Day 5

The lesson

1. He guided the Shia of Iraq, Yemen, Egypt and Iran through a network of agents who collected the khums, carried letters and settled questions. His agent Ali ibn Ja'far al-Hamani was imprisoned on al-Mutawakkil's orders and, once released, was told by the Imam to live in Mecca (Ikhtiyar Ma'rifat al-Rijal of al-Kashshi).
2. He disowned the exaggerators: he cursed Muhammad ibn Nusayr al-Numayri, who claimed to be a prophet sent by him and spoke of the Imam's lordship, and Faris ibn Hatim al-Qazwini (Firaq al-Shi'a of al-Nawbakhti; Ikhtiyar Ma'rifat al-Rijal of al-Kashshi). Of Ibn Baba al-Qummi he wrote that he claimed to be his prophet and his gate, and that Satan had misled him.
3. Al-Shaykh al-Tusi counts more than 185 who studied with him or narrated from him. He told Abu Hammad al-Razi to take his religious questions to Abd al-Azim al-Hasani and to give him his greeting (Mustadrak al-Wasa'il), and he called Uthman ibn Sa'id, later the first deputy of Imam al-Mahdi, trustworthy (Rijal al-Tusi).

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