Allah -azwj has Exacted revenge from him and He -azwj...

Allah -azwj has Exacted revenge from him and He -azwj Continues to exact revenge for His friends from His -azwj enemies.’’ [7] ‘Once I prayed with Abu Ja’far -asws in the Masjid of al-Musayyib, He -asws led the prayer with us and for the direction of Makkah he -asws stood up facing straight. The Imam -asws also has said that a berry tree that was in the Masjid had dried up and had no leaves. The Imam -asws asked for water and prepared himself -asws under that tree for prayer.

The berry tree came alive with leaves and fruits in that year.’ [8] The narrator of the Hadith says: ‘Imam Al-Reza -asws (8 th Imam -asws ) passed away and owed me four thousand Dirhams. I said to myself, ‘My money is lost.’ Mohammed Ibn Ali -asws (9 th Imam -asws ) sent me a message to meet him -asws the next day and bring with me a balance and weighing stones. I went to see him -asws and he said, ‘(my father) Ali Reza -asws has passed away.

Did he -asws owe you four thousand Dirhams?’ I said, ‘Yes, he -asws did.’ The Imam -asws then lifted up his -asws prayer rug on which he -asws was sitting and there were the Dinars that he -asws gave to me.’’ (The balance and weighing stones were to weigh the money.) [9] The narrator of the Hadith says: ‘Mohammed -asws Ibn Ali -asws was martyred at the age of 25 years, three months and twelve days. The Imam -asws left this world on a Tuesday on the sixth of Zil-Hajj in A.H. 220.

Our 9 th Imam -asws lived nineteen years less twenty five days after his father.’ [10] Imam Mohammed -asws Al-Taqi -asws ‘s martyrdom After Ma’mun -la ’s death, Mutasim Billa -la , within the Abbasid family, took over the reins of government in the month of Shaban. As soon as coming to power, Mutasim -la started planning to poison Imam Taqi -asws , following the footsteps of his predecessors.

He secretly convinced umul fazal -la , who was Ma’mun’s daughter (an Abbasid), to poison Imam Taqi -asws . One day she presented poisoned grapes to Imam -asws and insisted Imam -asws to eat at least some. When Imam -asws had eaten those grapes, she realised the consequences and started crying. Imam -asws asked her: ‘Why are you crying now? God -azwj will never forgive you and you will never escape His -azwj wrath.

You would soon see its signs through such a bad syndrome that you will never recover. She suffered from an ulcer, which proved untreatable, she spent all her wealth on its cure but got killed by it in the end.