The Birth of Abu Ja‘far, Muhammad ibn Ali  عليه السلام — report 6

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

6ـ سَعْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الله وَالْحِمْيَرِيُّ جَمِيعاً عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مَهْزِيَارَ عَنْ أَخِيهِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَهْزِيَارَ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مُسْكَانَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) قَالَ قُبِضَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْبَاقِرُ وَهُوَ ابْنُ سَبْعٍ وَخَمْسِينَ سَنَةً فِي عَامِ أَرْبَعَ عَشْرَةَ وَمِائَةٍ عَاشَ بَعْدَ عَلِيِّ بن الحسين (عَلَيْهما السَّلام) تِسْعَ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً وَشَهْرَيْنِ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

6. Sa‘d. ibn ‘Abdallah and al-Himyari all have narrated from Ibrahim ibn Mahziyar from his brother, ali ibn Mhaziyar from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from Muhammad ibn Sinan from ibn Muskan from abu Basir from abu ‘Abdallah who has said the following. “Muhammad ibn Ali al-Baqir passed away at the age of fifty seven, in the year one hundred fourteen AH. He lived for nineteen years and two months after Ali ibn al-Husayn عليه السلام .”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 118, report 6

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف على المشهور · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/25)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · لم يخرجه · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/118/6. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.