O my master, how can I sit while you are standing?’
Reading Time: < 1 minute Muhammad bin al-Hasan bin Imara said, “Once, I was with Ali bin Ja’far in Medina, where I stayed with him for two years to write […]
Month: April 2014
Imam Mohammed Taqi (as) – Intelligence and Genius
Reading Time: 2 minutes Imam Muhammad al-Jawad (a.s) displayed signs of intelligence and genius in his early years that astonished people and filled them with admiration and high regard. […]
Israaf – Mutawakkil 2
Reading Time: < 1 minute It was narrated that one day al-Mutawakkil was drunken in his palace called al-Barkwar. He said to his drinking companions where it was not the […]
Israaf of Mutawakkil
Reading Time: 2 minutes Mutawakkil spent the wealth of Muslims on his lusts and pleasures over the limit. The treasury was as his own property and he spent from […]
Imam Ali Naqi (as) in Prison
Reading Time: < 1 minute Mutawakkil ordered to arrest Imam al-Hadi (a.s.) and put him in prison. After some days in prison, Saqr bin Abu Dulaf came to visit him. […]
‘O Sa’eed, stay as you are until we bring you a candle!’
Reading Time: 2 minutes one day al-Mutawakkil was afflicted with abscesses and he was about to die from that. Al-Fat~h bin Khaqan counseled him to send a messenger to […]
‘O Abu Hashim, send a man from our mawali to al-Ha’ir to pray Allah for me!’
Reading Time: < 1 minute Abu Hashim Said, “I visited Abul Hasan Ali bin Muhammad when he was ill. He said to me, ‘O Abu Hashim, send a man from […]
The questions of Yahya bin Aktham
Reading Time: 6 minutes Yahya bin Aktham offered some questions, which he had prepared and written down before, to Imam al-Hadi (a.s.) in order to try him. Here are […]
Al-Mutawakkil invites ibn as-Sikkit to try the Imam Ali Naqi (as)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Al-Mutawakkil asked the prominent scholar Ya’qub bin Isaaq known as ibn as-Sikkit to ask Imam al-Hadi (a.s.) about a complicated, ambiguous question that he (the […]
Judgements of Imam Ali Naqi (as)
Reading Time: 2 minutes 1. Al-Mutawakkil had a Christian clerk who was preferable by him. Because he loved him too much he surnamed him as Abu Noah. Some other […]