Hazrat Imam Ali Raza
a.s
Asalamoalaka ya Imam Ali Raza a.s.
Name -
Ali
Title -
Ar-Reza
Kunyat -
Abul Hasan
Born -
Thursday 11th of Zilqad 148 A.H. , at Medina
Father's Name -
Moosa ibn Ja'far
Mother's Name -
Ummul Baneen Najma
Died -
At the age of 55 years, at Mashad in Khorasan, on Tuesday, 17th Safar
203 AH. Poisoned by Mamoon the Abbaside Caliph
Buried -
in Mashad, Iran .
Hazrat Imam Ali Raza (a.s), a brief look into his Life
His Parents & Birth:
HIS mother was a slave of Umme Hamida (6th Imam's wife). When the 7th Imam had gone to buy her from the slave trader he was told that when he was coming to Medina from Marrakesh a pious Christian lady had told him that Bibi Suttana was a very special slave who would bear a son who would spread the true word from the East to the West.
Umme Hamida saw the Prophet (S.A.W.) in her dream telling her to give Bibi Suttana to Imam Musa Al-Kadhim (a.s.) which she did. The 6th Imam used to tell his companions to await the birth of his grandson who he addressed as Alim e Ale Muhammad. He was one of the three Imams who did Jihad with their knowledge. (The other two were the 5th and 6th Imams). Imam Ali Ar-Ridha (a.s.) was born one month after the martyrdom of his grandfather Imam Ja'fer As-Sadiq (a.s.) He was born during the reign of the Harun Al-Rashid who poisoned his father.
His father was Imam Musa Al-Kadhim (a.s.)
His Titles:
Ar-Ridha - Angels, Prophets, Aimma, believers and even the enemies of Ahlul-Bayt accepted him. So much so that Mamun Rashid had to offer him to be the heir apparent (to be the leader after him).
Imam Zamin-e-Thamin - Thamin means eight. Zamin means safety and security. One of the incidents attributed to this title is that one day Imam was going through the market place with a few followers when he saw a hunter about to kill a (struggling) female deer. Imam told the hunter to let the deer go as she wanted to feed her two young ones who were in the forest and that she would return to the hunter who could then kill her. The hunter thought that Imam was making a fool out of him. Imam stood in surety and the hunter allowed the deer to go. A little while later the deer returned with her young ones and asked Imam to look after them. We believe that if anyone who is going on a journey goes under the security of Imam he/she will return safely.
Gharibul-Ghurabaa (One who is a stranger i.e. he is away from his hometown). Imam was far away from his home and family and he is the only Imam who is buried out of Iraq and Hejaz (Saudi Arabia).
Alim e Aali Mohammed - The learned one from Aale Muhammad. This name was given to him by his grandfather (Imam Ja'fer As-Sadiq (a.s.)).
Life And Works
Imam played a significant role in the educating of Muslims. Setting examples of education through one's own conduct.
He saw a short period of the rule of Harun Rashid who had murdered his father. Harun Rashid also attempted to kill Imam Ali Ridha (a.s.) but was unsuccessful. After Harun's death, his sons, Amin and Mamun fought for power. Mamun won with Amin being killed.
Immediately after becoming the Khalifa Mamun, according to the tradition started by Muawiya, had to name a successor (heir apparent) . Mamun summoned Imam to come to his capital Marw sending a messenger to Medina to bring the Imam to him and specifying a certain route and sending a security force . The route he chose was not the normal route where, a lot of Shia's lived. On the way they entered a town called Nishapur. There the scholars and people requested Imam to tell them a hadith. Imam related the following hadith which is known as the hadith of the golden chain.
"My father Musa Al-Kadhim narrated to me from his father Ja'fer As-Sadiq from his father Mohammed Al-Baqir from his father Ali Zaynul Abedeen from his father , the martyr of Kerbala from his father Ali ibn Abu Talib saying :"My loved one, and the pleasure of my eyes, the Messenger of God (S.A.W.) told me once, that Jibrail told him from the Lord "The kalima of LA ILAHA ILLALLAH is my fort; whoever said it would enter my fort; and whoever entered my fort was safe from my punishment".
Those who wrote down the hadith numbered twenty thousand. People started reciting the Kalima when Imam put his hand up and continued: "Yes, the kalima is Allah's fort. It will provide you with excellent safety but on one condition only and that is that you obey and follow us - the holy Imams in the progeny of the holy Prophet (S.A.W.). On reaching Marw Mamun forced Imam to accept the heir apparency (To be the leader after him). Imam accepted unwillingly.
Why did Mamun want Imam to be the heir apparent ?
1. To please the Shia public opinion in Khurasan and the surrounding areas which would make it easier for Mamun to be accepted by the people there and a victory over his brother Amin.
2. To avoid clashes with those like the Alawids who had always threatened the Abbasids with various uprisings.
Mamun celebrated the occasion of Imam's acceptance of heir apparency. Imam only gave a short sermon saying after he had praised Allah "We have over you a right appointed by the Prophet, and you have a right over us as well; so if you fulfil your duty towards us, we will be bound to perform our duty towards you".
Mamun ordered a new coin to be minted with Imam Ar-Ridha's name on it. Imam however knew that this would not last long.
Soon Mamun put Imam under constant watch. Imam used the position to spread the true word of Islam. Mamun's court was visited by thousands and Imam made an impact on their minds. His ahadith were widely recorded. Mamun who was fond of scholarly discussions would arrange for intellectuals from Greece, Italy , India etc. to come to his court and hold discussions with the Imam.
One day a Jewish scholar was brought by Mamun to debate with Imam. The scholar asked: "How can you accept Muhammad to be the prophet of God when he showed no miracles ? "
Imam replied : "The greatest of miracles of Allah is the human mind. It allows ideas to be thought through and reasoned out. Islam appeals to human reason. Man must accept God through reason and not through miracles ".
The scholar did not have much to say after that answer.
Imam also encouraged greatly the remembrance of Imam Husayn (a.s.)
Mamun was never sincere in his behaviour towards Imam. Seeing the Imam's popularity increase disturbed him immensely especially after the occasion when he requested Imam to lead Eid prayers as he was not well. He saw that even before Imam had reached the mosque the people had lined the streets and were reciting takbir and it seemed that even the walls of Marw were doing the same. He had to ask Imam to go back that day.
There are various accounts of how Imam Ali Ar-Ridha (a.s.) was killed by Mamun. One of them is that Imam used to like grapes and Mamun offered Imam poisoned grapes. Imam was ill and died after two days on the 29th Safar 203 a.h.
Imam Ali Ar-Ridha (a.s.) died in Toos in a village called Sanabad. He had only one son, Imam Muhammad At-Taqi (a.s.), who succeeded him as the 9th Imam.
Mamun ordered Imam's grave to be dug near his father Harun's and when it was being dug he said that Imam had told him that when his grave would be dug water and fish would appear underneath. Just as Imam had said when they finished digging a spring of water appeared with fish in it and then disappeared. Imam is buried there at what is today called Mashhad in IRAN.
Harzat Imam Ali
Raza a.s Miracle's Healing
The life of Imām
'Ali Bin Mūsā al-Ridāby: Bāqir Sharif al-Qarashi
Translated by
Jāsim al-Rasheed
(5)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
(6)
CHAPTER II
(7)
CHAPTER III
(8)
CHAPTER IV
(9)
CHAPTER V
Al-Mu'mūn questions Imām al-Ridā
(10)
CHAPTER VI
2. His Golden Medical Dissertation
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER FOUR
(11)
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER VII
(12)
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
(13)
(14)
(15)
100. It is Permissible to marry a Woman along with the Slave-wife of her Father
(16)
(17)
CHAPTER X
(18)
The Reason for the Performance of the Prayer for Unusual Natural Events (Âyāt)
(19)
(20)
CHAPTER XI
(21)
CHAPTER XII
(22)
(23)
(24)
100. Al-Husayn Bin Ziyād
(25)
(26)
150. Sawāda al-Qattān
(27)
(28)
(29)
240. Mohammed Bin Aslam al-Tūsi
(30)
(31)
(32)
(33)
CHAPTER XIII
(34)
The Economic Life
(35)
CHAPTER XIV
(36)
His affecting Shiism
(37)
CHAPTER XV
(38)
(39)
CHAPTER XVI
(40)
EPILOG
(41)
UYUN AKHBAR AL-REZA
The Source of Traditions on Imam Reza (a.s.)By:
Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Hussein ibn Musa
ibn Babawayh al-Qummi Known as
(Sheikh Sadooq)Research and Translation by:
Ali Peiravi, Ph.D. Edited by: Lisa Zaynab Morgan, M.A.
Translator: Sayyid Tahir Bilgrami
Publisher: Ansariyan Publications – Qum
First Edition 1384 -1427 - 2006
Thamin Al-a'immah Press
No. of Pages Vol.2: 696
Quantity: 2000
Size: 143 x 205 mm
ISBN: 964-438-790-2 (VOL.1)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION 4 10 CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: (Part 2)
TRADITIONS ABOUT AL-REZA (S)46 CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: (Part 3)
TRADITIONS ABOUT AL-REZA (S)94 126 158 186 220 CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE:
ON WHAT AL-REZA (S) WROTE FOR AL-MA’MUN REGARDING PURE ISLAM AND THE RELIGIOUS DECREES248 CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX:
ON AL-REZA’S ENTRY TO NEISHABOOR AND WHERE HE RESIDED276 CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN:
ON WHAT AL-REZA (S) SAID UPON LEAVING MARBA’AT NEISHABOOR TO SEE AL-MA’MUN280 CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT:
A RARE TRADITION FROM AL-REZA (S)284 CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE:
ON THE DEPARTURE OF AL-REZA (S) FROM NEISHABOOR TOWARDS TOOS AND MARV286 CHAPTER FORTY: (PART 1)
ON THE REASONS WHY ALI IBN MUSA AL-REZA (S) ACCEPTED THE SUCCESSION TO THE THRONE FROM AL-MA’MUN, WHAT WENT ON, THOSE WHO WERE DISPLEASED AND THOSE WHO WERE PLEASED290 CHAPTER FORTY: (PART 2)
ON THE REASONS WHY ALI IBN MUSA AL-REZA (S) ACCEPTED THE SUCCESSION TO THE THRONE FROM AL-MA’MUN, WHAT WENT ON, THOSE WHO WERE DISPLEASED AND THOSE WHO WERE PLEASED332 CHAPTER FORTY-ONE:
ON AL-REZA (S) PRAYING FOR RAIN ON THE REQUEST OF AL-MA’MUN, DISPLAY OF THE HONORABLE THE EXALTED GOD’S POWER BY FULFILLING HIS REQUEST AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THOSE WHO DENIED THIS356 CHAPTER FORTY-TWO:
ON THE PLANS OF AL-MA’MUN FOR FENDING OFF THE PEOPLE FROM THE MEETINGS OF AL-REZA (S), BELITTLING HIM, AND ON THE CURSING OF AL-MA’MUN368 CHAPTER FORTY-THREE:
ON POEMS ABOUT PATIENCE AND SILENCE IN FRONT OF THE IGNORANT, AND NOT TREATING FRIENDS WITH REPROACH, AND ATTRACTING THE ENEMY SO THAT HE BECOMES FRIENDS AND ON HIDING SECRETS372 OTHER POEMS WHICH AL-REZA (S) USED TO READ AND DRAW SIMILITUDES FROM 378 CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR:
ON AL-REZA’S NOBLE CHARACTERISTICS AND HIS WORSHIPPING386 CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE:
ON WHAT AL-MA’MUN DID TO PLEASE AL-REZA (S): HIS DEBATES WITH THE OPPONENTS REGARDING DIVINE LEADERSHIP AND ALI’S NOBILITY402 CHAPTER FORTY-SIX:
ON WHAT HAS BEEN NARRATED BY AL-REZA (S) REGARDING THE PROOFS FOR THE DIVINE LEADERS (S), AND THE REJECTION OF THE BOASTERS AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD TURNING OVER THE AFFAIRS - MAY GOD DAMN THEM446 CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN:
ON INDICATIONS OF THE DIVINE LEADERSHIP OF AL-REZA (S)456 CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT:
ON THE PROOF OF AL-REZA’S RIGHTFULNESS DUE TO THE ACCEPTANCE OF HIS PRAYERS BY GOD THE HONORABLE THE EXALTED AGAINST BAKKAR IBN ABDULLAH IBN MOS’AB IBN AZ-ZOBAYR IBN BAKKAR WHO HAD OPPRESSED HIM498 CHAPTER FORTY-NINE:
ON PROOF OF AL-REZA’S RIGHTFULNESS DUE TO PREDICTING THAT HE (S) WOULD NOT SEE BAGHDAD, AND NEITHER WOULD BAGHDAD SEE HIM (S)500 CHAPTER FIFTY:
ON PROOF OF AL-REZA’S RIGHTFULNESS DUE TO THE ACCEPTANCE BY GOD THE HONORABLE THE EXALTED OF HIS PRAYERS FOR THE Barmakites502 CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE:
ON THE PROOF OF HIS RIGHTFULNESS DUE TO AL-REZA’S (S) PREDICTION THAT HE WILL BE BURIED NEXT TO HARUN504 CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO:
ON TRADITIONS RELATED TO AL-REZA’S (S) BEING MARTYRED WITH POISON AND BEING BURIED NEXT TO HARUN AL-RASHID506 CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE:
ON AL-REZA’S INSIGHT AND HIS RECOGNITION OF THE FAITHFUL BELIEVERS AND THE HYPOCRITES508 CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR:
ON AL-REZA’S KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THE LANGUAGES508 CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE:
ON THE PROOF OF AL-REZA’S RIGHTFULNESS DUE TO HIS REPLYING TO AL-HASSAN IBN ALI AL-VOSHA’S QUESTIONS BEFORE HE COULD ASK THEM510 CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX:
ON AL-REZA’S ANSWER TO ABI QORRAH - A FRIEND OF THE CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP514 CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN:
ON WHAT AL-REZA (S) SAID ON THE SUBJECT OF DIVINE LEADERSHIP TO YAHYA IBN AD-DHAHHAK AL-SAMARQANDI IN THE PRESENCE OF AL-MA’MUN516 CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT:
ON WHAT AL-REZA (S) TOLD HIS BROTHER ZAYD IBN MUSA WHEN ZAYD WAS BEING HAUGHTY IN AL-MA’MUN’S PRESENCE AND WHAT AL-REZA (S) SAID ABOUT MISTREATING THE SHIITES518 CHPATER FIFTY-NINE:
ON REASONS FOR WHICH AL-MA’MUN MARTYRED ALI IBN MUSA AL-REZA (S) WITH POISON530 CHAPTER SIXTY:
ON AL-REZA’S APPOINTMENT OF HIS SON MUHAMMAD IBN ALI (S) AS THE IMAM AND HIS SUCCESSOR538 538 CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO:
ANOTHER TRADITION FROM THE SHIITES ON THE DEATH OF AL-REZA (S)540 CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE:
ON WHAT ABU SALT AL-HARAWI HAS NARRATED ABOUT AL-REZA BEING MARTYRED WITH POISONED GRAPES544 CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR:
ON WHAT (ABU HABIB) HARTHAMA IBN A’YAN NARRATED ABOUT THE MARTYRDOM OF AL-REZA BY BEING POISONED WITH POMEGRANATES AND GRAPES552 CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE:
ON AN ELEGY RECITED ABOUT AL-REZA (S)566 CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX:
ON THE REWARD OF VISITING THE SHRINE OF IMAM ALI IBN MUSA AL-REZA (S)578 De’bel at the Time of Death
On What has been Written on De’bel’s Grave608
610CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN:
ON THE REWARD OF VISITING THE SHRINE OF FATIMA - THE DAUGHTER OF IMAM MUSA IBN JA’FAR (S) IN QUM610 CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT:
ON VISITING AL-REZA(S) IN TOOS610 Another Pilgrimage Prayer By Imam Al-Reza (s)
Az-Ziyara Al-Jame’a Al-Kabeera: The Major Comprehensive Pilgrimage624
626CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE:
ON WHAT HAS BECOME APPARENT FOR THE PEOPLE OF OUR TIME FROM THE BLESSINGS AND SIGNS OF THIS PLACE OF MARTYRDOM, AND THE FULFILLMENT OF PRAYERS THERE644 Hazrat Imam Ali Raza a.s Biography
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