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In the contrary what Baha'is claim, Imam Mahdi(the 12th Shia Imam), i.e., Qaim, was biological boy of Imam Abi Muhammad, Hasan al-Askari(the 11th Shia Imam, the father of Qaim).
Narrated to us Abu Talib Muzaffar bin Ja’far bin Muzaffar Alawi Samarqandi:
Narrated to us Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Masud from his father Muhammad bin Masud Ayyashi: Narrated to us Adam bin Muhammad Balkhi: Narrated to me Ali bin Husain bin Harun Daqqaq: Narrated to us Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Qasim bin Ibrahim bin Malik Ashtar that he said: Narrated to me Yaqoob bin Manqoosh that he said:
“I went to Abi Muhammad Hasan bin Ali(Imam Hasan Askari, father of Qaim) (a.s.) to find him sitting on his usual place in his house. There was a room to his right with a curtain at its entrance. I asked the Imam: Who is the master of this affair? He replied: Lift that curtain. When I lifted the curtain I saw a boy aged eight or ten or a number around these years having a broad forehead, fair complexion, pearl-like upper lip. Soft and clear palms, broad shoulders, long knees, a mole on the right cheek, hair reaching to the forehead, came out and went on to sit in the Imam’s lap. The Imam said: This is your master.
Sources,
Bihar al-Anwar by Majlisi, vol. 52, pg. 25
Kamaluddin by Saduq, pg. 407
It is recorded in Bihar-alanwar that Amirul Momineen (a.s.) said:
“The Day of Resurrection will not come until the eye of the world is gouged out and redness appears in the sky, and this redness is the tears of the bearers of the Throne weeping for the people of the earth, and until a bad gang appears propagandizing for my progeny whereas in fact they are free from my progeny. It is a gang with no morals, prevailing over the evils, deceiving the tyrants and destroying the kings (rulers). It is a gang that appears in Kufa headed by a black-faced and black-hearted man, who is weak in faith, with no morals, hybrid, mean and rude. He is circulated among prostitute mothers from the worst progenies. May Allah have no mercy upon them. They will appear in the same year, in which my disappearing son with the red banner and the green flag will reappear."
We notice that accordin to this Hadith, the Qaim is son of Imam Ali. Then it becomes obvious, in the same way that Qaim is Son of Imam Askari, He is also Son of Imam Ali and Son of the Prophet.
This Sonship, signifies that He is from their lineage and Spiritually in their Likeness.
The infallible Imams said, their Hadithes are difficult.
Only the Imams themselves could have explained them. After them, the Qaim Himself.