The Birth of Abu Ja‘far, Muhammad ibn Ali, the Second  عليه السلام — report 12

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12ـ سَعْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الله وَالْحِمْيَرِيُّ جَمِيعاً عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مَهْزِيَارَ عَنْ أَخِيهِ عَلِيٍّ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ قَالَ قُبِضَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ وَهُوَ ابْنُ خَمْسٍ وَعِشْرِينَ سَنَةً وَثَلاثَةِ أَشْهُرٍ وَاثْنَيْ عَشَرَ يَوْماً تُوُفِّيَ يَوْمَ الثَّلاثَاءِ لِسِتٍّ خَلَوْنَ مِنْ ذِي الْحِجَّةِ سَنَةَ عِشْرِينَ وَمِائَتَيْنِ عَاشَ بَعْدَ أَبِيهِ تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ سَنَةً إِلا خَمْساً وَعِشْرِينَ يَوْماً.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

12. Sa‘d ibn ‘Abdallah and Ali-Himyari all have narrated fom Ibrahim ibn Mahziyar from his brother Ali from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from Muhammad ibn Sinan who has said the following. “Muhammad ibn Ali عليه السلام passed away at the age of twenty five years, three months and twelve days. He died on a Tuesday on the sixth of Dhil Hajj in the year two hundred twenty AH. He lived nineteen years less twenty five days.”

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 122, report 12

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

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/122/12. 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.