Abd-Allah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah

Abd-Allah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah (d. 161 AH; c. 776 CE),[1] also known as Abu Hashim from the Banu Hashim clan of the Quraish tribe in Mecca., was one of the Salaf and a Narrator of hadith.He is a member of the Ahl al Bayt (the household of Muhammad) and Ahl al Kisa After Husayn ibn Ali , Hasan ibn Ali and Imam Muhammad ibn al Hanafiyyah. After Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya died, his son Abu Hashim claimed the imamate. After his death the Abbasids claimed that on his deathbed Abu Hashim nominated his distant cousin Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdullah ibn Abbas ibn Abdu'l-Muttalib ibn Hashim as the imam. This man's son Abu'l-Abbas Abdullah as-Saffah became the first Abbasid caliph, repudiating Shi'ism, which effectively extinguished the sect that had recognized Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah as an imam.[2]


His father was Muhammad ibn al Hanafiyyah ibn Ali, a son of Ali R.A. Abu Hashim had a brother called Hasan.

Among the Isnad he is included in is the Hadith of prohibition of Mut'ah at Khaybar.

After his father's death in 700 CE, Shia of the Hashimiyya sub-sect of the Kaysanites Shia looked to Abu Hashim as the heir of his grandfather Ali. After his own death, the early Abbasids claimed that Abu Hashim had designated Muhammad, father to the later first two Abbasid caliphs As-Saffah and Al-Mansur, as his heir and head of the clan of the Banu Hashim.

Legacy

Sunni view

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani graded the two sons of Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah to be weak in Hadith, arguing that one was a murji'i, and the other to be a Shi'ite.[3]

On the other hand, Ibn Sa'd stated that "Abu Hashim has knowledge and transmission. He was reliable in Hadith, and has narrated a few accepted hadiths."[4]

Time line

Abd-Allah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah
of the Ahl al-Bayt
Clan of the Banu Quraish
Born: ≈ ? CE Died: ≈ ? CE
Shia Islam titles
Preceded by
Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah ibn Ali 		Abu Hashim
5th Imam of Hashimiyya
Kaysanites Shia
?–? 		Succeeded by
Muhammad "al-Imām"
the founder of
Abbasid Dynasty

References

  1. ↑ Shaban, M.A., The 'Abbāsid Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970), 139. ISBN 978-0521295345
  2. ↑ Momen, Moojan (1985). An Introduction to Shi'i Islam. Oxford, U.K.: George Ronald. pp. 47–48.
  3. ↑ Tahdhib al-Tahdhib
  4. ↑ The Book of the Major Classes
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