List of the Children of Imam al-Kazim (a)

According to al-Shaykh al-Mufid, in al-Irshad, Imam al-Kazim (a) had thirty seven children (eighteen sons and nineteen daughters). Sibt b. al-Jawzi, a Sunni scholar, in Tadhkirat al-khawas mentioned forty children (twenty sons and twenty daughters) for him.

Imam al-Rida (a), Ibrahim, Ahmad, Hamza, Ishaq are among his sons and Fatima and Hakima are among his daughters.

Sons

1. Imam al-Rida (a)
2. Fatima al-Kubra; mother of 'Ali and Fatima was a concubine named Najama,
3. Ibrahim
4. 'Abbas
5. Qasim; whose mothers were concubines
6. Isma'il
7. Ja'far
8. Harun
9. Husayn; mother of him, Harun, Ja'far, and also Isma'il was a concubine;
10. Ahmad
11. Muhammad
12. Hamza; the mother of his, Muhammad, and Hamza was a concubine
13. 'Abd Allah
14. Ishaq
15. 'Ubayd Allah
16. Zayd
17. Al-Hasan
18. Al-Fadl
19. Sulayman

Sibt b. al-Jawzi adds 'Aqil, 'Abd al-Rahman, 'Umar, and Yahya to the above list.

Daughters

1. Fatima al-Kubra known as Fatima al-Ma'suma
2. Fatima al-Sughra
3. Ruqayya
4. Hakima
5. Umm Abiha
6. Ruqayya al-Sughra
7. Kulthum
8. Umm Ja'far
9. Lubaba
10. Zaynab
11. Khadija
12. 'Illiyya
13. Amina
14. Husna
15. Burayha
16. 'A'isha
17. Umm Salama
18. Maymuna
19. Umm Kulthum

Sibt b. al-Jawzi has also mentioned four daughters named Fatima, Umm Farwa, Asma', Asma' al-Sughra, and Mahmuda for Imam al-Kazim (a).

See Also

• Musawi Sayyids