\n One can find several Shia Muslim sects in the history as...

\n One can find several Shia Muslim sects in the history as well as in the Ahadith, being formed and annihilated over the past 1400 years, as for today, we find Zaidia, Ismaili, Waqafi, twelve Imamis are the main ones, among Twelvers are the Usoolis, within the Usoolis there is a subdivision, a faction believing in Wali e Faqi, and the non-Taqleedis who are called Akhbari being the followers of the \u2018Akhbar\u2019 (meaning News) of Ahl Al-Bayt -asws that is the traditions (Ahadith) and only believing and acting upon the Book and the Ahadith.\u00a0 However, within the context of following a Divine Imam -asws , Zaidis have followed the Zaid Ibn Ali -asws Ibn Hussain -asws but most of the them, over past several years, have reverted to twelve Imamis, the Waqafi sect has also being on the decline and we have touched upon their beliefs elsewhere ReplyToWaqafiSectBeliefs.pdf (hubeali.com) , so below we are briefly going to discuss about the six Imamis who have broken away from the twelve Imami and followed Ismail Ibn Jafar -asws Ibn Mohammed -asws as their next imam and since have many imams nearly reaching 50 imams these days.

\n The Creation of Six Imamis: \n Ismail was the elder son of 6th Imam -asws and it was expected by the Shias that Ismail would be the next Imam being the elder son of Imam Jafar-e-Sadiq -asws (6 th Imam) but Allah -azwj Recalled him to the Heavens as per Mashiya of Allah -azwj .\u00a0 Ismail Ibn Jafar -asws passed away during the life time of Imam Jafar Sadiq -asws , however, some Shias insisted that they had seen him (Ismail) at various places (including holy and inappropriate ones) and said that Ismail had not died but rather has gone into occultation.\u00a0 Imam Sadiq -asws refuted their misconception and tried to clarify that it was the Mashiya (Will) of Allah- -azwj and produced witnesses who had seen Ismail\u2019s dead-body who were forty in numbers.

These companions were from Shias of Madina and participated from the death, washing of the dead body and walking with the coffin for the burial in the graveyard of Baqi ( Janatul Baqi ).