{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_hadith_had11_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_hadith_had11_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_hadith_had11_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/hadith/had11.htm","summary":"Im\u0101m is literally one who is imitated or whose example is followed from i'tamma bi-h\u012b, he followed or imitated him. It generally means a head or a chief or a leader whether he follows the right way or not. In relation to congregational prayers, the im\u0101m is the person who leads the prayer.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"A Manual of Hadith: Chapter VIII: The Im\u0101m","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":1746}