Imam Al Murtada Muhammad Ibn Yahya (D. 310AH)

Imam al-Murtaḍā Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā (Peace Be Upon Him) | Al-Tuhaf Sharh al-Zulaf
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Imam al-Murtaḍā Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā

Al-Murtaḍā li-Dīn Allāh — Peace Be Upon Him

Full Lineage

Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm (may God be pleased with them). Son of Imam al-Hādī ilā al-Ḥaqq.

His Call

Called to God after the death of his father Imam al-Hādī. Came out to the people, offered them condolences, and announced his own continuance of the Imamate.

Death

Year 310 AH, at the age of thirty-two — during the days of his brother Imam al-Nāṣir Aḥmad. Buried at the shrine of his father.

His Call After the Death of Imam al-Hādī

Imam al-Murtaḍā li-Dīn Allāh, Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Qāsim ibn Ibrāhīm (may God be pleased with them). He called people to God after the death of his father. When Imam al-Hādī died, he came out to the people, reminded them of God, and offered them condolences — then said:

It eases what I encounter of grief that I —
shall be his neighbor in his grave today or tomorrow.

— Imam al-Murtaḍā Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā (peace be upon him)

His Authored Works
  • Kitāb al-Uṣūl — on divine unity and divine justice
  • Kitāb al-Īḍāḥ — on jurisprudence
  • Kitāb al-Nawāzil — two parts
  • Jawāb Masāʾil al-Mughaffalī
  • Jawāb Masāʾil Mahdī
  • Kitāb al-Nubuwwa — Prophethood
  • Kitāb al-Irāda — Will
  • Kitāb al-Mashīʾa — Volition
  • Kitāb al-Tawba — Repentance
  • Al-Radd ʿalā al-Rawāfiḍ — Refutation of the Rāfiḍa
  • Kitāb fī Faḍāʾil ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib — on the merits of the Commander of the Faithful
  • Al-Radd ʿalā al-Qarāmiṭa — Refutation of the Qarāmiṭa
  • Kitāb al-Sharḥ wa-l-Bayān — three parts
  • Kitāb al-Riḍāʿ — Suckling
  • Kitāb Masāʾil al-Qudamiyyīn
  • Kitāb Masāʾil al-Ḥāʾirīn — Questions of the Perplexed
  • Kitāb Tafsīr al-Qurʾān — nine parts
  • Kitāb Masāʾil al-Ṭabariyyīn — five parts
  • Kitāb Masāʾil Mahdī — four parts
  • Kitāb Masāʾil Ibn al-Nāṣir
  • Kitāb Masāʾil al-Buyūʿ — Questions on Sales, three parts
  • Kitāb Masāʾil ʿAbdullāh ibn Sulaymān
  • Jawāb Ibn Faḍl al-Qarmaṭī
  • Faṣl al-Murtaḍā
  • Kitāb al-Nahy — Prohibition
His Death

He died during the days of his brother Imam al-Nāṣir Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā, in the year 310 AH, at the age of thirty-two years. His grave is at the shrine of his father (may God be pleased with them) in Ṣaʿda.

His Children & Where Their Descendants Are Found
  • Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim
  • Ismāʿīl
  • Ibrāhīm
  • ʿAlī progeny at Jurjān
  • ʿAbdullāh progeny at Daylamān and Yemen
  • Mūsā
  • Yaḥyā progeny at Daylamān
  • Al-Ḥasan progeny at Shīrāz, Ṭabaristān, Aṣbahān, and Aṣfahān
  • Al-Ḥusayn progeny at al-Rayy and its districts, al-Ahwāz, and Ṭabaristān
  • Al-Qāsim
  • ʿĪsā
  • Muḥammad
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Primary Source Al-Tuḥaf Sharḥ al-Zulaf Imam Majd al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Muʾayyidī الإمام مجد الدين بن محمد المؤيدي
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