Day 1
Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib, the sixth Imam. His father was Imam Muhammad al-Baqir; his mother was Umm F…
Day 2
Imam al-Baqir's designation of him as Imam was narrated by Hisham ibn Salim, Abu l-Sabah al-Kanani, Jabir ibn Yazid al-Ju'fi and others. Al-…
Day 3
Al-Shaykh al-Tusi names about 3,200 people who narrated from him (Rijal al-Tusi); al-Shaykh al-Mufid (al-Irshad) and al-Irbili (Kashf al-Ghu…
Day 4
Among his best-known students were Zurara ibn A'yan, Burayd ibn Mu'awiya, Jamil ibn Darraj, Abd Allah ibn Muskan, Abd Allah ibn Bukayr, Hamm…
Day 5
Al-Tabrisi collected his debates: with atheists on the existence of God, among them Ibn Abi l-Awja' and Abu Shakir al-Daysani; with Abu Hani…
Day 6
When al-Mansur asked why he did not visit him as others did, the Imam wrote: We do not have something to fear you for, you do not have anyth…
Day 7
Summoned to Iraq under al-Saffah and al-Mansur, he visited Karbala, Najaf, Kufa and al-Hira, and his prayer niches in the Mosque of Kufa and…
Day 8
He was martyred in Medina in 148 AH (765) (al-Irshad); Ibn Qutayba's 146 AH is held to be an error. The early Shia sources give the month of…