A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Imam Abu Hatim Muhammad ibn Fayswal at-Tamimi ibn Hibban ( r.a. ) related, in Kitab ats-Tsiqat , his own account of going to Imam ‘Ali ibn Musa ar-Ridha’s ( q.s. ) grave, performing tawaswswul through him and stated that “Whenever I was afflicted with a problem during my stay in Tus, I would visit the grave of ‘Ali ibn Musa, and ask Allah ( s.w.t. ) to Relieve me of that problem, and it would be Answered and the problem Alleviated.  And this is something I did, and found to work, many times.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ To know God, it is also important to know what God is not.

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ In his Tarikh an-Nisabur , Imam Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah al-Hakim an-Nishaburi ( r.a. ), author of the al-Mustadrak ‘ala asw-Swahihayn , recorded that when Imam ‘Ali ibn Musa ar-Ridha’ ( q.s. ), son of Imam Musa ibn Ja’far al-Kazhim ( q.s. ), entered Nisabur, he was riding inside a veiled enclosure upon a grey mule.  When he entered the city’s main marketplace, the two huffazh of ahadits , Imam Abu Zur’ah ‘Ubaydullah ibn ‘Abd al-Karim ar-Razi ( r.a. ) and Imam Muhammad ibn Aslam ath-Thusi ( r.a. ), along with an uncountable number of students, stopped him and said, “O noble master, we ask you by the right of your noble and pure ancestors, to please expose your blessed face for us and narrate to us a hadits that you relate through your forefathers.”   Imam ‘Ali ar-Ridha’ ( q.s. ) stopped his servant and ordered the veil to be removed, and everyone gazed upon his noble face.  He had two long braids which fell on his sho...