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Mūsá ibn Ja‘far al-Kāżim / al-Kādhim (Arabic: موسى بن جعفر الكاظم‎) (November 6, 745 AD - September 1, 799 // Safar 7, 128 AH – Rajab 25, 183 AH) was the seventh of the Twelve Imams. He was the son of the sixth Imam, Ja‘far aṣ-Ṣādiq and his mother was Hamidah Khātūn, a student and former slave of North African descent. His wife Najmah was also a former slave purchased and freed by Hamidah, his mother.^{[citation needed]}

Mūsá al-Kāżim was born during the power struggles between the Umayyad and the Abbasid. Like his father, he was assassinated by the Abbasids. He bore three notable children: the eighth Imām, ‘Alī ar-Riżá, and two daughters, Fāṭimah al-Ma‘sūmah and Hājar Khātūn.

The Festival of Imam Musa al-Kadhim celebrates his life and death.

Mūsá al-Kāżim was born in Abwa between Mecca and Medina. His mother was originally a slave of Berber origin, but after his father purchased her, he freed her and trained her as an Islamic scholar.

Mūsá al-Kāżim became the seventh Shi’ah Imam at the age of 21. According to the Kitab al-Irshad of Sheikh al-Mufid:

Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi (Arabic: سيد محمد رضوي‎, born in 1957) is a Twelver Shī‘ah scholar, a speaker, as well as an author. He is the second-born son of Sa‘eed Akhtar Rizvi.

Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi was born in the Saran district of Bihar, India. He migrated with his family to Tanzania, where he underwent elementary schooling. In 1972 he went to Qom for religious studies where he pursued his Ijtihad under Ayatullah al-Uzma Shaikh Wahid Khurãsãni. . After successfully attaining the rank of mujtahid, he returned to India in 1982.

In 1983 he migrated with his family to Vancouver, and by 1991 he completed his Master of Arts degree in History (with no prior undergraduate degree), at Simon Fraser University. He then moved to Ontario in the same year, and since 1996 he has been the Imam of the Islamic Shia Ithna Asheri Jamaat of Toronto.

Among his many accomplishments is building bridges with people of other faiths. He has been a key figure in conducting numerous interfaith dialogues and has written literature promoting peace and understanding.