Day 1
Musa ibn Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib, the seventh Imam. His father was Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq and his moth…
Day 2
Imam al-Sadiq named him as Imam to his close companions many times. Ali ibn Ja'far narrates that he said of Musa: he is my best child and th…
Day 3
Al-Shaykh al-Mufid calls him the greatest worshipper of his time: he wept from fear of God until his beard was wet, and in prostration repea…
Day 4
A descendant of Umar ibn al-Khattab insulted Imam Ali in his presence; the Imam stopped his companions from striking the man, went to his fa…
Day 5
He told his companions not to help the Abbasids, and forbade Safwan al-Jammal to hire out his camels to Harun; yet he allowed Ali ibn Yaqtin…
Day 6
Al-Mahdi first had him brought from Medina to Baghdad (Tadhkirat al-Khawass). Harun imprisoned him twice; the second time he was arrested in…
Day 7
His body was laid on the bridge of Baghdad on al-Sindi's order and it was announced that he had died a natural death (al-Irshad), also to re…
Day 8
Al-Shaykh al-Mufid counts thirty-seven children, eighteen sons and nineteen daughters (al-Irshad), among them Imam al-Rida, Ibrahim, Ahmad, …