On What al-Ridha صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم Said About Faith That Is Recognition of Paradise, Verbal Confession and Physical Action

22-5 In the (Arabic) month of Rajab of the year 339 A.H Hamza ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Ja’far ibn Muhammad ibn Zayd ibn Ali ibn Al-Hussein ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم in Qum narrated that Abul Hassan Ali ibn Muhammad al-Bazzaz quoted on the authority of Abu Ahmad Dawood ibn Soleiman al-Qadhi, on the authority of Ali ibn Musa Al-Ridha صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم, on the authority of his father Musa ibn Ja’far صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم, on the authority of his father Ja’far ibn Muhammad صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم, on the authority of his father Muhammad ibn Ali صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم, on the authority of Ali ibn Al-Hussein صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم, on the authority of his father Al-Hussein ibn Ali صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم, on the authority of his father Ali ibn Abi Talib صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم that God’s Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم said, “Faith is recognition by the heart, expression by the tongue and enacting by the body parts.”The same tradition was narrated by Hamza ibn Muhammad al-Alawi - may God be pleased with him - who quoted it on the authority of Abdurrahman ibn Abi Hatam who quoted it on the authority of his father, on the authority of Abi Salt al-Harawi Abdul Salam ibn Salih, on the authority of Ali ibn Musa Al-Ridha صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم, through a similar chain of narrations as before. Abu Hatam said, “Should the names in these chains of documentation of tradition be read to an insane man he would get healed.”