People Claimed To Be The Mahdi By Their Followers or Supporters
- Master Fard Muhammad (according to the Nation of Islam)
- Muhammad ibn Abdallah An-Nafs Az-Zakiyya
- Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Aftah ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq
- Ja'far al-Sadiq (according to the Tawussite Shia)
- Musa al-Kadhim (according to the Waqifite Shia)
- Muhammad ibn Qasim (al-Alawi)
- Yahya ibn Umar
- Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hadi
- Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
- Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (according to Messiah Foundation International)
- Mohammad Bayazid Khan Panni
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