Imam Mohammad_ibn_ Ali (a.s) was born on the 10th of Rajab 195 AH in Medina. He was brought up in the house of prophethood and imamate, that house by which Allah had honored the Muslims. His father Imam_ar_Redha (a.s) had undertaken his upbringing and shed rays of light from his great soul onto him.
His famous epithets are Al_Jawad (the generous) and Al_Tagiy ( the pious) . Al_ma’moon the Abbasi caliph had tried him with different types of provocations, but he was not deceived….

When his father was martyred, he was 7 years old. He undertook the imamate and the religious leadership after his father for 17 years and he was martyred at the age of 25. He with his talents, geniuses and great endless scientific ability has proven luminous reality adopted by the Shia that an Imam must be the most aware and virtuous one of the people of his time and the one who has more knowledge than any one else, regardless of whether he is young or old.
Imam Al_Jawad (a.s) lived that short period of his holy life tending toward knowledge. He established the bases of knowledge and made use his life in spreading knowledge, teaching different sciences and merging the intellect with Islamic sciences and literatures. A great number of scholars and narrators joined him to learn from him the different Islamic sciences.