II. A second branch of the She5hs was namert

Zeiditea. These held that the imamat descended through Hassan and Hussein to Zein-al-Abedeen, the son of (bis last, and tlience passed to Zeid (whence their name), the son of Zeiu ; whereas most ntlier SheSliB regarded Mohammed Bakir, the brother of Zeid, as the lawful imam. The Zeidiles differed from the other Shekhs in acknowledging the three first khalifs to have been legitimate successors of the Prophet. Edris, who wreaterl a part of Africa from the Abbasside khalifs, and founded the kingdom of Fez, was a real or pretended descendant of Zeid.