Dhu'ayb ibn Musa al-Wadi'i al-Hamdani (Arabic: ذؤيب بن موسى الوادعي الهمداني, romanized: Dhuʾayb ibn Mūsā al-Wādiʿī al-Hamdānī; died 29 April 1151) was...

a few months after al-Sadiq, leaving Muhammad ibn Isma'il as the eldest member of al-Sadiq's family—Musa al-Kazim was not only younger by about eight years...

Isma'il ibn Ja'far (765–775) Abadullah ibn Muhammad (Ahmad al-Wafi) (813–829) Ahmad ibn Abadullah (Muhammad at-Taqi) (829–840) Husayn ibn Ahmad (Radi...

Isma'il, Musa al-Kazim. The first group became known as the Isma'ili, whereas the second and larger group was named Jaʽfari or the Twelvers. Ja'far ibn Muḥammad...

Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Sajjad (Arabic: علي بن الحسين السجاد, romanized: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Sajjād, c. 658 – 712), also known as Zayn al-Abidin (Arabic:...

he got killed in His path. My father Musa ibn Ja'far al-Kazim narrated that he had heard his father Ja'far ibn Muhammad say, "May God bless my uncle...

has been lost.[page needed] The oldest surviving biography goes back to Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi (d. 938/939 CE), but is only a collection of anecdotes...

unbroken hereditary chain of guardianship, or walayah, beginning with Ali Ibn Abi Talib, whom Shias believe the prophet Muhammad declared his successor...

incorruptibility, with Ibn al-Jawzi relating: "When the Prophet's descendant Abū Ja'far ibn Abī Mūsā was buried next to him, Ahmad ibn Hanbal's tomb was exposed...

Isma'il ibn Ja'far (Arabic: إسْماعِيل ٱبْن جَعْفَر ٱلْمُبَارَك, romanized: Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar al-Mubārak) was the eldest son of Ja'far al-Sadiq and the...

|first1-Richard [title= ignored (help) Full name: Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Ja'far ibn Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sabbah (Arabic: حسن الصباح أو الحسن بن علي بن...

used by the Assassins. Contemporaneous historians include Arabs ibn al-Qalanisi and Ali ibn al-Athir, and the Persian Ata-Malik Juvayni. The first two referred...

Muhammad al-Mahdi went into hiding. They followed Isma'il ibn Jafar, elder brother of Musa al-Kadhim, as the rightful Imam after his father, Ja'far al-Sadiq...

Isma'il ibn Jafar as the appointed spiritual successor (imām) to Ja'far al-Sadiq, wherein they differ from the Twelver Shia, who accept Musa al-Kadhim...

Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya (Arabic: مُحَمَّد ابْن الْحَنَفِيَّة, romanized: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyya, c. 637–700, 15–81 AH) was a son of Ali ibn Abi Talib...

Twelver Imam went into concealment. They followed Isma'il ibn Ja'far, elder brother of Musa al-Kadhim, as the rightful Imam after his father, Ja'far al-Sadiq...

Da'i Muhammad ibn Buzurg-Ummid (1138–1162) Concealed Imams at Alamut Imam Ali al-Hadi ibn Nizar(علي الهادي بن نزار) Imam Al-Muhtadī ibn al-Hādī (Muhammad...

schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. It was founded by Malik ibn Anas in the 8th century. The Maliki school of jurisprudence relies on the...

al-Shirazi al-Naysaburi Nasir Khusraw Pamiris Queen Arwa al-Sulayhi Dhu'ayb ibn Musa Hasan-i Sabbah Hassan Ala Zikrihi's Salam Rashid ad-Din Sinan Pir Sadardin...

world. Ibn Taymiyya's full name is Taqī al-Din Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Khiḍr ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Khiḍr...

Ibn Abbas, Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-As, Abu Hurayra, and Hasan ibn Ali; with each of those narrator's chain of transmitters consisting of Zayd ibn Ali...

genealogy is as follows: Mālik ibn Anas ibn Mālik ibn Abī ʿĀmir ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Ghaymān ibn Khuthayn ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith al-Aṣbaḥī al-Ḥumyarī...

creed, including Ali al-Qari, al-Maydani, ibn Abi al-Izz and Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz. As- Sunnah by Imām Ahmad ibn Hanbal Al- Iman by al-Adni As-Sunnah by Imām...

knowledge of the different ways of legal theory. He was a student of Mālik ibn Anas, the founder of the Mālikī school of law, and of Muḥammad Shaybānī,...

Twelvers, who recognize Mūsā al-Kāẓim, younger brother of Ismāʿīl, as the true Imam. After the death or Occultation of Muhammad ibn Imam Ismāʿīl in the 8th...

(1124–1138) Muhammad ibn Kiya Buzurg-Ummid (محمد بزرگ امید) (1138–1162) Imams in occultation at Alamut Ali al-Hadi ibn Nizar ibn al-Mustansir Muhammad...

Ibrahim ibn Musa ibn Abdullah ibn Hasan al-Muthana Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Ukhaidir Isma'il ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad Al-Hasan ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad...

expedition. During the Expedition of Khalid ibn al-Walid (Banu Jadhimah) in January 630, Muhammad sent Khalid ibn Walid to invite the Banu Jadhimah tribe...

the Imamate of Musa al-Kadhim but refused to accept the Imamate of his successor Ali ar-Ridha. Musha'sha'– founded and led by Muhammad ibn Falah, an Iraqi-born...

in order to elevate his personal status as the reincarnation of Isma'il ibn Ja'far, the seventh Imām of the Isma'ilis. Khojki, a script used exclusively...