The martyrdom of Imam Muhammad al-Bāqir (the fifth Imam) (114 A.H. / 733 A.D.)
On Friday, the 14th of June 2024 A.D. (the 7th of Dhū al-Hijjah 1445 A.H.)
Imam Muhammad bin Ali al-Bāqir is the Fifth Imam of Shia. His epithet was Abū Ja'far and he was popularly titled al-Bāqir. His mother, Fatima, was the daughter of Imam al-Hassan (the second Imam). Thus, he was the only Imam who was connected with Lady Fatima both from his paternal and maternal sides. When he was three years old, he was present in Karbalā at the time of the gruesome tragedy of the wholesale massacre of his grandfather Imam al-Hussain and his companions and also suffered with his father and the ladies of the House of the Prophet the heartless captivity and imprisonment at the hands of the devilish forces at the command of Yazīd bin Mu'āwiyah. Imam al-Bāqir, for thirty-four years, was under the gracious patronage of his father, Imam Ali bin al-Hussein (Zayn al-`Ābidīn) and after the martyrdom of his father, he passed his time in Medina praying to Allah and guiding the people to the right path.
Imam al-Bāqir became martyred by poisoning when he was fifty-seven years old, in Hishām’s era because of the kingdom of this Caliph started from 105 to 125 A.H., and according to the historians the year of Imam’s martyrdom was in 118 A.H. The Imam’s body prepared for burial by his son, Imam al-Sādiq, and was buried in Baqīʹ cemetery in Medina.
