He told the servant: ‘Tell me the truth about the dates or I will kill you.

He told the servant: ‘Tell me the truth about the dates or I will kill you.’ The servant said: ‘O commander of the faithful! I delivered the dates to Musa -asws Ibn Ja’far -asws and delivered your greetings to him -asws and stood right in front of him -asws . He asked me for a toothpick. I brought him -asws one. He put the toothpick into the dates and ate them one by one. Then the dog came there. He -asws placed the tooth pick in one of the dates and threw it for the dog. The dog ate it.

He -asws continued eating the rest of the dates. O commander of the faithful! Then what you see happened.’ Harun Ar-Rashid said: ‘We did not gain any benefits from (trying to poison) Musa -asws . We fed him -asws the best of our dates, wasted our poison and got our dog killed. There is no solution for Musa Ibn Ja’far.’ Then our Master Musa -asws called in Mosayyab three days before his -asws death. Mosayyab was his prison guard.

The Imam -asws said: ‘O Mosayyab!’ He said: ‘Yes, my Master?’ The Imam -asws said: ‘I will be going to Medina, the town of my grandfather (i.e. Rasool Allah -saww ), in order to instruct my son Ali Al-Reza -asws according to what my -asws father -asws had instructed me -asws to do, and establish him -asws as my -asws Trustee and Successor, and deliver my -asws orders to him -asws .’ Mosayyab said: ‘O my Master!

How do you order me to open the doors for you while there are also other prison guards with me?’ The Imam -asws said: ‘O Mosayyab! Your belief in the Honourable the Exalted God -azwj regarding us -asws is weak.’ He said: ‘No, my Master -asws !’ The Imam -asws said: ‘Then wait.’ He said: ‘O my Master -asws !

Please pray for me to get more firmly established in faith.’ Then the Imam -asws said: ‘I invoke the Honourable the Exalted God -azwj by His Great Name – by which Asif had invoked Him -azwj , and magically brought Bilquees’ (queen of Saba’s) Throne there and placed it in front of Solomon -as before the wink of an eye – to bring me (Al-Kazim) and my son Ali Al-Reza -asws together in Medina.’ Mosayyab then heard Imam Al-Kazim -asws pray and suddenly he -asws was no longer where he -asws was standing to pray.

As he was standing there, he saw him -asws reappear there again, and tied the chains to his -asws own feet. At that time he fell in prostration to God -azwj to thank Him -azwj for this Divine Knowledge, i.e. the recognition of the Divine Leader. Imam Al-Kazim -asws told: ‘O Mosayyab! Raise your head.