SMHMShaheed Mudassir Hussain Mehdi
Imam Muhammad ibn Ali al-Baqir

Day 6

The lesson

  1. His imamate spanned five Umayyad caliphs, from al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik to Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, in whose caliphate he was martyred (Tarikh al-Ya'qubi).
  2. He passed away on 7 Dhu l-Hijja 114 AH (733 CE) (Firaq al-Shi'a of al-Nawbakhti); other years are also reported, among them 117 AH. The sources differ on who killed him: some name Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (al-Misbah of al-Kaf'ami), others say Ibrahim ibn al-Walid poisoned him (Dala'il al-Imama; Manaqib Ibn Shahrashub).
  3. He was buried in al-Baqi beside his father and Imam al-Hasan, his father's uncle (Firaq al-Shi'a; al-Kafi; al-Irshad; Dala'il al-Imama; I'lam al-Wara; Tadhkirat al-Khawass).

Questions

During whose caliphate was Imam Muhammad ibn Ali al-Baqir martyred?

According to Firaq al-Shi'a of al-Nawbakhti, on what date did Imam al-Baqir pass away?

Where was Imam al-Baqir buried?

Next lesson

Questions are written by AI from the lesson’s facts, and each answer was checked against its fact.