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Authenticity of this narration have been questioned from several aspects. The most dubious point is the last part.

First, there was no major conflict between [[Abbasid]] and Romans after [[242]]/856 and there is no report in the sources that the Roman Emperor asked Abbasid to free her grand-daughter.

Second, early authors such as [[Qumi]], [[Nawbakhti]], [[al-Kulayni]] and [[Mas'udi]] who were contemporaneous with [[Shaybani]] (the narrator of the hadith) did not mention this hadith in their works. Also, [[Kashshi]], who was acquainted with Shaybani, asserts that he was from [[Ghulat]].

Third, al-Kulayni reported that Imam Mahdi's (a) mother was a slave woman from [[Nawba]], northern province of [[Sudan]].

But why later Shi'a scholars ignored these hadiths and believed that Shaybani's hadith is authentic? It is possible that it was because Shaybani's hadith implies that Imam Mahdi's (a) mother was from a noble family with a high social rank.

Also, the relation between Imam Mahdi (a) and Jesus (a) in this hadith fascinated them, because there are some hadiths from the Prophet (s) which imply that they both rise up together and save the world from injustice and tyranny.

According to the three previously mentioned points, one can reject Shaybani's hadith; although [[al-Shaykh al-Tusi]] and [[Ibn Rustam al-Tabari]] authenticated it.

Apparently, [[al-Shaykh al-Mufid]] has narrated a [[sahih]] hadith about the mother of Imam Mahdi (a). He narrated: "she was a slave women who was brought up in the house of Hakima, Imam Hadi's sister, and when Imam (a) saw her face, foretold that she will bear a child by the special blessing of God."