The Muslimiyya

The Muslimiyya were a belief that arose in Khurasan after the coming of Islam, according to Ibn al-Nadim. Its followers are the followers of Abu Muslim: they believe in his imamate and say that he is alive and provided for. ²

Ibn al-Nadim says that his missionaries fled to the regions of the land when al-Mansur killed him. A man known as Ishaq reached the Turks in Transoxiana, set up a missionary for Abu Muslim, and claimed that he was imprisoned in the mountains of al-Ray and would come out at a time known to them, as the Kaysaniyya claim of Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya. ²

He says that some people said Ishaq was of the Alawids, of the descendants of Yahya ibn Zayd ibn Ali. He transmits from al-Balkhi that some people call the Muslimiyya the Harmadiniyya. ³