Khalafiyya Shia
The Khalafiyya Shia (named for its founder Khalaf ibn Abd al-Samad) were a subsect of the Zaidi branch of Shia Islam. == Beliefs == The Khalafiyya Shia had the following beliefs: They believed that the Imams after Zayd ibn Ali ibn Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abī Ṭālib are as follows (in chronological order): Abd al-Samad (a client of Zayd ibn Ali, although the Khalafiyya Shia claim he was a son of Zayd), then Khalaf ibn Abd al-Samad (who fled from the Umayyads to the land of the Turks), then Muhammad ibn Khalaf ibn Abd al-Samad, then Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalaf ibn Abd al-Samad, then The Khalafiyya Shia did not know the names of the Imams after Ahmad, but they believed that a descendant of Ahmad, still residing in the land of the Turks (since the migration to that land of his ancestor Khalaf ibn Abd al-Samad), would rise as the Mahdi.