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Through this action al‐Mansur reached bottomless meanness and severity!
Imam al‐Sadiq passes away
Imam al‐Sadiq suffered all kinds of misfortunes and pain during the time of al‐Mansur. He saw the
exhaustion and the ordeals from which the Muslims suffered and saw the different kinds of
punishments and torture the 'Alawids met. His being safe from al‐Mansur was a miracle in spite of
his guarding against taking part in any of the political fields. This can be established through his
famous tradition: "Safety has become rear, to the extent that requesting it has become hidden,
for surely if it is (attained) through a thing, then it is about to (be attained) through inactivity. If it
is sought through inactivity and is not found, then it is about (to be attained) through silence; and
the happy is he who is busy with his own soul."
Al‐Mansur tried to kill him several times, but Allah turned away his plot from him. He summoned
him several times while he was bursting with anger. He tried to kill him, but Allah drove away his
evil from him. One day he commanded al‐Rabi' to go to him. However, al‐Rabi' sent his son
Muhammed to him. He ordered him to bring him in the state in which he was, saying to him: "Go
to Ja'far b. Muhammed. Climb the wall. Do not open any door to him lest he should change his
condition. However, come down (the wall) and go to him." Muhammed carried out the orders. He
found the Imam standing and praying. After the Imam had finished his prayer, Muhammed said to
him:
‐Respond to the Commander of the faithful.
‐Let me put on my clothes.
‐We have no way to do that.
He brought the Imam as he was and made him come in to al‐Mansur, and he angrily said to him:
"Why do you not give up your envy, your oppression, and your plotting against this 'Abbasid
house. Allah will increase you nothing through that but intense envy and unhappiness through
which you cannot attain what you have
[1] It has been mentioned in the book Tadhkirat al‐Khawas, p. 230: "The statement of Fatima,
daughter of 'Abd Allah, 'Have mercy on the young of Yazid,' was a slip of tongue. That is because
'Abd Allah b. al‐Husayn had no son called Yazid, nor there was among the family of Abu Talib a
person called Yazid except Yazid b. Mu'awiya b. 'Abd Allah b. Ja'far. expected."
So the Imam said to him: "By Allah, O Commander of the faithful, I have done nothing of this. I
lived during the reign of the Umayyads. You have come to know that they were the most hostile
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