in this. Based upon this which they are mentioning of the way of accepting the taxes and listening to the proof, even thought it is correct, is not an abrogation of the Law, because the abrogation, it is what its evidence is delayed from the ruling the abrogated and it would not be recommended. As for when the two evidence(s) are recommended, that cannot be an abrogation for its owner, and even thought it may be different in the meaning. And for this, we concur upon that Allah-azwj the Glorious, if He-azwj were to Say: “Stick to the Saturday up to such and such time! ”, then does not Impose it, that does not happen to be an abrogation, because the uplifting evidence accompanies the obliging evidence. And when this word is proven correct, and the Prophet-saww has taught us that Al-Qaim-ajfj would be from his-saww sons-asws, it obligates following him-ajfj and accepting his-ajfj rulings. So we when we come to what he-ajfj decides with regarding us, and even if it contradicts with some of the previous rulings, we would not be working with the abrogation because the abrogation does not enter into what is accompanied by the evidence’ – end.