Rijal Al Kashi Report 176 -2021- May 2026

The original Rijal al-Kashi was a medieval biographical evaluation work, cataloging narrators of Hadith—who was trustworthy, who was a liar, who had deviated into heresy. But the 2021 addendum, numbered 176, was different. It contained no names of the dead. It contained operational notes.

Because Report 176 ends with a question in Arabic, written in the margin: Rijal Al Kashi Report 176 -2021-

On a rainy night in February 2021, Mehdi received a private message on a legacy encrypted platform—one that intelligence had quietly tagged as “under observation, no action.” The message contained three lines: The original Rijal al-Kashi was a medieval biographical