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.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION 4

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: (Part 1)
TRADITIONS ABOUT AL-REZA (S)

 10
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: (Part 2)
TRADITIONS ABOUT AL-REZA (S)		 46
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: (Part 3)
TRADITIONS ABOUT AL-REZA (S)		 94

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO:
ON AL-REZA’S WORDS ON THE REASONS FOR VARIOUS THINGS

 126

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE:
ON WHAT AL-REZA (S) WROTE REGARDING THE REASONS (BEHIND THE DECREES) IN RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS BY MUHAMMAD IBN SAN’AN

 158

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: (PART 1)
THE REASONS CITED BY AL-FAZL IBN SHAZAN

 186

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: (PART 2)
THE REASONS CITED BY AL-FAZL IBN SHAZAN

 220
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE:
ON WHAT AL-REZA (S) WROTE FOR AL-MA’MUN REGARDING PURE ISLAM AND THE RELIGIOUS DECREES 		248
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX:
ON AL-REZA’S ENTRY TO NEISHABOOR AND WHERE HE RESIDED		 276
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN:
ON WHAT AL-REZA (S) SAID UPON LEAVING MARBA’AT NEISHABOOR TO SEE AL-MA’MUN		 280
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 MARV		 286
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 PLEASED		 290
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 PLEASED		 332
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 THIS 		356
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’MUN		 368
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 SECRETS		 372
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 WORSHIPPING		 386
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 NOBILITY		 402
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 THEM		 446
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 HIM		 498
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 Barmakites		 502
CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE:
ON THE PROOF OF HIS RIGHTFULNESS DUE TO AL-REZA’S (S) PREDICTION THAT HE WILL BE BURIED NEXT TO HARUN		 504
CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO:
ON TRADITIONS RELATED TO AL-REZA’S (S) BEING MARTYRED WITH POISON AND BEING BURIED NEXT TO HARUN AL-RASHID		 506
CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE:
ON AL-REZA’S INSIGHT AND HIS RECOGNITION OF THE FAITHFUL BELIEVERS AND THE HYPOCRITES		 508
CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR:
ON AL-REZA’S KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THE LANGUAGES		 508
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 THEM		 510
CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX:
ON AL-REZA’S ANSWER TO ABI QORRAH - A FRIEND OF THE CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP		 514
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’MUN		 516
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 SHIITES 		518
CHPATER FIFTY-NINE:
ON REASONS FOR WHICH AL-MA’MUN MARTYRED ALI IBN MUSA AL-REZA (S) WITH POISON		 530
CHAPTER SIXTY:
ON AL-REZA’S APPOINTMENT OF HIS SON MUHAMMAD IBN ALI (S) AS THE IMAM AND HIS SUCCESSOR		 538

CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE:
ON THE MARTYRDOM OF AL-REZA (S) DUE TO BEING MURDERED BY AL-MA’MUN WITH POISON

 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 GRAPES		 544
CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR:
ON WHAT (ABU HABIB) HARTHAMA IBN A’YAN NARRATED ABOUT THE MARTYRDOM OF AL-REZA BY BEING POISONED WITH POMEGRANATES AND GRAPES 		552
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 Grave
 608
610
CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN:
ON THE REWARD OF VISITING THE SHRINE OF FATIMA - THE DAUGHTER OF IMAM MUSA IBN JA’FAR (S) IN QUM		 610
CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT:
ON VISITING AL-REZA(S) IN TOOS		 610
 
Another Pilgrimage Prayer By Imam Al-Reza (s)
Az-Ziyara Al-Jame’a Al-Kabeera: The Major Comprehensive Pilgrimage
 624
626
CHAPTER 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 THERE 		644