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Martyrdom of Imam Taqi (a), thread

The 9th Holy Imam Muhammad Taqi (a) is the son of the 8th Holy Imam Raza (a) and his mother is Bibi Sayyida Sabika Khaizarun (s).
After the martyrdom of his father, the young Imam was summoned from Madina to Baghdad.

Mamoon Abbasid ruler had his daughter Ummul Fazl married to Imam Muhammad Taqi (a) so that he could closely watch the Imam. He also tried his best to make the Imam leave his pious ways and get busy in worldly pleasures. His daughter also did not bear a child through the marriage.

Mamoon failed in his cunning plans. After returning to Madina, Imam Muhammad Taqi (a) married a virtuous lady named Bibi Samana Khatoon. She was from the progeny of Ammar Yasir, a famous and noble companion of the Prophet (s).

She gave birth to Imam Ali Naqi (a), who is our 10th Imam. The Imam preferred eating bread and salt and wearing coarse clothes and living in Madina near the grave of his grandfather Prophet Muhammad (s).

After returning to Madina, Umm Fazl kept writing letters of complaint against the Imam to her father, but he did not respond to them. When Mamoon died in 218 A.H., his brother Mutasim became the ruler. Umm Fazl continued to complain against the Imam to her uncle, Mutasim.

He forced the Imam to come to Baghdad. Mutasim was deeply jealous of the Imam's merits and kept Imam Muhammad Taqi (a) under house arrest for nearly a year and inflicted great hardships on him. The young 25 year old Imam felt fed up with his life.

Mutasim Abbasi encouraged and helped Umm Fazl to poison the Imam, who suffered greatly and died of the poison on 29th Zeeqad 220 A.H at the age of 25. His young son Imam Naqi (a) came by a miracle from Madina and buried his pure body next to his grandfather, Imam Musa Kazim (a).

Imam Taqi (a) was buried in Al- Kazimiyyah, the place of the two Kazims - the 7th Imam Musa Kazim (a) and the 9th Imam Muhammad Taqi (a) in Baghdad, Iraq.