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Mansur. Did he represent him in Yethrib (Medina) or in Baghdad? It has neglected that; besides al‐
Mansur was famous for miserliness and stinginess. This brings about a doubt about the narration.
[1] Al‐Manaqib, vol. 2, p. 380. Bihar al‐Anwar, vol. 11, p.264.
The Death of al‐Mansur
Al‐Mansur decided to go to Mecca. He thought that he would die during his travel. He roamed in a
current of suspicions and thoughts, so he said: "Surely I was born in the month of Dhi al‐Hijja,
undertook the caliphate in Dhi al‐Hijja, and I think that I will die in Dhi al‐Hijja, this year."[1] Thus,
he entrusted his affairs to his son al‐Mehdi and appointed him as a king after him. He gave him
the following teachings that show his terrorist policy: "Surely I have left three kinds of bad people:
The poor who hope nothing except your riches; the fearful who hope nothing except your
security; and the prisoners who hope none for release except from you. So when you become a
ruler over them, make them taste welfare; do not lavishly extend aid to them. I have collected to
you properties no caliph before me had collected. I have collected to you retainers no caliph
before me had collected. And I have built to you a city the like of which is not available in
Islam."[2]
Certainly al‐Mansur not only left three kinds of bad people, but also he left all the people in such
conditions. He terrified them, deprived them of security and ease, spread poverty and famine
among them, and filled the prisons with the free and the reformers.
Any way al‐Mansur's procession left Baghdad and covered the desert. When he was far away from
Kufa, he felt a severe pain. Thoughts came to his mind, and he said to al‐Rabi': "Quickly take me to
the Sacred House and Security of my Lord, for I want to escape from my sins!"
He reached the last station of his road, so al‐Rabi' said to him: "We have reached the Well of
Maymoon." And al‐Mansur said to him: "Praise belongs to Allah! Can you take me to the Kaaba?"
He was critically ill, so al‐Rabi' was unable to continue walking. He stopped there and prevented
the people from coming in to al‐Mansur. The tyrannical, arrogant one (al‐Mansur) perished on
Saturday morning, Dhi al‐Hijja 6, in the year 158. He made the people taste all kinds of oppression
and fear.
This page full of tyranny, sins, and offences was folded. The Muslims did not come to know a ruler
more tyrannical, more violent, and severer than al‐Mansur.
Imam Musa, peace be on him, was then thirty years old. He spent his youth during the reign of
this tyrannical one (al‐Mansur). He was broken‐hearted and sad. He felt pain out of sadness for
the Muslims and out of patience for what the 'Alawids met such as severe punishments and
painful torture. We will see him off here, that we may meet him at the time of al‐Mehdi.
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