معلى بن محمد

When Zubairi was killed, a letter came from Imam Hasan Askari (a.s) as follows: “This is the punishment of one who attributes lies to Allah, the Exalted, with respect to His close friends. He presumed that he would kill me while I do not have an offspring. So how did he witness the might of Allah?” He sired a son and named him Muhammad. This was in the year two hundred and fifty-six.

I asked Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as) about the imams and he said: “Whoever denies one of the alive imams, has denied the dead ones.”

I asked Imam ar-Redha (as): “Is the world left without an imam?” He said: “No, it is not.” I said: “We narrate traditions saying that it does not remain without an imam except if Allah becomes angry with the people.” He said: “It does not remain without an imam, otherwise it sinks.”

“I asked Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as) if that matter (the appearance of al-Qa’im) had a certain appointment and he said: “The diviners tell lies! The diviners tell lies! When Prophet Moses (as) devoted himself to his Lord, he promised his people that after thirty days Allah would do away with their enemy. When Allah added ten days to the thirty, the people said that Moses had broken his promise and then they disbelieved and made a metallic calf as their god. When we tell you of something and Allah does as we have told you, you are to say that Allah has fulfilled His promise and when we tell you of something but a different thing occurs, also you are to say that Allah has fulfilled his promise. Then you will be rewarded twice.”

“I asked Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq (as) about the Qur’anic verse ((Remember) the day when We will call every people with their Imam) and he said: “O Fudhayl, know your imam because if you know your imam, it does not harm you whether this matter (the appearance of al-Qa’im) comes soon or late. He, who knows his imam and dies before the appearance of al-Qa’im, is like one, who will be in the camp of al-Qa’im or like one, who will be under the banner of al-Qa’im.” Some of our companions narrated the tradition with this addition “…like one, who has been martyred (while fighting) with the Prophet (S).”

I said to Abul Hasan the first (Imam Kadhim a.s.): Show me from whom I will take (instruction in) my religion.” This son of mine, Ali, he said. My father took my hand and took me to the tomb of the Messenger of Allah (s). He said to me that God, may His name be exalted, said: I make you a Caliph on earth, and that when God, the Exalted, says anything, He carries it out.

“There are three persons, whom Allah will not speak to on the Day of Resurrection nor will He purify and shall have a painful chastisement; one, who pretends the divine imamate while he is not an imam, one, who denies an imam appointed by Allah and the third one is he, who claims that these two ones are faithful Muslims.”