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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Life of Imam Ali Bin Muhammad Al-hadi His Knowledge and Sciences Allah had dilated the chest of Imam al-Hadi (a.s.) for knowledge and expanded his heart for sciences. Secrets of facts and obscurities of things were uncovered for him with no request or effort.

People talked about the vast knowledge he had that no one at all was equal to him in his amazing, scientific treasures which covered all sciences of Hadith, jurisprudence, philosophy, theology, and other branches of knowledge. Scholars and jurisprudents often referred to his opinion in complicated and mysterious questions on the verdicts of the Islamic Sharia.

Al-Mutawakkil, the Abbasid caliph, who was the bitterest enemy of Imam al-Hadi (a.s.) and of his fathers, referred to the opinion of Imam al-Hadi (a.s.) in the questions which the ulama of his age disagreed on and he preferred the opinion of Imam al-Hadi (a.s.) to the opinions of the rest of ulama. We shall discuss this point in the coming chapters.

Anyhow, we shall talk in brief about the knowledge and sciences transmitted from him and his maxims and literatures that dealt with different educational and social matters. Hadith The traditions transmitted from the Prophet (a.s.) and the infallible imams of his progeny were not limited to legal verdicts and religious questions, but they included all sides of life. They had established the bases of morals, disciplines, good behaviors, and other intellectual and social issues.

Many traditions were transmitted from Imam al-Hadi (a.s.) that some of them were narrated from the Prophet (a.s.) and some were narrated from his infallible fathers (a.s.). His traditions from the Prophet (a.s.) Imam al-Hadi (a.s.) narrated a group of traditions from his fathers who narrated them one by one from the Prophet (a.s.).

Here are some of them: Al-Mas’oudi said, “Muhammad bin al-Faraj told me in Jirjan…that Abu Du’amah said, ‘I visited Ali bin Muhammad bin Ali bin Musa during his illness that led to his death and when I wanted to leave, he said to me, ‘O Abu Du’amah, you have a right on me.