الفترة المبكرة للإمام الكاظم

• This is a summary of the early period of Imam al-Kadhim's era
• It focuses on key events and the political climate of the time
• Includes information from multiple pages

The First Era: From the Time of Imam al-Kadhim

• Al-Mansur did not relent in his policies against the Alawites after Imam al-Sadiq was killed
• Despite suppressing Alawite revolts, fear of them persisted, leading to oppression through imprisonment and demolition of prisons upon them.
• Some were buried alive in foundation cylinders, alongside a network of spies to monitor their movements
• These spies mixed truth with falsehood to satisfy the Caliph's desire to suppress them
• He allowed heretical currents like the Ghulat and Zandaqa to spread among people to mislead them.
• Some scholars were drawn close to support his policies, undermining the status of the Ahl al-Bayt, to obscure the situation after Imam al-Sadiq

Stand with the Will of Imam al-Sadiq

• Imam al-Sadiq designated five individuals as his executors
• They are Abu Ja'far al-Mansur, Muhammad bin Sulaiman, Abdullah, Musa, and Humayda, before the people
• Al-Mansur wrote to his agent in Medina to kill the Imam's designated successor unless he was specifically named.
• This highlights Al-Mansur's surveillance of the Ahl al-Bayt's movements, indicating a real threat to the authorities, even in the long term,
• It underscores Imam al-Sadiq's precision and awareness of Al-Mansur's policies and the Abbasid regime's designs in both the near and distant future.
• This also reveals the accuracy of the will and message left by the Imam to his followers

Level of Scientific and Faith-Based Education

• The Imam's education of his companions, especially his followers, such that he could guide them to the hidden truth behind this will.
• It is narrated that Dawud bin Kathir al-Raqqi said: A delegate from Khorasan, known as Abu Ja'far, arrived, and group of Khorasan people gathered to him
• They asked him to carry their money, goods, and questions regarding legal opinions and consultations
• He went to Kufa, stayed there, visited the Commander of the Faithful, and saw a man surrounded by a group in a corner of the mosque.
• When he finished his visit, he went to them and found them to be Shiite scholars listening to the sheikh, so they said: He is Abu Hamza al-Thumali.
• While we were sitting, an Arab came and said: I came from Medina, Jaafar bin Muhammad died
• Abu Hamza cried out and struck the ground with his hand, then asked the Bedouin: Did you hear of a will left by him?
• He said: He bequeathed to his son Abdullah and to his son Musa, and to Al-Mansur
• He said: Praise be to Allah who did not mislead us, He indicated the minor and clarified the major, and the secret of the great matter.
• He rushed to the tomb of Amir al-Mu'minin and prayed/ He said: that the major is handicapped and indicated the minor and the secret of the great command by Al-Mansur until Al-Mansur asked: Who is his executor? It was said you.
• The man from Khurasan then said "I did not understand the answer he told me."
• After this he went to Medina to find out for himself who was the executor after Imam Jaafar bin Muhammad
• This story portrays the intensity of the confusion and strict surveillance by the authorities following Imam al-Sadiq's death.

Public Confusion and the Imamate of al-Kadhim

• Hisham bin Salim depicts the intense confusion and strict surveillance by the authorities following Imam al-Sadiq's death
• That they were in Medina after the death of Abi Abdullah, myself and Mu'min al-Taq Abu Jaafar, and the people All of them agree that Abdullah (al-Aftah) is the owner (Imam) after his father, so we went to him
• He and the owner of al-Taq, and the people there at Abdullah The cause of that is that they narrated from Abi Abdullah That the matter is in the great if there is no defect in him
• We entered and asked him about what we asked him about his father, so we asked him About how much Zakat is due in? He said: Five out of two hundred We said in A hundred? He said: Two and a half dirhams?
• We said to him: By Allah, al-Murji'a did not say this. So he raised (al-Aftah) his hand to heaven, and said: No by Allah I do not know what the Murji'ite say!
• He said: We went out from him misguided, without knowing where to turn, myself, and Abu Jaafar al-Ahwal
• We sat in some alleys of Medina crying and confused and don't know who to target and where to turn There we say (go) to the Murji'a? To the al-Qadriya? To the Zaydiya? To the Mu'tazila? To the Kharijites?
• I was thus when I saw an old man whom I do not know winks to me with his hand, and I was afraid that would be A spy from the spies of Abu Jaafar (Mansur) al Dawaniqi, because he had in Medina Spies looking at who agrees from the Shiites of Jaafar (al-Sadiq) they strike his neck, so I was afraid that To be the (man) the old man among them
• I said to Abu Jaafar (Mu'min al-Taq): Tnjj because I am afraid for Myself and you, and rather wants me (Sheikh) is not wants you, Get out get away from me, do not perish and cooperate on Your own
• Then I followed the sheikh, because I thought I wouldn't be able to shake him off, So I kept following him until he lead me to the door of Abu Al-Hassan Musa Al-Kadhim, and left me
• When suddenly a servant at the door said to me: Enter, may Allah have mercy on you. He said: I entered and he said to me Without initiation: Not to the Murji'a, nor to the Qadariya, nor to the Zaydiya

Mansur's Policy Against the Alawites

• The Al-Khazana narrative illustrates Mansur's precise treatment of the Alawites
• When Mansur resolved to perform Hajj, he summoned Rayta bint Abi al-Abbas, al-Mahdi's wife
• And had been in al-Ray before Abu Jaafar's departure and entrusted to her what he desired, handed her the keys to the treasuries,
• And swore to her and confirmed oaths not to open some of those treasuries, nor to show them to anyone but al-Mahdi, Nor she, unless death was confirmed to her
• When that was confirmed, she and al Mahdi would gather, not with them One when the death of Al-Mansur had arrived in Al-Mahdi, and assumed the caliphate
• He opened the door with him, and with him Rayta, so it's it A large hallway in which there is a group of Talibi captives, and in their ears patches in which Their lineage
• and if among them children, young men, and sheikhs many, when he saw that Al-Mahdi startled at what he saw and ordered So a grave was to be dug for them and they were buried in it, and a shop was built over it

Abdullah al-Aftah and the Claim of Imamate

• Among the problems that aimed to tear apart the Shiite sect and stir up confusion and sabotage in Its ranks is questioning the issue of leadership after Imam al-Sadiq,
• Al-Aftah) claimed the Imamate. he is the brother of Imam Musa the Elder after Ismail, And this, with this natural inclination, adds another suffering to the Imam,
• Because al-Mansur's aggressive apparatus was counting on him/ and suspecting any move he made in the field of confronting the Imamate

The Alternative Plan for the Marja'iyya of the Ahl al-Bayt

• Among the methods used by the Abbasid authorities to obscure the marja'iyya of the Ahl al-Bayt And weakening their scientific and intellectual role in society is the policy of
• Creating scientific alternatives and strengthening them Through the authority supporting it to cover the void resulting from isolating Ahal al-Bayt

The Wrongdoings

• Among the most important special cases for the Al-Kadhim era is the existence of three distinct eras: The First Era Which is the first decade of his Imamate in the era of the Abbasid Mansur
• and the second is that the exact atmosphere after the martyrdom of Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, calls for increased caution and caution in the movement of Imam Musa al-Kadhim, peace be upon him, to attract the Shiites of his father, peace be upon him/
• The Imam was able to overcome the most important obstacles in the first decade of the era of his Imamate, and to prevail for the line of Imami, such as the issue of the Ismaili movement or the Abbasid movement towards imposing a line of pulpit preachers

Chapter 2, Demands in the Al-Mansur era

• The Imam al-Kadhim, peace be upon him, undertook a set of activities that were required by the first stage of his period for assuming the Imamate after his father al-Sadiq, peace be upon him/
• The Imam, peace be upon him, undertook to prove his Imamate by highlighting his mystical abilities, with which God provided him, because the general atmosphere did not help to circulate the special text of the will To him without others
• The first activity, Informing Imam Musa, peace be upon the people, with some secret news to which an ordinary person cannot reach; In these news, there are tangible evidences on His connection to the world of the unseen and the divine orientation specific to him

The Imam al-Kadhim in the Era of Mansur/

• Mansur put an end to the Alawi revolutions and stained his hands with killing them, he killed their master Imam al-Sadiq, considering it an extension of his line., but the planning of Imam al-Sadiq was smarter than to figure out
• and a quota, the Imam in the first decade of his imamite era succeeded in the most important obstacles that kept him from leadership in the Imamite line, such as the Ismaili movement or the Abbasid movement towards imposing a line of pulpit preachers

Chapter 3

• The Abbasid Mahdi, died in Dhu al-Hijjah in the year 158 before he completed the Hajj, and his son Muhammad al-Mahdi took over the position of Caliph and Ruler, and he was pledged allegiance to on the day Al-Mansur died, that is, on the fourth of Dhu al-Hijjah in the year (158 AH).

al-Mahdi was distinguished from his Father

• Al-Mahdi attempted a lenient approach with the Alawites at the beginning of his reign, contrary to his father's policies, issuing a general amnesty for all prisoners, returning confiscated movable and immovable properties to their owners, even those that had been seized from Imam Musa al-Kadhim from the former Imam al-Sadiq

After the Activities of Imam al-Kadhim

• the Mahdi adopted a policy of rigor and restriction on Imam Musa al-Kadhim, summoning the Imam to Baghdad and imprisoning him in one of its dungeons, then returning him
• and was about to assassinate the Imam, so Hamid bin Qahtaba was called in the middle of the night and said: The sincerity of your father and brother in us is more obvious than the sun, and your condition is suspended with me.

Al-Mahdi encouraged imposters

• Al-Mahdi encouraged imposters in his time until they took on a misleading media role, surrounding the sultans with a halo of reverence, claiming that they represent God's will on earth and that they are not touched by error, such as Ghiyath bin Ibrahim, who knew al-Mahdi's desires and told him in the public bath about Abu Huraira saying that the Messenger of God said:
• No precedence except in the hoof or in a nassal, And he added), or a wing
• The Mahdi ordered him to create the hadeeth and give ten thousand dirhams
• And when he left al-Mahdi - al-Mahdi said to his entourage: I testify that he lied to the Messenger of God
• The Prophet did not say that, but he wanted to

Al-Mahdi wasted large sums of money

• Al-Mahdi wasted large sums of money to diminish the Alawites and undermine their status, so the poets and beneficiaries moved and began fabricating lies in the satire of the Alawites, and among these was the heretic Bashar bin Burd, who entered Al-Mahdi one day and recited to him:
• O son of the one who inherited the prophet Without relatives among kin,
• The revelation is between the daughters and between you, Cut off the dispute, so there is no time for a dispute,
• What for women with men has an obligation was revealed to that picture of wealth,
• Would it be and that is not happening to the daughters in the legacy of acts.
• Al-Mahdi rewarded him seventy thousand dirhams for that, encouraging him and others to belittle the Ahl al-Bayt Al-Kadhim heard the poem by Bashar and was deeply affected,
• the night he heard a caller reciting verses responding to Bashar's verses
• Would it be or not be and has not been to the polytheists pillars of Islam,
• The daughters' share is not their grandfather and the uncle left without arrows.

The Demands

• What are the most important features of the first decade of the era of Imam Al-Kadhim
• What are the reasons behind The will of Imam al-Sadiq to five people, including al-Mansur?,
• How do you Envision the state of general confusion regarding learning about the Imam after al-Sadiq?,
• What is the position of Imam al-Kadhim regarding the Ismailis and Abdullah al-Aftah?,
• What is the nature of the relationship between al-Mansur and Imam al-Kadhim after the death of his father?