The Dukayniyya Shia (named for one of its leaders, Abu Nu'aym al-Fadl ibn al-Dukayn)
Mediaeval Isma'ili History and Thought, By Farhad Daftary, pg.315
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. The Dukayniyya Shia were led by Abu Nu'aym al-Fadl ibn al-Dukayn and Ibrahim ibn al-Hakam.
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Beliefs
The Dukayniyya Shia had the following beliefs:
*They believed that the Imams
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after Muhammad
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were (in chronological order):
**Ali
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...
, then
**Hasan ibn Ali
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, then
**Husayn ibn Ali
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 ...
, then
** Ali ibn Husayn ibn Ali, then
** Zayd ibn Ali ibn Husayn ibn Ali, then
**Yahya ibn Zayd ibn Ali, then
**The Imam is any male from the descendants of either Hassan or Husayn who arises and openly seeks the Imamate and is knowledgeable and just.
*They believed in aiding and revolting along with anyone who was opposing evil and upholding goodness.
*They believed that the world will always have an Imam and never be without one.
*They believed Muhammad’s followers fell into unbelief after his death because they did not uphold the Imamate of Ali, but instead accepted Abu Bakr
Abu Bakr Abdallah ibn Uthman Abi Quhafa (; – 23 August 634) was the senior companion and was, through his daughter Aisha, a father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, as well as the first caliph of Islam. He is known with the honor ...
as the first leader of the Muslim community after Muhammad.
*They had similar beliefs to the Jarudiyya Zaidi Shia and the Mu'tazili
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with regards to the transcendent unity of God, the promise, the threat, justice, and other doctrines.
See also
*Islamic schools and branches
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*List of extinct Shia sects
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References
An Ismaili heresiography: the "Bāb al-shayṭān" from Abū Tammām's Kitāb al ..., By Wilferd Madelung, Paul Ernest Walker, pg.90-91
Notes
Shia Islamic branches
Zaidiyyah
Schisms in Islam
Medieval Islamic world