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Mūsā b. Jaʿfar (a) (b. 128/745 – d. 183/799) titled as al-Kāẓim and Bāb al-Ḥawāʾij was the seventh Imam of Shi'a, born in Abwa' (a village between Mecca and Medina). After his father Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (a) was martyred he (a) became the Imam of Shi'a. The thirty-five years of his imamate coincided with the caliphate of al-Mansur, al-Hadi, al-Mahdi, and Harun al-Rashid. Al-Mahdi and Harun repeatedly imprisoned him and he was finally martyred in 183/799 in al-Sindi b. Shahik's prison. After his martyrdom, he was succeeded by his son, 'Ali b. Musa (a), as the next Imam.
Imam al-Kazim's (a) life coincided with the peak of the Abbasid caliphate. He practiced taqiyya (precautionary dissimulation) about the government and recommended the Shi'as to do the same. Thus, there is no report of him taking explicit positions against the Abbasid caliphs or concerning Alids uprisings, such as the Uprising of Fakhkh. However, in his debates and dialogues with Abbasid caliphs and others, he tried to question the legitimacy of the Abbasid caliphate.
Some debates and dialogues between Musa b. Ja'far (a) and some Jewish and Christian scholars have been reported in sources of history and hadiths. His dialogues with the scholars of other religions have been collected in Musnad al-Imam al-Kazim, some of which have been transmitted by People of Consensus. He also expanded the Wikala network (the network of deputyship), appointing people as his representatives or deputies in different areas. His life also coincided with some divisions within Shiism as well. At the beginning of his imamate, Isma'iliyya, Fatahiyya, and Nawusiyya were formed, and after his martyrdom, the Waqifiyya came to existence.......
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- 1877 CE - Demise of Mirza 'Abd al-Rahim Nahawandi (Rabi' II 9, 1304 AH)
- 1877 CE - Demise of al-Sayyid Haydar b. Sulayman al-Hilli (Rabi' II 9, 1304 AH)
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- 4 BH - Termination of the sanctions over the Prophet (s) and Muslims in the Shi'b Abi Talib (March 8, 619 CE)
- 2 AH - Change of the Qibla (January 12, 624 CE)
- 60 AH - Death of Mu'awiya b. Abi Sufyan (April 21, 680 CE)
- 62 AH – Demise of Lady Zaynab (a), daughter of Imam Ali (a) (March 30, 682 CE)
- 148 AH - Martyrdom of Imam al-Sadiq (a) according to some reports (September 6, 765 CE)
