first to express this belief was Ali bin Hamza Bataini (and Ziyad bin Marwan Qandi and Uthman bin Isa Rawasi) who were greedy for money and also attracted the attention of some people. Those persons also entrusted them…
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Kitāb al-Ghayba · Volume 1 · Section 12 · 5 narrations
[When] Abu Ibrahim [Imam Kadhim (a.s)] passed away there was a large amount of cash lying with the representatives of Imam (a.s) and this was the reason that they declared that he was not dead [they became Waqifi] and…
Read the full narration →When Abu Ibrahim (a.s) passed away, Ziyad Qandi was having seventy thousand dinars with him and Uthman bin Isa Rawasi had thirty thousand dinars and five slave girls and he lived in Egypt. Imam Ali Ridha (a.s) sent a…
Read the full narration →I heard Harb bin Hasan Tahan that Yahya bin Hasan Alawi has narrated a tradition that Yahya bin Masawar said: I was present in a gathering of Shia people and Ali bin Hamza was among them. I heard him say: Ali bin Yaqtin…
Read the full narration →I was with my uncle, Ali bin Hasan bin Faddal, when I saw an old man from Baghdad joking with my uncle. One day that old man said: In the whole world, no group of Shia is worse than you. My Uncle asked: Why, may Allah…
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