5TH RAJAB WILADAT AL HADI (ALI NAQI) A.S
Born in Madina 5th Rajab 214 Hijri ( 8.9.829 AD). Died in Samarrah, Iraq 3rd Rajab 254 Hijri (1.7.868) aged 40 years. Period of Imamate 34 years. After his father's death in 835, Ali al-Hadi assumed the official role of I MMATE at the age of 7 or 8. The followers of his father were in agreement on his Imamate, except for a minor group who gathered around his younger brother Musa who when dissociated himself from them, they turned to al-Hadi. H istorians have mentioned that after his father's assassination at the will of Al M u'tasim , the Abbasid caliph ordered Umar bin al-Faraj to find a teacher in Medina for the young Imam (that must be one of the enemies of the A hlul bait ) in order to prevent Shiites from meeting him. He found al-Junaydi for this task, however, al-Junaydi often reported on the Imam's intelligence saying that the boy would provide perspectives on literature and understanding of the Quran and the revela...