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Fatima Masumeh
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Fatima Masumeh was a daughter of the seventh Shia Imam, Musa al-Kazim, and a sister of the eighth Imam, Ali al-Rida, known as Imam Reza. Around 816 CE she set out from Medina toward Khorasan to join her brother, who was then living under the Abbasid court in the east, but fell ill on the journey and died at Qom, where she was buried. The shrine that grew up around her tomb, known as Hazrat-e Masumeh, became one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Shia Islam, and the city of Qom's later stature as a center of Shia religious learning and seminary study is closely tied to it. She is remembered as Masumeh, meaning the innocent or sinless one, a title reflecting her standing within the Imami household rather than a claim to prophecy of her own.
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Historical NoteHer journey toward Khorasan to join her brother Imam Reza, cut short by her death at Qom, where her tomb became the shrine around which the city's religious identity later formed. 1 Life
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Place of OriginMedina; died and is buried at Qom, in present day Iran. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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The shrine at Qom that commemorates her, built at the site of her tomb after she died there on her way to join her brother Imam Reza in Khorasan.
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