Ali al-Hadi, Hijazi (Western Arabian), 10th of the Twelve Imams (d. 868)
Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Hādī (Arabic: عَلِيّ ٱبْن مُحَمَّد ٱلْهَادِي‎; 829 – 868 CE) was a Muslim scholar and the tenth of the Twelve Imams in Twelver Shia Islam after his father Muhammad al-Jawad and before his son Hasan al-Askari. He is also revered and respected by Sunni-Sufis. He remained in Medina teaching until the age of 30 when he was summoned to Samarra by the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil. There he was treated roughly by the caliph and his successors until, according to Shiite accounts, he was poisoned through intrigue of Al-Mu'tazz the Abbasid caliph, in 254/868, and was buried in Samarra. He is commonly referred to by the title al-Hadi (the one who shows right path) and Alī an-Naqī.