Editing Mohammad al-Baqir (section)

==Birth and Death==
According to most Shiʿite sources, he was born in Medina in 57/677 and died there in 114/732 at the age of 57. The preference for these dates seems to rest partly on the parallelism of 57. According to another Shiʿite report, he predicted correctly his death at 58 years, just as his ancestors Ali, Hussain, and Ali b. Hussain had all been killed, or died, at 58. According to Waqedi, he died in 117/735 and, according to Khalifa b. Khayyat, in 118/736<ref>''Taʾrikh Khalifa b. al-Khayyat'', ed. A. Ḏ. ʿOmari, Beirut, 1397/1977, p. 349</ref> . These dates seem more likely since the reports about the rising of his brother Zayd in 120-22/738-40 suggest that he had died only recently so that the question of the succession was still open among his Kufan followers. The death date mentioned by Mas’udi<ref>''Morūj'' VI, p. 17</ref> , 125-26/743-44, is definitely too late. Equally unacceptable is the birth date 44/664 implied by Waqedi, since his father is known to have been 23 years old at the [[battle of Karbala]] in 61/680. Other dates given for al-Baqir’s birth are 54/676 and 59/678-79.