Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah

Muhammad ibn al - Hanafi (Arabic محمد ابن الحنفية, DMG Muḥammad ibn al - Hanafi; † 700 ) is the son of Ali with one of his slaves. Imam Ali is reported to have called al - Hanafiyya his right hand.

The Kaisaniten, the supporters of Mukhtar († 687 ) ( see main article: Rise of Mukhtar ), believed in his Imamate and recognized him - ie Ali ibn Hussain not ( Imam Saddschad ), the son of Hussain's and great-grandson of the Prophet Muhammad - as their Imam and Mahdi.

The idea of ​​concealment ( Ghaiba ) met for the first time in living in Kufa group of Shiites Kaisaniten, was responsible for the Muhammad ibn al - Hanafiyya the Imam, he would not have died, but have moved away from the world and live hidden "[... ] in him the belief tied to the physical persistence and dereinstige return of the Mahdi recognized as gotterkorenen person ".

It is located in the Radwa Mountains to the west of Medina, according to others keep hidden on the island Kharag in the rocks beneath the mosque in. He died during the reign of the Umayyad caliph Abd al -Malik.

In Muhammad's son Hasan a "book of deferment " ( Kitaab al - Irǧā ʾ ) is returned, in which the doctrine is developed, that, according to sura 9:106 the judgment on the people who had participated in the Fitna, ie Talha, az - Zubair, ʿ Alī ʿ Uthman and, had to be postponed. With this document, Hasan regarded as the founder of the religious- political movement of the Murdschi ʾ a Whether the text is really from Hasan, however, is not assured.

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Abu Idris reported: I saw that Muhammad ibn al - Ḥanafijja made ​​use of various coloring agents. He confessed to me that his father ʿ Alī such beauty means not used to use it. Why are you doing it? ... " In order to make success with the court the women," was the reply.