¹ See the article ‘Hishām b. al-Ḥakam’, by W. Madelung, in EI, second ed.

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⁷ The sixth in al-Nawbakhtī, 's list (op. cit., 84 f.)Google Scholar, the eleventh in the Kitāb al-maqālāt wa 'l-firaq (114).Google Scholar

⁸ According to the Kitāb firaq al-shī'a, Muḥammad was two years old when his father died; the information in the Kitāb al-maqālāt wa 'l-firaq is that he was grown up (bāligh) at the time (loc. cit.).

⁹ Al-Ash'arī, , op. cit., 17Google Scholar f., 30. Al-Ash'arī (ibid., 14) also mentions a sect of ghulāt who believe in the same 12 persons but who claim that God resides in each of them. It should be noted that while all Twelver Shī'ī doctors agree that Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan is the hidden Imām, there are traditions according to which it is forbidden to mention his name (see e.g. al-Kulīnī, , Uṣūl al-kāfī, ed. ‘al-Ghaffārī, Alī Akbar, Tehran, 1375/1955–1956–1377/1957–1958, 1, 332 f.).Google Scholar This principle, however, was not universally observed (cf. e.g. Bābawayhi, Ibn, A Shī'ite creed, trans. Fyzee, Asaf A. A., London, 1942, 98).Google Scholar An attempt at harmonization is made by explaining that the Qā'im has two names: one, Aḥmad, is made known, and the other, Muḥammad, remains a secret. See al-Kāshānī, Muḥsin, al-Nawādir fī jam' al-aḥādīth, Tehran, 1380/1960, 148.Google Scholar

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