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| | Musa al Kazim - Japan |
 | | Musa al-Kazim ibn Ja'far as Sadiq (alternatively, Musa al-Kahdim, Musa al Kazim, Musa al-Kathem, Musa ibn Jafar, Moosa ibn Jafar, Musa ibn Jafar al-Kazim) (Arabic: الإمام موسى الكاظم) (November 10, 745, Medina – September 4, 799, Baghdad) (128 -183 A.H.) was the seventh of the twelve Shiite Imams. |
 | | Al-Kazim was the son of Ja'far al-Sadiq and his wife Hameeda, the sixth Imam. |
 | | However, his nomination was not without controversy, as Musa was not the eldest son, but Isma'il (Ismail bin Jafar), whose supporters split from mainstream Shi'a on that grounds, forming the Ismaili branch of Shi'ite Islam. |
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