FOOT NOTES : INTRODUCTION

1. The founder of this sect was Abu al-Jarud Ziyad b. al-Mundhir, the companion of the fifth Imam, al-Baqir. After the revolt of Zayd b. 'Ali, Abu al-Jarud abandoned his allegiance to al-Baqir and put forward the claim of Zayd, establishing a new sect called al-Zaydiyya al-Jarudiyya. Some later representatives of this sect agree with the Imamites that the series of the Imams ended with the number twelve but others claim that there were thirteen by including Zayd.
2. Ahmad b. al-'Abbas al-Najashi, Kitab al-Rijal (Tehran, n.d.), 12, 19; Muhammad b. al-Hasan al-Tusi, al-Fhrist (Mashbad, 1972), 14; Ibn Dawud al-Hilli, Kitab al-Rijal (Tehran, 1964), 15, 416.
3. Al-Najashi, 193; T. al-Fihrist. 216-7.
4. Al-Najashi, 32-3; T. al-Fihrist, 97-8.
5. Muhammad b. Ya'qub al-Kulayni, al-Kafi fi 'Ilm al-Din (Tehran, 1381), 1, 335-6; al-Najashi, 39.
6. Al-Najashi, 191; T. al-Fihrist, 226.
7. Al-Najshi, 235-6.
8. Al-Galbagani, Muntakhab al-Athar (Tehran, n.d.), 467.
9. Buzurg, al-Dhari'a, XX, 201.
10. Buzurg, al-Dari'a, XVI, 82; al-Galbagani, op.cit., 467.
11. Al-Majlisi, Bihar al-Anwar (Tehran, 1395), LI, 300-1.
12. N. al-Ghayba, 143, 156, 163, 185.
13. N. al-Ghayba, 82-6, 100.
14. N. al-Ghayba, 91-2.
15. Kamal, 19.
16. Kamal, 127, 133, 187, 211, 222, 174, 381.
17. Sachedina, A Treatise on the Occultation of the Twelfth Imamite Imam, Studia Islamica (Paris, 1978), XLVIII, 117-24.
18. Al-Qadi 'Abd al-Jabbar, al-Mughnifi Abwab al-Tawhid, al-Imama (Cairo, 1963), II, 176, 182.
19. Al-Baghdadi, al-Tarq bayn al-Firaq (Beirut, 1973), 24, 51-2.
20. Ibn Hazm, 'Ali b. Muhammad, al-Fasl fi al-Milal wa-l-Ahwa wal-l-Nihal (Cairo. 1317-21), IV, 180, 188; al-Shahristani, al-Milal wa-l-Nihal (London, 1864), 128.
21. Al-Najashi, 288; T. Rijal 458.
22. Al-Najashi, 197.