308 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX. 
of governor of Medina only for three months in 133 A H./751 
A.D., when he died, it is possible to infer that Tsma‘il : (1) was 
alive at that: date ; (2) that he had already attained aie 
and (3) ) that his lameness, alluded to in his usual surname al- 
A‘raj } was net so pronounced as to incapacitate him entirely. 
The date of his death, thatttore, could not be earlier than 133 
A.H./751 A.D. It is placed exactly in this year by the author 
of the ‘ Umdatw’t-talib,* Peers some other authorities place 
it ten years later, in 143 A.H. 
The other anecdotes a we Kashi are not lengthy, and 
it is better to give them here only in translation. As the 
text has already been printed. there is no need to reprint it here. 
No. 1 (p. 206). Jabri’il b. Ahmad narrates what he has 
heard from Muhammad b. ‘Isa, who heard it from Yinus, and he 
in turn from Hammad b. : Uthman# who said; I heard Abi 
 Abdi‘l-lah (i.e. Imam Ja’ far Sadiq). ,—peace be upon him !— 
saying to al-Mufaddal b. * Umar al-Ju‘fi ® : O Unbeliever, O 
Idolator ! What hast thou to do with my son ?—i.e. Isma‘il b. 
Ja‘far. And (al-Mufaddal) was a partisan of the latter, sharing 
the beliefs of the Khattabiyya.’ But later on he severed his 
connection with them. 
No. 2. (p. 209). Hamdiiya 7 narrated to me what he had 
heard from Muhammad b. ‘Isa, who’ heard it from Ibn Abi 
JImayr, who heard it from Hammad b. ‘ Uthman, and he in 
turn from Isma‘il b. ‘Amir, who said: T called on Aba ‘Abdi’l- 
lah (i.e. Imam Ja‘far Sadiq). and invoked a blessing on each of 
the Imams. And when I had mentioned his own name, I asked 
him : Is it Isma‘il who will succeed thee 2—And he replied : but 
what if not ? 
Hammad said : I asked Isma‘il (b. ‘ Amir): What compelled 

. Pi cagl Tabari, III, 154, 2509, and ‘ Umdatu’t-talib, p. 208. 
: pri tho Encyclopedia of Islam, vol. II, p. 
eminent contemporary of Ja‘far Sidia ; poe his two successors, 
He died in 190 A.H./806 A.D., see Tiist’s List, No. 252, and Najjashi, 
op. cit., p. 104. 
6 He was a notorious heretic of the extremist type, sharing to & 
great extent the doctrine of the ee He was executed with 
Ibn Kh ee shortly before 167 A.H./783 A.D. See in Kashi’s book 
2 , where chiefly his tradition ns are narrated. Cf. also Shahra- 
5-296. 
a highly important extremist sect, founded by Muham- 
mad b. Abi Zaynab Maqlas b. Abi’l-Khattab, who was executed, as men 
tioned above, before 167 A.H./783 A.D. Kashi devotes to him and his 
followers considerable attention Sa gets pp. wp Ries Informer 
tion concerning him is summarised by Friedlander, op. A.0.8., 
1908, p. 112 sq., and a bibli nro ale is given there. It is ee useless t0 
mention that the tenets of this sect were largely adopted by the sect t of 
regarded as the most sacred book by the a of the bere Oxus. 
7 One of the favourite rawis of Kas He calls him also in some 
places Hamdiiya b, Nasir al-Kashi, but waver gives his full name. 
th FG mit Ein, 
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