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'Alawids, old, young, and children. He ordered Rita, al‐Mehdi's wife, not to let al‐Mehdi open it
and not to come to know about it except after his death. Al‐Teberi has narrated it in his book al‐
Tarikh. The following is its text: "When al‐Mansur decided to perform the hajj, he sent for Rita, al‐
Mehdi's wife, and ordered her about what he wanted. He entrusted her with and gave her the
keys of the cases. He walked towards and made her take an oath. He confirmed the oath lest she
should open some of the cases and inform anyone even her and al‐Mehdi except that she came to
know of his death. When she came to know of it, only she and al‐Mehdi had to sit together to
open the case. Al‐Mehdi had been in al‐Ray when Abu Ja'far (al‐Mansur) went to the hajj. When
he came from al‐Ray and went to Medinat al‐Salam (Baghdad), Rita gave him the keys and asked
him not to open the cases and not to inform anybody of them until she came to know of al‐
Mansur's death. When al‐Mehdi heard of the death of al‐Mansur and he undertook the caliphate,
he along with Rita opened the door. Suddenly he found a big case where was a group of the
Talibiyyin dead in whose ears were labels on which were their lineage. Among them were
children, young men, and many old men. When al‐Mehdi saw that, he became terrified. He
ordered a bit to be dug, and they were buried in it. Then he ordered a shop to be built on
them."[2]
Al‐Mansur kept and stored that case for the day on which property will not avail, nor sons. He
stored it for the Day of Decision, and the day when the unjust one shall bite his hands.
The 'Alawids ask al‐Mansur for Mercy
The 'Alawids asked this tyrannical one (al‐Mansur) for mercy. However, neither human feelings
nor the close kinship moved him to pardon them. He went to the Sacred House of Allah. While he
was walking among his procession, the daughter of 'Abd Allah b. al‐Hasan walked towards him
and recited to him the following, gentle poetry lines:
Have mercy on the young children of Yazid, surely they have become orphans because they have
lost you, not because they have lost Yazid! Have mercy on the toothless old people who are in
chains and shackles in prison!
[1] Bihar al‐Anwar, vol.47, pp. 306‐307. 'Uyun Akhbar al‐Rida, vol. 1, p. 111.
[2] Al‐Tabari, vol. 6, p. 320, first edition.
If you punish us due to our crime, then we will be killed out of it everywhere!
If you are generous through the womb kinship among us, then your grandfather is not far from
our grandfather![1]
Yet this gentle entreaty did not move his severe mind, and he said to her: "Have you reminded me
of him, 'Abd Allah's daughter?"
Then he ordered him to be killed in the ground prison, and he breathed his last in it.
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