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Ja`far as-Sadiq, the sixth Shi`i Imam said: “Islam has begun strange and it will return strange* as it has begun. Blessed are the strangers!” Abu Basir said: “Please, explain to me what this means!” He said: “[The Mahdi] Al-Qa’im will invite to a new mission as the Prophet [Muhammad] has done.”
Mohammad Baqer Majlesi, Bihar al-Anwar, vol 52 p.336. Note that the word that is commonly translated as “Strange” in this multiply-attested hadith is “Ghariban,” while the word that is commonly translated, as “Strangers” is “Ghurabaa.” The word "Gharib" (غَرِيب), means literally "strange" but also means, “foreigner,” (غَرِيب) and "gharrab" (غَرَّبَ) means “exile.”