Abū Khālid al-Kābulī, Wardān, also known as Kankar, was an eminent Shiʿi figure of the 1st/7th century and a companion of the Shiʿi imam ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, known as Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn or Imam al-Sajjād. Kankar was what his mother called him, but he was not widely known by this name (al-Ṭabrisī, 254; al-Rāwandī, 1/262; Rāzī, 2/677); however, as a result of his being addressed as Kankar by Imam al-Sajjād, as recorded in some sources (al-Kashshī, 121; al-Ṭabarī, 90–91), this name became more generally associated with him. Ibn Ṭāwūs's use of the kunya Abū Yaḥyā for him (Ṣāḥib al-Maʿālim, 294…