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When will the remaining six caliphs, out of the twelve, appear, and is their appearance linked to the Mahdi and Jesus? Are there prophetic indications regarding the time, place, and characteristics of their appearance? And will they appear successively or simultaneously in different regions?

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Ibn Hajar mentioned in Fath al-Bari that the Imams emerged long ago.

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