According to rahyafte (the missionaries and converts website):
?The 4th Imam after Imam Hussain(a.s) was his son Imam Ali Zayn-al-Abidin(a.s). His mother was Bibi Shahar Bano who was a princess from Persia, the daughter of the Kind Yazd Gard II.
His title Zayn-al-Abidin was granted to him by the Holy Prophet(pbuh&hp).
Imam Sajjad(a.s.) was married to the Bibi Fatima(a.s) – daughter of Imam Hasan(a.s).
? al-Allamah at-Tabataba’i writes:
#Imam_Sajjad (Ali ibn al-Hussain entitled Zayn al-Abidin and Sajjad) was the only son of
Imam Hussain(A.S) to survive, for his other three brothers Ali Akbar, aged twenty-five, five-year-old Ja’far and Ali al-Asghar (or Abdullah) who was a suckling baby were martyred during the event of Karbala’.
The Imam had also accompanied his father on the journey that terminated fatally in Karbala’, but I because of severe illness and the inability to carry arms or participate in fighting he was prevented from taking part in the holy war and being martyred. So he was sent with the womenfolk to Damascus. After spending a period in imprisonment he was sent with honor to Medina because Yazid wanted to conciliate public opinion. But for a second time, by the order of the Umayyad caliph, Abdul-Malik, he was chained and sent from Medina to Damascus and then again returned to Medina.
The Fourth Imam, upon returning to Medina, retired from public life completely, closed the door of his house to strangers and spent his time in worship. He was in contact only with the elite among the Shiites
such as Abu Hamzah ath-Thumali, Abu Khalid Kabuli and the like. The elite disseminated among the Shi’ah the religious sciences they learned from the Imam. In this way, Shi’ism spread considerably and
showed its effects during the Imamate of the Fifth Imam. Among the works of the Fourth Imam is a book called Sahifah Sajjadiyyah. It consists of fifty-seven prayers concerning the most sublime Divine sciences and is known as “The Psalm of the Household of the Prophet.”
The Fourth Imam died (according to some Shiite traditions poisoned by al-Walid ibn `Abdul-Malik ibn Marwan through the instigation of the Umayyad caliph Hisham) in 95/712 after thirty-five years of Imamate.
Read More:
? https://www.al-islam.org/brief-history-fourteen-infallibles/sixth-infallible-fourth-imam
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