ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Hādī (Arabic: عَلي إبن مُحَمَّد الهادي النَّقي 828 – 868 CE) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the tenth Imam in Twelver Shia, succeeding his father, Muhammad al-Jawad (d. 835). Born in Medina in 828, Ali is known with the titles al-Hādī (Arabic: الهادي, 'the guide') and al-Naqī (Arabic: النقي, 'the distinguished'). After the death of his father in 835, most followers of al-Jawad readily accepted the imamate of Ali, who was still a child at the time. Drawing parallels with the story of young Jesus in the Quran, Twelver sources attribute an exceptional innate knowledge to Ali which qualified him for the imamate despite his young age.
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828 Medina, Abbasid Empire
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868 (aged 39) Samarra, Abbasid Empire
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