Day 6

The lesson

1. Al-Shaykh al-Tusi lists 117 of his companions (Rijal al-Tusi), among them Abd al-Azim al-Hasani, Ali ibn Mahziyar, Ahmad ibn Abi Nasr al-Bazanti and Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Barqi. About 250 hadiths are narrated from him (Musnad al-Imam al-Jawad of al-Atarudi).
2. Al-Mu'tasim summoned him from Medina to Baghdad. He entered the city on 28 Muharram 220 AH and was martyred there in Dhu al-Qa'da of the same year (835), at twenty-five, the youngest of the Imams at his martyrdom (al-Irshad of al-Shaykh al-Mufid). Some sources give the last day of Dhu al-Qa'da (I'lam al-Wara), others 5 or 6 Dhu al-Hijja (Tarikh al-A'imma of Ibn Abi l-Thalj).
3. The reports name his killers differently. Al-Mas'udi records that al-Mu'tasim and Ja'far, the son of al-Ma'mun, plotted his death, and that Umm al-Fadl, urged by her brother, gave him poisoned grapes, then wept in remorse (Ithbat al-Wasiyya). Another report says al-Mu'tasim, turned against him by the judge Ibn Abi Duwad, had him poisoned (Tafsir al-Ayyashi); another, that al-Mu'tasim's servant Ashnas pressed a poisoned drink on him (Manaqib Ibn Shahrashub; Bihar al-Anwar). Al-Shaykh al-Mufid wrote that the poisoning was reported but not proven to him (al-Irshad).

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