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Muhammad al-Baqir
محمد الباقر ar محمد باقر fa
Fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams
- Child of Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-'Abidin and Fatimah bint al-Hasan
- Married to Umm Farwa bint al-Qasim
- Dated 8 May 677 CE – 26 January 733 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
- 712 CE – 733 CE Imam of Twelver Shiism Number 5 in the sequence Succeeded Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-'Abidin · Succeeded by Jaafar Al-Sadiq
Family
The family of Muhammad al-Baqir
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 · 9
Family 9
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) Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-'Abidin Great-grandson of Muhammad and the fourth of the Shiite Imams - child of (mother) Fatimah bint al-Hasan Daughter of Hasan ibn Ali (Son of Ali Ali ibn Abi Talib)
- parent of (child) Amina bint Muhammed Al-Baqir
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parent of (father) Jaafar Al-Sadiq Muslim scholar and Imam (died 765) - parent of (child) Sultan Ali son of the fifth imam of Twelver Shii Muslims and fourth imam of Ismaili Shii Muslims, Muhammad al-Baqir
- sibling of Abdullah bin Ali bin al-Hussein
- sibling of Husain bin Ali bin Husain
- sibling of Zayd ibn Ali Alid political and religious leader (c.695–740)
- married to Umm Farwa bint al-Qasim Mother of Shia Imam
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
Muhammad al-Baqir Fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams 
Connections
How Muhammad al-Baqir 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
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Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
15 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 13 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.
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- 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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