Al-Jud ibn Dirham
Al-Jud ibn Dirham was drowned in atheism and was extremely out of the way. He was publicly announcing his infidelity and claimed that Allah (SwT) did not take Abraham as friend and that He did not talk with Moses. Marwan ibn Muhammad, the Umayyad was studying under his supervision and he was fed with that atheism to the extent that he was known as Marwan al-Judi.
One of his pseudo-inventions was that he put soil and water in a bottle and after a while there were worms inside. Then he addressed his companions with the following: “I have created this, because I was the cause of this creation.” Imam al-Sadiq (as) was informed with this statement and he retorted with the most eloquent reasoning, saying: “If it was he who created that, so he might say: How many worms were they? How many male and how many female were they? What is the weight of each single one?”
How great reasoning that was, which the successor of the Prophet (S) stated. He ruined all his superstitions. Narrators said that when al-Jud heard this reasoning, he ceased his speech when the signs of his weakness and inability were apparent, and he escaped.
THE LIFE OF IMAM JAF’AR AL-SADIQ (AS) – BAQIR SHARIF AL-QURASHI