Umm Salama bint Musa al-Kazim

Umm Salama's basic historical identification is as a daughter of Imam Musa ibn Jafar al-Kazim. In al-Irshad, Shaykh al-Mufid explicitly includes Umm Salama in a list of thirty-seven sons and daughters of the Imam. The daughters are collectively attributed to several umm walad mothers, but the text does not separately identify Umm Salama's mother.

Ahmad ibn Abi Yaqub's Tarikh al-Yaqubi counts eighteen sons and twenty-three daughters for Musa al-Kazim and preserves a distinctive marriage report. It says that the Imam instructed his daughters not to marry, but Umm Salama married al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Jafar ibn Muhammad in Egypt. The total number of children differs from al-Irshad, yet the notice gives her name and the husband's full lineage clearly.

The same report says that serious disagreement arose between al-Qasim and his family over the marriage, until he swore that he had not consummated it and that his intention was only to take Umm Salama for the pilgrimage. The account is therefore presented as a reported formal marriage and travel arrangement, not as proof of a normal married household or verified descendants. The documented marriage details remain unchanged, and a separate relationship review has been created.

The accessible classical sources provide no dependable individual account of her education, teachers, students, hadith transmission, children, or public and scholarly office. She must not be confused with the Prophet's wife Umm Salama, Mother of the Believers, or with other Alid and Abbasid women who bore the same kunya. Her exact birth date is unknown; she must have been born before Musa al-Kazim's death in 183 AH, but no more precise date is established.

Reliable early sources do not establish Umm Salama's year of death, age, funeral, or burial place. The report of a marriage in Egypt does not verify a particular Egyptian grave or shrine, and the present file contains no shrine or location linkage. Her secure historical importance lies in being a named daughter of Musa al-Kazim and in the rare early notice concerning marriage, travel, and pilgrimage among the women of his family.