IMAM REZA

: IMAM-E-ZAAMIN (Guarantor)
There is a hadith of the Holy Prophet Mumammad (saw) that when you travel, you should give charity (Sadaqah). So is it not better to give the money of Imam-e-Zaamin before you go on your journey rather than when you get back, so that it may reach the poor quicker.
It is said that the Sura Tawheed (Sura Ikhlas), if written and cut into two halves, one given to the traveller and the other left at his home, will always come together again and so ensure the safe journey of the traveller.
The king at the time of our 8th Imam, Imam Reza as was Mamoon Rashid son of Haroon Rashid. Mamoon Rashid had forced Imam Reza as. to take the position of his heir apparent (i.e. Imam Reza as was supposed to take over as king after Mamoon Rashid); because he wanted to be accepted by the Shias. Although Imam Reza as did not want to take this position, Imam Reza as made full use of it to preach Islam openly. To show to the people how much he thought of Imam Reza as, Mamoon Rashid changed the colour of his court from black to green [the colour of the Imam Reza as], Mamoon RAShid also had new coins made with Imam Reza's as name on it.
Each Imam is remembered for a specific thing: Eg: 4th Imam, Imam Zainul Abideen

- In illness. 6th Imam, Imam Jafar Sadiq

- For sustenance. And in the same way our 8th Imam, Imam Reza as is called upon when someone is about to go on a journey.
The eight Imam, Imam Reza as is also called as Imam-e-Zaamin. When Muslims go on journeys they take with them something called Imam-e-Zaamin (another name for Imam Reza as which is some money tied in a cloth. This tradition probably came from the time of Imam Reza as when people used to carry money with them especially because it had Holy Imam's name on it. As Mamoon Rashid, the Abbasid caliph the contemporary of Imam Reza as, had coins minted with the name of Imam Reza as on them, it was very easy for the Muslims to carry the name of Imam Reza as with them, especially when they went on journeys.
Imam Reza

is also known as Imam-e-Zaamin . Zaamin means "The Guarantor".
One day when Imam Reza as was on his historical journey from Madina to Marw (Khurasan), while in a jungle Imam Reza as came across a hunter who was about to kill a deer. The deer was trying to get away and when she saw Holy Imam Reza as, she said something to him. Imam Reza as Asked the hunter to free the deer so that she could go and feed her little baby deers who were very hungry. Imam Reza as also told the hunter that once the deer had fed her babies she would come back. The hunter allowed the deer to go because Imam Reza as had told him to, but he did not think the deer will come back. But Imam Reza as waited with the hunter until the deer returned with her young ones. The hunter was amazed on witnessing this miraculous event and he set the deer free AS a mark of respect for Imam Reza. After this historical event Imam Reza became famous as Imam-e-Zaamin .
The famous artist of the contemporary world, Ustad Mahmud Farshchiyan hAS depicted this historical event in this beautiful masterpiece iconograph entitled "Zaamin-e-Aahu" (The Guarantor of the Deer).
(Manazile Akherah by Shaykh Abbas bin Muhammad Reza Al-Qummi, pg. 62)
Imam Sadiq (as) "Everything has a foundation, and the foundation of Islam is our affection for the household of our Prophet."