his like will not be seen again!
his like will not be seen again!” He says: “(Hearing this), Abu ‘Abdillah (Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq a.s .) was silent for a while; then said: ‘Allah, the Mighty, the Great, has said: “Verily, whosoever gives in sadaqah even a portion of a date, I make it grow for him as one of you brings up his colt, until I make it (big) for him like the (mountain of) Uhud;”” Then I came to my companions and said: ‘I never saw anything more wonderful than it.
We used to regard as great the words, “The Messenger of Allah (S) said” when spoken by Abu Ja’far (Imam Muhammad al-Baqir a.s.) without the intermediate links: and (now) Abu ‘Abdillah (Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq a.s.) has said to me, ‘‘Allah, the Mighty, the Great, has said” --without the Intermediate link.”[^3] So when our Imams spoke, their connecting link upto Allah Ta’ala was known and understood by their listeners: and they had no need to give those sacred names every now and then.
That is why a poet had said: “If you want to choose for yourself a madh-hab Which will protect you from the Fire on the Day of Resurrection. Then leave aside the opinions of so and so and this and that And love and follow those people whose narration and hadith (runs as follows): “Has narrated it our Grandfather from Jibra’il from (Allah) the Creator”.
It is such a holy and blessed link that if it was uttered for some reasons by our Imams it was treated as a precious treasure of spiritual benefits. Golden Link A lot of muhadditheen have narrated that when our 8th Imam, Abu ‘I-Hasan ‘Ali Ar-Rdha (peace be on him) was passing from Nishapur on his way to Marv, two famous muhadditheen, Abu Zar’ah ar -Razi and Muhammad ibn Aslam at Tusi met him together with innumerable scholars and students of fiqh, hadilh and dirayah.
The two muhadditheen said: “O Great Sayyid, son of the Sayyids who were Imams, we request you by the haqq of your purified forefathers and venerated progenitors that you show us your blessed face and narrate to us a hadith through your fathers from your grandfather, Muhammad (S), that we should remember you by it:’ The Imam stopped his mule, and ordered his servants to raise the shade from his howdah; and thus the people were delighted to see his blessed features; he had two strands reaching his shoulders.
All the people of various categories stood there looking at him, some were crying, others weeping, yet others putting their cheeks on the earth and some kissing the hooves of the mule.