Day 2

The lesson

1. 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-Irshad). Dawud al-Raqqi asked who the Imam after him would be; Imam al-Kazim pointed to his son and said: This is your imam after me (al-Irshad).
2. His Imamate lasted twenty years, 183 to 203 AH, through the caliphates of Harun al-Rashid, al-Amin and the first five years of al-Ma'mun (I'lam al-Wara of al-Tabrisi). Most of the Shia, the great companions of Imam al-Kazim among them, accepted his Imamate; a group who stopped at his father were called the Waqifiyya (Firaq al-Shi'a of al-Nawbakhti).
3. He lived seventeen years of his Imamate in Medina. He said: I would sit in the mosque of the Prophet, and the scholars of Medina referred to me for their problems when they could not solve a problem, and I answered them (I'lam al-Wara). The Sunni historian Ibn al-Najjar wrote that he gave fatwas in the Prophet's mosque in his twenties (Dhayl Tarikh Baghdad).

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