Zuhri says: Abdul Malik
Marwan ordered the governor of Medina to place Imam Sajjad (a.s.) under arrest
and dispatch him to Shaam. He did that. When it was time for departure, I
sought permission from his guards and went to bid farewell to His Eminence and found
him in chains. I said, weeping: “I wish I was chained in your stead and that
you should have been free.”
His Eminence said: “Zuhri, do you think that these
chains are causing distress to me? If I want, they can be removed and not
remain on me (my hand and feet).” Suddenly he removed his hands and feet from
the chains and said: “I will remain with them upto two stages of the journey
from Medina and not more.”
Zuhri says: “Four days after
the departure of Imam Sajjad (a.s.), the guards returned to Medina and no
matter how much they searched, they could not find His Eminence.” One of them
explained to me: “We were guarding His Eminence continuously and did not even
sleep. One morning, we did not see anything in the litter of His Eminence,
except only the chains.”
Zuhri says: After some time I
went to meet Abdul Malik. He inquired about Imam Sajjad (a.s.) and I informed
him about the incident. He said: At that time when the guards missed him, Imam
Sajjad (a.s.) came to me and chastened me saying: What have you got to do with
me? Why are you confronting me? I was terrified and I said: “I wished to have
you besides me.” He said: “I don’t like [to remain with you].” Then he went
away.
(Isbaatul Wilayah of Ayatullah Haaj Shaykh Ali Namazi
Shahroodi (r.a.) Section Six: Power of Prophet and Holy Imams (a.s.) on face
and body of human being, Manaqib Ibne Shahr Ashob in the chapter of the miracles of Imam Sajjad (a.s.), Madinatul
Maajiz, pg. 309)
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