Musa al-Kadhim

Mūsá al-Kāẓim موسى الكاظم  (Arabic) 7th Imam of Twelver Shia Islam
Born	c. (745-11-10)10 November 745 CE (7 Safar 128 AH) Al-Abwa, Medina, Umayyad Empire
Died	c. 4 September 799(799-09-04) (aged 53) (25 Rajab 183 AH) Baghdad, Abbasid Empire
Cause of death	Death by poisoning according to most Shi'a Muslims
Resting place	Al-Kadhimiya Mosque, Iraq 33°22′48″N 44°20′16.64″E / 33.38000°N 44.3379556°E / 33.38000; 44.3379556
Other names	Mūsa ibn Ja'far
Title	List *al-Kādhim (The Calm or The Restrained) *al-Sabir (The Patient) *al-Zahir (The Brilliant) *al-Abd al-Salih (The Virtuous Slave of God or The Pious Worshipper) *al-Sayyid (The Master) *al-Wafi (The Faithful) *al-Amin (The Trusted One) *Qa'id al-Askar (The Commander of The Troops) *Dhu al-Nafs al-Zakiya (The One With a Pure Soul) *Bābul Hawā'ij (The Door or Gate To Fulfilling Needs) *Yedinci Ali (The Seventh Ali)
Term	765 – 799 CE
Predecessor	Ja'far al-Sadiq
Successor	Ali al-Ridha
Spouse(s)	Ummul Banīn Najmah and 3 others
Children	List Ali al-Ridha Hamza ibn Musa Salih ibn Musa Ahmad ibn Musa Muhammad ibn Musa Ibrahim ibn Musa Abbas ibn Musa Qasim ibn Musa Ismail ibn Musa Ja'far ibn Musa Haroon ibn Musa Husayn ibn Musa Abdullah ibn Musa Ishaq ibn Musa Ubaydullah ibn Musa Zayd ibn Musa Hasan ibn Musa Fadl ibn Musa Sulayman ibn Musa Fatima al-Kubra Fatima al-Sughra Hajar Khatun Ruqaya al-Kubra Ruqaya al-Sughra Hakeema bint Musa Umm Abeeha bint Musa Umm Kulthum bint Musa Umm Salma bint Musa Umm Ja'far bint Musa Lubana bint Musa Alya bint Musa Amina bint Musa Hasana bint Musa Yareeha bint Musa Aisha bint Musa zainab bint Musa Khadija bint Musa
Parent(s)	Ja'far al-Sadiq Hamīdah al-Barbariyyah

Mūsá ibn Ja‘far al-Kāzim (Arabic: موسى بن جعفر الكاظم‎‎), also called Abūl-Hasan, Abū Abd Allah, Abū Ibrāhīm, and al-Kāzim (the one who controls his anger), was the seventh Shiite Imam after his father Ja'far al-Sadiq. He is regarded by Sunnis as a renowned scholar, and was a contemporary of the Abbasid caliphs Al-Mansur, Al-Hadi, Al-Mahdi and Harun al-Rashid. He was imprisoned several times, finally dying in Baghdad in the Sindi ibn Shahak prison. Ali al-Ridha, the eighth Imām, and Fatemah Masume were among his children.

Musa al-Kadhim was born during the conflict between the Abbasids and Umayyads, and was four years old when As-Saffah, the first Abbasid Caliph, took the throne. His mother, Hamidah, was a former slave from either Berbery or Andalusia. Al-Kadhim was brought up in a large family, with nine sisters and six brothers. His oldest brother Ismail predeceased his father Ja'far al-Sadiq, who held the position of Imam. According to Twelver Shiites, Musa was chosen by divine order and decree of his father as the next Imam.

According to some sources, al-Kadhim was religiously minded as a child. Muhammad Baqir Majlisi relates an incident where Abū Ḥanīfa called on Ja'far al-Sadiq to ask his advice. While there, he encountered al-Kadhim, who was then five years old. Hanifa asked al-Kadhim the question meant for his father, saying: "Boy, from whom does disobedience (issue)? Does it issue from Allah or from the servant?" Al-Kadhim answered, saying: "Either it issues from God and not from the servant at all, so God does not punish the servant for what he does not do; or it issues from the servant and God, and God is a stronger partner. Therefore, the stronger partner has no right to punish the weak for a sin in which they are equal; or it issues from the servant and not from God. So if He wills to pardon (him), (He will pardon him), and if He wills to punish (him), (He will punish him); and God is He whose help is sought." Upon hearing this, Hanifa left, saying that the answer had been good enough for him.

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