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'''Al-Qāʾim''' (Arabic:{{ia| القائم}}; literally meaning: who stands up) is a title of [[Imam al-Mahdi (a)]] indicating his promised [[Imam al-Mahdi's (a) uprising|uprising]] in the [[End Time]]. Although in many [[hadith]]s the title refers to Imam al-Mahdi (a), in others, it refers to other [[Imams (a)]] as well, which means a person who stands up for [[God]]'s orders. Some [[Shi'a]]s in 2nd/[[8th century|eighth]] and 3rd/[[ninth century|ninth]] centuries thought that some Imams or their children were the promised al-Qa'im and were expecting their reappearance.

In some [[hadith]]s, "Qa'im Al Muhammad" (the standing [person] of the family of Muhammad) is used as a title of [[Imam al-Mahdi (a)]].<ref>"CF" Mufīd, ''al-Irshād'', vol. 2, p. 380-386.</ref> But in others it is not used so; rather it is used as generally referring to a person who stands up or rises up for justice. In his ''[[al-Kafi]]'', [[al-Kulayni]] wrote a chapter under "all Imams were al-Qa'im for God's order". Phrases in hadiths, such as "he is the al-Qa'im of his time"<ref>Kulaynī, ''al-Kāfī'', vol. 1, p. 537.</ref>, "all of us are al-Qa'im for God's order"<ref>Kulaynī, ''al-Kāfī'', vol. 1, p. 536.</ref> and the like, imply that the term, "al-Qa'im", is not specifically used for Imam al-Mahdi (a).<ref>Tūniʾī, ''Muʿūd nāma'', p. 550.</ref>

*Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī, ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn. ''Maqātil al-Ṭālibīyyīn''. Beirut: Aʿlamī, 1419 AH.

*Baghdādī, ʿAbd al-Qāhir b. Ṭāhir al-. ''Al-Farq bayn al-firaq''. Beirut: Dār al-Āfāq al-Jadīda, 1978.

*Kulaynī, Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-. ''Al-Kāfī''. Second edition. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmīyya, 1362 Sh.

*Mansūr bi-Allāh, ʿAbd Allāh b. Ḥamza al-. ''Al-ʿAqd al-thamīn fī aḥkām al-aʾimma al-ṭāhirīn''. First edition. Sanaʿa: Muʾassisat al-Imām Zayd b. ʿAlī al-Thiqāfīyya, 1421 AH.

*Masūdī, ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn al-. ''Murūj al-dhahab wa maʿādin al-Jawāhir''. First edition. Beirut: Muʾassisat al-Aʿlamī li-l-Maṭbūʿāt, 1411 AH.

*Mudarrisī Ṭabāṭabāyī, Sayyid Ḥusayn. ''Maktab dar farāyand-i takāmul''. Translated by Hāshim Īzadpanāh. Seventh edition. Tehran: Kawīr, 1388 Sh.

*Mufīd, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-. '' Al-Irshād fī maʿrifat ḥujaj Allāh ʿala l-ʿibād''. First edition. Qom: Kungira-yi Shaykh al-Mufīd, 1413 AH.

*Mūsawīnizhād, Sayyid ʿAlī. 1384 Sh. "Mahdawīyyat wa firqa-yi Ḥusaynīyya-yi Zaydīyya". Haft Asimān 27: (127-162)

*Nubakhtī, Ḥasan b. Mūsā al-. ''Firaq al-Shīʿa''. Najaf: Ḥaydarīyya. 1355 AH.

*Ṣadūq, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-. ''Kamāl al-Dīn wa tamām al-niʿma''. Edited by ʿAlī Akbar Ghaffārī. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmīyya, 1359 Sh.

*Shahristānī, Muḥammad b. ʿabd al-Karīm al-. ''Kitāb al-milal wa l-niḥal''. Cairo: Maktaba Anjilo al-Miṣrīyya, 1956.

*Tūniʾī, Mujtabā. ''Muʿūd nāma''. Twelfth edition. Qom: Mīrāth-i Māndigār, 1389 Sh.

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