Editing Ali al-Rida (section)

==Imamat==
His father, Imam [[Musa al-Kazem]], who died in prison in Baghdad in Rajab, 183/September, 799, made him his legatee, and Ali inherited his estate of Sorayyaʾ near Medina to the exclusion of his many brothers. But the death of Imam Musa was denied by several of his wakils; they withheld the money collected from the [https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/khums-COM_1417 Khoms] and vows of Imam Musa’s followers and refused to recognize Ali as [[Imam]], promising the return of his father as the Mahdi. This led to a large-scale defection from the ranks of his father’s followers, especially in [[Kufa]] and Baghdad; Ali was later accused by them of diverging from the teaching of his ancestors in some points. Of his brothers, none seems to have claimed the imamate for himself, though some apparently furthered the belief in the survival of their father. According to Waqedi, he transmitted Hadith from his father and his uncles and gave fatwas in the mosque of Medina. Though Waqedi describes him as a reliable transmitter (theqa), he was evidently shunned by Sunni traditionists in Medina, and his transmitters were strictly Shiʿite. There is no good evidence that he ever left Medina for an extended trip before his departure for Khorasan, though a Shiʿite report describes a miraculous visit by him to the communities of his followers in Basra and Kufa after the death of his father. Several of his brothers and his uncle Muhammad b. Jaʿfar participated in the [[ʿAlid|Alid]] revolts in Iraq and Arabia after the death of the caliph [https://www.britannica.com/biography/al-Amin Amin], but he refused any involvement.