Doubt in Our Master Al-Riḍā and the Lineage of Our Master Al-Jawād (may their glory be exalted)

Yazīd ibn Salīṭ said: Abū ‘Imrān Al-Ṭalḥī was the judge of Medina. When Mūsā passed away, his brothers brought him before Al-Ṭalḥī the judge. Al-‘Abbās ibn Mūsā said: "May Allah set you right and let you enjoy your life. At the bottom of this document is a treasure and a jewel, and he wants to keep it and take it without us. Our father (may Allah have mercy on him) did not leave anything without putting it there, and he left us dependent. If I didn't restrain myself, I would tell you something publicly." Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad leapt up to him and said: "Then by Allah, you would report something that we would neither accept from you nor believe you about, and you would be blamed and rejected by us. We have known you to be a liar, young and old. Your father knew you best. If there was any good in you, and your father knew you outwardly and inwardly, he would not have trusted you with two dates." Then his uncle Isḥāq ibn Ja‘far leapt up to him, grabbed him by his garment, and said to him: "You are foolish, weak, and stupid. Add this to what you did yesterday." The people all helped him. Abū ‘Imrān the judge said to ‘Alī: "Get up, O Abū Al-Ḥasan, what your father cursed me for today is enough. Your father was generous to you, and by Allah, no one knows a child better than his father. By Allah, your father was not considered to be light-minded by us."¹

Look at their condition of doubt, and then they also followed it up with doubt in the lineage of our Master Al-Jawād (may his glory be exalted).

Indeed, Abū Muḥammad Al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Alī (may his glory be exalted) said: Abū Ja‘far (may his glory be exalted) was dark-skinned (shadīd al-adamah). The doubters and skeptics said about him, when he was twenty-five months old, that he was not the son of Al-Riḍā (may his glory be exalted). They said (may Allah curse them) that he was from Shanīf the black, his slave, and they said from Lu’lu’. They took him while Al-Riḍā was with Al-Ma’mūn. So, they carried him while he was an infant to the physiognomists (al-qāfah)² in Mecca, in a public gathering in the Sacred Mosque. They presented him to them. When they looked with their eyes, they prostrated on their faces. Then they stood up and said to them: "Woe to you! Should such a brilliant star and illuminating light be presented to the likes of us? By Allah, this is the pure lineage and the refined, pure descent. By Allah, he has only passed through pure loins and pure wombs."