The Imām answered him...

The Imām answered him, saying: I have of it knowledge of what I have personally tested and came to know about its accuracy by experience and by the passage of time in addition to what I was told by my ancestors of what no body afford to be ignorant of, nor excused for leaving it. I shall compile it with an equal portion of what everyone should know.

Surely the Imām, peace be on him, was among the keepers of wisdom and inheritors of the prophets, for he had the knowledge of what the people needed from among the affairs of their religion and their world. As a result the Imām responded to al-Mamūns request and supplied him with al-Risāla al-Dhahabiya fi al-Tibb .

The Explanation and Translation of the Dissertation As this dissertation was of great importance, it was explained and translated by some scholars who have been mentioned in the introduction to it by His Eminence al-Muhaqqiq al-Hujjah al-Sayyid Mahdi al-Khurasāni. That is as follows: Tarjamat al-Alawi lil Tibb al-Radawi by Sayyid Diyā al-Din Abū al-Ridā Fadl Allah b. Ali al-Rāwandi (died 548 A. H.).

Tarjamat al-Dhahabiya bi al-Fārisiya by Fayd Allah Usāra al-Tassturi, a contemporary of Fath Ali Khān. Tarjamat al-Dhahabiya bi al-Fārisiya by Mohammed Bāqir al-Majjlisi (died 1111 A. H.) Ibn Mohammed Hāshim al-Tabib explained it in Persian. Mohammed Sharif b. Mohammed Sādiq al-Khawātūn explained it and mentioned the explanation in his book Hāfiz al-Abbdān . It was explained by Sayyid Abd Allah Shubbar (died 242 A. H.). Mirza Mohammed Hādi b.

Mirza Mohammed Sālih al-Shirāzi explained it and named it Āfiyat al-Bariya fi Sharh al-Dhahabiya . He was a contemporary of Sultān Husayn al-Safawi. Al-Mawlā Mohammed b. al-Hājj Mohammed Hasan al-Mashhadi al-Mudarris. Al-Sayyid Shams al-Din Mohammed Badi al-Radawi al-Mashhadi explained al-Dhahabiya and ended it in 1125 A. H. Mohammed b. Yahyā` explained al-Dhahabiya in Persian. Nawrūz Ali al-Bastāmi explained al-Dhahabiya and mentioned the explanation in his book Firdous al-Tawārikh .

Al-Hajj Mirza Kāzim al-Mūsawi al-Zanjāni (died 1292) explained it and entitled the explanation as al-Mahmūdiya . Al-Sayyid Nasr Allah al-Mūsawi al-Arūmi explained it in Persian and named the explanation as al-Tibb al-Radawi . Maqbūl Ahmed explained it in Urdū and named the explanation as al-Dhahabiya fi Assrār al-Ulūm al-Tabiiya , printed in Hayder Ābād.