65- It is narrated from trustworthy persons that the first to express this belief was ‘Ali Ibn Hamza Bataini (and Ziyad Ibn Marwan Qandi and Uthman Ibn Isa Rawasi) who were greedy for money and also attracted the attention of some people. Those persons also entrusted them with their wealth, and they like, Hamza Ibn Bazi, Ibn Makari, Kiram Khathami etc. misappropriated public funds.

66- Muhammad Ibn Yaqub had narrated from Muhammad Ibn Yahya Attar from Muhammad Ibn Ahmad from Muhammad Ibn Jamhur from Ahmad Ibn Fadhl from Yunus Ibn Abdur Rahman that he said: [When] Abu Ibrahim [Imam al-Kazim (‘a)] passed away there was a large amount of cash lying with the representatives of Imam (‘a) and this was the reason that they declared that he was not dead [they became Waqifi] and due to greed for wealth they denied that the Imam was martyred. Only Ziyad Ibn Marwan Qandi was in possession of seventy thousand dinars and ‘Ali Ibn Hamza had thirty thousand dinars.

When I saw these circumstances and the truth became clear for me, I recognized the Imamate of Abul Hasan ar-Ridha’ (‘a) and learnt that which should be learnt, therefore I spoke up and called people to the Imamate of Imam ar-Ridha’ (‘a).

After that they sent two persons as messengers, and they said: Why have you done this? If you desire wealth, we would make you needless and they promised to give ten thousand dinars saying: Refrain from these acts.

I refused it and said: We have traditional reports from Imam as-Sadiq (‘a) and Imam al-Baqir (‘a) that they said: When innovations appear in religion, the scholar must express his knowledge and if he does not confront innovation, the effulgence of faith will go away from him.

67- Muhammad Ibn al-Hasan Walid has narrated from Saffar and Sa’ad Ibn Abdullah Ashari, all together from Yaqub Ibn Yazid Ainbari from some scholars, who said: When Abu Ibrahim (‘a) passed away, Ziyad Qandi was having seventy thousand dinars with him and Uthman Ibn Isa Rawasi had thirty thousand dinars and five slave girls and he lived in Egypt.

Imam ‘Ali ar-Ridha’ (‘a) sent a message to them: That which is deposited with you from the wealth of my father and that which you hold from cash and slave girls and other things, send it all to me as I am his successor and I will distribute the inheritance of the Imam. [It is a hint that I know what amount you are having]. You don’t any more have any excuse for keeping that which is deposited with you and from his inheritance; and he issued such commands.

But Ibn Abi Hamza originally denied and did not admit having that, which was in his possession. Same was the case of Ziyad Qandi.

But Uthman Ibn Isa wrote to Imam ar-Ridha’ (‘a): Your father (‘a) is alive and established; and one who believes in his death is having false beliefs. If you say since he is dead, I should act on it [and accept his death], he did not instruct me to hand over anything to you [this was with regard to cash] and as for the slave girls, I have emancipated them and taken them as wives.

68- Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Sa’id Ibn Uqbah has narrated from Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Nasr Teemi that he said: I heard Harb Ibn al-Hasan Tahan that Yahya Ibn al-Hasan Alawi has narrated a tradition that Yahya Ibn Masawar said: I was present in a gathering of Shi’a people and ‘Ali Ibn Hamza was among them. I heard him say: ‘Ali Ibn Yaqtin came to Abul Hasan Musa (‘a) and posed some queries to him. The Imam gave replies to him.

After that Abul Hasan (‘a) said: O ‘Ali, your companion would kill me.

‘Ali Ibn Yaqtin began to weep and said: Master, am I also with him?

Imam (‘a) replied: You are not with him, and you will not see me being killed.

‘Ali said: Master, who is the Imam after you?

He replied: My son, ‘Ali is the best of those who would survive me. His position to me is like my position with my father; and he is having all the knowledge that Shi’a are in need of. [He is knowledgeable about every matter]. He is the chief and leader in the world and the hereafter and is from the proximate ones of the court of Almighty Allah. Yahya Ibn al-Hasan Harb said: Thus, what caused ‘Ali Ibn Abi Hamza to keep away from Imam ‘Ali ar-Ridha’ (‘a) and to be jealous of him?

Harb replied: I asked the same thing from Yahya Ibn Masawar and he said: He refused to hand over to Imam ‘Ali ar-Ridha’ (‘a) that which he was having from the wealth of Imam Musa al-Kazim (‘a) and that is why Almighty Allah deemed him unfortunate in the world as well as the hereafter. Since a man of Bani Hashim arrived at that point, Harb discontinued his discourse.

69- ‘Ali Ibn Habashi Ibn Qauni has narrated from Husayn Ibn Ahmad Ibn al-Hasan Ibn ‘Ali Ibn Faddal that he said: I was with my uncle, ‘Ali Ibn al-Hasan Ibn Faddal, when I saw an old man from Baghdad joking with my uncle. One day that old man said: In the whole world, no group of Shi’a is worse than you.

My Uncle asked: Why, may Allah curse you?

He replied: I was the son-in-law of Ahmad Ibn Shubbar Siraj. In his last moments, he said: I have ten thousand dinars in my possession, which originally belonged to Imam Musa al-Kazim (‘a), but when he passed away, I refused to hand them over to Imam ‘Ali ar-Ridha’ (‘a) and claimed that he was not dead.

I put you under oath to save me from Hell fire and hand over the money to Imam ar-Ridha’ (‘a).

But by Allah, we did not return even one dirham from that and left him to burn in the Fire of Hell.

When the leaders of the deviated Waqifiya sect are as such, how can we rely on their reports or be satisfied with them.