Fourteen infallible

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The Fourteen Infallible ( Arabic المعصومون الأربعة عشر, DMG al-maʿṣūmūn al-arbaʿat ʿaschara , Persian چهارده معصوم, DMG čahār-dah maʿṣūm ) of the Twelve Shiites (Imamites) are a group of people whose members are considered to be "free from error and sin" in the Shiite faith. According to the concept of Isma , they are considered infallible. These are the prophet Mohammed , his daughter Fatima and the twelve imams .

Calligraphic representation of the fourteen infallible

The 12th Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdī , lives in secrecy according to Shiite beliefs (غيبة, ġaiba ).

Overview

  1. Mohammed
  2. ʿAlī ibn Abī Tālib
  3. Fatima
  4. Hasan ibn īAlī
  5. Hussain ibn Alī
  6. ʿAlī ibn Husain Zain al-ʿĀbidīn
  7. Muhammad al-Bāqir
  8. Jafar as-Sādiq
  9. Mūsā ibn Jafar al-Kāzim
  10. ʿAlī ibn Mūsā ar-Ridā
  11. Muhammad al-Jawad
  12. ʿAlī al-Hādī an-Naqī
  13. Hasan al-Askari
  14. Muhammad al-Mahdī

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Halm, p. 33

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