The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2195 page)

 
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Seven deadly sins
.

In Christianity (more accurately, ‘capital’ or ‘root’ sins): pride, covetousness, lust, envy, gluttony, anger, and sloth (
accidie
). The traditional number is first found in
Gregory
the Great (although with
tristitia
, ‘gloom’, instead of
accidie
). For five deadly sins, see
GOGYAKU-ZAI
.

 
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see Introduction.

 
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Seveners
.

Ism
‘
l
sect (or sects; from Arab.,
sab‘
ya
) which holds that the legitimate line of
Im
ms
ended with the seventh (hence the name). The sixth Im
m was Ja‘far al-
diq: his eldest son, Ism
‘
l, died before his father, leading to a complex contest of claims to legitimate succession. The Seveners held that Ism
‘
l was the true (and perhaps, because of the significance of the number ‘seven’, the final) successor. Two of the many sects became prominent, the
F
imids