Hadith 12

in from Muhammad Bin Sinan who said, ‘Al-Murtaza Abu Ja’far-asws the 2nd Muhammad Bin Ali-asws passed away and he-asws was twenty-five years and three months and twelve days old during the year two hundred and twenty from the Hijra. And his-asws birth was in the year one hundred and ninety-five from the Hijra. And his-asws stay with his-asws father-asws was for seven years and three months, and he-asws passed away during the day of Tuesday on the sixth night vacant from Zil Hijjah in the year two hundred and twenty. And in another report, he-asws stayed with his-asws father-asws for nine years and some months. He-asws was blessed (to his-asws parents-asws) during Ramazan on the night of Friday on the nineteenth night vacant from it in the year one hundred and ninety-five, and he-asws passed away on the day of Tuesday on the fifth (day) vacant from Zil Hijjah in the year two hundred and twenty. His-asws mother-as was a mother of children called Sukayna Mareysiya. And it is said she-as was called ‘Haryan’, and Allah-azwj is more Knowing. His-asws title is ‘Al-Murtaza’, and ‘Al-Qanie’. His-asws grave is a Baghdad by the graves of Qureysh. He-asws is teknonymed at Abu Ja’far-asws’’. [14]
Explanation: His-asws martyrdom took place during the days of the caliphate of Al-Wasiq, differing from the well-known histories, because they have concurred upon that Al-Wasiq was pledged to in the beginning of the year two hundred and twenty, and not anyone spoke of his-asws being alive to that time. But Al-Masoudy has mentioned this word in Murouj Al-Zahab’ where he said, ‘The beginning of the year two hundred and nine’. Muhammad-asws Bin Ali Bin Musa-asws passed away on the fifth (day) vacant from Zil Hijja, and Al-Wasiq prayed Salat upon him, and he-asws was twenty-five years of age, and his-asws father-asws had passed away while he-asws was a boy of seven years and eight months. And it is said other than that. And it is said that Umm Al-Fazl Bint Al-Mamoun, when she arrived with him-asws from Al-Medina, poisoned him-asws. And rather we have mentioned from his-asws matter what we have described, because the people of Imamate (Shias) have contended regarding his-asws age at the expiry of his-asws father-asws. Then he said in mentioning the events having occurred during the days of Al-Wasiq, ‘And it is said that Abu Ja’far Muhammad Bin Ali-asws expired during the caliphate of Al-Wasiq Billah, and he-asws had reached from the age what we have brought forward regarding the caliphate of Al-Mutasim – end. I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘Perhaps the Salat of Al-Wasiq during the era of his-asws father-asws, may the Salawaat of Allah-azwj be upon him-asws, became the cause of this confusion’.