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

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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
1 Ibrahim ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
2 Ishaq ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
3 Hamza ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
4 Zayd ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
5 'Abd Allah ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
6 'Ali ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Imam al-Rida (a)
7 Muhammad ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Ja'far al-Asghar
8 Ahmad ✓ Error creating thumbnail: ✓ ✓
9 Qasim ✓ Error creating thumbnail: ✓ ✓
10 Husayn ✓ Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
11 Isma'il ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
12 Ja'far ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
13 Hasan ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
14 'Abbas ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
15 'Ubayd Allah ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
16 Harun ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
17 Sulayman ✓ Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
18 'Abd al-Rahman Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: ✓ ✓
19 'Aqil Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: ✓ ✓
20 Fadl ✓ Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
21 Yahya Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: ✓ ✓
22 Dawud Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
23 'Umar Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: ✓

Daughters

No. Name Al-Irshad[9] Al-Majdi[10] Tadhkirat al-khawass[11] Explanation
1 Fatima ✓ ✓ ✓ Lady Ma'suma (a)
2 Hakima ✓ Error creating thumbnail: ✓
3 Amina ✓ ✓ ✓
4 Khadija ✓ ✓ ✓
5 Zaynab ✓ ✓ ✓
6 'Aliyya ✓ ✓ ✓
7 Maymuna ✓ ✓ ✓
8 Umama Error creating thumbnail: ✓ ✓
9 Umm Ja'far ✓ ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
10 Umm Salama ✓ ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
11 Umm 'Abdullah Error creating thumbnail: ✓ ✓
12 Umm Qasim Error creating thumbnail: ✓ ✓
13 Umm Kulthum ✓ Error creating thumbnail: ✓
14 Umm Farwa Error creating thumbnail: ✓ ✓
15 Asma' Error creating thumbnail: ✓ ✓
16 Burayha ✓ ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
17 Hasana ✓ ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
18 Ruqayya ✓ ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
19 'A'isha ✓ ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
20 Kulthum ✓ ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
21 Lubaba ✓ ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
22 Mahmuda Error creating thumbnail: ✓ ✓
23 Asma' al-Kubra Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
24 Asma' al-Sughra Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: ✓
25 Umm Abiha Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
26 Umm Kulthum al-Sughra Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
27 Umm Kulthum al-Kubra Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
28 Umm Kulthum al-Wusta Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
29 Amina al-Sughra Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
30 Amina al-Kubra Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
31 Halima Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
32 Khadija al-Kubra Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
33 Ramla Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
34 Zaynab al-Sughra Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: ✓
35 Zaynab al-Kubra Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
36 'Abbasa Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
37 'Atfa Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
38 Fatima Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:
39 Fatima al-Ukhra Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: ✓
40 Fatima al-Wusta Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail: ✓
41 Qasima Error creating thumbnail: ✓ Error creating thumbnail:

See Also

Notes

  1. Mufīd, al-Irshād, vol. 2, p. 244.
  2. Sibṭ b. al-Jawzī, Tadhkirat al-khawāṣ, p. 314.
  3. Ibn Ṣūfī, al-Majdī, p. 298-299.
  4. Ibn Ḥazm, Jamharat ansāb al-ʿarab, p. 61.
  5. Mufīd, al-Irshād, vol. 2, p. 244.
  6. Ibn Ḥazm, Jamharat ansāb al-ʿarab, p. 61.
  7. Ibn Ṣūfī, al-Majdī, p. 298-299.
  8. Sibṭ b. al-Jawzī, Tadhkirat al-khawāṣ, p. 315.
  9. Mufīd, al-Irshād, vol. 2, p. 244.
  10. Ibn Ṣūfī, al-Majdī, p. 298-299.
  11. 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.