Day 1
The fourth Imam of the Shia; the son of Imam al-Husayn, and the father of Imam al-Baqir. His imamate lasted thirty-four years, from Ashura 6…
Day 2
He was called Zayn al-Abidin for his worship: Malik ibn Anas reports that he prayed a thousand rak'as a day (al-'Ibar of al-Dhahabi), and al…
Day 3
At Karbala he was gravely ill and did not fight. When men came to kill him, some said: this sickness is enough for him (al-Irshad; I'lam al-…
Day 4
A speech in Kufa is also attributed to him, but historians doubt it: its sentences resemble the Damascus sermon, and narrators may have mixe…
Day 5
At night he carried bread on his back to the houses of the poor, saying that charity given in secret quenches the anger of the Lord; the sac…
Day 6
Risalat al-Huquq, the Treatise on Rights, sets out some fifty duties a person owes: to God, to his own self and limbs, in prayer, fasting an…
Day 7
Asked by a man from Syria about the Verse of Purification (33:33), he said: we are meant by the Ahl al-Bayt (Tafsir Ibn Kathir); asked about…
Day 8
He had fifteen children, eleven sons and four daughters, among them Imam Muhammad al-Baqir, whose mother was Umm Abd Allah, the daughter of …