Muhammad ibn Abdallah al-Aftah

Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Aftah ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq was a figure whose existence is contested: a portion of the Fathite Shia Muslims (followers of Abdullah al-Aftah ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq), believed that Muhammad was the son of Imam Abdullah al-Aftah (died 766 CE), whom they believed to be the Imam after his father Ja'far al-Sadiq. This assertion is contested by others, including many Fathites, who believe that Abdullah died without issue.[1]

When Abdullah al-Aftah died without an issue to succeed him in the Imamate, a portion of his followers believed in the necessity of the continuation of the Imamate in the children and the grandchildren of the Imam through pure vertical inheritance. Due to this they could not shift to the belief in the Imamate of the brother of Abdullah al-Aftah, Musa al-Kadhim. They therefore believed that Abdullah secretly had a son, claiming that this son was the Mahdi. They argued: "His name corresponds to the famous Prophetic hadith (of Muhammad): 'His name (i.e. the Mahdi) is my name (i.e. Muhammad), the name of his father is the name of my father (i.e. Abdullah).'"

He had a son named Sayed Alawi.[2]

Some of his ancestors and relatives

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İbrahim
İsmail
Qedarites
Adnān
Mālik
Quraysh
Fihr
HarithMuhāribGālib
SalabahLu'ay
SûrayrKâ'bSayl
MûrrahSa'd
Hind
Kilab ibn MurrahFatimah bint Sa'd
Qusai ibn KilabHubba bint HulailZuhrah ibn Kilab
Waqida bint AmrAbd Manaf ibn QusaiʿAbd Manāf ibn ZuhrahʿĀtika
Nawfal ibn Abd ManafAtikah bint Murrah
ʿAbd Shams ibnʿAbdManafHalaBarraMuttalib ibn Abd ManafHashim ibn 'Abd ManafHashemites
Banu NawfalUmayya ibn Abd ShamsBarraWahb ibn 'Abd ManafAbusayfah‘Abd al-MuttalibAsad ibn HashimNazle
HarbAbu al-'As ibn UmayyahAminah bint Wahb‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Abd al-MuttalibAbu Talib ibn ‘Abd al-MuttalibHamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib
Abu Sufyan ibn HarbAl-Hakam ibn Abi al-'AsAffan ibn Abi al-'AsMuhammed
(Family tree)
Khadijah (Daughters)Ali
(Family tree)
Khawlah bint Ja'farʿAbd Allâh bin `Abbâs
Muawiyah IMarwan ibn al-HakamUthman ibn AffanRuqayyah bint MuhammadFatimah ZahraMuhammad ibn al-HanafiyyahAl-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi
(Kaysān’îyyah)
ʿAli bin ʿAbd Allāh
UmayyadsUthman ibn Abu-al-AasHasan al-mujtabaMother of FātimāhHussein ibn Ali (Family)ShahrbanuAbu Hāshim al-Hānafiyyah (Kaysān’īyyah)Muhammad
"al-Imām"
Yazid IZayd ibn al-HasanHasan al-Mu'thannāFatimah bint HasanAli Zayn
al-‘Āb’i-Dīn
Jayda al-SindhiAs-SaffahIbrāheem
"al-Imām"
Muawiyah IIHasan ibn Zayd ibn HasanʿAbd Allāh al-KāmīlFarwah bint al-QasimMuhammad al-Baqir
(Imāmah)
Zayd ash-Shaheed
(Zaidiyyah)
AbbasidsJāʿfar ibn Abī Tālīb
Ali Zayn
al-‘Āb’i-Dīn
Ismā‘il ibn HassanMuhammad al-Nafs al-ZakiyyaHamīdah al-Barbariyyah KhātūnJāʿfar al-Sādiq (Imamāh‘Shi'ā)Fatima bint al-Hussain'l-AthramHasan ibn Zayd’ûl-Alavī (Tabaristan)ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jāʿfar
‘Umar al-AshrafMuhammed ibn Ismā‘ilIdris ibn ʿAbd AllāhUmmul Banīn NajmahMusa al-Kadhim
(Athnā‘ashariyyah)
Ismā‘il
(Ismā‘il’īyyah)
Yāhyā ibn Zayd’ûl-AlavīIsmā‘il ibn ʿAbd Allāh
‘AlīZayyedIdrisidsSabīkah KhayzurānAli al-RidhaMuhammedHusseinʿAbd Allāh
al-HussaynDā‘ī al-KabīrIbrāhimSumānahM. al-JawādAl-WafiYāhyāal-Hussayn
‘AlīAl-ṣāghīrYāhyāHadīthah/Sūsan/Savīl‘Alī al-HādīAt-Tāqī‘UmarFatımā
al-NāṣīrNarjisHasan al-AskariAr-RāḍīYāhyā Kufī
AlavidsMuhammad MahdiMahdi Billāh
Twelve Imams (Twelvers)Fatimids
(Ismailism)
Al-Aftāh
(Aftāhīyyah)
Al-Qā'imMuhammad
Al-Mansur
Al-Mu'izz
Al-Aziz
Al-Hakim
Az-Zahir
Al-Mustansir
Nizār al-Muṣṭafá (Nizārīyyah)Al-Mustā‘lī
(Mustā‘līyyah)
Al-Āmīr
Alamut Castle (Hassasins)Al-Hāfeez
(Ḥāfīzīyyah)
Aṭ-Ṭāyyīb
(Ṭāyyībīyyah)
Al-Zāfīr
Nizārī ImāmahAl-Fā'īzTaiyabi Dā'ĩs
Al-'Āḍīd
Nizārī IsmāilismBohras-Dā'ĩs
Ayyubids

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Moojan Momen (10 September 1987). An introduction to Shiʻi Islam: the history and doctrines of Twelver Shiʻism. Yale University Press. pp. 54–. ISBN 978-0-300-03531-5. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
  2. ^ Halm, Heinz (1996). Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-10056-5.

Bibliography

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  • Al-Maqalat wa al-Firaq, by Sa'ad Ibn Abdillah al-Ash'ari al-Qummi (d. 301), pg.88
Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Aftah
of the Ahl al-Bayt
Born: (existence disputed)
Shia Islam titles
Preceded by 8th Imam of a faction of Fathite Shia Islam
766-? CE
Succeeded by
Schism became defunct