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THE LIFE OF IMAM

'ALI BIN MUSA AL-RIDHA
BY

Baqir Sharif al-Qarashi

Translated by

Jasim al-Rasheed

PUBLISHER'S PREFACE	43
A FOREWORD BY HIS EMINENCE,	45
IMA`M AL-SAYYID 'ABD AL-A'LA` AL-SABZWA`RI, MAY HIS BLESSINGS LAST	45
DEDICATION	46
INTRODUCTION	47
A. TIBB (DISSERTATION) OF IMA`M AL-RIDA`	52
B. IMA`M AL-RIDA`'S MUSNAD	53
C. JAWA`M' AL-SHRI'A	53

CHAPTER I

THE GREAT BABY	59
HIS FATHER	59
HIS MOTHER	59
Her Name	61
Her Reverential Fear	62
THE GREAT BABY	63
His Nicknames	64
1. Al-Rida`	64
A. Al-Ma'mu`n	64
B. Ima`m Musa	65
2. Al-Sa`bir	65
3. Al-Zaki	65
4. Al-Wafi	65
5. Sira`jj Allah	65
6. Qurrat 'Ayn al-Mu'minïn	66
7. Makkyadat al-Mulhidïn	66
8. Al-Siddïq	66
9. Al-Fa`dil	66
His Kunya	66
1. Abu` al-Hasan	67
2. Abu` Bakr	67
The Year of his Birth	67
His Characteristics	68
His Solemnity	69
The Inscription of his Ring	70
His Childhood	70
His Behavior	71

CHAPTER II

HIS QUALITIES	73
HIS RENUNCIATION THE WORLD	76
HIS MUNIFICENCE	77
HIS ENTERTAINING GUESTS	80
HIS RELEASING SLAVES	80
HIS KINDNESS TO SLAVES	80
HIS KNOWLEDGE	81
HIS KNOWLEDGE OF ALL LANGUAGES	82
HIS PROPHECIES	83
HIS ACTS OF WORSHIP AND REVERENTIAL FEAR	87
HIS SUPPLICATION DURING HIS PERSONAL PRAYER (QUNU`T)	91
HIS SUPPLICATION DURING THE PRAYER FOR	92
GIVING THANKS (SALA`T AL-SHUKR)	92
THE IMA`M USES SUPPLICATION AS WEAPON	93
Supplication is the Weapon of the Prophets	94
Concealing Supplication	94
Slowness in Answering Supplication	94
His Amulet (hirz)	95
SOME OF HIS SUPPLICATIONS	96

CHAPTER III

IMPRESSIONS OF HIS CHARACTER	103
1. IMA`M AL-KA`ZIM	103
2. AL-MA'MU`N	104
3. IBRAHIM BIN AL-'ABBAS AL-SAWLI	106
4. ABU` AL-SALT AL-HARAWI	106
5. AL-RAJA`' BIN ABU` AL-DHHA`K	106
6. AL-SHAYKH AL-MUFID	107
7. AL-WA`QIDI	107
8. JAMAL AL-DIN	108
9. YOUSIF B. TAGHRI BARDI	108
10. IBN MAJA	108
11. IBN HAJAR	109
12. AL-YAFI'I	109
13. 'AMIR AL-TA'I	109
14. ONE OF THE IMA`MS	110
15. HA`SHIM MA'RU`F	110
16. AL-DHAHABI	111
17. MAHMU`D BIN WIHAYB	111
18. 'ARIF THA`MIR	111
19. MOHAMMED BIN SHA`KIR AL-KUTUBI	112
20. 'ABD AL-'AL	112
21. YOUSIF AL-NABAHA`NI	112
22. 'ABD AL-QA`DIR AHMED	113
23. YOUSIF BIN OGHLA`	113
24. AL-ZARGALI	114
25. MOHAMMED JAWA`D FADL ALLAH	114
26. AHMED AL-KHAZRAJI	115
27. ONE OF THOSE WHO SHOW LOVE FOR HIM	115
28. AL-SHABRA`WI	115
29. ABU` NU'A`S	116
30. DI'BIL AL-KHAZA`'I	118
31. AL-SA`HIB BIN 'ABBA`D	118
32. IBN AL-HAJJA`J	119
33. 'ABD ALLAH BIN AL-MUBA`RAK	120
34. AL-SAWLI	120
35. IBN HAMMA`D	120
36. AL-ARBALI	120

CHAPTER IV

UNDER THE CARE OF HIS FATHER	123
A. HIS SCIENTIFIC TALENTS	124
B. HIS ACTS OF WORSHIP AND HIS REVERENTIAL FEAR	124
3. HIS ASCETICISM	126
4. HIS CLEMENCY	127
HIS MUNIFICENCE	129
6. HIS HELPING THE DISTRESSED	129
THE IMA`M WITH HA`RU`N	131
The Ima`m is arrested	131
His Imprisonment in Basrah	133
Harun orders the Ima`m to be killed	134
His Imprisonment in Baghdad	134
HIS TEXTUAL NOMINATION FOR THE IMA`MATE OF AL-RIDA`	136
1. Mohammed Bin Islma`'ïl	137
2. 'Ali Bin Yaqtïn	137
3. Na'ïm Bin Qa`bu`s	137
4. Da`wud Bin Kuthayr	138
5. Sulayma`n Bin Hafs	138
6. 'Abd Allah al-Ha`shimi	138
7. 'Abd Allah Bin Marhu`m	139
8. 'Abd Allah Bin al-Harth	139
9. Haydar Bin Ayyu`b	139
10. Al-Husayn Bin Bashïr	140
11. Ja'far Bin Khalaf	140
12. Nasr Bin Qa`bu`s	140
13. Mohammed Bin Sina`n	141
THE IMA`M'S COMMANDMENTS	142
THE PRISON OF AL-SINDI	142
IMAM MU`SA` SENDS A LETTER TO HA`RU`N	142
HARUN AL-RASHID ORDERS THE IMA`M TO BE ASSASSINATED	143
THE IMA`M JOINS THE MOST HIGH COMRADE	143
THE POLICE INVESTIGATE THE EVENT	145
THE IMA`M IS PUT ON THE BRIDGE	146
THE HORRIBLE ANNOUNCEMENT	147
SULAYMA`N PREPARES THE IMA`M FOR BURIAL	147
IMAM AL-RIDA` UNDERTAKES THE GREAT LEADERSHIP	149
HIS TRAVEL TO BASRAH	149
THE IMA`M TRAVELS TO KU`FA	155

CHAPTER V

HIS DEBATES AND HIS ARGUMENTS	157
1. 'UMRA`N AL-SA`BI'I'S QUESTIONS	159
THE DEBATE IS BEING POSTPONED	168
THE DEBATE IS BEING RESUMED	169
AL-SA`BI'I BECOMES MUSLIM	174
MOHAMMED FEARS FOR THE IMA`M	175
THE IMA`M HONORS 'UMRA`N	176
THE QUESTIONS OF SULAYMAN AL-MARU`ZI	177
THE IMAM DEBATES WITH ABU QURRA	190
HIS DEBATE WITH THE CATHOLIC	197
THE IMA`M DEBATES WITH THE HIGH RABBI	208
THE IMA`M DEBATES WITH THE HINDU HIGH PRIEST	212
THE IMA`M DEBATES WITH AN ATHEIST	214
THE IMA`M DEBATES WITH 'ALI BIN AL-JAHM	217
AL-MU'MU`N QUESTIONS IMA`M AL-RIDA`	222
AL-MA'MU`N LAUDS THE IMA`M'S TALENTS	232
IBN AL-SIKIT'S QUESTIONS	233
THE IMA`M DEBATES A MAN	234
THE IMA`M'S DEBATE CONCERNING THE PROPHET'S FAMILY	234

CHAPTER VI

HIS WORKS	249
1. HIS DISSERTATION ON ISLAMIC LAW	249
1. The acts of wudu`'	252
2. Things that Invalidate wudu`'	253
1. The Obligatory Ghusls	253
A. Ghusl of jana`ba	253
B. Ghusl of hayd	254
D. Ghusl for touching a corpse	254
The Recommended Ghusls	254
Group of precepts regarding the hajj	264
2. HIS GOLDEN MEDICAL DISSERTATION	277
A. The Cause of Writing it	278
The Explanation and Translation of the Dissertation	279
3. Al-Ma'mu`n praises the Golden Medical Dissertation	281
A. Its Medical Contents	283
2. His Studying it	283
3. His Showing it to the Physicians	283
THE TEXT OF THE GOLDEN MEDICAL DISSERTATION	283
A. The Heart	285
2. The Nerves	286
3. The Brain	286
4. The Hands and the Legs	287
5. The Ear	287
6. The Eye	288
The Characteristics of the month of April (Nisan) by Imam	293
3. THE SAHIFA OF AL-RIDA`	313
CHAPTER ONE	314
ON INVOCATION OF ALLAH	314
CHAPTER TWO	321
ON THE ADHAN	321
CHAPTER TWO	324
ON URGING TO PERFORMING THE FIVE PRAYERS AND THE QUALITY OF THE PRAYER FOR THE DEAD	324
CHAPTER FOUR	328
ON THE EXCELLENCE OF AHL AL-BAYT, AND IT IS IN THREE PARTS	328
Part one is on the Excellence of 'Ali Bin Abu` Ta`lib (a.s):	328
PART TWO	333
ON THE EXCELLENCE OF FATIMA (A.S)	333
Part Three	337
On the Excellence of al-Hasan and al-Husayn, their Birth, and ahl al-Bayt (a.s) in General	337
CHAPTER FIVE	346
ON THE EXCELLENCE OF THE BELIEVER, GOOD MANNERS, AND THE EXCELLENCE OF HIM WHOSE NAME IS MOHAMMED OR AHMED	346
CHAPTER SIX	351
ON MENTIONING FOODS, FRUIT, AND OINTMENTS	351
CHAPTER SEVEN	357
ON OBEYING THE PARENTS AND TIGHTENING THE BONDS OF KIN	357
CHAPTER EIGHT	359
ON WARNING AGAINST CHEATING, BACKBITING, AND TATTLING	359
CHAPTER NINE	360
THE EXCELLENCE OF INVASION AND JIHAD	360
CHAPTER TEN	361
MISCELLANEOUS TRADITIONS	361
AL-FIQH AL-RADAWI	366

Index

THE LIFE OF IMAM

BY

Baqir Sharif al-Qarashi

Translated by

Jasim al-Rasheed