Muhammad al-Bāqir

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Muhammad al-Baqir's grave in Baqīʿ al-Gharqad before it was destroyed by the Saudi Wahhabis in 1926

Abū Jaʿfar Muhammad ibn ʿAlī Zain al-ʿĀbidīn, called al-Bāqir (“who opens [knowledge]”), ( Arabic ابو جعفر محمد بن علي زين العابدين الباقر) (* on December 16, 676 or May 10, 677, or on the same days of the previous year, in Medina ; † 732–736 ibid) was the son of Ali Zain al-Abidin and father of Jafar al-Sādiq . He is the fifth imam of the Imamites and the fourth of the Ismailis .

After the death of Ali Zain al-Abidin, a dispute broke out between Muhammad and his younger brother Zaid about the succession as Imam. Some followers of Muhammad al-Bāqir represented extreme Shiite teachings and later founded their own Gnostic sects. Among them were al-Mughīra ibn Saʿīd , who attributed superhuman qualities to Muhammad al-Bāqir and later claimed prophethood for himself, as well as Abū Mansūr al-ʿIdschlī , who venerated Muhammad al-Bāqir as a prophet and claimed after his death that he inherited prophethood from him.

Muhammad is buried in the al-Baqi 'cemetery in Medina, Saudi Arabia. His tomb was destroyed in 1926 after the Saudi conquest of the Hejaz kingdom by the Ichwān , fanatical supporters of the Wahhabis . His son Soltan Ali ebn-e-Mohammad was buried in the Persian village of Mashhad-e-Ardehal , in whose honor the Qalishuyan ceremony takes place once a year .

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SURNAME Muhammad al-Bāqir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muhammad ibn ʿAlī al-Bāqir; Abū Jaʿfar Muhammad ibn ʿAlī Zain al-ʿĀbidīn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION fifth Imam of the Imamites and Zaidites
DATE OF BIRTH at 681
DATE OF DEATH at 733