Mūsá al-Kāẓim

Musa ibn Ja'far al-Kazim was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the seventh Imam in Twelver Shia Islam, succeeding his father Ja'far al-Sadiq. Born around 745 in Medina, al-Kazim spent the first twenty years of his life under the care and guidance of his father. This period coincided with the struggle between the Abbasids and the Umayyads. Following Ja'far al-Sadiq's death, some of h…

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