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Ali al-Rida
علي الرضا ar علی بن موسی الرضا fa
Eighth of the Twelve Shia Imams (766–818)
- Child of Musa al-Kazim and Ummul Banīn Najmah
- Married to Sabīkah Khayzurān, Umm Habibeh
- Dated 12 April 770 CE – 5 September 818 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 1
- 799 CE – 818 CE Imam of Twelver Shiism Number 8 in the sequence Succeeded Musa al-Kazim · Succeeded by Muhammad al-Jawad
Family
The family of Ali al-Rida
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 14
Family 14
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Musa al-Kazim seventh of the Twelve Imams (745–799 CE) - child of (mother) Ummul Banīn Najmah
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parent of (father) Muhammad al-Jawad ninth of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'ism - sibling of Ahmad ibn Musa son of the Seventh Twelver Imam
- sibling of Amina bint Musa
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sibling of Fātima bint Mūsā Daughter of the Seventh Twelver Imam - sibling of Fazl ibn Musa ibn Ja'far shrine in Jahrom, Fars, Iran
- sibling of Husayn ibn Musa
- sibling of Ibrahim ibn Musa al-Kazim son of Musa al-Kazim
- sibling of Muhammad ibn Musa ibn Ja'far
- sibling of Qasim ibn Musa
- sibling of Zayd ibn Musa al-Kadhim son of Musa al-Kazim
- married to Sabīkah Khayzurān
- married to Umm Habibeh
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Studied under 1
Ali al-Rida eighth of the Twelve Shia Imams (766–818) Connections
How Ali al-Rida connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Succession in office 1
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
19 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 17 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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