Imam Muhammad b. Ali al-Jawad (a): Difference between revisions

== His Virtues and Merits ==

=== Acceptance of His Prayer ===

Davud b. Qasim said, "One day, I went with Imam al-Jawad (a) to a garden. I told him, 'May I be sacrificed for you! I am greedy to eat mud. Please make a du'a for me!' (so that I give up this habit). Imam (a) did not answer and some days later, he (a) told me, 'O Aba Hashim! God removed [the habit of] eating mud from you.'" Abu Hashim says that, "Since then, there was nothing I hated more than mud."

Upon the return of Imam al-Jawad (a) from Baghdad to Medina, a group of people accompanied Imam (a) out of Medina to see him off. By the time of Maghrib prayer, they arrived a place where an old mosque was located. Imam (a) went to that mosque to do his prayer. There was a cedar tree in the yard of that mosque which had not borne any fruits until that time. Imam (a) asked for some water and made Wudu beside that tree and then led a congregational prayer there and after the prayer made a prostration of gratitude. He (a) then said goodbye to people and went away. The next day, the tree borne so much fruit and people became so surprised of that. It is narrated from Sheikh Mufid that he saw this tree many years later and ate from its fruits.