I have to repay my debts to a lot of people. So take me to the bazaar so that I might inform them about it.
So he was brought to the bazaar as per the orders of Dawud and when people gathered around him he said,
“O people, I am Mualla bin Khunais. Be witness that all my property and the loans that I have taken, all my slaves and slave girls, my house and landed properties, all of it I am leaving to Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a). He would be the owner of all my properties.”
After that the police officers brought him back to Dawud and the latter executed him.
When Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a) received the news of Mualla’s martyrdom, he said,
“By God, he has entered Paradise.”
Then Imam (a) took along his son, Ismail, with him, came to Dawud bin Ali and said,
“You have slain my slave and seized my property.”
Dawud: I have neither killed him nor seized your property.
Imam: By God, I would invoke curse on the one, who killed my slave and seized my property.
Dawud: I told you that I have neither killed him nor seized your property. My officer did that.
Imam: He did it with your permission or without it?
Dawud: He did it without my permission.
Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a) said to his son, Ismail, “Son, lift the sword and eliminate the officer in retaliation of Mualla’s murder.”
Ismail executed the police officer.
Hammad says: Masma told me in the words of Motab that after leaving Dawud, Imam (a) returned home and spent the whole night in prayers and devotions and in the last part of the night, he recited the following supplication in prostration:
“O Allah, I ask You by Your strong power and by Your severe hold and Your might before which all that You have created is humiliated that you bless Muhammad and progeny of Muhammad and that You seize him at this moment.”
The narrator says: By God, the Imam had hardly lifted his head from prostration that wails and cries arose from the Governor House and it was said that Dawud bin Ali died.
Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a) said, “I invoked divine curse on him. So Almighty Allah sent one of His angels who hit his head with a sledge hammer and his brain shattered.”1
Ibne Shahr Ashob has narrated the following traditional report from Abu Basir:
When Dawud bin Ali bin Abdullah bin Abbas killed Mualla bin Khunais and usurped his property, Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a) went to him and said,
“You killed my servant and usurped my property. Do you not know that a person can go to sleep after the death of his son, but he cannot sleep on the loss of his property? By God, I would invoke curse upon you.”
Dawud ridiculed, “Do you threaten me with your curse?”
Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a) came home and spent the whole night in prayers and devotions. Dawud sent five of his officers with the instruction to bring Ja’far Ibne Muhammad to him. “If he refuses to comply, cut off his head and bring it to me.”
When Dawud’s officers reached the Imam’s residence the latter was praying. They told him, “Dawud has summoned you; please come with us.”
“What if I don’t want to go?” asked the Imam.
They said, “We would cut off your head and take it to him.”
Upon this Imam (a) raised both his hands and placed them on his shoulders. Then he stretched them. Then he raised his thumb and recited: Now! Now! Seize him now! Seize him now!
As soon as he concluded, screams and wails were heard from Dawud’s castle. Imam (a) said to then officers,
“Your master his dead! Go back now.”
Then he said,
“He sent his officers to eliminate me and I cursed him through the Great Name of God (Isme Azim). Almighty Allah dispatched an angel with a spear who hit upon his brain killing him.”
Manaqib, Ibne Shahr Ashob, Vol. 4, Pg. 230-231, Miracles of Ahlulbayt (a.s. ) - Vol. 3,Pg.25
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