On Saturday, the 4th of January 2025 A.D. (the 3rd of Rajab 1446 A.H.)
Imam Ali al-Naqī, al-Hādī (the tenth Imam) was martyred in Samarra (north of Baghdad) on the third of 254 A.H. (868 A.D.) when he was forty-two years old. He took over the Imamate for about 33 years. The tenth Imam, like his father (Imam Muhammad al-Jawād), was also attained to the elevated rank of the Imamate in his childhood. He was only eight years old when his father was martyred and he was designated as the leader of the Shia. The Imam suffered pressing misfortunes and distresses from the Abbasid tyrants Caliphs. They spared no effort in oppressing and harming him. When al-Mutawakkil (the tyrant Abbasid caliph) came to power, he proved to be the most spiteful towards the Imam from among all the Abbasid Caliphs. He oppressed the Imam too much and moved him from Medina to Samarra and imposed on him house arrest, and surrounded his house with policemen. Then, al-Mu´tamid, the next Abbasid Caliph, seeing people talking about the virtues, knowledge, asceticism, and piety of the Imam and preferring him to all other Muslim scholars, became angry, envious, and spiteful against the Imam so, he inserted fatal poison to the food of the Imam to kill him. The poison reacted inside his body and death approached him quickly. Imam Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-´Askarī (the eleventh Imam) washed the pure body of his father (and did to him his ritual ablution of the deceased), enshrouded it, and offered the prayer of the dead on his body.
The pure corpse was carried to the last abode of the Imam that was his house which he had assigned to be a graveyard for him and his family. The eleventh Imam put his father’s corpse into the tomb, while his tears were flowing over his cheeks. He buried his father and buried with him a great source of knowledge, patience, piety, and probity.
(Reffer to Kashf al-Ghummah, vol. 3, p. 174.)
