Editing Ja'far al-Sadiq (section)

== Death ==
[[File:Baghi tomb.jpg|thumb|262px|The historical [[tomb]] of [[Al-Baqi'|al-Baqi]] was destroyed in 1926 during and by [[Wahhabi]] movement in Saudi Arabia. Ja'far al-Sadiq is one of four Shia Imams buried there.]]

Al-Sadiq died in 765 (148 AH) at sixty-four or sixty-five.{{sfn|Gleave|2008}}{{sfn|Donaldson|1933|p=141}} His death in Shia sources is attributed to poisoning at the instigation of al-Mansur.{{sfn|Momen|1985|p=39}}{{sfn|Campo|2009}} According to [[Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai]], after being detained in Samarra, al-Sadiq was allowed to return to Medina, where he spent the rest of his life in hiding until he was poisoned by order of al-Mansur.{{sfn|Tabatabai|1977|p=204}} He was buried in the [[Jannatul Baqee|al-Baqi Cemetery]], being one of the 4 Imams to be buried in the cemetery (the other Imams being [[Hasan Ibn Ali]],{{sfn|Madelung|2003}} [[Ali al-Sajjad]]{{sfn|Madelung|1985|pp=137, 138}} and [[Muhammad al-Baqir]]{{sfn|Momen|1985|p=38}}), in Medina, and his tomb was a place of pilgrimage until 1926. It was then that [[Wahhabism|Wahhabis]], under the leadership of [[Ibn Saud]], the founding [[King of Saudi Arabia]], conquered Medina for the second time and razed all the tombs except that of the Islamic prophet.{{sfn|Adamec|2017|p=53}}{{sfn|Campo|2009}}{{sfn|Daftary|2013|p=56}} According to Tabatabai, upon hearing the news of his death, al-Mansur ordered the governor of Medina to behead al-Sadiq's heir, the future Imam. The governor, however, learned that al-Sadiq had chosen four people, rather than one, to administer his will: al-Mansur himself, the governor, the Imam's oldest (surviving) son Abdullah al-Aftah, and Musa al-Kazim, his younger son. Al-Mansur's plot was thus thwarted.{{sfn|Tabatabai|1977|pp=204, 205}}