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Father of the two first 'Abbâsid caliphs (c.680–743)
Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh (
Arabic: محمد بن علي بن عبد الله) or Muḥammad al-Imām (679/80 - 743)
[1] was the son of
Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Abbas and great-grandson of
al-‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib, the uncle of the Islamic prophet,
Muhammad. He was the father of the two first 'Abbâsid caliphs,
Al-Saffah and
Al-Mansur, and as such was the progenitor of the
Abbasid dynasty.
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[3]
[4]
Revolt of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi
When
al-Mukhtar announced the revenge of
Imam
al-Husayn, he showed himself as the representative of
Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, the Promised Mehdi according to him.[
citation needed]
Imam of te Hashimiyya
After the death of
Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, the imamate of the
Kaysanite Shia transferred to his son
Abu Hashim, who transferred it to Muhammad, paving the way for the Abbasid
dawa and the
Abbasid Revolution.
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Family tree
References
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Khallikân (Ibn), II, 593, quotes
Al-Tabari, "Tarikh".
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Hitti, "History of the Arabs", p.289.
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Khallikan (Ibn), "Wafayât al A'yân wa-Anbâ' Abnâ' al-Zamân", II, 592-4.
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Nadim (al-), ed,
Dodge, B., "Al-Fihrist," pp. 222, 378, 1051.
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The Abbasid Revolution
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