Abū Aḥmad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ( ar, عبد اللّه بن محمد بن إسماعيل, born 766–828 CE/149–212 AH in

Salamiyah A full view of Shmemis (spring 1995) Salamieh ( ar, سلمية ') is a city and district in western Syria, in the Hama Governorate. It is located southeast of Hama, northeast of Homs. The city is nicknamed the "mother of Cairo" because it was ...

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

; Imamate 809–828 CE/193–212 AH), known by Isma'ilis as Aḥmad al-Wāfī and sometimes incorrectly identified with ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maymūn al-Qaddāḥ, was the eighth Isma'ili Imam. He was the son and successor of the seventh Imam,

Muhammad ibn Isma'il Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl (), also known in his own time as al-Maymūn and hence sometimes incorrectly identified as Maymūn al-Qaddāḥ, was the son of Isma'il ibn Ja'far; he was an Ismāʿīlī Imam. The majority of Ism� ...

. He was called ''al-Wāfī'' "true to his word". As the Imam, he was the supreme spiritual leader of the Isma'ili community from his appointment until his death. The

Nizari The Nizaris ( ar, النزاريون, al-Nizāriyyūn, fa, نزاریان, Nezāriyān) are the largest segment of the Ismaili Muslims, who are the second-largest branch of Shia Islam after the Twelvers. Nizari teachings emphasize independent ...

and

Musta'li The Musta‘lī ( ar, مستعلي) are a branch of Isma'ilism named for their acceptance of al-Musta'li as the legitimate nineteenth Fatimid caliph and legitimate successor to his father, al-Mustansir Billah. In contrast, the Nizari—the other ...

trace their Imamate lines from him and his descendants who founded the

Fatimid Caliphate The Fatimid Caliphate was an Ismaili Shi'a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries AD. Spanning a large area of North Africa, it ranged from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east. The Fatimids, a ...

. For protection against his real Imam position, he was known as "Attar" (due to his profession in drug and medicine). He was succeeded by his son, Ahmad ibn Abd Allah (Muhammad al-Taqi).WAFI AHMAD (197-212/813-828)
/ref> With the death of

Ja'far al-Sadiq Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣādiq ( ar, جعفر بن محمد الصادق; 702 – 765 CE), commonly known as Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq (), was an 8th-century Shia Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian.. He was the founder of th ...

in 765 (148 AH), Isma'il in 775 (158 AH) and Muhammad in 813 (197 AH), the Isma'ili Imams were impelled to hide; this first

occultation An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden from the observer by another object that passes between them. The term is often used in astronomy, but can also refer to any situation in which an object in the foreground blocks ...

lasted from 813 to 882 (197–268 AH).Achilles des Souza, "Mediation in Islam - an Investigation" (Rome, 1975, p. 35) The eighth to tenth Isma'ili Imams were hidden from the public because of threats from the

Abbasid Caliphate The Abbasid Caliphate ( or ; ar, الْخِلَافَةُ الْعَبَّاسِيَّة, ') was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abdul-Muttal ...

and were known by their nicknames. However, the

Dawoodi Bohra The Dawoodi Bohras are a religious denomination within the Ismā'īlī branch of Shia Islam. Their largest numbers reside in India, Pakistan, Yemen, East Africa, and the Middle East, with a growing presence across Europe, North America, South ...

in their religious text, ''Taqqarub'', claim to have the true names of all 21 imams in sequence including the "hidden" imams: the eighth Imam Abd Allah ibn Muhammad (Ahmad al-Wafi), the ninth Imam Ahmad ibn Abd Allah (

Muhammad al-Taqi Muhammad ibn Ali al-Jawad ( ar, محمد بن علي الجواد, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Jawād, – 29 November 835) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the ninth of the Twelve Imams, succeeding his father, Ali al-Rida. ...

), and the tenth Imam Husayn ibn Ahmad (

Abd Allah al-Radi ʿAbd Allāh al-Raḍī, ( actual name: Abu ʿAlī Daftary, Farhad''The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines,'' Cambridge University Press, pg. 108. al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ( ar, ﺍلحسين بن ...

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