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Imam Muhammed b. Ismail lived in a time that had become increasingly hostile to the Ismailis, and had to therefore live in disguise and in hiding from the governing bodies of those times, in particular from the Abbasid Caliph, Haroon al-Rashid. Despite the unfavourable conditions and his humble dwelling in a small town he founded called Muhammedabad in Rey, the movement of Ismailism spread as far as India. During his Imamate, one of his sons named Imamuddin, in dedicating himself to the cause of the Ismaili Tariqah, was appointed Hujjatul Imam or Pir, and the lineal descent of Pir Sadruddin and the line of the Holy Pirs can be traced back to this Pir. Upon his demise in 813AD, he was secretly buried in Muhammedabad and was succeeded by his son Ahmed al-Wafi.