Name: Musa bin
Ja'far (a.s.)Mother: HamidahKunniyat (Patronymic): Abu al-
HasanLaqab (Title): Al-KazimBirth: He was born at Madina in
the year 129 A.H.Martyrdom: He was poisoned in the prison of
Harun al-Rashid at Baghdad in the year 183 A.H. He is buried
in Kazimiyyah in Iraq.BIOGRAPHYThe 7th Holy Imam Musa al-
Kazim(a.s.) was the son of Imam Jafar as-Sadiq(a.s.),the
Sixth Imam . The name of his mother was Hamidah , the
daughter of anoble man hailing from the States of
Barbary.ChildhoodImam Musa al-Kazim(a.s.) passed twenty
years of his sacred life under the gracious patronage of his
holy father . His inherent genius and gifted virtues combined
with the enlightened guidance and education from Imam Jafar
as-Sadiq(a.s.),showed in the manifestation of his future
personality . He was fully versed with the Divine Knowledge
even in his childhood. al-`Allamah al-Majlisi(a.r.) relates that
once Abu Hanifah happened to call upon the holy abode of
Imam Jafar as-Sadiq(a.s.) to ask him about some religious
matters ( masa'il ) . The Imam(a.s.) was asleep and so he kept
waiting outside till the Imam's(a.s.) awakening . Meanwhile
,Imam Musa al-Kazim(a.s.) , who was then five years old ,
came out of his house . Abu Hanifah , after offering him his
best compliment , enquired: ``O the son of the Holy Prophet !
what is your opinion about the deeds of a man ? Does he do
them by himself or does God make him do them ?'' ``O Abu
Hanifah'' , the five years old Imam(a.s.) replied at once , in the
typical tone of his ancestors , ``the doings of a man are
confined to three possibilities . First , that God alone does
them while the man is quite helpless . Second , that both God
and the man do equally share the commitment . Third , that
man does them alone . Now , if the first assumption is true , it
obviously proves the unjustness of God who punishes His
creatures for sins which they have notcommitted . And if the
second condition be acceptable , even then
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