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==Imam Kazim (a)'s position==

After the [[martyrdom]] of Husayn b. 'Ali and his companions, the heads of the martyrs were exhibited in an assembly in which [[Imam 'Ali (a)]]'s progeny, including [[Imam Kazim (a)]], were present. No one talked except Imam Kazim (a); when he saw the head of Husayn b. 'Ali, the leader of the Fakh uprising, he said:

: To Allah we belong and to Him is our return. I swear to God that Husayn was martyred as a righteous Muslim; he frequently fasted and worshiped at nights; he enjoined the right and forbade the wrong. There was no one like him in his household.

Though this hadith shows that the character of the Fakh's martyr was praised by Imam Kazim (a), there are two views about the Imam's position about the uprising.

According to a [[hadith]], when Husayn b. 'Ali was in control of [[Medina]], he asked [[Imam Kazim (a)]] to pledge his allegiance to him. Imam Kazim (a) told him: "Do not force me to what your cousin ([[Zayd b. 'Ali]]) forced your uncle ([[Imam Sadiq (a)]]) so that I have to treat you the way I do not want to, as Abu 'Abdullah (Imam Sadiq (a)) had to treat Zayd the way he did not want to."

Husayn replied: "I just suggested that you pledge your allegiance to me; but if you do not like it, I will not force you to do it."

When they were saying goodbye, Imam Kazim (a) told him: "My cousin! You will be killed, so be serious in your affair. For people express their faith but they hide their polytheism. To Allah we belong and to Him is our return. I ask God to reward you for your (uprising)".

[['Abdullah al-Mamaqani]] appealed to this hadith to show that Imam Kazim (a) endorsed the uprising. Though he did not accept Husayn's suggestion, his compassion for him and his companions shows that he did not accept the suggestion just apparently; since he was aware of the fate of the uprising, he rejected Husayn's suggestion in the public in order to hide his relations with Husayn's uprising so as to prevent subsequent reactions of the Abbasids.

And [['Allama Majlisi]] considered Imam Kazim (a)'s words, "be serious in your affair", to be evidence of his endorsement of the uprising, and his praying that they be rewarded by God as evidence of their high place before God.

According to some sources, Husayn consulted Imam Kazim (a) before his uprising. Husayn is quoted as saying that "we did not rise before we consulted our household and [[Musa b. Ja'far]] and he asked us to rise".

Some people claimed that since Imam Kazim (a) believed that the uprising was doomed to failure and he wanted to keep Shiism alive, since it was the heritage of his fathers, he found it irrational to attend the uprising or endorse it, and the mere fact that he prayed for Husayn and his companions is no evidence for his endorsement of their uprising.

Rasul Ja'fariyan maintains that though the Fakh uprising was one of the least problematic uprisings of the 'Alawis against the [[Abbasids]], we are not sure that it was ordered by Imam Kazim (a). Though there were good intentions behind these uprisings, for different political reasons they were fruitless. Imamiyya Shiites disagreed with the 'Alawis over these uprisings.