The Shi'ite Imams

`Abdu'l-Muttalib

`Abdallah (d.570) Abu Talib (d. 619) al-`Abbas

Muhammad (d. 632) `Ali (d. 661)

Fatima Abdallah

Hasan (d.670) Husayn (d. 680 at Kerbala) `Ali

Ibrahim

Ismail `Ali Zayn al-`Abidin (d. 712/3) Muhammad

Ibrahim Tabataba (d. 743)

Qasim al-Rassi Muhammad al-Baqir (d. 731)

Husayn

Yahya Ja`far al-Sadiq (d. 765) `Abbasids

(Founds Yeminite Zaydi Imamate (749/50 - )

in 897 CE)

Isma`il (d. 762) `Abdallah Musa al-Kazim (d. 818)

`Ali al-Rida

Muhammad al-Jawad (d. 835)

`Ali al-Naqi (d. 868)

11 Hasan a;-`Askari (d. 873)

12 Muhammad al-Mahdi (869- )

(Goes into hiding in 873: lesser occultation)

series of four representatives (wakil), last one does not appoint a successor and dies in 940:

Greater Occultation