Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh () or Muḥammad al-Imām (679/80 - 744) was the son of
Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Abbas and great-grandson of
al-‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib
Al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib ( ar, ٱلْعَبَّاسُبْنُ عَبْدِ ٱلْمُطَّلِبِ, al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib; CE) was a paternal uncle and Sahabi (companion) of Muhammad, just three years older than his ...
, the uncle of the Islamic prophet,
Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mo ...
. Born in
Humeima
Humayma ( ar, الحميمة, al-Humayma) also spelled Humeima and Humaima, is the modern name of ancient Hawara.[Humeima]
at n ...
in
Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...
, he was the father of the two first 'Abbâsid caliphs,
Al-Saffah and
Al-Mansur
Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Manṣūr (; ar, أبو جعفر عبد الله بن محمد المنصور; 95 AH – 158 AH/714 CE – 6 October 775 CE) usually known simply as by his laqab Al-Manṣūr (المنصور) w ...
, and as such was the progenitor of the
Abbasid dynasty.
Revolt of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi
When
al-Mukhtar
Al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd al-Thaqafi ( ar, المختار بن أبي عبيد الثقفي, '; – 3 April 687) was a pro-Alid revolutionary based in Kufa, who led a rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate in 685 and ruled over most of Iraq f ...
announced the revenge of
Imam al-Husayn
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, أبو عبد الله الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب; 10 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a son of Ali ibn Abi ...
, he showed himself as the representative of
Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, the Promised Mehdi according to him.
Sixth Imam of Kaysanites
After the death of
Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, the imamate of
Kaysanites Shia transferred to his son
Abu Hashim, who transferred it to Muhammad, paving the way for the Abbasid ''
dawa'' and the
Abbasid Revolution
The Abbasid Revolution, also called the Movement of the Men of the Black Raiment, was the overthrow of the Umayyad Caliphate (661–750 CE), the second of the four major Caliphates in early Islamic history, by the third, the Abbasid Caliphate ...
.
The Abbasid Revolution
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His ancestors and the family tree
Succession for the Imāms of Hashimiyya sect
See also
* As-Saffah
Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Saffāḥ ( ar, أبو العباس عبد الله بن محمد السفّاح; 721/722 – 8 June 754, al-Anbar) usually known as Abūʾl-ʿAbbās as-Saffāḥ or simply by his laqab As ...
References
Further reading
*https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/*-SIM_5342
Abbasids
7th-century Arabs
Year of birth uncertain
744 deaths
8th-century Arabs
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