محمد النفس الزكية

Muhammad ibn Abdallah ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib (may God be pleased with him), known as al-Nafs al-Zakiyya (the Pure Soul). He was the son of Abdallah ibn al-Hasan and the brother of Ibrahim ibn Abdallah, and the leader of the revolt of al-Nafs al-Zakiyya. ²

Muhammad and his brother Ibrahim rose in 145 AH, and al-Mansur overcame them and killed them, together with a great many of the House of the Prophet. ²

Al-Suyuti says that al-Mansur was the first to sow strife between the Abbasids and the Alids, when they had been one thing before. ²

Al-Suyuti says that al-Mansur harmed scholars who had gone out with them or had given legal opinions in favour of the revolt, among them Abu Hanifa, Abd al-Hamid ibn Ja'far and Ibn Ajlan. He says that Malik gave a legal opinion permitting going out with him, and said that the oath of allegiance had been given under compulsion, and that a compelled man has no oath. ²

His brothers and sons scattered through the lands calling to his imamate. His son Ali was killed in Egypt, his son Abdallah in Sind, and his son al-Hasan was imprisoned in Yemen, where he died in prison. His brother Musa went to al-Jazira, Yahya to al-Rayy and then Tabaristan, and Idris to the Maghrib. ³