Mûsâ ibn Ja‘far al-Kâdhim , also called
Abul Hasan,
Abu Abd Allah,
Abu Ibrahim, and
al-Kadhim (the one who controls his anger), was the seventh Shiite
Imam after his father
Ja'far al-Sadiq. He is regarded by
Sunnis as a renowned scholar, and was a contemporary of the Abbasid caliphs
Al-Mansur,
Al-Hadi,
Al-Mahdi and
Harun al-Rashid. He was imprisoned several times, finally dying in
Baghdad in the Sindi ibn Shahak prison.
Ali al-Ridha, the eighth Imam, and
Fatemah Masume were among his children.