Imam Muhammad Al-Baqir (AS)

Occasion for presenting this book:

3 Safar (17 July 2026): The Blessed Birth of Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (peace be upon him)

Book Bibliographic Details:

Author: Sayyid Munthir Hakim

Translator: Sayyid Hussein Alamdar

Publisher: Authorhouse

Length: 320 Pages

Language: English

ISBN: 978-1504920377

Publication Date: August 12, 2015

About the Book:

This book is seventh of fourteen series of comprehensive biographies about epic lives of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and his Holy Progeny (AS) who were divinely appointed spiritual leaders to guide the mankind. The Holy Qur’an has explicitly witnessed to the Ahl al-Bayt’s (AS) cleanliness from all sorts of impurities and the Holy Prophet (SAW) has explained that they are equivalent to the Holy Qur’an. They are flags and signs that God has placed in this world for righteous guidance of his servants. The path of these exalted personalities is a real signboard of announcing the history of Islamic prophethood and its victorious path. This book deals with research about precious life of the Splitter of Knowledge and resources of divine sciences ─  Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (AS), who insured the Islamic nation against all sort of alien, poisonous, intellectual deviations, and presented it characteristics of his pioneer divine assignment in a comprehensive manner.

About the Author:

Sayyid Hussein Alamdar, P.E, holds a MSCE from the University of South Carolina, at Columbia, S.C. He served Duke Power Company, Charlotte N.C from 1971-1982. In 1983, he was invited to join the Water and Power Co in Tehran, where he served as a Project Manager for Hydroelectric Projects until 2003. During his stay in Iran for 20 year (1983-2003) in addition to his engineering responsibilities he was blessed with the Divine grace of also attending Islamic Seminary under the able tutorship of Grand Ayatollah Seyed Muhammad Taqi Hakim Shooshtari and Hajj Aghai Ali Solemani Aashtiani in Tehran. He also founded the Ahl al-Bayt Islamic Cultural Services (AICS) of USA to publish the Uloom & Mu’arif of Ahl al-Bayt (AS).

Alamdar, has translated the following books, some of them are also available on the internet at WWW. Al-Islam.org, Islamic Library Project of Stanford University, California (USA).

1. Discourses on Patience: Ayatullah Imam Sayyid Ali Khamenei
2. Self Building, Khud Sazi wa Tahzib wa Tazkiyeh Nafs: Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini
3. Truth and Falsehood: Martyr Allameh Murtaza Mutaheri (RA)
4. Discourse of Patience: Grand Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenie
5. Profundities of Prayer: Grand Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenie
6. Spiritual Journeys of the Mystics, Saluk-e-Arifan: Grand Ayatollah Malaki Tabrizi (RA)
7. Etiquette of the Holy Month of Ramadan: Grand Ayatollah Malaki Tabrizi (RA)
8. Radiance of Vicegerency, Frooghe-e-Vilayat: Grand Ayatollah J’afar Sobhanie
9. Shiite Replies to Wahabi Questions: Grand Ayatollah J’afar Sobhanie
10. The Story of Karbala: Ayatollah Ali Nazari Munfarid
11. How to Bridge the Generation Gap: Grand Ayatollah Seyed Muhammad Taqi Hakim
12. The Life of Imam al-Zain al-A’abedin (AS): Sayyid Munthir Hakim
13. The Life of Imam al-Baqir (AS): Sayyid Munthir Hakim
14. The Biography of Ash Sharif ar-Radi: Muhammad Ibrahim Nejad
15. The History of Holy Mosque of Jamkaran
16. Translation of Death-Will (Vasiyat Nameh) of Grand Ayatollah Seyed Muhammad Rida Golpaygani (RA)
17. Every Body Must Know, Hame B’ayad Bedanand: Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini
18. The Life of Fatimeh al-Zehra (SA): Sayyid Munthir Hakim
19. The Life of Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (AS): Sayyid Munthir Hakim

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