On Traditions About Musa Ibn Ja’far صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم, Harun Ar-rashid and Musa Ibn Al-mahdi

7-3 Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Ishaq al-Taliqani - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Sowly quoted on the authority of Abul Abbas Ahmad ibn Abdullah, on the authority of Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Soleiman al-Nawfali that Ibrahim ibn Abil Bilad said, “Yaqoob ibn Dawood told me that he adheres to the Divine Leadership.”Ibrahim ibn Abil Bilad added, “On the night before Musa ibn Ja’far صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم was arrested, I went to see Yaqoob ibn Dawood in Medina. Yaqoob told me, ‘I was with the Vizier - that is Yahya ibn Khalid - now. He told me that he had heard Ar-Rashid address God’s Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم near the Prophet’s صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم shrine and say, ‘O Prophet of God! May my father and mother be your ransom! Please forgive me for the decision which I have made - that is to arrest and imprison Musa ibn Ja’far since I am afraid that he will cause a war in your nation in which there will be bloodshed. I think Harun Ar-Rashid will arrest the Imam صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم in the morning.’”The narrator of this tradition added, “The following morning Al-Fadhl ibn al-Rabiee’ was sent to him. The Imam صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم was standing in the Station of God’s Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم and was praying. Al-Fadhl ibn al-Rabee’ ordered that he صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم be arrested and imprisoned.”