Imam Al-Sadiq

Also al- Sadiq was clement with his servants and all people. For instance, he sent a servant of
his to get him a certain need. The servant was late. So, al- Sadiq went out to look for him. He
found the servant sleeping. Al- Sadiq sat by his head fanning him till he woke. When the
servant woke, al- Sadiq said nothing but: "Servant, why do you sleep day and night - night is
for you, and day is for us."(267)
One day, al- Sadiq sent a non- Arab servant to bring him a certain need. When the servant
came back, al- Sadiq, peace be on him, questioned him, but he was unable to answer. Al-
Sadiq repeated the question several times, but the servant was still unable to answer. Anyhow,
al- Sadiq did not become angry with him, he mere Looked sharply at him, and then said to
him: "If your tongue is tired, then your heart is not tired." Then al- Sadiq, peace be on him,
added: "Indeed, modesty, chastity, and tiredness (the tiredness of the tongue not of the heart)
are acts of belief, while obscenity, abusiveness, and insolence are acts of hypocrisy."(268)
Al- Sadiq, peace be on him, prevented the members of his house from going up to the house.
One day a female slave, who looked after his children, went up to the house carrying a child
of his. Suddenly, al- Sadiq came into the house. When the female slave saw him, she trembled
with fear. So, the child fell down the ground and died. Al- Sadiq turned pale and went out of
the house. When he was asked about the reason why he had turned pale, he answered: 'I have
turned pale because I have terrified the female slave, not because of the death of the child.'
Moreover, he said to her: "Don't worry,. You are free for Allah!"(269)
Al- Sadiq, peace be on him, was clement with all people. For example, a man of the pilgrims
in Medina slept. The man thought that his bag (of money) had been stolen. He went out. He
saw al- Sadiq praying. He accused him of stealing, saying to him: "You have taken my bag!"
"What was in your bag?" asked al- Sadiq. "One thousand dinars," answered the man. So, al-
Sadiq took the man with him to his house and gave him one thousand dinars. The man came
back home and found his bag. Then he came back to al- Sadiq, gave him the money, and
apologized to him for that. Then the man asked some people about al- Sadiq. They said: "This
is Ja'far al- Sadiq." "No wonder!" said the man.
Al- Sadiq, peace be on him, was clement even with his arch enemies. When al- Mansur
permitted al- Sadiq to leave al- Hira (a town in Iraq), he (al- Sadiq) left it at night. When he
reached the place of the armed men, one of them said to him: "I will not let you go!" Al-
Sadiq begged him several times, but the armed man refused that. Murazim (al- Sadiq's
companion) and Musadif (his servant) accompanied al- Sadiq. Musadif said to him: "May I be
ransom for you! This dog (i.e. the armed man) has hurt you! I think that he will bring you
back. I do not know how Abu Ja'far al- Mansur will treat you. So, permit Murazim and I to
behead him and to throw him into the river." No,' said al- Sadiq. Then he went on convincing
that armed man till most of night was over. At last, the armed man let them pass. So, al- Sadiq
said: "Murazim, is this better or what you have said?" I (Murazim) said: "May I be ransom for
you, this is better...."(270)