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Imam al-Kazim (a) spent the last days of his life in al-Sindi b. Shahik's prison. According to al-Shaykh al-Mufid, al-Sindi poisoned the Imam (a) at the command of Harun al-Rashid, and three days later, the Imam (a) was martyred. His martyrdom occurred on Rajab 25, 183 (September 1, 799). There are other views about the time and the place of Imam al-Kazim's (a) martyrdom as well.
When Musa b. Ja'far (a) was martyred, his corpse was put on Baghdad's bridge at the order of al-Sindi b. Shahik and it was announced that Musa b. Ja'far died of natural causes.There are different accounts of how he was martyred. The majority of historiographers believe that he was poisoned by Yahya b. Khalid and al-Sindi b. Shahik. According to another account, the Imam (a) was suffocated by being folded in a carpet. Hamd Allah al-Mustawfi has attributed to the Shi'as the belief that Musa b. Ja'far (a) was martyred by hot lead poured in his throat, but he cited no sources for his claim.
Two reasons have been mentioned for why the Imam's (a) corpse was exhibited in a public place: one of them was to show that the Imam (a) died of natural causes, and the other was to refute the view of those people who believed in the Mahdawiyya of Imam al-Kazim (a).
Musa b. Ja'far's (a) corpse was buried in the Shuniziyya area in the family mausoleum of al-Mansur, known as the graves of the Quraysh. It is said that the Abbasids buried the Imam's (a) corpse there so that the Shi'as could not congregate in his burial place. His burial place is known as the Shrine of al-Kazimayn.