Day 8

The lesson

1. 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 Shawwal without a day; later sources give 25 Shawwal, the date observed today. A report in Bihar al-Anwar gives 15 Rajab.
2. Al-Shaykh al-Saduq states that al-Mansur poisoned him (al-I'tiqadat), as do Ibn Shahrashub (al-Manaqib), al-Tabari al-Imami (Dala'il al-Imama) and Ibn Tawus (Iqbal al-A'mal). Al-Shaykh al-Mufid held there is no decisive evidence of how he was martyred (Tashih al-I'tiqad). He was buried in al-Baqi' beside his father Imam al-Baqir, his grandfather Imam al-Sajjad and Imam al-Hasan (al-Irshad; Manaqib Ibn Shahrashub).
3. He named Imam al-Kazim to his close companions as his successor many times (Rijal al-Kashshi), but to protect him named five executors in his will, the Abbasid caliph among them. Some companions, Mu'min al-Taq and Hisham ibn Salim among them, first questioned his son Abd Allah al-Aftah, were not satisfied, and then accepted Imam al-Kazim (Rijal al-Kashshi).

Questions

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