Kaysanites Shia

Kaisaniten (Arabic كيسانية, DMG Kaisānīya ) or rare Muchtariten ( Mukhtāriyya ) are the followers of early Shiite group led by al - Mukhtar († 687 ) ( see main article: Rise of Mukhtar ) - and probably originally from Abu Amra Kaisan - were provided that Muhammad b. al - Hanafiyya ( d. 700), a son of ' Ali b. Abi Talib and Chaula bt. Ja'far, as their Imam Mahdi and recognized - ie not Ali ibn Hussain ( Imam Saddschad ), the son of Husain and great-grandson of the Prophet Mohammed.

The idea of ​​concealment ( Ghaiba ) occurred in this group of Shiites living in Kufa for the first time. At Muhammad ibn al - Hanafiyya " to this was the belief in the bodily continuity and dereinstige return of the Mahdi recognized as gotterkorenen person ". According Schahrastani all Kaisaniten to have been convinced " that religion, among other things in obedience to one chosen by Allah people there. "