page_title: Musa al-Kadhim
section_title: Final imprisonment
hierarchical_section_title: Musa al-Kadhim / Imprisonments and death / Final imprisonment
caption_attribution_description: English: This wooden box was made by the order of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mustansir Bi'llah (r. 1226-1242 CE) in the year 624 AH (1227 CE). L 260 cm, W 185 cm, and H 94 cm. The box was transferred (from modern-day Al-Kadhimiya Mosque, Kadhmain Shrine) to another place, the Tomb of al-Sahabi Salman Al-Mohammadi in Salman Pak town, southern Baghdad, in 769 AH (1367 CE). The upper lid is not original. On display at the Islamic Gallery of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad.
context_page_description: Musa ibn Ja'far al-Kadhim, also spelled and al-Kazim, and also known as Abu al-Hasan, Abu Abd Allah or Abu Ibrahim, was the seventh Shia Imam after his father Ja'far al-Sadiq. He is regarded by Sunnis as a renowned scholar, and was a contemporary of the Abbasid caliphs Al-Mansur, Al-Hadi, Al-Mahdi and Harun al-Rashid. He was imprisoned several times; finally dying in Baghdad in the Sindi ibn Shahak prison. Ali al-Rida, the eighth Imam, and Fatemah al-Ma'sumah were among his children.
context_section_description: Al-Fakhri states the reason for his final imprisonment was that "there were some of the relatives of Musa ibn Ja'far who were envious of him and carried false reports about him to al-Rashid, saying, 'The people are paying him the Khums, or one-fifth of their property, on accepting the Imamah, and he is about to come forth against you.' They brought this report to al-Rashid so frequently that it made him anxious and agitated. In that year al-Rashid went on the pilgrimage, and when he arrived in Medina, he arrested Musa ibn Ja'far, and brought him to Baghdad in a litter, and imprisoned him under the care of al-Sindi ibn Sha'hik."
  Al-Fakhri adds "Al-Rashid was at Rakka when he sent orders that the Imam should be put to death. They then brought a number of reputable men to Karkh to act as coroners and to testify publicly that he had died a natural death. He, then, was buried in the cemetery of Quraish on the south side of Baghdad." The implication made by the Shi'a is that he was poisoned. It was narrated that he was tortured for many years during each stay in prison. The most severe imprisonment was under Sindhi. It was narrated that he used to put him in a grave-like jail, where it would be difficult to distinguish night from day. It is narrated that Imam Musa Kadhim used to put his nose near the door in hopes of breathing but Sindhi would slam the door violently, injuring him severely. He was then eventually poisoned by dates and was forced to eat them by Sindhi. The place he was buried was a cemetery, but soon this place became the focus of pilgrimage to the grave of the Imam. A town grew around the graveyard. The name of the town became Kadhimiya (the town of the Imam Kadhim). A reputed school of theology was founded in this town; the school is still a source of learning for many students from all over the world.
caption: Wooden box of the shrine of Imam Musa al-Kadhim, made 6th century AH, Iraq Museum in Baghdad
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