The short row is a family guide; its final identification is explicitly marked as Twelver belief.
Comprehensive Ahl al-Bayt Family Map
Begin with the Prophet and explore prominent Ahl al-Bayt figures, children, parents, and known spouse links. The sequence is navigational; every school-specific claim is labelled where it appears.
Select a principal person to see all direct children.
Each name shows only registered child links; no count does not mean that the person had no children.
📜How was this family map compiled? — Open the short explanation
This map is compiled by comparing recognized genealogical works, early histories, biographical dictionaries, and relevant Sunni, Imami, and academic scholarship. A source is not accepted or rejected merely because of an author’s school affiliation; earlier and independent evidence is preferred, while school-specific reports are explicitly attributed. No relationship is treated as certain solely because it appears in a popular chart, website, title, local tradition, or one late report. Confirmed, probable, attributed, and under-review links remain distinct; conflicting identities are not forced together, unknown parents, spouses, or children are not invented, and a grave or attributed site is not automatic proof of lineage. Artificial intelligence assisted with organizing research, drafting, five-language translation, and technical checks; historical conclusions are accepted only after source review, an independent quality review, and protection of central registry fields. A missing full profile does not reject the name or relationship. The map remains revisable when stronger evidence appears.
Read the full method for genealogy, sources, neutrality, and reviewShared basis and school differences concerning the Mahdi
A report in Sunan Abi Dawud describes the Mahdi as belonging to the Prophet’s family and descending from Fatima.
View source ↗In the mainstream Sunni position, the Mahdi will emerge near the end of time. Identifying Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Askari as that already-born and occulted Mahdi is not the general Sunni position.
View source ↗Twelver belief identifies Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Askari as the twelfth Imam, born and living in occultation, whose reappearance remains future.
View source ↗The atlas keeps both positions separate. The identification of Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Askari as “Imam al-Mahdi” is shown as Twelver belief and a historically contested identification, not as a universally confirmed fact.
View source ↗Prominent Ahl al-Bayt figures — relationships and tradition scope
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ⓘ Meaning of research indicators
Important distinctionSource tradition and evidential strength are separate: a Sunni or Imami source is not automatically strong or weak.
Strong evidenceAvailable sources clearly support this identity or relationship.
Limited evidenceSome evidence supports the relation, but it is incomplete or not uniform.
Not applicableThis check does not apply to this particular relationship; it is not an error.
No conflictThe review found no clear conflict in identity or generational placement.
UnprovenCurrent sources are insufficient to establish the identity or relationship.
Source conflictCredible sources do not agree on one conclusion, so the relation remains under review.
Shared / early historical sourceA source not confined to one later school, or preserving early historical evidence.
Sunni classical sourceA work or report preserved in Sunni scholarship; strength is assessed separately.
Imami classical sourceA work or report preserved in Imami scholarship, shown with that source context.
Later genealogical / specialist researchLater genealogies or modern specialist comparison, distinguished from early evidence.