Page "Ali al-Hadi" Paragraph 2

According to Shi ' a accounts, after his father's assassination at the will of Al-Mu ' tasim, the Abbasid caliph ordered Umar bin al-Faraj to find a teacher in Medina for the young Imam that would preach hatred toward the Ahl al-Bayt.

After finding al-Junaydi to perform the task, the teacher set to work.

However, al-Junaydi often reported on the Imam's intelligence.

Imam al-Hadi would often provide perspectives on literature that al-Junaydi hadn't thought of, and at his young age he had even developed a comprehensive understanding of the Qu ' ran and the revelations within.

Al-Junaydi, impressed and astounded by the young boy, concluded that it could only be by divine causes that the Imam could be so knowledgeable, and in doing so he dropped what animosity he had held towards the family of the Prophet.