Imam Ja’far Ibn Muhammad Al Tha’ir & His Two Sons

Imam Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Thāʾir and His Two Sons (Peace Be Upon Them) | Al-Tuhaf Sharh al-Zulaf
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Imam Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Thāʾir & His Two Sons

Three Consecutive Imams — Peace Be Upon Them

The Father’s Lineage

Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī — this ʿAlī is the father of Imam al-Nāṣir al-Uṭrūsh — ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar, son of Sayyid al-ʿĀbidīn ʿAlī Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn.

The Father’s Rising

Gained ascendancy over the entire land of Ṭabaristān, year 367 AH. His shrine is there.

The Two Sons

Imam al-Mahdī (Abū al-Ḥasan) rose after his father and died in youth. His full brother Imam al-Ḥusayn (Abū al-Qāsim) rose in his stead in Jīl, Daylam, and Ṭabaristān.

Three Consecutive Imams
I — The Father Imam al-Thāʾir fī Allāh Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad

Gained ascendancy over all of Ṭabaristān in the year 367 AH. His shrine is there.

II — First Son Imam al-Mahdī Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Jaʿfar

Rose after his father. Enjoined justice and beneficence and forbade wrong and tyranny, until God took him in the prime of his youth.

III — Second Son Imam al-Thāʾir fī Allāh Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn ibn Jaʿfar

Rose in his brother’s stead — his counterpart in excellence and full brother in lineage — in the Jīl, the Daylam, and Ṭabaristān.

Their Lives in Sequence

Imam al-Thāʾir fī Allāh, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī — this ʿAlī being the father of Imam al-Nāṣir li-l-Ḥaqq al-Uṭrūsh — ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿUmar, son of Sayyid al-ʿĀbidīn ʿAlī Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn (may God be pleased with them). He gained ascendancy over the entire land of Ṭabaristān in the year 367 AH, and his shrine is there (peace be upon him).

Then his son, Imam Abū al-Ḥasan al-Mahdī ibn Abī al-Faḍl Imam al-Thāʾir fī Allāh Jaʿfar, rose after his father. He enjoined justice and beneficence and forbade wrong and tyranny — until God took him in the prime of his youth.

So there rose in his stead his counterpart in excellence and his full brother in lineage: Imam al-Thāʾir fī Allāh Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn, son of Imam al-Thāʾir fī Allāh Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad (may God be pleased with them) — in the regions of the Jīl, the Daylam, and Ṭabaristān.

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Primary Source Al-Tuḥaf Sharḥ al-Zulaf Imam Majd al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Muʾayyidī الإمام مجد الدين بن محمد المؤيدي
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