Week of Events
Birth of Muhammad al-Taqi, 195 AH
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Jawad was the ninth of the Twelve Imams after his father Ali al-Ridha and before his son Ali al-Hadi. He was known as al-Jawād and al-Taqī, but also called Abu Jaʿfar al-Ṯāni, and Ibn al-Ridha. His mother, Sabika, was a slave girl from Nubia from the family of Maria al-Qibtiyya, who was …
Birth of Ali ibn Abi Talib, 23 BH
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib was a cousin, son-in-law and companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He ruled as the fourth rightly guided caliph from 656 until his assassination in 661. He is also one of the central figures in Shia Islam, being regarded as the rightful immediate successor to Muhammad and the first Imam by …
Martyrdom of Ja’far al-Sadiq
Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq, commonly known as Ja'far al-Ṣādiq, was an 8th-century Muslim scholar. He was the 6th Imam and founder of the Ja'fari school of jurisprudence according to Twelver and Isma'ili Shi'ites. He is also important to Sunnis as a teacher to the Sunni scholars Abu Hanifah and Malik ibn Anas and as a …