Shiite Murji ah

Shiite Murji’ah is a movement in the second century of Kufah. Having distinguished themselves from official Shiites after the rise of some political-social events in Kufah and basically as a way of solving the troubles before Shiite community, they adopted an idea concerning Imamat –which is the most central foundation of Shiite thought- which was a kind of retreatment from this foundation. Those who adopted this idea were deciples of Imam Baqir (a.s.) and Imam Sadeq (a.s.), but were rejected by Shiite community because of this idea and they indeed tended to a movement which years later supported Zaid ibn Ali; a sect which is usually called “Butriah” or “Batariah”. Though Shiite Murji’aj was present before the movement of Zaid, but years after him, they prepared the best theoretical background for the acceptance of the Imamat of the less competent. This paper tries to present a historical reading of this movement and introduce the main lines of their thoughts and seeks to examine the backgrounds of the rise of some theories of Imamat, and this way it tries to prepare the ground for understanding some Shiite hadiths.