Imam Musa al-Kazim(pbuh)

Born: November 6, 745 AD, Al-Abwa', Saudi Arabia

Died: 799 AD (age 54 years), Baghdad, Iraq

Children: Ali al-Rida, Fatimah bint Musa, Hakima bint Musa, Ahmad ibn Musa · See more

Parents: Ja'far al-Sadiq, Hamīdah al-Barbariyyah

Full name: Mūsá ibn Ja‘far al-Kāzim

Place of burial: Imam al-Kazim & Imam al-Jawad Shrine, Baghdad, Iraq

Siblings: Isma'il ibn Ja'far

Musa ibn Ja'far al-Kazim (Arabic: مُوسَىٰ ٱبْن جَعْفَر ٱلْكَاظِم, romanized: Mūsā ibn Jaʿfar al-Kāẓim; 745–799) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the seventh imam in Twelver Shia Islam. Musa is often known by the title al-Kazim (lit. 'forbearing'), apparently a reference to his patience and gentle disposition. He was born in 745 CE in Medina to Ja'far al-Sadiq, the sixth Shia imam, who died in 765 without publicly designating a successor to save his heir from the wrath of the Abbasid caliphs. The subsequent crisis of succession was eventually resolved in favor of al-Kazim, with a dissenting group, now known as the Isma'ilis, separating from the mainstream Shia.