Birth of Imam Ali Raza (as), Eighth Imam of the Shiites Happy.
Hadis-e-Silsila-Tuz-Zahab:
Imam
Ali Raza (as) once passed from the city of Nisha Pur on his way to
Toos. The Caliph Mamun Rashid had summoned the Imam with the intention
of getting him killed. Nisha pur was the centre of knowledge,
jurisprudence, theology and hadith those days, so some of the famous
hadith collectors came out to see the son of the Prophet, they entreated
the Imam to come out of his caravan and narrate for them a hadith of
the Holy Prophet, which they could write down and remember, they took
the chance of meeting the son of the Holy Prophet(saw) as a blessing.
After
much insistence the Imam(as) showed the light of his face and narrated a
tradition known as Hadis-e-Silsila-Tuz-Zahab. In Arabic, “Zahab” means
gold. And this hadith is named “The Hadith with the Chain of Gold”
because all the narrators in the chain of this hadith are infallibles.
The
Imam said “My father Musa Al Kazim heard from his father Jaffar us
Sadiq.. who heard from his father Muhammad Al-Baqir, who narrated from
his father Zain-ul-Abideen who narrated from his father Sayyed us
Shuhada Imam Hussein(as) who narrated from Amir ul Momineen Imam Ali(as)
that Rasool Allah said “Gibrael said to me that Allah says .. My kalima
La illaha il lallah is my fort.. whoever says it enters my fort.. and
whoever enters my fort shall be safe”
The Imam paused for a while, then said the famous words:
But there are certain conditions for this, and I am one of the conditions.
Meaning
that in the time of the Prophet saying that you believed in God and his
Prophet was enough to enter Allah’s fort and find amaan, now it was
not, the acceptance of Wilayat had become a necessary element for the
completion of faith.
Signer:Davlatmand Kholov
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