Question 030: Can you please tell me the Name, Titles and Lineage of Imam Musa Kadhim (AS)?
Answer 030: His holy name was Musa son of Ja’far, son of Muhammad Baqir, son of Ali (Zainul Abedin), son of Hussein, son of Ali, son of Abu Talib.[1] Imam Musa Kadhim (A.S.) was born in Abwa[2] (a place between Makkah and Medina) on Sunday seventh of Safar 128 A.H. According to the most famous report,[3] he was poisoned in the year 183 A.H.[4] in Harun al-Rashid’s prison where he succumbed to death and was martyred. He was then buried in the western part of Baghdad in a grave known as Quraish Cemetery.[5] That place is now known as Kadhemayn or al-Kadhemiyah.
Sheikh Mufid says: “In this graveyard Banu Hashim, tribal leaders and nobles used to be buried.”[6]
Imam Kadhim’s mother was called Hamidah Barbariyah.[7] She was also called Hamidah Musaffah[8] but Ibn Shahr Ashub is of the view that Hamidah Musaffah was the daughter of Sā’d Barbari nicknamed “Lu’lu’a”, mother of Musa bin Ja’far (AS).[9]
‘Abd Salih, Kadhim,[10] Sabir[11] and Amin[12] are some of the nicknames of the Imam. Indeed, among these nicknames, Kadhim is the most famous of them.[13]
Sheikh Mufid says, Aba Ibrahim, Abal Hasan and Aba Ali are the Imam’s patronymics.[14] Some have considered Abul Hasan, the First, Abu Ibrahim,[15] and Abu Ismail[16] as his patronymics.
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Index: The unmarried daughters of Imam Kadhim as / Fatima Masumah sa, answer 027.
[1] . Ibn Toulun, Shamsuddin, Muhammad al-Aemmah al-Ithna Ashar, p. 89, Al-Razi Publications, Qom (date uknown).
[2] . Sheikh Mufid, al-Irshad fi Ma’refat Hujajillah ‘Alal ‘ibad, vol.2, p. 215, Congress on Sheikh Mufid, Qom, first edition, 1413 A.H; Tabarsi, Fazl bin Hasan, E’lam al-Wara be-A’lam al-Huda, vol.2, p. 6, Aalulbayt (AS) Institute, Qom, first edition, 1417 A.H.
[3] . According to some other reports, the Imam was martyred in the year 181 A.H. See, Amin Ameli, Sayyid Mohsen, A’ayan al-Shi’ah, vol.2, p. 5, Dar al-Ta’aruf, Beirut, 1403 A.H. According to some other reports, he was martyred in the year 186 (Kashefi Sabzewari, Mullah Hussein, Rawdhat al-Shuhada, p. 514, Navid Islam, Qom, third edition, 1382 ). Yet, according to another repot, he was poisoned to death in the year 188 A.H. (A’ayan a-Shi’ah, vol.2, p. 5).
[4] . Sheikh Mufid, al-Irshad fi Ma’refat Hujajillah ‘Alal ‘ibad, vol.2, p. 215; Tabarsi, Fazl bin Hasan, E’lam al-Wara be-A’lam al-Hoda, vol.2, p. 6; Muhaddith Arbili, Kashf al-Ghummah fi Ma’refat al-Aemmah, vol.2, p. 747, Al-Radhi Publications, Qom, first edition, 1421 A.H.; Imad al-Tabari, Hasan bin Ali, Tuhfat al-Abrar fi Manaqib al-Aemmah al-Athar (AS), p. 168, Mirath Maktub, Tehran, first edition, 1376 (Solar calendar).
[5] . Ibn Shahr Ashub Mazandarani, Manaqib Aal Abi Talib, vol.4, p. 323 and 324, Allamah Publications Institute, Qom, 1379 A.H.
[6] . Sheikh Mufid, al-Irshad fi Ma’refat Hujajillah ‘Alal ‘ibad, vol.2, p. 342.
[7] . Ibid, p. 215, E’lam al-Wara Bi A’alam al-Wara, vol.2, p. 6; Husseini Ameli, Sayyid Taaj al-Din, Al-Tatimmah fi Tawarikh al
Aemmah (AS), p. 106, Be’athat Institute, Qom, first edition, 1412 A.H.
[8] . E’lam al-Wara Bi A’alam al-Wara, vol.2, p. 6.
[9] . Manaqib Aal Abi Talib, vol.4, p. 323.
[10] . Al-Irshad fi Ma’refat Hujajillah ‘Alal ‘ibad, vol.2, p. 215 and 216.
[11] . Ibn Abi al-Thalj Baghdadi, Tarikh Ahlulbayt, p. 131, Aalulbayt (AS), Qom, first edition, 1410 A.H.
[12] . Manaqib Aal Abi Taib, vol.4, p. 323, Shafe’I, Muhammad bin Talhah, Matalib al-So’ul fi Manaqib Aal al-Rasul, p. 289, Al-Balagh, Beirut, first edition, 1419 A.H.
[13] . Ibid, al-Tatimmah fi Tawarikh al-Aemmah (AS), p. 105.
[14] . Al-Irshad fi Ma’refat Hujajillah ‘Alal ‘ibad, vol.2, p.215.
[15] . Manaqib Aal Abi Taib, vol.4, p. 323.
[16] . Qarashi, Baqir Sharif, Hayat al-Imam Musa bin Ja’far (AS), vol.1, p. 49, Dar al-Balaghah, Beirut, first edition, 1413 A.H.