Ruqayya bint Musa al-Kazim

Ruqayya bint Musa al-Kazim belongs to the Musawi branch of the Prophet's family through her father, Imam Musa ibn Jafar al-Kazim. Her identification rests principally on the list of the Imam's children in al-Irshad, where al-Shaykh al-Mufid names both Ruqayya and a separate Ruqayya al-Sughra. This distinction is important because later summaries do not always preserve the same number or arrangement of the Imam's daughters.

The early notice is genealogical rather than biographical. It does not name Ruqayya's mother and does not record a birth date, marriage, children, public role or personal teaching. The documented genealogy therefore correctly keeps her confidence at the probable level and leaves unsupported relationship fields blank.

Al-Irshad also preserves a report from a Hashimiyya woman described as the mawla of Ruqayya bint Musa. She describes the night worship of Muhammad ibn Musa, one of the Imam's sons. The report shows that a woman named Ruqayya bint Musa had an identifiable household connection within the family, but the text does not state whether she was Ruqayya or Ruqayya al-Sughra. It therefore cannot safely be used to assign personal virtues, activities or relationships to this profile.

Later works reproduce differing child lists. Al-Mufid and al-Tabrisi transmit a list containing both Ruqayya and Ruqayya al-Sughra, while Ibn Shahrashub's surviving list names only Ruqayya al-Sughra among the daughters. These differences explain why her existence can be preserved as a probable family-map identity while the rest of her life remains undocumented. No reliable source inspected for this profile establishes her date or place of death, and no specific grave or shrine can be attributed to her with historical confidence.