@@AhmadDakhlallah1 sure, _(The book) ‘Al Ihtijaj’, from Al Rayyan Bin Shabeeb who said,_ ‘When Al-Mamoun (la) wanted to get his daughter Umm Al-Fazl married to Abu Ja’far Muhammad Al Taqi (a) Bin Ali Ar Riza (a), that reached the Abbasids. That was grievous upon them, and they disliked it from him, and they feared that the command would end with him to end up with (children of) Al-Reza (a). They engaged in that and there gathered, from them, the people of his household, the ones near from him (Mamoun). They said, ‘We adjure you with Allah, O Mamoun, from staying upon this command which you have determined upon, from marrying (your daughter to) the son of Al-Riza (a). We fear that he (a) would exit with the command from us which Allah Mighty and Majestic has Granted and he (a) would remove the honour away from us which Allah has Clothed. And you have known what is between us and these people, ancient (times) and current (times), and what the rightly guided caliphs before you had been upon, from distancing them (a) and belittling them (a). And we have been in discouragement from your deed with Al-Riza (a) what you know of. Allah Sufficed us of the worries from that, so Allah, Allah from returning us to the sorrow which had receded from us and turn away your opinion from Ibn Al-Riza (a) (Al-Jawwad (a)) and turn to someone from your family you view him to be correct for that, besides others’. Al-Mamoun said to them, ‘As for what is between you all and the Progeny of Abu Talib (a), you are the cause regarding it, and if the people had been fair, they (a) would be foremost with you all. And as for what has been done with them (a) from before me, it has been cutting of the kinship, and I seek Refuge with Allah from that. By Allah! I have not regretted upon what has happened from me, from making Al-Reza (a) the replacement (heir apparent), and I had even asked him (a) that he (a) should stand with the command (be the caliph) and I should remove it from myself, but he (a) refused, *and the Command of Allah was a Decree Ordained [**33:38**].* And as for Abu Ja’far Muhammad Al Taqi (a) Bin Ali Ar Riza (a), I have chosen him (a) for him (a) to stand out upon all the people of merit in the knowledge, and the merit along with the young-ness of his age, and the wonders in him (a) with that, and I hope that it would be revealed to the people what I have already recognised from him (a), so they would come to know that the (correct) view is what I have viewed regarding him (a)’. They said to him, ‘This is a youth, and even though you are appealing to his guidance from him (a), he (a) is a child, there is no recognition for him-asws nor any understanding. Respite him (a) to be educated, then do whatever you view after that’. He said to them, ‘Woe be unto you all! I am more knowing of this youth than you are, and the People (a) of this Household (Ahlulbayt). Their (a) knowledge is from Allah the Exalted, and His substances and His inspiration. His (Imam's) forefathers (a) have not ceased to be in the knowledge of religion and the disciplines away from the deficient opinions from the limit of perfection. If you so desire, then test Abu Ja’far (Imam Taqi (a)) with what would be clarified for you all with, what would describe to you all of his state’ They said, ‘We agree to you, O Mamoun, and for ourselves, with testing him (a), so vacate between us and him (a), for us to nominate the one who can ask him (a) in your presence about something from his understanding of the Law. If he (a) is correct in the answering about it, there would be no objection for us regarding his-asws matter, and it would be apparent to the specials ones (Shias) and the general ones, the correctness of the view of Al-Mamoun regarding him (a), and if he (a) is unable from that, then we shall be sufficed of the address in its meaning’. Al-Mamoun said to them, ‘It is your concern, and that would be whenever you want’. They went out from his presence and gathered their views upon the issue of Yahya Bin Aksam, and on that day he was a judge of the times, upon him asking him (a) such questions, he-asws would not know the answer regarding these, and they promised him the precious wealth upon that, and they returned to Al-Mamoun and asked him to choose a day for them for the gathering. He answer them to that. They gather during the day which they had concurred upon, and Yahya Bin Aksam was present with them, and Al-Mamoun ordered for a place of honour for Abu Ja’far (Imam Taqi (a)), and he made two curtains to be for him (a) in it. That was done, and Abu Ja’far (a) came out, and on that day, he was nine years and some months old. He (a) sat between the two curtains, and Yahya Bin Aksam sat in front of him (a), and the people stood among their ranks, and Al-Mamoun was seated in a place of honour connected with the place of honour of Abu Ja’far (a), may the Salawaat and the greetings be upon him (a). Yahya Bin Aksam said to Al-Mamoun, ‘Will you allow me to ask Abu Ja’far (Imam Taqi (a)) question?’ Al-Mamoun said to him, ‘There is permission for him regarding that!’ Yahya Bin Aksam turned to him (a). He said, ‘Will you allow me regarding the questioning? May I be sacrificed for you!’ Abu Ja’far (Imam Taqi (a)) said: ‘Ask if you like’. Yahya said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you! What are you saying regarding someone in Ihraam killing a prey?’ Abu Ja’far (Imam Taqi (a)) said: ‘Did he kill it outside the Sanctuary or in the Sanctuary? Was the one in Ihraam knowledgeable or ignorant? Did he kill it deliberately or in error? Was the one in Ihraam or a slave? Was he young or old? Was it his first killing or repeating? Was the bird from the poultry or from others? From the young prey or from its old ones? Was he insistent upon what he had done or regretful? Did he kill the prey during the night or during the day? Was he in Ihraam for the Umrah when he killed it, or was he in Ihraam for the Hajj?’ Yahya Bin Aksam was bewildered, and the frustration appeared in his face, and the being cut down, and stammered until a group from the people of the gathering recognises his matter. Al-Mamoun said, ‘The Praise is for Allah upon this Favour and the inclination to me regarding the opinion’. Then he looked at his family members. He said to them, ‘Do you recognise now what you were disliking?’
@@AhmadDakhlallah1 (Sending it in parts due to it being lengthy) *(Continued)* Then he turned to Abu Ja’far (a). He said to him (a), ‘Can you propose, O Abu Ja’far (a)?’ He (a) said, ‘Yes. Al-Mamoun said to him (a), ‘Propose for yourself. May I be sacrificed for you! I am pleased for yourself, and I shall get you married to my daughter Umm Al-Fazl, and even if it rubs the noses of a people due to that’. Abu Ja’far (a) said: ‘The Praise is for Allah, acknowledging of His Favours, and there is no god except Allah, being sincere to His Oneness, and may Allah Send Salawaat upon Muhammad (s), chief of the created beings and the elites from his family (a). As for after, it has happened from the Grace of Allah upon the people that He Made them needless with the Permissibles and the Prohibitions. And the Glorious Said: *And marry the single ones from you, and the righteous ones from your slaves and maids. If they happen to be poor, Allah will Enrich them from His Grace, and Allah is Capacious, Knowing [**24:32**].* Then Muhammad (a) Bin Ali Bin Musa (a) hereby proposes to Umm Al-Fazl daughter of Abdullah Al-Mamoun, and he (a) spends for her from the dower, the dower of his grandmother (Syeda) Fatima (a) daughter of Muhammad (s), and it is five hundred Dirhams, nobly. O Mamoun! Do you marry him (a) with her upon this mentioned dower?’ Al-Mamoun said, ‘Yes, I hereby marry Umm Al-Fazl to you, O Abu Ja’far (a), based upon the mentioned dower. Do you accept the marriage?’ Abu Ja’far (Imam Taqi (a)) said: ‘I have accepted that and am pleased with it’. Al-Mamoun ordered that the people be seated based upon their ranks among the special ones and the general ones. Al-Rayyan said, ‘And we did not wait long before we heard voices resembling the voices of the debaters in their dialogues. There, the servants were pulling a modelled ship of silver tied with the ropes of silk upon wheels, filled from the expensive perfumes. Then Al-Mamoun ordered for the bears of the special ones to be dyed from that perfume. Then he extended to the general house, and they applied perfume from it, and the meals were placed. The people ate, and the awards were brought out to every people based upon their worth. When the people had dispersed and there remained from the special ones, the ones who remained, Al-Mamoun said to Abu Ja’far (a), ‘May I be sacrificed for you! If you deem fit if you could mention the jurisprudence which you had detailed from the aspects of the killing by the one in Ihraam so we can know and benefit from it’. Abu Ja’far (a) said: ‘Yes. The one in Ihraam, when he kills a prey in the outside, and the prey was from the poultry birds, and it was from its old ones, upon him would be (penalty of) a sheep. If he had attained it inside the Sanctuary, then upon him would be double the penalty. And when he kills a chick outside, then upon him is a lamb having been weaned from the milk. And when he kills it inside the Sanctuary, upon him would be the lamb and value of the chick. When it was from the wild animals, and it was a wild donkey, then upon him would be a cow. And if it was an ostrich, then upon him would be a camel. And if it was a deer, then upon him is a sheep. And if he had killed anything from that inside the Sanctuary, then upon him would be a double the penalty, a sacrificial animal reaching the Kabah. And when the one in Ihraam had attained what obligated upon him the sacrificial animal upon it and his Ihraam was for the Hajj, he should slaughter it at Mina, and if his Ihraam was for the Umrah, he should slaughter it at Makkah. And the penalty of the hunting, upon the knowledgeable one and the ignorant one is the same, and regarding the deliberation, upon him would be the sin, and it would be dropped from him regarding the error. And the expiation is upon the free regarding himself, and upon the master regarding his slave; and the young, there is no expiation upon him, and it is obligated upon the elder. And the regretting one, his regret would cause the punishment of the Hereafter to fall, and the persistent one, the punishment in the Hereafter would be obligated upon him’. Al-Mamoun said, ‘Excellent, O Abu Ja’far! May Allah be Good to you! If you eem fit, if you could ask Yahya about issues like what he had asked you’. Abu Ja’far (a) said to Yahya: ‘Can I ask you?’ He said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you! That is up to you. If I recognise an answer to what you are asking about, or else I shall benefit from you’. Abu Ja’far (a) said to him: ‘Inform me about a man who looks at a woman during beginning of the day, and his looking at her was Prohibited to him. When the day rose, it was Permissible for him. When the sun declined, she was Prohibited unto him. When it was the time of Al-Asr, she was Permissible for him. When the sun set, she was Prohibited unto him. When the time of Al-Isha the last entered, she was Permissible for him. When it was midnight, she was Prohibited unto him. When the dawn emerged, she was Permissible for him. What is the state of this woman, and due to what was she Permissible for him and Prohibited unto him?’ Yahya Bin Aksam said to him, ‘By Allah! I am not guided to answer this question, nor do I recognise (any of) the aspects in it. If you deem fit if you could make us benefit’. Abu Ja’far (a) said: ‘This is a slave girl of a man from the people. A stranger looking at her during the beginning of the day, his looking at her was Prohibited unto him. When the day rose, he bought her from her master. She became Permissible for him. when it was at Al-Zohr (time), he freed her, so she became Prohibited until him. When it was the time of Al-Asr, he married her, so she became Permissible for him. When it was the time of Al-Maghrib, he did ‘Zihaar’ from her, so she became Prohibited unto him. When it was the time of Al-Isha the last, he expiated from Al-Zihaar, so she was Permissible for him. When it was midnight, he divorced her once, so she was Prohibited unto him. When it was during dawn, he retracted, and she was Permissible for him’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Al-Mamoun turned towards the ones from his family members who were present. He said to them, ‘Is there anyone among you all who could have answered this question with the likes of this answer? Or does he know the word regarding what had preceded from the question?’ They said, ‘No, by Allah! You are more knowing and what he views’. He said, ‘Woe be unto you all! The People-asws of this Household, have been specialised from the people with what you have seen from the merits, and even if he-asws is of young age among them, it would not prevent them (a) from the perfection! Don’t you know that Rasool-Allah (s) began his-saww call by inviting Amir Al-Momineen Ali (a) Bin Abu Talib (a) and he (a) was a boy of ten years? And he (Prophet (s)) accepted the Islam from him (Ali (a)) and judged for him (a) with it and did not call anyone else in his age other than him (a). And Al-Hassan (a) and Al-Husayn (a), and they (a) were both below six years, and no children pledged allegiance apart from them (a). And are you not knowing what Allah has Specialised these people with, and they (a) are offspring, some of them from the others. It flows for their last one what flows for their first one’. They said, ‘You speak the truth, O commander of the faithful!’ Then the people got up. When it was the next morning, the people presented and Abu Ja’far (a) was present, and rest of the leaders, and the guards, and the special ones, and the general ones, in order to congratulate Al-Mamoun and Abu Ja’far (a). Three silver trays were brought out wherein were pouches of musk, and saffron kneaded in the midst of those pouches there were, notes written with plentiful wealth and plenty of awards and pieces of land. Al-Mamoun ordered with scattering these upon the people from the special ones. Each person a pouch fell in his hand would extract the note which was in it, and the named award, his hand would be freed to it. And the moneybags were placed, and whatever was in these was scattered upon the leaders and others. And the people left, and they had been enriched with the jewels and the awards, and Al-Mamoun came forward with the charities upon all the poor people, and he did not cease to be honouring to Abu Ja’far (a), revering to his worth, for the duration of his lifetime, preferring him (a) over his own sons, and a group of his family members’’. _Note: And it is said, ‘He (Al-Mamoun) had got his daughter married to him (a) before the martyrdom of his father Ali Bin Musa Ar Riza (a), just as it is in (the book) ‘Tazkira’ of Sibt Ibn Al Jowzy page 202._ *_(Al Mamoun (la) was the one who killed Imam Ar Riza (a) by poisoning him (a))_* *[Bihar Al Anwaar - V 50, The book of History - Muhammad (a) Bin Ali (a), Ch 4 H 3]*
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