Day 1
The son of Imam Ali al-Rida and the ninth Imam of the Shia. His mother was Sabika, from the family of Mariya al-Qibtiyya, the wife of the Pr…
Day 2
Imam al-Rida named him his successor many times. Asked who would come after him, he pointed to the boy standing before him; and he said: Thi…
Day 3
Shia from Baghdad and other cities who came to Medina for the Hajj put their questions to Abd Allah ibn Musa, whose answers were wrong, and …
Day 4
Al-Ma'mun married his daughter Umm al-Fadl to the Imam at his own request, in 202 AH (Tarikh al-Tabari) or 215 AH (Ithbat al-Wasiyya of al-M…
Day 5
Asked by Abu Hashim al-Ja'fari about the verse The sights do not apprehend Him (6:103), he rejected the claim that God can be seen with the …
Day 6
Al-Shaykh al-Tusi lists 117 of his companions (Rijal al-Tusi), among them Abd al-Azim al-Hasani, Ali ibn Mahziyar, Ahmad ibn Abi Nasr al-Baz…
Day 7
He was buried beside his grandfather Imam Musa al-Kazim in the cemetery of Quraysh in Baghdad (Manaqib Ibn Shahrashub; Bihar al-Anwar); the …
Day 8
Asked by letter about visiting the graves of Imam al-Husayn, Imam al-Kazim and Imam al-Jawad, Imam al-Hadi answered that Imam al-Husayn come…