2025: January 7 (7 Rajab 1446 AH - The Festival of Imam Musa al-Kadhim)

January 7

Events

  • 1984 - Brunei became the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
  • 1993 - Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executed a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.  
  • 2015 - Two gunmen committed mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others.
  • 2015 – A car bomb exploded outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.

Births

  • 1967 - Irrfan Khan, Indian actor (d. 2020)

Deaths

  • 838 - Babak Khorramdin, the Iranian leader of the Khurramite uprising against the Abbasid Caliphate 


Babak Khorramdin (b. 795 or 798 – d. January 838) was one of the main Iranian revolutionary leaders of the Iranian Khorram-Dinan ("Those of the joyous religion"), which was a local freedom movement fighting the Abbasid Caliphate.  Khorramdin appears to be a compound analogous to dorustdin "orthodoxy" and Behdin "Good Religion" (Zoroastrianism), and are considered an offshoot of neo-Mazdakism.  

Babak's Iranianizing rebellion, from its base in Azerbaijan in northwestern Iran, called for a return to the political glories of the Iranian past. The Khorramdin rebellion of Babak spread to the Western and Central parts of Iran and lasted more than twenty years before it was defeated when Babak was betrayed. Babak's uprising showed the continuing strength in Azerbaijan of ancestral Iranian local feelings.

  • 1858 - Mustafa Resid Pasha, an Ottoman politician, and the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1800)
  • 1892 - Tewfik Pasha, an Egyptian ruler (b. 1852)
  • 2016 - Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, an Indian lawyer and politician, and the Indian Minister of Home Affairs (b. 1936)

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7 Rajab

Events

  • Twelvers (Twelver Shi'a) observe the Festival of Imam Musa al-Kazim (Imam Musa al-Kadhim). 


The Festival of Imam Musa al-Kadhim is a Twelver Shi'a Muslim festival dedicated to the memory of Imam Musa al-Kadhim.  It occurs on the seventh day of the month of Rajab in the Islamic calendar.

Musa ibn Ja'far al-Kazim (745–799) was a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad and the seventh imam in Twelver Shi'a Islam.  Musa is often known by the title al-Kazim (lit. 'forbearing'), apparently a reference to his patience and gentle disposition. He was born in 745 CC in Medina to Ja'far al-Sadiq, the sixth Shi'a imam, who died in 765 without publicly designating a successor to save his heir from the wrath of the Abbasid caliphs. The subsequent crisis of succession was eventually resolved in favor of al-Kazim, with a dissenting group, now known as the Isma'ilis, separating from the mainstream Shi'a.

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