Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafīyah
- Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafīyah
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▪ Shīʿite imam
born , 637
died 710, Medina, Arabia [now Saudi Arabia]
Muslim religious figure who many thought was the legitimate caliph. He was a son of ʿAlī, the fourth caliph, but not by his wife, Fāṭimah, who was the daughter of the Prophet Muḥammad. By nature, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafīyah was retiring and inclined to avoid partisan strife; he acted with much caution despite the support of various factions that would have made him caliph. He eventually pledged allegiance to the Umayyad caliph ʿAbd al-Malik, from whom he received a large annual pension.
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Universalium.
2010.
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