Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī l-Hādī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Mūsā al-ʿAskarī (d. 254/868) was the tenth Imām of the Imāmī Shīʿīs. Known also as al-Naqī (the pure one) or Abū l-Ḥasan al-Thālith (the third), he was born in Ṣurayyā, a village three miles from Medina founded by his great-grandfat…
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Al-ʿAbbās b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī (b. ʿAbdallāh b. al-ʿAbbās; d. 186/802) was the younger brother of the first two ʿAbbāsid caliphs, al-Saffāḥ (r. 132–6/749–54) and al-Manṣūr (r. 136–58/754–75). Al-ʿAbbās was a prominent figure in the early ʿAbbāsid period and played an important ro…