- ID Book
- PUBLISHER’S PREFACE
- A Foreword
- DEDICATION
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- HIS QUALITIES
- HIS QUALITIES
- His Renunciation the World
- His Munificence
- His Entertaining Guests
- His Releasing Slaves
- His Knowledge of all Languages
- His Prophecies
- His Acts of Worship and Reverential Fear
- His Supplication during the Prayer for giving Thanks (salāt al-Shukr)
- The Imām uses Supplication as Weapon
- Concealing Supplication
- His Amulet (hirz)
- Some of his Supplications
- Footnote
- HIS QUALITIES
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- UNDER THE CARE OF HIS FATHER
- A. His Scientific Talents
- B. His Acts of Worship and his reverential Fear
- His Asceticism
- His Clemency
- His Munificence
- His Helping the Distressed
- The Imām is arrested
- His Imprisonment in Basrah
- Hārūn orders the Imām to be killed
- His Imprisonment in Baghdad
- The Imām’s Commandments
- The Prison of al-Sindi
- Footnote
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- HIS WORKS
- His Dissertation on Islamic Law
- His Golden Medical Dissertation
- His Golden Medical Dissertation
- A. The Cause of Writing it
- B.The Explanation and Translation of the Dissertation
- C. Al-Ma’mūn praises the Golden Medical Dissertation
- The Text of the Golden Medical Dissertation
- main organs and systems of the body
- some organs of man’s body
- necessity of avoiding extravagance in food
- what man must have and avoid during the seasons of the year
- Describing the way of preparing a lawful drink
- the stages of man’s life span
- he warned against bringing together various kinds of foods
- health of man’s organs
- The Sahifa of al-Ridā
- Footnote
- CHAPTER ONE
- CHAPTER TWO
- CHAPTER THREE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- CHAPTER FIVE
- CHAPTER SIX
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- CHAPTER NINE
- CHAPTER TEN
- CHAPTER VII
- DOCTRINAL RESEARCHES
- DOCTRINAL RESEARCHES
- The Unity of Allah
- Negation of the Like from Allah
- The Essence of Allah’s Oneness
- The Power of Allah
- The Great Creator and His Attributes are Eternal
- The Creator Far Above Space
- Seeing Allah is Impossible
- Authorization and Compulsion are Invalid
- Confuting the Views of the Qadariya
- The Imāmate
- Footnote
- DOCTRINAL RESEARCHES
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- REASONS FOR SOME RELIGIOUS PRECEPTS AND OTHERS
- REASONS FOR SOME RELIGIOUS PRECEPTS AND OTHERS
- Theological Questions
- The Causes of the Religious Precepts
- The Causes of the Religious Precepts
- The Ghusl of Janāba
- The ghusl for the two ‘Īds and Friday
- Ghusl al-Maiyit
- Ghusl for urine and feces is not obligatory
- The Acts of Wudū’
- The Adhān of Prayer
- The Phrases which make up the Prayer
- The Friday prayer:
- the traveler's prayers are shortened
- The Prayer for the Dead
- Footnote
- The Causes of some other Religious Precepts
- REASONS FOR SOME RELIGIOUS PRECEPTS AND OTHERS
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- THE TIME OF THE IMĀM
- The Economic Life
- The Economic Life
- The Revenues of the State
- Al-Ma'mūn takes Bourān in Marriage
- Heavy Taxes imposed on Inheritances
- Cruelty in taking Land Taxes
- The Inheritance of the 'Abbāsid Kings
- The Muslims hate the 'Abbāsid Government
- Discords and Popular Revolts
- Abū al-Sarāyā joins the Revolt
- Abū al-Sarāyā meets Mohammed
- The Declaration of the Revolt
- The Death of the Leader Mohammed
- Severe Punishments on the 'Alawides
- The Letter of al-Khawārizmi
- The Wāqifities
- The Imām condemns the Wāqifites' doctrines
- The Problem of creating the Qur'ān
- Fabricating Lies against the Imāms
- Footnote
- CHAPTER XIV
- IN THE TIME OF AL-RASHĪD, AL-AMĪN, AND AL-MA’MŪN
- IN THE TIME OF AL-RASHĪD, AL-AMĪN, AND AL-MA’MŪN
- Hārūn al-Rashid
- Hārūn al-Rashid’s Attitude toward Imām al-Ridā
- Yahyā informs Hārūn al-Rashid of the Imām
- The Imām’s House is attacked
- Sufyān’s Letter to Hārūn
- The Government of Al-Amin
- His deposing Al-Ma’mūn
- Al-Rashid is Responsible for these Events
- Destructive Battles
- Baghdad is besieged
- Al-Amin is murdered
- The Government of al-Ma’mūn
- Al-Ma’mūn’s Qualities
- Inclination to Amusement
- Footnote
- His affecting Shiism
- His affecting Shiism
- The Traditionalists and the Theologians keeps silent
- His Entrusting the Imām with Regency
- The Reasons for his Pretending Shiism
- The Reasons for his Pretending Shiism
- His Praising Imām 'Ali, the Commander of the Faithful
- His Disparaging Mu'āwiya
- Al-Ma'mūn
- The Traditionalists
- The First Proof
- The Second Proof
- The Third Proof
- The Fourth Proof
- The Fifth Proof
- The Sixth Proof
- The Seventh Proof
- The Eighth Proof
- The Ninth Proof
- The Tenth Proof
- The Eleventh Proof
- The Twelfth Proof
- Al-Ma'mūn's questions
- Footnote
- IN THE TIME OF AL-RASHĪD, AL-AMĪN, AND AL-MA’MŪN
- CHAPTER XV
- IMAM AL-RIDĀ AND REGENCY
- Al-Ma’mūn’s Motives
- Al-Fadl’s Letter to the Imām
- Al-Ma’mūn sends Messengers to the Imām
- The Imām says Farewell to the Grave of the Prophet
- To Khurasān
- Al-Hadith al-Dhahabi
- To Tūs
- Al-Ma’mūn asks the Imām to undertake the Caliphate
- Al-Ma’mūn asks the Imām to undertake Regency
- The Textual Document of Regency
- The Conditions of the Imām
- The Contents of what the Imām has written
- The Pledge of Allegiance to the Imām
- Al-Ma’mūn, Imām al-Ridā, Al-‘Abbās deliver Speech
- Persons abstain from pledging Allegiance to the Imām
- The Imām marries al-Ma’mūn’s Daughter
- The Pledge of Allegiance to the Imām in all Cities
- Persons criticize the Imām
- The Indignant with al-Ma’mūn and ...
- Al-Ma’mūn’s Letter to the ‘Abbāsids
- Footnote
- CHAPTER XVI
- THE AFFAIRS OF THE IMĀM IN KHURASĀN
- Poets visit the Imām
- The Imām awards a Prize to Di‘bil
- The Imām awards a Prize to Ibrāhim
- The Immortal Poem of Di‘bil
- The Text of the Poem
- The Imām spends all what he has
- The Imām’s Sermon on Allah’s Oneness
- Al-Ma’mūn asks the Imām for good Poetry
- The Imām’s Letter to his Son al-Jawād
- The letter of Praise and Condition
- Al-Ma’mūn and Imām al-Ridās' Signature
- With his Brother Zay
- With His Sister Fātima
- The ‘Īd Prayer
- The Imām’s Supplication in Asking for Water
- The Imām’s Supplication
- The Imām’s Sermon
- Admonition and Warning
- Al-Ma’mūn fears the Imām
- The Imām does not praise al-Ma’mūn
- The Imām refuses to appoint Governors
- The Imām predicts that he will not enter Baghdad
- The Imām and al-Fadl Bin Sahl
- A false Suggestion for assassinating al- Ma’mūn
- His informing against the Imām
- His Opposing the Imām
- Footnote
- EPILOG
- EPILOG
- The Imām gives Sincere Advice to al-Ma’mūn
- Al-Ma’mūn decides to rerun to Baghdad
- The Public Bath-house of Sarkhas
- The Imām is assassinated
- Irregular Statements
- To the Shelter Garden
- Al-Ma’mūn’s pretense
- Concealing the Death of the Imām
- The Body of the Imām is escorted
- At his Final Resting Place
- Al-Ma’mūn stays at the Grave of the Imām
- Al-Ma’mūn and Herthama
- The Age of the Imām
- Poets lament for the Imām
- The Excellence of the Visitation to the Imām’s Holy Shrine
- Footnote
- Ziyaarat of Imam Ali bin Moosa al Riza(a.s)
The life of Imām 'Ali Bin Mūsā al-Ridā
ID Book
The life of Imām
'Ali Bin Mūsā al-Ridā
by: Bāqir Sharif al-Qarashi
Translated by
Jāsim al-Rasheed
PUBLISHER’S PREFACE
Some years ago, while I was paying a visitation to the Holy Shrine of the eighth Imām, my master, ‘Ali b. Mūsā al-Ridā, peace be on him, I asked myself: “Is it possible for me to find favor with my Imāms, the guides and rightly-guided ones who have said in their traditions: ‘May Allah have mercy on him who enlivens our affairs,’?” So it came to my mind that I had to find a book on the life of the eighth Imām in order to translate it into English. After I had asked the advice of some professors, I chose the book entitled the Life of Imām al-Ridā by Shaykh Bāqir Sharif al-Qarashi. Then I gave the book to Mr. Jāsim al-Rasheed in order to translate it into English, and he agreed to this suggestion; I thank him, and praise belongs to Allah.
After an arduous effort and diligent striving, this great book has been translated into English, that it may be an important reference before those who desire to study and to inquire into the lives of the Imāms of the ahl al-Bayt, peace be on them. We ask Allah, the Great and Almighty, to help us enliven more works about the ahl al-Bayt, peace be on them, and on Tashayyu‘; surely He is powerful over everything.
In the Name of Allah the Merciful, the Compassionate
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