Day 1
Ali ibn Musa ibn Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib, the eighth Imam; his kunya was Abu l-Hasan. Some sources s…
Day 2
Imam al-Kazim's designation of him was narrated by Dawud ibn Kathir al-Raqqi, Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Ammar, Ali ibn Yaqtin and others (al-Ir…
Day 3
In 200 or 201 AH al-Ma'mun brought him from Medina to Khorasan by way of Basra, escorted by Raja' ibn Abi l-Dahhak, a kinsman of al-Fadl ibn…
Day 4
Sunni sources report that ten, twenty or thirty thousand people heard it and wrote it down (al-Fusul al-Muhimma of Ibn al-Sabbagh; al-Sawa'i…
Day 5
The Imam knew al-Ma'mun's aim, and told him: You seek to make people say that Ali ibn Musa is fond of the material world. Asked why he had a…
Day 6
Asked by al-Ma'mun to lead the Eid prayer, he went out barefoot, as the Prophet did, saying takbir at every step; the commanders dismounted,…
Day 7
Reports of his martyrdom differ: the last day of Safar, 17 Safar, 21 Ramadan and other days, in 202, 203 or 206 AH. Most scholars give 203 A…
Day 8
His wife Sabika was of the family of Mariya, wife of the Prophet (al-Kafi; I'lam al-Wara). Al-Shaykh al-Mufid names no child of his but Muha…