On Indications of the Divine Leadership of Ar-Ridha عليه السلام

47-30 Ahmad ibn Harun al-Fami - may God have Mercy upon him - narrated that Muhammad ibn Ja’far ibn Batta quoted on the authority of Muhammad ibn Al-Hassan al-Saffar, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Isa ibn Obayd, on the authority of Musa ibn Umar ibn Bazee’, “I had two slave-wives who were both pregnant. I wrote a letter to Ar-Ridha’ عليه السلام in which I informed him about this and asked him عليه السلام to ask the Sublime God for both of them to be boys and that God grant me this gift. In response, the Imam عليه السلام wrote, ‘God - the Sublime - willing I shall pray.’ Then the Imam عليه السلام wrote me another letter in which he عليه السلام wrote, ‘In the Name of God the Beneficent, the Merciful. May God grant us and you the best of health in this world and the Hereafter with His Mercy! Beware that the affairs are in the hands of God the Honorable the Exalted. He runs the affairs according to His Own Will. The Sublime God willing you will be granted a boy and a girl. Call the boy Muhammad and call the girl Fatima with God’s Blessings!’” The narrator added, “Then as the Imam عليه السلام had foretold, I had one boy and one girl.”