Muhammad ibn Ismail

Muhammad ibn Ismail (Arabic محمد بن إسماعيل ) was a son of Ismail ibn Jafar, the 7th Imam of the Ismailis ( Shia sevens ). A breakaway group of Shiites regarded Muhammad ibn Ismail as their hidden seventh Imam.

Ismail ibn Jafar, eldest son of the sixth Imam Sadiq, died before his father. Whose followers did not accept the fact determined by the father 's second son, Imam Musa al - Kazim, as their Imam. They claimed that the son of Ismail ibn Jafar deceased, ie Muhammad ibn Ismail was the seventh and last Imam. The main flow of the later Ismailis formed around this group (see also List of Fatimid Imams ), while the Imami or Twelver Shi'ites recognize Ismail's much younger half-brother Musa al - Kazim as the seventh Imam.