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“People will miss their imam. He attends the seasons of hajj. He sees the people but they do not see him.”

Ibrahim bin Yahya bin Abi Balad said: Imam Ridha (a.s) said: What did Hamza bin Bazi, the unfortunate one do? I replied: He has also come. Imam (a.s) said: He thinks that my father is alive, they [Hamza and his associates] are in doubt today and tomorrow they would not die, except as heretics. Safwan says: I said to myself: I knew that they are among doubters, but how can they die disbelievers and heretics? Not much time passed when I received information that one of them said at the time of his death: I am a disbeliever in my Lord who wants me to die. Safwan says: I said: This testifies for that same tradition [of the Imam].

Some people asked me in the year two hundred and ninety to accept religious dues. I refused that request and wrote a letter, seeking instructions. The answer came, “In Ray is Muhammad Ibn Ja’far Arabi. He should deliver it to him, for he is from our men of trust.”

Abu Abdullah Ja’far bin Muhammad as-Sadiq (as) said to me: “O Yahya bin Abdullah, he, who spent a night without knowing his imam, will die as an unbeliever.”

“O Abu Ali, do you not see the wonders in which we are? Do you not consider the affair of this man (Imam Musa) and relieve us from his worry?” So he advised correctly and guided him to a good deed, saying to him: “Commander of the faithful, I think that you have to be kind to him and to link to his womb relatives. For, by Allah, he has spoiled the hearts of our followers against us.” Harun Rashid responded to his advice, saying to him: “Go to him, remove the iron from him, give him my regards, and say: ‘Your cousin says: I have sworn by Allah concerning you that I will not release you unless you admit that you have mistreated me. You must ask me to forgive your past deeds. There is no disgrace in your admitting (that), nor is there any defect in your asking me for that. This is Yahya bin Khalid, my trustworthy one, minister and head of my affairs. So ask him in as much as I get rid of my oath and you would also be able to return to Medina safely.”’

I heard Harb bin Hasan Tahan that Yahya bin Hasan Alawi has narrated a tradition that Yahya bin Masawar said: I was present in a gathering of Shia people and Ali bin Hamza was among them. I heard him say: Ali bin Yaqtin came to Abul Hasan Musa (a.s) and posed some queries to him. The Imam gave replies to him. After that Abul Hasan (a.s) said: O Ali, your companion would kill me. Ali bin Yaqtin began to weep and said: Master, am I also with him? Imam (a.s) replied: You are not with him and you will not see me being killed. Ali said: Master, who is the Imam after you? He replied: My son, Ali is the best of those who would survive me. His position to me is like my position with my father; and he is having all the knowledge that Shia are in need of. [He is knowledgeable about every matter]. He is the chief and leader in the world and the hereafter and is from the proximate ones of the court of Almighty Allah. Yahya bin Hasan Harb said: Thus what caused Ali bin Abi Hamza to keep away from Imam Ali Ridha (a.s) and to be jealous of him? Harb replied: I asked the same thing from Yahya bin Masawar and he said: He refused to hand over to Imam Ali Ridha (a.s) that which he was having from the wealth of Imam Musa Kadhim (a.s) and that is why Almighty Allah deemed him unfortunate in the world as well as the hereafter.

H 61 - Ali bin Maaz narrated: I asked Safwan bin Yahya: Through which reasoning have you adopted faith in the Imamate of Imam Musa Kadhim (a.s)? He replied: I prayed the ritual prayer and after that sought counsel (Istikhara) from Almighty Allah and the result was that I got certainty about it.

Imam Musa Kadhim (a.s) sent me this will [mentioned above] along another will.

H 166 - Yahya bin Bashr Qambari has narrated that Abul Hasan Imam Hadi (a.s), four months before he passed away, made bequest to his son, Hasan (a.s) and I and a group of Shia witnessed it.

“The people of Abyssinia will demolish the Kaaba; the Black Stone will be taken away and fixed in the Kufa Mosque.”

“How about you if you go and you do not find anyone (to resort to) and you come back and you do not find anyone?”

When Abde Salih, Imam Musa Kadhim (a.s) was in prison, he summoned me and said: Go to that man, Yahya bin Khalid Barmaki and say: So and so says: ‘What is the reason that you should do this; you have made me homeless and separated me from my family and children?’ I went to Yahya and informed him of this. Yahya exclaimed: Zubaida [wife of Harun] is being divorced! He swore many times and said: ‘I wish to pay two million dirhams as ransom and free you!’ I returned to the Imam and mentioned the matter; he said: Go and tell him: So and so says: By God, you will definitely release me or I would leave of my own accord.

I met him and rebuked him for that. He said: “It is of the pleasures and humility for Allah and abstinence from arrogance.”

I heard Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s) say: “Initially this task was entrusted to me; but later on the Almighty Allah postponed it and kept it in my progeny.”

“One who fixes the time of reappearance for you, do not pay attention to his falsification, because we have not specified its time for anyone.”

“He, who joins to an imam, whose imamate is from Allah, another imam, whose imamate is not from Allah, is a polytheist.”

I heard him say: Allah, the Mighty and the High may give a good recompense on my behalf to Safwan bin Yahya, Muhammad bin Sinan, Zakariya bin Adam and Saad bin Saad; they have indeed fulfilled their covenant [of Wilayat], and Zakariya bin Adam was of those who had his Wilayat.

“Al-Qa’im will rise and he has never paid any homage to anyone nor has he had a covenant or a bond with anyone.”

“Al-Qa’im will rise and he has not paid homage to any one nor has he had a bond or a covenant with anyone at all.” There are some traditions narrated from Imam Ali (as) confirming the occurrence of the disappearance of Imam al-Mahdi (aj). The traditions talk about confusion and seditions (that occur during the absence of al-Qa’im) that no one will be saved from except those, who will be patient before sufferings and distresses.

“By Allah, That, which you look forward to, will not be until you are tested and clarified and until none of you remains save the least and the least.”