Hadith 9

(The book) ‘Al Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashub –
‘When allegiance was pledged to Al-Mutasim, he went on to check his situation. He wrote to Abdul Malik Al-Zayyat to dispatch to him Al-Taqi-asws and Umm Fazl. Al-Zayyat dispatched Ali Bin Yaqteen to him-asws. He-asws prepared and went out to Baghdad. He honoured him-asws, and revered him-asws, and sent Ashnas bearing the gifts to him-asws and to Umm Al-Fazl. Then he sent a drink of citron juice to him-asws under his seal upon the hands of Ashnas. He said, ‘Commander of the faithful has got Ahmad Bin Abu Dawood, and Saeed Bin Al-Khaeyb, and a group from the well-known people to taste it, and he orders you-asws to drink from it with the water of snow, and he has made it just now, and he says, ‘Drink it at night’. He-asws said: ‘It is beneficial (when) cold, and the snow has melted’. And he insisted upon that, so he-asws drank it knowing of their deeds. And he-asws was of dark complexion. The suspicious ones doubted regarding him-asws, and he-asws was at Makkah. They presented him-asws to the crowd. When they looked at him-asws, they fell to their faces in Sajdah. They said, ‘O woe be to you all! Is the likes of this one, the shining star, and the blossoming light is being presented to the lies of us! And this, by Allah-azwj, is the pure affiliations and polite lineage, the clean. The blossoming stars have given birth to him-asws and the clean wombs. By Allah-azwj! He-asws is not, except from the offspring of the Prophet-saww and Amir Al-Momineen-asws! ’
And he-asws, during that time, was twenty-five months old. He-asws spoke with a tongue sharper than the sword, saying: ‘The Praise is for Allah-azwj Who Created us-asws from His-azwj Noor, and Chose us-asws from His-azwj citizens, and Made us-asws to be trustees upon His-azwj creatures and His-azwj Revelation. O you people! I-asws am Muhammad-asws Bin Ali Al-Reza-asws Bin Musa Al-Kazim-asws Bin Ja’far Al-Sadiq-asws Bin Muhammad Al-Baqir-asws Bin Ali-asws Chief of the worshippers Bin Al-Husayn-asws the martyr Ibn Amir Al-Momineen Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, son-asws of (Syeda) Fatima Al-Zahra-asws daughter-asws of Muhammad-s