Muhammad al-Baqir
Fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams · Religious Figures · Lived 677 to 733 · aged 55
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Something wrong?His title means "the one who splits knowledge open" - and during twenty years in Medina he did exactly that, laying the doctrinal and legal groundwork for what became Twelver Shi'ism while the Umayyad caliphs watched and harassed him.
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, Take the good speech from whoever said it even if his practice was not accordingly.
The parable of a man greedy of this world is the parable of the silk worm: the more it winds the thread round itself the farther it becomes from salvation, until it dies of grief.
Being sociable and affable with people brings kindness and friendship.
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Muhammad al-Baqir was born in Medina around 676, grandson of Husayn ibn Ali. At four years old he witnessed Karbala - the 680 massacre where his grandfather and most of his kin fell to Umayyad forces. Around 712 his father died and the Imamites, a then-minority Shia faction, recognised him as their fifth imam. He chose his father's path: scholarly, pious, politically quiet, while rival Shia groups mounted armed revolts - including one led by his much younger half-brother Zayd. From Medina he attracted disciples, many based in Kufa, and built the theological and legal framework that would anchor Twelver, Isma'ili, and Zaydi thought. Caliph Hisham harassed him throughout. Most Shia sources say the Umayyads poisoned him around 732; he was buried at Baqi Cemetery, where his shrine has twice been razed.
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