Neither Sunnis nor any other Shia sect, aside from the Twelver sect, believe that an alleged Mahdi was born over a millennium ago. Zaydis, just like Sunnis, affirm that Hasan al-Askari, the alleged father of the ‘Mahdi,’ had no children whatsoever as he was infertile! The Twelvers disagree and have created an entire cult (‘Mahdaviyat’) and occult around the so-called occultation (Ghaybat) of their ‘Mahdi’. They claim, based on flimsy reports even according to their own science of hadith standards, that the 15th of the sixth Islamic month of Sha’ban is the birthday of the Twelfth and last Shia Imam.
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