'''Mehmet the Ishmaelite''' was a Pahlavi Yazdanite of Tachkastan's Tayyaye and whose existence is corroborated by 1) Numismatic evidence; 2) Thomas the Presbyter; 3) and Sebeos. His name is may be a Persian form of Mahmad, the Gnostic name for Jesus Patibilis. Alternatively it may be Persian meaning "Dead Moon" perhaps because of the Blood-Moon which occurred around the time of his birth[https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/5MCLEmap/0501-0600/LE0571-04-25T.gif].
He might have been the historical person behind the Islamic legends of Iyas ibn Qabisa and/or an amalgamated [[muhammad]]'s central character whose Ishmaelite paternal Grandfather was Halakhically Jewish, which if true would have meant that Mehmet would have been considered Zera Israel (Bani Israel in Arabic). However, the same legends describe that he was married by Warakah to Khadijah before Warakah became a Nasrani and that he practiced as a Gnostic (Hanif) in the cells of Al-Hira where he met [[Dihyah]]'s father [[Khalifah Gabriel al-Kalbi]] who convinced him to become a type of Gnostic Noahite (Tsabi) called Hagarim under the guidance of a sect of [[Proto-Karaites]]. He was supported by [[the Bakr family]] and converted the [[Quraysh]] but in the end, he was criticized him for "corrupting" Gnosticism and seems to have been murdered by Aisha of the Bakr family.
