Day 6

The lesson

1. When al-Mansur asked why he did not visit him as others did, the Imam wrote: We do not have something to fear you for, you do not have anything of the hereafter for which we should have hopes in you, you are not in a blessing to congratulate you for, and you do not think that you are in affliction to send you our condolences. So why should we be around you? (Bihar al-Anwar).
2. Under al-Mansur his agents watched the Imam and persecuted, even killed, Shia who were in touch with him, so he and his companions kept taqiyya. He told Sufyan al-Thawri to leave because they were being watched (Manaqib Ibn Shahrashub), and told Aban ibn Taghlib to answer questions with the opinions of the Sunni scholars so as not to be harmed (Rijal al-Kashshi). Al-Mansur summoned him to Iraq and made him stay there for a time (al-Milal wa l-Nihal).
3. When al-Hasan ibn Zayd, governor of Mecca and Medina, set fire to his house, he walked out through the fire saying: I am the son of the Roots of the Earth; I am the son of Ibrahim, God's Friend (al-Kafi).

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