Musa al-Kadhim was born in 745 CE in Medina, and his imamate coincided with the reigns of the Abbasid caliphs al-Mansur, al-Hadi, al-Mahdi and Harun al-Rashid.
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Musa al-Kadhim was born in 745 CE in Medina, and his imamate coincided with the reigns of the Abbasid caliphs al-Mansur, al-Hadi, al-Mahdi and Harun al-Rashid.
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Musa al-Kadhim was repeatedly imprisoned and harassed by the caliphs and finally died in 799 at the al-Sindi ibn Shahiq prison of Baghdad, possibly poisoned at the order of Harun.
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Musa al-Kadhim's mother was Hamida Khatun, a slave-girl from Berber or Andalusia.
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Musa al-Kadhim was known as Hamida the Pure and was respected for her religious learning, teaching jurisprudence to women in a seminary in Medina.
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Musa al-Kadhim reportedly grew up in a large family, with six brothers and nine sisters.
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Musa al-Kadhim received the allegiance of the most renowned Shia students of his father, al-Sadiq, immediately after his death.
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Musa al-Kadhim appointed a network of representatives to supervise the Shia in various localities and collect the and other donations made to the Imam.
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Musa al-Kadhim was placed in charge of the prefect of police, al-Musayyab ibn Zuhayr al-Dabbi, who later became a follower of al-Kazim.
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Musa al-Kadhim is said to have been poisoned at the instigation of Harun, who gave al-Sindi the orders through Yahya ibn Khalid when he visited the caliph in Rakka.
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Musa al-Kadhim's traditions are collected in Musnad al-Kazim, which is extant.
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