Waqfiyyah Sect

This sect is one of the deviant tendencies in Islam.

Founders: Ali ibn Abi Hamzah al-Bataiyni (d. 200 AH), Ziyad ibn Marwan al-Qandi, and Uthman ibn Isa al-Rawasi (d. 203 AH)

183 AH in Iraq and Medina

Waqfiyyah means stopping the Imamate of Imam Musa al-Kazim (a.s). The elders of this sect denied the Imamate of Imam Reza (a.s) because they had a large amount of religious money in trust and did not want to give this money to Imam Reza (a.s), so they said that Imam Musa (a.s) is alive and will reappear.

Their belief:

The end of the Imamate with Musa al-Kazim

The Mahdism and Occultation of Musa al-Kazim