Abbas, The Prophet’s Uncle
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Abbas, the uncle of the Noble Prophet (s.a.w), was a person who exhibited great kindness towards his relatives and thus found himself to be an […]
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The Imam’s Bonds of Kinship
Reading Time: 2 minutesHasan Ibn ‘Ali, a cousin of Imam Sadiq (a.s), was a courageous, robust and physically powerful person such that he was referred to as the […]
The Widely Respected Shia Government Minister
Reading Time: 3 minutesPerhaps, the only Shiite minister to have been widely popular amongst the people of all classes was Sahib Ibn Ubbad (326 ah to 385 ah). […]
The Mother of the Satans
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSayyid Ne’matullah Jazairi narrates in his book: “One year, a famine struck. During that period a preacher, from atop the pulpit in the mosque, preached: […]
In the Darkness of the Night
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMu’alla Ibn Khunais narrates: “One rainy night Imam Sadiq (a.s) started out from his house with the intention of proceeding towards the tent of the […]
Auspicious and Inauspicious Times
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOnce, Imam Sadiq (a.s) related: “There was a piece of land that I owned in partnership with an astrologer and it was mutually decided that […]
Patience is Better than Retaliation
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen the battle of Uhud had concluded, the Noble Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) dispatched Harith Ibn Samt to search for the […]
The Patience and Fortitude of Bilal
Reading Time: 2 minutesBilal was originally from Abyssinia and in Madinah, was one of the slaves of the tribe of Bani Jama.’ After he had embraced Islam he […]
Ease After Patience
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe only son of an indigent woman had gone on a journey which had transformed into a protracted one. Extremely worried, she approached Imam Sadiq […]