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Route 2 of 3: The Prophet's family: descent and imamate lines

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1. The Prophet Muhammadمحمد632
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3. Ismāʿīl b. Jaʿfarإسماعيل بن جعفر750
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   successor of · Ismāʿīl b. Jaʿfar to Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Maktūm · Two independent sources

   Followers continued with Muḥammad al-Maktūm, who went from Medina to Rayy or Daylam and then Nishapur.

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   • Ibn ʿInaba, ʿUmdat al-ṭālib (OpenITI), umda#L4434-4445, L4469 · differsCalls Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl 'imam of the Maymūniyya'; reports (al-ʿUbaydalī, Abū Naṣr al-Bukhārī) he went to Iraq with Hārūn al-Rashīd and died in Baghdad.
   • al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ (OpenITI), siyar#L81807-81809 · agreesMuḥammad is Ismāʿīl's son; his descendants are listed.
   • Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007), ch. 3, pp. 89–90, 95 · agreesIsmāʿīl's partisans recognized his son Muḥammad as imam after al-Ṣādiq; Muḥammad was Ismāʿīl's eldest son, born c. 120/738, called al-Maktūm.
   • Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007), ch. 3, pp. 95–96 · differsMuḥammad went from Medina to southern Iraq, then Persia (later life in Khūzistān); died under Hārūn al-Rashīd, perhaps soon after 179/795. Sources vary on his destination.

   Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.

   • Ibn ʿInaba, relaying the genealogists al-ʿUbaydalī and Abū Naṣr al-Bukhārī: Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl was 'imam of the Maymūniyya', was in Mūsā al-Kāẓim's circle, went to Iraq with Hārūn al-Rashīd, died in Baghdad and is buried there. This differs from the Ismāʿīlī account TDV gives (Medina, then Rayy or Daylam, then Nishapur).Ibn ʿInaba, ʿUmdat al-ṭālib (OpenITI)
   • Daftary: Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl left Medina, went into hiding (hence al-Maktūm), and travelled first to southern Iraq and then to Persia, spending his later years in Khūzistān. Different sources give different final destinations. This differs from TDV (Rayy or Daylam, then Nishapur) and from Ibn ʿInaba (died in Baghdad). (ch. 3, pp. 95–96)Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007)
   Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Maktūmمحمد بن إسماعيل795
5. one sourcein The Prophet's family: descent and imamate linesomits: al-Wafī, al-Taqī, al-Raḍī (TDV; Ibn Khallikān names the same three as the hidden imams), or Muḥammad al-Ḥabīb b. Jaʿfar (Ibn ʿInaba's first account)≠sources differ

   successor of · Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Maktūm to ʿUbaydallāh al-Mahdī · One source

   TDV İsmâiliyye: the Ismāʿīlī imams stayed hidden (the satr) from al-Ṣādiq's death until ʿUbaydallāh appeared in North Africa (296/908); ʿUbaydallāh claimed the imamate for himself and his forebears at Salamiyya in 286/899 and declared himself Mahdī at Raqqāda in 297/910.

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   • Ibn ʿInaba, ʿUmdat al-ṭālib (OpenITI), umda#L4465-4481 · differsGives two accounts of the first Fatimid's descent, both through Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl's later descendants; chronology rules out a direct son.
   • Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt al-aʿyān (OpenITI), wafayat#L20604-20620 · differsReports four attributions of ʿUbaydallāh's descent; one makes him son of al-Raḍī b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl (via al-Wafī, al-Taqī).
   • al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ (OpenITI), siyar#L81812-81821 · differsLists Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl's descendants (none ʿUbaydallāh) and reports a Damascus sharīf who denied ʿUbaydallāh this descent.
   • Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007), ch. 3, pp. 99–100 · agreesFatimid account: a series of hidden imams from Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl to ʿAbd Allāh al-Mahdī; their names do not appear in the earliest Ismāʿīlī sources.
   • Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007), ch. 3, pp. 116–117 · agreesIn 286/899 ʿAbd Allāh publicly claimed the imamate for himself and his predecessors; Ḥamdān Qarmaṭ and ʿAbdān broke with the leadership.
   • Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007), ch. 3, pp. 101, 106 · differsHis own letter traces his line through ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaʿfar, not Ismāʿīl; Daftary says the evidence neither proves nor refutes the official chain.

   Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.

   • Fatimid sources, as TDV Fâtımîler gives them: ʿUbaydallāh b. al-Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Jaʿfar. TDV adds that even the earliest Ismāʿīlī sources do not name the hidden imams, and that the Fatimid caliphs published no official genealogy.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Fatımîler
   • TDV Fâtımîler: in a letter to the Yemen community, ʿUbaydallāh traced his line not to Ismāʿīl but to Ismāʿīl's elder brother ʿAbd Allāh, whom, he said, Jaʿfar had named heir; TDV relates this to the hidden imams' use of cover names. al-Maqrīzī (al-Muqaffā) records a lineage close to the letter's.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Fatımîler
   • TDV Fâtımîler reports another account in which ʿAbd Allāh b. Maymūn al-Qaddāḥ, not of ʿAlī's line, is named the real founder of the movement and ancestor of the Fatimids; TDV traces the confusion to 'Maymūn' being one of the epithets of Jaʿfar's sons.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Fatımîler
   • TDV Fâtımîler: the maḥḍar issued by the Abbasids in Baghdad in 402/1011 to contest the Fatimids' descent, which al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā also signed, does not name Maymūn or his son.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Fatımîler
   • TDV İsmâiliyye: Ḥamdān Qarmaṭ and ʿAbdān withdrew their support over ʿUbaydallāh's claim of 286/899, and the Ismāʿīlī communities of Iraq, Bahrain and western Iran did not accept his imamate, holding to the return of Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl as the qāʾim.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, İsmâiliyye
   • Qarmaṭī view, as Daftary reports it from al-Nawbakhtī, al-Qummī and others: before 286/899 the great majority of the movement recognized only seven imams, ending with Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl, expected as Qāʾim and Mahdī. Only a small subgroup continued the imamate in his progeny. The Qarmaṭīs of Iraq and Bahrayn held to this and did not accept ʿAbd Allāh's claim. (ch. 3, pp. 96, 99, 117, 120–121)Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007)
   • Maymūn al-Qaddāḥ account and its critics, as Daftary reports them: Ibn Rizām and Akhū Muḥsin made the non-ʿAlid ʿAbd Allāh b. Maymūn al-Qaddāḥ the founder of Ismāʿīlism and ancestor of the Fatimids. Daftary notes that al-Nawbakhtī, al-Qummī, al-Ṭabarī, ʿArīb b. Saʿd and the 402/1011 manifesto do not name him. Ivanow called it a myth; Massignon, Qazvīnī and Lewis clarified the Qaddāḥ biographies; Stern sees a basis in later Qaddāḥ descendants; Lewis proposes two lines of imams (mustawdaʿ and mustaqarr), a view Daftary says other scholars do not generally accept; Hamdani and de Blois see the official genealogy as a merger of two lines of Jaʿfar's descendants (ʿAbd Allāh and Ismāʿīl). (ch. 3, pp. 101–107)Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007)
   ʿUbaydallāh al-Mahdīعبيد الله المهدي934
6. ✓two sourcesin The Prophet's family: descent and imamate linesomits: al-Qāʾim, al-Manṣūr, al-Muʿizz, al-ʿAzīz, al-Ḥākim, al-Ẓāhir, al-Mustanṣir; Daftary's table (p. 508) names the same seven caliph-imams (II–VIII) between ʿUbaydallāh and Nizār≠sources differ

   successor of · ʿUbaydallāh al-Mahdī to Nizār b. al-Mustanṣir · Two independent sources

   The Nizārī line is traced to al-Mustanṣir's elder son Nizār. TDV Nizâriyye: Nizār was seized and killed in prison in Alexandria (488/1095); Ḥasan-i Ṣabbāḥ and the Ismāʿīlīs of the east accepted Nizār and his descendants and broke with the Cairo daʿwa.

   TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Nizâriyye (Mustafa Öz, 2007)TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, İsmâiliyyeTDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Fatımîler

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   • Ibn ʿInaba, ʿUmdat al-ṭālib (OpenITI), umda#L4499-4502 · agreesNizār b. al-Mustanṣir, 'ṣāḥib daʿwat al-Ismāʿīliyya', ancestor of the Alamūt lords.
   • Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt al-aʿyān (OpenITI), wafayat#L3018-3020 · agreesNizār, the elder son, fled to Alexandria under al-Mustaʿlī; called ancestor of the Alamūt daʿwa.
   • Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007), ch. 5, pp. 241–242 · agreesAl-Mustanṣir first designated his eldest son Nizār; Nizār rose in Alexandria in 488/1095 and took the title al-Muṣṭafā li-Dīn Allāh.
   • Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007), ch. 5, p. 242 · differsNizār surrendered, was taken to Cairo, imprisoned and immured (end of 488/1095); TDV has him killed in prison in Alexandria.
   • Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007), ch. 6, pp. 325–326; genealogical table, p. 509 · agreesḤasan-i Ṣabbāḥ and all Persian Ismāʿīlīs upheld Nizār's right and broke with Cairo; Nizār is the nineteenth imam in the Nizārī list.

   Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.

   • Mustaʿlī account: al-Mustaʿlī was the rightful successor. TDV İsmâiliyye and Müsta‘liyye describe him as declaring his imamate with al-Afḍal's support.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, İsmâiliyyeTDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Müsta‘liyye
   • Nizārī account, as TDV Nizâriyye gives it: the imamate was Nizār's right; after Nizār and his son were killed, a young grandson was brought to Iran by Ḥasan-i Ṣabbāḥ and raised there.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Nizâriyye (Mustafa Öz, 2007)
   • Nizārī account, as Daftary reports it: the Persian Ismāʿīlīs defended al-Mustanṣir's original naṣṣ to Nizār. Nizār himself named no successor; Nizārī coins at Alamūt continued to carry his name for about seventy years, blessing his progeny anonymously. Persian historians report that a son or grandson of Nizār was brought secretly to Alamūt, in versions naming the qāḍī Abū l-Ḥasan Saʿīdī and a grandson al-Muhtadī. Daftary notes that Nizār's descendants launched revolts in Egypt, the last in 556/1161. (ch. 6, pp. 325–326, 363)Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007)
   Nizār b. al-Mustanṣirنزار1095

Route 3 of 3: The Prophet's family: descent and imamate lines

≠Sources differ on 4 links of this route.

1. The Prophet Muhammadمحمد632
2. Show all 9 names (5 not shown)
3. Ismāʿīl b. Jaʿfarإسماعيل بن جعفر750
4. ✓two sourcesin The Prophet's family: descent and imamate lines≠sources differ

   successor of · Ismāʿīl b. Jaʿfar to Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Maktūm · Two independent sources

   Followers continued with Muḥammad al-Maktūm, who went from Medina to Rayy or Daylam and then Nishapur.

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   • Ibn ʿInaba, ʿUmdat al-ṭālib (OpenITI), umda#L4434-4445, L4469 · differsCalls Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl 'imam of the Maymūniyya'; reports (al-ʿUbaydalī, Abū Naṣr al-Bukhārī) he went to Iraq with Hārūn al-Rashīd and died in Baghdad.
   • al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ (OpenITI), siyar#L81807-81809 · agreesMuḥammad is Ismāʿīl's son; his descendants are listed.
   • Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007), ch. 3, pp. 89–90, 95 · agreesIsmāʿīl's partisans recognized his son Muḥammad as imam after al-Ṣādiq; Muḥammad was Ismāʿīl's eldest son, born c. 120/738, called al-Maktūm.
   • Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007), ch. 3, pp. 95–96 · differsMuḥammad went from Medina to southern Iraq, then Persia (later life in Khūzistān); died under Hārūn al-Rashīd, perhaps soon after 179/795. Sources vary on his destination.

   Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.

   • Ibn ʿInaba, relaying the genealogists al-ʿUbaydalī and Abū Naṣr al-Bukhārī: Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl was 'imam of the Maymūniyya', was in Mūsā al-Kāẓim's circle, went to Iraq with Hārūn al-Rashīd, died in Baghdad and is buried there. This differs from the Ismāʿīlī account TDV gives (Medina, then Rayy or Daylam, then Nishapur).Ibn ʿInaba, ʿUmdat al-ṭālib (OpenITI)
   • Daftary: Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl left Medina, went into hiding (hence al-Maktūm), and travelled first to southern Iraq and then to Persia, spending his later years in Khūzistān. Different sources give different final destinations. This differs from TDV (Rayy or Daylam, then Nishapur) and from Ibn ʿInaba (died in Baghdad). (ch. 3, pp. 95–96)Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007)
   Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Maktūmمحمد بن إسماعيل795
5. one sourcein The Prophet's family: descent and imamate linesomits: al-Wafī, al-Taqī, al-Raḍī (TDV; Ibn Khallikān names the same three as the hidden imams), or Muḥammad al-Ḥabīb b. Jaʿfar (Ibn ʿInaba's first account)≠sources differ

   successor of · Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Maktūm to ʿUbaydallāh al-Mahdī · One source

   TDV İsmâiliyye: the Ismāʿīlī imams stayed hidden (the satr) from al-Ṣādiq's death until ʿUbaydallāh appeared in North Africa (296/908); ʿUbaydallāh claimed the imamate for himself and his forebears at Salamiyya in 286/899 and declared himself Mahdī at Raqqāda in 297/910.

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   • Ibn ʿInaba, ʿUmdat al-ṭālib (OpenITI), umda#L4465-4481 · differsGives two accounts of the first Fatimid's descent, both through Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl's later descendants; chronology rules out a direct son.
   • Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt al-aʿyān (OpenITI), wafayat#L20604-20620 · differsReports four attributions of ʿUbaydallāh's descent; one makes him son of al-Raḍī b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl (via al-Wafī, al-Taqī).
   • al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ (OpenITI), siyar#L81812-81821 · differsLists Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl's descendants (none ʿUbaydallāh) and reports a Damascus sharīf who denied ʿUbaydallāh this descent.
   • Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007), ch. 3, pp. 99–100 · agreesFatimid account: a series of hidden imams from Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl to ʿAbd Allāh al-Mahdī; their names do not appear in the earliest Ismāʿīlī sources.
   • Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007), ch. 3, pp. 116–117 · agreesIn 286/899 ʿAbd Allāh publicly claimed the imamate for himself and his predecessors; Ḥamdān Qarmaṭ and ʿAbdān broke with the leadership.
   • Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007), ch. 3, pp. 101, 106 · differsHis own letter traces his line through ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaʿfar, not Ismāʿīl; Daftary says the evidence neither proves nor refutes the official chain.

   Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.

   • Fatimid sources, as TDV Fâtımîler gives them: ʿUbaydallāh b. al-Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Jaʿfar. TDV adds that even the earliest Ismāʿīlī sources do not name the hidden imams, and that the Fatimid caliphs published no official genealogy.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Fatımîler
   • TDV Fâtımîler: in a letter to the Yemen community, ʿUbaydallāh traced his line not to Ismāʿīl but to Ismāʿīl's elder brother ʿAbd Allāh, whom, he said, Jaʿfar had named heir; TDV relates this to the hidden imams' use of cover names. al-Maqrīzī (al-Muqaffā) records a lineage close to the letter's.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Fatımîler
   • TDV Fâtımîler reports another account in which ʿAbd Allāh b. Maymūn al-Qaddāḥ, not of ʿAlī's line, is named the real founder of the movement and ancestor of the Fatimids; TDV traces the confusion to 'Maymūn' being one of the epithets of Jaʿfar's sons.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Fatımîler
   • TDV Fâtımîler: the maḥḍar issued by the Abbasids in Baghdad in 402/1011 to contest the Fatimids' descent, which al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā also signed, does not name Maymūn or his son.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Fatımîler
   • TDV İsmâiliyye: Ḥamdān Qarmaṭ and ʿAbdān withdrew their support over ʿUbaydallāh's claim of 286/899, and the Ismāʿīlī communities of Iraq, Bahrain and western Iran did not accept his imamate, holding to the return of Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl as the qāʾim.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, İsmâiliyye
   • Qarmaṭī view, as Daftary reports it from al-Nawbakhtī, al-Qummī and others: before 286/899 the great majority of the movement recognized only seven imams, ending with Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl, expected as Qāʾim and Mahdī. Only a small subgroup continued the imamate in his progeny. The Qarmaṭīs of Iraq and Bahrayn held to this and did not accept ʿAbd Allāh's claim. (ch. 3, pp. 96, 99, 117, 120–121)Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007)
   • Maymūn al-Qaddāḥ account and its critics, as Daftary reports them: Ibn Rizām and Akhū Muḥsin made the non-ʿAlid ʿAbd Allāh b. Maymūn al-Qaddāḥ the founder of Ismāʿīlism and ancestor of the Fatimids. Daftary notes that al-Nawbakhtī, al-Qummī, al-Ṭabarī, ʿArīb b. Saʿd and the 402/1011 manifesto do not name him. Ivanow called it a myth; Massignon, Qazvīnī and Lewis clarified the Qaddāḥ biographies; Stern sees a basis in later Qaddāḥ descendants; Lewis proposes two lines of imams (mustawdaʿ and mustaqarr), a view Daftary says other scholars do not generally accept; Hamdani and de Blois see the official genealogy as a merger of two lines of Jaʿfar's descendants (ʿAbd Allāh and Ismāʿīl). (ch. 3, pp. 101–107)Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007)
   ʿUbaydallāh al-Mahdīعبيد الله المهدي934
6. ✓two sourcesin The Prophet's family: descent and imamate linesomits: al-Qāʾim, al-Manṣūr, al-Muʿizz, al-ʿAzīz, al-Ḥākim, al-Ẓāhir, al-Mustanṣir; Daftary's table (p. 508) names the same seven caliph-imams (II–VIII) between ʿUbaydallāh and Nizār≠sources differ

   successor of · ʿUbaydallāh al-Mahdī to Nizār b. al-Mustanṣir · Two independent sources

   The Nizārī line is traced to al-Mustanṣir's elder son Nizār. TDV Nizâriyye: Nizār was seized and killed in prison in Alexandria (488/1095); Ḥasan-i Ṣabbāḥ and the Ismāʿīlīs of the east accepted Nizār and his descendants and broke with the Cairo daʿwa.

   TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Nizâriyye (Mustafa Öz, 2007)TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, İsmâiliyyeTDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Fatımîler

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   • Ibn ʿInaba, ʿUmdat al-ṭālib (OpenITI), umda#L4499-4502 · agreesNizār b. al-Mustanṣir, 'ṣāḥib daʿwat al-Ismāʿīliyya', ancestor of the Alamūt lords.
   • Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt al-aʿyān (OpenITI), wafayat#L3018-3020 · agreesNizār, the elder son, fled to Alexandria under al-Mustaʿlī; called ancestor of the Alamūt daʿwa.
   • Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007), ch. 5, pp. 241–242 · agreesAl-Mustanṣir first designated his eldest son Nizār; Nizār rose in Alexandria in 488/1095 and took the title al-Muṣṭafā li-Dīn Allāh.
   • Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007), ch. 5, p. 242 · differsNizār surrendered, was taken to Cairo, imprisoned and immured (end of 488/1095); TDV has him killed in prison in Alexandria.
   • Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007), ch. 6, pp. 325–326; genealogical table, p. 509 · agreesḤasan-i Ṣabbāḥ and all Persian Ismāʿīlīs upheld Nizār's right and broke with Cairo; Nizār is the nineteenth imam in the Nizārī list.

   Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.

   • Mustaʿlī account: al-Mustaʿlī was the rightful successor. TDV İsmâiliyye and Müsta‘liyye describe him as declaring his imamate with al-Afḍal's support.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, İsmâiliyyeTDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Müsta‘liyye
   • Nizārī account, as TDV Nizâriyye gives it: the imamate was Nizār's right; after Nizār and his son were killed, a young grandson was brought to Iran by Ḥasan-i Ṣabbāḥ and raised there.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Nizâriyye (Mustafa Öz, 2007)
   • Nizārī account, as Daftary reports it: the Persian Ismāʿīlīs defended al-Mustanṣir's original naṣṣ to Nizār. Nizār himself named no successor; Nizārī coins at Alamūt continued to carry his name for about seventy years, blessing his progeny anonymously. Persian historians report that a son or grandson of Nizār was brought secretly to Alamūt, in versions naming the qāḍī Abū l-Ḥasan Saʿīdī and a grandson al-Muhtadī. Daftary notes that Nizār's descendants launched revolts in Egypt, the last in 556/1161. (ch. 6, pp. 325–326, 363)Farhad Daftary, The Ismāʿīlīs: Their History and Doctrines (Cambridge UP, 2nd ed. 2007)
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