Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdallah

Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abd Allah
Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abd Allah
Died	August/September 743; Humayma, Umayyad Caliphate
Known for	Ancestor of Abbasid dynasty
Spouses	Rayta bint Ubayd Allah al-Harithiyya; Sallamah Umm Abdallah;
Children	Abu Ishaq Ibrahim,; Abu ʿĪsā Mūsā,; Abu Ja'far Abd Allah,; Abu'l-Abbas Abdallah;
Parent	ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh (father)
Relatives	Abd Allah ibn Ali (brother); Salih ibn Ali (brother); ʿĪsā ibn Mūsā (grandson);

Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿal-ʿAbbās^[a] or Muḥammad al-Imām (679/80 - 743)^[1] was the father of the two first 'Abbâsid caliphs, Al-Saffah and Al-Mansur, and as such was the progenitor of the Abbasid dynasty.^[2]^[3]^[4]

He was the son of Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Abbas and great-grandson of al-‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib, the uncle of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad.

Revolt of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi

When al-Mukhtar announced the revenge of Imam al-Husayn, he showed himself as the representative of Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, the Promised Mehdi according to him.^{[citation needed]}

Imam of the Hashimiyya

After the death of Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, the imamate of the Kaysanite Shia transferred to his son Abu Hashim, who transferred it to Muhammad, paving the way for the Abbasid dawa and the Abbasid Revolution.^[5]

Family tree

Quraysh tribe

Waqida bint Amr

Barra

Hala

Muṭṭalib ibn Abd Manaf

MUHAMMAD
(Family tree)

Khadija bint Khuwaylid

ʿAlī
(Family tree)

Khawlah bint Ja'far

Ibn Abbas

Muʿāwiyah I

Marwān I

ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān

Ruqayya

Fatimah

Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah

al-Ḥusayn
(Family tree)

Abu Hasim
(Imām of al-Mukhtār and Hashimiyya)

Muhammad
"al-Imām"
(Abbasids)

Ibrāhim "al-Imām"

al-Saffāḥ

al-Mansur

The genealogy of the Abbasids including their rival Zaydi imams

Abbasids

Caliphs of the Abbasid Caliphate
Caliphs of Cairo
Zaydi imams

ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
ibn ʿHāshīm

ʾAbū Ṭālib
ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib

Abū'l-Fādl
al-ʿAbbās ibn
ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib

ʿAbd Allāh ibn
ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib

ʿAlīyyū'l-Murtaḍžā
^{(1st Imām of Kaysāniyyā, Zaydīyyā, Imāmiyyā)}

Hibr al-Ummah
ʿAbd Allāh
ibn al-ʿAbbās

Khātam
al-Nabiyyin
Abū'l-Qāsīm
Muḥammad
ibn ʿAbd Allāh

Al-Ḥasan al-Mujtabā
^{(2nd Imām of Kaysāniyyā, Zaydīyyā, Imāmiyyā)}

Hussayn ibn Ali
^{(3rd Imām of Kaysāniyyā, Zaydīyyā, Imāmiyyā)}

Abū'l-Qāsīm Muḥammad
al-Hānafīyya
^{(4th Imām of Kaysāniyyā)}

ʿAlī ibn
ʿAbd Allāh
al-Sajjad

Al-Ḥasan al-Mu'thannā
^{(5th Imām of Zaydiyyā)}

Ali al-Sajjad
(Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn)
^{(4th Imām of Zaydiyyā, Imāmiyyā)}

Abū Hāshīm
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad
^{(5th Imām of Hāsheemīyyā)}

Muḥammad
"al-Imām"
^{(6th Imām of Hāsheemīyyā)}
716/7 - 743

^{(The Governors)}

ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī
^{(Bilad al-Sham of Syria; 750–754)}
Abd al-Sāmad
^{(Medina and Mecca; 772–776 & Jazira; 780)}

^{(The Governors)}

Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAlī
^{(Egypt; 750–751)}
Sulayman
^{(Bahrayn, Oman, Tigris districts, Mihrajanqadhaq; 750–755 & Amir al-hajj; 753)}

ʿAbd Allāh al-Kāmīl ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mu'thannā

Zayd ibn Ali
^{(6th Imām of Zaydiyyā)}

Ibrāhim (Ebrāheem)
"al-Imām"
^{(7th Imām of Hāsheemīyyā)}
743 - 749

Abū Jāʿfar
ʿAbd Allāh
al-Mānṣūr
⁽²⁾
r. 754–775

Abū'l-ʿAbbās
ʿAbd Allāh
as-Saffāh
⁽¹⁾
r. 750–754

Mūsā ibn Muḥammad "al-Imām"

Nafsū'zZakiyya
^{(First elected caliph by Ibrāhim, Mānṣūr, Saffāh, Imām Mālīk & Abū Ḥanīfa)}
^{(8th Imām of Zaydiyyā)}

Yahya ibn Zayd
^{(7th Imām of Zaydiyyā)}

Abū Muslīm al-Khurāsānī
^{(Governor of Khurasan)}
748–755

Muḥammad
al-Mahdī
⁽³⁾
r. 775–785

Jāʿfar
^{(Wali al-Ahd & Governor of Mosul)}
762–764

ʿĪsā ibn Mūsā
^{(Governor of Kufa)}
750–765

ʿAbd Allāh
Shāh Ghāzī
(ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad)
^{(10th Imām of Zaydiyyā)}

Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kāmīl ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mu'thannā
^{ibn Ḥasan al-Mujtabā}
^{(9th Imām of Zaydiyyā)}

Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-ʿĀbid ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mu'thallath
^{ibn Ḥasan al-Mu'thannā}
^{(12th Imām of Zaydiyyā)}

Hārūn
ar-Rāshīd
⁽⁵⁾
r. 786–809

ʿMūsā
al-Hādī
⁽⁴⁾
r. 785–786

^{(The Governors)}

^(Medina)

Sulaymān
^{ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kāmīl ibn al-Ḥasan II}
^{(Emir of Tlemcen)}
^{(Sulaymanid dynasty of Western Algeria)}

Yaḥyā
^{ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kāmīl ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mu'thannā}
^{(14th Imām of Zaydiyyā)}

Ibrāhīm Ṭabāṭabā
^{ibn Ismāʿīl al-Dībādj ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ghamr ibn
al-Ḥasan al-Mu'thannā}

Muḥammad
al-Mu'tasim
⁽⁸⁾
r. 833–842

Abd Allāh
al-Ma'mun
⁽⁷⁾
r. 813–833

Muḥammad
al-Amin
⁽⁶⁾
r. 809–813

Sūlaymān
^{ibn ʿAbd Allāh as-Sālih ibn Mūsā al-Jawn ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kāmīl ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mu'thannā}

Idrīs the Elder ibn ʿAbd Allāh
^{(Idrisid dynasty of Morocco)}
^{(15th Imām of Zaydiyyā)}

Muḥammad ibn IbrāhīmṬabāṭabā
^{(16th Imām of Zaydiyyā)}

Jāʿfar al-Mutawakkil
⁽¹⁰⁾
r. 847–861

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad
al-Mu'tasim

Hārūn
al-Wathiq
⁽⁹⁾
r. 842–847

Mūsā II
^{ibn ʿAbd Allāh as-Sâlih ibn Mūsā al-Jawn ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kāmīl}

Idrīs ibn Idrīs
^{(2nd Zaydī Imām of Idrisids in Morocco)}

Muḥammad
al-Muntasir
⁽¹¹⁾
r. 861–862

Ṭalḥa al-Muwaffaq
^(Regent)
870–891

Aḥmad
al-Musta'in
⁽¹²⁾
r. 862–866

Muḥammad
al-Muhtadi
⁽¹⁴⁾
r. 869–870

Ismāʿīl ibn Yūsūf
Al-Ukhayḍhir
^{ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā al-Jawn ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kāmīl ibn Ḥasan al-Mu'thannā}

Al-Qāsīm
ar-Rassī ibn IbrāhīmṬabāṭabā
^{(19th Imām of Zaydiyyā)}

Ibrahim al-Mu'ayyad
^{(Wali al-Ahd & Governor of Syria)}
850–861

Aḥmad
al-Mu'tadid
⁽¹⁶⁾
r. 892–902

Muḥammad
al-Mu'tazz
⁽¹³⁾
r. 866–869

Aḥmad
al-Mu'tamid
⁽¹⁵⁾
r. 870–892

Muḥammad ibn Yūsūf
Al-Ukhayḍhir
^{(1st Zaydī Imām of Ukhaydhirites in Najd and Al-Yamama)}

^{Abūʾl-Ḥusayn
Al-Hādī ilāʾl-Ḥaqq}
Yaḥyā ibn
al-Ḥusayn
^{(1st Zaydī Imām of Rassids in Yemen)}

ʿAlī
al-Muktafī
⁽¹⁷⁾
r. 902–908

Jāʿfar
al-Muqtadir
⁽¹⁸⁾
r. 908–929,
929–932

Muḥammad
al-Qāhir
⁽¹⁹⁾
r. 929, 932–934

Jāʿfar al-Mufawwid
^{(Wali al-Ahd)}
875–892

Zayd ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mujtabā ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib

ʿAbd Allāh
al-Mustakfī
⁽²²⁾
r. 944–946

Al-Faḍl
al-Mutīʿ
⁽²³⁾
r. 946–974

Ishāq ibn Jāʿfar al-Muqtadir

Muḥammad
al-Rādī
⁽²⁰⁾
r. 934–940

Ībrāhīm
al-Muttaqī
⁽²¹⁾
r. 940–944

Ḥasan ibn Zayd ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mujtabā ibn ʿAlīyyū'l-Murtaḍžā

ʿUmar al-Ashraf ibn ʿAlī Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn ibn al-Ḥusayn

ʿAbd al-Karīm
al-Ṭāʾiʿ
⁽²⁴⁾
r. 974–991

Aḥmad
al-Qāʿdīr
⁽²⁵⁾
r. 991–1031

Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥasan ibn Zayd ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mujtabā

ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Ashraf ibn ʿAlī Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn

Al-Ḥusayn Dhu'l-Dam'a ibn Zayd ibn ʿAlī Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn

ʿAbd Allāh
al-Qāʿīm
⁽²⁶⁾
r. 1031–1075

Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥasan ibn Zayd

Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Ashraf

Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn Dhu'l-Dam'a ibn Zayd

Muḥammad Dhakīrat ad-Dīn
^{(Wali al-Ahd)}
1039–1056

Zayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ḥasan

ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar al-Ashraf

ʿUmar ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn Dhu'l-Dam'a

ʿAbd Allāh
al-Mūqtādī
⁽²⁷⁾
r. 1075–1094

^{Al-Dāʿī al-Kabīr}
Hasan ibn Zayd
^{(1st Zaydī Imām of Zaydīds in Tabaristan)}

^{Al-Dāʿī al-Ṣaghīr}
Muhammad ibn Zayd
^{(2nd Zaydī Imām of Zaydīds in Tabaristan)}

Yaḥyā ibn ʿUmar
^{(20th Imām of Zaydiyyā in Samarra)}

Aḥmad
al-Mūstāzhīr
⁽²⁸⁾
r. 1094–1118

^{Al-Nāṣir liʾl-Ḥāqq}
Hasan al-Utrush
^{(3rd Zaydī Imām of Zaydīds in Tabaristan)}

Al-Faḍl al-Mūstārshīd
⁽²⁹⁾
r. 1118–1135

Al-Mānṣūr
al-Rāshīd
⁽³⁰⁾
r. 1135–1136

Muḥammad
al-Mūqtāfī
⁽³¹⁾
r. 1136–1160

Alī ibn al-Faḍl
al-Qabī

Yūsuf
al-Mūstānjīd
⁽³²⁾
r. 1160–1170

al-Hāsān
ibn Alī

Al-Hāssān
al-Mūstādī'
⁽³³⁾
r. 1170–1180

Abū Bakr
ibn al-Hāsān

Aḥmad
al-Nāsīr
⁽³⁴⁾
r. 1180–1225

Abi 'Alī al-Hāsān ibn Abū Bakr

Muḥammad
az-Zāhīr
⁽³⁵⁾
r. 1225–1226

Malīka'zZāhīr Rūkn ad-Dīn Baybars
^{(Mamluk Sultanate Sultan of Egypt)}
r. 1260–1277

Al-Mānsūr
al-Mūstānsīr
⁽³⁶⁾
r. 1226–1242

Abū'l-Qāsim Aḥmad
al-Mūstānsīr
⁽¹⁾
r. 1261

Abū'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad
al-Hakim I
⁽²⁾
r. 1262–1302

ʿAbd Allāh
al-Mūstā'sīm
⁽³⁷⁾
r. 1242–1258

Abū'r-Rabīʿ Sulaymān
al-Mustakfī I
⁽³⁾
r. 1302–1340

Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad
al-Ḥākim bi-amr Allāh

Abū'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad
al-Hakim II
⁽⁵⁾
r. 1341–1352

Abū'l-Fatḥ Abū Bakr
al-Mu'tadid I
⁽⁶⁾
r. 1352–1362

Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm
al-Wāṯiq I
⁽⁴⁾
r. 1340–1341

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad
al-Mutawakkil I
⁽⁷⁾
r. 1362–1377,
1377–1383,
1389–1406

Abū Yāḥyā Zakariyāʾ
al-Musta'sim
⁽⁸⁾
r. 1377,
1386–1389

Abū Ḥafs ʿUmar
al-Wāṯiq II
⁽⁹⁾
r. 1383–1386

Abū'l-Faḍl al-ʿAbbās
al-Musta'īn
⁽¹⁰⁾
r. 1406–1414
Sultan of Egypt
r. 1412

Abū'l-Fatḥ Dāwud
al-Mu'tadīd II
⁽¹¹⁾
r. 1414–1441

Abū'r-Rabīʿ Sulaymān
al-Mustakfī II
⁽¹²⁾
r. 1441–1451

Yaʿqūb ibn Muḥammad
al-Mutawakkil ʿalā'Llāh

Abū'l-Baqāʾ Ḥamza
al-Qāʾim
⁽¹³⁾
r. 1451–1455

Abū'l-Maḥāsin Yūsuf
al-Mustanjid
⁽¹⁴⁾
r. 1455–1479

Abū'l-ʿIzz ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz
al-Mutawakkil II
⁽¹⁵⁾
r. 1479–1497

Abū'ṣ-Ṣabr Yaʿqūb
al-Mustamsik
⁽¹⁶⁾
r. 1497–1508,
1516–1517

Muḥammad
al-Mutawakkil III
⁽¹⁷⁾
r. 1508–1516,
1517

Notes

^ Arabic: محمد بن علي بن عبد الله

References

^ Khallikân (Ibn), II, 593, quotes Al-Tabari, "Tarikh".
^ Hitti, "History of the Arabs", p.289.
^ Khallikan (Ibn), "Wafayât al A'yân wa-Anbâ' Abnâ' al-Zamân", II, 592-4.
^ Nadim (al-), ed, Dodge, B., "Al-Fihrist," pp. 222, 378, 1051.
^ The Abbasid Revolution

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Shia Islam titles
Muhammad "al-Imām" Banu Hashim Clan of the Quraysh Died: August/September 743
Preceded by Abu Hashim	Imam of the Hashimiyya 716/7–743	Succeeded by Ibrahim al-Imam