Talk:Faris ibn Hatim ibn Mahawayh al-Qazvini

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per talk at User talk:Ghazaalch I modified the contested text as bellow to replace the deleted material. Ghazaalch (talk) 07:58, 26 April 2023 (UTC)


 * The new version is acceptable. Thank you for taking the time to do that. — Diannaa (talk) 13:33, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Disput with al-Hadi
Al-Faris was one of al-Hadi's senior agents in Samerra, and he had a conflict with another assistant named Ali ibn Ja'far al-Hamani. This difference eventually resulted in acrimonious arguments and ambivalence on both sides, which in turn caused discomfort in the Shia community and the certain people's refusal to fulfill their financial responsibilities to al-Hadi. Moreover, al-Hadi's local representatives, who had previously sent their collections to al-Hadi through these two helpers, were unsure of who to believe anymore. Al-Hadi against Faris sided with Ali bin Ja'far and ordered his representatives not to use the former for their business with al-Hadi. At the same time, he requested that his representatives refrain from talking about his choice and refrain from provoking Faris. According to Kashshi, al-Hadi did this because Faris was an effective person and served as the primary middleman between al-Hadi and the Shias of Jibal, who usually sent their religious obligations to al-Hadi through him. Despite al-Hadi's orders to the contrary, Faris received funds from that region and did not deliver them to his putative master. At this point, al-Hadi decided to make the issue public and requested that his representatives inform the Shia community that Faris is no longer related to him and funds intended for the Imam should not be handed to him. Then in two letters, one dated Tuesday 9 Rabi al-Awwal 250/20 April 864, he officially anathematized Faris. After that, Faris started an open campaign against al-Hadi. The sources do not provide details about his activities except that he allegedly turned into a significant troublemaker who called people to bid'a in an effort to attract them to his side. In a letter he sent to some of his supporters in Samarra, al-Hadi accused Faris of "a wicked utterance". The deterioration of the situation is evident in al-Hadi's next action, the extraordinary, though unprecedented, call by al-Hadi to assassinate his rebel agent. One of al-Hadi's assistants executed the order.

His followers
Faris was very attached to Muhammad, the son of Ali al-Hadi, who died a year or two after Faris was assassinated, probably in the hope that he would be the next imam's top operative. After Ali al-Hadi passed away, the devotees of Faris remained faithful to Muhammad, and although he had died before his father, they he was regarded as the legitimate Imam by them. Ali al-Hadi, who had designated Hasan as his successor, as well as Hasan himself, who, in contrast to Ali al-Hadi's third son, Ja'far, backed his father's activities against Faris, were the targets of this act of rebellion. In this way, the followers of Faris formed their splinter group among the Imamia community against Hasan’s followers and believed that Ja'far, Muhammad's younger brother, was chosen by Muhammad to succeed him, and that Ja'far was the true Imam after Ali al-Hadi. There were allegations that Muhammad had obtained the Imamate's treasures from his father as his appointed successor and gave it to his personal assistant Nafis, who then delivered it to Ja'far. Therefore, during the reign of his brother Hasan al-Askari, Ja'far had gathered a few followers, mostly from among the adherents of Faris. Ghazaalch (talk) 07:58, 26 April 2023 (UTC)