"I swear you the one who has given all these capabilities, tell me who are you?

"I swear you the one who has given all these capabilities, tell me who are you?" He said, "I am Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Musa (a.s.)." The news spread and it reached Muhammad ibn 'Abd alMalik al-Zayyat. He sent his people who arrested me and tied me up in chains and transferred me to Iraq." The narrator has said, "I asked him to send a petition to Muhammad ibn 'Abd al- Malik.

He did so explaining the whole story but the answer to his petition bearing the signature of Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik said, "He should ask the one who took him from al-Sham to al-Kufa, then to al-Madina then to al-Makka then back to al-Sham to release him from prison also." I felt very sad for him with a great deal of sympathy. I tried to cheer him up and asked him to exercise patience.

Next early morning when went to see him I found people from the army, the chief of the security men and the prison guard and the crowd of people around and in the area. I asked, "What is thematter?" They said, "The prisoner from al-Sham who had proclaimed himself as a prophet has disappeared and no one knows if the earth has swallowed him or the birds have snatched him away." H 1240, Ch.

122, h 2 Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Ash'ari has said that a shaykh from our people called 'Abdallah ibn Razyn narrated to me the following. "I lived in al-Madina of the Messenger of Allah. Abu Ja'far (a.s.) would come every day to the mosque at noon time. He would enter the compound and would turn to the shrine of the Messenger of Allah and offer his greeting of peace. He would then turn to the house of Fatima (a.s.), take off his shoes, stand up and pray.

Satan induced temptation in my heart and said, "when he (the Imam (a.s.) would come go and pick up from the dust on which he has just stepped." I waited that day for that purpose. When it was noontime he came on his donkey but he did not dismount at the place that he would do so before. He came and dismounted on the rock in front the door of the Mosque. He then entered the Mosque, turned to the Shrine of the Messenger of Allah and offered his greeting of peace to the Messenger of Allah.

his disembark." The narrator has said that then he then turned to the place where he would pray. He did the exact thing for several days.