The titles of Hazrat Mahdi (as)

AL-MAHDI: He who has been rightly guided

AL-HADI: He who guides, leads to the true path

AL-QA’IM: He who arises for truth

AL-HUJJAT: Definitive proof that cannot be denied

AL-MUNTADHAR: The awaited one

MAHDI AL-MUNTADHAR: The awaited Mahdi

IMAM AL-MUNTADHAR: The awaited imam (spiritual leader)

KHALAF AL-SALIH: The righteous successor (spiritual leader)

MANSUR: Divinely aided

SAHIB AL-AMR: The one who is entrusted with the Divine command

SAHIB AZ-ZAMAN: The master of the age

WALI AL-’ASR: The guardian and sole guide of the era

MAHDI AL-MAWUD: The promised Mahdi

IMAM AL-’ASR: Imam (spiritual leader) of the era

SAHIB AD-DAR: The master (spiritual leader) of the abode  

BAQIYATULLAH: Last guide and spiritual leader of Allah remaining on Earth

QA'IM AL-MUHAMMAD (AS):A member of the Prophet’s (saas) family who would rise  

AL-KHATIM: One who terminates, the last one

NAHIYAT AL-MUQADDAS: Sacred path

Al-Qaraghulli writes in his Jawharat al-Kalam: “... The names of Hazrat Mahdi (as) are THE MAHDI, QA’IM, MUNTADHAR, SAHIB AZ-ZAMAN, HUJJAT...” (Al-Qaraghulli, Jawharat al-Kalam fee Madh as-Sadah al-A’lam, p. 157)

Al-Arif Abdul Rahman Sufi is the author of the Persian-language book Mir’at al-Asrar. Shah Wali Allah Dahlawi, father of Abdul Aziz Dahlawi, author of the book Ithna Ashariya, quotes from him in his Al Intibah Fi Salasil e Awliya Allah, saying this of the Imam az-Zaman [Hazrat Mahdi (as)]: ... [THE NAMES OF HAZRAT MAHDI (AS)] ARE THE MAHDI, HUJJAT, QA’IM, MUNTADHAR AND SAHIB-AZ ZAMAN.