AI-Ma’mun called him and he said...

AI-Ma’mun called him and he said, ‘O Amir al-Mu’minin, if he is a worldly man I will prove it.’ He sat in front of Abu Ja’far -asws , Mohammed -asws ibn Ali Al-Reza -asws and began to bray, which made all the people of the house gather around him. He began to play his guitar and sing. He did it for an hour but Abu Ja’far -asws did not pay any attention.

Then he -asws raised his head and said, ‘O you, long-bearded one, be pious before Allah -azwj .’ ‘The narrator has said that the musical instrument fell off his hand and he could not use his hands ever again after that. When al-Ma’mun asked him about his condition he said, ‘When Abu Ja’far -asws expressed his disappointment I was struck with fear from which I have not been able to relieve myself ever since.

[5] ’ The narrator of the Hadith says: ‘Once a group of Shi’a from the suburbs asked permission to meet Imam Mohammed -asws Ibn Ali -asws . The Imam -asws granted them permission and they came in his -asws presence. They asked him -asws thirty thousand questions in one meeting (place). The Imam -asws answered them all and at that time he -asws was ten years old.’ [6] The narrator says in a Hadith: ‘Once I went to see Imam Mohammed -asws Ibn Ali -asws .

He -asws said ‘O Mohammed, has something happened to the family of al-Faraj (the governor of al-Madina)?’ I said, ‘Yes, ‘Umar (a member of al-Faraj family) has died.’ The Imam -asws then said, ‘All thanks and praise belongs to Allah -azwj .’ He said it twenty-four times.

I then said, ‘My master, had I known it could make you -asws this happy I should have come to you -asws running and barefoot with the news (to congratulate you).’ The Imam -asws said, ‘Do you not know what he, may Allah condemn him, once had said to Mohammed -asws ibn Ali -asws , my father?’ I (the narrator) then said, ‘No, I do not know it.’ The Imam -asws said, ‘He spoke to my father -asws about an issue and then said to him -asws , ‘I think you are drunk.’ My father -asws then said, ‘O Lord, You know that I -asws have been fasting this day, so make him feel the wrath of war and the humiliation of captivity.’ By Allah -azwj , in just a few days his belongings were looted and he was captured.

Now he is dead, may Allah deprive him of His -azwj Mercy.