Hamdan Qarmat

Hamdan ibn al-Ash'ath, called Qarmat for a short stature and leg. Ibn al-Nadim mentions him in the "Fihrist" in the account of the summons he answered in the countryside of Kufa. ².

Ibn al-Nadim reports that he answered the summons of Abd Allah ibn Maymun, who was a farmer and cattle-keeper in the village of Qass Bahram, and the head of the Qarmatians, and a man of cunning. He stayed at Kalwadhá, and Abd Allah ibn Maymun set up for him a man of his sons who corresponded with him from Taliqan, in the year 261 AH. ².