I thought to myself when he was writing...

I thought to myself when he was writing, \u2018I will request him to gift me the pen with which he -asws is writing.\u2019 When he finished writing he -asws turned to me and began speaking while he -asws was wiping the pen with the handkerchief of the inkpot for a while and then said, \u2018Here, Ahmad it is for you.\u2019 The Imam -asws gave it to me. I then said, \u2018May Allah -azwj Keep my soul in service for your -asws cause, I feel sad about something that is in my soul.

I wanted to ask your -asws father -asws about it but I did not have the chance.\u2019 \n He -asws asked, \u2018What is it, O Ahmad?\u2019 I said, \u2018My master, it is narrated to us from your holy ancestors -asws that the Prophets -as sleep on their backs, the true believers sleep on their right side, the hypocrites sleep on their left side and Satans sleep on their belly.\u2019 \n He -asws said, \u2018That is how it is.\u2019 I then said, \u2018My master I try to sleep on my right side but I cannot do so.\u2019 He -asws remained calm for a while and then said, \u2018O Ahmad, come close to me.\u2019 I went close to him and he said, \u2018Place your hand under your clothes.\u2019 I did so.

He -asws then took his -asws hand and placed it under my clothes. He -asws used his -asws right hand to wipe my left side and his -asws left hand to wipe my right side three times. Ahmad has said that ever since I have not been able to sleep on my left side:\u2019 [15] \n Shahadat of 11 th Imam -asws : \n Ahmed Bin Ishaq narrates that when he heard of the Shahadat of the 10th Imam -asws he went to Samarra and asked for the whereabouts of the 11th Imam -asws .

Ahmed was told that Mu\u2019tazz Billah l.a had imprisoned Imam -asws . Ahmed says, after bribing the guards, he was able to visit Imam -asws one night. He described the prison as a tunnel under the Khalifa’s home where there was no space to stretch one\u2019s legs or to be able to stand. Ahmed says he cried when he saw Imam -asws\u2019 s condition. Food was only one glass of water and a piece of dry bread a day.

After this, in the six years of the Imam -asws \u2018s Imamate several attempts were made by the Abbasid l.a to extinguish the Light of the Imamate.\u00a0 On the 1st of Rabi-ul Awwal 260 A.H. Mo’tamad l.a arranged for Imam -asws to be poisoned in prison and then sent him home. Imam -asws was in great pain and difficulty for eight days.