Ibrahim al-Imam

Ibrahim al-Imam
Ibrahim al-Imam
Born	Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas; 701/2; Humayma, Umayyad Caliphate
Died	August 749; Harran, Umayyad Caliphate
Known for	Last leader of the Hashimiyya
Parent	Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdallah
Relatives	Abu'l-Abbas al-Saffah (brother), Abu Ja'far al-Mansur (brother)

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas (Arabic: ابو إسحاق إبراهيم بن محمد بن علي بن عبد الله بن العباس; 701/2–749), better known as Ibrahim al-Imam (إبراهيم الإمام), was the leader of the Abbasid family and of the clandestine Hashimiyya movement that prepared and launched the Abbasid Revolution against the Umayyad Caliphate. He inherited the leadership of the movement from his father, Muhammad, in 743, and played a major role in its spread in Khurasan, not least by appointing Abu Muslim as the local leader. Ibrahim did not live to see the success of the revolution, being imprisoned and dying in August 749, either killed at the orders of the last Umayyad caliph, Marwan II, or from the plague. Shortly after, his brother Abu'l-Abbas became the first Abbasid caliph with the name al-Saffah.