Muhammad ibn Falah

Muhammad ibn Falah (1400–1461) was a Shi‘a theologian born in Wasit, Iraq, who founded the millenarian Musha‘sha‘iya sect. Educated at the Shia center of al-Hillah, he proclaimed himself the earthly representative of Imam Ali and the Mahdi and was denounced as an unbeliever; his Qur'an-style revelations were collected as the Kalam al-Mahdi.

In 1442 he established himself at Hoveizeh in Khuzestan. Claiming descent from Imam Musa al-Kazim, he died there in 1461 and was succeeded by his son.