Day 1

The lesson

1. The fifth Imam of the Shia; the son of Imam Zayn al-Abidin and of Umm Abd Allah Fatima, the daughter of Imam al-Hasan. Descended from al-Hasan through his mother and from al-Husayn through his father, he is called a Hashimite among Hashimites, an Alawi among Alawis and a Fatimi among Fatimis (al-Irshad of al-Shaykh al-Mufid; A'yan al-Shi'a).
2. Born in Medina on Friday, 1 Rajab 57 AH (677 CE) (Dala'il al-Imama; I'lam al-Wara); some report 3 Safar of the same year (Bihar al-Anwar). He was a small child at Karbala (Tarikh al-Ya'qubi) and is named among the captives taken to Kufa and Damascus (Maqatil al-Talibiyyin).
3. Long before his birth the Prophet named him Muhammad and gave him the title al-Baqir, as the Hadith al-Lawh and the narration of Jabir ibn Abd Allah al-Ansari attest (Kifayat al-Athar). Al-Ya'qubi writes: he was named al-Baqir because he split knowledge open (Tarikh al-Ya'qubi). His kunya is Abu Ja'far (Dala'il al-Imama).

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