Al-Qasim, Iraq
Mausoleum of Qasim ibn Musa al-Kadhim
Qasim ibn Musa al-Kadhim
The Imam Qasim Shrine, in the city of al-Qasim in Iraq's Babylon Governorate (a town named for him), holds the tomb of al-Qasim ibn Musa al-Kadhim, a son of the seventh Imam. Tradition holds that al-Qasim was especially beloved to his father, who is reported to have said that he would have preferred to entrust his succession to al-Qasim personally were it not for the divine order fixing the imamate on Ali al-Rida. The original mausoleum was raised by the Buyid dynasty in the 10th century, with major renovation and expansion under the Ilkhanate and Jalayirid Sultanate in the 14th-15th centuries; the shrine as it stands today, with its golden dome, dates largely to the Safavid period under Shah Ismail. The Shia scholar Ibn Tawus counted a visit to al-Qasim's grave, alongside those of al-Abbas ibn Ali and Ali ibn al-Husayn (killed at al-Ta'if), among the visits that carry the same spiritual reward as standing before the person one wishes to visit directly.
Mausoleum of Qasim ibn Musa al-Kadhim
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