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Ali al-Hadi

Tenth of the Twelve Shia Imams (828–868)

  • Fame58.2
  • Momentum9.7
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Lived 829–868, aged 39
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  • Era
    829–868
    Aged 39
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Updated 2026-06-09

The tenth Imam in Twelver Shia Islam, held under house arrest in Samarra for two decades by a caliph known for his hostility to Shias. He died around 868, likely poisoned, and his restricted life marked the end of direct Imam leadership of the community.

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Born in Medina around March 828, Ali ibn Muhammad succeeded his father Muhammad al-Jawad as Imam in 835 while still a child — Twelver sources invoke the Quranic story of young Jesus to explain his exceptional knowledge at that age. He kept out of politics until around 848, when the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil summoned him from Medina to the capital Samarra and placed him under close surveillance. For the next twenty years he lived under watch, enduring alleged house searches, brief imprisonments, and murder plots, yet he managed to run an underground network of representatives who handled the…

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Ali al-Hadi
saidundated
The world is like a market; one community reaps benefit in it while another one faces loss.
— Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 368.
Ali al-Hadi
saidundated
The one who is pleased with himself (his own state & condition), those displeased and angry with him shall get abundant in number.
— Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 368.
Ali al-Hadi
saidundated
Poverty is the self's greed and increased despair.
— Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 368.
Ali al-Hadi
saidundated
Compensate for the regret and negligence in previous works by working hard in the future.
— Misnad al-Imām al-Hādī, p. 304.
Ali al-Hadi
saidundated
Don't ever give up precaution and farsightedness before attempting any work, and remember the result of negligence and nonchalance.
— Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 370.
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