*Translator's note: The earliest extant work about the early history and development of shi'ism, and the early sects within it (please refer to Allamah Syed Muhammad Reda al Jalali's research for details).
"And one of their sects believed that he [Abdullah b. Muawiyah b. Abdullah b. al Ja'far] died and did not bequeath to anyone, and there is no Imam after him. So they became confused among the shi'ite ranks, and did not refer to anyone [as their Imam]. These sects, 'Kaysaniah, 'Harbiyah' and 'Mughiriah'*, from these the 'Humisiah' and 'Mughiriah' splintered off. All of these sects believe that Imam Ali (as), and his (as) sons Imam Hasan (as), Imam Hussain (as) and Muhammad b. al Hanafiyah know what has occurred in the past and what will occur in the future, and obeying all of them is obligatory; and then the command passed on to Imam al Baqir (as) who is the leader whose obedience is obligatory."
*Translator's note: These were all ghali sects, and many of their members ultimately settled onto the imamate of Imam al Baqir (as). Arguably, the members of 'mughiriah' sect among these were the most influential in infiltrating ghali beliefs into Imami Shi'ism. Mughira b. Saeed was the leader of the mughiriah sect, which is an offshoot of the kaysanite sect. Kaysanites are the followers of Muhammad b. al Hanafiyyah (and most of its member participate in Mukhtar al Thaqafi's revolt, who claimed he had the patronage of Muhammad b. al Hanafiyyah), and the mughiria claimed that after Muhammad b. al Hanafiyyah the imamate passed onto his son Abu Hashim, and then Abu Hashim bequeathed Abdullah b. Muawiyah b. Abdullah b. Jafar (husband of Syeda Zaynab), who in turn bequeathed the imamate to Mughirah b. Saeed. Imam Ja'fer al Sadiq (as) had especially warned about ahadith forged in his father Imam al Baqir (as)'s name by Mughira.
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