List of the Children of Imam al-Kazim (a)
The list of the Children of Imam al-Kazim (a) is the names of sons and daughters of Musa b. Ja'far (a), the seventh Imam of Shiites.
According to al-Shaykh al-Mufid, in al-Irshad, Imam al-Kazim (a) had thirty seven children (eighteen sons and nineteen daughters).[1] Sibt b. al-Jawzi, a Sunni scholar, in Tadhkirat al-khawas mentioned forty children (twenty sons and twenty daughters) for him.[2] Also, Ibn Sufi author of al-Majdi fi ansab al-talibiyyin, said that Imam (a) had thirty seven daughters and twenty two sons.[3] Ibn Hazm Andalusi, one of the Sunni genealogists (d. 456/1064), mentioned thirteen sons of Imam Kazim (a) who had children and added that the Imam (a) had other sons who did not have children or offspring.[4]
Imam al-Kazim's (a) most famous son is Imam al-Rida (a), the eighth Imam of Shiites and his most famous daughter is Fatima al-Ma'suma (a).
Sons
No. | Name | Al-Irshad[5] | Jamharat ansab al-'Arab[6] | Al-Majdi[7] | Tadhkirat al-khawass[8] | Explanation |
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1 | Ibrahim | |||||
2 | Ishaq | |||||
3 | Hamza | |||||
4 | Zayd | |||||
5 | 'Abd Allah | |||||
6 | 'Ali | Imam al-Rida (a) | ||||
7 | Muhammad | Ja'far al-Asghar | ||||
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11 | Isma'il | |||||
12 | Ja'far | |||||
13 | Hasan | |||||
14 | 'Abbas | |||||
15 | 'Ubayd Allah | |||||
16 | Harun | |||||
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Daughters
See Also
Notes
- ↑ Mufīd, al-Irshād, vol. 2, p. 244.
- ↑ Sibṭ b. al-Jawzī, Tadhkirat al-khawāṣ, p. 314.
- ↑ Ibn Ṣūfī, al-Majdī, p. 298-299.
- ↑ Ibn Ḥazm, Jamharat ansāb al-ʿarab, p. 61.
- ↑ Mufīd, al-Irshād, vol. 2, p. 244.
- ↑ Ibn Ḥazm, Jamharat ansāb al-ʿarab, p. 61.
- ↑ Ibn Ṣūfī, al-Majdī, p. 298-299.
- ↑ Sibṭ b. al-Jawzī, Tadhkirat al-khawāṣ, p. 315.
- ↑ Mufīd, al-Irshād, vol. 2, p. 244.
- ↑ Ibn Ṣūfī, al-Majdī, p. 298-299.
- ↑ Sibṭ b. al-Jawzī, Tadhkirat al-khawāṣ, p. 315.
References
- Ibn Ḥazm, ʿAlī b. Aḥmad. Jamharat ansāb al-ʿarab. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmīyya, 1418 AH.
- Ibn Ṣūfī, Nasāba. Al-Majdī fī ansāb al-ṭālibīn. Qom: Maktabat Ayatullāh al-Marʿashī al-Najafī, 1422 AH.
- Mufīd, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-. Al-Irshād fī maʿrifat ḥujaj Allāh ʿalā l-ʿibād. Qom: Kungira-yi Shaykh al-Mufīd, 1413 AH.
- Sibṭ b. al-Jawzī, Yūsuf b. Qazāwughlī. Tadhkirat al-khawāṣ min al-umma bi dhikr khaṣāʾiṣ al-aʾimma. Qom: al-Sharīf al-Raḍī, 1418 AH.