Fatima Masumeh

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.