The Incident of Al-Ma'mun's soldiers attacking our Master Al-Jawad, may his glory be exalted

After a long Hadith narrated by the wife of our Master Muhammad Al-Jawad, may his glory be exalted, she says: "I entered upon my father and told him the news. He was drunk and senseless. He said: 'O servant, bring me the sword.' It was brought to him, and he mounted and said: 'By Allah, I will kill him!' When I saw that, I said: 'Indeed, to Allah we belong and to Him we shall return.' What have I done to myself and my husband? And I started hitting my face. My father entered upon him and continued to strike him with the sword until he cut him to pieces. Then he came out from him, and I fled out behind him. I did not sleep that night. When the day was high, I went to my father and said: 'Do you know what you did last night?' He said: 'What did I do?' I said: 'You killed the son of Al-Rida!' His eyes flashed, and he fainted. Then he recovered after a while and said: 'What are you saying?' I said: 'Yes, by Allah, O my father, you entered upon him and kept striking him with the sword until you killed him.' He was greatly disturbed by that and said: 'Bring me Yasir the servant.' Yasir came out while I was hitting my face. No sooner had Yasir returned than he said: 'Good tidings, Amir Al-Mouminine!' He said: 'Good tidings to you, what do you have?' Yasir said: 'I entered upon him, and behold, he is sitting, wearing a shirt and a cover, and he is brushing his teeth!'"¹

It is him, none other than him. Glory be to the One who has not departed from His Essence, even though He appeared to His witnesses. They saw him once as Al-Rida, and they saw him once as Al-Jawad, and we see that he is him, Ali, glory be to Him, none other than Him.

The Attack of Al-Mansur's soldiers, may Allah curse him, on our Master Al-Sadiq, may his glory be exalted

From Abdul-A'la bin A'yan, who said: Murazim said: "The Caliph, Abu Ja'far, sent me, and he was with me, to Abi Abdullah, may his glory be exalted, while he was in Al-Hira, to kill him. We entered upon him in his awning at night, and we fulfilled our need from him and from his son Isma'il. Then we returned to him and said: 'We have finished what you commanded us to do.' He said: 'The next morning, we found him sitting in his awning, and we remained bewildered!'"²