بحار الأنوار

BIHAR AL-ANWAAR

ج 28

Volume 28

بحار الانوار الجامعة لدرر أخبار الائمة الاطهار

Bihar Al-Anwaar – The summary of the pearls of the Ahadeeth of the Pure Imamsasws

تأليف العلامة فخر الامة المولى الشيخ محمد باقر المجلسيى

Author – The Allama, the pride of the community, the Mullah, the Sheikh Muhammad Baqir Al Majlisi

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE BOOK OF FITNA (STRIFE) AND ORDEALS

CHAPTER 1 – DIVISION OF THE COMMUNITY AFTER THE PROPHETsaww UPON SEVENTY-THREE SECTS, AND IT FLOWS IN THEM WHAT HAD FLOWED IN OTHERS FROM THE COMMUNITIES AND THEIR APOSTASY FROM THE RELIGION

CHAPTER 2 – ALLAHazwj EXALTED INFORMING HISazwj PROPHETsaww, AND THE PROPHETsaww INFORMING HISsaww COMMUNITY WITH WHAT WOULD BEFALL UPON PEOPLEasws OF HISsaww HOUSEHOLD, FROM THE INJUSTICES AND THE AGGRESSION

CHAPTER 3 – PREAMBLE TO USURPATION OF THE CALIPHATE, AND STORY OF THE ACCURSED AGREEMENT

CHAPTER 4 – COMMENTARY ON THE CONVENING OF THE SAQEEFA AND ITS PROCEDURE

كتاب الفتن و المحن‏

THE BOOK OF FITNA (STRIFE) AND ORDEALS

باب 1 افتراق الأمة بعد النبي ص على ثلاث و سبعين فرقة و أنه يجري فيهم ما جرى في غيرهم من الأمم و ارتدادهم عن الدين‏

CHAPTER 1 – DIVISION OF THE COMMUNITY AFTER THE PROPHETsaww UPON SEVENTY-THREE SECTS, AND IT FLOWS IN THEM WHAT HAD FLOWED IN OTHERS FROM THE COMMUNITIES AND THEIR APOSTASY FROM THE RELIGION

الآيات الأحزاب‏ سُنَّةَ اللَّهِ فِي الَّذِينَ خَلَوْا مِنْ قَبْلُ وَ لَنْ تَجِدَ لِسُنَّةِ اللَّهِ تَبْدِيلًا

The Verses – (Surah) Al Ahzaab: Being a Sunnah of Allah regarding those who have gone before, and you will never find any alteration in the Sunnah of Allah [33:62]

فاطر فَهَلْ يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَّا سُنَّتَ الْأَوَّلِينَ فَلَنْ تَجِدَ لِسُنَّتِ اللَّهِ تَبْدِيلًا وَ لَنْ تَجِدَ لِسُنَّتِ اللَّهِ تَحْوِيلًا

(Surah) Faatir: So, are they awaiting except for the ways of the former ones? You will never find a replacement in the Sunnah of Allah, and you will never find an alteration in the Sunnah of Allah [35:43]

الإنشقاق‏ فَلا أُقْسِمُ بِالشَّفَقِ وَ اللَّيْلِ وَ ما وَسَقَ وَ الْقَمَرِ إِذَا اتَّسَقَ لَتَرْكَبُنَّ طَبَقاً عَنْ طَبَقٍ‏

(Surah) Al Inshiqaq: But no! I swear by the redness at sunset [84:16] And the night and that which it drives on [84:17] And the moon when it becomes full [84:18] You will be indulging in a state after a state [84:19].

1- ل، الخصال ابْنُ بُنْدَارَ عَنْ مُجَاهِدِ بْنِ أَعْيَنَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ عَنِ ابْنِ لَهِيعَةَ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي هِلَالٍ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ إِنَّ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ تَفَرَّقَتْ عَلَى عِيسَى ع إِحْدَى وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً فَهَلَكَ سَبْعُونَ فِرْقَةً وَ تَخَلَّصَ فِرْقَةٌ وَ إِنَّ أُمَّتِي سَتَفَرَّقُ عَلَى اثْنَتَيْنِ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً فَتَهْلِكُ إِحْدَى وَ سَبْعُونَ وَ تَتَخَلَّصُ فِرْقَةٌ

(The book) ‘Al Khisaal’ – Ibn Bundar, from Mujahid Bin Ayn, from Muhammad Bin Al Fazl, from Ibn Tahiya, from Saeed Bin Abu Hilal, from Anas Bin Malik (well-known fabricator) who said,

‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘The children of Israel divided upon Isaas into seventy-one sects. So, seventy are destroyed and one sect would be cleared; and mysaww community would be divided upon seventy-two sects, so seventy-one would be destroyed and one sect would be cleared’.

قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَنْ تِلْكَ الْفِرْقَةُ قَالَ الْجَمَاعَةُ الْجَمَاعَةُ.

They said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Who is that sect?’ Hesaww said: ‘The community! The community!’’¹

2- شي، تفسير العياشي عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ‏ تَفَرَّقَتْ أُمَّةُ مُوسَى ع عَلَى إِحْدَى وَ سَبْعِينَ مِلَّةً سَبْعُونَ مِنْهَا فِي النَّارِ وَ وَاحِدَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ تَفَرَّقَتْ أُمَّةُ عِيسَى ع عَلَى اثْنَتَيْنِ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً إِحْدَى وَ سَبْعُونَ فِرْقَةً فِي النَّارِ وَ وَاحِدَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ تَعْلُو أُمَّتِي عَلَى الْفِرْقَتَيْنِ جَمِيعاً بِمِلَّةٍ وَاحِدَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ ثِنْتَانِ وَ سَبْعُونَ فِي النَّارِ

Tafseer Al Qummi – From Zayd Bin Aslam, from Anas Bin Malik (well-known fabricator) who said,

‘Rasool-Allahsaww was saying: ‘The community of Musaas divided into seventy-one nations, seventy of these would be in the Fire and one would be in the Paradise; and the community of Isaas divided into seventy-two sects, and seventy-one sects would be in the Fire and one would be in the Paradise; and mysaww community would rise upon two sects in their entirety, one would be in the Paradise, and seventy-two would be in the Fire’.

قَالُوا مَنْ هُمْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ الْجَمَاعَاتُ الْجَمَاعَاتُ

They said, ‘Who are they, O Rasool-Allahsaww?’ Hesaww said: ‘The community’’.

قَالَ يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ كَانَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع إِذَا حَدَّثَ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص تَلَا فِيهِ قُرْآناً وَ لَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ الْكِتابِ آمَنُوا وَ اتَّقَوْا لَكَفَّرْنا عَنْهُمْ‏ سَيِّئاتِهِمْ‏ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ ساءَ ما يَعْمَلُونَ‏ وَ تَلَا أَيْضاً وَ مِمَّنْ خَلَقْنا أُمَّةٌ يَهْدُونَ بِالْحَقِّ وَ بِهِ يَعْدِلُونَ‏ يَعْنِي أُمَّةَ مُحَمَّدٍ ص‏.

Yaqoub Bin Yazeed said, ‘Whenever Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws narrated this Hadeeth from Rasool-Allahsaww recited Quran during it: And if the People of the Book were to believe and fear, We would Expiate their evil deeds from them [5:65] – up to Hisazwj Words: evil is what they are doing [5:66]. And heasws recited as well: And from the ones We Created there is a community Guiding with the Truth and by it they are dispensing justice [7:181] – meaning community of Muhammadsaww’’.²

3- ل، الخصال الْعِجْلِيُّ عَنِ ابْنِ زَكَرِيَّا الْقَطَّانِ عَنِ ابْنِ حَبِيبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ بُهْلُولٍ عَنْ أَبِي مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ مِهْرَانَ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ‏ إِنَّ أُمَّةَ مُوسَى ع افْتَرَقَتْ بَعْدَهُ عَلَى إِحْدَى وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً فِرْقَةٌ مِنْهَا نَاجِيَةٌ وَ سَبْعُونَ فِي النَّارِ

(The book) ‘Al Khisaal’ – Al Ijaly, from Ibn Zakariya Al Qatan, from Ibn Habeeb, from Ibn Bahloul, from Abu Muawiya, from Suleyman Bin Mihran,

‘From Ja’farasws Bin Muhammadasws, from hisasws fatherasws, from hisasws grandfatherasws, from hisasws father Al-Husaynasws Bin Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws having said: ‘I heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘The community of Musaas divided after himas into seventy-one sects, a sect from it is with salvation and seventy would be in the Fire.

وَ افْتَرَقَتْ أُمَّةُ عِيسَى ع بَعْدَهُ عَلَى اثْنَتَيْنِ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً فِرْقَةٌ مِنْهَا نَاجِيَةٌ وَ إِحْدَى وَ سَبْعُونَ فِي النَّارِ وَ إِنَّ أُمَّتِي سَتَفَرَّقُ بَعْدِي عَلَى ثَلَاثٍ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً فِرْقَةٌ مِنْهَا نَاجِيَةٌ وَ اثْنَتَانِ وَ سَبْعُونَ فِي النَّارِ.

And the community of Isaas divided after himas into seventy-two sects, a sect from it is with salvation and seventy-one would be in the Fire; and mysaww community would be dividing after mesaww upon seventy-three sects, a sect from it is with salvation and seventy-two would be in the Fire’’.³

4- مع، معاني الأخبار مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ التَّمِيمِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِدْرِيسَ الشَّامِيِّ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْمُحَارِبِيِّ عَنِ الْإِفْرِيقِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ سَيَأْتِي عَلَى أُمَّتِي مَا أَتَى عَلَى بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مِثْلٌ بِمِثْلٍ وَ إِنَّهُمْ تَفَرَّقُوا عَلَى اثْنَتَيْنِ وَ سَبْعِينَ مِلَّةً وَ سَتَفَرَّقُ أُمَّتِي عَلَى ثَلَاثٍ وَ سَبْعِينَ مِلَّةً تَزِيدُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَاحِدَةً كُلُّهَا فِي النَّارِ غَيْرَ وَاحِدَةٍ

(The book) ‘Ma’any Al Akhbar’ – Muhammad Bin Ahmad Al Tameemi, from Muhammad Bin Idrees Al Shamy, from Is’haq Bin Israel, from Abdul Rahman Bin Muhammad Al Muharby, from Al Ifriqy, from Abdullah Bin Yazeed, from Abdullah Bin Umar who said,

‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘There will come upon mysaww community what came upon the children of Israel, like with like, and they would be dividing into seventy-two nations, and mysaww community will be dividing upon seventy-three nations, one increased upon them. All of these would be in the Fire apart from one’.

قَالَ قِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ مَا تِلْكَ الْوَاحِدَةُ قَالَ هُوَ مَا نَحْنُ عَلَيْهِ الْيَوْمَ أَنَا وَ أَهْلُ بَيْتِي‏.

He (the narrator) said, ‘It was said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! And what is that one?’ Hesaww said: ‘It is what we are upon today, Isaww and Peopleasws of mysaww Household’’.⁴

5- ج، الإحتجاج رُوِيَ عَنْ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع‏ أَنَّهُ قَالَ لِرَأْسِ الْيَهُودِ عَلَى كَمِ افْتَرَقْتُمْ قَالَ عَلَى كَذَا وَ كَذَا فِرْقَةً فَقَالَ ع كَذَبْتَ

(The book) ‘Al-Ihtijaj’ – It is reported from Amir Al-Momineenasws having said to the chief of the Jews: ‘Into how many have you divided?’ He said, ‘Into such and such sects’. Heasws said: ‘You are lying’.

ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَى النَّاسِ فَقَالَ وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ ثُنِيَتْ لِيَ الْوِسَادَةُ لَقَضَيْتُ بَيْنَ أَهْلِ التَّوْرَاةِ بِتَوْرَاتِهِمْ وَ بَيْنَ أَهْلِ الْإِنْجِيلِ بِإِنْجِيلِهِمْ وَ بَيْنَ أَهْلِ الْقُرْآنِ بِقُرْآنِهِمْ

Then heasws faced towards the people and said: ‘By Allahazwj! If the platform were to be set up for me, Iasws would judge between the people of the Torah by their Torah, and between the people of the Enagel by their Evangel, and between the people of the Quran by their Quran.

افْتَرَقَتِ الْيَهُودُ عَلَى إِحْدَى وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً سَبْعُونَ مِنْهَا فِي‏ النَّارِ وَ وَاحِدَةٌ نَاجِيَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ هِيَ الَّتِي اتَّبَعَتْ يُوشَعَ بْنَ نُونٍ وَصِيَّ مُوسَى ع وَ افْتَرَقَتِ النَّصَارَى عَلَى اثْنَتَيْنِ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً إِحْدَى وَ سَبْعُونَ فِي النَّارِ وَ وَاحِدَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ هِيَ الَّتِي اتَّبَعَتْ شَمْعُونَ وَصِيَّ عِيسَى ع

The Jews divided into seventy-one sects, seventy of these are in the Fire and one would attain salvation being in the Paradise, and it is which followed Yoshua Bin Nounas, successoras of Musaasws; and the Christians divided into seventy-two sects, seventy-one would be in the Fire and one would be in the Paradise, and it is which followed Shamounas, successoras of Isaas.

وَ تَفْتَرِقُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ عَلَى ثَلَاثٍ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً اثْنَتَانِ وَ سَبْعُونَ فِرْقَةً فِي النَّارِ وَ وَاحِدَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ هِيَ الَّتِي اتَّبَعَتْ وَصِيَّ مُحَمَّدٍ ص وَ ضَرَبَ بِيَدِهِ عَلَى صَدْرِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ ثَلَاثَ عَشْرَةَ فِرْقَةً مِنَ الثَّلَاثِ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً كُلُّهَا تَنْتَحِلُ مَوَدَّتِي وَ حُبِّي وَاحِدَةٌ مِنْهَا فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ هُمُ النَّمَطُ الْأَوْسَطُ وَ اثْنَتَا عَشْرَةَ فِي النَّارِ.

And this community will divide into seventy three sects, seventy-two sects would be in the Fire and one in the Paradise, and it is which would have followed the successorasws of Muhammadsaww’ – and hesaww struck with hissaww hand upon hissaww chest, then said: ‘Thirteen sects from the seventy-three sects, all of these would be arrogating mysaww cordiality and mysaww love, one of these would be in the Paradise, and they are the ones of moderate style, and twelve would be in the Fire’’.⁵

6 ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي بإسناد المجاشعي عن الصادق ع عن آبائه ع‏ مثله‏:

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi, by a chain of Al Mujashie,

‘From Al-Sadiqasws, from hisasws forefathersasws – similar to it’’.⁶

7- شي، تفسير العياشي عَنْ أَبِي الصُّهْبَانِ الْبَكْرِيِّ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع وَ قَدْ دَعَا رَأْسَ الْجَالُوتِ وَ أُسْقُفَّ النَّصَارَى فَقَالَ إِنِّي سَائِلُكُمَا عَنْ أَمْرٍ وَ أَنَا أَعْلَمُ بِهِ مِنْكُمَا فَلَا تَكْتُمَانِي

Tafseer Al Ayyashi – From Abu Al Sohban Al Bakry who said,

‘I heard Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, and heasws had called the chief of the Jews and a bishop of the Christians and heasws said: ‘Iasws ask you two about a matter, and although Iasws am more knowing with it than you both, therefore do not hide it from measws.

يَا رَأْسَ الْجَالُوتِ بِالَّذِي أَنْزَلَ التَّوْرَاةَ عَلَى مُوسَى ع وَ أَطْعَمَكُمُ‏ الْمَنَّ وَ السَّلْوى‏* وَ ضَرَبَ لَكُمْ فِي الْبَحْرِ طَرِيقاً يَبَساً وَ فَجَّرَ لَكُمْ مِنَ الْحَجَرِ الطُّورِيِّ اثْنَتَيْ عَشْرَةَ عَيْناً لِكُلِّ سِبْطٍ مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ عَيْناً إِلَّا مَا أَخْبَرْتَنِي عَلَى كَمِ افْتَرَقَتْ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ بَعْدَ مُوسَى فَقَالَ وَ لَا إِلَّا فِرْقَةً وَاحِدَةً

O chief of the Jews! By the Oneazwj Who Revealed the Torah unto Musaas and Fed you the manna and the quails, and Struck a dry path for you in the sea, and Burst for you twelve spring from the solid rock, a spring for every tribe from the children of Israel, only inform measws, into how many did the children of Israel divide after Musaas?’ He said, ‘And no, except (we are) one sect’.

فَقَالَ كَذَبْتَ وَ الَّذِي لَا إِلَهَ‏ غَيْرُهُ لَقَدِ افْتَرَقَتْ عَلَى إِحْدَى وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً كُلُّهَا فِي النَّارِ إِلَّا وَاحِدَةً فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يَقُولُ‏ وَ مِنْ قَوْمِ مُوسى‏ أُمَّةٌ يَهْدُونَ بِالْحَقِّ وَ بِهِ يَعْدِلُونَ‏ فَهَذِهِ الَّتِي تَنْجُو.

Heasws said: ‘You are lying! By the Oneazwj Who there is no god other than Himazwj! You (Jews) have divided into seventy-one sect, all of these would be in the Fire except one, for Allahazwj is Saying: And from the people of Musa there is a community is guiding with the Truth and by it they are dispensing justice [7:159]. So this is which will attain salvation’’.⁷

8- شي، تفسير العياشي أَبُو الصُّهْبَانِ الْبَكْرِيُّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع يَقُولُ‏ وَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَتَفَرَّقَنَّ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ عَلَى ثَلَاثٍ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً كُلُّهَا فِي النَّارِ إِلَّا فِرْقَةً وَ مِمَّنْ خَلَقْنا أُمَّةٌ يَهْدُونَ بِالْحَقِّ وَ بِهِ يَعْدِلُونَ‏ فَهَذِهِ الَّتِي تَنْجُو مِنْ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ.

Tafseer Al Ayyashi – Abu Al Suhban Al Bakry who said,

‘I heard Amir Al-Momineenasws saying: ‘By the Oneazwj is Whose Hand is myasws soul! This community will be dividing into seventy-three sects, all of these would be in the Fire except a sect, And from the ones We Created there is a community Guiding with the Truth and by it they are dispensing justice [7:181]. So, this is the one from this community which would attain salvation’’.⁸

9- شي، تفسير العياشي عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ قَالَ قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع‏ وَ مِمَّنْ خَلَقْنا أُمَّةٌ يَهْدُونَ بِالْحَقِّ وَ بِهِ يَعْدِلُونَ‏ قَالَ يَعْنِي أُمَّةَ مُحَمَّدٍ ص‏.

Tafseer Al Ayyashi – Yaqoub Bin Yazeed who said,

‘Amir Al-Momineenasws said: ‘And from the ones We Created there is a community Guiding with the Truth and by it they are dispensing justice [7:181]. Heasws said: ‘It means the community of Muhammadsaww’’.

قال الطبرسي رحمه الله تعالى رَوَى ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص أَنَّهُ قَالَ: هِيَ لِأُمَّتِي بِالْحَقِّ يَأْخُذُونَ وَ بِالْحَقِّ يُعْطَوْنَ وَ قَدْ أُعْطِيَ الْقَوْمُ بَيْنَ أَيْدِيكُمْ مِثْلَهَا وَ مِنْ قَوْمِ مُوسى‏ أُمَّةٌ يَهْدُونَ بِالْحَقِّ وَ بِهِ يَعْدِلُونَ‏.

Al Tabarsy said, ‘It is reported by Ibn Jureyj,

‘From the Prophetsaww having said: ‘It is mysaww community, taking with the truth, and giving with the truth, and the group in front of you have been given similar to it: And from the people of Musa there is a community guiding with the Truth and by it they were dispensing justice [7:159]’’.

وَ قَالَ الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ‏ قَرَأَ النَّبِيُّ ص هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ فَقَالَ إِنَّ مِنْ أُمَّتِي قَوْماً عَلَى الْحَقِّ حَتَّى يَنْزِلَ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ.

And Al Rabi’e Bin Anas said,

‘The Prophetsaww recited this Verse and said: ‘There is a group from mysaww community upon the truth, until Isaas Ibn Maryamas descends’’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ وَ رُوِيَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ وَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع أَنَّهَما قَالا نَحْنُ هُمْ‏.

Then he said, ‘And it is reported from Abu Ja’farasws and Abu Abdullahasws both having said: ‘Weasws are they’’. ⁹

10- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي أَبُو عَمْرٍو عَنِ ابْنِ عُقْدَةَ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي مَعْشَرٍ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص قَالَ: تَأْخُذُونَ‏ كَمَا أَخَذَتِ الْأُمَمُ مِنْ قِبْلِكُمْ ذِرَاعاً بِذِرَاعِ وَ شِبْراً بِشِبْرٍ وَ بَاعاً بِبَاعٍ حَتَّى لَوْ أَنَّ أَحَداً مِنْ أُولَئِكَ دَخَلَ جُحْرَ ضَبٍّ لَدَخَلْتُمُوهُ

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – Abu Amro, from Ibn Uqda, from Ahmad Bin Yahya, from Abdul Rahman, from his father, from Abu ma’shar, from Saeed, from Abu Hureyra (well-known fabricator),

‘From the Prophetsaww having said: ‘You will be taking just as the communities from before you took to, cubit by cubit, palm width by palm width, and arms length by arms length, to the extent that if anyone of them had entered a lizard hole, you will be entering it’.

قَالَ‏ قَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ وَ إِنْ شِئْتُمْ فَاقْرَءُوا الْقُرْآنَ‏ كَالَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ كانُوا أَشَدَّ مِنْكُمْ قُوَّةً وَ أَكْثَرَ أَمْوالًا وَ أَوْلاداً فَاسْتَمْتَعُوا بِخَلاقِهِمْ‏ قَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ وَ الْخَلَاقُ الدِّينُ‏ فَاسْتَمْتَعْتُمْ بِخَلاقِكُمْ كَمَا اسْتَمْتَعَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ بِخَلاقِهِمْ‏ حَتَّى فَرَغَ مِنَ الْآيَةِ

He (Abu Saeed) said, ‘Abu Hureyra (well-known fabricator) said, ‘And if you like you can read the Quran: Like those from before you; they were stronger than you in power and more abundant in wealth and children. So they enjoyed their portion, and you are enjoying your portion just as those before you enjoyed their portion; [9:69] – until he was free from the Verse.

قَالُوا يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ فَمَا صَنَعَتِ الْيَهُودُ وَ النَّصَارَى قَالَ وَ مَا النَّاسُ إِلَّا هُمْ‏.

They said, ‘O Prophetsaww of Allahazwj! So what did the Jews and the Christians do?’ Hesaww said: ‘And what are the people except them?’’

وَ قَالَ وَرَدَتِ الرِّوَايَةُ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ‏ أَنَّهُ قَالَ فِي هَذِهِ الْآيَةِ مَا أَشْبَهَ اللَّيْلَةَ بِالْبَارِحَةِ كَالَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ هَؤُلَاءِ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلُ شُبِّهْنَا بِهِمْ لَا أَعْلَمُ إِلَّا أَنَّهُ قَالَ وَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَتَتَّبَعُنَّهُمْ حَتَّى لَوْ دَخَلَ الرَّجُلُ مِنْهُمْ جُحْرَ ضَبٍّ لَدَخَلْتُمُوهُ‏.

And he said, ‘The reports have come from Ibn Abbas having said regarding this Verse, ‘How resembling is last night like those from before you, those children of Israel we resemble with them. I don’t know except hesaww said: ‘By the Oneazwj in Whose Hand is mysaww soul! You will follow them to the extent that if the man from them entered into a lizard hole, you will (also) enter it’’.

وَ رُوِيَ مِثْلُ ذَلِكَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص قَالَ: لَتَأْخُذُنَّ كَمَا أَخَذَتِ الْأُمَمُ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ ذِرَاعاً بِذِرَاعٍ وَ شِبْراً بِشِبْرٍ وَ بَاعاً بِبَاعٍ حَتَّى لَوْ أَنَّ أَحَداً مِنْ أُولَئِكَ دَخَلَ جُحْرَ ضَبٍّ لَدَخَلْتُمُوهُ

And similar to that is reported from Abu Hureyra (well-known fabricator), from Abu Saeed Al Khudry,

‘From the Prophetsaww having said: ‘You will be taking to just as the communities from before you took to, cubit by cubit, and palms width by palms width, and arms length by arms length, to the extent that if one of them had entered a lizard hole, you will be entering it’.

قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَمَا صَنَعَتْ فَارِسُ وَ الرُّومُ وَ أَهْلُ الْكِتَابِ قَالَ فَهَلِ النَّاسُ إِلَّا هُمْ‏.

They said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Just as the Persians and the Romans and the people of the Book have done?’ Hesaww said: ‘And are the people except them?’’

وَ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ أَنْتُمْ أَشْبَهُ الْأُمَمِ بِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ سَمْتاً وَ هَدْياً تَتَّبِعُونَ عَمَلَهُمْ حَذْوَ الْقُذَّةِ بِالْقُذَّةِ غَيْرَ أَنِّي لَا أَدْرِي أَ تَعْبُدُونَ الْعِجْلَ أَمْ لَا.

And Abdullah Bin Masoud said, ‘You resemble the community of the children of Israel, in ways and guidance. You will be following their deeds, like feathers in a quiver, apart from that Isaww do not know whether you will be worshipping the calf or not’’.

قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ الْمُنَافِقُونَ الَّذِينَ فِيكُمُ الْيَوْمَ شَرٌّ مِنَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص قُلْنَا وَ كَيْفَ قَالَ أُولَئِكَ كَانُوا يُخْفُونَ نِفَاقَهُمْ وَ هَؤُلَاءِ أَعْلَنُوهُ.

Huzeyfa said, ‘The hypocrites, those among you today are eviler than the hypocrites - those who were in the era of Rasool-Allahsaww’. We said, ‘And how come?’ He said, ‘They used to hide their hypocrisy, and they are being open with it’’.¹⁰

11- فس، تفسير القمي‏ لَتَرْكَبُنَّ طَبَقاً عَنْ طَبَقٍ‏ يَقُولُ حَالًا بَعْدَ حَالٍ لَتَرْكَبُنَّ سُنَّةَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ حَذْوَ النَّعْلِ بِالنَّعْلِ وَ الْقُذَّةِ بِالْقُذَّةِ لَا تُخْطِئُونَ طَرِيقَهُمْ وَ لَا يُخْطِئُ شِبْرٌ بِشِبْرٍ وَ ذِرَاعٌ بِذِرَاعٍ وَ بَاعٌ بِبَاعٍ حَتَّى أَنْ لَوْ كَانَ مَنْ قَبْلَكُمْ دَخَلَ جُحْرَ ضَبٍّ لَدَخَلْتُمُوهُ

Tafseer Al-Qummi - You will be indulging in a state after a state [84:19] – (Rasool-Allahsaww) said: ‘State after a state, you will be riding the ways of the ones who were before you, step of the slipper with the slipper, and the arrow with the arrow (in a quiver), not erring from their ways, nor erring a palm’s width by a palm’s width, and a cubit by a cubit, and an arm’s length by an arm’s length. If the ones before you entered a lizard hole, you will (also) enter it’.

قَالُوا الْيَهُودَ وَ النَّصَارَى تَعْنِي يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ فَمَنْ أَعْنِي لَتَنْقُضُنَّ عُرَى الْإِسْلَامِ عُرْوَةً عُرْوَةً فَيَكُونُ أَوَّلُ مَا تَنْقُضُونَ مِنْ دِينِكُمُ الْأَمَانَةَ وَ آخِرُهُ الصَّلَاةَ.

They said, ‘The Jews and the Christians, yousaww mean, O Rasool-Allahsaww?’ Hesaww said: ‘So who (else) do Isaww mean? You will be invalidating the Handhold of Al-Islam, handhold by handhold. The first of what you will be invalidating from your Religion is the Entrustment, and the next one, the Salat’’.¹¹

12- جا، المجالس للمفيد مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْجَوَّانِيُّ عَنِ الْمُظَفَّرِ الْعَلَوِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ الْعَيَّاشِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ نُصَيْرِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ حَفْصٍ عَنْ خَالِدٍ الْقَطَوَانِيِّ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ أَرْقَمَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي الْخَنْسَاءِ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ فَرْوَةَ الظَّفَارِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَلْمَانَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ يَقُولُ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ تَفْتَرِقُ أُمَّتِي ثَلَاثَ فِرَقٍ فِرْقَةٌ عَلَى الْحَقِّ لَا يَنْقُصُ الْبَاطِلُ مِنْهُ شَيْئاً يُحِبُّونَنِي وَ يُحِبُّونَ أَهْلَ بَيْتِي

(The book) ‘Al Majalis’ of Al Mufeed – Muhammad Bin Al Husayn Al Jawwany, from Al Muzaffer Al Alawy, from Ibn Al Ayyashi, from his father, from Nuseyr Bin Ahmad, from Ali Bin Hafs, from Khalid Al Qatwany, from Yunus Bin Arqam, from Abdul Hameed Bin Abu Al Khansa, from Zyad Bin Yazeed, from his father, from grandfather of Farwat Al Zafary who said,

‘I heard Salman Al-Farsira saying, ‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘My community will divide into sects. (One) sect would be upon the truth, the falsehood not reducing anything from it. They will love mesaww and love Peopleasws of mysaww Household.

مَثَلُهُمْ كَمَثَلِ الذَّهَبِ الْجَيِّدِ كُلَّمَا أَدْخَلْتَهُ النَّارَ فَأَوْقَدْتَ عَلَيْهِ لَمْ يَزِدْهُ إِلَّا جَوْدَةً

Their example is like an example of the new gold. Every time it is entered into the fire, and it is ignited upon, it does not increase it except it quality.

وَ فِرْقَةٌ عَلَى الْبَاطِلِ لَا يَنْقُصُ الْحَقُّ مِنْهُ شَيْئاً يُبْغِضُونَنِي وَ يُبْغِضُونَ أَهْلَ بَيْتِي مَثَلُهُمْ مَثَلُ الْحَدِيدِ كُلَّمَا أَدْخَلْتَهُ النَّارَ فَأَوْقَدْتَ عَلَيْهِ لَمْ يَزِدْهُ إِلَّا شَرّاً

And a sect will be upon the falsehood, the truth will not reduce anything from it. They will hate mesaww and hate Peopleasws of mysaww Household. Their example is like an example of the iron. Everything it enters into the fire, it is ignited upon it, it does not increase it except evil.

وَ فِرْقَةٌ مُدَهْدَهَةٌ عَلَى مِلَّةِ السَّامِرِيِّ لَا يَقُولُونَ‏ لا مِساسَ‏ لَكِنَّهُمْ يَقُولُونَ لَا قِتَالَ إِمَامُهُمْ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ قَيْسٍ الْأَشْعَرِيُ‏.

And a sect rolling upon the nation of Al-Samiryla. They will not be saying, ‘No violation’, but they will be saying, No fighting’. Their leader is Abdullah Bin Qas Al-Ashary’’.¹²

13- فس، تفسير القمي عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنِ الْبَرْقِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ جَمِيلِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ لَتَرْكَبُنَّ طَبَقاً عَنْ طَبَقٍ‏ قَالَ يَا زُرَارَةُ أَ وَ لَمْ تَرْكَبْ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّهَا طَبَقاً عَنْ طَبَقٍ فِي أَمْرِ فُلَانٍ وَ فُلَانٍ وَ فُلَانٍ‏.

Tafseer Al Qummi – Ali Bin Al Husayn, from Al Barqy, from Ibn Mahboub, from Jameel Bin Salih, from Zurara,

‘From Abu Ja’farasws regarding Hisazwj Words: You will be indulging in a state after a state [84:19]. Heasws said: ‘O Zurara! Or didn’t this community indulge in a state after a state regarding the matter of so and so, and so and so, and so and so?’’¹³

14- مع، معاني الأخبار أَبِي عَنْ سَعْدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَيْفٍ عَنْ أَخِيهِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ سَيْفِ بْنِ عَمِيرَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مَارِدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَى بْنِ أَعْيَنَ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ حَدِيثٌ يَرْوِيهِ النَّاسُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ حَدِّثْ عَنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَ لَا حَرَجَ قَالَ نَعَمْ

(The book) ‘Ma’any Al Akhbar’ – My father, from Sa’ad, from Ibn Isa, from Al Husayn Bin Sayf, from his brother, from his father Sayf Bin Ameyra, from Muhammad Bin Marid, from Abdul A’la Bin Ayn who said,

‘I said to Abu Abdullahasws, ‘May I be sacrificed for youasws! There is a Hadeeth the people are reporting that Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Narrate from the children of Israel, there is no problem’. Heasws said: ‘Yes’.

قُلْتُ فَنُحَدِّثُ عَنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ بِمَا سَمِعْنَاهُ وَ لَا حَرَجَ عَلَيْنَا قَالَ أَ مَا سَمِعْتَ مَا قَالَ كَفَى بِالْمَرْءِ كَذِباً أَنْ يُحَدِّثَ بِكُلِّ مَا سَمِعَ‏

I said, ‘So, we can narrated from the children of Israel with what we have heard and there is no problem upon us?’ Heasws said: ‘Have you not heard what hesaww said: ‘It suffices with the person as a lie if he were to narrate with all what he hears’.

فَقُلْتُ وَ كَيْفَ هَذَا قَالَ مَا كَانَ فِي الْكِتَابِ أَنَّهُ كَانَ فِي بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ يحدث [فَحَدِّثْ‏] أَنَّهُ كَائِنٌ فِي هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ وَ لَا حَرَجَ‏.

I said, ‘And how is this so?’ Heasws said: ‘Whatever was in the Book (Quran) that it happened among the children of Israel as an occurrence, so narrate that it would be happening in this community, and there is no problem’’.¹⁴

15- ك، إكمال الدين الدَّقَّاقُ عَنِ الْأَسَدِيِّ عَنِ النَّخَعِيِّ عَنِ النَّوْفَلِيِّ عَنْ غِيَاثِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنِ الصَّادِقِ عَنْ آبَائِهِ ع قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ كُلُّ مَا كَانَ فِي الْأُمَمِ السَّالِفَةِ فَإِنَّهُ يَكُونُ فِي هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ مِثْلُهُ حَذْوَ النَّعْلِ بِالنَّعْلِ وَ الْقُذَّةِ بِالْقُذَّةِ.

(The book) ‘Ikmal Al Deen’ – Al Daqqaq, from Al Asady, from Al Nakhaie, from Al Nowfaly, from Gayas Bin Ibrahim,

‘From Al-Sadiqasws, from hisasws forefathersasws having said: ‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Whatever has happened in the previous communities, so the like of it will be happening in this community, step of the slipper with the slipper, and the arrow with the arrow (in a quiver)’’.¹⁵

16- شف، كشف اليقين مِنْ كِتَابِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مَرْدَوَيْهِ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ عَنْ جَنْدَلِ بْنِ وَالِقٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ الْمُنْذِرِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ عَنْ عُلَيْمٍ عَنْ سَلْمَانَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ

(The book) ‘Kashf Al Yaqeen, from the book of Ahmad Bin Mardawayh, from Suleyman Bin Ahmad, form Muhammad Bin Abdullah Al Hazramy, from Jandal Bin Waliq, from Muhammad Bin Habeeb, from Ziyad Bin Al Munzir, from Abdul Rahman Bin Masoud, from Uleym, from Salmanra;

وَ أَيْضاً مِنْ كِتَابِ أَخْطَبِ خُوارِزْمَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ الْبَغْدَادِيِّ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الزَّيْنَبِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ شَاذَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْعَاصِمِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ أَبِي الشَّوَارِبِ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ طَرِيفٍ عَنِ الْأَصْبَغِ بْنِ نُبَاتَةَ عَنْ سَلْمَانَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏

And as well from the book of Akhtab Khuwarizm, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn Al Baghdady, from Al Husayn Muhammad Bin Muhammad Al Zaynabi, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad Bin Shazan, from Muhammad in Muhammad Bin Murrah, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Al Asimy, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Malik Bin Abu Al Shawarib, from Ja’far Bin Suleyman, from Sa’ad Bin Tareyf, from Al Asbagh Bin Nubata,

تَفْتَرِقُ أُمَّتِي بَعْدِي ثَلَاثَ فِرَقٍ فِرْقَةٌ أَهْلُ حَقٍّ لَا يَشُوبُونَهُ بِبَاطِلٍ مَثَلُهُمْ كَمَثَلِ الذَّهَبِ كُلَّمَا فَتَنْتَهُ بِالنَّارِ ازْدَادَ جَوْدَةً وَ طِيباً وَ إِمَامُهُمْ هَذَا لَأَحَدُ الثَّلَاثَةِ وَ هُوَ الَّذِي أَمَرَ اللَّهُ بِهِ فِي كِتَابِهِ‏ إِماماً وَ رَحْمَةً

‘From Salmanra having said: ‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Mysaww community would divide after mesaww into sects. A sect of the people of truth, not being marred by the falsehood. Their example is like an example of the god. Every time it is tried with the fire, its quality and goodness increases, and their Imamasws of this is one of the three, and heasws is the oneasws Allahazwj Commanded with in Hisazwj Book: an Imam and a Mercy [46:12].

وَ فِرْقَةٌ أَهْلُ بَاطِلٍ لَا يَشُوبُونَهُ بِحَقٍّ مَثَلُهُمْ كَمَثَلِ خَبَثِ الْحَدِيدِ كُلَّمَا فتنتهم [فَتَنْتَهُ‏] بِالنَّارِ ازْدَادَ خَبَثاً وَ نَتْناً وَ إِمَامُهُمْ هَذَا لَأَحَدُ الثَّلَاثَةِ

And a sect of the people of falsehood, not being marred by truth. Their example is like an example of iron slag. Every time it is tried with the fire, it increases in wickedness and stink, and their imam is one of the three.

وَ فِرْقَةٌ أَهْلُ ضَلَالَةٍ مُذَبْذَبِينَ‏ لا إِلى‏ هؤُلاءِ وَ لا إِلى‏ هؤُلاءِ إِمَامُهُمْ هَذَا لَأَحَدُ الثَّلَاثَةِ

And a sect of the people of straying, wavering, neither towards these ones nor towards those; [4:143]. Their imam is one of the three’.

قَالَ فَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ أَهْلِ الْحَقِّ وَ إِمَامِهِمْ فَقَالَ هَذَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ إِمَامُ الْمُتَّقِينَ وَ أَمْسَكَ عَنِ الِاثْنَيْنِ فَجَهَدْتُ أَنْ يُسَمِّيَهُمَا فَلَمْ يَفْعَلْ‏.

He (the narrator) said, ‘I asked himsaww about the people of the truth, and their Imamasws. Hesaww said: ‘This Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, is Imamasws of the pious, and withhold (yourselves) from the two’. I struggled to get himsaww to name the two, but hesaww did not do so’’.¹⁶

17- جا، المجالس للمفيد الْمَرَاغِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ بُهْلُولٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ‏ الضَّرِيرِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أَبَانٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ أَرْقَمَ عَنْ أَبِي هَارُونَ الْعَبْدِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَقِيلٍ قَالَ: كُنَّا عِنْدَ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَقَالَ لَتَفَرَّقَنَّ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ عَلَى ثَلَاثٍ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً وَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ إِنَّ الْفِرَقَ كُلَّهَا ضَالَّةٌ إِلَّا مَنِ اتَّبَعَنِي وَ كَانَ مِنْ شِيعَتِي‏.

(The book) ‘Al Majaalis’ of Al Mufeed – Al Maraghy, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad Bin Bahloul, from Ahmad Bin Al Hassan Al Zareer, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ahmad Bin Yahya, from Ismail, from Aban, from Yunus Bin Arqam, from Abu Haroun Al Baghdady, from Abu Aqeel who said,

‘We were in the presence of Amir Al-Momineen Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws. Heasws said: ‘This community will divide into seventy-three sects. By the Oneazwj is Whose Hand is myasws soul! The sects, all of them will stray except one who follows measws, and would be from myasws Shias’’.¹⁷

18- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي أَبُو عَمْرٍو عَنِ ابْنِ عُقْدَةَ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُهَاجِرٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ: ارْتَدَّ الْأَشْعَثُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ وَ نَاسٌ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ لَمَّا مَاتَ نَبِيُّ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالُوا نُصَلِّي وَ لَا نُؤَدِّي الزَّكَاةَ

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – Abu Amro, from Ibn Uqda, from Ahmad Bin Yahya, from Abdul Rahman, from his father, from Ibrahim Bin Muhajir, from Ibrahim who said,

‘Al-Ash’as Bin Qays and some people from the Arabs became apostates after the Prophetsaww of Allahazwj passed away. They said, ‘We shall pray Salat and we will not give the Zakat’.

فَأَبَى عَلَيْهِمْ أَبُو بَكْرٍ ذَلِكَ وَ قَالَ لَا أَحُلُّ عُقْدَةً عَقَدَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ لَا أَنْقُصُكُمْ شَيْئاً مِمَّا أَخَذَ مِنْكُمْ نَبِيُّ اللَّهِ ص وَ لَأُجَاهِدَنَّكُمْ وَ لَوْ مَنَعْتُمُونِي عِقَالًا مِمَّا أَخَذَ مِنْكُمْ نَبِيُّ اللَّهِ ص لَجَاهَدْتُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ قَرَأَ وَ ما مُحَمَّدٌ إِلَّا رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ الرُّسُلُ‏ حَتَّى فَرَغَ مِنَ الْآيَةِ

Abu Bakr refused that upon them and said, ‘I will not loosen a knot Rasool-Allahsaww had tied it, nor will (let you) break anything from what the Prophetsaww of Allahazwj had taken upon you, and I will fight you, and if you were to prevent me any shackle from what the Prophetsaww of Allahazwj took from you, I will fight you upon it!’ Then he recited: And Muhammad is not except for a Rasool; the Rasools have already passed away before him; [3:144], until he was free from the Verse.

فَتَحَصَّنَ الْأَشْعَثُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ هُوَ وَ نَاسٌ مِنْ قَوْمِهِ فِي حِصْنٍ وَ قَالَ الْأَشْعَثُ اجْعَلُوا لِسَبْعِينَ مِنَّا أَمَاناً فَجَعَلَ لَهُمْ وَ نَزَلَ فَعَدَّ سَبْعِينَ وَ لَمْ يُدْخِلْ نَفْسَهُ فِيهِمْ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ إِنَّهُ لَا أَمَانَ لَكَ إِنَّا قَاتِلُوكَ قَالَ أَ فَلَا أَدُلُّكَ عَلَى خَيْرٍ مِنْ ذَلِكَ تَسْتَعِينُ بِي عَلَى عَدُوِّكَ وَ تُزَوِّجُنِي أُخْتَكَ فَفَعَلَ‏.

Al-Ash’as Bin Qay and some people from his group fortified themselves in a fortress, and Al-Ash’as said to Seventy of us, ‘Safety!’ So it was made to be for them, and he descended. He counted seventy, and he did not include himself among them. Abu Bakr said to him, ‘Surely there is no safety for you, we will kill you’. Shall I point you upon better than that, you can be assisted by me against your enemies, and you can marry your sister to me’. He did it’’.¹⁸ (this is not a Hadith)

19- وَ رَوَى ابْنُ بِطْرِيقٍ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى مِنْ تَفْسِيرِ الثَّعْلَبِيِ‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى‏ إِنَّ الَّذِينَ فَرَّقُوا دِينَهُمْ وَ كانُوا شِيَعاً بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ ذَاذَانَ أَبِي عُمَرَ قَالَ قَالَ لِي عَلِيٌّ ع أَبَا عُمَرَ أَ تَدْرِي كَمِ افْتَرَقَتِ الْيَهُودُ قُلْتُ اللَّهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ

And it is reported by Ibn Batreeq from Tafseer Al-Sa’alby regarding Words of the Exalted: Surely, those who were dividing their religion and became sects, [6:159], by his chain from Zazan Abu Umar who said, ‘Aliasws said to me: ‘Abu Umar! Do you know how many the Jews divided into?’ I said, ‘Allahazwj Hisazwj Rasoolsaww are more knowing’.

قَالَ افْتَرَقَتْ عَلَى إِحْدَى وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً كُلُّهَا فِي الْهَاوِيَةِ إِلَّا وَاحِدَةً هِيَ نَاجِيَةٌ أَ تَدْرِي عَلَى كَمِ افْتَرَقَتِ النَّصَارَى قُلْتُ اللَّهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ أَعْلَمُ قَالَ افْتَرَقَتْ عَلَى اثْنَتَيْنِ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً كُلُّهَا فِي الْهَاوِيَةِ إِلَّا وَاحِدَةً هِيَ النَّاجِيَةُ

Heasws said: ‘Dividing into seventy-one sects, all of these would be in Hell, except one, it would attain salvation. Do you know how many the Christians would divide into?’ I said, ‘Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasool-Allahsaww are more knowing’. Heasws said: ‘Dividing upon seventy-two sects, all of these would be in Hell except one, it would attain salvation.

أَ تَدْرِي عَلَى كَمْ تَفْتَرِقُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ قُلْتُ اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ قَالَ تَفْتَرِقُ عَلَى ثَلَاثٍ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً كُلُّهَا فِي الْهَاوِيَةِ إِلَّا وَاحِدَةً هِيَ النَّاجِيَةُ وَ أَنْتَ مِنْهُمْ يَا أَبَا عُمَرَ.

Do you know upon how many this community would divide into?’ I said, ‘Allahazwj Knows’. Heasws said: ‘Dividing into seventy-three sects, all of these would be in Hell except one, it would attain salvation, and you are from them, O Abu Umar’’.¹⁹ (Non-Shia source)

20- يل، الفضائل لابن شاذان فض، كتاب الروضة بِالْإِسْنَادِ يَرْفَعُهُ إِلَى سُلَيْمِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ قَالَ: دَخَلْتُ عَلَى عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فِي مَسْجِدِ الْكُوفَةِ وَ النَّاسُ حَوْلَهُ إِذْ دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ رَأْسُ الْيَهُودِ وَ رَأْسُ النَّصَارَى فَسَلَّمَا وَ جَلَسَا فَقَالَ الْجَمَاعَةُ بِاللَّهِ عَلَيْكَ يَا مَوْلَانَا اسْأَلْهُمْ حَتَّى نَنْظُرَ مَا يَعْمَلُونَ

(The book) ‘Al Fazail of Ibn Shazan’ (and) the book ‘Al Rawza’, by the chain raising it to Suleym Bin Qays who said,

‘I entered to see Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws in Masjid Al-Kufa, and the people were around himasws, and a chief of the Jews and a chief of the Christians entered to see himasws. They greeted and sat down. A group said, ‘O our Masterasws! Ask them until we see what they are doing’.

قَالَ ع لِرَأْسِ الْيَهُودِ يَا أَخَا الْيَهُودِ قَالَ لَبَّيْكَ قَالَ عَلَى كَمِ انْقَسَمَتْ أُمَّةُ نَبِيِّكُمْ قَالَ هُوَ عِنْدِي فِي كِتَابٍ مَكْنُونٍ قَالَ ع قَاتَلَ اللَّهُ قَوْماً أَنْتَ زَعِيمُهُمْ يُسْأَلُ عَنْ أَمْرِ دِينِهِ فَيَقُولُ هُوَ عِنْدِي فِي كِتابٍ مَكْنُونٍ

Heasws said to chief of the Jews: ‘O Jewish brother!’ He said, ‘Here I am!’ Heasws said: ‘Upon how many has the community of your Prophetas divided into?’ He said, ‘It is with us in a hidden book’. Heasws said: ‘May Allahazwj Curse a people whose leader you are, he is asked about his religion so he says, ‘It is with me in a hidden book’’.

ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ إِلَى رَأْسِ النَّصَارَى وَ قَالَ لَهُ كَمِ انْقَسَمَتْ أُمَّةُ نَبِيِّكُمْ قَالَ عَلَى كَذَا وَ كَذَا فَأَخْطَأَ فَقَالَ ع لَوْ قُلْتَ مِثْلَ قَوْلِ صَاحِبِكَ لَكَانَ خَيْراً لَكَ مِنْ أَنْ تَقُولَ وَ تُخْطِئَ وَ لَا تَعْلَمُ

Then heasws turned around to chief of the Christians and said to him: ‘How many has the community of your Prophetas divided into?’ He said, ‘Upon such and such’, and was mistaken. Heasws said: ‘If you had said similar to the words of your companion, it would have been better for you than for you to say and err, and you don’t know’.

ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ ع عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ وَ قَالَ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ أَنَا أَعْلَمُ مِنْ أَهْلِ التَّوْرَاةِ بِتَوْرَاتِهِمْ وَ أَعْلَمُ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْإِنْجِيلِ بِإِنْجِيلِهِمْ وَ أَعْلَمُ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْقُرْآنِ بِقُرْآنِهِمْ

Then heasws turned during that and said: ‘O you people! Iasws am more knowing than the people of the Torah are with their Torah, and more knowing than the people of the Evangel are with their Evangel, and more knowing than the people of the Quran are with their Quran.

أَنَا أَعْرَفُ كَمِ انْقَسَمَتِ الْأُمَمُ أَخْبَرَنِي بِهِ أَخِي وَ حَبِيبِي وَ قُرَّةُ عَيْنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص حَيْثُ

Iasws am more recognising of the division of the communities. Myasws brothersaww and beloved and delight of myasws eyes Rasool-Allahsaww informed measws with it.

قَالَ افْتَرَقَتِ الْيَهُودُ عَلَى إِحْدَى وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً سَبْعُونَ فِرْقَةً فِي النَّارِ وَ فِرْقَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ هِيَ الَّتِي اتَّبَعَتْ وَصِيَّهُ وَ افْتَرَقَتِ النَّصَارَى عَلَى اثْنَتَيْنِ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً فَإِحْدَى وَ سَبْعُونَ فِرْقَةً فِي النَّارِ وَ فِرْقَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ هِيَ الَّتِي اتَّبَعَتْ وَصِيَّهُ

Hesaww said: ‘The Jews would divide into seventy-one sects, seventy sects would be in the Fire and one sect in the Paradise, and it is which followed hisas (Musaas’s) successoras; and the Christians would divide into seventy-two sects, seventy-one sects would be in the Fire and one sect would be in the Paradise, and it is which follow hisas (Isaas’s) successoras;

وَ سَتَفَرَّقُ أُمَّتِي عَلَى ثَلَاثٍ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً اثْنَتَانِ وَ سَبْعُونَ فِي النَّارِ وَ وَاحِدَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ هِيَ الَّتِي اتَّبَعَتْ وَصِيِّي وَ ضَرَبَ بِيَدِهِ عَلَى مَنْكِبِي ثُمَّ قَالَ اثْنَتَانِ وَ سَبْعُونَ فِرْقَةً حَلَّتْ عُقَدَ الْإِلَهِ فِيكَ وَ وَاحِدَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ هِيَ الَّتِي اتَّخَذَتْ مَحَبَّتَكَ وَ هُمْ شِيعَتُكَ‏.

And mysaww community will be dividing into seventy-three sects, seventy-two of them would be in the Fire, and one in the Paradise, and it is which follows mysaww successorasws’, and hesaww struck hissaww hand upon myasws shoulder, then said: ‘Seventy-two sects would loosen a knot of Godazwj regarding youasws, and one would be in the Paradise, and it is which would take to yourasws love and they are yourasws Shias’’.²⁰

21- كا، الكافي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنِ ابْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ جَمِيلِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي خَالِدٍ الْكَابُلِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: ضَرَبَ اللَّهُ مَثَلًا رَجُلًا فِيهِ شُرَكاءُ مُتَشاكِسُونَ وَ رَجُلًا سَلَماً لِرَجُلٍ هَلْ يَسْتَوِيانِ مَثَلًا قَالَ أَمَّا الَّذِي فِيهِ شُرَكَاءُ مُتَشَاكِسُونَ فُلَانٌ الْأَوَّلُ يُجْمِعُ الْمُتَفَرِّقُونَ وِلَايَتَهُ وَ هُمْ فِي ذَلِكَ يَلْعَنُ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضاً وَ يَبْرَأُ بَعْضُهُمْ مِنْ بَعْضٍ فَأَمَّا رَجُلٌ سَلَمٌ لِرَجُلٍ فَإِنَّهُ الْأَوَّلُ حَقّاً وَ شِيعَتُهُ

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ -Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ibn Isa, from Ibn Mahboub, from Jameel Bin Salih, from Abu Khalid Al Kabuly,

‘From Abu Ja’farasws having said: ‘Allah Strikes an example of a man regarding whom are (several) partners differing with one another, and a man wholly for one man. Are the two alike in example? [39:29], heasws said: ‘But rather it is the one who has associates with regards to whom they doubt because he was the first one (Abu Bakr) who gathered them for his leadership, so they differed regarding it and some of them cursed each other for that, and some of them disavowed from each other. As for the all of the menasws, heasws is the first one for the right, and his Shias’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ الْيَهُودَ تَفَرَّقُوا مِنْ بَعْدِ مُوسَى عَلَى إِحْدَى وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً مِنْهَا فِرْقَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ سَبْعُونَ فِرْقَةً فِي النَّارِ

Then heasws said: ‘The Jews differed, from after Musaas and separated into seventy-one sects, one of which will be in the Paradise and seventy sects would be in the Fire.

وَ تَفَرَّقَتِ النَّصَارَى بَعْدَ عِيسَى عَلَى اثْنَتَيْنِ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً فِرْقَةٌ مِنْهَا فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ إِحْدَى وَ سَبْعُونَ فِي النَّارِ

And the Christians separated, from after Isaas into seventy-two sects, one of which would be in the Paradise and seventy-one of the sects would be in the Fire.

وَ تَفَرَّقَتْ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّهَا ص عَلَى ثَلَاثٍ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً اثْنَتَانِ وَ سَبْعُونَ فِرْقَةً فِي النَّارِ وَ فِرْقَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ

And this community will separate after its Prophetsaww into seventy-three sects. Seventy-two sects would be in the Fire and one sect would be in the Paradise.

وَ مِنَ الثَّلَاثِ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً ثَلَاثَ عَشْرَةَ فِرْقَةً تَنْتَحِلُ وَلَايَتَنَا وَ مَوَدَّتَنَا اثْنَتَا عَشْرَةَ فِرْقَةً مِنْهَا فِي النَّارِ وَ فِرْقَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ سِتُّونَ فِرْقَةً مِنْ سَائِرِ النَّاسِ فِي النَّارِ.

And from these seventy-three sects, thirteen would be of those who claim to be in ourasws Wilayah and show affection to usasws. Twelve sects from these would be in the Fire and one sect would be in the Paradise. And sixty sects from the rest of the people would be in the Fire’’.²¹

22- أَقُولُ وَجَدْتُ فِي كِتَابِ سُلَيْمِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ، عَنْ سَلْمَانَ أَنَّ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ‏ لَتَرْكَبُنَّ أُمَّتِي سُنَّةَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ حَذْوَ النَّعْلِ بِالنَّعْلِ وَ حَذْوَ الْقُذَّةِ بِالْقُذَّةِ شِبْراً بِشِبْرٍ وَ ذِرَاعاً بِذِرَاعٍ وَ بَاعاً بِبَاعٍ حَتَّى لَوْ دَخَلُوا جُحْراً لَدَخَلُوا فِيهِ مَعَهُمْ

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘I found in the book of Suleym Bin Qays, from Salmanra that Amir Al-Momineenasws having said: ‘Iasws heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Mysaww community will be riding the ways of the children of Israel, step of the slipper with a slipper, and step of the arrow with the arrow (in a quiver), palm’s width by palm’s width, and cubit with a cubit, to the extent that if they had entered into a hole, you will enter it along with them.

إِنَّ التَّوْرَاةَ وَ الْقُرْآنَ كَتَبَتْهُ يَدٌ وَاحِدَةٌ فِي رَقٍّ وَاحِدٍ بِقَلَمٍ وَاحِدٍ وَ جَرَتِ الْأَمْثَالُ وَ السُّنَنُ سَوَاءً

Surely, The Torah and the Quran have been Written by One Hand, in one Parchment, with one pen, and the examples and the Sunnahs flow equally’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ أَبَانٌ قَالَ سُلَيْمٌ وَ سَمِعْتُ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع يَقُولُ إِنَّ الْأُمَّةَ سَتَفَرَّقُ عَلَى ثَلَاثٍ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً اثْنَتَانِ وَ سَبْعُونَ فِرْقَةً فِي النَّارِ وَ فِرْقَةٌ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ ثَلَاثَ عَشْرَةَ فِرْقَةً مِنَ الثَّلَاثِ وَ سَبْعِينَ تَنْتَحِلُ مَحَبَّتَنَا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتَ وَاحِدَةٌ مِنْهَا فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ اثْنَتَا عَشْرَةَ فِي النَّارِ

Then Aban said, ‘Suleym said, ‘And I heard Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws saying: ‘The community will be dividing into seventy-three sects, seventy-two sects would be in the Fire, and a sect in the Paradise, and thirteen from the seventy-three would be arrogating having love for usasws Peopleasws of the Household, one of these would be in the Paradise and twelve in the Fire.

وَ أَمَّا الْفِرْقَةُ النَّاجِيَةُ الْمَهْدِيَّةُ الْمُؤْمِنَةُ الْمُسْلِمَةُ الْمُوَفَّقَةُ الْمُرْشَدَةُ فَهِيَ الْمُؤْتَمَّةُ بِي الْمُسْلِمَةُ لِأَمْرِي الْمُطِيعَةُ لِي الْمُتَبَرِّئَةُ مِنْ عَدُوِّي الْمُحِبَّةُ لِي الْمُبْغِضَةُ لِعَدُوِّي الَّتِي قَدْ عَرَفَتْ حَقِّي وَ إِمَامَتِي وَ فَرْضَ طَاعَتِي مِنْ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَ سُنَّةِ نَبِيِّهِ

And as for the sect attaining salvation, the guided, the believers, the Muslims, the harmonised, the rightly guided, following measws, submissive to myasws orders, obedient to measws, and disavowing from myasws enemies, loving to measws hating myasws enemies, that which has recognise myasws rights, and myasws Imamate, and Obligation of obeying measws in the Book of Allahazwj, and Sunnah of Hisazwj Prophetsaww.

فَلَمْ تَرْتَدَّ وَ لَمْ تَشُكَّ لِمَا قَدْ نَوَّرَ اللَّهُ فِي قَلْبِهَا مِنْ مَعْرِفَةِ حَقِّنَا وَ عَرَّفَهَا مِنْ فَضْلِنَا وَ أَلْهَمَهَا وَ أَخَذَ بِنَوَاصِيهَا فَأَدْخَلَهَا فِي شِيعَتِنَا حَتَّى اطْمَأَنَّتْ‏ قُلُوبُهَا وَ اسْتَيْقَنَتْ يَقِيناً لَا يُخَالِطُهُ شَكٌّ

It will not become apostate and will not doubt due to Allahazwj having Radiated its hearts from recognition of ourasws rights, and understanding of ourasws merits, and Inspired it, and Seizing it by its forelocks and including it among ourasws Shias until its hearts are at rest, and achieve certainty, no doubts would mingle into it.

أَنِّي أَنَا وَ أَوْصِيَائِي بَعْدِي إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ هُدَاةٌ مُهْتَدُونَ الَّذِينَ قَرَنَهُمُ اللَّهُ بِنَفْسِهِ وَ نَبِيِّهِ فِي آيٍ مِنْ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ كَثِيرَةٍ وَ طَهَّرَنَا وَ عَصَمَنَا وَ جَعَلَنَا شُهَدَاءَ عَلَى خَلْقِهِ وَ حُجَّتَهُ فِي أَرْضِهِ وَ خُزَّانَهُ عَلَى عِلْمِهِ وَ مَعَادِنَ حُكْمِهِ وَ تَرَاجِمَةَ وَحْيِهِ

Surely, Iasws and myasws successorsasws after measws up to the Day of Qiyamah are guides, Guided, those Allahazwj Paired them with Himselfazwj and Hisazwj Prophetsaww in many Verses from the Book of Allahazwj, and Purified usasws, and Protected usasws, and Made usasws witnesses over Hisazwj creatures, and Hisazwj Divine Authorities in Hisazwj earth, and Hisazwj treasurers upon Hisazwj Knowledge, and mines of Hisazwj Wisdom, and interpreters of Hisazwj Revelation.

وَ جَعَلَنَا مَعَ الْقُرْآنِ وَ الْقُرْآنَ مَعَنَا لَا نُفَارِقُهُ وَ لَا يُفَارِقُنَا حَتَّى نَرِدَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص حَوْضَهُ كَمَا قَالَ: وَ تِلْكَ الْفِرْقَةُ الْوَاحِدَةُ مِنَ الثَّلَاثِ وَ السَّبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً هِيَ النَّاجِيَةُ مِنَ النَّارِ وَ مِنْ جَمِيعِ الْفِتَنِ وَ الضَّلَالاتِ وَ الشُّبُهَاتِ

And Heazwj Made us to be with the Quran and the Quran to be with usasws. Neither will weasws separate from it nor will it separate from usasws, until weasws return to Rasool-Allahsaww at hissaww Fountain, just as hesaww had said: ‘And that is the one sect from the seventy-three sects, it is the one saved from the Fire and from the entirety of the Fitna (strife), and the straying’s, and the suspicions.

هُمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ حَقّاً هُمْ‏ يَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ ... بِغَيْرِ حِسابٍ‏ وَ جَمِيعُ تِلْكَ الْفِرَقِ الِاثْنَتَيْنِ وَ السَّبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً هُمُ الْمُتَدَيِّنُونَ بِغَيْرِ الْحَقِّ النَّاصِرُونَ دِينَ الشَّيْطَانِ الْآخِذُونَ عَنْ إِبْلِيسَ وَ أَوْلِيَائِهِ هُمْ أَعْدَاءُ اللَّهِ وَ أَعْدَاءُ رَسُولِهِ وَ أَعْدَاءُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَدْخُلُونَ النَّارَ بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ

They are from the people of the Paradise truly. They would be entering the Paradise without any Reckoning; and the entirety of the seventy-two sects, they the ultra-orthodox without the right, the helpers of the religion of Satanla, the ones taking from Ibleesla and hisla friends, they are the enemies of Allahazwj and the enemies of Hisazwj Rasoolsaww, and enemies of the Momineen, would be entering the Fire without any Reckoning.

بَرَءُوا مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ مِنْ رَسُولِهِ وَ أَشْرَكُوا بِاللَّهِ وَ كَفَرُوا بِهِ وَ عَبَدُوا غَيْرَ اللَّهِ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ‏ وَ هُمْ يَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُمْ يُحْسِنُونَ صُنْعاً

They disavowed from Allahazwj and from Hisazwj Rasoolsaww, and they associated with Allahazwj and disbelieved in Himazwj and they worshipped other than Allahazwj from where they did not know, and they are reckoning that they are good in what they do’ [18:104].

يَقُولُونَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَ اللَّهِ رَبِّنا ما كُنَّا مُشْرِكِينَ‏ يَحْلِفُونَ لِلَّهِ‏ كَما يَحْلِفُونَ لَكُمْ وَ يَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّهُمْ عَلى‏ شَيْ‏ءٍ أَلا إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ الْكاذِبُونَ‏

They will be saying on the Day of Qiyamah: ‘By Allah, our Lord! We were not associators’ [6:23], swearing to Allahazwj, as they have been swearing to you all, and they are reckoning that they upon something. Indeed! They are the liars [58:18].

قَالَ قِيلَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَ رَأَيْتَ مَنْ قَدْ وَقَفَ فَلَمْ يَأْتَمَّ بِكُمْ وَ لَمْ يُضَادَّكُمْ وَ لَمْ يَنْصِبْ لَكُمْ وَ لَمْ يَتَوَلَّكُمْ وَ لَمْ يَتَبَرَّأْ مِنْ عَدُوِّكُمْ وَ قَالَ لَا أَدْرِي وَ هُوَ صَادِقٌ

He (the narrator) said, ‘It was said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineenasws! What is yourasws view of the one who had refrained and did not follow youasws and did not opposed youasws, and did no help youasws, and did not befriend you and did not disavow from yourasws enemies, and said, ‘I don’t know’, and he is truthful?’

قَالَ لَيْسَ أُولَئِكَ مِنَ الثَّلَاثِ وَ السَّبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً إِنَّمَا عَنَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِالثَّلَاثِ وَ السَّبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً الْبَاغِينَ النَّصَّابِينَ الَّذِينَ قَدْ شَهَرُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ وَ دَعَوْا إِلَى دِينِهِمْ فَفِرْقَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ مِنْهَا تَدِينُ بِدِينِ الرَّحْمَنِ وَ اثْنَتَانِ وَ سَبْعُونَ تَدِينُ بِدِينِ الشَّيْطَانِ وَ تَتَوَلَّى عَلَى قَبُولِهَا وَ تَتَبَرَّأُ مِمَّنْ خَالَفَهَا

Heasws said: ‘They are not from the seventy three sects. But rather, Rasool-Allahsaww meant by the seventy-three sect, the rebels, and the hostile ones, those who had announced themselves and called to their religion. So one sect from these made it a religion with the Religion of the Beneficent, and seventy-two made it a religion with the religion of Satanla, and befriended (others) upon its acceptance and disavowed from the ones who opposed it.

فَأَمَّا مَنْ وَحَّدَ اللَّهَ وَ آمَنَ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ لَمْ يَعْرِفْ وَلَايَتَنَا وَ لَا ضَلَالَةَ عَدُوِّنَا وَ لَمْ يَنْصِبْ شَيْئاً وَ لَمْ يُحِلَّ وَ لَمْ يُحَرِّمْ وَ أَخَذَ بِجَمِيعِ مَا لَيْسَ بَيْنَ الْمُخْتَلِفِينَ مِنَ الْأُمَّةِ خِلَافٌ فِي أَنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَمَرَ بِهِ أَوْ نَهَى عَنْهُ

As for the one who professed the Unity of Allahazwj and believed in Rasool-Allahsaww, and did not recognise ourasws Wilayah, nor the straying of ourasws enemies, and did not establish anything hostile, and did not permit and did not prohibit (anything else), and took with the entirety what wasn’t between differing ones from the community, any differing regarding measws that Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Commanded with it or Prohibited from it.

وَ كَفَّ عَمَّا بَيْنَ الْمُخْتَلِفِينَ مِنَ الْأُمَّةِ خِلَافٌ فِي أَنَّ اللَّهَ أَمَرَ بِهِ أَوْ نَهَى عَنْهُ فَلَمْ يَنْصِبْ شَيْئاً وَ لَمْ يُحَلِّلْ وَ لَمْ يُحَرِّمْ وَ لَا يَعْلَمُ وَ رَدَّ عِلْمَ مَا أَشْكَلَ عَلَيْهِ إِلَى اللَّهِ

And he refrained from what is between the differing ones from the community any differing regarding that Allahazwj Commanded with it, or Prohibited from it, but did not establish any hostility, and did not permit and did not prohibit, and did not know, and did not refer the knowledge of what was doubtful upon him, to Allahazwj.

فَهَذَا نَاجٍ وَ هَذِهِ الطَّبَقَةُ بَيْنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ بَيْنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ هُمْ أَعْظَمُ النَّاسِ وَ جُلُّهُمْ وَ هُمْ أَصْحَابُ الْحِسَابِ وَ الْمَوَازِينِ‏ وَ الْأَعْرَافِ

So this one will attain salvation, and this is a layer between the Momineen and the Mushrikeen. They are the greatest of the people, and the majestic ones, and they are people of the Reckoning, and the Scale, and the heights.

وَ الْجَهَنَّمِيُّونَ الَّذِينَ يَشْفَعُ لَهُمُ الْأَنْبِيَاءُ وَ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَ يُخْرَجُونَ مِنَ النَّارِ فَيُسَمَّوْنَ الْجَهَنَّمِيِّينَ

The ‘Hell-dwellers’ (Jahannamiyoun) are those who would be interceded for by the Prophetsas, and the Angels and the Momineenasws, and they would be exiting from the Fire, so they would name as ‘Hell-dwellers’ (in the Paradise).

فَأَمَّا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ فَيُنْجَوْنَ وَ يَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ ... بِغَيْرِ حِسابٍ‏ وَ إِنَّمَا الْحِسَابُ عَلَى أَهْلِ هَذِهِ الصِّفَاتِ بَيْنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ وَ الْمُؤَلَّفَةِ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَ الْمُقْتَرِفَةِ وَ الَّذِينَ‏ خَلَطُوا عَمَلًا صالِحاً وَ آخَرَ سَيِّئاً

As for the Momineen, so they would be attaining salvation and entering the Paradise without any Reckoning, and rather the Reckoning is upon the people of this description, between the Momineen and the Mushrikeen, and the ones whose hearts are inclined to, and the perpetrators, and those who mingling one righteous deed and another evil one. [9:102].

وَ الْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ الَّذِينَ‏ لا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ حِيلَةً وَ لا يَهْتَدُونَ سَبِيلًا لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ حِيلَةَ الْكُفْرِ وَ الشِّرْكِ وَ لَا يُحْسِنُونَ أَنْ يَنْصِبُوا وَ لَا يَهْتَدُونَ سَبِيلًا إِلَى أَنْ يَكُونُوا مُؤْمِنِينَ عَارِفِينَ فَهُمْ‏ أَصْحابُ الْأَعْرافِ‏

And the weak ones, those, not being capable of dodging (Kufr) nor being guided to a Way [4:98]. They are not capable of dodging the Kufr, and the Shirk nor are they good to be installed, nor are they guided to a way to become Momineen, recognisers. So, they are the companions of the Heights.

وَ هَؤُلَاءِ كُلُّهُمْ لِلَّهِ فِيهِمُ الْمَشِيَّةُ إِنْ أَدْخَلَ أَحَدَهُمُ النَّارَ فَبِذَنْبِهِ وَ إِنْ تَجَاوَزَ عَنْهُ فَبِرَحْمَتِهِ

And they, all of the, there is the Desire of Allahazwj regarding them. If Heazwj Enters one of them into the Fire it would be due to his sin, and if Heazwj Overlooks (his sins) from him, it would be due to Hisazwj Mercy’.

قُلْتُ أَ يَدْخُلُ النَّارَ الْمُؤْمِنُ الْعَارِفُ الدَّاعِي قَالَ لَا قُلْتُ أَ يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ مَنْ لَا يَعْرِفُ إِمَامَهُ قَالَ لَا إِلَّا أَنْ يَشَاءَ اللَّهُ قُلْتُ أَ يَدْخُلُ النَّارَ إِلَّا كَافِرٌ أَوْ مُشْرِكٌ قَالَ لَا يَدْخُلُ النَّارَ إِلَّا كَافِرٌ إِلَّا أَنْ يَشَاءَ اللَّهُ

Ira said, ‘Will the Momineen, the recogniser of the caller, enter the Fire?’ Heasws said: ‘No’. Ira said, ‘Will he enter the Paradise, one who does not recognise the Imamate?’ Heasws said: ‘No, except if Allahazwj do Desires’. Ira said, ‘Will anyone enter the Fire except a Kafir or a Mushrik?’ Heasws said: ‘No one will enter the Fire except a Kafir, except if Allahazwj so Desires’.

قُلْتُ فَمَنْ لَقِيَ اللَّهَ مُؤْمِناً عَارِفاً بِإِمَامِهِ مُطِيعاً لَهُ أَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ هُوَ قَالَ نَعَمْ إِذَا لَقِيَ اللَّهَ وَ هُوَ مُؤْمِنٌ قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَ عَمِلُوا الصَّالِحاتِ‏ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَ كانُوا يَتَّقُونَ‏ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَ لَمْ يَلْبِسُوا إِيمانَهُمْ بِظُلْمٍ‏

Ira said, ‘So the one who meets Allahazwj as a Momin, having recognised his Imamasws, being obedient to himasws, would he be from the people of the Paradise?’ Heasws said: ‘Yes, when he meets Allahazwj and he is a Momin. Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Said: And those who are believing and doing righteous deeds, [2:82] Those who are believing and they were fearing [10:63] Those who are believing and are not mixing their Eman with injustice. [6:82].

قُلْتُ فَمَنْ لَقِيَ اللَّهَ مِنْهُمْ عَلَى الْكَبَائِرِ قَالَ هُوَ فِي مَشِيَّتِهِ إِنْ عَذَّبَهُ فَبِذَنْبِهِ وَ إِنْ تَجَاوَزَ عَنْهُ فَبِرَحْمَتِهِ

Ira said, ‘So the one from them who meets Allahazwj upon the major sins?’ Heasws said: ‘He would be in Hisazwj Desire. If Heazwj Punishes him, it would be due to his sins, and if Heazwj Overlooks from him, it would be due to Hisazwj Mercy’.

قُلْتُ فَيُدْخِلُهُ النَّارَ وَ هُوَ مُؤْمِنٌ قَالَ نَعَمْ بِذَنْبِهِ لِأَنَّهُ لَيْسَ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ الَّذِينَ عَنَى أَنَّهُ لَهُمْ وَلِيٌّ وَ أَنَّهُ‏ لا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ لا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ‏ هُمُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الَّذِينَ يَتَّقُونَ اللَّهَ وَ الَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ الصَّالِحاتِ‏ وَ الَّذِينَ‏ لَمْ يَلْبِسُوا إِيمانَهُمْ بِظُلْمٍ‏.

Ira said, ‘So he would enter the Fire and he is a Momin?’ Heasws said: ‘Yes, due to his sins, because he isn’t from the Momineen, those Heazwj Meant, that they are Hisazwj friends, and that there would neither be fear upon them nor would they be grieving [10:62]. They are Momineen, those who feared Allahazwj, and those who are doing righteous deeds, [2:82] and those who are not mixing their Eman with injustice. [6:82]’’.

وَ عَنْ أَبَانٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا ذَرٍّ وَ سَلْمَانَ وَ الْمِقْدَادَ يَقُولُونَ‏ إِنَّا لَقُعُودٌ عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص مَا مَعَنَا غَيْرُنَا إِذَا رَهْطٌ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ كُلُّهُمْ بَدْرِيُّونَ

And from Aban, from Suleym Bin Qays who said,

‘I heard Abu Zarrra, and Salmanra, and Al-Miqdadra saying, ‘Wera were seated in the presence of Rasool-Allahsaww, there was no one else other than usasws, when a group of the Emigrants, all of the participants of (battle of) Badr, (passed by).

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص تَفْتَرِقُ أُمَّتِي بَعْدِي ثَلَاثَ فِرَقٍ فِرْقَةٌ عَلَى الْحَقِّ مَثَلُهُمْ كَمَثَلِ الذَّهَبِ كُلَّمَا سَبَكْتَهُ عَلَى النَّارِ ازْدَادَ طِيباً وَ جَوْدَةً إِمَامُهُمْ هَذَا أَحَدُ الثَّلَاثَةِ

Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Mysaww community will be dividing after mesaww into three sects. A sect would be upon the truth. Their example is like an example of the gold. Every time it is hit upon the fire, it increases in goodness and quality. Their Imam is one of the three.

وَ فِرْقَةٌ أَهْلُ بَاطِلٍ مَثَلُهُمْ كَمَثَلِ الْحَدِيدِ كُلَّمَا أَدْخَلْتَهُ النَّارَ ازْدَادَ خَبَثاً وَ نَتْناً إِمَامُهُمْ هَذَا أَحَدُ الثَّلَاثَةِ

And a sect of the people of falsehood. Their example is like an example of the iron. Every time it enters the fire, increases in wickedness and stench. Their Imam is this one of the three.

وَ فِرْقَةٌ مُذَبْذَبِينَ ضُلَّالًا لا إِلى‏ هؤُلاءِ وَ لا إِلى‏ هؤُلاءِ إِمَامُهُمْ هَذَا أَحَدُ الثَّلَاثَةِ

And a sect of the neither towards these ones nor towards those; [4:143]. Their imam is this one of the three’.

فَسَأَلْتُهُمْ عَنِ الثَّلَاثَةِ فَقَالُوا إِمَامُ الْحَقِّ وَ الْهُدَى عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ سَعْدٌ إِمَامُ الْمُذَبْذَبِينَ وَ حَرَصْتُ أَنْ يُسَمُّوا لِيَ الثَّالِثَ فَأَبَوْا عَلَيَّ وَ عَرَّضُوا لِي حَتَّى عَرَفْتُ مَنْ يَعْنُونَ‏.

So I (Suleym) asked themra about the three. Theyra said, ‘The Imamasws of the truth and the guidance is Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, and Sa’ad is imam of the wavering ones’. And I eager for themra to name for me the third, but theyra refused unto me and theyra turned away from me, until I recognise the one theyra meant’’.²²

23- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي الْمُفِيدُ عَنِ ابْنِ قُولَوَيْهِ عَنِ ابْنِ الْعَيَّاشِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُعَاذٍ عَنْ زَكَرِيَّا بْنِ عَدِيٍّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍ عَنْ حَمْزَةَ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ مَا بَالُ أَقْوَامٍ يَقُولُونَ إِنَّ رَحِمَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص لَا يَشْفَعُ‏ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ بَلَى وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ رَحِمِي لَمَوْصُولَةٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi al Mufeed, from Ibn Qawlawiya, from Ibn Al Ayyashi, from his father, from Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Muhammad Bin Muaz, from Zakariya Bin Aday, from Ubeydullah Bin Umar, from Abdullah Bin Muhammad Bin Aqeel, from Hamza Bin Abu Saeed Al Khudry, from his father who said,

‘I heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying upon the pulpit: ‘What is the matter with a people saying that the relatives of Rasool-Allahsaww would not be interceded for on the Day of Qiyamah? Yes, by Allahazwj! Surely, mysaww relatives are connected in the world and (would be so) in the Hereafter!

وَ إِنِّي أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ فَرَطُكُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عَلَى الْحَوْضِ فَإِذَا جِئْتُمْ قَالَ الرَّجُلُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَنَا فُلَانُ بْنُ فُلَانٍ فَأَقُولُ أَمَّا النَّسَبُ فَقَدْ عَرَفْتُهُ وَ لَكِنَّكُمْ أَخَذْتُمْ بَعْدِي ذَاتَ الشِّمَالِ وَ ارْتَدَدْتُمْ عَلَى أَعْقَابِكُمُ الْقَهْقَرَى‏.

And surely, O you people! On the Day of Qiyamah you will proceed to the Fountain. So when you come, the man would say, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! I am so and so, son of so and so’. And I shall say: ‘As for the lineage, so Isaww have recognised it, but after mesaww, you took to the left, and reneged upon you heels backwards’’.²³

24- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي أَبُو عَمْرٍو عَنِ ابْنِ عُقْدَةَ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَقِيلٍ عَنْ حَمْزَةَ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص أَنَّهُ قَالَ: أَ تَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّ رَحِمَ نَبِيِّ اللَّهِ لَا يَشْفَعُ قَوْمَهُ يَوْمَ‏ الْقِيَامَةِ بَلَى وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ رَحِمِي لَمَوْصُولَةٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – Abu Amro, from Ibn Uqda, from Ahmad Bin Yahya, from Abdul Rahman, from his father, from Abdullah in Muhammad Bin Aqeel, from Hamza Bin Abu Saeed Al Khudry, from his father,

‘From the Prophetsaww having said: ‘Are you alleging that the relatives of the Prophetsaww of Allahazwj will not intercede for its people on the Day of Qiyamah?’ (But) Yes, by Allahazwj! Mysaww relationships are connected in the world and the Hereafter’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ أَنَا فَرَطُكُمْ عَلَى الْحَوْضِ فَإِذَا جِئْتُ قَامَ رِجَالٌ يَقُولُونَ يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ أَنَا فُلَانُ بْنُ فُلَانٍ وَ قَالَ آخَرُ يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ أَنَا فُلَانُ بْنُ فُلَانٍ وَ قَالَ آخَرُ يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ أَنَا فُلَانُ بْنُ فُلَانٍ فَأَقُولُ أَمَّا النَّسَبَ فَقَدْ عَرَفْتُ وَ لَكِنَّكُمْ أَحْدَثْتُمْ بَعْدِي وَ ارْتَدَدْتُمُ الْقَهْقَرَى‏.

Then hesaww said: ‘O you people! Isaww shall proceed to the Fountain, so when you come, a man would stand saying, ‘O Prophetsaww of Allahazwj! I am so and so, son of so and so’. And another one would say, ‘O Prophetsaww of Allahazwj! I am so and so, son of so and so’. And another one would say, ‘O Prophetsaww of Allahazwj I am so and so, son of so and so’. Isaww will say: ‘As for the lineage, so Isaww have recognised it, but you innovated after mesaww and reneged turning backwards’’.²⁴

25- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي جَمَاعَةٌ عَنْ أَبِي الْمُفَضَّلِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ بَشَّارٍ عَنْ مُجَاهِدِ بْنِ مُوسَى عَنْ عَبَّادِ بْنِ عَبَّادٍ عَنْ مُجَالِدِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ خَيْرِ بْنِ نَوْفٍ أَبِي الْوَدَّاكِ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ وَ اللَّهِ مَا يَأْتِي عَلَيْنَا عَامٌ إِلَّا وَ هُوَ شَرٌّ مِنَ الْمَاضِي وَ لَا أَمِيرٌ إِلَّا وَ هُوَ شَرٌّ مِمَّنْ كَانَ قَبْلَهُ

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh al Tusi – A group, from Abu Al Mufazzal, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Bashar, from Mujahid Bin Musa, from Abbad Bin Abbad, from Mujalid Bin Saeed, from Khayr Bin Nowf Abu Al Waddak who said,

‘I said to Abu Saeed Al-Khudry, ‘No year comes upon us except and it is eviler than the past one, nor any ruler and he is eviler than the one who was before him’.

فَقَالَ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ مَا تَقُولُ وَ لَكِنْ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ لَا يَزَالُ بِكُمُ الْأَمْرُ حَتَّى يُولَدَ فِي الْفِتْنَةِ وَ الْجَوْرِ مَنْ لَا يُعْرَفُ عَدَدُهَا حَتَّى تُمْلَأَ الْأَرْضُ جَوْراً فَلَا يَقْدِرُ أَحَدٌ يَقُولُ اللَّهَ

Abu Saeed said, ‘I have heard from Rasool-Allahsaww saying what you are saying, but I heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘The matter will not cease with you until there are born in the strife and the tyranny, ones whose number cannot be counted, until the earth fills up with tyranny, and no one will be able upon saying ‘Allahazwj’.

ثُمَّ يَبْعَثُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ رَجُلًا مِنِّي وَ مِنْ عِتْرَتِي فَيَمْلَأُ الْأَرْضَ عَدْلًا كَمَا مَلَأَهَا مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَهُ جَوْراً وَ يُخْرِجُ لَهُ الْأَرْضُ أَفْلَاذَ كَبِدِهَا وَ يَحْثُو الْمَالَ حَثْواً وَ لَا يَعُدُّهُ عَدّاً وَ ذَلِكَ حِينَ يَضْرِبُ الْإِسْلَامُ بِجِرَانِهِ‏.

Then Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic will Send a manasws from mesaww, and from mysaww offspring, and heasws will fill the earth with justice just as it would have been filled with tyranny by the ones who were before himasws, and the ground would bring forth its treasures for himasws, and heasws will award the wealth with such and awarding, its number cannot be counted, and that when Al-Islam strikes its neighbours’’.²⁵

26- ن، عيون أخبار الرضا عليه السلام الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ الْبَيْهَقِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى الصَّوْلِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُوسَى بْنِ نَصْرٍ الرَّازِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: سُئِلَ الرِّضَا ع عَنْ قَوْلِ النَّبِيِّ ص‏ أَصْحَابِي كَالنُّجُومِ بِأَيِّهِمُ اقْتَدَيْتُمُ اهْتَدَيْتُمْ‏ وَ عَنْ قَوْلِهِ ص دَعُوا لِي أَصْحَابِي

(The book) ‘Uyoon Akhbar Al Rezaasws’ – Al Husayn Bin Ahmad Al Bayhaqi, from Muhammad Bin Yahya Al Sawly, from Muhammad Bin Musa Bin Nasr Al Razy, from his father who said,

‘Al-Rezaasws was asked about the words of the Prophetsaww: ‘Mysaww companions are like the stars, with whichever one (you believe) you will be guided’, and about hissaww words: ‘Call mysaww companions for mesaww’’.

فَقَالَ هَذَا صَحِيحٌ يُرِيدُ مَنْ لَمْ يُغَيِّرْ بَعْدَهُ وَ لَمْ يُبَدِّلْ قِيلَ وَ كَيْفَ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُمْ قَدْ غَيَّرُوا وَ بَدَّلُوا

Heasws said: ‘This is correct. Hesaww intended the one who did not change (anything) after himsaww and did not replace (anything)’. It was said, ‘And how do we know that they had changed and replaced?’

قَالَ لِمَا يَرْوُونَهُ مِنْ أَنَّهُ ص قَالَ لَيُذَادَنَّ رِجَالٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِي يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عَنْ حَوْضِي كَمَا تُذَادُ غَرَائِبُ الْإِبِلِ عَنِ الْمَاءِ فَأَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ أَصْحَابِي أَصْحَابِي فَيُقَالُ لِي إِنَّكَ لَا تَدْرِي مَا أَحْدَثُوا بَعْدَكَ فَيُؤْخَذُ بِهِمْ ذَاتَ الشِّمَالِ فَأَقُولُ بُعْداً لَهُمْ وَ سُحْقاً

Heasws said: ‘Due to what they are reporting from himsaww having said: ‘A man from mysaww companions would be driven away from mysaww Fountain on the Day of Qiyamah, just as a strange camel is driven away from the water. So Isaww shall say: ‘O Lordazwj! Mysaww companions! Mysaww companions!’ Heazwj would Say to mesaww: “Yousaww do not know what they innovated after youasws. They were taken to the left”. Isaww shall say: ‘Remoteness be for them and damnation!’

أَ فَتَرَى هَذَا لِمَنْ لَمْ يُغَيِّرْ وَ لَمْ يُبَدِّلْ‏.

Do you see this being for the one who did not change and did not replace?’’²⁶

27- شي، تفسير العياشي عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ أَبِي الْمِقْدَامِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع إِنَّ الْعَامَّةَ تَزْعُمُ أَنَّ بَيْعَةَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ حَيْثُ اجْتَمَعَ لَهَا النَّاسُ كَانَتْ رِضًا لِلَّهِ وَ مَا كَانَ اللَّهُ لِيَفْتِنَ أُمَّةَ مُحَمَّدٍ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ

Tafseer Al Ayyashi, from Amro Bin Abu Al Miqdam, from his father who said,

‘I said to Abu Ja’farasws, ‘The general Muslims are claiming that allegiance to Abu Bakr, when the people gathered to him, was for the Pleasure of Allahazwj, and Allahazwj was not going to Try the community of Muhammadsaww from after himsaww’.

فَقَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع وَ مَا يَقْرَءُونَ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ أَ لَيْسَ اللَّهُ يَقُولُ‏ وَ ما مُحَمَّدٌ إِلَّا رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ الرُّسُلُ أَ فَإِنْ ماتَ أَوْ قُتِلَ انْقَلَبْتُمْ عَلى‏ أَعْقابِكُمْ‏ الْآيَةَ

Abu Ja’farasws said: ‘And they are not reading the Book of Allahazwj?’ Isn’t Allahazwj Saying: And Muhammad is not except for a Rasool; the Rasools have already passed away before him; so if he dies or is killed will you turn back upon your heels? [3:144] – the Verse.

قَالَ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ إِنَّهُمْ يُفَسِّرُونَ هَذَا عَلَى وَجْهٍ آخَرَ قَالَ فَقَالَ أَ وَ لَيْسَ قَدْ أَخْبَرَ اللَّهُ عَنِ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ مِنَ الْأُمَمِ أَنَّهُمُ اخْتَلَفُوا مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا جَاءَتْهُمُ الْبَيِّنَاتُ حِينَ قَالَ‏ وَ آتَيْنا عِيسَى ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ الْبَيِّناتِ وَ أَيَّدْناهُ بِرُوحِ الْقُدُسِ‏ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ آمَنَ وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ كَفَرَ الْآيَةَ فَفِي هَذَا مَا يُسْتَدَلُّ بِهِ عَلَى أَنَّ أَصْحَابَ مُحَمَّدٍ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَ السَّلَامُ قَدِ اخْتَلَفُوا مِنْ بَعْدِهِ‏ فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ آمَنَ وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ كَفَرَ.

He (the narrator) said, ‘I said to himasws, ‘They are interpreting this upon another aspect’. Heasws said: ‘Or hasn’t Allahazwj Informed about those from the communities before them, they would be differing from after the proof had come to them where Heazwj Says: And We Gave Isa Ibn Maryam the Clear Proofs and Assisted him with the Holy Spirit; - up to Hisazwj Words: so from them was one who expressed belief, and from them was one who committed Kufr. [2:253]’’.²⁷

28- شي، تفسير العياشي عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ بْنُ بَشِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: تَدْرُونَ مَاتَ النَّبِيُّ ص أَوْ قُتِلَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَقُولُ‏ أَ فَإِنْ ماتَ أَوْ قُتِلَ انْقَلَبْتُمْ عَلى‏ أَعْقابِكُمْ‏ فَسُمَ‏ قَبْلَ الْمَوْتِ إِنَّهُمَا سَمَّتَاهُ فَقُلْنَا إِنَّهُمَا وَ أَبَوَيْهِمَا شَرُّ مَنْ خَلَقَ اللَّهُ.

Tafseer Al Ayyashi – Abdul Samad Bin Bashir,

‘From Abu Abdullahasws having said: ‘Do you know that the Prophetas either dies or gets killed? Allahazwj is Saying: so if he dies or is killed will you turn back upon your heels? [3:144]. Hesaww was poisoned before the death. Those two (Ayesha & Hafsa) poisoned himsaww’. We said, ‘These two and both their fathers are the most evil creatures of Allahazwj’’.²⁸

29- شي، تفسير العياشي الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ الْمُنْذِرِ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ‏ أَ فَإِنْ ماتَ أَوْ قُتِلَ انْقَلَبْتُمْ عَلى‏ أَعْقابِكُمْ‏ الْقَتْلُ أَمِ الْمَوْتُ قَالَ يَعْنِي أَصْحَابَهُ الَّذِينَ فَعَلُوا مَا فَعَلُوا.

Tafseer Al Ayyashi – Al Husayn Bin Al Munzir who said,

‘I asked Abu Abdullahasws about the Words of Allahazwj: ‘so if he dies or is killed will you turn back upon your heels? [3:144]. Was it the killing or the death?’ Heasws said: ‘It Means hissaww companions who did what they did’’.²⁹

30- جا، المجالس للمفيد الْجِعَابِيُّ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْحَسَنِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى عِيسَى بْنِ مِهْرَانَ المستعطفي [الْمُسْتَعْطِفِ‏] عَنْ عَفَّانَ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ وُهَيْبٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ‏ إِنِّي عَلَى الْحَوْضِ أَنْظُرُ مَنْ يَرِدُ عَلَيَّ مِنْكُمْ وَ لَيُقْطَعَنَّ بِرِجَالٍ دُونِي فَأَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ أَصْحَابِي أَصْحَابِي فَيُقَالُ إِنَّكَ لَا تَدْرِي مَا عَمِلُوا بَعْدَكَ إِنَّهُمْ مَا زَالُوا يَرْجِعُونَ عَلَى أَعْقَابِهِمُ الْقَهْقَرَى‏.

(The book) ‘Al Majaalis’ of Al Mufeed – Al Jiany, from Ja’far Bin Muhammad al Hasanny, from Abu Musa Isa Bin Mihran Al Musta’atafy, from Affan Bin Muslim, from Quheyb, from Abdullah Bin Usman, from Ibn Abu Muleykan, from Ayesha (well-known fabricatress) who said,

‘Isaww would be at the Fountain looking at the ones from you returning to mesaww, and some men would be cut off from mesaww. Isaww shall say: ‘Mysaww companions! Mysaww companions!’ It would be said: ‘Yousaww don’t known what they did after yousaww. They did no cease returning upon their heels backwards’’.³⁰

31- جا، المجالس للمفيد بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ عَنْ عِيسَى عَنْ أَبِي مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ شَقِيقٍ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ زَوْجِ النَّبِيِّ ص قَالَ: دَخَلَ عَلَيْهَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَوْفٍ فَقَالَ يَا أُمَّهْ قَدْ خِفْتُ أَنْ يُهْلِكَنِي كَثْرَةُ مَالِي أَنَا أَكْثَرُ قُرَيْشٍ مَالًا

(The book) ‘Al Majaalis’ of Al Mufeed, by this chain from Isa, from Abu Muawiya, from Al Amsh, from Shaqeeq,

‘From Umm Salamara wife of the Prophetsaww, he (the narrator) said, ‘Abdul Rahman Bin Awf entered to see herra and said, ‘O motherra! I fear that the abundance of my wealth might destroy me. I am the most abundant of wealth from Quraysh’.

قَالَتْ يَا بُنَيَّ فَأَنْفِقْ فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ مِنْ أَصْحَابِي مَنْ لَا يَرَانِي بَعْدَ أَنْ أُفَارِقَهُ

Shera said, ‘O myra son! Ira heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘From mysaww companions there is one who will not see mesaww after Isaww separate from him’.

قَالَ فَخَرَجَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ فَلَقِيَ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ فَأَخْبَرَهُ بِالَّذِي قَالَتْ أُمُّ سَلَمَةَ فَجَاءَ يَشْتَدُّ حَتَّى دَخَلَ عَلَيْهَا فَقَالَ بِاللَّهِ يَا أُمَّهْ أَنَا مِنْهُمْ فَقَالَتْ لَا أَعْلَمُ وَ لَنْ أُبْرِئَ بَعْدَكَ أَحَداً.

Abdul Rahman went out and met Umar Bin Al-Khattab, and informed him with that which Umm Salamara had said. He came harshly until he entered to see herra and said, ‘By Allahazwj, O motherra! Am I from them?’ Shera said, ‘Ira don’t know, and Ira will never absolve anyone after you, ever!’’³¹

32- كشف، كشف الغمة عَنْ كِفَايَةِ الطَّالِبِ عَنِ ابْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ إِنَّكُمْ مَحْشُورُونَ حُفَاةً عُرَاةً غُرْلًا ثُمَّ قَرَأَ كَما بَدَأْنا أَوَّلَ خَلْقٍ نُعِيدُهُ وَعْداً عَلَيْنا إِنَّا كُنَّا فاعِلِينَ‏

(The book) ‘Kashf Al Ghumma’, from (the book) ‘Kifayat Al Talib’, from Ibn Jubeyr, from Ibn Abbas who said,

‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘You will be Resurrected bare-footed, naked, uncircumcised’. Then hesaww recited: Just as We Began the first creation, We will Repeat it, being a Promise upon Us. We will certainly be Doing it! [21:104].

أَلَا وَ إِنَّ أَوَّلَ مَنْ يُكْسَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ ع أَلَا وَ إِنَّ نَاساً مِنْ أَصْحَابِي يُؤْخَذُ بِهِمْ ذَاتَ الشِّمَالِ فَأَقُولُ أُصَيْحَابِي أُصَيْحَابِي قَالَ‏ فَيُقَالُ إِنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَزَالُوا مُرْتَدِّينَ عَلَى أَعْقَابِهِمْ مُذْ فَارَقْتَهُمْ فَأَقُولُ كَمَا قَالَ الْعَبْدُ الصَّالِحُ عِيسَى ع‏ وَ كُنْتُ عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيداً ما دُمْتُ فِيهِمْ‏ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ‏.

Indeed! And the first one to be clothed would be Ibrahimas, and some people from mysaww companions would be taken to the left, so Isaww shall say: ‘My companions!’ Heazwj would Say: “They did not cease turning back upon their heels since yousaww separated from them”. So, Isaww shall say just as the righteous servant Isaas said: and I was a witness upon them for as long as I was among them. [5:117] – up to Hisazwj Words: You are the Mighty, the Wise’ [5:118]’’.³²

33- أَقُولُ وَجَدْتُ فِي كِتَابِ سُلَيْمِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ أَنَّ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ لَيَجِيئَنَّ قَوْمٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِي مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْيَةِ وَ الْمَكَانَةِ مِنِّي لِيَمُرُّوا عَلَى الصِّرَاطِ فَإِذَا رَأَيْتُهُمْ وَ رَأَوْنِي وَ عَرَفْتُهُمْ وَ عَرَفُونِي اخْتَلَجُوا دُونِي فَأَقُولُ أَيْ رَبِّ أَصْحَابِي أَصْحَابِي فَيُقَالُ مَا تَدْرِي مَا أَحْدَثُوا بَعْدَكَ إِنَّهُمْ‏ ارْتَدُّوا عَلى‏ أَدْبارِهِمْ‏ حَيْثُ فَارَقْتَهُمْ فَأَقُولُ بُعْداً وَ سُحْقاً.

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘I found in the book of Suleym Bin Qays that Amir Al-Momineenasws said: ‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘A group of mysaww companions from the people Eliat and having the position from mesaww, in order to pass over the bridge. When Isaww seen them and they see mesaww, and Isaww recognise them and they recognise measws, they would tremble below mesaww, and Isaww shall say: ‘Yes, Lordazwj! Mysaww companions! Mysaww companions!’ Heazwj would Say: “Yousaww don’t know what they innovated after yousaww. They Surely, those who turned back upon their back [47:25], when yousaww separated from them”. Isaww shall say: ‘Remoteness be for them and damnation!’’³³

34- مد، العمدة بِإِسْنَادِهِ إِلَى الثَّعْلَبِيِّ مِنْ تَفْسِيرِهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَامِدٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنِ ابْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يُحَدِّثُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ يَرِدُ عَلَيَّ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ رَهْطٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِي فَيُحَلَّئُونَ عَنِ الْحَوْضِ فَأَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ أَصْحَابِي أَصْحَابِي فَيُقَالُ إِنَّكَ لَا عِلْمَ لَكَ بِمَا أَحْدَثُوا ارْتَدُّوا عَلى‏ أَدْبارِهِمْ‏ الْقَهْقَرَى‏.

(The book) ‘Al Amdah’ – By his chain to Al Sa’alby, from his Tafseer, from Abdullah Bin Hamid, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Al Hassan, from Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Suab, form his father, from Yunus, from Ibn Shihad, from Ibn Al Musayyab, from Abu Hureyra (well-known fabricator),

‘He used to narrated that Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘A group of mysaww companions would return to mesaww on the Day of Qiyamah, and they would be blocked from the Fountain. So, Isaww shall say: ‘O Lordazwj! Myasws companions! Mysaww companions!’ Heazwj would Say: “There is no knowledge for yousaww with what they innovated. They turned upon their heels backwards”’.³⁴ (Non-Shia source)

35- يف، الطرائف مد، العمدة بِإِسْنَادِهِمَا إِلَى صَحِيحَيِ الْبُخَارِيِّ وَ مُسْلِمٍ وَ الْجَمْعِ بَيْنَ‏ الصَّحِيحَيْنِ بِإِسْنَادِهِمْ إِلَى ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: خَطَبَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّكُمْ مَحْشُورُونَ إِلَى اللَّهِ عُرَاةً حُفَاتاً غُرْلًا ثُمَّ تَلَا كَما بَدَأْنا أَوَّلَ خَلْقٍ نُعِيدُهُ وَعْداً عَلَيْنا إِنَّا كُنَّا فاعِلِينَ‏

(The book) ‘Al Taraif’ (and) ‘Al Amdah’, by their chains to Saheeh Al Bukhari and Muslim, and ‘Jam’a Bay Al Sahiheyn’, by their chain to Ibn Abbas who said,

‘Rasool-Allahsaww addressed saying: ‘O you people! You will be Resurrected to Allahazwj, naked, bare-footed, uncircumcised!’ Then hesaww recited: Just as We Began the first creation, We will Repeat it, being a Promise upon Us. [21:104].

ثُمَّ قَالَ أَلَا وَ إِنَّ أَوَّلَ الْخَلَائِقِ يُكْسَى يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ إِبْرَاهِيمُ وَ إِنَّهُ يُجَاءُ بِرِجَالٍ مِنْ أُمَّتِي فَيُؤْخَذُ بِهِمْ ذَاتَ الشِّمَالِ فَأَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ أَصْحَابِي فَيُقَالُ إِنَّكَ لَا تَدْرِي مَا أَحْدَثُوا بَعْدَكَ

Then hesaww said: ‘Indeed! And the first of the creatures to be clothed on the Day of Qiyamah would be Ibrahimas, and they will come with men from mysaww community, and take them to the left. So Isaww shall say: ‘O Lordazwj! Mysaww companions!’ Heazwj would Say: “Yousaww don’t know what they innovated after yousaww”.

فَأَقُولُ كَمَا قَالَ الْعَبْدُ الصَّالِحُ‏ وَ كُنْتُ عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيداً ما دُمْتُ فِيهِمْ فَلَمَّا تَوَفَّيْتَنِي كُنْتَ أَنْتَ الرَّقِيبَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ أَنْتَ عَلى‏ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ شَهِيدٌ فَيُقَالُ إِنَّ هَؤُلَاءِ لَمْ يَزَالُوا مُرْتَدِّينَ عَلَى أَعْقَابِهِمْ مُنْذُ فَارَقْتَهُمْ.

Isaww shall say just as the righteous servant (Isaas) said: and I was a witness upon them for as long as I was among them. But when You Caused me to die, You were the Watcher upon them; and You are a Witness upon all things [5:117]’. Heazwj would Say: “They did not cease to turn back upon their heels since yousaww separated from them”.

قَالَ مُسْلِمٌ وَ فِي حَدِيثِ وَكِيعٍ وَ مُعَاذٍ فَيُقَالُ إِنَّكَ لَا تَدْرِي مَا أَحْدَثُوا بَعْدَكَ‏.

Muslim said, ‘And in a Hadeeth of Wakie and Muaz (Bin Jabal), ‘Heazwj would Say: “Yousaww don’t know what they innovated after yousaww”’.³⁵ (Non-Shia source)

36- مد، العمدة مِنَ الْجَمْعِ بَيْنَ الصَّحِيحَيْنِ مِنَ الْمُتَّفَقِ عَلَيْهِ بَيْنَ الصَّحِيحَيْنِ بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص قَالَ: وَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَأَذُودَنَّ رِجَالًا عَنْ حَوْضِي كَمَا تُذَادُ الْغَرِيبَةُ مِنَ الْإِبِلِ عَنِ الْحَوْضِ.

(The book) ‘Al Amdah’, from (the book) ‘Jam’a Bayn Al Sahiheyn’, from what is con-incidental upon between the two Saheehs, by his chain from Abu Hureyra (well-known fabricator),

‘From the Prophetsaww having said: ‘By the Oneazwj in Whose Hand is mysaww soul! Isaww will drive away men from mysaww Fountain just as you tend to drive away the strange camel from the fountain’’.

قَالَ وَ أَخْرَجَهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ص قَالَ: يَرِدُ عَلَيَّ الْحَوْضَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ رَهْطٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِي فَيُحَلَّئُونَ عَنِ الْحَوْضِ فَأَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ أَصْحَابِي فَيُقَالُ إِنَّهُ لَا عِلْمَ لَكَ بِمَا أَحْدَثُوا بَعْدَكَ إِنَّهُمُ ارْتَدُّوا عَلَى أَعْقَابِهِمُ الْقَهْقَرَى.

He said, ‘And Al Bukhari brought it out from a Hadeeth of Al Zuhry, from Saeed Bin Al Musayyab, he was narrating from one of the companions of,

‘The Prophetsaww having said: ‘There will come to mesaww at the Fountain on the Day of Qiyamah, a group of mysaww companions, and they will be driven away from the Fountain’. Isaww shall say: ‘O Lordazwj! Mysaww companions!’ Heazwj would Say: “Surely there is no knowledge for you with what they innovated after yousaww. They turned back upon their heels backwards”’.³⁶ (Non-Shia source)

37- أَقُولُ رَوَى ابْنُ الْأَثِيرِ فِي كِتَابِ جَامِعِ الْأُصُولِ مِمَّا أَخْرَجَهُ مِنْ صَحِيحِ الْبُخَارِيِّ وَ صَحِيحِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ أَنَا فَرَطُكُمْ عَلَى الْحَوْضِ وَ لَيُرْفَعَنَّ إِلَيَّ رِجَالٌ مِنْكُمْ حَتَّى إِذَا أَهْوَيْتُ إِلَيْهِمْ لِأُنَاوِلَهُمُ اخْتَلَجُوا دُونِي فَأَقُولُ أَيْ رَبِّ أَصْحَابِي فَيُقَالُ إِنَّكَ لَا تَدْرِي مَا أَحْدَثُوا بَعْدَكَ‏.

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘It is reported by Ibn Al Aseer in the book ‘Jamie Al Usool’, from what is extracted from Saheeh Al Bukhari and Saheeh Muslim, from Ibn Masoud who said,

‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘I shall proceed to the Fountain and the men from you would be introduced to mesaww until Isaww incline towards them in order to give them, they will be driven away besides mesaww. So, Isaww shall say: ‘Yes, O Lordazwj! Mysaww companions!’ Heazwj would Say: “Yousaww don’t know what they innovated after yousaww”’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ مِنَ الصَّحِيحَيْنِ أَيْضاً عَنْ أَنَسٍ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ: لَيَرِدَنَّ عَلَيَّ الْحَوْضَ رِجَالٌ مِمَّنْ صَاحَبَنِي حَتَّى إِذَا رَأَيْتُهُمْ وَ رُفِعُوا إِلَيَّ اخْتَلَجُوا دُونِي فَلَأَقُولَنَّ أَيْ رَبِّ أَصْحَابِي أَصْحَابِي فَلَيُقَالَنَّ لِي إِنَّكَ لَا تَدْرِي مَا أَحْدَثُوا بَعْدَكَ.

And from the two Saheehs (Bukhari and Muslim) as well, from Anas (well-known fabricator),

‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Men from mysaww companions will arrive to mesaww at the Fountain, until when Isaww see them and they see mesaww, and they are raised to mesaww, they will be driven away besides mesaww. So Isaww shall be saying: ‘Yes Lordazwj! Mysaww companions! Mysaww companions!’ Heazwj would Say to mesaww: “Yousaww don’t know what they innovated after yousaww”’.

وَ زِيدَ فِي بَعْضِ الرِّوَايَاتِ قَوْلُهُ‏ فَأَقُولُ سُحْقاً لِمَنْ بَدَّلَ بَعْدِي‏.

And there is an addition in one of the reports, hissaww words: ‘Isaww shall say: ‘Damnation to the one who replaced (matters) after mesaww’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ أَيْضاً مِنَ الصَّحِيحَيْنِ عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ النَّبِيَّ ص يَقُولُ‏ أَنَا فَرَطُكُمْ عَلَى الْحَوْضِ مَنْ وَرَدَ شَرِبَ وَ مَنْ شَرِبَ لَمْ يَظْمَأْ أَبَداً وَ لَيَرِدَنَّ عَلَيَّ أَقْوَامٌ أَعْرِفُهُمْ وَ يَعْرِفُونَنِي ثُمَّ يُحَالُ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَهُمْ

And as well from the two Saheehs (Bukhari and Muslim) – from Abu Hazim, from Sahl Bin Sa’ad who said,

‘I heard the Prophetsaww saying: ‘Iasws shall precede you all at the Fountain. One who arrives would drink, and one who drinks will not feel thirsty, ever! And a group will arrive to mesaww, Isaww will recognise them and they will recognise mesaww. Then there will be a barrier between mesaww and them’.

قَالَ أَبُو حَازِمٍ فَسَمِعَ النُّعْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي عَيَّاشٍ وَ أَنَا أُحَدِّثُهُمْ بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ فَقَالَ هَكَذَا سَمِعْتَ سَهْلًا يَقُولُ فَقُلْتُ نَعَمْ قَالَ وَ أَنَا أَشْهَدُ عَلَى أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ سَمِعْتُهُ يَزِيدُ فَيَقُولُ فَإِنَّهُمْ مِنِّي فَيُقَالُ إِنَّكَ لَا تَدْرِي مَا أَحْدَثُوا بَعْدَكَ فَأَقُولُ سُحْقاً سُحْقاً لِمَنْ بَدَّلَ بَعْدِي‏.

Abu Hazim said, ‘I heard Nu’man Bin Abu Ayyash, and I was narrating to them with this Hadeeth, and he said, ‘That is how I heard Sahl saying’. I said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘And I testify upon that Abu Saeed Al Khudry heard Yazeed and hesaww would be saying, ‘But, they are from mesaww’. Heazwj would Say: “Yousaww don’t know what they innovated after yousaww”. Isaww shall say: ‘Damnation! Damnation for one who replaced after mesaww’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ أَيْضاً مِنَ الصَّحِيحَيْنِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ: يَرِدُ عَلَيَّ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ رَهْطٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِي أَوْ قَالَ مِنْ أُمَّتِي فَيُحَلَّئُونَ عَنِ الْحَوْضِ فَأَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ أَصْحَابِي فَيَقُولُ لَا عِلْمَ لَكَ بِمَا أَحْدَثُوا بَعْدَكَ إِنَّهُمُ ارْتَدُّوا عَلَى أَعْقَابِهِمُ الْقَهْقَرَى وَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ فَيُجْلَوْنَ‏.

And as well from the two Saheehs (Bukhair and Muslim) – From Abu Hureyra (well-known fabricator),

‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘On the Day of Qiyamah, a group of mysaww companions would arrive to mesaww’ – or said: ‘From mysaww community, and they would be driven away from the Fountain. So Isaww shall say: ‘O Lordazwj! Myazwj companions!’ Heazwj would Say: ‘There is no knowledge for youasws with what they innovated after yousaww. They turned back upon their heels backwards’. And in a report, ‘They would be evacuated’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ مِنَ الْبُخَارِيِّ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ: بَيْنَا أَنَا قَائِمٌ عَلَى الْحَوْضِ إِذَا زُمْرَةٌ حَتَّى إِذَا عَرَفْتُهُمْ خَرَجَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَهُمْ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ هَلُمَ‏ قُلْتُ إِلَى أَيْنَ قَالَ إِلَى النَّارِ وَ اللَّهِ فَقُلْتُ وَ مَا شَأْنُهُمْ قَالَ إِنَّهُمْ قَدِ ارْتَدُّوا عَلى‏ أَدْبارِهِمْ‏ الْقَهْقَرَى

And from Al Bukhari – ‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘While Isaww would be standing at the Fountain when a group (would arrive) until when Isaww recognise them, a man would come out from between mesaww and them and say to them: ‘Come!’ Isaww would say: ‘To where?’ He would say, ‘To the Fire, by Allahazwj!’ Isaww would say: ‘And what is their affair?’ He would say: ‘They had turned back upon their backs backwards’.

ثُمَّ إِذَا زُمْرَةٌ أُخْرَى حَتَّى إِذَا عَرَفْتُهُمْ خَرَجَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَهُمْ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ هَلُمَّ فَقُلْتُ إِلَى أَيْنَ قَالَ إِلَى النَّارِ وَ اللَّهِ قُلْتُ مَا شَأْنُهُمْ قَالَ إِنَّهُمْ قَدِ ارْتَدُّوا عَلى‏ أَدْبارِهِمْ‏

Then there would be another group, until when Isaww recognise them, a man would come out from between mesaww and them. He would say to them: ’Come’. Isaww would said: ‘To where?’ He would say: ‘To the Fire, By Allahazwj!’ Isaww would say: ‘What is their affair?’ He would say: ‘They turned back upon their back’.

فَلَا أُرَاهُ يَخْلُصُ مِنْهُمْ إِلَّا مِثْلُ هَمَلِ النَّعَمِ‏.

Isaww would not see him finishing from them except similar except a few’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ عَنْ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ: تَرِدُ عَلَيَّ أُمَّتِيَ الْحَوْضَ وَ أَنَا أَذُودُ النَّاسَ كَمَا يَذُودُ الرَّجُلُ إِبِلَ الرَّجُلِ عَنْ إِبِلِهِ

And from Muslim, from Abu Hureyra (well-known fabricator),

‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Mysaww community will arrive to mesaww at the Fountain, and Isaww shall be impeding the people just as the man tends to impeded camel of the man from his own camels’.

قَالُوا يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ تَعْرِفُنَا قَالَ نَعَمْ لَكُمْ سِيمَاءُ لَيْسَتْ لِأَحَدٍ غَيْرِكُمْ تَرِدُونَ عَلَيَّ غُرّاً مُحَجَّلِينَ مِنْ آثَارِ الْوُضُوءِ وَ لَيُصَدَّنَّ عَنِّي طَائِفَةٌ مِنْكُمْ فَلَا يَصِلُونَ فَأَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ هَؤُلَاءِ مِنْ أَصْحَابِي فَيَجِيئُنِي‏ مَلَكٌ فَيَقُولُ وَ هَلْ تَدْرِي مَا أَحْدَثُوا بَعْدَكَ.

They said, ‘O Prophetsaww of Allahazwj! Yousaww will recognise us?’ Hesaww said: ‘Yes, for you would be a marking which wouldn’t be for anyone apart from you. You will be returned to mesaww resplendent of faces from the effects of the Wudu’u, and a group from you would be blocked from mesaww, and they will not (be able to) arrive. Isaww shall say: ‘O Lordazwj! They are from mysaww companions!’ An Angel would come to me and say: ‘And do you know what they innovated after yousaww?’’ (Non-Shia source)

وَ مِنْ صَحِيحِ مُسْلِمٍ أَيْضاً عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ‏ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ وَ هُوَ بَيْنَ ظَهْرَانَيْ أَصْحَابِهِ إِنِّي عَلَى الْحَوْضِ أَنْتَظِرُ مَنْ يَرِدُ عَلَيَّ مِنْكُمْ فَلَيُقْتَطَعَنَّ دُونِي رِجَالٌ فَلَأَقُولَنَّ أَيْ رَبِّ مِنِّي وَ مِنْ أُمَّتِي فَيَقُولُ إِنَّكَ لَا تَدْرِي مَا أَحْدَثُوا بَعْدَكَ مَا زَالُوا يَرْجِعُونَ عَلَى أَعْقَابِهِمْ‏.

And from Saheeh Muslim as well, from Ayesha (well-known fabricatress) who said,

‘I heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying and hesaww was in the midst of hissaww companions: ‘Isaww would be at the Fountain looking at the ones from you returning to mesaww. Some men would be cut off besides mesaww, so Isaww shall say: ‘Yes, Lordazwj! (They are) from mesaww and from mysaww community!’ Heazwj would Say: “Yousaww don’t know what they innovated after yousaww. They did no cease returning upon their heels”’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ مِنَ الصَّحِيحَيْنِ عَنْ أَسْمَاءَ بِنْتِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ قَالَتْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ إِنِّي عَلَى الْحَوْضِ أَنْظُرُ مَنْ يَرِدُ عَلَيَّ مِنْكُمْ وَ سَيُؤْخَذُ نَاسٌ دُونِي فَأَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ مِنِّي وَ مِنْ أُمَّتِي

And from the two Saheehs (Bukhari and Muslim) – From Asma Bint Abu Bakr who said,

‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Isaww would be at the Fountain looking at the ones from you returning to mesaww, and some people would be seized besides mesaww. Isaww shall say: ‘O Lordazwj! (They are) from mesaww and from mysaww community!’

وَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ أُخْرَى فَأَقُولُ أَصْحَابِي فَيُقَالُ هَلْ شَعَرْتَ مَا عَمِلُوا بَعْدَكَ وَ اللَّهِ مَا بَرِحُوا يَرْجِعُونَ عَلَى أَعْقَابِهِمْ.

And in another report: ‘Isaww shall say: ‘Mysaww companions!’ Heazwj would Say: “Are yousaww aware what they did after yousaww? By Allahazwj! They did not even relax from returning upon their heels’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ مِنْ صَحِيحِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص أَنَّهُ قَالَ: إِنِّي لَكُمْ فَرَطٌ عَلَى الْحَوْضِ فَإِيَّايَ لَا يَأْتِيَنَّ أَحَدُكُمْ فَيُذَبَّ عَنِّي كَمَا يُذَبُّ الْبَعِيرُ الضَّالُّ فَأَقُولَ فِيمَ هَذَا فَيُقَالَ إِنَّكَ لَا تَدْرِي مَا أَحْدَثُوا بَعْدَكَ فَأَقُولَ سُحْقاً.

And from Saheeh Muslim –

From Umm Salamara, from the Prophetsaww having said: ‘Isaww shall precede you all at the Fountain, so beware, not one of you should come and be driven away from mesaww just as the stray camel gets driven away. Isaww shall say: ‘Why this?’ Heazwj would Say: “Yousaww don’t know what they innovated after yousaww’. Isaww shall say: ‘Damnation!’’

وَ مِنَ الْبُخَارِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ص أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ قَالَ: يَرِدَنَّ عَلَيَّ الْحَوْضَ رِجَالٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِي فَيُحَلَّئُونَ عَنْهُ فَأَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ أَصْحَابِي فَيَقُولُ إِنَّكَ لَا عِلْمَ لَكَ بِمَا أَحْدَثُوا بَعْدَكَ إِنَّهُمُ‏ ارْتَدُّوا عَلى‏ أَدْبارِهِمْ‏ الْقَهْقَرَى‏.

And from Al Bukhary – From Ibn Al Musayyab who used to narrated from the companions of the Prophetsaww that the Prophetsaww said: ‘Men would return to mesaww at the Fountain, and they would be driven away from it. Isaww shall say: ‘O Lordazwj! Mysaww companions!’ Heazwj would Say: “There is no knowledge for yousaww with what they innovated after yousaww. They turned upon their backs backwards!”’ (Non-Shia source)

وَ مِنَ الصَّحِيحَيْنِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ وَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَأَذُودَنَّ رِجَالًا عَنْ حَوْضِي كَمَا تُذَادُ الْغَرِيبَةُ مِنَ الْإِبِلِ عَنِ الْحَوْضِ‏.

And from the two Saheehs (Bukhari and Muslim) – From Abu Hureyra (well-known fabricator) who said,

‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘By the Oneazwj in Whose Hand is mysaww soul! Isaww will impede men from mysaww Fountain just as you tend to impede the strange camel from the fountain’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ مِنْهُمَا عَنْ حُذَيْفَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ: إِنَّ حَوْضِي لَأَبْعَدُ مِنْ أَيْلَةَ إِلَى عَدَنٍ وَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَأَذُودَنَّ عَنْهُ الرِّجَالَ كَمَا يَذُودُ الرَّجُلُ الْإِبِلَ الْغَرِيبَةَ عَنْ حَوْضِهِ‏.

And from both of them, from Huzeyfa,

‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Mysaww Fountain is wider than from Eilat to Aden. By the Oneazwj in Whose Hand is mysaww soul! Isaww will drive away men from it just as the man tends to drive away the strange camel from his fountain’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رُوِيَ مِنْ سُنَنِ أَبِي دَاوُدَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ: تَفَرَّقَتِ الْيَهُودُ عَلَى إِحْدَى وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً أَوِ اثْنَتَيْنِ وَ سَبْعِينَ وَ النَّصَارَى مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ وَ سَتَفْتَرِقُ أُمَّتِي عَلَى ثَلَاثٍ وَ سَبْعِينَ فِرْقَةً.

And it is reported from Sunan of Abu Dawood, from Abu Hureyra (well-known fabricator),

‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘The Jews will divide into seventy-one sects, or seventy-two, and the Christians similar to that, and mysaww community will be separating upon seventy-three sects’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ مِنْ صَحِيحِ التِّرْمِذِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ لَيَأْتِيَنَّ عَلَى أُمَّتِي مَا أَتَى عَلَى بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ حَذْوَ النَّعْلِ بِالنَّعْلِ حَتَّى إِنْ كَانَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ أَتَى أُمَّهُ عَلَانِيَةً لَيَكُونَنَّ فِي أُمَّتِي مَنْ يَصْنَعُ ذَلِكَ

And from Saheeh Al Tirmizi, from Ibn Amro Bin Al Aas who said,

‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘There will be coming upon mysaww community what came upon the children of Israel, step of the slipper with the slipper, until if there was one of them who had gone to his mother openly, there will be one in mysaww community who would be doing that.

وَ إِنَّ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ تَفَرَّقَتْ عَلَى ثِنْتَيْنِ وَ سَبْعِينَ مِلَّةً وَ سَتَفْتَرِقُ أُمَّتِي عَلَى ثَلَاثٍ وَ سَبْعِينَ مِلَّةً كُلُّهَا فِي النَّارِ إِلَّا مِلَّةً وَاحِدَةً قَالُوا مَنْ هِيَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ مَنْ كَانَ عَلَى مَا أَنَا عَلَيْهِ وَ أَصْحَابِي‏.

And the children of Israel divided into Seventy-two nations, and mysaww community will be dividing upon seventy-three nations. All of these would be in the Fire except one nation’. They said, ‘Which one is it, O Rasool-Allahsaww?’ Hesaww said: ‘One who would be upon what Isaww and mysaww companions are upon’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ مِنْ صَحِيحِ التِّرْمِذِيِّ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص أَنَّهُ قَالَ: وَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَتَرْكَبُنَّ سَنَنَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ

And from Saheeh Al-Tirmizi, from the Prophetsaww having said: ‘By the Oneazwj in Whose Hand is mysaww soul! You will be riding the ways of the ones who were before you’.

وَ زَادَ رَزِينٌ حَذْوَ النَّعْلِ بِالنَّعْلِ وَ الْقُذَّةِ بِالْقُذَّةِ حَتَّى إِنْ كَانَ فِيهِمْ مَنْ أَتَى أُمَّهُ يَكُونُ فِيكُمْ فَلَا أَدْرِي أَ تَعْبُدُونَ الْعِجْلَ أَمْ لَا.

And there is an addition by Razeyn: ‘Step of the slipper with the slipper, and the arrow with the arrow (in a quiver), to the extent that if among them there was one who had gone to his mother, it would happen among you all, so Isaww don’t know whether you will be worshipping the calf or not’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ مِنَ الصَّحِيحَيْنِ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ: لَتَتَّبِعُنَّ سَنَنَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ شِبْراً بِشِبْرٍ وَ ذِرَاعاً بِذِرَاعٍ حَتَّى لَوْ دَخَلُوا جُحْرَ ضَبٍّ لَتَبِعْتُمُوهُمْ قُلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ الْيَهُودَ وَ النَّصَارَى قَالَ فَمَنْ‏.

And from the two Saheehs (Bukhari and Muslim) – Abu Saedd Al Khudry,

‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘You will be following the ways of the ones who were before you, palm’s width by palm’s width, and cubit by cubit, to the extent that if they had entered a lizard hole, you will be following them (into it)’. We said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! The Jews and the Christians?’ Hesaww said: ‘Who else?’ (Non-Shia source)

وَ مِنْ صَحِيحِ الْبُخَارِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ: لَا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى تَأْخُذَ أُمَّتِي مَأْخَذَ الْقُرُونِ قَبْلَهَا شِبْراً بِشِبْرٍ وَ ذِرَاعاً بِذِرَاعٍ قِيلَ لَهُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَفَارِسَ وَ الرُّومِ قَالَ مَنِ النَّاسُ إِلَّا أُولَئِكَ‏.

And from Saheeh Al Bukhari – From Abu Hureyra (well-known fabricator),

Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘The Hour will not be established until mysaww community take to what the previous generations before it had taken to, palm’s width by palm’s width, and cubit by cubit’. It was said to himsaww ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Like Persians and Romans?’ Hesaww said: ‘Who are the people except them?’’

وَ مِنَ التِّرْمِذِيِ وَ سُنَنِ أَبِي دَاوُدَ لَا تَزَالُ طَائِفَةٌ مِنْ أُمَّتِي عَلَى الْحَقِ‏.

And from Al Tirmizi and Sunan of Abu Dawood: ‘There is a group of mysaww community who will not cease to be upon the truth’’. (Non-Shia source)

و قال السيد روى الحميدي في الجمع بين الصحيحين من مسند أبي الدرداء في الحديث الأول من صحيح البخاري قالت أم الدرداء. دخل علي أبو الدرداء و هو مغضب فقلت ما أغضبك فقال و الله ما أعرف من أمر محمد ص شيئا إلا أنهم يصلون جميعا.

And the seyyid said, ‘Al Himeyri reported in ‘Al Jam’a Bayn Al Sahiheyn’, from ‘Musnad’ of Abu Darda’a in the first Hadeeth from Saheeh Al Bukhari. Umm Al Darda’a said, ‘Abu Al Darda’a entered to see me and he was angered. I said, ‘Mhat has angered you?’ He said, ‘By Allahazwj! I do not recognise anything from the matters of Muhammadsaww (still left as was) except they are all praying Salat’’. (Non-Shia source)

روي أيضا من صحيح البخاري من مسند أنس بن مالك عن الزهري قال‏. دخلت على أنس بن مالك بدمشق و هو يبكي فقلت ما يبكيك قال لا أعرف شيئا مما أدركت إلا هذه الصلاة و هذه الصلاة قد ضيعت‏.

It is reported as well from Saheel Al Bukhari, from Musnad of Anas Bin Malik (well-known fabricator), from Al Zuhry who said,

‘I entered to see Anas Bin Malik (well-known fabricator) at Damascus, and he was crying. I said, ‘What makes you cry?’ He said, ‘I do not recognise anything from what I have come across except this Salat, and this Salat has been wasted’’.

في حديث آخر منه‏. ما أعرف شيئا مما كان على عهد رسول الله ص قيل الصلاة قال أ ليس ضيعتم ما ضيعتم فيها.

And in another Hadeeth from him: ‘I do not recognise anything from what had happened in the era of Rasool-Allahsaww’. It was said, ‘The Salat’. He said, ‘Haven’t you wasted what you wasted regarding it?’’ (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى الْحُمَيْدِيُّ أَيْضاً مِنْ مُسْنَدِ أَبِي مَالِكٍ وَ أَبِي عَامِرٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص قَالَ: أَوَّلُ دِينِكُمْ نُبُوَّةٌ وَ رَحْمَةٌ ثُمَّ مُلْكٌ وَ رَحْمَةٌ ثُمَّ مُلْكٌ وَ جَبَرِيَّةٌ ثُمَّ مُلْكٌ عَضٌّ يُسْتَحَلُّ فِيهِ الْخَزُّ وَ الْحَرِيرُ.

And it is reported by Al Himeyri as well, from Musnad of Abu Malik, and Abu Aamir,

‘The Prophetsaww said: ‘The first (beginning) of your Religion is Prophet-hood and Mercy, then (it will be) kingship and mercy, then kingship and tyranny, then kingship of harm in which the fur and the silk would be permissible’’.

وَ مِنَ الْمُتَّفَقِ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ مُسْنَدِ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنْهُ ص فِي أَوَاخِرِ الْحَدِيثِ الْمَذْكُورِ إِنَّ مَثَلِي كَمَثَلِ رَجُلٍ‏ اسْتَوْقَدَ ناراً فَلَمَّا أَضاءَتْ ما حَوْلَهُ‏ جَعَلَ الْفَرَاشُ وَ هَذِهِ الدَّوَابُّ الَّتِي تَقَعُ فِي النَّارِ تَقَعُ فِيهَا وَ جَعَلَ يَحْجُزُهُنَّ فَيَغْلِبْنَ وَ يَقْتَحِمْنَ فِيهَا

And from the agreed upon from the Musnad of Abu Hureyra (well-known fabricator) at the end of the mentioned Hadeeth: ‘Mysaww example is like an example of a man who kindled a fire, but when it had illumined all around them, [2:17], made the bed and this animal which fell into the fire, would fall into it, and went on to hold these and was overcome, and were swallowed up into it’.

قَالَ وَ ذَلِكَ مَثَلِي وَ مَثَلُكُمْ أَنَا آخِذٌ بِحُجْزَتِكُمْ هَلُمُّوا عَنِ النَّارِ هَلُمُّوا عَنِ النَّارِ فَتَغْلِبُونَنِي وَ تَقْتَحِمُونَ فِيهَا.

Hesaww said: ‘And that is mysaww example and your example. Isaww grab your sides (saying): ‘Come out from the Fire! Come out from the Fire!’ But you will overcome mesaww and you will be swallowed into it’’.

وَ مِنْ مُسْنَدِ ثَوْبَانَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ إِنَّمَا أَخَافُ عَلَى أُمَّتِي الْأَئِمَّةَ الْمُضِلِّينَ وَ إِذَا وَقَعَ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّيْفُ لَمْ يُرْفَعْ عَنْهُمْ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ وَ لَا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى يَلْحَقَ حَيٌّ مِنْ أُمَّتِي بِالْمُشْرِكِينَ وَ حَتَّى تُعْبَدَ فِي أُمَّتِيَ الْأَوْثَانُ‏.

And from Musnad of Sowban who said, ‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘But rather Isaww fear upon mysaww community of the strayed leaders, and when the sword falls upon them it will not be raised from them up to the Day of Qiyamah, and the Hour will not be established until a tribe from mysaww community joins up with the Polytheists and a tribe worships the idols in mysaww community’’.³⁷ (Non-Shia source)

باب 2 إخبار الله تعالى نبيه و إخبار النبي ص أمته بما جرى على أهل بيته صلوات الله عليهم من الظلم و العدوان‏

CHAPTER 2 – ALLAHazwj EXALTED INFORMING HISazwj PROPHETsaww, AND THE PROPHETsaww INFORMING HISsaww COMMUNITY WITH WHAT WOULD BEFALL UPON PEOPLEasws OF HISsaww HOUSEHOLD, FROM THE INJUSTICES AND THE AGGRESSION

1- لي، الأمالي للصدوق ابْنُ مُوسَى عَنِ الْأَسَدِيِّ عَنِ النَّخَعِيِّ عَنِ النَّوْفَلِيِّ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص كَانَ جَالِساً ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ إِذَا أَقْبَلَ الْحَسَنُ ع فَلَمَّا رَآهُ بَكَى ثُمَّ قَالَ إِلَيَّ إِلَيَّ يَا بُنَيَّ فَمَا زَالَ يُدْنِيهِ حَتَّى أَجْلَسَهُ عَلَى فَخِذِهِ الْيُمْنَى

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of Al Sadouq – Ibn Musa, from Al Asady, from Al Nakhaie, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Bin Abu Hamza, from his father, from Saeed Bin Jubeyr, from Ibn Abbas who said,

‘One day Rasool-Allahsaww was seated when Al-Hassanasws came. When hesaww saw himasws, hesaww cried, then said: ‘To mesaww! To mesaww O mysaww sonasws!’ Hesaww did not cease to draw himasws closer until hesaww seated himasws upon hissaww right thigh.

ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ الْحُسَيْنُ ع فَلَمَّا رَآهُ بَكَى ثُمَّ قَالَ إِلَيَّ إِلَيَّ يَا بُنَيَّ فَمَا زَالَ يُدْنِيهِ حَتَّى أَجْلَسَهُ عَلَى فَخِذِهِ الْيُسْرَى

Then Al-Husaynasws came. When hesaww saw himasws, hesaww cried, then said: ‘To mesaww! To mesaww O mysaww sonasws!’ Hesaww did not cease to draw himasws closer until hesaww seated himasws on hissaww left thigh’.

ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع فَلَمَّا رَآهَا بَكَى ثُمَّ قَالَ إِلَيَّ إِلَيَّ يَا بُنَيَّةِ فَأَجْلَسَهَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ

Then (Syeda) Fatimaasws came. When hesaww saw herasws, hesaww cried, then said: ‘To measws! To measws mysaww daughterasws!’ Hesaww seated herasws in front of himsaww.

ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع فَلَمَّا رَآهُ بَكَى ثُمَّ قَالَ إِلَيَّ إِلَيَّ يَا أَخِي فَمَا زَالَ يُدْنِيهِ حَتَّى أَجْلَسَهُ إِلَى جَنْبِهِ الْأَيْمَنِ

Then Amir Al-Momineenasws came. When hesaww saw himasws, hesaww cried, then said: ‘To mesaww! To mesaww O mysaww brotherasws!’ Hesaww did not cease to draw himasws closer until hesaww seated himasws to hissaww right side.

فَقَالَ لَهُ أَصْحَابُهُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص مَا تَرَى وَاحِداً مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ إِلَّا بَكَيْتَ أَ وَ مَا فِيهِمْ مَنْ تُسَرُّ بِرُؤْيَتِهِ

Hissaww companions said to himsaww, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Yousaww did not see any one of themasws except yousaww cried, or is it not so that what is in themasws would cheer yousaww by seeing themasws?’

فَقَالَ ع وَ الَّذِي بَعَثَنِي بِالنُّبُوَّةِ وَ اصْطَفَانِي عَلَى جَمِيعِ الْبَرِيَّةِ إِنِّي وَ إِيَّاهُمْ لَأَكْرَمُ الْخَلْقِ عَلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ مَا عَلَى وَجْهِ الْأَرْضِ نَسَمَةٌ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْهُمْ

Hesaww said: ‘By the Oneazwj Who Sent mesaww with the Prophet-hood and Chose mesaww over the entirety of the Created beings! Isaww and themasws are the most honourable creatures to Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic, and there is no person upon the surface of the earth more beloved to mesaww than themasws.

أَمَّا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَإِنَّهُ أَخِي وَ شَقِيقِي وَ صَاحِبُ الْأَمْرِ بَعْدِي وَ صَاحِبُ لِوَائِي فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ وَ صَاحِبُ حَوْضِي وَ شَفَاعَتِي وَ هُوَ مَوْلَى كُلِ‏ مُسْلِمٍ وَ إِمَامُ كُلِّ مُؤْمِنٍ وَ قَائِدُ كُلِّ تَقِيٍّ وَ هُوَ وَصِيِّي وَ خَلِيفَتِي عَلَى أَهْلِي وَ أُمَّتِي فِي حَيَاتِي وَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِي

As for Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, heasws is myasws brotherasws, and myasws parallel, and Master of the Command after mesaww, and bearer of mysaww flag in the world and the Hereafter, and in charge of mysaww Fountain, and mysaww intercessor, and heasws is Masterasws of every Muslim, and Imamasws of every Momin, and guide of every pious, and heasws is mysaww successor, and mysaww caliph upon mysaww family and mysaww community during mysaww lifetime and after mysaww passing away.

مُحِبُّهُ مُحِبِّي وَ مُبْغِضُهُ مُبْغِضِي وَ بِوَلَايَتِهِ صَارَتْ أُمَّتِي مَرْحُومَةً وَ بِعَدَاوَتِهِ صَارَتِ الْمُخَالِفَةُ لَهُ مِنْهَا مَلْعُونَةً

One loving himasws loves mesaww, and one hating himasws hates mesaww, and by hisasws Wilayah mysaww community became Mercied, and by having hisasws enmity hisasws adversaries from it became accursed.

وَ إِنِّي بَكَيْتُ حِينَ أَقْبَلَ لِأَنِّي ذَكَرْتُ غَدْرَ الْأُمَّةِ بِهِ بَعْدِي حَتَّى إِنَّهُ لَيُزَالُ عَنْ مَقْعَدِي وَ قَدْ جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ لَهُ بَعْدِي ثُمَّ لَا يَزَالُ الْأَمْرُ بِهِ حَتَّى يُضْرَبَ عَلَى قَرْنِهِ ضَرْبَةً تُخْضَبُ مِنْهَا لِحْيَتُهُ فِي أَفْضَلِ الشُّهُورِ شَهْرُ رَمَضانَ الَّذِي أُنْزِلَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ هُدىً لِلنَّاسِ وَ بَيِّناتٍ مِنَ الْهُدى‏ وَ الْفُرْقانِ

And Isaww cried when heasws came because Isaww remembered the treachery of the community with himasws after mesaww, to the extent that heasws would be moved from mysaww seat, and although Allahazwj has Made it to be for himasws after mesaww. Then the matter will not cease to be with himasws until heasws is struck upon hisasws forehead with a strike, hisasws beard would be dyed from it in the most superior of the months: The Month of Ramazan is that in which the Quran was Revealed, a Guidance for the people, and clear evidence from the Guidance and the Furqan; [2:185].

وَ أَمَّا ابْنَتِي فَاطِمَةُ فَإِنَّهَا سَيِّدَةُ نِسَاءِ الْعَالَمِينَ مِنَ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ الْآخِرِينَ وَ هِيَ بَضْعَةٌ مِنِّي وَ هِيَ نُورُ عَيْنِي وَ هِيَ ثَمَرَةُ فُؤَادِي وَ هِيَ رُوحِيَ الَّتِي بَيْنَ جَنْبَيَّ وَ هِيَ الْحَوْرَاءُ الْإِنْسِيَّةُ

And as for mysaww daughter Fatimaasws, sheasws is chieftess of the women of the worlds, from the former ones and the latter ones, and sheasws is a part of mesaww, and sheasws is light of mysaww eyes, and sheasws is fruit of mysaww heart, and sheasws is mysaww soul which is by mysaww two sides, and sheasws is the human Hourie.

مَتَى قَامَتْ فِي مِحْرَابِهَا بَيْنَ يَدِي رَبِّهَا جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ زَهَرَ نُورُهَا لِمَلَائِكَةِ السَّمَاءِ كَمَا يَزْهَرُ نُورُ الْكَوَاكِبِ لِأَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ وَ يَقُولُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لِمَلَائِكَتِهِ يَا مَلَائِكَتِي انْظُرُوا إِلَى أَمَتِي فَاطِمَةَ سَيِّدَةِ إِمَائِي قَائِمَةً بَيْنَ يَدِيَّ تَرْتَعِدُ فَرَائِصُهَا مِنْ خِيفَتِي وَ قَدْ أَقْبَلَتْ بِقَلْبِهَا عَلَى عِبَادَتِي أُشْهِدُكُمْ أَنِّي قَدْ آمَنْتُ شِيعَتَهَا مِنَ النَّارِ

Whenever sheasws stands in herasws prayer niche in front of herasws Lordazwj, herasws Noor (light) shines to the Angels of the sky just as the light of the stars tends to shine to the inhabitants of the earth, and Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Says to Hisazwj Angels: “O Myazwj Angels! Look at Myazwj maid Fatimaasws, chieftess of Myazwj maids, standing in front of Meazwj! Herasws limbs are trembling from fearing Meazwj, and sheasws has turned with herasws heart upon worshipping Meazwj. Isaww Keep you as witnesses that Isaww have Secured herasws Shias from the Fire!”

‏ وَ أَنِّي لَمَّا رَأَيْتُهَا ذَكَرْتُ مَا يُصْنَعُ بِهَا بَعْدِي كَأَنِّي بِهَا وَ قَدْ دَخَلَ الذُّلُّ بَيْتَهَا وَ انْتُهِكَتْ حُرْمَتُهَا وَ غُصِبَتْ حَقَّهَا وَ مُنِعَتْ إِرْثَهَا وَ كُسِرَتْ جَنْبَتُهَا وَ أَسْقَطَتْ جَنِينَهَا وَ هِيَ تُنَادِي يَا مُحَمَّدَاهْ فَلَا تُجَابُ وَ تَسْتَغِيثُ فَلَا تُغَاثُ

And whenever Isaww see herasws, Isaww remember what would be done with herasws after mesaww. It is as if Isaww am with herasws, and the humiliation has entered herasws house, and herasws sanctity has been violated, and herasws rights have been usurped, and herasws inheritance has been deprived, and herasws side has been broken, and herasws pregnancy has been miscarried, and sheasws is calling out: ‘O Muhammadsaww!’, but sheasws is not answered, and sheasws seeks help but is not helped.

فَلَا تَزَالُ بَعْدِي مَحْزُونَةً مَكْرُوبَةً بَاكِيَةً تَتَذَكَّرُ انْقِطَاعَ الْوَحْيِ عَنْ بَيْتِهَا مَرَّةً وَ تَتَذَكَّرُ فِرَاقِي أُخْرَى وَ تَسْتَوْحِشُ إِذَا جَنَّهَا اللَّيْلُ لِفَقْدِ صَوْتِيَ الَّذِي كَانَتْ تَسْتَمِعُ إِلَيْهِ إِذَا تَهَجَّدْتُ بِالْقُرْآنِ ثُمَّ تَرَى نَفْسَهَا ذَلِيلَةً بَعْدَ أَنْ كَانَتْ فِي أَيَّامِ أَبِيهَا عَزِيزَةً

So sheasws will not cease after mesaww to be aggrieved, crying, remembering the termination of the Revelation from herasws house at times, and remembering mysaww separation at another (time); and sheasws gets lonely when the night shields due to the loss of mysaww voice which sheasws used to listen to whenever Isaww held vigil with the Quran. Then sheasws sees herselfasws as humiliated afterwards that sheasws used to be endeared during the days of herasws fathersaww.

فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ يُؤْنِسُهَا اللَّهُ تَعَالَى ذِكْرُهُ بِالْمَلَائِكَةِ فَنَادَتْهَا بِمَا نَادَتْ بِهِ مَرْيَمَ بِنْتَ عِمْرَانَ فَتَقُولُ يَا فَاطِمَةُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ اصْطَفاكِ وَ طَهَّرَكِ وَ اصْطَفاكِ عَلى‏ نِساءِ الْعالَمِينَ‏ يَا فَاطِمَةُ اقْنُتِي لِرَبِّكِ وَ اسْجُدِي‏ وَ ارْكَعِي مَعَ الرَّاكِعِينَ

During that, Allahazwj, Exalted is Hisazwj Mention, would comfort her with the Angels, and sheasws would be called out with what Maryam Bint Imranas had been called out with. They will say: ‘O Fatimaasws! Allah has Chosen you and Purified you and Chosen you above the women of the worlds’ [3:42]. O Fatimaasws! Be obedient to your Lord and perform Sajdahs and Rukus along with the Ruku performers [3:43]’.

‏ ثُمَّ يَبْتَدِئُ بِهَا الْوَجَعُ فَتَمْرَضُ فَيَبْعَثُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ إِلَيْهَا مَرْيَمَ بِنْتَ عِمْرَانَ تُمَرِّضُهَا وَ تُؤْنِسُهَا فِي عِلَّتِهَا فَتَقُولُ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ يَا رَبِّ إِنِّي سَئِمْتُ الْحَيَاةَ وَ تَبَرَّمْتُ بِأَهْلِ الدُّنْيَا فَأَلْحِقْنِي بِأَبِي

Then the troubles would begin with herasws and sheasws would fall ill, so Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic would Send Maryam Bint Imranas to herasws to console herasws and comfort herasws during herasws illness. During that sheasws would say: ‘O Lordazwj! Iasws am weary of the life and complain of the people of the world, so join measws with myasws fathersaww’.

فَيُلْحِقُهَا اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِي فَتَكُونُ أَوَّلَ مَنْ يَلْحَقُنِي مِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتِي فَتَقْدَمُ عَلَيَّ مَحْزُونَةً مَكْرُوبَةً مَغْمُومَةً مَغْصُوبَةً مَقْتُولَةً فَأَقُولُ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ اللَّهُمَّ الْعَنْ مَنْ ظَلَمَهَا وَ عَاقِبْ مَنْ غَصَبَهَا وَ ذَلِّلْ مَنْ أَذَلَّهَا وَ خَلِّدْ فِي نَارِكَ مَنْ ضَرَبَ جَنْبَيْهَا حَتَّى أَلْقَتْ وَلَدَهَا فَتَقُولُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ آمِينَ

So Allahazwj would join herasws with mesaww and sheasws would become the first one of mysaww familyasws to proceed to mesaww, grief-stricken, saddened, usurped, murdered. During that, Isaww shall say: ‘O Allahazwj! Curse the one who oppressed herasws, and Punish the one who usurped herasws, and disgrace the one who humiliated herasws, and eternalise in Yourazwj Fire the one who struck herasws side to the extent that herasws child was miscarried!’ The Angels would say: ‘Ameen’, at that.

وَ أَمَّا الْحَسَنُ ع فَإِنَّهُ ابْنِي وَ وَلَدِي وَ مِنِّي وَ قُرَّةُ عَيْنِي وَ ضِيَاءُ قَلْبِي وَ ثَمَرَةُ فُؤَادِي وَ هُوَ سَيِّدُ شَبَابِ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ وَ حُجَّةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى الْأُمَّةِ أَمْرُهُ أَمْرِي وَ قَوْلُهُ قَوْلِي مَنْ تَبِعَهُ فَإِنَّهُ مِنِّي وَ مَنْ عَصَاهُ فَلَيْسَ مِنِّي

And as for Al-Hassanasws, so heasws is mysaww sonasws, and mysaww child, and from mesaww, and delight of myasws eyes, and illumination of mysaww heart, and fruit of mysaww heart, and heasws is chief of the youths of the inhabitants of the Paradise, and a Divine Authority of Allahazwj upon the community. Hisasws orders are mysaww orders, and hisasws words are mysaww words. One who follows himasws, he is from mesaww, and one who disobeys himasws, he isn’t from mesaww.

وَ إِنِّي لَمَّا نَظَرْتُ إِلَيْهِ تَذَكَّرْتُ مَا يَجْرِي عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الذُّلِّ بَعْدِي فَلَا يَزَالُ الْأَمْرُ بِهِ حَتَّى يُقْتَلَ بِالسَّمِّ ظُلْماً وَ عُدْوَاناً فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ تَبْكِي الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَ السَّبْعُ الشِّدَادُ لِمَوْتِهِ وَ يَبْكِيهِ كُلُّ شَيْ‏ءٍ حَتَّى الطَّيْرُ فِي جَوِّ السَّمَاءِ وَ الْحِيتَانُ فِي جَوْفِ الْمَاءِ

And when Isaww looked at himasws, Isaww remembered what would transpire upon himasws of the humiliation after mesaww. The matter will not cease with himasws until heasws is murdered by the poison, oppressed, and aggressed. During that, the Angels and the seven strong ones (skies) would cry at hisasws expiry, and every thing would cry for him, even the birds in the atmosphere of the sky, and the fishes in the interior of the water.

فَمَنْ بَكَاهُ لَمْ تَعْمَ عَيْنُهُ يَوْمَ تَعْمَى الْعُيُونُ وَ مَنْ حَزِنَ عَلَيْهِ لَمْ يَحْزَنْ قَلْبُهُ يَوْمَ تَحْزَنُ الْقُلُوبُ وَ مَنْ زَارَهُ فِي بَقِيعِهِ ثَبَتَتْ قَدَمُهُ عَلَى الصِّرَاطِ يَوْمَ تَزِلُّ فِيهِ الْأَقْدَامُ

So the one who cries for himasws, his eyes will not be blinded on the day the eyes would be blinded, and the one who grieves upon himasws, his heart will not grieve on the Day the hearts would grieve; and the one who visits himasws in hisasws spot (grave), his feet will be affirmed upon the Bridge on the Day the feet would be slipping.

وَ أَمَّا الْحُسَيْنُ ع فَإِنَّهُ مِنِّي وَ هُوَ ابْنِي وَ وَلَدِي وَ خَيْرُ الْخَلْقِ بَعْدَ أَخِيهِ وَ هُوَ إِمَامُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَ مَوْلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ خَلِيفَةُ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَ غِيَاثُ الْمُسْتَغِيثِينَ وَ كَهْفُ الْمُسْتَجِيرِينَ وَ حُجَّةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى خَلْقِهِ أَجْمَعِينَ وَ هُوَ سَيِّدُ شَبَابِ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ وَ بَابُ نَجَاةِ الْأُمَّةِ

And as for Al-Husaynasws, heasws is from mesaww, and heasws is mysaww sonasws, and mysaww child, and best of the creatures after hisasws brotherasws, and heasws is Imamasws of the Muslims, and Masterasws of the Momineen, and caliph of Lordazwj of the worlds, and helpers of the seekers of help, and a cave for the sheltering ones, and a Divine Authority of Allahazwj upon Hisazwj creatures, and heasws is chief of the youths of the inhabitants of the Paradise, and a door of the salvation of the community.

أَمْرُهُ أَمْرِي وَ طَاعَتُهُ طَاعَتِي مَنْ تَبِعَهُ فَإِنَّهُ مِنِّي وَ مَنْ عَصَاهُ فَلَيْسَ مِنِّي

Hisasws orders are mysaww orders, and obedience to himasws is obedience to mesaww. One who follows him, so he is from mesaww, and one who disobeys himasws, he isn’t from mesaww.

وَ إِنِّي لَمَّا رَأَيْتُهُ تَذَكَّرْتُ مَا يُصْنَعُ بِهِ بَعْدِي كَأَنِّي بِهِ وَ قَدِ اسْتَجَارَ بِحَرَمِي وَ قُرْبِي فَلَا يُجَارُ فَأَضُمُّهُ فِي مَنَامِي إِلَى صَدْرِي وَ آمُرُهُ بِالرِّحْلَةِ عَنْ دَارِ هِجْرَتِي وَ أُبَشِّرُهُ بِالشَّهَادَةِ

And when Isaww saw himasws, Iasws remembered what would be done with himasws after mesaww. It is as if Isaww am with himasws, and heasws has appealed for help with mysaww sanctimonious ones and mysaww kindred, but heasws is not helped. So Isaww hug himasws in mysaww dream to mysaww chest, and instruct himasws with the departure from the house of emigration, and give himasws the glad tidings of the martyrdom.

فَيَرْتَحِلُ عَنْهَا إِلَى أَرْضِ مَقْتَلِهِ وَ مَوْضِعِ مَصْرَعِهِ أَرْضِ‏كَرْبٍ وَ بَلَاءٍ وَ قَتْلٍ وَ فَنَاءٍ تَنْصُرُهُ عِصَابَةٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ أُولَئِكَ مِنْ سَادَةِ شُهَدَاءِ أُمَّتِي يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ

So heasws departs from it to the land of hisasws killing, and place of hisasws final lying down, a land of anguish and afflictions (Karb wa Bala), and killing, and perishing. A group of the Muslims would help himasws. They are from the chiefs of the martyrs of mysaww community on the Day of Qiyamah.

كَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ وَ قَدْ رُمِيَ بِسَهْمٍ فَخَرَّ عَنْ فَرَسِهِ صَرِيعاً ثُمَّ يُذْبَحُ كَمَا يُذْبَحُ الْكَبْشُ مَظْلُوماً

It is as if Isaww am looking at himasws, and heasws has been shot at by an arrow, so heasws falls from hisasws horse quickly. Then heasws is slaughtered just as the ram gets slaughtered, oppressed’.

ثُمَّ بَكَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ بَكَى مَنْ حَوْلَهُ وَ ارْتَفَعَتْ أَصْوَاتُهُمْ بِالضَّجِيجِ ثُمَّ قَامَ ع وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَشْكُو إِلَيْكَ مَا يَلْقَى أَهْلُ بَيْتِي بَعْدِي ثُمَّ دَخَلَ مَنْزِلَهُ‏.

Then Rasool-Allahsaww cried, and the ones around himsaww cried, and their voices were raised with the noise. Then hesaww stood up and hesaww was saying: ‘O Allahazwj! Isaww complain to Youazwj of what Peopleasws of mysaww Household would be facing after mesaww’. Then hesaww entered hissaww house’’.³⁸

2- جا، المجالس للمفيد ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي الْمُفِيدُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِمْرَانَ الْمَرْزُبَانِيِّ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْجَوْهَرِيِّ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مِنْقَرٍ عَنْ زِيَادِ بْنِ الْمُنْذِرِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُرَحْبِيلُ عَنْ أُمِّ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ قَالَتْ‏ لَمَّا ثَقُلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فِي مَرَضِهِ الَّذِي تُوُفِّيَ فِيهِ أَفَاقَ إِفَاقَةً وَ نَحْنُ نَبْكِي فَقَالَ مَا الَّذِي يُبْكِيكُمْ

(The books) ‘Al Majaalis’ of Al Mufeed (and) ‘Al Amaali’ of Al Tusi Al Mufeed, from Muhammad Bin Imran Al Marzubani, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Al Jawhari, from Al Hassan Bin Aleel, from Abdul Kareem Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ali, from Muhammad Bin Minqar, from Ziyad Bin Al Manzar from Shurjeel, from Umm Al Fazl Bin Al Abbas who said,

‘When Rasool-Allahsaww became heavy in hissaww illness in which hesaww passed away, hesaww awoke with an awakening and we were crying. Hesaww said: ‘What is that which makes you all cry?’

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهُ نَبْكِي لِغَيْرِ خَصْلَةٍ نَبْكِي لِفِرَاقِكَ إِيَّانَا وَ لِانْقِطَاعِ خَبَرِ السَّمَاءِ عَنَّا وَ نَبْكِي الْأُمَّةَ مِنْ بَعْدِكَ فَقَالَ ص أَمَا إِنَّكُمُ الْمَقْهُورُونَ وَ الْمُسْتَضْعَفُونَ مِنْ بَعْدِي‏.

I said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! We are crying for the change of the circumstances, we are crying for yoursaww separation from us, and the termination of the goodness of the sky from us, and we are crying of the community from after yousaww’. Hesaww said: ‘But you will be coerced and weakened from after mesaww’’.³⁹

3- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي الْمُفِيدُ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ هَمَّامٍ عَنْ حَمْزَةَ بْنِ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَارِثِ شُرَيْحٍ عَنِ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ الْبَاهِلِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ لَتُنْقَضَنَّ عُرَى الْإِسْلَامِ عُرْوَةً عُرْوَةً كُلَّمَا نُقِضَتْ عُرْوَةٌ تَشَبَّثَ النَّاسُ بِالَّتِي تَلِيهَا فَأَوَّلُهُنَّ نَقْضُ‏ الْحُكْمِ وَ آخِرُهُنَّ الصَّلَاةُ.

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi, form Al Hassan Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Hamam, from Hamza Bin Abu Hamza, from Abu Al Haris Shareeh, from Al Waleed Bin Muslim, from Abdul Aziz Bin Suleyman, from Suleyman Bin Habeen, from Abu Amama Al Bahili who said,

‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘You will be breaking handles of Islam, handle by handle. Every time a handle is broken, the people would cling with that which follows it. The first of these to be broken is the judgment (Laws), and the last of these would be the Salat’’.⁴⁰

4- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي الْمُفِيدُ عَنِ الصَّدُوقِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ إِدْرِيسَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ تَغْلِبَ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ قَالَ: لَمَّا حَضَرَتْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص الْوَفَاةُ بَكَى حَتَّى بَلَّتْ دُمُوعُهُ لِحْيَتَهُ فَقِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا يُبْكِيكَ

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi Al Mufeed, from Al Sadouq, from his father, from Ahmad Bin Idrees, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Aban Bin Usman, from Aban Bin Taghlub, from Ikrima, form Abdullah Bin Al Abbas who said,

‘When the expiry presented to Rasool-Allahsaww, hesaww wept to the extent that hissaww tears dampened hissaww beard. It was said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! What makes yousaww cry?’

فَقَالَ أَبْكِي لِذُرِّيَّتِي وَ مَا تَصْنَعُ بِهِمْ شِرَارُ أُمَّتِي مِنْ بَعْدِي كَأَنِّي بِفَاطِمَةَ بِنْتِي وَ قَدْ ظُلِمَتْ بَعْدِي وَ هِيَ تُنَادِي يَا أَبَتَاهْ يَا أَبَتَاهْ فَلَا يُعِينُهَا أَحَدٌ مِنْ أُمَّتِي

Hesaww said: ‘Isaww cry for mysaww offspring and what would be done with them by the evil ones of mysaww community from after mesaww. It is as if Isaww am with Fatimaasws, mysaww daughterasws, and she is being oppressed after mesaww and sheasws is calling out: ‘O Fathersaww! O Fathersaww!’ But no one from mysaww community is assisting herasws’.

فَسَمِعَتْ ذَلِكَ فَاطِمَةُ ع فَبَكَتْ فَقَالَ لَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَا تَبْكِيِنَّ يَا بُنَيَّةِ فَقَالَتْ لَسْتُ أَبْكِي لِمَا يُصْنَعُ بِي مِنْ بَعْدِكَ وَ لَكِنِّي أَبْكِي لِفِرَاقِكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

Fatimaasws heard that and sheasws cried. Rasool-Allahsaww said to herasws: ‘Do not cry O daughterasws’. Sheasws said: ‘Iasws am not crying at what would be done with measws from after yousaww, but Iasws am crying due to yoursaww separation, O Rasool-Allahsaww!’

فَقَالَ لَهَا أَبْشِرِي يَا بِنْتَ مُحَمَّدٍ بِسُرْعَةِ اللَّحَاقِ بِي فَإِنَّكِ أَوَّلُ مَنْ يَلْحَقُ بِي مِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتِي‏.

Hesaww said to herasws: ‘Receive glad tidings, O daughterasws of Muhammadsaww with the quickness of the joining up with mesaww, for youasws will be the first one from the Peopleasws of mysaww Household to join up with mesaww’’.⁴¹

5- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي جَمَاعَةٌ عَنْ أَبِي الْمُفَضَّلِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مَخْلَدٍ الْجُعْفِيِّ عَنْ عَبَّادِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ الْجُعْفِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ أَبِي الْبُهْلُولِ عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ أَبِي الْأَسْوَدِ عَنْ أَبِي الْجَارُودِ عَنْ حَكِيمِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنْ سَالِمٍ الْجُعْفِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ عَلِيٌّ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ وَ هُوَ فِي الرَّحْبَةِ جَالِسٌ انْتَدِبُوا وَ هُوَ عَلَى الْمَسِيرِ مِنَ السَّوَادِ فَانْتَدَبُوا نحو [نَحْواً] مِنْ مِائَةٍ فَقَالَ وَ رَبِّ السَّمَاءِ وَ الْأَرْضِ لَقَدْ حَدَّثَنِي خَلِيلِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنَّ الْأُمَّةَ سَتَغْدِرُ بِي مِنْ بَعْدِهِ عَهْداً مَعْهُوداً وَ قَضَاءً مَقْضِيّاً وَ قَدْ خابَ مَنِ افْتَرى‏.

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – A group, from Abu Al Mufazzal, from Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Mukhallad Al Jufy, from Abbad Bin Saeed Al jufy, from Muhammad Bin Usman Bin Abu Al Bahloul, from Salih Bin Abu Al Aswad, from Abu Al Jaroud, from Hajeem Bin Jubeyr, from Salim Al Jufy who said,

‘Aliasws said and heasws was seated in Al-Rahba answering (questions), and heasws was upon a journey from the desert. Heasws answered approximately one hundred and said, ‘By the Lordazwj of the sky and the earth! Myasws beloved Rasool-Allahsaww had narrated to measws that the community would be betraying measws after himsaww of a pacted pact, and decrees decreed, and the one who fabricates would be disappointed’ [20:61]’’.⁴²

6- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي الْمُفِيدُ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنِ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّزَّاقِ عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ نَصْرِ بْنِ عَاصِمٍ اللَّيْثِيِّ عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ الْيَشْكُرِيِّ قَالَ: خَرَجْتُ سَنَةَ فَتْحِ تُسْتَرَ حَتَّى قَدِمْتُ الْكُوفَةَ فَدَخَلْتُ الْمَسْجِدَ فَإِذَا أَنَا بِحَلْقَةٍ فِيهَا رَجُلٌ جَهْمٌ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ فَقُلْتُ مَنْ هَذَا فَقَالَ الْقَوْمُ أَ مَا تَعْرِفُهُ فَقُلْتُ لَا فَقَالُوا هَذَا حُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِ صَاحِبُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi Al Mufeed, from Ali Bin Khalid, from Al Abbas Bin Al Mugheira, from Ahmad Bin Mansour, from Abduul Razzaq, from Ma’mar, from Qatadah, from Nasr Bin Aasim Al Laysi, from Khalid Bin Khalid Al Yashkuri who said,

‘I went out in the year of the conquest of Tustar (a province of Persia) until I arrived at Al-Kufa. I entered the Masjid and there I was with a circle there I was with a man of weak one from the men. I said, ‘Who is this?’ The group said, ‘Do you not recognise him?’ I said, ‘No’. They said, ‘This is Huzeyfa Bin Al-Yaman, companion of Rasool-Allahsaww’.

قَالَ فَقَعَدْتُ إِلَيْهِ فَحَدَّثَ الْقَوْمَ فَقَالَ كَانَ النَّاسُ يَسْأَلُونَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص عَنِ الْخَيْرِ وَ كُنْتُ أَسْأَلُهُ عَنِ الشَّرِّ فَأَنْكَرَ ذَلِكَ الْقَوْمُ عَلَيْهِ

He (the narrator) said, ‘I sat to him, and he narrated to the group. He said, ‘The people used to ask Rasool-Allahsaww about the good, and I used to ask himsaww about the evil’. The group disliked that upon him.

فَقَالَ سَأُحَدِّثُكُمْ بِمَا أَنْكَرْتُمْ إِنَّهُ جَاءَ أَمْرُ الْإِسْلَامِ فَجَاءَ أَمْرٌ لَيْسَ كَأَمْرِ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ وَ كُنْتُ أُعْطِيتُ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ فِقْهاً وَ كَانَ رِجَالٌ يَجِيئُونَ فَيَسْأَلُونَ النَّبِيَّ ص فَقُلْتُ أَنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَ يَكُونُ بَعْدَ هَذَا الْخَيْرِ شَرٌّ قَالَ نَعَمْ

He said, ‘I shall narrate to you with what you are disliking. The matter of Al-Islam came, so there came a matter unlike the matter of the pre-Islamic period, and I had been given understanding from the Quran, and men were coming and asking the Prophetsaww. I said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Can evil happen to be after this goodness?’ Hesaww said: ‘Yes’.

قُلْتُ فَمَا الْعِصْمَةُ مِنْهُ قَالَ السَّيْفُ قَالَ قُلْتُ وَ مَا بَعْدَ السَّيْفِ بَقِيَّةٌ قَالَ نَعَمْ يَكُونُ إِمَارَةٌ عَلَى أَقْذَاءٍ وَ هُدْنَةٌ عَلَى دَخَنٍ قَالَ قُلْتُ ثُمَّ مَا ذَا قَالَ ثُمَّ تَفْشُو رُعَاةُ الضَّلَالَةِ فَإِنْ رَأَيْتَ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَلِيفَةَ عَدْلٍ فَالْزَمْهُ وَ إِلَّا فَمُتْ عَاضّاً عَلَى جِذْلِ شَجَرَةٍ.

I said, ‘So what is the protection from it?’ Hesaww said: ‘The sword’. I said, ‘And what would remain after the sword?’ Hesaww said: ‘Yes, there will happen to be an emirate upon the sins and truce upon the smoke’. I said, ‘Then what?’ Hesaww said: ‘Then the citizens would spread the straying, so if on that day you were to see a just caliph, then necessitate him, or else die biting upon the trunk of a tree’’.

وَ رَوَى الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ الْفَرَّاءُ فِي شَرْحِ السُّنَّةِ هَذِهِ الرِّوَايَةَ عَنِ الْيَشْكُرِيِّ هَكَذَا

And it is reported by Al Husayn Bin Masoud Al Farra in (the book) ‘Shar’h Al Sunnah’, this report form Al Yashkuri, like that –

خَرَجْتُ زَمَنَ فُتِحَتْ تُسْتَرُ حَتَّى قَدِمْتُ الْكُوفَةَ وَ دَخَلْتُ الْمَسْجِدَ فَإِذَا أَنَا بِحَلْقَةٍ فِيهَا رَجُلٌ صَدَعٌ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ حَسَنُ الثَّغْرِ يُعْرَفُ فِيهِ أَنَّهُ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْحِجَازِ قَالَ فَقُلْتُ مَنِ الرَّجُلُ فَقَالَ الْقَوْمُ أَ وَ مَا تَعْرِفُهُ قُلْتُ لَا قَالُوا هَذَا حُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِ صَاحِبُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

‘I went out in the time when Tustar (a province of Persia) was conquered until I arrived at Al-Kufa and entered the Masjid, and there I was with a circle wherein was a man blocked from the men, of excellent talk being recognised by it that he was a man from the people of Al-Hijaz. I said, ‘Who is the man?’ The group said, ‘Or do you not recognise him?’ I said, ‘No’. They said, ‘This is Huzeyfa Bin Al-Yaman, companion of Rasool-Allahsaww’.

قَالَ فَقَعَدْتُ وَ حَدَّثَ الْقَوْمَ فَقَالَ إِنَّ النَّاسَ كَانُوا يَسْأَلُونَ النَّبِيَّ ص عَنِ الْخَيْرِ وَ كُنْتُ أَسْأَلُهُ عَنِ الشَّرِّ فَأَنْكَرَ ذَلِكَ الْقَوْمُ عَلَيْهِ

He (the narrator) said, ‘I sat down and he narrated to the people. He said, ‘The people used to ask the Prophetsaww about the good and I used to ask himsaww about the evil’. The group disliked that upon him.

فَقَالَ لَهُمْ سَأُخْبِرُكُمْ بِمَا أَنْكَرْتُمْ مِنْ ذَلِكَ جَاءَ الْإِسْلَامُ حِينَ جَاءَ فَجَاءَ أَمْرٌ لَيْسَ كَأَمْرِ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ فَكُنْتُ قَدْ أُعْطِيتُ فَهْماً فِي الْقُرْآنِ فَكَانَ رِجَالٌ يَجِيئُونَ وَ يَسْأَلُونَ عَنِ الْخَيْرِ وَ كُنْتُ أَسْأَلُهُ عَنِ الشَّرِّ

He said to them, ‘I shall inform you with what you are disliking from that. Al-Islam came when it came, and a matter came which wasn’t like the matter of the pro-Islamic period. I had been given understanding regarding the Quran, and men were coming asking about the good, and I was asking himsaww about the evil.

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَ يَكُونُ بَعْدَ هَذَا الْخَيْرِ شَرٌّ كَمَا كَانَ قَبْلَهُ شَرٌّ قَالَ نَعَمْ قُلْتُ فَمَا الْعِصْمَةُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ ص السَّيْفُ قُلْتُ وَ هَلْ بَعْدَ السَّيْفِ بَقِيَّةٌ قَالَ نَعَمْ إِمَارَةٌ عَلَى أَقْذَاءٍ وَ هُدْنَةٌ عَلَى دَخَنٍ

I said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Can evil happen to be after this goodness, just as there was evil before it?’ Hesaww said: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘So what is the protection, O Rasool-Allahsaww?’ Hesaww said: ‘The sword’. I said, ‘And would there be any remnant after the sword?’ Hesaww said: ‘Yes, an emirate upon the sins and a truce upon the smoke’.

قَالَ قُلْتُ ثُمَّ مَا ذَا قَالَ ثُمَّ يَنْشَأُ رُعَاةُ الضَّلَالَةِ فَإِنْ كَانَ لِلَّهِ فِي الْأَرْضِ‏خَلِيفَةٌ جَلَدَ ظَهْرَكَ وَ أَخَذَ مَالَكَ فَالْزَمْهُ وَ إِلَّا فَمُتْ وَ أَنْتَ عَاضٌّ عَلَى جِذْلِ شَجَرَةٍ

He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘Then what?’ Hesaww said: ‘Then citizens would spread the straying, so if there was a caliph for Allahazwj in the earth whipping your back and taking your wealth, then necessitate him, or else so die and you are biting upon the trunk of a tree’.

قُلْتُ ثُمَّ مَا ذَا قَالَ ثُمَّ يَخْرُجُ الدَّجَّالُ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ مَعَهُ نَهْرٌ وَ نَارٌ فَمَنْ وَقَعَ فِي نَارِهِ وَجَبَ أَجْرُهُ وَ حُطَّ وِزْرُهُ وَ مَنْ وَقَعَ فِي نَهْرِهِ وَجَبَ وِزْرُهُ وَ حُطَّ أَجْرُهُ

I said, ‘Then what?’ Hesaww said: ‘The Al-Dajjalla would emerge after that having a river with himla and a fire. The one who falls into hisla fire, his Recompense would be obligated and his burdens (sins) would be shed, and one who falls into his river, his burden (sins) would be obligated and his Recompense would be shed’.

قَالَ قُلْتُ ثُمَّ مَا ذَا قَالَ يُنْتَجُ الْمُهْرُ فَلَا يُرْكَبُ حَتَّى تَقُومَ السَّاعَةُ.

He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘Then what?’ Hesaww said: ‘An animal would be produced, but do not ride it until the establishment of the Hour’’.⁴³

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بَعْضِ الرِّوَايَاتِ‏ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ الْهُدْنَةُ عَلَى الدَّخَنِ مَا هِيَ قَالَ لَا يَرْجِعُ قُلُوبُ أَقْوَامٍ عَلَى الَّذِي كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِ.

And in a report – ‘I said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! The truce upon the smoke, what is it?’ Hesaww said: ‘The hearts of the people will not return upon that which they used to be upon’’.

7- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي جَمَاعَةٌ عَنْ أَبِي الْفَضْلِ عَنْ مُسَدَّدِ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ دُكَيْنٍ عَنْ مَطَرِ بْنِ خَلِيفَةَ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ عَنْ ثَعْلَبَةَ بْنِ‏ مُرْشِدٍ الْحِمَّانِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَلِيّاً صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ: وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّهُ لَعَهِدَ النَّبِيُّ الْأُمِّيُّ إِلَيَّ أَنَّ الْأُمَّةَ سَتَغْدِرُ بِكَ بَعْدِي‏.

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – A group, from Abu Al Fazl, from Musaddad Bin Yaqoub, from Is’haq Bin Yasaar, from Al Fazl Bin Zukeyn, from Matar Bin Khalifa, from Habeeb Bin Abu Sabit, from Sa’alba Bin Murshid Al Himany who said,

‘I heard Aliasws saying: ‘By Allahazwj! The Ummy Prophetsaww pacted to measws: ‘The community will be treacherous with youasws after mesaww’’.⁴⁴

8- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي الْحَفَّارُ عَنِ الْجِعَابِيِّ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُوسَى الْخَزَّازِ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْهَاشِمِيِّ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ عَنْ أَبِي قِلَابَةَ عَنْ بِشْرِ بْنِ عُمَرَ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ أَبَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ عَنْ ثُوَيْرِ بْنِ أَبِي فَاخِتَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي لَيْلَى قَالَ قَالَ أَبِي‏ دَفَعَ النَّبِيُّ ص الرَّايَةَ يَوْمَ خَيْبَرَ إِلَى عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَفَتَحَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ أَوْقَفَهُ يَوْمَ غَدِيرِ خُمٍّ فَأَعْلَمَ النَّاسَ أَنَّهُ مَوْلَى كُلِّ مُؤْمِنٍ وَ مُؤْمِنَةٍ

(The book) ‘Al Amaali; of the sheykh Al Tusi – Al Haffar, from Al Jiany, from Ali Bin Musa Al Khazzaz, from Al Hassan Bin Al Al Hashimy, from Ismail, from Usman Bin Ahmad, from Abu Qilaba, from Bishr Bin Umar, from Malim Bin Anas, from Zayd Bin Aslam, from Ismail Bin Aban, from Abu Maryam, from Suweyr Bin Abu Fakhta, from Abdul Rahman Bin Abu Layli who said,

‘The Prophetsaww handed over the flag to Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws on the day of Khyber. Allahazwj Granted victory to himasws, and hesaww made himasws stand on the day of Ghadeer Khumm. So, the people came to know that heasws is a Masterasws of every believing man and woman.

وَ قَالَ لَهُ أَنْتَ مِنِّي وَ أَنَا مِنْكَ وَ قَالَ لَهُ تُقَاتِلُ عَلَى التَّأْوِيلِ كَمَا قَاتَلْتُ عَلَى التَّنْزِيلِ وَ قَالَ لَهُ أَنْتَ مِنِّي بِمَنْزِلَةِ هَارُونَ مِنْ مُوسَى وَ قَالَ لَهُ أَنَا سِلْمٌ لِمَنْ سَالَمْتَ وَ حَرْبٌ لِمَنْ حَارَبْتَ

And hesaww said to himasws: ‘Youasws are from mesaww and Isaww am from youasws; and said to himasws: ‘Yousaww will be fought upon the interpretation just as Isaww was fought upon the Revelation’; and said to himasws: ‘Youasws are from mesaww at the status of Harounas from Musaas’; and said to himasws: ‘Isaww am at peace to the one who as at peace with youasws and at war with the one who battles youasws;

وَ قَالَ لَهُ أَنْتَ الْعُرْوَةُ الْوُثْقَى وَ قَالَ لَهُ أَنْتَ تُبَيِّنُ لَهُمْ مَا اشْتَبَهَ عَلَيْهِمْ بَعْدِي وَ قَالَ لَهُ أَنْتَ إِمَامُ كُلِّ مُؤْمِنٍ وَ مُؤْمِنَةٍ وَ وَلِيُّ كُلِّ مُؤْمِنٍ وَ مُؤْمِنَةٍ بَعْدِي وَ قَالَ لَهُ أَنْتَ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ فِيهِ‏ وَ أَذانٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ إِلَى النَّاسِ يَوْمَ الْحَجِّ الْأَكْبَرِ

And hesaww said to himasws: ‘Youasws are the firmest handhold’; and said to himasws: ‘Youasws shall clarify to them after mesaww what is confusing upon them’; and said to himasws: ‘Youasws are Imamasws of every believing man and woman and guardian of every believing man and woman after mesaww’; and said to himasws: ‘Youasws the one for whom Allahazwj Revealed: And a proclamation from Allah and His Rasool to the people on the day of the Greatest Hajj [9:3];

وَ قَالَ لَهُ أَنْتَ الْآخِذُ بِسُنَّتِي وَ الذَّابُّ عَنْ مِلَّتِي وَ قَالَ لَهُ أَنَا أَوَّلُ مَنْ تَنْشَقُّ الْأَرْضُ عَنْهُ وَ أَنْتَ مَعِي وَ قَالَ لَهُ أَنَا عِنْدَ الْحَوْضِ وَ أَنْتَ مَعِي وَ قَالَ لَهُ أَنَا أَوَّلُ مَنْ يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ وَ أَنْتَ بَعْدِي تَدْخُلُهَا وَ الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ وَ فَاطِمَةُ ع

And said to himasws: ‘Youasws are the adopter of mysaww Sunnah and the one melting away from mysaww community’; and said to himasws: ‘Isaww would be the first one the ground would split up from himsaww, and youasws would be with mesaww’; and said to himasws: ‘Isaww would be at the fountain and youasws would be with mesaww’, and said to himasws: ‘Isaww would be the first one to enter the Paradise and youasws after mesaww, and Al-Hassanasws, and Al-Husaynasws, and (Syeda) Fatimaasws;

وَ قَالَ لَهُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ أَوْحَى إِلَيَّ بِأَنْ أَقُومَ بِفَضْلِكَ فَقُمْتُ بِهِ فِي النَّاسِ وَ بَلَّغْتُهُمْ مَا أَمَرَنِيَ اللَّهُ بِتَبْلِيغِهِ وَ قَالَ لَهُ اتَّقِ الضَّغَائِنَ الَّتِي لَكَ فِي صُدُورِ مَنْ لَا يُظْهِرُهَا إِلَّا بَعْدَ مَوْتِي‏ أُولئِكَ يَلْعَنُهُمُ اللَّهُ وَ يَلْعَنُهُمُ اللَّاعِنُونَ‏

And said to himasws: ‘Allahazwj Revealed to mesaww that Isaww should stand with yourasws merits, so Isaww stood among the people with it and delivered to them what Allahazwj had Commanded mesaww with delivering it’; and said to himasws: ‘Beware of the grudges which are for youasws in the chests of the ones who are not manifesting these except after mysaww passing away: those Allah will Curse them, and the cursing ones will curse them (too) [2:159]’.

ثُمَّ بَكَى النَّبِيُّ ص فَقِيلَ مِمَّ بُكَاؤُكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

Then the Prophetsaww wept. It was said, ‘What are yousaww crying from, O Rasool-Allahsaww?’

قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي جَبْرَئِيلُ ع أَنَّهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَهُ وَ يَمْنَعُونَهُ حَقَّهُ وَ يُقَاتِلُونَهُ وَ يَقْتُلُونَ وُلْدَهُ وَ يَظْلِمُونَهُمْ بَعْدَهُ

Hesaww said: ‘Jibraeelas informed mesaww they (Muslims) would be oppressing himasws, and depriving himasws of hisasws rights, and killing himasws, and killing hisasws children, and oppressing them after himasws.

وَ أَخْبَرَنِي جَبْرَئِيلُ ع عَنْ رَبِّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَنَّ ذَلِكَ يَزُولُ إِذَا قَامَ قَائِمُهُمْ وَ عَلَتْ كَلِمَتُهُمْ وَ أَجْمَعَتِ الْأُمَّةُ عَلَى مَحَبَّتِهِمْ وَ كَانَ‏ الشَّانِئُ لَهُمْ قَلِيلًا وَ الْكَارِهُ لَهُمْ ذَلِيلًا وَ كَثُرَ الْمَادِحُ لَهُمْ وَ ذَلِكَ حِينَ تَغَيُّرِ الْبِلَادِ وَ تَضَعُّفِ الْعِبَادِ وَ الْإِيَاسِ مِنَ الْفَرَجِ وَ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ يَظْهَرُ الْقَائِمُ فِيهِمْ

And Jibraeelas informed mesaww from hisas Lordazwj Mighty and Majestic that, that will only decline when theirasws Qaimasws rises, and theirasws word would surmount and the community would unite upon theirasws love, and the adversaries to themasws would be few, and the haters to themasws would be disgraced, and the praisers to themasws would be numerous. And that would be when the cities change, and the servants are weakened and despair from the relief, and during that, Al-Qaimasws will appear among them’.

قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص اسْمُهُ كَاسْمِي وَ اسْمُ أَبِيهِ كَاسْمِ ابْنِي‏ وَ هُوَ مِنْ وُلْدِ ابْنَتِي يُظْهِرُ اللَّهُ الْحَقَّ بِهِمْ وَ يُخْمِدُ الْبَاطِلَ بِأَسْيَافِهِمْ وَ يَتَّبِعُهُمُ النَّاسُ بَيْنَ رَاغِبٍ إِلَيْهِمْ وَ خَائِفٍ لَهُمْ

The Prophetsaww said: ‘Hisasws name is like mysaww name, and name of hisasws fatherasws is like the name of mysaww (grand) sonasws, and heasws is from the sonsasws of mysaww daughterasws. Allahazwj will Manifest the truth through themasws, and the falsehood would be muffled by theirasws swords, and the people will follow themasws between the ones desirous to themasws and the ones fearful of themasws’.

قَالَ وَ سَكَنَ الْبُكَاءُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ مَعَاشِرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَبْشِرُوا بِالْفَرَجِ فَإِنَّ وَعْدَ اللَّهِ لَا يُخْلَفُ وَ قَضَاءَهُ لَا يُرَدُّ وَ هُوَ الْحَكِيمُ الْخَبِيرُ فَإِنَّ فَتْحَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٌ

He (the narrator) said, ‘And the crying settled from Rasool-Allahsaww, and hesaww said: ‘Community of the Momineen! Receive glad tidings of the relief, a Promise of Allahazwj not to be broken, and Hisazwj Decree not to be repelled, and Heazwj is the Wise, the Informed, for the victory of Allahazwj is near.

اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّهُمْ أَهْلِي فَأَذْهِبْ عَنْهُمُ الرِّجْسَ وَ طَهِّرْهُمْ تَطْهِيراً اللَّهُمَّ اكْلَأْهُمْ وَ احْفَظْهُمْ وَ ارْعَهُمْ وَ كُنْ لَهُمْ‏ وَ انْصُرْهُمْ وَ أَعِنْهُمْ وَ أَعِزَّهُمْ وَ لَا تُذِلَّهُمْ وَ اخْلُفْنِي فِيهِمْ‏ إِنَّكَ عَلى‏ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ قَدِيرٌ.

O Allahazwj! Theyasws are mysaww familyasws, so keep the uncleanness away from themasws and Purify themasws a Purification. O Allahazwj! Be theirasws Guarantor, and Protect themasws, and Nurture themasws, and Be for themasws, and Help themasws, and Assist themasws, and Honour themasws and do not (let them be) humiliated, and Replace mesaww regarding themasws, Youazwj are Able upon all things’’.⁴⁵

9- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي جَمَاعَةٌ عَنْ أَبِي الْمُفَضَّلِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ حَفْصٍ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مُوسَى عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شَاكِرٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَصِّيصَةِ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ يَأْتِي عَلَى النَّاسِ زَمَانٌ الصَّابِرُ مِنْهُمْ عَلَى دِينِهِ كَالْقَابِضِ عَلَى الْجَمْرِ.

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – A group, from Abu Al Mufazzal, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn Bin Hafs, from Ismail Bin Musa, from Amro Bin Shalir, from the people of Maseysa, from Anas (well-known Hadeeth fabricator) who said,

‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘There shall come a time upon the people, the one from them patient upon his Religion would be like that one holding on to the ember’’.⁴⁶

10- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص قَالَ: يَأْتِي عَلَى النَّاسِ زَمَانٌ الصَّابِرُ مِنْهُمْ عَلَى دِينِهِ لَهُ أَجْرُ خَمْسِينَ مِنْكُمْ قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص أَجْرُ خَمْسِينَ مِنَّا قَالَ نَعَمْ أَجْرُ خَمْسِينَ مِنْكُمْ قَالَهَا ثَلَاثاً.

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – By this chain,

‘From the Prophetsaww having said: ‘There shall come a time upon the people, the one from them patient upon his Religion, for him would be Recompense of fifty of you’. They said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Recompense of fifty of us?’ Hesaww said: ‘Yes, Recompense of fifty of you’ – saying it thrice’’.⁴⁷

11- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي جَمَاعَةٌ عَنْ أَبِي الْمُفَضَّلِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الثَّقَفِيِّ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ أَبِي إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ أَبِي سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي هَارُونَ الْعَبْدِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ: أَخْبَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَلِيّاً ع بِمَا يَلْقَى بَعْدَهُ فَبَكَى عَلِيٌّ ع وَ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص أَسْأَلُكَ بِحَقِّي عَلَيْكَ وَ حَقِّ قَرَابَتِي وَ حَقِّ صُحْبَتِي لَمَّا دَعَوْتَ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَنْ يَقْبِضَنِي إِلَيْهِ

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – A group, from Abu Al Mufazzal, from Ahmad Bin Abdullah Al Saqafi, from Is’haq Bin Abu Israil, from Ja’far Bin Suleuman, from Abu Haroun Al Abady, from Abu Saeed Al Khudry who said,

‘Rasool-Alahsaww informed Aliasws with what heasws would be facing after himsaww. So, Aliasws wept and said: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Iasws ask yousaww by myasws right upon yousaww, and right of myasws relationship and right of myasws companionship, if yousaww could supplicate to Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic to Capture me (myasws soul) to Himazwj’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ تَسْأَلُنِي أَنْ أَدْعُوَ رَبِّي لِأَجَلٍ مُؤَجَّلٍ قَالَ فَعَلَى مَا أُقَاتِلُهُمْ قَالَ عَلَى الْإِحْدَاثِ فِي الدِّينِ‏.

Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Youasws are asking mesaww to supplicate to mysaww Lordazwj, for postponing the immediate?’ Heasws said: ‘So, upon what should Iasws fight them?’ Hesaww said: ‘Upon the innovations in the Religion’’.⁴⁸ (Derogatory)

12- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي جَمَاعَةٌ عَنْ أَبِي الْمُفَضَّلِ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ جُنَادَةَ عَنْ وَكِيعٍ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيِّ عَنْ جَابِرٍ الْجُعْفِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ يَحْيَى الْحَضْرَمِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَلِيّاً ع يَقُولُ‏ كُنَّا جُلُوساً عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ ص وَ هُوَ نَائِمٌ وَ رَأْسُهُ فِي حَجْرِي فَتَذَاكَرْنَا الدَّجَّالَ فَاسْتَيْقَظَ النَّبِيُّ ص مُحْمَرّاً وَجْهُهُ فَقَالَ لَغَيْرُ الدَّجَّالِ أَخْوَفُ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنَ الدَّجَّالِ الْأَئِمَّةُ الْمُضِلُّونَ وَ سَفْكُ دِمَاءِ عِتْرَتِي مِنْ بَعْدِي أَنَا حَرْبٌ لِمَنْ حَارَبَهُمْ وَ سِلْمٌ لِمَنْ سَالَمَهُمْ‏.

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – A group, from Abu Al Mufazzal, from Al Husayn Bin Muhammad Bin Shu’ba, from Salim Bin Junada, from Wakie, from Sufyan Al Sowry, from Jabir Al Jufy, from Abdullah Bin Yahya Al Hazramy who said,

‘I heard Aliasws saying: ‘We were seated in the presence of the Prophetsaww and hesaww was sleeping, and hissaww head was in myasws lap. We mentioned Al-Dajjalla, and the Prophetsaww woke up reddened of face, and said: ‘For other than Al-Dajjalla Isaww am more fearful upon you all than Al-Dajjalla – the leaders (imams) misguiding and shedding the blood of mysaww family from after mesaww. Isaww am at war to the one who battles themasws, and at peace to the one at peace with themasws’’.⁴⁹

13- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي بِإِسْنَادِ الْمُجَاشِعِيِّ عَنِ الصَّادِقِ عَنْ آبَائِهِ ع قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ يَأْتِي عَلَى النَّاسِ زَمَانٌ يَذُوبُ فِيهِ قَلْبُ الْمُؤْمِنِ فِي جَوْفِهِ كَمَا يَذُوبُ الْآنُكُ فِي النَّارِ يَعْنِي الرَّصَاصَ وَ مَا ذَاكَ إِلَّا لِمَا يَرَى مِنَ الْبَلَاءِ وَ الْإِحْدَاثِ فِي دِينِهِمْ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُ لَهُ غِيَراً.

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi, by a chain from Al Mujashie,

‘From Al-Sadiqasws, from hisasws forefathersasws having said: ‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘There shall come a time upon the people, during it the heart of the Momin would melt in his inside just as the metal tends to melt in the fire – meaning the lead, and that is not except due to what he would see from the afflictions and the innovations in their Religion, there being no ability for him to change (the situation)’’.⁵⁰

14- ع، علل الشرائع ابْنُ الْوَلِيدِ عَنِ الصَّفَّارِ عَنِ الْأَشْعَرِيِّ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْجَعْفَرِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ بِإِسْنَادِهِ رَفَعَهُ قَالَ: هَبَطَ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَلَيْهِ قَبَاءٌ أَسْوَدُ وَ مِنْطَقَةٌ فِيهَا خَنْجَرٌ قَالَ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا جَبْرَئِيلُ مَا هَذَا الزِّيُّ قَالَ زِيُّ وُلْدِ عَمِّكَ الْعَبَّاسِ يَا مُحَمَّدُ وَيْلٌ لِوُلْدِكَ مِنْ وُلْدِ الْعَبَّاسِ

(The book) ‘Illal Al Sharaie’ – Ibn Al Waleed, from Al Saffar, from Al Ash’ary, from Ali Bin Ibrahim Al Ja’fary, from Muhammad Bin Muawiya, by his chain, raising it, said,

‘Jibraeelas descended unto Rasool-Allahsaww and upon himas was a black robe and a belt wherein was a dagger. Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘O Jibraeelas! What is this attire?’ Heas said: ‘An attire of yoursaww uncle Al-Abbas, O Muhammadsaww! Doom is for yoursaww children from the children of Al-Abbas’.

فَجَزِعَ النَّبِيُّ ص فَقَالَ يَا عَمِّ وَيْلٌ لِوُلْدِي مِنْ وُلْدِكَ فَقَالَ‏ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَ فَأَجُبُّ نَفْسِي قَالَ جَفَّ الْقَلَمُ بِمَا فِيهِ‏.

The Prophetsaww went out and said: ‘O Uncle! Doom would be for mysaww children from your children’. He said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Shall I castrate myself?’ Hesaww said: ‘The Pen has dried with what is regarding it’’.⁵¹

15- ن، عيون أخبار الرضا عليه السلام بِإِسْنَادِ التَّمِيمِيِّ عَنِ الرِّضَا عَنْ آبَائِهِ ع عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص‏ أَنَّهُ قَالَ لِبَنِي هَاشِمٍ أَنْتُمُ الْمُسْتَضْعَفُونَ بَعْدِي.

(The book) ‘Uyoon Akhbar Al-Rezaasws – By a chain of Al-Tameemi, from Al-Rezaasws, from hisasws forefathersasws, from the Prophetsaww having said to the Clan of Hashimasws: ‘You would be the ones weakened after mesaww’’.⁵²

16- ن، عيون أخبار الرضا عليه السلام بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ قَالَ: قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص لِعَلِيٍّ ع إِذَا مِتُّ ظَهَرَتْ لَكَ ضَغَائِنُ فِي صُدُورِ قَوْمٍ يَتَمَالَئُونَ عَلَيْكَ وَ يَمْنَعُونَكَ حَقَّكَ‏.

(The book) ‘Uyoon Akhbar Al-Rezaasws’, by this chain, said: ‘The Prophetsaww said to Aliasws: ‘When Isaww pass away, grudges for youasws would appear in the chests of the people. They would incline against youasws and prevent youasws yourasws rights’’.⁵³

17- ن، عيون أخبار الرضا عليه السلام بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ قَالَ: قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص لِعَلِيٍّ ع إِنَّ أُمَّتِي سَتَغْدِرُ بِكَ بَعْدِي وَ يَتَّبِعُ ذَلِكَ بَرُّهَا وَ فَاجِرُهَا.

(The book) ‘Uyoon Akhbar Al-Rezaasws’, by this chain, said, ‘The Prophetsaww said to Aliasws: ‘Mysaww community would be treacherous with youasws after mesaww, and its righteous and its immoral ones would follow that’’.⁵⁴

18- ن، عيون أخبار الرضا عليه السلام بِالْإِسْنَادِ إِلَى دَارِمٍ عَنِ الرِّضَا عَنْ آبَائِهِ ع قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ يَا عَلِيُّ لَا يَحْفَظُنِي فِيكَ إِلَّا الْأَتْقِيَاءُ الْأَبْرَارُ الْأَصْفِيَاءُ وَ مَا هُمْ فِي أُمَّتِي إِلَّا كَالشَّعْرَةِ الْبَيْضَاءِ فِي الثَّوْرِ الْأَسْوَدِ فِي اللَّيْلِ الْغَابِرِ.

(The book) ‘Uyoon Akhbar Al-Rezaasws’, by the chain to Darim, from Al-Rezaasws, from hisasws forefathersasws having said: ‘Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘O Aliasws! No one would preserve mesaww regarding youasws except the pious ones, the righteous, the sincere, and they are not in mysaww community except for the white hair in the black bull during the intensely dark night’’.⁵⁵

19- فس، تفسير القمي‏ وَ ما جَعَلْنا لِبَشَرٍ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ الْخُلْدَ أَ فَإِنْ مِتَّ فَهُمُ الْخالِدُونَ‏ فَإِنَّهُ لَمَّا أَخْبَرَ اللَّهُ نَبِيَّهُ بِمَا يُصِيبُ أَهْلَ بَيْتِهِ بَعْدَهُ وَ ادِّعَاءِ مَنِ ادَّعَى الْخِلَافَةَ دُونَهُمْ اغْتَمَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ وَ ما جَعَلْنا لِبَشَرٍ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ الْخُلْدَ أَ فَإِنْ مِتَّ فَهُمُ الْخالِدُونَ كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذائِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ وَ نَبْلُوكُمْ بِالشَّرِّ وَ الْخَيْرِ فِتْنَةً أَيْ نَخْتَبِرُهُمْ‏ وَ إِلَيْنا تُرْجَعُونَ‏ فَأَعْلَمَ ذَلِكَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص أَنَّهُ لَا بُدَّ أَنْ يَمُوتَ كُلُّ نَفْسٍ‏.

(Not a Hadeeth)⁵⁶

20- لي، الأمالي للصدوق ابْنُ الْوَلِيدِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ إِدْرِيسَ وَ مُحَمَّدٍ الْعَطَّارِ مَعاً عَنِ الْأَشْعَرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الرَّازِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ الْبَطَائِنِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَمِيرَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع قَالَ: بَيْنَا أَنَا وَ فَاطِمَةُ وَ الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص إِذِ الْتَفَتَ إِلَيْنَا فَبَكَى فَقُلْتُ مَا يُبْكِيكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of Al Sadouq – Ibn Al Waleed, from Ahmad Bin Idrees, and Muhammad Al Attar, both together from Al Ash’ary, from Abu Abdullah Al Razy, from Ibn Al Batainy, from Ibn Amerya, from Muhammad Bin Utba, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Rahman, from his father,

‘From Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws having said: ‘While Iasws, and (Syeda) Fatimaasws, and Al-Hassanasws and Al-Husaynasws were in the presence of Rasool-Allahsaww, when hesaww turned towards usasws and wept. Iasws said, ‘What makes yousaww cry, O Rasool-Allahsaww?’

فَقَالَ أَبْكِي مِمَّا يُصْنَعُ بِكُمْ بَعْدِي فَقُلْتُ وَ مَا ذَاكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ أَبْكِي مِنْ ضَرْبَتِكَ عَلَى الْقَرْنِ وَ لَطْمِ فَاطِمَةَ خَدَّهَا وَ طَعْنَةِ الْحَسَنِ فِي الْفَخِذِ وَ السَّمِّ الَّذِي يُسْقَى وَ قَتْلِ الْحُسَيْنِ

Hesaww said: ‘Isaww am crying from what would be done with youasws all after mesaww’. Iasws said, ‘And what is that, O Rasool-Allahsaww?’ Hesaww said: ‘Isaww am crying from youasws being struck upon the forehead, and Fatimaasws being slapped upon herasws cheek, and Al-Hassanasws being stabbed in the thigh and the poison heasws would be quenched, and Al-Husaynasws being killed’.

قَالَ فَبَكَى أَهْلُ الْبَيْتِ جَمِيعاً فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا خَلَقَنَا رَبُّنَا إِلَّا لِلْبَلَاءِ قَالَ أَبْشِرْ يَا عَلِيُّ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ قَدْ عَهِدَ إِلَيَّ أَنَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّكَ إِلَّا مُؤْمِنٌ وَ لَا يُبْغِضُكَ إِلَّا مُنَافِقٌ‏.

Heasws said: ‘The Peopleasws of the Household wept altogether. Iasws said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Allahazwj has not Created usasws except for the afflictions’. Hesaww said: ‘Receive glad tidings, O Aliasws, for Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic had Pacted to mesaww that no one will love youasws except a Momin, nor hate youasws except a hypocrite’’.⁵⁷

21- ك، إكمال الدين ابْنُ الْوَلِيدِ عَنِ الصَّفَّارِ عَنِ ابْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ ابْنِ أُذَيْنَةَ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ أَبِي عَيَّاشٍ وَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عُمَرَ الْيَمَانِيِّ عَنْ سُلَيْمِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ الْهِلَالِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَلْمَانَ الْفَارِسِيَّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: كُنْتُ جَالِساً بَيْنَ يَدَيْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فِي مَرْضَتِهِ الَّتِي قُبِضَ فِيهَا فَدَخَلَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع فَلَمَّا رَأَتْ مَا بِأَبِيهَا صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ مِنَ الضَّعْفِ بَكَتْ حَتَّى جَرَتْ دُمُوعُهَا عَلَى خَدَّيْهَا

(The book) ‘Ikmal Al Deen’ – Ibn Al Waleed, from Al Saffar, from Ibn Yazeed, from Hammad Bin Isa, from Ibn Uzina, from Aban Bin Abu Ayyash, and Ibrahim Bin Umar Aal Yamani, from Suleym Bin Qays al Hilali who said,

‘I was seated in front of Rasool-Allahsaww during hissaww illness in which hesaww passed away, and (Syeda) Fatimaasws entered. When sheasws saw what was from the weakness with herasws fathersaww, sheasws cried until herasws tears flowed upon her cheeks.

فَقَالَ لَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَا يُبْكِيكِ يَا فَاطِمَةُ قَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَخْشَى الضَّيْعَةَ عَلَى نَفْسِي وَ وُلْدِي بَعْدَكَ

Rasool-Allahsaww said to herasws: ‘What makes youasws cry, O Fatimaasws?’ Sheasws said: ‘Iasws fear the loss upon myselfasws and myasws children after yousaww’.

فَاغْرَوْرَقَتْ عَيْنَا رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص بِالْبُكَاءِ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا فَاطِمَةُ أَ مَا عَلِمْتِ أَنَّا أَهْلُ بَيْتٍ اخْتَارَ اللَّهُ لَنَا الْآخِرَةَ عَلَى الدُّنْيَا وَ أَنَّهُ حَتَمَ الْفَنَاءَ عَلَى جَمِيعِ خَلْقِهِ وَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى اطَّلَعَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ اطِّلَاعَةً فَاخْتَارَنِي مِنْهُمْ وَ جَعَلَنِي نَبِيّاً وَ اطَّلَعَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ اطِّلَاعَةً ثَانِيَةً فَاخْتَارَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَكِ

The eyes of Rasool-Allahsaww sunk with the crying, then hesaww said: ‘O Fatimaasws! Do youasws not know that weasws, Peopleasws of the Household, Allahazwj has Chosen the Hereafter for usasws over the world, and Heazwj has Pre-destined the perishing upon the entirety of Hisazwj creatures, and that Blessed and Exalted Considered the earth with a Consideration and Chose mesaww from them and Made mesaww a Prophetsaww, and Considered a second Consideration and Chose yourasws husband from it.

فَأَوْحَى اللَّهُ إِلَيَّ أَنْ أُزَوِّجَكِ إِيَّاهُ وَ أَنْ أَتَّخِذَهُ وَلِيّاً وَ وَزِيراً وَ أَنْ أَجْعَلَهُ خَلِيفَتِي فِي أُمَّتِي فَأَبُوكِ خَيْرُ أَنْبِيَاءِ اللَّهِ وَ رُسُلِهِ وَ بَعْلُكِ خَيْرُ الْأَوْصِيَاءِ وَ أَنْتِ أَوَّلُ مَنْ يَلْحَقُ بِي مِنْ أَهْلِي

Then Allahazwj Revealed to mesaww that Isaww get youasws married to himasws and that Isaww should take himasws as a guardian, and a Vizier, and make himasws to be mysaww caliph in mysaww community. Thus, yourasws fathersaww is the best of the Prophetsas of Allahazwj and Hisazwj Messengersas, and yourasws husband is the best of the successorsasws, and youasws will be the first one from mysaww family to join up with mesaww.

ثُمَّ اطَّلَعَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ اطِّلَاعَةً ثَالِثَةً فَاخْتَارَكِ‏ وَ وُلْدَكِ وَ أَنْتِ سَيِّدَةُ نِسَاءِ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ وَ ابْنَاكِ حَسَنٌ وَ حُسَيْنٌ سَيِّدَا شَبَابِ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ وَ أَبْنَاءُ بَعْلِكِ أَوْصِيَائِي إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ كُلُّهُمْ هَادُونَ مَهْدِيُّونَ

Then Heazwj Considered the earth with a third Consideration and Chose youasws and yourasws children, and youasws are the chieftess of the women of the people of the Paradise, and yourasws two sonsasws, Hassanasws and Husaynasws, are chiefs of the youths of the people of Paradise, and sonsasws of yourasws husbandasws are mysaww successorsasws up to the Day of Qiyamah, all of themasws being guides, Guided.

وَ الْأَوْصِيَاءُ بَعْدِي أَخِي عَلِيٌّ ثُمَّ حَسَنٌ وَ حُسَيْنٌ ثُمَّ تِسْعَةٌ مِنْ وُلْدِ الْحُسَيْنِ فِي دَرَجَتِي وَ لَيْسَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ دَرَجَةٌ أَقْرَبُ إِلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مِنْ دَرَجَتِي وَ دَرَجَةِ أَوْصِيَائِي وَ أَبِي إِبْرَاهِيمَ

And the successorsasws from after mesaww are mysaww brotherasws Aliasws, then Hassanasws, then Husaynasws, then nine from the sonsasws of Al-Husaynasws, theyasws would be in mysaww level, and there isn’t any level in the Paradise closer to Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic than mysaww level, and level of mysaww successorsasws, and of mysaww fatheras Ibrahimas.

أَ مَا تَعْلَمِينَ يَا بُنَيَّةِ أَنَّ مِنْ كَرَامَةِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ إِيَّاكِ زَوَّجَكِ خَيْرَ أُمَّتِي وَ خَيْرَ أَهْلِ بَيْتِي أَقْدَمَهُمْ سِلْماً وَ أَعْظَمَهُمْ حِلْماً وَ أَكْثَرَهُمْ عِلْماً

Do youasws not know, O daughterasws, that from the Honours of Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic to youasws is that yourasws husband is the best of mysaww community, and best of Peopleasws of mysaww Household, the most advanced of them in submission, and greatest of them in forbearance, and most abundance of them in knowledge?’

فَاسْتَبْشَرَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع وَ فَرِحَتْ بِمَا قَالَ لَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهَا يَا بُنَيَّةِ إِنَّ لِبَعْلِكِ‏ مَنَاقِبَ إِيمَانَهُ بِاللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ قَبْلَ كُلِ‏ أَحَدٍ لَمْ يَسْبِقْهُ إِلَى ذَلِكَ أَحَدٌ مِنْ أُمَّتِي وَ عِلْمَهُ بِكِتَابِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ سُنَّتِي

Fatimaasws cheered up and was happy with what Rasool-Allahsaww had said to herasws. Then hesaww said to herasws: ‘O daughter! There are virtues for yourasws husband. Hisasws Eman with Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww before everyone else. No one from mysaww community preceded himasws to that, and hisasws knowledge with the Book of Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic and mysaww Sunnah.

وَ لَيْسَ أَحَدٌ مِنْ أُمَّتِي يَعْلَمُ جَمِيعَ عِلْمِي غَيْرُ عَلِيٍّ ع إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَلَّمَنِي عِلْماً لَا يَعْلَمُهُ غَيْرِي وَ عَلَّمَ مَلَائِكَتَهُ وَ رُسُلَهُ عِلْماً وَ كُلُّ مَا عَلَّمَهُ مَلَائِكَتَهُ وَ رُسُلَهُ فَأَنَا أَعْلَمُ بِهِ

And there isn’t anyone from mysaww community who knows the entirety of mysaww knowledge apart from Aliasws. Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Taught measws knowledge Heazwj did not Teach it to anyone apart from mesaww, and Taught Hisazwj Angels and Hisazwj Messengersas knowledge, and all what Heazwj Taught Hisazwj Angels and Hisazwj Messengersas, so Isaww know of it.

وَ أَمَرَنِيَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَنْ أُعَلِّمَهُ إِيَّاهُ فَفَعَلْتُ فَلَيْسَ أَحَدٌ مِنْ أُمَّتِي يَعْلَمُ جَمِيعَ عِلْمِي وَ فَهْمِي وَ حِكَمِي غَيْرُهُ

And Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Commanded mesaww to teach it to himasws. So, Isaww did. Thus, there isn’t anyone from mysaww community who knows the entirety of mysaww knowledge, and mysaww understanding, and mysaww wisdom apart from himasws.

وَ إِنَّكِ يَا بُنَيَّةِ زَوْجَتُهُ وَ ابْنَاهُ سِبْطَايَ حَسَنٌ وَ حُسَيْنٌ وَ هُمَا سِبْطَا أُمَّتِي وَ أَمْرُهُ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَ نَهْيُهُ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ آتَاهُ‏ الْحِكْمَةَ وَ فَصْلَ الْخِطابِ‏

And youasws, O daughterasws, are hisasws wife, and hisasws two sonsasws Hassanasws and Husaynasws are mysaww grandsons, then theyasws are both grandsonsasws of mysaww community, and Isaww instructed himasws with the good and forbade himasws from the evil, and Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Gave himasws the wisdom and the decisive address.

يَا بُنَيَّةِ إِنَّا أَهْلُ بَيْتٍ أَعْطَانَا اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ سَبْعَ خِصَالٍ لَمْ يُعْطِهَا أَحَداً مِنَ الْأَوَّلِينَ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ وَ لَا يُعْطِيهَا أَحَداً مِنَ الْآخِرِينَ غَيْرَنَا

O daughterasws! Weasws, Peopleasws of the Household, Allahazwj has Given us seven qualities Heazwj did not Give these to anyone from the former ones who were before youasws nor will Heazwj be Giving it to anyone from the latter ones apart from usasws.

نَبِيُّنَا سَيِّدُ الْمُرْسَلِينَ وَ هُوَ أَبُوكِ وَ وَصِيُّنَا سَيِّدُ الْأَوْصِيَاءِ وَ هُوَ بَعْلُكِ وَ شَهِيدُنَا سَيِّدُ الشُّهَدَاءِ وَ هُوَ حَمْزَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ وَ هُوَ عَمُّ أَبِيكِ

Ourasws Prophetsaww is the chief of the Messengersas, and hesaww is yourasws fathersaww, and ourasws successorasws is the chief of the successorsasws, and heasws is yourasws husband; and ourasws martyr is chief of the martyrs, and heasws is Hamzaasws Bin Abdul Muttalibasws and heasws is uncleasws of yourasws fathersaww’.

قَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ هُوَ سَيِّدُ الشُّهَدَاءِ الَّذِينَ قُتِلُوا مَعَكَ قَالَ لَا بَلْ سَيِّدُ شُهَدَاءِ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ الْآخِرِينَ مَا خَلَا الْأَنْبِيَاءَ وَ الْأَوْصِيَاءَ

Sheasws said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! And heasws is chief of the martyrs, those who were killed with yousaww?’ Hesaww said: ‘No, but chief of the martyrs of the former ones and the latter ones, apart from the Prophetsas, and the successorsas.

وَ جَعْفَرُ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ‏ ذُو الْجَنَاحَيْنِ الطَّيَّارُ فِي الْجَنَّةِ مَعَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ وَ ابْنَاكِ حَسَنٌ وَ حُسَيْنٌ سِبْطَا أُمَّتِي وَ سَيِّدَا شَبَابِ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ

And Ja’farasws Bin Abu Talibasws is with the two wings, the flier in the Paradise along with the Angels, and yourasws two sonsasws, Hassanasws and Husaynasws are two grandsonsasws of mysaww community, and chiefs of the youths of the people of Paradise.

وَ مِنَّا وَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ مَهْدِيُّ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ الَّذِي يَمْلَأُ الْأَرْضَ قِسْطاً وَ عَدْلًا كَمَا مُلِئَتْ ظُلْماً وَ جَوْراً

And from usasws, by the Oneazwj is Whose Hand is mysaww soul, is Mahdiasws of the community who will fill the earth with fairness and justice just as it would have been filled with injustice and tyranny’.

قَالَتْ فَأَيُّ هَؤُلَاءِ الَّذِينَ سَمَّيْتَ أَفْضَلُ

Sheasws said: ‘So which of themasws can be named as the most superior?’

قَالَ عَلِيٌّ بَعْدِي أَفْضَلُ أُمَّتِي وَ حَمْزَةُ وَ جَعْفَرٌ أَفْضَلُ أَهْلِ بَيْتِي بَعْدَ عَلِيٍّ ع وَ بَعْدَكِ وَ بَعْدَ ابْنَيَّ وَ سِبْطَيَّ حَسَنٍ وَ حُسَيْنٍ وَ بَعْدَ الْأَوْصِيَاءِ مِنْ وُلْدِ ابْنِي هَذَا وَ أَشَارَ إِلَى الْحُسَيْنِ وَ مِنْهُمُ الْمَهْدِيُّ إِنَّا أَهْلُ بَيْتٍ اخْتَارَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَنَا الْآخِرَةَ عَلَى الدُّنْيَا

Hesaww said: ‘After mesaww, Aliasws is the superior of mysaww community, and Hamzaasws and Ja’farasws are superior of Peopleasws of mysaww Household after Aliasws and after youasws and after two of mysaww sonsas and mysaww grandsonsasws Hassanasws and Husaynasws, and after the successorsasws from sons of this sonasws of minesaww’ – and gestured towards Al-Husaynasws – ‘And from themasws is the Mahdiasws. Weasws, Peopleasws of the Household, Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Chose the Hereafter for usasws over the world’.

ثُمَّ نَظَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَيْهَا وَ إِلَى بَعْلِهَا وَ إِلَى ابْنَيْهَا فَقَالَ يَا سَلْمَانُ أُشْهِدُ اللَّهَ أَنِّي سِلْمٌ لِمَنْ سَالَمَهُمْ وَ حَرْبٌ لِمَنْ حَارَبَهُمْ أَمَا إِنَّهُمْ مَعِي فِي الْجَنَّةِ

Then Rasool-Allahsaww looked at herasws and at herasws husband and towards herasws two sonsasws and said: ‘O Salmanra! Allahazwj is a Witness that Isaww am at peace to the one who is at peace with themasws, and at war with the one who battles themasws. But, theyasws will be with mesaww in the Paradise’.

ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ‏ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع فَقَالَ يَا أَخِي إِنَّكَ سَتَبْقَى بَعْدِي وَ سَتَلْقَى مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ شِدَّةً مِنْ تَظَاهُرِهِمْ عَلَيْكَ وَ ظُلْمِهِمْ لَكَ فَإِنْ وَجَدْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ أَعْوَاناً فَقَاتِلْ مَنْ خَالَفَكَ بِمَنْ وَافَقَكَ وَ إِنْ لَمْ تَجِدْ أَعْوَاناً فَاصْبِرْ وَ كُفَّ يَدَكَ وَ لَا تَلْقَ بِهَا إِلَى التَّهْلُكَةِ

Then hesaww turned towards Aliasws and said: ‘O mysaww brotherasws! Youasws shall remain after mesaww and face difficulties from Quraysh, of their backing each other against youasws, and their injustices to youasws. So, if youasws were to find supporters against them, then fight the ones who oppose youasws with the ones loyal to youasws, and if youasws do not find supporters, then be patient and restrain yourasws hand and do not be free with it to the destruction.

فَإِنَّكَ مِنِّي بِمَنْزِلَةِ هَارُونَ مِنْ مُوسَى وَ لَكَ بِهَارُونَ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ إِذِ اسْتَضْعَفَهُ قَوْمُهُ وَ كَادُوا يَقْتُلُونَهُ فَاصْبِرْ لِظُلْمِ قُرَيْشٍ إِيَّاكَ وَ تَظَاهُرِهِمْ عَلَيْكَ فَإِنَّكَ مِنِّي بِمَنْزِلَةِ هَارُونَ مِنْ مُوسَى وَ مَنِ اتَّبَعَهُ وَ هُمْ بِمَنْزِلَةِ الْعِجْلِ وَ مَنِ اتَّبَعَهُ

Youasws are from mesaww at the status of Harounas from Musaas, and for youasws there is an good example with Harounas when hisas people weakened himsaww and they almost killed himas. Therefore be patient upon the injustices of Quraysh to youasws and their backing each other against youasws, for youasws are from mesaww at the status of Harounas from Musaas, and the ones who follow, and the ones who follow him (Abu Bakr) are at the status of the calf and the ones who followed it.

يَا عَلِيُّ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى قَدْ قَضَى الْفُرْقَةَ وَ الِاخْتِلَافَ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ وَ لَوْ شَاءَ لَجَمَعَهُمْ عَلَى الْهُدى‏ حَتَّى لَا يَخْتَلِفَ اثْنَانِ مِنْ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ وَ لَا يُنَازَعَ فِي شَيْ‏ءٍ مِنْ أَمْرِهِ وَ لَا يَجْحَدَ الْمَفْضُولُ ذَا الْفَضْلِ فَضْلَهُ

O Aliasws! Allahazwj Blessed and Exalted has Decreed the sects and the differing upon this community, and had Heazwj so Desired, would have United them upon the guidance until no two from this community would have differed, no one would have disputed regarding anything of his matters, nor would the inferior have rejected the superior of his merits.

وَ لَوْ شَاءَ لَعَجَّلَ النَّقِمَةَ وَ التَّغْيِيرَ حَتَّى يُكَذَّبَ الظَّالِمُ وَ يُعْلَمَ الْحَقُّ أَيْنَ مَصِيرُهُ وَ لَكِنَّهُ جَعَلَ الدُّنْيَا دَارَ الْأَعْمَالِ وَ جَعَلَ الْآخِرَةَ دَارَ الْقَرَارِ لِيَجْزِيَ الَّذِينَ أَساؤُا بِما عَمِلُوا وَ يَجْزِيَ الَّذِينَ أَحْسَنُوا بِالْحُسْنَى‏

And had Heazwj so Desired, Heazwj would have Hastened the vengeance and the change until the oppressor would have been belied and the truth would be known where it is destined. But, the world has been Made to be a house for the deeds, and the Hereafter has been Made to be a house for the tranquillity, for Him to Recompense those committers of evil for what they had done, and (for) Him to Recompense those did good, with the Goodness [53:31]’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ شُكْراً عَلَى نَعْمَائِهِ وَ صَبْراً عَلَى بَلَائِهِ‏.

Aliasws said: ‘The Praise is for Allahazwj as thanks upon Hisazwj bounties, and Iasws shall be patient upon Hisazwj afflictions’’.⁵⁸

22- أَقُولُ وَجَدْتُ فِي أَصْلِ كِتَابِ الْهِلَالِيِّ، مِثْلَهُ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ وَ لَكَ بِهَارُونَ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ إِذْ قَالَ لِأَخِيهِ مُوسَى‏ إِنَّ الْقَوْمَ اسْتَضْعَفُونِي وَ كادُوا يَقْتُلُونَنِي‏ قَالَ سُلَيْمٌ

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘I found in the original book of Al Hilali, similar to it up to hissaww words: ‘And for youasws there is a good example with Harounas when heas said to hisas brotheras Musaas: ‘Son of my mother! Surely the people weakened me and they almost killed me [7:150]’ – Suleym said,

وَ حَدَّثَنِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع أَنَّهُ قَالَ: كُنْتُ أَمْشِي مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فِي بَعْضِ طُرُقِ الْمَدِينَةِ فَأَتَيْنَا عَلَى حَدِيقَةٍ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا أَحْسَنَهَا مِنْ حَدِيقَةٍ قَالَ ص مَا أَحْسَنَهَا وَ لَكَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ أَحْسَنُ مِنْهَا

‘And Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws narrated to me saying: ‘Iasws was walking with the Rasool-Allahsaww in one of the roads of Al-Medina. Weasws came to a garden. Iasws said: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww, what a beautiful garden it is’. Hesaww said: ‘What a beauty it is, and for youasws in the Paradise is better than it’.

ثُمَّ أَتَيْنَا عَلَى حَدِيقَةٍ أُخْرَى فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا أَحْسَنَهَا مِنْ حَدِيقَةٍ قَالَ مَا أَحْسَنَهَا وَ لَكَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ أَحْسَنُ مِنْهَا حَتَّى أَتَيْنَا عَلَى سَبْعِ حَدَائِقَ أَقُولُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص مَا أَحْسَنَهَا وَ يَقُولُ لَكَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ أَحْسَنُ مِنْهَا

Then weasws came to another garden. Iasws said: ‘‘O Rasool-Allahsaww, what a beautiful garden it is’. Hesaww said: ‘What a beauty it is, and for youasws in the Paradise is better than it’. To the extent that weasws came across seven gardens. Iasws kept saying: ‘What a beauty it is’, and hesaww kept saying: ‘For youasws, in the Paradise, is better than it’.

فَلَمَّا خَلَا لَهُ الطَّرِيقُ اعْتَنَقَنِي ثُمَّ أَجْهَشَ بَاكِياً وَ قَالَ بِأَبِي الْوَحِيدُ الشَّهِيدُ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا يُبْكِيكَ فَقَالَ ضَغَائِنُ فِي صُدُورِ أَقْوَامٍ لَا يُبْدُونَهَا لَكَ إِلَّا مِنْ‏ بَعْدِي أَحْقَادُ بَدْرٍ وَ تِرَاتُ أُحُدٍ قُلْتُ فِي سَلَامَةٍ مِنْ دَيْنِي قَالَ فِي سَلَامَةٍ مِنْ دِينِكَ

When weasws left the road, hesaww embraced measws, hesaww began crying. Hesaww said: ‘May mysaww fatheras be sacrificed for the lonely martyr’. Iasws said: ‘O Messengersaww of Allahazwj, what makes yousaww cry?’ Hesaww said: ‘There are grudges in the chests of the people that will not be manifested to youasws except after mesaww, malice of Badr and enmity of Ohad’. Iasws said: ‘Will myasws Religion be intact?’ Hesaww said: ‘Yourasws Religion will be intact’.

فَأَبْشِرْ يَا عَلِيُّ فَإِنَّ حَيَاتَكَ وَ مَوْتَكَ مَعِي وَ أَنْتَ أَخِي وَ أَنْتَ وَصِيِّي وَ أَنْتَ صَفِيِّي وَ وَزِيرِي وَ وَارِثِي وَ الْمُؤَدِّي عَنِّي وَ أَنْتَ تَقْضِي دَيْنِي وَ تُنْجِزُ عِدَاتِي عَنِّي وَ أَنْتَ تُبْرِئُ ذِمَّتِي وَ تُؤَدِّي أَمَانَتِي

Receive glad tidings, O Aliasws, yourasws life and yourasws death is with mesaww, and youasws are mysaww brother, and youasws are mysaww successorasws, and mysaww choice, and mysaww vizier, and mysaww inheritor, and mysaww caller from mesaww, and youasws are the fulfiller of mysaww debts, and the fulfiller of mysaww promises, and youasws completer of mysaww responsibilities, and the returner of mysaww trusts;

وَ تُقَاتِلُ عَلَى سُنَّتِي النَّاكِثِينَ مِنْ أُمَّتِي وَ الْقَاسِطِينَ وَ الْمَارِقِينَ وَ أَنْتَ مِنِّي بِمَنْزِلَةِ هَارُونَ مِنْ مُوسَى وَ لَكَ بِهَارُونَ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ إِذِ اسْتَضْعَفَهُ قَوْمُهُ وَ كَادُوا يَقْتُلُونَهُ

And youasws are the fighter on mysaww Sunnah against the breakers (of the covenant) of mysaww community, the unjust and the renegades, and youasws are of the status with mesaww as Harounas had with Musaas, and for youasws are the best example of Harounas when hisas people considered himas to be weak and were very close to killing himas’.

فَاصْبِرْ لِظُلْمِ قُرَيْشٍ إِيَّاكَ وَ تَظَاهُرِهِمْ عَلَيْكَ فَإِنَّكَ بِمَنْزِلَةِ هَارُونَ مِنْ مُوسَى وَ مَنْ تَبِعَهُ وَ هُمْ بِمَنْزِلَةِ الْعِجْلِ وَ مَنْ تَبِعَهُ وَ إِنَّ مُوسَى أَمَرَ هَارُونَ حِينَ اسْتَخْلَفَهُ عَلَيْهِمْ إِنْ ضَلُّوا فَوَجَدَ أَعْوَاناً أَنْ يُجَاهِدَهُمْ بِهِمْ وَ إِنْ لَمْ يَجِدْ أَعْوَاناً أَنْ يَكُفَّ يَدَهُ وَ يَحْقُنَ دَمَهُ وَ لَا يُفَرِّقَ بَيْنَهُمْ

So, observe patience on the injustices of the Quraysh upon youasws and their protests against youasws, for youasws are of the status, which Harounas had with Musaas, and those that follow them (yourasws opponents) are of the status of the one who followed the calf. And Musaas ordered Harounas to be the Caliph to them saying that if they were to stray, and if heas should find ‘Al-Ansar’ heas should fight against them, and if heas does not find the helpers, heas should withhold hisas hand and save hisas blood, and not create differences between them.

يَا عَلِيُّ مَا بَعَثَ اللَّهُ رَسُولًا إِلَّا وَ أَسْلَمَ مَعَهُ قَوْمُهُ طَوْعاً وَ قَوْمٌ آخَرُونَ كَرْهاً فَسَلَّطَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ أَسْلَمُوا كَرْهاً عَلَى الَّذِينَ أَسْلَمُوا طَوْعاً فَقَتَلُوهُمْ لِيَكُونَ أَعْظَمَ لِأُجُورِهِمْ

The differences, which are in the nation, are a Test of Allahazwj. O Aliasws! Allahazwj did not Send any Messengeras (to a nation) except that a group submitted (to himas) willingly and another group submitted (to himas) reluctantly. Allahazwj Made the reluctant group to overcome the willing group. They killed them and their (the willing group’s) Rewards were magnified.

يَا عَلِيُّ إِنَّهُ مَا اخْتَلَفَتْ أُمَّةٌ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّهَا إِلَّا ظَهْرَ أَهْلُ بَاطِلِهَا عَلَى أَهْلِ حَقِّهَا وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَضَى الْفُرْقَةَ وَ الِاخْتِلَافَ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ وَ سَاقَ الْخَبَرَ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ وَ صَبْراً عَلَى بَلَائِهِ وَ تَسْلِيماً وَ رِضًا بِقَضَائِهِ‏.

O Aliasws, no community differed after its Prophetas except that the people of falsehood overcame the people of the truth, and Allahazwj has Ordained sects and differences on this community’ – and continued the Hadeeth up to hisasws words: ‘Iasws shall be patient upon Hisazwj afflictions, and submit and am pleased with Hisazwj Judgment’’.⁵⁹

23- مل، كامل الزيارات عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ‏ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَلَّامٍ الْكُوفِيِّ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْوَاسِطِيِّ عَنْ عِيسَى بْنِ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ الْقَاضِي عَنْ نُوحِ بْنِ دَرَّاجٍ عَنْ قُدَامَةَ بْنِ زَائِدَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ ع‏ بَلَغَنِي يَا زَائِدَةُ أَنَّكَ تَزُورُ قَبْرَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع أَحْيَاناً فَقُلْتُ إِنَّ ذَلِكَ لَكَمَا بَلَغَكَ

(The book) ‘Kaamil Al-Ziyaraat’ – Ubeydullah Bin Al Fazl Bin Muhammad Bin HIlal, from Saeed Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Sallam Al Kufy, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Al Wasity, from Isa Bin Abu Shayba the judge, from Nuh Bin Darraj, from Qudama Bin Zaida, from his father who said,

‘Aliasws Bin Al-Husaynasws said: ‘It has reached measws, O Zaida that you are visiting the grave of Abu Abdullahasws occasionally?’ I said, ‘That is as it has reached youasws’.

فَقَالَ لِي فَلِمَا ذَا تَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ وَ لَكَ مَكَانٌ عِنْدَ سُلْطَانِكَ الَّذِي لَا يَحْتَمِلُ أَحَداً عَلَى مَحَبَّتِنَا وَ تَفْضِيلِنَا وَ ذِكْرِ فَضَائِلِنَا وَ الْوَاجِبِ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ مِنْ حَقِّنَا

Heasws said to me: ‘When you do that and for you there is a position in the presence of your ruler who does not tolerate anyone upon loving usasws and ourasws merits and mention of ourasws merits, and the obligation upon this community of ourasws rights?’

فَقُلْتُ وَ اللَّهِ مَا أُرِيدُ بِذَلِكَ إِلَّا اللَّهَ وَ رَسُولَهُ وَ لَا أَحْفِلُ بِسَخَطِ مَنْ سَخِطَ وَ لَا يَكْبُرُ فِي صَدْرِي مَكْرُوهٌ يَنَالُنِي بِسَبَبِهِ فَقَالَ وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ ذَلِكَ لَكَذَلِكَ يَقُولُهَا ثَلَاثاً وَ أَقُولُهَا ثَلَاثاً

I said, ‘By Allahazwj! I do not intend with that except Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww nor do I care of the wrath of the one who is wrathful, nor is his abhorrence grievous in my chest, for its reason (of Ziyarat)’. Heasws said: ‘By Allahazwj! Is that like that?’ – saying it thrice, and I said it thrice.

فَقَالَ أَبْشِرْ ثُمَّ أَبْشِرْ ثُمَّ أَبْشِرْ فَلَأُخْبِرَنَّكَ بِخَبَرٍ كَانَ عِنْدِي فِي النُّخَبِ الْمَخْزُونَةِ إِنَّهُ لَمَّا أَصَابَنَا بِالطَّفِّ مَا أَصَابَنَا وَ قُتِلَ أَبِي ع وَ قُتِلَ مَنْ كَانَ مَعَهُ مِنْ وُلْدِهِ وَ إِخْوَتِهِ وَ سَائِرِ أَهْلِهِ وَ حُمِلَتْ حَرَمُهُ وَ نِسَاؤُهُ عَلَى الْأَقْتَابِ يُرَادُ بِنَا الْكُوفَةَ

Heasws said: ‘Receive glad tidings! Receive glad tidings, for Iasws shall inform you with a Hadeeth which has been with measws in the choicest treasures. Surely, when it afflicted usasws at Al-Taff (Karbala) what afflicted usasws, and myasws fatherasws was killed, and there were killed with himasws the ones who were with himasws from hisasws children, and hisasws brothers, and rest of hisasws family, and hisasws sanctimonious ones and hisasws womenfolk were carry upon the camel loaders intending Al-Kufa with usasws.

فَجَعَلْتُ أَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِمْ صَرْعَى وَ لَمْ يُوَارَوْا فَيَعْظُمُ ذَلِكَ فِي صَدْرِي وَ يَشْتَدُّ لِمَا أَرَى مِنْهُمْ قَلَقِي فَكَادَتْ نَفْسِي تَخْرُجُ وَ تَبَيَّنَتْ ذَلِكَ مِنِّي عَمَّتِي زَيْنَبُ بِنْتُ عَلِيٍّ الْكُبْرَى فَقَالَتْ مَا لِي أَرَاكَ تَجُودُ بِنَفْسِكَ يَا بَقِيَّةَ جَدِّي وَ أَبِي وَ إِخْوَتِي

Iasws went on looking at them having fallen and not been covered (buried), so that was grievous in myasws chest and myasws worries intensified due to what Iasws saw from them, and myasws soul almost came out, and that appeared from measws to myasws aunt Zainabasws Bin Aliasws, the elder. Sheasws said: ‘What is the matter Iasws see youasws trying to find yourasws breath, O remaining one of myasws grandfatherasws, and myasws fatherasws, and myasws brothersasws?’

فَقُلْتُ وَ كَيْفَ لَا أَجْزَعُ وَ لَا أَهْلَعُ وَ قَدْ أَرَى سَيِّدِي وَ إِخْوَتِي وَ عُمُومَتِي وَ وُلْدَ عَمِّي وَ أَهْلِي مُصْرَعِينَ بِدِمَائِهِمْ مُرَمَّلِينَ بِالْعَرَاءِ مُسَلَّبِينَ لَا يُكَفَّنُونَ وَ لَا يُوَارَوْنَ وَ لَا يُعَرِّجُ عَلَيْهِمْ أَحَدٌ وَ لَا يَقْرَبُهُمْ بَشَرٌ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَهْلُ بَيْتٍ مِنَ الدَّيْلَمِ وَ الْخَزَرِ

Iasws said: ‘And how can Iasws not be alarmed and be scared, and Iasws can see myasws masterasws, and myasws brothers, and myasws uncles, and children of myasws uncle, and myasws family members to have fallen in their blood, in the sand (of the desert) in the open, looted, not being shrouded, nor covered, and no one is calling to them nor any mortal coming near them. It is as if they are people of the household from Al-Daylam and Al-Khazr’.

فَقَالَتْ لَا يُجْزِعَنَّكَ مَا تَرَى فَوَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ ذَلِكَ لَعَهْدٌ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى جَدِّكَ وَ أَبِيكَ وَ عَمِّكَ وَ لَقَدْ أَخَذَ اللَّهُ مِيثَاقَ أُنَاسٍ مِنْ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ لَا تَعْرِفُهُمْ فَرَاعِنَةُ هَذِهِ الْأَرْضِ وَ هُمْ مَعْرُوفُونَ فِي أَهْلِ السَّمَاوَاتِ أَنَّهُمْ يَجْمَعُونَ هَذِهِ الْأَعْضَاءَ الْمُتَفَرِّقَةَ فَيُوَارُونَهَا وَ هَذِهِ الْجُسُومَ الْمُضَرَّجَةَ

Sheasws said: ‘Do not let it alarm youasws what youasws see, for by Allahazwj that is due to a pact from Rasool-Allahsaww to yourasws grandfatherasws, and yourasws fatherasws, and yourasws uncleasws; and Allahazwj has Taken a covenant of some people from this community, pharaohs of this earth do not recognise them, and they are well-known among the inhabitants of the skies. They will gather these scattered limbs and cover (bury) these, and these stained bodies.

وَ يَنْصِبُونَ لِهَذَا الْطَّفِّ عَلَماً لِقَبْرِ أَبِيكَ سَيِّدِ الشُّهَدَاءِ ع لَا يَدْرُسُ أَثَرُهُ وَ لَا يَعْفُو رَسْمُهُ عَلَى كُرُورِ اللَّيَالِي وَ الْأَيَّامِ وَ لَيَجْتَهِدَنَّ أَئِمَّةُ الْكُفْرِ وَ أَشْيَاعُ الضَّلَالَةِ فِي مَحْوِهِ وَ تَطْمِيسِهِ فَلَا يَزْدَادُ أَثَرُهُ إِلَّا ظُهُوراً وَ أَمْرُهُ إِلَّا عُلُوّاً

And they will install a flag for this ‘Al-Taff (Karbala) for the grave of yourasws fatherasws, chief of the martyrs. Its impact will not be understood, nor would its ritual go away upon the rotation of the nights and the days, and the leaders of Kufr and the adherents of the straying will struggle in obliterating it and covering it up, but its impact will not increase except in appearing more, and its matter (will only increase in) loftiness’.

فَقُلْتُ وَ مَا هَذَا الْعَهْدُ وَ مَا هَذَا الْخَبَرُ فَقَالَتْ حَدَّثَتْنِي أُمُّ أَيْمَنَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص زَارَ مَنْزِلَ فَاطِمَةَ ع فِي يَوْمٍ مِنَ الْأَيَّامِ فَعَمِلْتُ لَهُ حَرِيرَةً صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمَا وَ أَتَاهُ عَلِيٌّ ع بِطَبَقٍ فِيهِ تَمْرٌ

Iasws said: ‘And what is this pact, and what is this Hadeeth?’ Sheasws said: ‘It is narrated to measws by Umm Ayman that Rasool-Allahsaww visited the house of (Syeda) Fatimaasws during a day from the days and made Hareer (meat soup) for himsaww, and Aliasws came to himsaww with a tray in which were dates.

ثُمَّ قَالَتْ أُمُّ أَيْمَنَ فَأَتَيْتُهُمْ بِعُسٍّ فِيهِ لَبَنٌ‏ وَ زُبْدٌ فَأَكَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَلِيٌّ وَ فَاطِمَةُ وَ الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ ع مِنْ تِلْكَ الْحَرِيرَةِ وَ شَرِبَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ شَرِبُوا مِنْ ذَلِكَ اللَّبَنِ ثُمَّ أَكَلَ وَ أَكَلُوا مِنْ ذَلِكَ التَّمْرِ وَ الزَّبَدِ ثُمَّ غَسَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَدَهُ وَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَصُبُّ عَلَيْهِ الْمَاءَ

Then Umm Ayman said, ‘I came to themasws with a bowl wherein was milk and butter. Rasool-Allahsaww, and Aliasws, and (Syeda) Fatimaasws, and Al-Hassanasws and Al-Husaynasws ate from the Hareer, and Rasool-Allahsaww drank, and theyasws drank from that milk. Then hesaww ate and theyasws ate from those dates and butter. Then Rasool-Allahsaww washed hissaww hands and Aliasws poured the water upon him (hissaww hands).

فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ مِنْ غَسْلِ يَدِهِ مَسَحَ وَجْهَهُ ثُمَّ نَظَرَ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ وَ فَاطِمَةَ وَ الْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ ع نَظَراً عَرَفْنَا فِيهِ السُّرُورَ فِي وَجْهِهِ ثُمَّ رَمَقَ بِطَرْفِهِ نَحْوَ السَّمَاءِ مَلِيّاً ثُمَّ وَجَّهَ وَجْهَهُ نَحْوَ الْقِبْلَةِ وَ بَسَطَ يَدَيْهِ وَ دَعَا ثُمَّ خَرَّ سَاجِداً وَ هُوَ يَنْشِجُ فَأَطَالَ النُّشُوجَ وَ عَلَا نَحِيبُهُ وَ جَرَتْ دُمُوعُهُ

When hesaww was free from washing hissaww hands, hesaww wiped hissaww face, then looked at Aliasws, and (Syeda) Fatimaasws, and Al-Hassanasws and Al-Husaynasws with such a look, the cheerfulness was recognised in hissaww face. Then hesaww surveyed around the sky for a while, then turned hissaww face towards the Qiblah and spread out hissaww hands and supplicated, then fell into Sajdah and hesaww sobbed. The sobbing was prolonged and hissaww whispering was high (loud), and hissaww tears flowed.

ثُمَّ رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ وَ أَطْرَقَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ وَ دُمُوعُهُ تَقْطُرُ كَأَنَّهَا صَوْبُ الْمَطَرِ فَحَزِنَتْ فَاطِمَةُ وَ عَلِيٌّ وَ الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ وَ حَزِنْتُ مَعَهُمْ لِمَا رَأَيْنَا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ هِبْنَاهُ أَنْ نَسْأَلَهُ حَتَّى إِذَا طَالَ ذَلِكَ قَالَ لَهُ عَلَيٌّ وَ قَالَتْ لَهُ فَاطِمَةُ مَا يُبْكِيكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَا أَبْكَى اللَّهُ عَيْنَيْكَ فَقَدْ أَقْرَحَ قُلُوبَنَا مَا نَرَى مِنْ حَالِكَ

Then hesaww raised hissaww head and lowered it to the ground and hissaww tears were flowing as if the rain had poured. So, (Syeda) Fatimaasws, and Aliasws, and Al-Hassanasws, and Al-Husaynasws were saddened, and I was saddened along with themasws due to what we saw from Rasool-Allahsaww, and we were awed from asking himsaww until when that was prolong, Aliasws said to himsaww, and (Syeda) Fatimaasws said to himsaww: ‘What makes yousaww cry, O Rasool-Allahsaww? May Allahazwj not Make yoursaww eyes cry, for our hearts are injured by what we see of yoursaww state’.

فَقَالَ يَا أَخِي سُرِرْتُ بِكُمْ سُرُوراً مَا سُرِرْتُ مِثْلَهُ قَطُّ وَ إِنِّي لَأَنْظُرُ إِلَيْكُمْ وَ أَحْمَدُ اللَّهَ عَلَى نِعْمَتِهِ عَلَيَّ فِيكُمْ إِذْ هَبَطَ عَلَيَّ جَبْرَئِيلُ فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى اطَّلَعَ عَلَى مَا فِي نَفْسِكَ وَ عَرَفَ سُرُورَكَ بِأَخِيكَ وَ ابْنَتِكَ وَ سِبْطَيْكَ

Hesaww said: ‘O mysaww brotherasws! Isaww was joyful with such joy Isaww had not been joyful the like of it at all, and Isaww looked at youasws all and praised Allahazwj upon Hisazwj Favours upon mesaww regarding youasws, when Jibraeelas descended unto mesaww and said: ‘O Muhammadsaww! Allahazwj Blessed and Exalted Noticed upon what is within yourselfsaww and Recognised yoursaww joy with yoursaww brotherasws, and yoursaww daughterasws, and yoursaww grandsonsasws.

فَأَكْمَلَ لَكَ النِّعْمَةَ وَ هَنَّأَكَ الْعَطِيَّةَ بِأَنْ جَعَلَهُمْ وَ ذُرِّيَّاتِهِمْ وَ مُحِبِّيهِمْ وَ شِيعَتَهُمْ مَعَكَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ لَا يُفَرِّقُ بَيْنَكَ وَ بَيْنَهُمْ يُحْبَوْنَ كَمَا تُحْبَى وَ يُعْطَوْنَ كَمَا تُعْطَى حَتَّى تَرْضَى

Heazwj Perfected the Favour for youasws and Congratulates yousaww of the Gift by Hisazwj Making themasws as yoursaww offspring, and ones who love themasws and theirasws Shias to be with yousaww in the Paradise. There is no difference between yousaww and themasws loving just as yousaww love Meazwj, and theyasws will be Given just as yousaww are Given until yousaww are pleased.

وَ فَوْقَ الرِّضَا عَلَى بَلْوَى كَثِيرَةٍ تَنَالُهُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ مَكَارِهَ تُصِيبُهُمْ بِأَيْدِي أُنَاسٍ يَنْتَحِلُونَ مِلَّتَكَ وَ يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّهُمْ مِنْ أُمَّتِكَ بِرَاءً مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ مِنْكَ خَبَطاً خَبَطاً وَ قَتْلًا قَتْلًا شَتَّى مَصَارِعُهُمْ نَائِيَةً قُبُورُهُمْ خِيَرَةٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ لَهُمْ وَ لَكَ فِيهِمْ

And above the pleasure there are many misfortune coming to themasws in the world, and its abhorrence hitting themasws by the hands of the people arrogating to be of yoursaww nation and claiming that they are from yoursaww community. They are disavowed from Allahazwj and from yousaww, strike by strike and killing by killing. Theirasws resting places would be various, theirasws graves being remote (from each other), as a Choice from Allahazwj for themasws, and for yousaww among themasws.

فَاحْمَدِ اللَّهَ جَلَّ وَ عَزَّ عَلَى خِيَرَتِهِ وَ ارْضَ بِقَضَائِهِ فَحَمِدْتُ اللَّهَ وَ رَضِيتُ بِقَضَائِهِ بِمَا اخْتَارَهُ لَكُمْ

Therefore, praise Allahazwj Majestic and Mighty upon Hisazwj Choice and be pleased with Hisazwj Judgment’. Isaww praised Allahazwj and was pleased with Hisazwj Judgment with what Heazwj had Chosen for youasws all.

ثُمَّ قَالَ جَبْرَئِيلُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنَّ أَخَاكَ مُضْطَهَدٌ بَعْدَكَ مَغْلُوبٌ عَلَى أُمَّتِكَ مَتْعُوبٌ مِنْ أَعْدَائِكَ ثُمَّ مَقْتُولٌ بَعْدَكَ يَقْتُلُهُ أَشَرُّ الْخَلْقِ وَ الْخَلِيقَةِ وَ أَشْقَى الْبَرِيَّةِ نَظِيرُ عَاقِرِ النَّاقَةِ بِبَلَدٍ تَكُونُ إِلَيْهِ هِجْرَتُهُ وَ هُوَ مَغْرِسُ شِيعَتِهِ وَ شِيعَةِ وُلْدِهِ وَ فِيهِ عَلَى كُلِّ حَالٍ يَكْثُرُ بَلْوَاهُمْ وَ يَعْظُمُ مُصَابُهُمْ

Then Jibraeelas said: ‘O Muhammadsaww! Yoursaww brotherasws would be persecuted after yousaww, overcome upon by yoursaww community, fatigued from yoursaww enemies, then heasws will be killed after yousaww. The evilest of the male and female creatures would kill himasws, and the most wretched of the created beings, a peer of the slayer of the she-camel (of Prophet Salihas), at a city where hisasws emigration will happen to be, and it is a plantation of hisasws Shias and Shias of hisasws sonsasws, and in it, upon every state, theirasws afflictions would be numerous, and their difficulties would be mighty.

وَ إِنَّ سِبْطَكَ هَذَا وَ أَوْمَأَ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى الْحُسَيْنِ ع مَقْتُولٌ فِي عِصَابَةٍ مِنْ ذُرِّيَّتِكَ وَ أَهْلِ بَيْتِكَ وَ أَخْيَارٍ مِنْ أُمَّتِكَ بِضَفَّةِ الْفُرَاتِ بِأَرْضٍ تُدْعَى كَرْبَلَاءَ مِنْ أَجْلِهَا يَكْثُرُ الْكَرْبُ وَ الْبَلَاءُ عَلَى أَعْدَائِكَ وَ أَعْدَاءِ ذُرِّيَّتِكَ فِي الْيَوْمِ الَّذِي لَا يَنْقَضِي كَرْبُهُ وَ لَا تَفْنَى حَسْرَتُهُ وَ هِيَ أَطْهَرُ بِقَاعِ الْأَرْضِ وَ أَعْظَمُهَا حُرْمَةً وَ إِنَّهَا لَمِنْ بَطْحَاءِ الْجَنَّةِ

And this grandsonasws of yourssaww’ – and heas gestured by hisas hand towards Al-Husaynasws, would be killed among a group from yoursaww offspring and Peopleasws yoursaww Household, and good ones from yoursaww community by the banks of the Euphrates in a land called Karbala from its reason there will be numerous distresses and afflictions upon yoursaww enemies and enemies of yoursaww offspring during a day during which there will be no termination of its distresses nor will its regret come to an end, and it is the cleanest of the spots of the earth, and its greatest of sanctity, and it is from the valleys of the Paradise.

فَإِذَا كَانَ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمُ الَّذِي يُقْتَلُ فِيهِ سِبْطُكَ وَ أَهْلُهُ وَ أَحَاطَتْ بِهِمْ كَتَائِبُ أَهْلِ الْكُفْرِ وَ اللَّعْنَةِ تَزَعْزَعَتِ الْأَرْضُ مِنْ أَقْطَارِهَا وَ مَادَتِ الْجِبَالُ وَ كَثُرَ اضْطِرَابُهَا وَ اصْطَفَقَتِ الْبِحَارُ بِأَمْوَاجِهَا وَ مَاجَتِ السَّمَاوَاتُ بِأَهْلِهَا غَضَباً لَكَ

So when it will be that day in which yoursaww grandsonasws and hisasws family would be killed and battalions of Kufr will surround them, and the curses will shake the earth from its horizons, and the mountains will tremble, and its restlessness will be a lot, and the oceans will be turbulent with its waves, and the skies will agitate with its inhabitants in anger for yoursaww sake.

يَا مُحَمَّدُ وَ لِذُرِّيَّتِكَ وَ اسْتِعْظَاماً لِمَا يُنْتَهَكُ مِنْ حُرْمَتِكَ وَ لِشَرِّ مَا تُكَافَى بِهِ فِي ذُرِّيَّتِكَ وَ عِتْرَتِكَ وَ لَا يَبْقَى شَيْ‏ءٌ مِنْ ذَلِكَ إِلَّا اسْتَأْذَنَ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فِي نُصْرَةِ أَهْلِكَ الْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ الْمَظْلُومِينَ الَّذِينَ هُمْ حُجَّةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى خَلْقِهِ بَعْدَكَ

O Muhammadsaww! And for yoursaww offspring and reverence to what would be violated from yoursaww sanctity, and for evil of what would suffice yoursaww offspring and yoursaww family with, and there will not remain anything from that except Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic would Permit it in helping yoursaww family, the weakened, the oppressed, those who are the Divine Authorities of Allahazwj upon Hisazwj creatures after yousaww.

فَيُوحِي اللَّهُ إِلَى السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ وَ الْجِبَالِ وَ الْبِحَارِ وَ مَنْ فِيهِنَّ أَنِّي أَنَا اللَّهُ الْمَلِكُ الْقَادِرُ الَّذِي لَا يَفُوتُهُ هَارِبٌ وَ لَا يُعْجِزُهُ مُمْتَنِعٌ وَ أَنَا أَقْدَرُ فِيهِ عَلَى الِانْتِصَارِ وَ الِانْتِقَامِ وَ عِزَّتِي وَ جَلَالِي لَأُعَذِّبَنَّ مَنْ وَتَرَ رَسُولِي وَ صَفِيِّي وَ انْتَهَكَ حُرْمَتَهُ وَ قَتَلَ عِتْرَتَهُ وَ نَبَذَ عَهْدَهُ وَ ظَلَمَ أَهْلَهُ‏ عَذاباً لا أُعَذِّبُهُ أَحَداً مِنَ الْعالَمِينَ‏

Allahazwj will Reveal to the skies and the earth, and the mountains and the oceans and the ones in these: “Surely Iazwj am Allahazwj, the King, the Powerful, the Oneazwj neither a fleer can escape Himazwj nor can a preventer frustrate Himazwj, and Iazwj am Able upon the helping, and the avenging. By Myazwj Mighty and Myazwj Majesty! Iazwj will Punish the one who wrongs Myazwj Rasoolsaww, and Myazwj Elite, and violates hissaww sanctity, and kills hissaww family, and discards hissaww pact, and is unjust to hissaww family: I will Punish him with such a Punishment I have not Punished anyone from the worlds!” [5:115]!”

فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ يَضِجُّ كُلُّ شَيْ‏ءٍ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْأَرَضِينَ بِلَعْنِ مَنْ ظَلَمَ عِتْرَتَكَ وَ اسْتَحَلَّ حُرْمَتَكَ فَإِذَا بَرَزَتْ تِلْكَ الْعِصَابَةُ إِلَى مَضَاجِعِهَا تَوَلَّى اللَّهُ جَلَّ وَ عَزَّ قَبْضَ أَرْوَاحِهَا بِيَدِهِ وَ هَبَطَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ مَلَائِكَةٌ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ السَّابِعَةِ مَعَهُمْ آنِيَةٌ مِنَ الْيَاقُوتِ وَ الزُّمُرُّدِ مَمْلُوءَةٌ مِنْ مَاءِ الْحَيَاةِ وَ حُلَلٌ مِنْ حُلَلِ الْجَنَّةِ وَ طِيبٌ مِنْ طِيبِ لْجَنَّةِ

During that will clamour all things in the skies and the earths by cursing the ones who oppress yoursaww family, and violate yoursaww sanctity. When that group goes out to their resting places, Allahazwj Majestic and Mighty will Take charge of capturing their souls by Hisazwj Hands, and Angels from the seven skies would descend to the earth having containers of rubies and emeralds filled from water of life, and garments from the garments of Paradise, and perfumes from the perfumes of paradise.

افَغَسَّلُوا جُثَثَهُمْ بِذَلِكَ الْمَاءِ وَ أَلْبَسُوهَا الْحُلَلَ وَ حَنَّطُوهَا بِذَلِكَ الطِّيبِ وَ صَلَّى الْمَلَائِكَةُ صَفّاً صَفّاً عَلَيْهِمْ ثُمَّ يَبْعَثُ اللَّهُ قَوْماً مِنْ أُمَّتِكَ لَا يَعْرِفُهُمُ الْكُفَّارُ لَمْ يَشْرَكُوا فِي تِلْكَ الدِّمَاءِ بِقَوْلٍ وَ لَا فِعْلٍ وَ لَا نِيَّةٍ فَيُوَارُونَ أَجْسَامَهُمْ وَ يُقِيمُونَ رَسْماً لِقَبْرِ سَيِّدِ الشُّهَدَاءِ بِتِلْكَ‏ الْبَطْحَاءِ يَكُونُ عَلَماً لِأَهْلِ الْحَقِّ وَ سَبَباً لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِلَى الْفَوْزِ

Their bodies would be washed with that water and they would be clothed with the garments, and embalmed with that perfume, and the Angels would pray Salat upon them in rows and rows. Then Allahazwj would Send a people from yoursaww community the Kafirs will not recognise them. They would not have participated in (shedding of) that blood, neither by words nor deeds, nor intentions. They will bury their bodies and establish the rituals of the grave of the chief of martyrs in that valley, becoming a flag for the people of truth, and a cause for the Momineen to the success.

وَ تَحُفُّهُ مَلَائِكَةٌ مِنْ كُلِّ سَمَاءٍ مِائَةُ أَلْفِ مَلَكٍ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ وَ لَيْلَةٍ وَ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَيْهِ وَ يُسَبِّحُونَ اللَّهَ عِنْدَهُ وَ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ اللَّهَ لِزُوَّارِهِ وَ يَكْتُبُونَ أَسْمَاءَ مَنْ يَأْتِيهِ زَائِراً مِنْ أُمَّتِكَ مُتَقَرِّباً إِلَى اللَّهِ وَ إِلَيْكَ بِذَلِكَ وَ أَسْمَاءَ آبَائِهِمْ وَ عَشَائِرِهِمْ وَ بُلْدَانِهِمْ وَ يُسَمُّونَ فِي وُجُوهِهِمْ بِمِيسَمِ نُورِ عَرْشِ اللَّهِ هَذَا زَائِرُ قَبْرِ خَيْرِ الشُّهَدَاءِ وَ ابْنِ خَيْرِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ

The Angels from every sky would circle it, one hundred thousand Angels during every day and night, and they will be praying Salat upon himasws, and glorifying Allahazwj in hisasws presence and seeking Forgiveness of Allahazwj for hisasws visitors, and writing down the names of the ones from yoursaww community who come to himasws as visitors, drawing closer to Allahazwj and to yousaww with that, and names of their fathers, and their tribes, and their cities, and they will be branded in their faces by a branding of light of the Throne of Allahazwj: “This is a visitor of the grave of the best of the martyrs, and sonasws of the best of the Prophetsas”

فَإِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ سَطَعَ فِي وُجُوهِهِمْ مِنْ أَثَرِ ذَلِكَ الْمِيسَمِ نُورٌ تُغْشَى مِنْهُ الْأَبْصَارُ يَدُلُّ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ يُعْرَفُونَ بِهِ وَ كَأَنِّي بِكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَ مِيكَائِيلَ وَ عَلِيٌّ أَمَامَنَا وَ مَعَنَا مِنْ مَلَائِكَةِ اللَّهِ مَا لَا يُحْصَى عَدَدُهُ وَ نَحْنُ نَلْتَقِطُ مَنْ ذَلِكَ الْمِيسَمُ فِي وَجْهِهِ مِنْ بَيْنِ الْخَلَائِقِ حَتَّى يُنْجِيَهُمُ اللَّهُ مِنْ هَوْلِ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ وَ شَدَائِدِهِ

When it will be the Day of Qiyamah, such light would shine in their faces from the impact of that branding, the sights would be overwhelmed from it, pointing upon them and they would be recognised by it, and it is as if Ias with yousaww, O Muhammadsaww, between meas and Mikaeelas, and Aliasws is in front of usas, and there will be with usas, from the Angels of Allahazwj, what its number cannot be counted, and we would pick up the ones having that branding in his face, from between the creatures, until Allahazwj Rescues them from the horror of that Day and its difficulties.

وَ ذَلِكَ حُكْمُ اللَّهِ وَ عَطَاؤُهُ لِمَنْ زَارَ قَبْرَكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَوْ قَبْرَ أَخِيكَ أَوْ قَبْرَ سِبْطَيْكَ لَا يُرِيدُ بِهِ غَيْرَ اللَّهِ جَلَّ وَ عَزَّ وَ سَيَجِدُّ أُنَاسٌ حَقَّتْ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ اللَّعْنَةُ وَ السُّخْطُ أَنْ يَعْفُوا رَسْمَ ذَلِكَ الْقَبْرِ وَ يَمْحُوا أَثَرَهُ فَلَا يَجْعَلُ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى لَهُمْ إِلَى ذَلِكَ سَبِيلًا

And that is the Judgment of Allahazwj and Hisazwj Grant for the one who visits yoursaww grave, O Muhammadsaww, or grave of yoursaww grandsonasws, not intending other than Allahazwj Majestic and Mighty with it. And some people will find that the Curse of Allahazwj and the Wrath is deserving upon them if they were to cover-up the ritual of that grave, and obliterate its traces, and Allahazwj Blessed and Exalted will not Make a way to be for them to that’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَهَذَا أَبْكَانِي وَ أَحْزَنَنِي قَالَتْ زَيْنَبُ فَلَمَّا ضَرَبَ ابْنُ مُلْجَمٍ لَعَنَهُ اللَّهُ أَبِي ع وَ رَأَيْتُ أَثَرَ الْمَوْتِ مِنْهُ قُلْتُ لَهُ يَا أَبَهْ حَدَّثَتْنِي أُمُّ أَيْمَنَ بِكَذَا وَ كَذَا وَ قَدْ أَحْبَبْتُ أَنْ أَسْمَعَهُ مِنْكَ

Then Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘So this is what made mesaww cry and saddened mesaww’. (Syeda) Zainabasws said: ‘When Ibn Muljimla, may Allahazwj Curse himla, struck myasws fatherasws, and Iasws saw the effects of the death from himasws, Iasws said to himasws: ‘O fatherasws! Umm Ayman narrated to measws with such and such, and Iasws would love to hear it from youasws’.

فَقَالَ يَا بُنَيَّةِ الْحَدِيثُ كَمَا حَدَّثَتْكَ أُمُّ أَيْمَنَ وَ كَأَنِّي بِكِ وَ بِبَنَاتِ أَهْلِكِ سَبَايَا بِهَذَا الْبَلَدِ أَذِلَّاءَ خَاشِعِينَ‏ تَخافُونَ أَنْ يَتَخَطَّفَكُمُ النَّاسُ‏ فَصَبْراً

Heasws said: ‘O daughterasws! The Hadeeth is as youasws Umm Ayman narrated to youasws, and it is as if Iasws am with youasws and the daughters of yourasws family being captives in the city, humiliated, fearful, fearing that the people would force you away [8:26]. So be patient.

فَوَ الَّذِي فَلَقَ الْحَبَّةَ وَ بَرَأَ النَّسَمَةَ مَا لِلَّهِ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَلِيٌّ غَيْرُكُمْ وَ غَيْرُ مُحِبِّيكُمْ وَ شِيعَتِكُمْ وَ لَقَدْ قَالَ لَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص حِينَ أَخْبَرَنَا بِهَذَا الْخَبَرِ أَنَّ إِبْلِيسَ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ يَطِيرُ فَرَحاً فَيَجُولُ الْأَرْضَ كُلَّهَا فِي شَيَاطِينِهِ وَ عَفَارِيتِهِ

By the Oneazwj Who Split the seed and Formed the person! There will be not friend for Allahazwj upon the earth on that day apart from you all, and the ones who love youasws, and yourasws Shias; and Rasool-Allahsaww had said to usasws when hesaww informed us with this Hadeeth that on that day Ibleesla would be flying in joy going around the earth, all of it, among hisla satansla, and hisla audacious ones.

فَيَقُولُ يَا مَعْشَرَ الشَّيَاطِينِ قَدْ أَدْرَكْنَا مِنْ ذُرِّيَّةِ آدَمَ الطَّلِبَةَ وَ بَلَغْنَا فِي هَلَاكِهِمُ الْغَايَةَ وَ أَوْرَثْنَاهُمُ السُّوءَ إِلَّا مَنِ اعْتَصَمَ بِهَذِهِ الْعِصَابَةِ فَاجْعَلُوا شُغُلَكُمْ بِتَشْكِيكِ النَّاسِ فِيهِمْ وَ حَمْلِهِمْ عَلَى عَدَاوَتِهِمْ وَ إِغْرَائِهِمْ بِهِمْ وَ بِأَوْلِيَائِهِمْ حَتَّى تَسْتَحْكِمَ ضَلَالَةُ الْخَلْقِ وَ كُفْرُهُمْ وَ لَا يَنْجُوَ مِنْهُمْ نَاجٍ‏

Hela would be saying, ‘O community of satansla! Wela have comes across from the offspring of Adamas, the sought, and wela have reached the peak in their destruction, and made them inherit the evil, except one who protects with this group, therefore make yourla pre-occupation to be with the doubts people among them, and carry them upon their enmity, and deceive them and their children until youla rule upon the straying the creatures, and their Kufr, and not one of them attains salvation’.

وَ لَقَدْ صَدَّقَ عَلَيْهِمْ إِبْلِيسُ ظَنَّهُ‏ وَ هُوَ كَذُوبٌ إِنَّهُ لَا يَنْفَعُ مَعَ عَدَاوَتِكُمْ عَمَلٌ صَالِحٌ وَ لَا يَضُرُّ مَعَ مَحَبَّتِكُمْ وَ مُوَالاتِكُمْ ذَنْبٌ غَيْرُ الْكَبَائِرِ

And Iblees did ratify his conjecture upon them [34:20], and hela was lying. Surely, a righteous deed cannot benefit along with having yourasws enmity, nor can any sin harm along with having yourasws love and yourasws friendship, apart from major sins’.

قَالَ زَائِدَةُ ثُمَّ قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ ع بَعْدَ أَنْ حَدَّثَنِي بِهَذَا الْحَدِيثِ خُذْهُ إِلَيْكَ أَمَا لَوْ ضَرَبْتَ فِي طَلَبِهِ آبَاطَ الْإِبِلِ حَوْلًا لَكَانَ قَلِيلًا.

Zaidah (the narrator) said, ‘Then Aliasws Bin Al-Husaynasws said after having narrated to me with this Hadeeth: ‘Take it to you, for even if the armpits of the camels are struck for a year, it would be little (metaphor about rushing)’’.⁶⁰

24- مل، كامل الزيارات مُحَمَّدٌ الْحِمْيَرِيُّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْأَصَمِّ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: لَمَّا أُسْرِيَ بِالنَّبِيِّ ص قِيلَ لَهُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ مُخْتَبِرُكَ فِي ثَلَاثٍ لِيَنْظُرَ كَيْفَ صَبْرُكَ

(The book) ‘Kaamil Al Ziyaraat’ – Muhammad Al Himeyri, from his father, from Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Salim, from Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Abdullah Bin Hammad, from Abdullah Al Asamma, from Hammad Bin Usman,

‘From Abu Abdullahasws having said: ‘When there was an ascension (Mi’raj) with the Prophetsaww, Heazwj Said to himsaww: “Allahazwj Gives yousaww a choice regarding three in order to look at how yoursaww patience is”.

قَالَ أُسْلِمُ لِأَمْرِكَ يَا رَبِّ وَ لَا قُوَّةَ لِي عَلَى الصَّبْرِ إِلَّا بِكَ فَمَا هُنَّ

Hesaww said: ‘Isaww submit to Yourazwj Command, O Lordazwj, and there is not strength for mesaww upon the patience except through Youazwj. So, what are these?’

قِيلَ أَوَّلُهُنَّ الْجُوعُ وَ الْأَثَرَةُ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ وَ عَلَى أَهْلِكَ لِأَهْلِ الْحَاجَةِ قَالَ قَبِلْتُ يَا رَبِّ وَ رَضِيتُ وَ سَلَّمْتُ وَ مِنْكَ التَّوْفِيقُ وَ الصَّبْرُ

Heazwj Said: “The first of these is the hunger and the preference over yourselfsaww and over yoursaww own family for the people of need’. Hesaww said: ‘Isaww accept O Lordazwj, and am pleased, and submit, and from Youazwj is the inclination and the patience’.

وَ أَمَّا الثَّانِيَةُ فَالتَّكْذِيبُ وَ الْخَوْفُ الشَّدِيدُ وَ بَذْلُكَ مُهْجَتَكَ فِيَّ وَ مُحَارَبَةُ أَهْلِ الْكُفْرِ بِمَالِكَ وَ نَفْسِكَ وَ الصَّبْرُ عَلَى مَا يُصِيبُكَ مِنْهُمْ مِنَ الْأَذَى وَ مِنْ أَهْلِ النِّفَاقِ وَ الْأَلَمِ فِي الْحَرْبِ وَ الْجِرَاحِ

(Heazwj Said): “And as for the second, it is the belying and the intense fear, and by that yousaww will be accused regarding Meazwj, and yousaww will battle the people of Kufr with yoursaww wealth, and yoursaww self, and the patience upon what yousaww will be afflicted with from them, from the harm from the people of hypocrisy and the pains during the war, and the injuries”.

قَالَ يَا رَبِّ قَبِلْتُ وَ رَضِيتُ وَ سَلَّمْتُ وَ مِنْكَ التَّوْفِيقُ وَ الصَّبْرُ

Hesaww said: ‘O Lordazwj! Isaww accept, and am pleased, and submit, and from Youazwj is the inclination and the patience’.

وَ أَمَّا الثَّالِثَةُ فَمَا يَلْقَى أَهْلُ بَيْتِكَ مِنْ بَعْدِكَ مِنَ الْقَتْلِ أَمَّا أَخُوكَ فَيَلْقَى مِنْ أُمَّتِكَ الشَّتْمَ وَ التَّعْنِيفَ وَ التَّوْبِيخَ وَ الْحِرْمَانَ وَ الْجَهْدَ وَ الظُّلْمَ وَ آخِرُ ذَلِكَ الْقَتْلُ

(Heazwj Said): “And as for the third, is what Peopleasws of yoursaww Household will face from after yousaww, from the killing. As for yoursaww brotherasws, heasws will face from yoursaww community, the insults, and the taunting, and the reproach, and the deprivation, and the struggle, and the rejection, and the injustices, and at the end of that, the killing”.

فَقَالَ يَا رَبِّ سَلَّمْتُ وَ قَبِلْتُ وَ مِنْكَ التَّوْفِيقُ وَ الصَّبْرُ

Hesaww said: ‘O Lordazwj! Isaww submit and accept, and from Youazwj is the inclination, and the patience’.

وَ أَمَّا ابْنَتُكَ فَتُظْلَمُ وَ تُحْرَمُ وَ يُؤْخَذُ حَقُّهَا غَصْباً الَّذِي تَجْعَلُهُ لَهَا وَ تُضْرَبُ وَ هِيَ حَامِلٌ وَ يُدْخَلُ عَلَى حَرِيمِهَا وَ مَنْزِلِهَا بِغَيْرِ إِذْنٍ ثُمَّ يَمَسُّهَا هَوَانٌ وَ ذُلٌّ ثُمَّ لَا تَجِدُ مَانِعاً وَ تَطْرَحُ مَا فِي بَطْنِهَا مِنَ الضَّرْبِ وَ تَمُوتُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الضَّرْبِ

(Heazwj Said): “And as for yoursaww daughterasws, sheasws would be oppressed, and deprived, and herasws rights would be seized, usurped, that which yousaww will make to be for herasws, and sheasws will be struck while sheasws is pregnant, and they will enter upon herasws sanctity and herasws house without permission. Then, degradation and humiliation would touch herasws. Then sheasws will not find any supporters, and what is in herasws belly would drop (miscarriage), and sheasws will die from that strike”.

قَالَ‏ إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَ إِنَّا إِلَيْهِ راجِعُونَ‏ قَبِلْتُ يَا رَبِّ وَ سَلَّمْتُ وَ مِنْكَ التَّوْفِيقُ وَ الصَّبْرُ

Hesaww said: ‘Surely we are for Allah and to Him we are returning [2:156]. Isaww accept, O Lordazwj, and submit, and from Youazwj is the inclination and the patience’.

وَ يَكُونُ لَهَا مِنْ أَخِيكَ ابْنَانِ يُقْتَلُ أَحَدُهُمَا غَدْراً وَ يُسْلَبُ وَ يُطْعَنُ يَفْعَلُ بِهِ ذَلِكَ أُمَّتُكَ

(Heazwj Said): “And there will happen to be for herasws, from yoursaww brotherasws, two sonsasws. One of themasws will be killed by treachery, and looted, and stabbed. Yoursaww community will be doing that”.

قَالَ قَبِلْتُ يَا رَبِّ وَ إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَ إِنَّا إِلَيْهِ راجِعُونَ‏ وَ سَلَّمْتُ وَ مِنْكَ التَّوْفِيقُ وَ الصَّبْرُ

Hesaww said: ‘Isaww accept, O Lordazwj, Surely we are for Allah and to Him we are returning [2:156], and Isaww submit, and from Youazwj is the inclination and the patience’.

وَ أَمَّا ابْنُهَا الْآخَرُ فَتَدْعُوهُ أُمَّتُكَ إِلَى الْجِهَادِ ثُمَّ يَقْتُلُونَهُ صَبْراً وَ يَقْتُلُونَ وُلْدَهُ وَ مَنْ مَعَهُ مِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ ثُمَّ يَسْلُبُونَ حَرَمَهُ فَيَسْتَعِينُ بِي وَ قَدْ مَضَى الْقَضَاءُ مِنِّي فِيهِ بِالشَّهَادَةِ لَهُ وَ لِمَنْ مَعَهُ وَ يَكُونُ قَتْلُهُ حُجَّةً عَلَى مَنْ بَيْنَ قُطْرَيْهَا

(Heazwj Said): “And as for herasws other sonasws, yoursaww community would invite himasws to the Jihad, then kill himasws being patient, and kill hisasws children and the ones from hisasws family member with himasws. Then they would plunder hisasws sanctity. Heasws will be Assisted by Meazwj, and the Decree has been Ordained from Meazwj regarding himasws with the martyrdom being for himasws, and for the ones with himasws, and hisasws killing will happen to be an argument against the ones between the territories.

فَتَبْكِيهِ أَهْلُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْأَرَضِينَ جَزَعاً عَلَيْهِ وَ تَبْكِيهِ مَلَائِكَةٌ لَمْ يُدْرِكُوا نُصْرَتَهُ ثُمَّ أُخْرِجُ مِنْ صُلْبِهِ ذَكَراً بِهِ أَنْصُرُكَ وَ إِنَّ شَبَحَهُ عِنْدِي تَحْتَ الْعَرْشِ

There will cry for himasws, the inhabitants of the skies and the earths, being alarmed upon it, and there will cry for himasws the Angels who could not come across to help himasws. Then Iazwj shall Extract a male from hisasws Iazwj shall Help yousaww, and that hisasws resemblance is with Meazwj beneath the Throne”

وَ فِي نُسْخَهٍ أُخْرَى ثُمَّ أُخْرِجُ مِنْ صُلْبِهِ ذَكَراً أَنْتَصِرُ لَهُ بِهِ وَ إِنَّ شَبَحَهُ عِنْدِي تَحْتَ الْعَرْشِ يَمْلَأُ الْأَرْضَ بِالْعَدْلِ وَ يُطْفِئُهَا بِالْقِسْطِ يَسِيرُ مَعَهُ الرُّعْبُ يَقْتُلُ حَتَّى يُسْأَلَ فِيهِ

– and in another copy (of this Hadeeth): “Then Isaww shall Extract a male from hisasws lineage, Isaww shall Help himasws by himasws, and that hisasws resemblance is with Meazwj beneath the Throne. Heasws will fill the earth with the justice and extinguish (injustice and tyranny) with the fairness. The awe will travel with himasws. Heasws will kill to the extent that heasws will be questioned regarding it”.

قُلْتُ‏ إِنَّا لِلَّهِ‏ فَقِيلَ ارْفَعْ رَأْسَكَ فَنَظَرْتُ إِلَى رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَحْسَنِ النَّاسِ صُورَةً وَ أَطْيَبِهِ رِيحاً وَ النُّورُ يَسْطَعُ مِنْ فَوْقِهِ وَ مِنْ تَحْتِهِ فَدَعَوْتُهُ فَأَقْبَلَ إِلَيَّ وَ عَلَيْهِ ثِيَابُ النُّورِ وَ سِيمَاءُ كُلِّ خَيْرٍ حَتَّى قَبَّلَ بَيْنَ عَيْنَيَّ وَ نَظَرْتُ إِلَى مَلَائِكَةٍ قَدْ حَفُّوا بِهِ لَا يُحْصِيهِمْ إِلَّا اللَّهُ جَلَّ وَ عَزَّ

Isaww said: ‘We are for Allahazwj’. Heazwj Said: “Raise yoursaww head!” Isaww looked at a man from the most beautiful of faced of the people, and most aromatic of aromas, and the light was shining from above him and from beneath him. Isaww called him, and he came to mesaww, and upon him was a garment of light, and a countenance of every goodness, until he kissed between mysaww eyes. And Isaww looked at Angel who had surrounded him, none can count them except Allahazwj Majestic and Mighty.

فَقُلْتُ يَا رَبِّ لِمَنْ يَغْضَبُ هَذَا وَ لِمَنْ أَعْدَدْتَ هَؤُلَاءِ وَ قَدْ وَعَدْتَنِي النَّصْرَ فِيهِمْ فَأَنَا أَنْتَظِرُهُ مِنْكَ فَهَؤُلَاءِ أَهْلِي وَ أَهْلُ بَيْتِي وَ قَدْ أَخْبَرْتَنِي بِمَا يَلْقَوْنَ مِنْ بَعْدِي وَ لَوْ شِئْتَ لَأَعْطَيْتَنِي النَّصْرَ فِيهِمْ عَلَى مَنْ بَغَى عَلَيْهِمْ وَ قَدْ سَلَّمْتُ وَ قَبِلْتُ وَ رَضِيتُ وَ مِنْكَ التَّوْفِيقُ وَ الرِّضَا وَ الْعَوْنُ عَلَى الصَّبْرِ

Isaww said: ‘O Lordazwj! For whom is this one angry, and for whom have Youazwj Prepare them, and Youazwj have Promised mesaww the help regarding them, so Isaww shall await it from Youazwj, for theyasws are mysaww family, and Peopleasws of mysaww Household, and Youazwj have Informed mesaww with what they would be facing from after mesaww, and if Youazwj Desire, Youazwj can Grant mesaww the help regarding them upon the ones who rebel against themasws, and Isaww have submitted, and accepted, and am pleased, and from Youazwj is the inclination, and the pleasure, and the assistance upon the help’.

فَقِيلَ لِي أَمَّا أَخُوكَ فَجَزَاؤُهُ عِنْدِي جَنَّةُ الْمَأْوَى نُزُلًا بِصَبْرِهِ أُفْلِجُ حُجَّتَهُ عَلَى الْخَلَائِقِ يَوْمَ الْبَعْثِ وَ أُوَلِّيهِ حَوْضَكَ يَسْقِي مِنْهُ أَوْلِيَاءَكُمْ وَ يَمْنَعُ مِنْهُ أَعْدَاءَكُمْ وَ أَجْعَلُ جَهَنَّمَ عَلَيْهِ بَرْداً وَ سَلَاماً يَدْخُلُهَا فَيُخْرِجُ مَنْ كَانَ فِي قَلْبِهِ مِثْقَالُ ذَرَّةٍ مِنَ الْمَوَدَّةِ وَ أَجْعَلُ مَنْزِلَتَكُمْ فِي دَرَجَةٍ وَاحِدَةٍ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ

Heazwj Said to mesaww: “As for yoursaww brotherasws, hisasws Recompense with Meazwj is the Garden of Shelter (Al-Ma’wa) as a lodgement due to hisasws patience. Iazwj shall Conclude hisasws argument upon the creatures on the Day of Resurrection, and Make himasws to be in charge of yoursaww Fountain, quenching yoursaww friends from it, and preventing yoursaww enemies from it, and Make Hell to be cool and safe upon himasws. Heasws will enter it and extract the ones in whose heart would be a mustard seed of cordiality, and Make yourasws houses to be in one level from the Paradise.

وَ أَمَّا ابْنُكَ الْمَقْتُولُ الْمَخْذُولُ وَ ابْنُكَ الْمَغْدُورُ الْمَقْتُولُ صَبْراً فَإِنَّهُمَا مِمَّا أُزَيِّنُ بِهِمَا عَرْشِي وَ لَهُمَا مِنَ الْكَرَامَةِ سِوَى ذَلِكَ مَا لَا يَخْطُرُ عَلَى قَلْبِ بَشَرٍ لِمَا أَصَابَهُمَا مِنَ الْبَلَاءِ وَ لِكُلِّ مَنْ أَتَى قَبْرَهُ مِنَ الْخَلْقِ‏

And as for yoursaww (grand) sonasws, the killed, the abandoned, and yoursaww (grand) sonasws, the betrayed, the killed while being patient, so theyasws both are from those Iazwj shall Adorn Myazwj Throne with, and for themasws would be prestige besides that what no heart of a mortal has conceived due to that would afflict them from the affliction, and for every one from the creatures who comes to hisasws grave.

لِأَنَّ زُوَّارَهُ زُوَّارُكَ وَ زُوَّارُكَ زُوَّارِي وَ عَلَيَّ كَرَامَةُ زَائِرِي وَ أَنَا أُعْطِيهِ مَا سَأَلَ وَ أَجْزِيهِ جَزَاءً يَغْبِطُهُ مَنْ نَظَرَ إِلَى تَعْظِيمِي لَهُ وَ مَا أَعْدَدْتُ لَهُ مِنْ كَرَامَتِي

(This is) because hisasws visitor is yoursaww visitor, and yoursaww visitor is Myazwj visitor, and upon Meazwj is to Honour Myazwj visitor, and Iazwj shall Give him whatever he asks and Recompense him with a Recompense, the one who looks at him would envy him and be revering to him, and what Iazwj have Prepared to him of Myazwj honours.

وَ أَمَّا ابْنَتُكَ فَإِنِّي أُوْقِفُهَا عِنْدَ عَرْشِي فَيُقَالُ لَهَا إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ حَكَّمَكِ فِي خَلْقِهِ فَمَنْ ظَلَمَكِ وَ ظَلَمَ وُلْدَكِ فَاحْكُمِي فِيهِ بِمَا أَحْبَبْتِ فَإِنِّي أُجِيزُ حُكُومَتَكِ فِيهِمْ

And as for yoursaww daughterasws, Iazwj shall pause herasws at Myazwj Throne and it will be said to her: “Allahazwj has Made youasws a judge among Hisazwj creatures, so the one who had oppressed youasws and oppressed yourasws children, then judge regarding him with whatever youasws like to, for Iazwj shall Allow yourasws judgment regarding them”.

فَتَشْهَدُ الْعَرْصَةَ فَإِذَا أُوقِفَ مَنْ ظَلَمَهَا أَمَرَتْ بِهِ إِلَى النَّارِ فَيَقُولُ الظَّالِمُ وَا حَسْرَتَاهْ‏ عَلى‏ ما فَرَّطْتُ فِي جَنْبِ اللَّهِ‏ وَ يَتَمَنَّى الْكَرَّةَ

The plains would witness when Iazwj Pause the ones who had oppressed herasws, Iazwj shall Command with him to the Fire. The oppressor shall say, ‘‘O regret, upon what I wasted regarding the Side of Allah, [39:56], and he will wish for the return.

وَ يَعَضُّ الظَّالِمُ عَلى‏ يَدَيْهِ يَقُولُ يا لَيْتَنِي اتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ الرَّسُولِ سَبِيلًا يا وَيْلَتى‏ لَيْتَنِي لَمْ أَتَّخِذْ فُلاناً خَلِيلًا وَ قَالَ‏ حَتَّى إِذا جاءَنا قالَ يا لَيْتَ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَكَ بُعْدَ الْمَشْرِقَيْنِ فَبِئْسَ الْقَرِينُ وَ لَنْ يَنْفَعَكُمُ الْيَوْمَ إِذْ ظَلَمْتُمْ أَنَّكُمْ فِي الْعَذابِ مُشْتَرِكُونَ‏

And on the Day, the unjust one would bite upon his hand saying, ‘O I wish I had taken Sabeel along with the Rasool!’ [25:27] Oh! I wish I had not taken so and so as a friend! [25:28]. And Say: Until when they both come to Us, he will say, ‘Oh! If only between me and you was the distance of the east and the west!’ So evil is the associate [43:38] And it will never profit you today, since you were unjust. You are (now) sharers in the Punishment [43:39].

فَيَقُولُ الظَّالِمُ‏ أَنْتَ تَحْكُمُ بَيْنَ عِبادِكَ فِي ما كانُوا فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَ‏ أَوِ الْحُكْمُ لِغَيْرِكَ فَيُقَالُ لَهُمَا أَلا لَعْنَةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى الظَّالِمِينَ الَّذِينَ يَصُدُّونَ عَنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَ يَبْغُونَها عِوَجاً وَ هُمْ بِالْآخِرَةِ هُمْ كافِرُونَ‏

The oppressor will say: You will Judge between Your servants regarding what they were differing in’ [39:46], or Judge for others. It would be said to them: ‘The Curse of Allah is on the unjust, [7:44] Those who are blocking from the Way of Allah and are seeking it to be crooked, and they are disbelievers in the Hereafter [7:45].

وَ أَوَّلُ مَنْ يُحْكَمُ فِيهِ مُحَسِّنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ ع فِي قَاتِلِهِ ثُمَّ فِي قُنْفُذٍ فَيُؤْتَيَانِ هُوَ وَ صَاحِبُهُ فَيُضْرَبَانِ بِسِيَاطٍ مِنْ نَارٍ لَوْ وَقَعَ سَوْطٌ مِنْهَا عَلَى الْبِحَارِ لَغَلَتْ مِنْ مَشْرِقِهَا إِلَى مَغْرِبِهَا وَ لَوْ وُضِعَتْ عَلَى جِبَالِ الدُّنْيَا لَذَابَتْ حَتَّى تَصِيرَ رَمَاداً

And the first one to be Judged would be Mohsinasws Bin Aliasws, regarding hisasws murder, then regarding Qunfuz. They would both be brought, he and his companion and be struck with the whips of fire, if one whip from these were to fall upon the ocean, it would boil from its east to its west, and if it were to be placed upon a mountain of the world, it would melt until it becomes ash.

فَيُضْرَبَانِ بِهَا ثُمَّ يَجْثُو أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ بَيْنَ يَدَيِ اللَّهِ لِلْخُصُومَةِ مَعَ الرَّابِعِ وَ تُدْخَلُ الثَّلَاثَةُ فِي جُبٍّ فَيُطْبَقُ عَلَيْهِمْ لَا يَرَاهُمْ أَحَدٌ وَ لَا يَرَوْنَ أَحَداً

They would be struck by it. Then they would be knelt by Amir Al-Momineenasws in front of Allahazwj for the contention with the fourth, and three would be entered into a pit and it would be layered upon them. No one will see them, nor will they be seeing anyone.

فَيَقُولُ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا فِي وَلَايَتِهِمْ‏ رَبَّنا أَرِنَا الَّذَيْنِ أَضَلَّانا مِنَ الْجِنِّ وَ الْإِنْسِ نَجْعَلْهُما تَحْتَ أَقْدامِنا لِيَكُونا مِنَ الْأَسْفَلِينَ‏ قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ وَ لَنْ يَنْفَعَكُمُ الْيَوْمَ إِذْ ظَلَمْتُمْ أَنَّكُمْ فِي الْعَذابِ مُشْتَرِكُونَ

So, those who used to be in their friendship would say, ‘Our Lord! Show us those who strayed us, from the Jinn and the humans, so we can make them to be under our feet for them to be from the lowest ones’ [41:29]. Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic would Say: And it will never profit you today, since you were unjust. You are (now) sharers in the Punishment [43:39].

‏ فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ يُنَادُونَ بِالْوَيْلِ وَ الثُّبُورِ وَ يَأْتِيَانِ الْحَوْضَ يَسْأَلَانِ عَنْ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع وَ مَعَهُمْ حَفَظَةٌ فَيَقُولَانِ اعْفُ عَنَّا وَ اسْقِنَا وَ خَلِّصْنَا فَيُقَالُ لَهُمْ‏ فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهُ زُلْفَةً سِيئَتْ وُجُوهُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَ قِيلَ هذَا الَّذِي كُنْتُمْ بِهِ تَدَّعُونَ‏ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ارْجِعُوا ظِمَاءً مُظْمَئِينَ إِلَى النَّارِ فَمَا شَرَابُكُمْ إِلَّا الْحَمِيمُ وَ الْغِسْلِينُ وَ مَا تَنْفَعُكُمْ شَفَاعَةُ الشَّافِعِينَ‏.

During that, they would be calling for the woe and the destruction, and they will come to the Fountain asking about Amir Al-Momineenasws, and with them would be guards. They will say, ‘Pardon us and quench us and finish us off (from this)’. It would be said to them: So when they shall see him nigh, the faces of those who committed Kufr will despair, and it would be said: ‘This one is what you had been calling (yourselves) with!’ [67:27], with (the title of) ‘Amir Al-Momineen’. Return thirsty to the Fire, for there is no drink for you except the boiling water and the filth (Al-Hameem and Al-Gisleen), and the intercession of the intercessors will not benefit you’’.⁶¹

25- شا، الإرشاد رَوَى إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ سَالِمٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي إِدْرِيسَ الْأَوْدِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَلِيّاً ع يَقُولُ‏ إِنَّ فِيمَا عَهِدَ إِلَيَّ النَّبِيُّ الْأُمِّيُّ أَنَّ الْأُمَّةَ سَتَغْدِرُ بِكَ مِنْ بَعْدِي‏.

(The book) ‘l Irshad’ – It is reported by Ismail Bin Salim, from Ibn Abu Idrees Al Awdie who said,

‘I heard Aliasws saying: ‘Among what the Ummy Prophetsaww pacted to measws: ‘The community will be treacherous with youasws from after mesaww’’.⁶²

26- م، تفسير الإمام عليه السلام‏ قَوْلُهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ وَ لَقَدْ جاءَكُمْ مُوسى‏ بِالْبَيِّناتِ ثُمَّ اتَّخَذْتُمُ الْعِجْلَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ وَ أَنْتُمْ ظالِمُونَ‏

Tafseer Al Imam (Hassan Al-Askariasws) - The Words of the Mighty and Majestic: And Musa had come to you with clear proofs, then you took the calf from after it and you were unjust [2:92].

قَالَ الْإِمَامُ قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى لِلْيَهُودِ الَّذِينَ تَقَدَّمَ ذِكْرُهُمْ‏ وَ لَقَدْ جاءَكُمْ مُوسى‏ بِالْبَيِّناتِ‏ الدَّالَّاتِ عَلَى نُبُوَّتِهِ وَ عَلَى مَا وَصَفَهُ مِنْ فَضْلِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ شَرَفِهِ عَلَى الْخَلَائِقِ وَ أَبَانَ عَنْهُ مِنْ خِلَافَةِ عَلِيٍّ ع وَ وَصِيَّتِهِ وَ أَمْرِ خُلَفَائِهِ بَعْدَهُ‏

The Imam (Hassan Al-Askariasws) said: ‘Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Said to the Jews, those mentioned previously: And Musa had come to you with clear proofs – the evidence upon hissaww Prophet-hood, and what heas described from the merits of Muhammadsaww and hissaww nobility upon the creatures, and clarified on hissaww behalf the Caliphate of Aliasws, hissaww successor and the command of hissaww Caliphs after himasws.

ثُمَّ اتَّخَذْتُمُ الْعِجْلَ‏ إِلَهاً مِنْ بَعْدِهِ‏ بَعْدَ انْطِلَاقِهِ إِلَى الْجَبَلِ وَ خَالَفْتُمْ خَلِيفَتَهُ الَّذِي نَصَّ عَلَيْهِ وَ تَرَكَهُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَ هُوَ هَارُونُ‏ وَ أَنْتُمْ ظالِمُونَ‏ كَافِرُونَ بِمَا فَعَلْتُمْ مِنْ ذَلِكَ

Then you took the calf – as god - from after it – after hisas going to the mountain, and you opposed hisas Caliph which heas appointed and left hisas upon you all, and heas is Haroun, and you were unjust – disbelieving due to what you did from that’’.

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع وَ قَدْ مَرَّ مَعَهُ بِحَدِيقَةٍ حَسَنَةٍ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع مَا أَحْسَنَهَا مِنْ حَدِيقَةٍ فَقَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ لَكَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ أَحْسَنُ مِنْهَا إِلَى أَنْ مَرَّ بِسَبْعِ حَدَائِقَ كُلَّ ذَلِكَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَقُولُ مَا أَحْسَنَهَا وَ يَقُولُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَكَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ أَحْسَنُ مِنْهَا

Rasool-Allahsaww said to Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, and hesaww had passed by a beautiful garden with himasws, and Aliasws had said: ‘How beautiful it is from the gardens!’. So hesaww said: ‘O Aliasws! For youasws, in the Paradise is more beautiful than it’ – up until hesaww passed by seven gardens – for each of that Aliasws was saying: ‘How beautiful it is from the gardens!’, and Rasool-Allahsaww kept saying: ‘For youasws, in the Paradise, is more beautiful than it’.

ثُمَّ بَكَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بُكَاءً شَدِيداً فَبَكَى عَلِيٌّ ع لِبُكَائِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ مَا يُبْكِيكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ يَا أَخِي يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ ضَغَائِنُ فِي صُدُورِ قَوْمٍ يُبْدُونَهَا لَكَ بَعْدِي

Then Rasool-Allahsaww wept with an intense weeping, and Aliasws wept due to hissaww weeping, then heasws said: ‘What makes yousaww cry, O Rasool-Allahsaww?’ Hesaww said: ‘O mysaww brotherasws, Abu Al-Hassanasws! (Due to) the grudges in the chests of the people which they would be displaying to youasws after mesaww’.

قَالَ عَلِيٌّ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فِي سَلَامَةٍ مِنْ دَيْنِي قَالَ فِي سَلَامَةٍ مِنْ دِينِكَ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِذَا سَلِمَ لِي دِينِي فَمَا يَسُوؤُنِي ذَلِكَ‏

Aliasws said: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! During the safety of myasws Religion?’ Hesaww said: ‘During the safety of myasws Religion’. Heasws said: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! When myasws Religion is safe, then that does not bother measws’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِذَلِكَ جَعَلَكَ اللَّهُ لِمُحَمَّدٍ تَالِياً وَ إِلَى رِضْوَانِهِ وَ غُفْرَانِهِ دَاعِياً وَ عَنْ أَوْلَادِ الرِّشْدَةِ وَ الْبَغْيِ بِحُبِّهِمْ لَكَ وَ بُغْضِهِمْ مُنْبِئاً وَ لِلِوَاءِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ حَامِلًا وَ لِلْأَنْبِيَاءِ وَ الرُّسُلِ الصَّائِرِينَ تَحْتَ لِوَائِي إِلَى جَنَّاتِ النَّعِيمِ قَائِداً

Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘For that (reason) Allahazwj Made youasws to be a subsequent to Muhammadsaww, and to Hisazwj Pleasure and Hisazwj Forgiveness, a caller, and about the legitimate and the illegitimate children, a discernment by their love for youasws, and for their hatred against youasws, a predictor, and for the flag of Muhammadsaww on the Day of Judgment, a bearer, and for the Prophetsas, and the Rasoolsas, and the patient ones under the flag, a guide to the Gardens.

يَا عَلِيُّ إِنَّ أَصْحَابَ مُوسَى اتَّخَذُوا بَعْدَهُ عِجْلًا فَخَالَفُوا خَلِيفَتَهُ وَ سَتَتَّخِذُ أُمَّتِي بَعْدِي عِجْلًا ثُمَّ عِجْلًا ثُمَّ عِجْلًا وَ يُخَالِفُونَك وَ أَنْتَ خَلِيفَتِي عَلَى هَؤُلَاءِ يُضَاهِئُونَ أُولَئِكَ فِي اتِّخَاذِهِمُ الْعِجْلَ

O Aliasws! The companions of Musaas took a calf (as their lord) after himas, and they opposed hisas Caliph, and mysaww community would be taking a ‘calf’ after mesaww, then (another) calf, then (another calf), and they would be opposing youasws, and youasws are mysaww Caliph upon them. They would be resembling them in the taking of the calf.

أَلَا فَمَنْ وَافَقَكَ وَ أَطَاعَكَ فَهُوَ مَعَنَا فِي الرَّفِيقِ الْأَعْلَى وَ مَنِ اتَّخَذَ بَعْدِيَ الْعِجْلَ وَ خَالَفَكَ وَ لَمْ يَتُبْ فَأُولَئِكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ اتَّخَذُوا الْعِجْلَ زَمَانَ‏ مُوسَى وَ لَمْ يَتُوبُوا فِي نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ خَالِدِينَ مُخَلَّدِينَ‏.

Indeed! So the one who harmonises with youasws and obeys youasws, so he would be with usasws in the lofty heights, and the one who takes the calf after mesaww and opposes you and does not repent, so they would be with those who took the calf in the era of Musaas and did not repent, and they would be in the eternal Fire of Hell, for all eternity’’.⁶³

27- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب أَبُو طَالِبٍ الْهَرَوِيُّ بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ وَ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ‏ أَنَّهُ لَمَّا نَزَلَ‏ الم أَ حَسِبَ النَّاسُ‏ الْآيَاتِ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص لِعَمَّارٍ إِنَّهُ سَيَكُونُ بَعْدِي هَنَاتٌ حَتَّى يَخْتَلِفَ السَّيْفَ فِيمَا بَيْنَهُمْ وَ حَتَّى يَقْتُلَ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضاً وَ حَتَّى يَتَبَرَّأَ بَعْضُهُمْ مِنْ بَعْضٍ

(The book) ‘Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashub – Abu Talib Al Harwy, by his chain, from Alqamah and Abu Ayoub,

‘When the Verse: Alif Lam Meem [29:1] Do the people reckon [29:2] was Revealed, the Prophetsaww said to Ammar: ‘And discord would be happening after mesaww to the extent that the swords would be drawn between them, and to the extent that some of them would kill the others, and to the extent that some of them would disavow from each other.

فَإِذَا رَأَيْتَ ذَلِكَ فَعَلَيْكَ بِهَذَا الْأَصْلَعِ عَنْ يَمِينِي عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَإِنْ سَلَكَ النَّاسُ كُلُّهُمْ وَادِياً وَ سَلَكَ عَلِيٌّ وَادِياً فَاسْلُكْ وَادِيَ عَلِيٍّ وَ خَلِّ عَنِ النَّاسِ

When you were to see that, it would be upon you to be with this shaven headed one on mysaww right – Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws. Even if all the people were to travel in a valley, so you travel in the valley of Aliasws and leave the people.

يَا عَمَّارُ إِنَّ عَلِيّاً لَا يَرُدُّكَ عَنْ هُدًى وَ لَا يَرُدُّكَ إِلَى رَدًى يَا عَمَّارُ طَاعَةُ عَلِيٍّ طَاعَتِي وَ طَاعَتِي طَاعَةُ اللَّهِ‏.

O Ammar! Verily, Aliasws would never repulse you from the Guidance, and would not repulse you during death. O Ammar! Obedience to Aliasws is obedience to mesaww, and obedience to mesaww is obedience to Allahazwj’’.

وَ فِي رِوَايَةِ النَّاصِرِ بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ وَ ظَرِيفٍ الْعَبْدِيِّ وَ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع‏ وَ اللَّهِ نَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَاتُ فِيَّ وَ فِي شِيعَتِي وَ فِي عَدُوِّي وَ فِي أَشْيَاعِهِمْ‏.

And in a report of Al Naasir, by his chain from Jabir Al Ansari, and Tareyf Al Abdy and Abu Abdul Rahman,

‘Aliasws said: ‘By Allahazwj, these Verses were Revealed regarding measws and regarding myasws Shias, and regarding myasws enemies, and regarding their loyalists’’. ⁶⁴

28- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ ع قَالَ: لَمَّا نَزَلَتْ‏ الم أَ حَسِبَ النَّاسُ‏ الْآيَاتِ قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا هَذِهِ الْفِتْنَةُ قَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ إِنَّكَ مُبْتَلًى وَ مُبْتَلًى بِكَ وَ إِنَّكَ مُخَاصَمٌ فَأَعِدَّ لِلْخُصُومَةِ.

(The book) ‘Al Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashub –

Al-Husaynasws Bin Aliasws, from hisasws fatherasws having said: ‘When the Verse: Alif Lam Meem [29:1] Do the people reckon [29:2] was Revealed, Iasws said: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! What is this Fitna?’ Hesaww said: ‘O Aliasws! Youasws will be Tried, and Tried, and youasws will be contended with, so prepare for the contention’’.⁶⁵

29- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب جَابِرٌ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ ع قَالَ: قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص لِعَلِيٍّ ع كَيْفَ بِكَ يَا عَلِيُّ إِذَا وَلَّوْهَا مِنْ بَعْدِي فُلَاناً قَالَ هَذَا سَيْفِي أَحُولُ بَيْنَهُمْ وَ بَيْنَهَا

(The book) ‘Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashub – Jabir,

From Abu Ja’farasws, from hisasws fatherasws having said: ‘The Prophetsaww said to Aliasws: ‘How would it be with youasws, O Aliasws, when they make so and so (Abu Bakr) a ruler?’ Heasws said: ‘This is myasws sword. Iasws shall be a barrier between them and it’.

قَالَ النَّبِيُّ أَوْ تَكُونُ صَابِراً مُحْتَسِباً فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَكَ مِنْهَا قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَإِذَا كَانَ خَيْراً لِي فَأَصْبِرُ وَ أَحْتَسِبُ

The Prophetsaww said: ‘Or youasws could become patient, anticipating, so it would be better for youasws than it’. Aliasws said: ‘So, if that would be better for measws, then Iasws shall be patient, anticipating’.

ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ فُلَاناً وَ فُلَاناً كَذَلِكَ ثُمَّ قَالَ كَيْفَ بِكَ إِذَا بُويِعْتَ ثُمَّ خُلِعْتَ فَأَمْسَكَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَقَالَ اخْتَرْ يَا عَلِيُّ السَّيْفَ أَوِ النَّارَ

Then hesaww mentioned the matter of so and so, and so and so (Umar and Usman) like that, then said: ‘How would it be with youasws when youasws are pledged allegiance to then abandoned?’ Aliasws withheld (from speaking). Hesaww said: ‘Choose the sword, O Aliasws, or the Fire’.

قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَمَا زِلْتُ أَضْرِبُ أَمْرِي ظَهْراً لِبَطْنٍ فَمَا يَسَعُنِي إِلَّا جِهَادُ الْقَوْمِ وَ قِتَالُهُمْ‏.

Aliasws said: ‘Iasws did not cease to strike myasws command, apparent to hidden, and there was no leeway for measws except fight the people and battle them’’.⁶⁶

30- جا، المجالس للمفيد مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْمُقْرِي عَنْ عَبْدِ الْكَرِيمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ الْمُعَدِّلِ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ ع قَالَ: وَضَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فِي مَرَضِهِ الَّذِي تُوُفِّيَ فِيهِ رَأْسَهُ فِي حَجْرِ أُمِّ الْفَضْلِ وَ أُغْمِيَ عَلَيْهِ فَقَطَرَتْ قَطْرَةٌ مِنْ دُمُوعِهَا عَلَى خَدَّيْهِ فَفَتَحَ عَيْنَيْهِ وَ قَالَ لَهَا مَا لَكِ يَا أُمَّ الْفَضْلِ

(The book) ‘Al Majaalis’ of Al Mufeed – Muhammad Bin Al Husayn Al Muqry, from Abdul Kareem Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ali, from Zayd Bin Al Muaddil, from Aban Bin Usman,

‘From Zayd son of Aliasws (Bin Al-Husaynasws, from his fatherasws having said: ‘Rasool-Allahsaww, during hissaww illness in which hesaww passed away, placed hissaww head in the lap of Umm Al-Fazl and there was unconsciousness upon himsaww. A drop from her tears dropped upon hissaww cheek, so hesaww opened hissaww eye and said to her: ‘What is the matter with you, O Umm Fazl?’

قَالَتْ نَعَيْتَ إِلَيْنَا نَفْسَكَ وَ أَخْبَرْتَنَا أَنَّكَ مَيِّتٌ فَإِنْ يَكُنِ الْأَمْرُ لَنَا فَبَشِّرْنَا وَ إِنْ يَكُنْ فِي غَيْرِنَا فَأَوْصِ بِنَا قَالَ فَقَالَ لَهَا النَّبِيُّ ص أَنْتُمُ الْمَقْهُورُونَ الْمُسْتَضْعَفُونَ بَعْدِي‏.

She said, ‘Yousaww gave the news of yoursaww expire to us and informed us that yousaww would be passing away. So, if the matter happens to be for us, then give us the glad tidings, and if happens to be in others, then advise us’. The Prophetsaww said to her: ‘You will be coerced, weakened after mesaww’’.⁶⁷

31- ني، الغيبة للنعماني ابْنُ عُقْدَةَ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الدِّينَوَرِيِّ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْكُوفِيِّ عَنْ عَمِيرَةَ بِنْتِ أَوْسٍ قَالَتْ حَدَّثَنِي جَدِّي الْخَضِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ عَمْرِو بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع‏ أَنَّهُ قَالَ يَوْماً لِحُذَيْفَةَ بْنِ الْيَمَانِ يَا حُذَيْفَةُ لَا تُحَدِّثِ النَّاسَ بِمَا لَا يَعْلَمُونَ فَيَطْغَوْا وَ يَكْفُرُوا إِنَّ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ صَعْباً شَدِيداً مَحْمَلُهُ‏ لَوْ حُمِّلَتْهُ الْجِبَالُ عَجَزَتْ عَنْ حَمْلِهِ

(The book) ‘Al Ghayba Al Numani’ – Ibn Uqda, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad al Deynawary, from Ali Bin Al Hassan Al Kufi, from Umeyra Bint Aws who said, ‘It was narrated to me by my grandfather Al Khazr Bin Abdul Rahman, from his father, from his grandfather Amro Bin Saeed,

‘From Amir Al-Momineen Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws having said one day to Al-Huzeyfa Bin Al Yaman: ‘O Huzeyfa! Do not narrate to the people with what they do not know so they would be overwhelmed and disbelieve. Surely the knowledge is severely difficult to bear. If the mountain were to be loaded with it, it would be frustrated from bearing it.

إِنَّ عِلْمَنَا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ يُسْتَنْكَرُ وَ يُبْطَلُ وَ يُقْتَلُ رُوَاتُهُ وَ يُسَاءُ إِلَى مَنْ يَتْلُوهُ بَغْياً وَ حَسَداً لِمَا فَضَّلَ اللَّهُ بِهِ عِتْرَةَ الْوَصِيِّ وَصِيِّ النَّبِيِّ ص

Ourasws knowledge of Peopleasws of the Household, gets denounced, and falsified, and its reporters get killed, and is offensive to the one it is recited to, out of rivalry and envy due to what Allahazwj has Graced the family of the successorasws, successorasws of the Prophetsaww.

يَا ابْنَ الْيَمَانِ إِنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص تَفَلَ فِي فَمِي وَ أَمَرَّ يَدَهُ عَلَى صَدْرِي وَ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ أَعْطِ خَلِيفَتِي وَ وَصِيِّي وَ قَاضِيَ دَيْنِي وَ مُنْجِزَ وَعْدِي وَ أَمَانَتِي وَ وَلِيِّي وَ وَلِيَّ حَوْضِي وَ نَاصِرِي عَلَى عَدُوِّكَ وَ عَدُوِّي وَ مُفَرِّجَ الْكَرْبِ عَنْ وَجْهِي مَا أَعْطَيْتَ آدَمَ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ

O son of Al-Yaman! The Prophetsaww transmitted into myasws mouth and placed hissaww hand upon myasws chest and said: ‘O Allahazwj! Give mysaww caliph, and mysaww successor, and payer of mysaww debts, and fulfiller of mysaww promises and mysaww entrustments, and mysaww guardianasws, and one in charge of mysaww Fountain, and mysaww helper against Yourazwj enemies and mysaww enemies, and reliever of the worries from mysaww face, what Youazwj had Given Adamas from the knowledge;

وَ مَا أَعْطَيْتَ نُوحاً مِنَ الْحِلْمِ وَ مَا أَعْطَيْتَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ مِنَ الْعِتْرَةِ الطَّيِّبَةِ وَ السَّمَاحَةِ وَ مَا أَعْطَيْتَ أَيُّوبَ مِنَ الصَّبْرِ عِنْدَ الْبَلَاءِ وَ مَا أَعْطَيْتَ دَاوُدَ مِنَ الشِّدَّةِ عِنْدَ مُنَازَلَةِ الْأَقْرَانِ وَ مَا أَعْطَيْتَ سُلَيْمَانَ مِنَ الْفَهْمِ

And what Youazwj had Given Noahas from the forbearance, and what Youazwj had Given Ibrahimas from the goodly progeny and the forgiveness, and what Youazwj had Given to Ayoubas from the patience during the afflictions, and what Youazwj had Given Dawoodas from the intensity during going to the peers, and what Youazwj had Given Suleymanas from the understanding.

لَا تُخْفِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ شَيْئاً مِنَ الدُّنْيَا حَتَّى تَجْعَلَهَا كُلَّهَا بَيْنَ عَيْنَيْهِ مِثْلَ الْمَائِدَةِ الصَّغِيرَةِ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ

Do not Hide anything from Aliasws, from the world, until Youazwj Make all of it to be in front of hisasws eyes like the small meal in front of himasws.

اللَّهُمَّ أَعْطِهِ جَلَادَةَ مُوسَى وَ اجْعَلْ فِي نَسْلِهِ شَبِيهَ عِيسَى

O Allahazwj! Give himasws the sturdiness of Musaas, and Make resemblances of Isaas to be in hisasws lineage.

اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّكَ خَلِيفَتِي عَلَيْهِ وَ عَلَى عِتْرَتِهِ وَ ذُرِّيَّتِهِ الطَّيِّبَةِ الْمُطَهَّرَةِ الَّتِي أَذْهَبْتَ عَنْهَا الرِّجْسَ وَ النِّجْسَ وَ صَرَفْتَ عَنْهَا مُلَامَسَةَ الشَّيْطَانِ

O Allahazwj! Youazwj are mysaww Caliph (Replacement) upon himasws, and upon hisasws family, and the goodly offspring, the Purified, from whom the uncleanness and the filth has been kept away, and the contact of Satanla has been turned away.

اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ بَغَتْ قُرَيْشٌ عَلَيْهِ وَ قَدَّمَتْ غَيْرَهُ عَلَيْهِ فَاجْعَلْهُ بِمَنْزِلَةِ هَارُونَ إِذْ غَابَ عَنْهُ مُوسَى

O Allahazwj! If Quraysh were to rebel against himasws and advance others over himasws, then Make himasws to be at the status of Harounas when Musaas was absent from himas’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ كَمْ من [فِي‏] وُلْدِكَ مِنْ وَلَدٍ فَاضِلٍ يُقْتَلُ وَ النَّاسُ قِيَامٌ يَنْظُرُونَ لَا يَغِيرُونَ فَقَبُحَتْ أُمَّةٌ تَرَى أَوْلَادَ نَبِيِّهَا يُقْتَلُونَ ظُلْماً وَ لَا يَغِيرُونَ إِنَّ الْقَاتِلَ وَ الْآمِرَ وَ الْمُسَاعِدَ الَّذِي لَا يَغِيرُ كُلُّهُمْ فِي الْإِثْمِ وَ اللِّعَانِ مُشْتَرِكُونَ

Then hesaww said: ‘O Aliasws! How many of yourasws excellent children would be killed while the people are standing by looking on? Ugly is a community which sees the children of its Prophetsaww being killed oppressively and they are not changing. The killer, and the commander, and the assistant which does not change, all of them are participants in the sin and being cursed’.

يَا ابْنَ الْيَمَانِ إِنَّ قُرَيْشاً لَا تَنْشَرِحُ صُدُورُهَا وَ لَا تَرْضَى قُلُوبُهَا وَ لَا تَجْرِي أَلْسِنَتُهَا بِبَيْعَةِ عَلِيٍّ ع وَ مُوَالاتِهِ إِلَّا عَلَى الْكُرْهِ وَ الْعَمَى وَ الطُّغْيَانِ

O son of Al-Yaman! Surely, Quraysh will neither expand their chests, nor will their hearts be pleased, nor will their tongues flow with the allegiance to Aliasws and hisasws Wilayah except upon the hate and the blindness and the tyranny.

يَا ابْنَ الْيَمَانِ سَتُبَايِعُ قُرَيْشٌ عَلِيّاً ثُمَّ تَنْكُثُ عَلَيْهِ وَ تُحَارِبُهُ وَ تُنَاضِلُهُ وَ تَرْمِيهِ بِالْعَظَائِمِ وَ بَعْدَ عَلِيٍّ يَلِي الْحَسَنُ وَ سَيُنْكَثُ عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ يَلِي الْحُسَيْنُ ع فَيُقْتَلُ فَلُعِنَتْ أُمَّةٌ تَقْتُلُ ابْنَ بِنْتِ نَبِيِّهَا وَ لَا تَعِزُّ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ وَ لُعِنَ الْقَائِدُ لَهَا وَ الْمُرَتِّبُ لِجَيْشِهَا

O Ibn Al-Yaman! Quraysh will be pledging allegiance to Aliasws, then break it upon himasws, and battle himasws, and strive against himasws, and pelt himasws with the mighty accusations, and afterwards Aliasws will be followed by Al-Hassanasws, and they will break (allegiance) upon himasws. Then followed by Al-Husaynasws, and they will kill himasws. So the community which kills a sonasws of the daughterasws of its Prophetsaww would be cursed, and there will be no honour in such a community, and its guide would be cursed, and the arranger of its army.

فَوَ الَّذِي نَفْسُ عَلِيٍّ بِيَدِهِ لَا تَزَالُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ بَعْدَ قَتْلِ الْحُسَيْنِ ابْنِي فِي ضَلَالٍ وَ ظُلْمَةٍ وَ عسفة [عَسْفٍ‏] وَ جَوْرٍ وَ اخْتِلَافٍ فِي الدِّينِ وَ تَغْيِيرٍ وَ تَبْدِيلٍ لِمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ فِي كِتَابِهِ وَ إِظْهَارِ الْبِدَعِ وَ إِبْطَالِ السُّنَنِ وَ اخْتِلَافٍ وَ قِيَاسِ مُشْتَبِهَاتٍ وَ تَرْكِ مُحْكَمَاتٍ حَتَّى‏ تَنْسَلِخَ مِنَ الْإِسْلَامِ وَ تَدْخُلَ فِي الْعَمَى وَ التَّلَدُّدِ وَ التَّسَكُّعِ‏

By the Oneazwj in Whose Hand is the soul of Aliasws! This community, after killing myasws son Al-Husaynasws, will not cease to be in straying,, and darkness, and storm, and tyranny, and differing in the Religion, and changes, and replacements of what Allahazwj has Revealed in Hisazwj Book, and appearance of the innovations, and invalidation of the Sunnahs, and differing, and analogies in confusing matters, and neglecting the Decisive, until they are away from Al-Islam and enter into the blindness, and the reluctance, and the wandering around.

مَا لَكَ يَا بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ لَا هُدِيتَ يَا بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ وَ مَا لَكَ يَا بَنِي فُلَانٍ لَكَ الْإِتْعَاسُ فَمَا فِي بَنِي فُلَانٍ إِلَّا ظَالِمٌ مُعْتَدٍ مُتَمَرِّدٌ عَلَى اللَّهِ بِالْمَعَاصِي قَتَّالٌ لِوُلْدِي هَتَّاكٌ لِسَتْرِ حُرْمَتِي

What is the matter with you clan of Umayya? You will not be guided, O clan of Umayya! And what is the matter with you O clan of so and so! For you would be the unhappiness, for there is none among the clan of so and so, except an unjust one, rebellious, aggressor against Allahazwj with the disobedience, killer of myasws children, violator of the veil of myasws sanctity.

فَلَا تَزَالُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ جَبَّارِينَ يَتَكَالَبُونَ عَلَى حَرَامِ الدُّنْيَا مُنْغَمِسِينَ فِي بِحَارِ الْهَلَكَاتِ فِي أَوْدِيَةِ الدِّمَاءِ حَتَّى إِذَا غَابَ الْمُتَغَيِّبُ مِنْ وُلْدِي عَنْ عُيُونِ النَّاسِ وَ مَاجَ النَّاسُ بِفَقْدِهِ أَوْ بِقَتْلِهِ أَوْ بِمَوْتِهِ أَطْلَعَتِ الْفِتْنَةُ وَ نَزَلَتِ الْبَلِيَّةُ وَ أُتِيحَتِ الْعَصَبِيَّةُ وَ غَلَا النَّاسُ فِي دِينِهِمْ وَ اجْتَمَعُوا عَلَى أَنَّ الْحُجَّةَ ذَاهِبَةٌ وَ الْإِمَامَةَ بَاطِلَةٌ

So, this community will not cease to be of tyrants fighting each other upon the prohibitions of the world, submerging in the oceans of destructions in the valleys of blood until when the disappearing oneasws from myasws sonsasws disappears from the eyes of the people, and the people will be agitated with hisasws loss, or with hisasws being killed, or with hisasws death. The Fitna will be noticed, and the afflictions would descend, and the prejudices would be worked upon, and the people would be exaggerating in their Religion, and unite upon that the Divine Authority has gone and the Imamate is false.

وَ يَحُجُّ حَجِيجُ النَّاسِ فِي تِلْكَ السَّنَةِ مِنْ شِيعَةِ عَلِيٍّ وَ نَوَاصِبِهِمْ لِلتَّمَكُّنِ وَ التَّجَسُّسِ عَنْ خَلَفِ الْخَلَفِ فَلَا يُرَى لَهُ أَثَرٌ وَ لَا يُعْرَفُ لَهُ خَلَفٌ

And the pilgrims of the people would perform Hajj in that year, from the Shias of Aliasws and their attitudes would be for the enablement and the spying about a replacement of the replacement (Imamasws), but their will neither see any trace for himasws nor would a replacement (Imamasws) be recognised for himasws.

فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ سُبَّتْ شِيعَةُ عَلِيٍّ سَبَّهَا أَعْدَاؤُهَا وَ غَلَبَتْ عَلَيْهَا الْأَشْرَارُ وَ الْفُسَّاقُ بِاحْتِجَاجِهَا حَتَّى إِذَا تَعِبَتِ الْأُمَّةُ وَ تَدَلَّهَتْ أَكْثَرَتْ فِي قَوْلِهَا إِنَّ الْحُجَّةَ هَالِكَةٌ وَ الْإِمَامَةَ بَاطِلَةٌ

During that, Shias of Aliasws would be reviled. Their enemies would revile them, and the evil ones and the mischief-makers would overcome upon them until when the community is fatigued, and would be frequently passionate in their words that the Divine Authority has died, and the Imamate is false.

فَوَ رَبِّ عَلِيٍّ إِنَّ حُجَّتَهَا عَلَيْهَا قَائِمَةٌ مَاشِيَةٌ فِي طُرُقَاتِهَا دَاخِلَةٌ فِي دُورِهَا وَ قُصُورِهَا جَوَّالَةٌ فِي شَرْقِ الْأَرْضِ وَ غَرْبِهَا يَسْمَعُ الْكَلَامَ وَ يُسَلِّمُ عَلَى الْجَمَاعَةِ يَرَى وَ لَا يُرَى إِلَى يَوْمِ الْوَقْتِ وَ الْوَعْدِ وَ نِدَاءِ الْمُنَادِي مِنَ السَّمَاءِ ذَلِكَ يَوْمُ سُرُورِ وُلْدِ عَلِيٍّ وَ شِيعَةِ عَلِيٍّ ع‏.

By the Lordazwj of Aliasws! Their Divine Authority would be established, living in their roads, entering in their houses and their mansions, in the east of the earth and its west, hearing the speech, and greeting upon a the group heasws sees, and heasws will not be seen up to the day, the time, and the appointment; and the caller will call out from the sky. That is a day of joy for the children of Aliasws and Shias of Aliasws’’.⁶⁸

32- فض، كتاب الروضة يل، الفضائل لابن شاذان بِالْإِسْنَادِ يَرْفَعُهُ إِلَى سُلَيْمِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: لَمَّا قُتِلَ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع بَكَى ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ بُكَاءً شَدِيداً ثُمَّ قَالَ مَا لَقِيَتْ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّهَا اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أُشْهِدُكَ أَنِّي لِعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ لِوُلْدِهِ وَلِيٌّ وَ لِعَدُوِّهِ عَدُوٌّ وَ مِنْ عَدُوِّ وُلْدِهِ بَرِي‏ءٌ وَ أَنِّي سِلْمٌ لِأَمْرِهِمْ

(The books) ‘Al Rawza’ (and) ‘Al Fazail’ of Ibn Shazan, by the chain raising it to Suleym Bin Qays having said,

‘When Al-Husaynasws Bin Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws was killed, Ibn Abbas cried with intense crying, then said, ‘What has this community faced after its Prophetsaww! O Allahazwj! I testify that I am a friend to Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws and hisasws children, and an enemy to hisasws enemies, and am disavowed from the enemies of hisasws children, and I submit to theirasws orders.

وَ لَقَدْ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى ابْنِ عَمِّ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص بِذِي قَارٍ فَأَخْرَجَ لِي صَحِيفَةً وَ قَالَ لِي يَا ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ هَذِهِ صَحِيفَةٌ أَمْلَاهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ خَطِّي بِيَدِي

And I had entered to see the sonasws of the uncleas of Rasool-Allahsaww at Zi Qar, and heasws brought out a parchment and said to me: ‘O Ibn Abbas! This is a parchment dictated by Rasool-Allahsaww and Iasws wrote it with myasws hand’.

قَالَ فَأَخْرَجَ لِيَ الصَّحِيفَةَ فَقُلْتُ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ اقْرَأْهَا عَلَيَّ فَقَرَأَهَا وَ إِذَا فِيهَا كُلُّ شَيْ‏ءٍ مُنْذُ قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ كَيْفَ يُقْتَلُ الْحُسَيْنُ وَ مَنْ يَقْتُلُهُ وَ مَنْ يَنْصُرُهُ وَ مَنْ يُسْتَشْهَدُ مَعَهُ وَ بَكَى بُكَاءً شَدِيداً وَ أَبْكَانِي

He (Ibn Abbas) said, ‘Heasws brought out the parchment for me, so I said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineenasws! Read it out to me’. Heasws read it, and there in it was every thing since Rasool-Allahsaww passed away, and how Al-Husaynasws would be killed, and the ones who would be killing himasws, and ones helping himasws, and ones martyred with himasws, and heasws cried with intense crying, and made me cry.

وَ كَانَ فِيمَا قَرَأَهُ كَيْفَ يُصْنَعُ بِهِ وَ كَيْفَ تُسْتَشْهَدُ فَاطِمَةُ ع وَ كَيْفَ يُسْتَشْهَدُ الْحَسَنُ ع وَ كَيْفَ تَغْدِرُ بِهِ الْأُمَّةُ فَلَمَّا قَرَأَ مَقْتَلَ الْحُسَيْنِ ع وَ مَنْ يَقْتُلُهُ أَكْثَرَ الْبُكَاءَ

And it was among what heasws read was what would be done with himasws, and how (Syeda) Fatimaasws would be martyred, and how Al-Hassanasws would be martyred, and how the community will be treacherous with himasws. When heasws read the killing of Al-Husaynasws and the ones who would kill himasws, the crying became more.

ثُمَّ أَدْرَجَ الصَّحِيفَةَ وَ فِيهَا مَا كَانَ وَ مَا يَكُونُ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ وَ كَانَ فِيمَا قَرَأَ أَمْرُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرَ وَ عُثْمَانَ وَ كَمْ يَمْلِكُ كُلُ إِنْسَانٍ مِنْهُمْ وَ كَيْفَ يَقَعُ عَلَى عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع وَ وَقْعَةُ الْجَمَلِ وَ مَسِيرُ عَائِشَةَ وَ طَلْحَةَ وَ الزُّبَيْرِ وَ وَقْعَةُ صِفِّينَ وَ مَنْ يُقْتَلُ بِهَا وَ وَقْعَةُ النَّهْرَوَانِ وَ أَمْرُ الْحَكَمَيْنِ وَ مُلْكُ مُعَاوِيَةَ وَ مَنْ يَقْتُلُ مِنَ الشِّيعَةِ وَ مَا تَصْنَعُ النَّاسُ بِالْحَسَنِ وَ أَمْرُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ حَتَّى انْتَهَى إِلَى قَتْلِ الْحُسَيْنِ ع

Then there was an insertion in the parchment and in it was what had happened and what will be happening up to the Day of Qiyamah, and it was among what heasws read was the matter of Abu Bakr, and Umar, and Usman, and how long each person from the would rule, and how the event of the camel (Battle of Basra) would occur upon Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, and journey of Ayesha and Talha and Al-Zubeyr, and event of (battle of) Siffeen and the ones who will be killed at it, and event of Al-Nahrwan and the matter of the two judges, and kingdom of Muawiya and the ones he would kill from the Shias, and the people would do with Al-Hassanasws, and the matter of Yazeed Bin Muawiya, until heasws ended to the killing of Al-Husaynasws.

فَسَمِعْتُ ذَلِكَ فَكَانَ كَمَا قَرَأَ لَمْ يَزِدْ وَ لَمْ يَنْقُصْ وَ رَأَيْتُ خَطَّهُ فِي الصَّحِيفَةِ لَمْ يَتَغَيَّرْ وَ لَمْ يَعْفَرْ فَلَمَّا أَدْرَجَ الصَّحِيفَةَ قُلْتُ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ لَوْ كُنْتَ قَرَأْتَ عَلَيَّ بَقِيَّةَ الصَّحِيفَةِ

I heard that, and it happened just as heasws had read out, not increasing and not decreasing, and I saw hisasws handwriting in the parchment, not having changed nor soiled over. When heasws rolled up the parchment, I said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineenasws! If youasws could read out to me the remainder of the parchment’.

قَالَ لَا وَ لَكِنِّي أُحَدِّثُكَ بِمَا فِيهَا مِنْ أَمْرِ بَيْتِكَ وَ وُلْدِكَ وَ هُوَ أَمْرٌ فَضِيحٌ مِنْ قَتْلِهِمْ لَنَا وَ عَدَاوَتِهِمْ لَنَا وَ سُوءِ مُلْكِهِمْ وَ شُومِ قُدْرَتِهِمْ فَأَكْرَهُ أَنْ تَسْمَعَهُ فَتَغْتَمَّ وَ لَكِنِّي أُحَدِّثُكَ

Heasws said: ‘No, but Iasws shall narrate to you with what is in it, from the matter of your house, and your children, and it is a disgraceful matter of them killing usasws and their enmity to usasws, and the evil of their kingdom, and inauspiciousness of their power, and you will dislike listening to it and be saddened, but Iasws will narrate to you.

أَخَذَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عِنْدَ مَوْتِهِ بِيَدِي فَفَتَحَ لِي أَلْفَ بَابٍ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ فَفَتَحَ لِي مِنْ كُلِّ بَابٍ أَلْفَ بَابٍ وَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ يَنْظُرَانِ إِلَيَّ وَ هُوَ يُشِيرُ إِلَيَّ بِذَلِكَ فَلَمَّا خَرَجْتُ قَالا لِي مَا قَالَ لَكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَحَدَّثْتُهُمَا بِمَا قَالَ لِي فَحَرَّكَا أَيْدِيَهُمَا ثُمَّ حَكَيَا قَوْلِي ثُمَّ وَلَّيَا

Rasool-Allahsaww held myasws hand during hissaww expiry and opened a thousand doors of knowledge for measws, from each door opened a thousand doors, and Abu Bakr and Umar was both looking at measws, and hesaww was giving measws glad tidings with that. When Iasws went out, they said to measws, ‘What did Rasool-Allahsaww said to youasws?’ I narrated to them with what hesaww had said to measws. They wringed their hands then recounted myasws words, then turned around.

يَا ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ إِنَّ مُلْكَ بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ إِذَا زَالَ أَوَّلُ مَنْ يَمْلِكُ وُلْدُكَ مِنْ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ فَيَفْعَلُونَ الْأَفَاعِيلَ

O Ibn Abbas! The kingdom of the clan of Umayya, when it declines, the first one to rule would be your children from the Clan of Hashimasws, and they will do the deeds’.

قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ لَئِنْ نَسَخَنِي ذَلِكَ الْكِتَابَ كَانَ أَحَبَّ إِلَيَّ مِمَّا طَلَعَتْ عَلَيْهِ الشَّمْسُ‏.

Ibn Abbas said, ‘If that book had been copied for me, it would have been more beloved to me than what the sun emerges upon’’.⁶⁹

33- كشف، كشف الغمة مِنْ مَنَاقِبِ الْخُوارِزْمِيِّ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع قَالَ: كُنْتُ أَمْشِي مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ص فِي بَعْضِ طُرُقِ الْمَدِينَةِ فَأَتَيْنَا عَلَى حَدِيقَةٍ وَ هِيَ الرَّوْضَةُ ذَاتُ الشَّجَرِ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا أَحْسَنَ هَذِهِ الْحَدِيقَةَ فَقَالَ ص مَا أَحْسَنَهَا وَ لَكَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ أَحْسَنُ مِنْهَا

(The book) ‘Kashf Al Ghumma’, from (the book) ‘Manaqib’ of Al Khawarizmi,

‘From Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws having said: ‘Iasws was walking with the Prophetsaww in one of the streets of Al-Medina and weasws came to a garden, and it was an orchard with the trees. Iasws said: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Who beautiful is this garden!’ Hesaww said: ‘What is its beautify and for youasws in the Paradise is more beautiful than it?’

ثُمَّ أَتَيْنَا عَلَى حَدِيقَةٍ أُخْرَى فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا أَحْسَنَهَا مِنْ حَدِيقَةٍ فَقَالَ لَكَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ أَحْسَنُ مِنْهَا حَتَّى أَتَيْنَا عَلَى سَبْعِ حَدَائِقَ أَقُولُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا أَحْسَنَهَا فَيَقُولُ لَكَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ أَحْسَنُ مِنْهَا

Then weasws came to another garden, and Iasws said: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! How beautiful it is from the gardens!’ Hesaww said: ‘For youasws in the Paradise is more beautiful than it’, to the extent that weasws came to seven gardens, Iasws was saying: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww, how beautiful it is’, and hesaww kept saying: ‘For youasws in the Paradise is more beautiful than it’.

فَلَمَّا خَلَا لَهُ الطَّرِيقُ اعْتَنَقَنِي وَ أَجْهَشَ بَاكِياً فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا يُبْكِيكَ قَالَ ضَغَائِنُ فِي صُدُورِ أَقْوَامٍ لَا يُبْدُونَهَا إِلَّا بَعْدِي فَقُلْتُ فِي سَلَامَةٍ مِنْ دِينِي قَالَ فِي سَلَامَةٍ مِنْ دِينِكَ‏.

When the street was empty for himasws, hesaww hugged measws and sobbed crying. Iasws said: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! What makes yousaww cry?’ Hesaww said: ‘Grudges in the chests of people. They will not be manifesting these except after mesaww’. Iasws said: ‘In safety of myasws Religion?’ Hesaww said: ‘In safety of your Religion’’.⁷⁰

34- كشف، كشف الغمة رَوَى جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ قَالَ: دَخَلَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ هُوَ فِي سَكَرَاتِ الْمَوْتِ فَانْكَبَّتْ عَلَيْهِ تَبْكِي فَفَتَحَ عَيْنَهُ وَ أَفَاقَ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا بُنَيَّةُ أَنْتِ الْمَظْلُومَةُ بَعْدِي وَ أَنْتِ الْمُسْتَضْعَفَةُ بَعْدِي

(The book) ‘Kash Al Ghumma’ – It is reported by Jabir Bin Abdullah Al Ansari who said,

‘(Syeda) Fatimaasws entered to see Rasool-Allahsaww and heasws was in the pangs of death, so sheasws leapt upon himsaww crying. Hesaww opened hissaww eyes and woke up, then said: ‘O daughterasws! Youasws would be oppressed after mesaww, and youasws will be weakened after mesaww.

فَمَنْ آذَاكِ فَقَدْ آذَانِي وَ مَنْ غَاظَكِ فَقَدْ غَاظَنِي وَ مَنْ سَرَّكِ فَقَدْ سَرَّنِي وَ مَنْ بَرَّكِ فَقَدْ بَرَّنِي وَ مَنْ جَفَاكِ فَقَدْ جَفَانِي وَ مَنْ وَصَلَكِ فَقَدْ وَصَلَنِي وَ مَنْ قَطَعَكِ فَقَدْ قَطَعَنِي وَ مَنْ أَنْصَفَكِ فَقَدْ أَنْصَفَنِي وَ مَنْ ظَلَمَكِ فَقَدْ ظَلَمَنِي لِأَنَّكِ مِنِّي وَ أَنَا مِنْكِ وَ أَنْتِ بَضْعَةٌ مِنِّي وَ رُوحِيَ الَّتِي بَيْنَ جَنْبَيَّ

One who hurts youasws has hurt mesaww, and one who angers youasws has angered mesaww, and one who cheers youasws has cheered mesaww, and one who is righteous with youasws has been righteous with mesaww, and one who is disloyal to youasws has been disloyal to mesaww, and one who connects with youasws has connected with mesaww, and one who cuts youasws off has cut mesaww off, and one who is fair with youasws has been fair with mesaww, and one who oppresses youasws has oppressed mesaww, because youasws are from mesaww and Isaww am from youasws, youasws are a part of mesaww, and mysaww soul which is between mysaww sides’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ ع إِلَى اللَّهِ أَشْكُو ظَالِمِيكِ مِنْ أُمَّتِي

Then hesaww said: ‘Isaww complain to Allahazwj of the ones from mysaww community oppressing youasws’.

ثُمَّ دَخَلَ الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ ع فَانْكَبَّا عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ هُمَا يَبْكِيَانِ وَ يَقُولَانِ أَنْفُسُنَا لِنَفْسِكَ الْفِدَاءُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَذَهَبَ عَلِيٌّ ع لِيُنَحِّيَهُمَا عَنْهُ فَرَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ إِلَيْهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ دَعْهُمَا يَا أَخِي يَشَمَّانِّي وَ أَشَمُّهُمَا وَ يَتَزَوَّدَانِ مِنِّي وَ أَتَزَوَّدُ مِنْهُمَا فَإِنَّهُمَا مَقْتُولَانِ بَعْدِي ظُلْماً وَ عُدْوَاناً فَلَعْنَةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى مَنْ يَقْتُلُهُمَا

Then Al-Hassanasws and Al-Husaynasws entered crying upon Rasool-Allahsaww, and theyasws were weeping and saying: ‘Ourasws selves be ransomed for yoursaww self, O Rasool-Allahsaww!’ Aliasws went on to move themasws aside from himsaww. Hesaww raised hissaww head towards himasws, then said: ‘Leave themasws, O mysaww brotherasws, to smell mesaww and Isaww smell them, and being provided from mesaww and Isaww being provided from themasws, for theyasws will both be killed unjustly after mesaww, and aggressively. May Allahazwj Curse theirasws killers’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ أَنْتَ الْمَظْلُومُ بَعْدِي وَ أَنَا خَصْمٌ لِمَنْ أَنْتَ خَصْمُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ.

Then hesaww said: ‘O Aliasws! Youasws will be oppressed after mesaww, and Isaww will dispute on the Day of Qiyamah to the one youasws will be disputing with (in the world)’’.⁷¹

35- فر، تفسير فرات بن إبراهيم أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عِيسَى بْنِ هَارُونَ مُعَنْعَناً عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: كُنَّا جُلُوساً عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص إِذْ أَقْبَلَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَلَمَّا نَظَرَ إِلَيْهِ النَّبِيُّ ص قَالَ‏ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعالَمِينَ‏ لا شَرِيكَ لَهُ‏

Tafseer Furat Bin Ibrahim – Ahmad Bin Isa Bin Haroun, transmitting from Jabir Bin Abdullah Al Ansari having said,

‘We were seated in the presence of Rasool-Allahsaww when Aliasws came. When the Prophetsaww looked at himasws, hesaww said: ‘The Praise is for Allahazwj Lordazwj of the worlds, there is not associate for Himazwj’.

قَالَ قُلْنَا صَدَقْتَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ‏ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعالَمِينَ‏ لا شَرِيكَ لَهُ‏ قَدْ ظَنَنَّا أَنَّكَ لَمْ تَقُلْهَا إِلَّا لِعَجَبٍ مِنْ شَيْ‏ءٍ رَأَيْتَهُ

He (the narrator) said, ‘We said, ‘Yousaww speak the truth, O Rasool-Allahsaww, the Praise is for Allahazwj Lordazwj of the worlds, there is no associate for Himazwj. We have thought that yousaww did not say it except in wonderment from a thing yousaww saw’.

قَالَ نَعَمْ لَمَّا رَأَيْتُ عَلِيّاً مُقْبِلًا ذُكِّرْتُ حَدِيثاً حَدَّثَنِي حَبِيبِي جَبْرَئِيلُ ع قَالَ قَالَ إِنِّي سَأَلْتُ اللَّهَ أَنْ يَجْتَمِعَ الْأُمَّةُ عَلَيْهِ فَأَبَى عَلَيْهِ إِلَّا أَنْ يَبْلُوَ بَعْضَهُمْ بِبَعْضٍ حَتَّى يَمِيزَ الْخَبِيثَ مِنَ الطَّيِّبِ*

Hesaww said: ‘Yes, due to that Iasws saw Aliasws coming, Isaww remembered a Hadeeth mysaww beloved Jibraeelas had narrated to mesaww. Heas said: ‘Ias asked Allahazwj to unite the community upon himasws, but Heazwj Refused to himas except that Heazwj will Try some of them with others until the wicked ones are distinguished from the good.

وَ أَنْزَلَ عَلَيَّ بِذَلِكَ كِتَاباً الم أَ حَسِبَ النَّاسُ أَنْ يُتْرَكُوا أَنْ يَقُولُوا آمَنَّا وَ هُمْ لا يُفْتَنُونَ وَ لَقَدْ فَتَنَّا الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ فَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ صَدَقُوا وَ لَيَعْلَمَنَّ الْكاذِبِينَ

And Heazwj Revealed a Book (Quranic Verse) unto meas: Alif Lam Meem [29:1] Do the people reckon that they will be left alone on saying, ‘We believe’, and they will not be Tried? [29:2] And We have Tested those from before them. So Allah will Make known those who are truthful and He will Make known the liars [29:3].

أَمَا إِنَّهُ قَدْ عَوَّضَهُ مَكَانَهُ بِسَبْعِ خِصَالٍ يَلِي‏ سَتْرَ عَوْرَتِكَ وَ يَقْضِي دَيْنَكَ وَ عِدَاتِكَ وَ هُوَ مَعَكَ عَلَى عُقْرِ حَوْضِكَ وَ هُوَ مُتَّكَأٌ لَكَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَ لَنْ يَرْجِعَ كَافِراً بَعْدَ إِيمَانٍ وَ لَا زَانِياً بَعْدَ إِحْصَانٍ

But Heazwj has Compensated hisasws position with seven qualities – heasws will veil yoursaww bareness, and fulfil yoursaww debts and yoursaww promises, and heasws would be with yousaww at yoursaww Fountain, and heasws would be reclining for youasws on the Day of Qiyamah and will never return to be a Kafir after Eman, nor be an adulterer after chastity.

فَكَمْ مِنْ ضِرْسٍ قَاطِعٍ لَهُ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ مَعَ الْقَدَمِ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ وَ الْعِلْمِ بِكَلَامِ اللَّهِ وَ الْفِقْهِ فِي دِينِ اللَّهِ مَعَ الصِّهْرِ وَ الْقَرَابَةِ وَ النَّجْدَةِ فِي الْحَرْبِ وَ بَذْلِ الْمَاعُونِ وَ الْأَمْرِ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَ النَّهْيِ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ وَ الْوَلَايَةِ لِوَلِيِّي وَ الْعَدَاوَةِ لِعَدُوِّي وَ بَشِّرْهُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ بِذَلِكَ‏:.

And how man a tooth was broken for himasws in Al-Islam with the advancing in Al-Islam, and the knowledge with the Speech of Allahazwj and understanding in the Religion of Allahazwj along with being the in-law, and the relationship, and the bravery during the war, and spending in acts of kindness, and the enjoining with the good and forbidding from the evil, and the Wilayah for Myazwj friends and enmity to Myazwj enemies, and give himasws glad tidings, O Muhammadsaww, of that’’.⁷²

36- كا، الكافي الْعِدَّةُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ وَ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عِيسَى الْقَمَّاطِ عَنْ عَمِّهِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: أُرِيَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فِي مَنَامِهِ بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ يَصْعَدُونَ عَلَى مِنْبَرِهِ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ وَ يُضِلُّونَ النَّاسَ عَنِ الصِّرَاطِ الْقَهْقَرَى

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – The number, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, form Ali Bin Al Husayn, from Muhammad Bin Al Waleed, and Muhammad Bin Ahmad, from Yunus Bin Yaqoub, from Ali Bin Isa Al Qammat, from his uncle,

‘From Abu Abdullahasws having said: ‘Rasool-Allahsaww saw in hissaww dream the clan of Umayya climbing upon hissaww pulpit from after himsaww, and straying the people from the path backwards.

فَأَصْبَحَ كَئِيباً حَزِيناً قَالَ فَهَبَطَ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا لِي أَرَاكَ كَئِيباً حَزِيناً قَالَ يَا جَبْرَئِيلُ إِنِّي رَأَيْتُ بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ فِي لَيْلَتِي هَذِهِ يَصْعَدُونَ مِنْبَرِي مِنْ بَعْدِي يُضِلُّونَ النَّاسَ عَنِ الصِّرَاطِ الْقَهْقَرَى

Hesaww woke up in the morning bleak, saddened. So, Jibraeelas descended and said: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! What is the matter Ias see yousaww bleak, sad?’ Hesaww said: ‘O Jibraeelas! Isaww saw the clan of Umayya during this night of minesaww, ascending mysaww pulpit from after mesaww, straying the people from the path backwards’.

فَقَالَ وَ الَّذِي بَعَثَكَ بِالْحَقِّ نَبِيّاً إِنَّ هَذَا شَيْ‏ءٌ مَا اطَّلَعْتُ عَلَيْهِ فَعَرَجَ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فَلَمْ يَلْبَثْ أَنْ نَزَلَ عَلَيْهِ بِآيٍ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ يُؤْنِسُهُ بِهَا قَالَ‏ أَ فَرَأَيْتَ إِنْ مَتَّعْناهُمْ سِنِينَ ثُمَّ جاءَهُمْ ما كانُوا يُوعَدُونَ ما أَغْنى‏ عَنْهُمْ ما كانُوا يُمَتَّعُونَ‏

Heas said: ‘By the Oneazwj Who Sent yousaww with the truth as a Prophetsaww! This is a thing Ias have not been notified upon’. Heas ascended, and it was not long before he descended unto himas with a Verse from the Quran comforting himsaww with it. Heazwj Said: Can you see, if We were to Let them enjoy for years [26:205] Then there comes to them what they were threatened of [26:206] It would not avail them what they were enjoying. [26:207].

وَ أَنْزَلَ عَلَيْهِ‏ إِنَّا أَنْزَلْناهُ فِي لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ وَ ما أَدْراكَ ما لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ شَهْرٍ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ لِنَبِيِّهِ ص خَيْراً مِنْ أَلْفِ شَهْرِ مُلْكِ بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ.

And it was Revealed unto himsaww: Surely, We Revealed it during the Night of Pre-determination [97:1] And what make you realise what the Night of Pre-determination is? [97:2] The Night of Pre-determination is better than a thousand months [97:3]. Allahazwj Made the Night of Pre-determination for Hisazwj Prophetsaww to be better than a thousand months of the kingdom of the clan of Umayya’’.⁷³

37- كا، الكافي الْعِدَّةُ عَنْ سَهْلٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ عَنْ يُونُسَ‏ مِثْلَهُ‏.

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – The number, from Sahl, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Hameed, from Yunus – similar to it’.⁷⁴

38- فر، تفسير فرات بن إبراهيم عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُمْدُونٍ عَنْ عِيسَى بْنِ مِهْرَانَ عَنْ فَرَجٍ عَنْ مَسْعَدَةَ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ أَبِي عَيَّاشٍ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: أَتَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ وَ يَدُهُ فِي يَدِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع وَ لَقِيَهُ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا فُلَانُ لَا تَسُبُّوا عَلِيّاً فَإِنَّ مَنْ سَبَّهُ فَقَدْ سَبَّنِي وَ مَنْ سَبَّنِي سَبَّهُ اللَّهُ

Tafseer Furaat Bin Ibrahim – Ali Bin Humdan, from Isa Bin Mihran, from Faraj, from Mas’ada, from Aban Bin Abu Ayyash, from Anas Bin Malik (well-known fabricator) who said,

‘One day Rasool-Allahsaww came and hissaww hand was in the hand of Amir Al-Momineen Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, and a man met himsaww. Hesaww said to him: ‘O son and so! Do not revile Aliasws, for the one who reviles himasws, has reviled mesaww, and one who reviles mesaww has reviled Allahazwj.

وَ اللَّهِ يَا فُلَانُ إِنَّهُ لَا يُؤْمِنُ بِمَا يَكُونُ مِنْ عَلِيٍّ وَ وُلْدِ عَلِيٍّ فِي آخِرِ الزَّمَانِ إِلَّا مَلَكٌ مُقَرَّبٌ أَوْ عَبْدٌ قَدِ امْتَحَنَ اللَّهُ قَلْبَهُ لِلْإِيمَانِ

By Allahazwj, O so and so! No one will believe with what would he happening from Aliasws and sonsasws of Aliasws at the end of times, except an Angel of Proximity or a servant whose heart Allahazwj has Tested for the Eman.

يَا فُلَانُ إِنَّهُ سَيُصِيبُ وُلْدَ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ بَلَاءٌ شَدِيدٌ وَ أُثْرَةٌ وَ قَتْلٌ وَ تَشْرِيدٌ

O so and so! The children of Abdul Muttalibasws will be afflicted with severe afflictions, and preference (of others), and killing, and displacement.

فَاللَّهَ اللَّهَ يَا فُلَانُ فِي أَصْحَابِي وَ ذُرِّيَّتِي وَ ذِمَّتِي فَإِنَّ لِلَّهِ يَوْماً يَنْتَصِفُ فِيهِ لِلْمَظْلُومِ مِنَ الظَّالِمِ‏.

Allahazwj, Allahazwj, O so and so! Among mysaww companions, and mysaww offspring, and mysaww guarantee, there will be a day for Allahazwj the oppressed would receive justice from the oppressor’’.⁷⁵

39- فر، تفسير فرات بن إبراهيم عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ الْخَزَّازِ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ مُعَنْعَناً عَنْ زَيْدٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَجُلٌ قَدْ أَدْرَكَ سِتَّةً أَوْ سَبْعَةً مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ص قَالُوا لَمَّا نَزَلَتْ‏ إِذا جاءَ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ وَ الْفَتْحُ‏ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص يَا عَلِيُّ يَا فَاطِمَةُ قَدْ جَاءَ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ وَ الْفَتْحُ وَ رَأَيْتُ‏ النَّاسَ يَدْخُلُونَ فِي دِينِ اللَّهِ أَفْواجاً فَأُسَبِّحُ رَبِّي بِحَمْدِهِ وَ أَسْتَغْفِرُ رَبِّي‏ إِنَّهُ كانَ تَوَّاباً

Tafseer Furaat Bin Ibrahim – Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Ismail Al Khazzaz Al Hamdani, transmitting from Zayd who said,

‘A man who had come across six or seven from companions of the Prophetsaww said, ‘They (companions) said when (the Verse): When Help of Allah comes and the victory [110:1] was Revealed, the Prophetsaww said: ‘O Aliasws! O Fatimaasws! The Help of Allahazwj has come, and the victory, and Isaww see the people entering into the Religion of Allah in droves [110:2], so Isaww shall praise mysaww Lordazwj with Hisazwj Praise, and seek Forgiveness of mysaww Lordazwj, He was always oft-returning (to Mercy) [110:3].

يَا عَلِيُّ إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَضَى الْجِهَادَ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِي الْفِتْنَةِ مِنْ بَعْدِي فَقَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ كَيْفَ نُجَاهِدُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ الَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ فِي فِتْنَتِهِمْ آمَنَّا

O Aliasws! Allahazwj Decreed the Jihad upon the Momineen during the Fitna from after mesaww’. Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws said: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! And who can we fight the Momineen, those who are saying during their Fitna, ‘We believe’?’

قَالَ يُجَاهِدُونَ عَلَى الْإِحْدَاثِ فِي الدِّينِ‏ إِذَا عَمِلُوا بِالرَّأْيِ فِي الدِّينِ وَ لَا رَأْيَ فِي الدِّينِ‏ إِنَّمَا الدِّينُ مِنَ الرَّبِّ أَمْرُهُ وَ نَهْيُهُ

Hesaww said: ‘Fight against the innovators in the Religion when they act upon the opinions in the Religion, and there is no opinion in the Religion. But rather the Religion is from the Lordazwj, Hisazwj Commandments and Hisazwj Prohibitions’.

قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّكَ قَدْ قُلْتَ لِي حِينَ خُزِلَتْ عَنِّي الشَّهَادَةُ وَ اسْتُشْهِدَ مَنِ اسْتُشْهِدَ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَوْمَ أُحُدٍ الشَّهَادَةُ مِنْ وَرَائِكَ

Amir Al-Momineen Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws said: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Yousaww had said to measws when the martyrdom was away from measws, and the ones from the Momineen who were martyred on the day of Ohad: ‘The martyrdom is from behind youasws’’.

قَالَ فَكَيْفَ صَبْرُكَ إِذَا خُضِبَتْ هَذِهِ مِنْ هَذَا وَ وَضَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَدَهُ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ وَ لِحْيَتِهِ

Hesaww said: ‘How would be your patience when this is dyed from this?’ – and Rasool-Allahsaww placed hissaww hand upon hisasws head and hisasws beard.

ثُمَّ قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَيْسَ حِينَئِذٍ هُوَ مِنْ مَوَاطِنِ الصَّبْرِ وَ لَكِنْ مِنْ مَوَاطِنِ الْبُشْرَى يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ قَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ أَعِدَّ خُصُومَتَكَ فَإِنَّكَ مُخَاصِمٌ قَوْمَكَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ.

Then Amir Al-Momineenasws said: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! That day wouldn’t be from the places of patience, but is would be from the places of glad tidings on the Day of Qiyamah’. Hesaww said: ‘O Aliasws! Prepare yourasws dispute, for youasws will dispute yourasws people on the Day of Qiyamah’’.⁷⁶

40- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْقَزْوِينِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ وَهْبَانَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ حَبَشِيٍّ عَنِ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ أَبِي غُنْدَرٍ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شِمْرٍ عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع‏ زَارَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَدْ أَهْدَتْ لَنَا أُمُّ أَيْمَنَ لَبَناً وَ زَبَداً وَ تَمْراً فَقَدَّمْنَاهُ فَأَكَلَ مِنْهُ ثُمَّ قَامَ النَّبِيُّ ص زَاوِيَةَ الْبَيْتِ وَ صَلَّى رَكَعَاتٍ

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – Al Husayn Bin Ibrahim Al Qazwini, from Muhammad Bin Qahban, from Ali Bin Habshy, from Al Abbas Bin Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from his father, from Safwan Bin Yahya, from Al Husayn Bin Abu Undar, from Amro Bin Shimr, from Jabir,

‘From Abu Ja’farasws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineenasws said: ‘We visited Rasool-Allahsaww, and Umm Ayman had gifted to us some milk, and butter, and dates. We went ahead and ate from it. Then the Prophetsaww stood up in a corner of the house and prayed two Cycles Salat.

فَلَمَّا أَنْ كَانَ فِي آخِرِ سُجُودِهِ بَكَى بُكَاءً شَدِيداً فَلَمْ يَسْأَلْهُ أَحَدٌ مِنَّا إِجْلَالًا لَهُ فَقَامَ الْحُسَيْنُ ع فَقَعَدَ فِي حَجْرِهِ وَ قَالَ لَهُ يَا أَبَهْ لَقَدْ دَخَلْتَ بَيْتَنَا فَمَا سُرِرْنَا بِشَيْ‏ءٍ كَسُرُورِنَا بِذَلِكَ ثُمَّ بَكَيْتَ بُكَاءً غَمَّنَا فَلِمَ بَكَيْتَ

When hesaww was in hissaww last Sajdah, hesaww cried with intense crying. No one from us asked himasws is respect for himsaww. Al-Husaynasws stood up and sat in hissaww lap and said to himsaww: ‘O fathersaww! Yousaww entered ourasws house and weasws had not been cheered by anything like ourasws cheerfulness with that. Then yousaww cried a crying, saddening usasws. Why did yousaww cry?’

فَقَالَ بُنَيَّ أَتَانِي جَبْرَئِيلُ آنِفاً فَأَخْبَرَنِي أَنَّكُمْ قَتْلَى وَ أَنَّ مَصَارِعَكُمْ شَتَّى فَقَالَ يَا أَبَهْ فَمَا لِمَنْ يَزُورُ قُبُورَنَا عَلَى تَشَتُّتِهَا

Hesaww said: ‘Mysaww sonasws! Jibraeelas came to mesaww and informed mesaww and youasws will be killed in yourasws various places’. Heasws said: ‘O fathersaww! What is for one who visits ourasws graves upon their dispersal?’

فَقَالَ يَا بُنَيَّ أُولَئِكَ طَوَائِفُ مِنْ أُمَّتِي يَزُورُونَكُمْ يَلْتَمِسُونَ بِذَلِكَ الْبَرَكَةَ وَ حَقِيقٌ عَلَيَّ أَنْ آتِيَهُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ حَتَّى أُخَلِّصَهُمْ مِنْ أَهْوَالِ السَّاعَةِ مِنْ ذُنُوبِهِمْ وَ يُسْكِنَهُمُ اللَّهُ الْجَنَّةَ.

Hesaww said: ‘O mysaww sonasws! They are sects from mysaww community visiting youasws all seeking the Blessings with that, and there are rights upon mesaww that Isaww give them on the Day of Qiyamah until Isaww finish them from the horrors of the House, from their sins, and Allahazwj Settles them in the Paradise’’.⁷⁷

41- كنز، كنز جامع الفوائد و تأويل الآيات الظاهرة مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ هَمَّامٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ الْعَلَوِيِّ عَنْ عِيسَى بْنِ دَاوُدَ النَّجَّارِ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ ع قَالَ: جَمَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ فَاطِمَةَ وَ الْحَسَنَ وَ الْحُسَيْنَ ع وَ أَغْلَقَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْبَابَ وَ قَالَ يَا أَهْلِي وَ يَا أَهْلَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَقْرَأُ عَلَيْكُمُ السَّلَامَ وَ هَذَا جَبْرَئِيلُ مَعَكُمْ فِي الْبَيْتِ وَ يَقُولُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَقُولُ إِنِّي قَدْ جَعَلْتُ عَدُوَّكُمْ لَكُمْ فِتْنَةً فَمَا تَقُولُونَ

(The books) ‘Kunz Jamie Al Fawaid’ and ‘Taweel Al Ayaat Al Zaahira’ – Muhammad Bin Al Abbas, from Muhamad Bin Hammam, from Muhammad Bin Ismail Al Alawy, from Isa Bin Dawood Al Najjar,

‘From Musaasws Bin Ja’farasws, from hisasws fatherasws having said: ‘Rasool-Allahsaww gathered Amir Al- Momineen Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, and (Syeda) Fatimaasws, and Al-Hassanasws, and Al-Husaynasws, then locked the door, so hesaww said: ‘O mysaww people and the people of Allahazwj! Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Conveys the Greetings to youasws. And this here is Jibraeelas in the house with youasws and heas is saying that: ‘Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic is Saying: “Iazwj have Made yourasws enemies to be a trial for youasws, so what are youasws saying?’

قَالُوا نَصْبِرُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لِأَمْرِ اللَّهِ وَ مَا نَزَلَ مِنْ قَضَائِهِ حَتَّى نَقْدَمَ عَلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ نَسْتَكْمِلَ جَزِيلَ ثَوَابِهِ فَقَدْ سَمِعْنَاهُ يَعِدُ الصَّابِرِينَ الْخَيْرَ كُلَّهُ

Theyasws said: ‘Weasws shall be patient – O Rasool-Allahsaww – for the Command of Allahazwj, and whatever Descends from Hisazwj Judgement, until weasws proceed to Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic, and weasws shall sincerely complete Hisazwj Reward, and weasws have heard it that in patience is all goodness’.

فَبَكَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص حَتَّى سُمِعَ نَحِيبُهُ مِنْ خَارِجِ الْبَيْتِ فَنَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ وَ جَعَلْنا بَعْضَكُمْ لِبَعْضٍ فِتْنَةً أَ تَصْبِرُونَ وَ كانَ رَبُّكَ بَصِيراً أَنَّهُمْ سَيَصْبِرُونَ أَيْ سَيَصْبِرُونَ كَمَا قَالُوا صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمْ‏⁷⁸.

Rasool-Allahsaww cried to the extent that hissaww wailing was heard from outside the house. Then this Verse was Revealed: and We Made some of you a Fitna for some. Will you be patient? And your Lord was Ever-Seeing [25:20]. Theyasws would be observing patience, and they did observe patience just as theyasws had said’’.⁷⁹

42- كنز، كنز جامع الفوائد و تأويل الآيات الظاهرة مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْحُسَيْنِيِّ عَنْ إِدْرِيسَ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: قُلْتُ لَهُ‏ فَسِّرْ لِي قَوْلَهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لِنَبِيِّهِ ص‏ لَيْسَ لَكَ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ شَيْ‏ءٌ

(The books) ‘Kunz Jamie Al Fawaid’ and ‘Taweel Al Ayaat Al Zaahira’ – Muhammad Bin Al Abbas, from Ja’far Bin Muhammad Al Husayni, from Idrees BiN Ziyad, from Al Hassan Bin Mahoub, from Amro Bin Sabit,

‘From Abu Ja’farasws, he (the narrator) said, ‘I said to himasws, ‘Interpret for me the Words of Mighty and Majestic to Hisazwj Prophetsaww: There isn’t anything for you from the matter [3:128]’.

فَقَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص كَانَ حَرِيصاً عَلَى أَنْ يَكُونَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ عَلَى النَّاسِ وَ كَانَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ خِلَافُ ذَلِكَ

Heasws said: ‘Rasool-Allahsaww was eager that Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws should happen to be upon the people after himsaww, and in the Presence of Allahazwj was opposite that.

فَقَالَ وَ عَنَى بِذَلِكَ قَوْلَهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ الم أَ حَسِبَ النَّاسُ أَنْ يُتْرَكُوا أَنْ يَقُولُوا آمَنَّا وَ هُمْ لا يُفْتَنُونَ وَ لَقَدْ فَتَنَّا الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ فَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ صَدَقُوا وَ لَيَعْلَمَنَّ الْكاذِبِينَ‏ قَالَ فَرَضِيَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِأَمْرِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏.

Heasws said: ‘And the meaning of that are the Words of Mighty and Majestic: Alif Lam Meem [29:1] Do the people reckon that they will be left alone on saying, ‘We believe’, and they will not be Tried? [29:2] And We have Tested those from before them. So Allah will Make known those who are truthful and He will Make known the liars [29:3]. So Rasool-Allahsaww was pleased with the Command of Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic’’.⁸⁰

43- كِتَابُ الْمُحْتَضَرِ، لِلْحَسَنِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ نَقْلًا مِنْ كِتَابِ الدُّرِّ الْمُنْتَقَى فِي مَنَاقِبِ أَهْلِ التُّقَى يَرْفَعُهُ بِإِسْنَادِهِ إِلَى سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ جَالِساً إِذْ أَقْبَلَ الْحَسَنُ ع فَلَمَّا رَآهُ بَكَى ثُمَّ قَالَ إِلَيَّ يَا بُنَيَّ فَمَا زَالَ يُدْنِيهِ حَتَّى أَجْلَسَهُ عَلَى فَخِذِهِ الْيُمْنَى

(The book) ‘Al Mukhtasar’ of Al Husayn Bin Suleyman, copied from the book ‘Al Durr Al Muntaqa Fi Manaqib Ahl Al Tuqa’ – raising it to Saeed Bin Jubeyr, from Ibn Abbas who said,

‘One day Rasool-Allahsaww was seated when Al-Hassanasws came. When hesaww saw himasws, hesaww wept, then said: ‘To mesaww, O mysaww sonasws!’ Hesaww did not cease to draw himasws closer until hesaww seated himasws upon hissaww right thigh.

ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ الْحُسَيْنُ ع فَلَمَّا رَآهُ بَكَى ثُمَّ قَالَ إِلَيَّ يَا بُنَيَّ فَمَا زَالَ يُدْنِيهِ حَتَّى أَجْلَسَهُ عَلَى فَخِذِهِ الْيُسْرَى ثُمَّ

Then Al-Husaynasws came. When hesaww saw himasws, hesaww wept, then said: ‘To mesaww, O mysaww sonasws!’ Hesaww did not cease to draw himasws closer until hesaww seated himasws upon hisasws left thigh.

أَقْبَلَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع فَلَمَّا رَآهُ بَكَى ثُمَّ قَالَ إِلَيَّ يَا بُنَيَّةِ فَمَا زَالَ يُدْنِيهَا حَتَّى أَجْلَسَهَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ

(Syeda) Fatimaasws came. When hesaww saw herasws, hesaww wept, then said: ‘To mesaww, O daughterasws!’ Hesaww did not cease to draw herasws closer until hesaww seated herasws in front of himsaww.

ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَلَمَّا رَآهُ بَكَى ثُمَّ قَالَ إِلَيَّ يَا أَخِي فَمَا زَالَ يُدْنِيهِ حَتَّى أَجْلَسَهُ إِلَى جَنْبِهِ الْأَيْمَنِ

Then Amir Al-Momineen Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws came. When hesaww saw himasws, hesaww wept, then said: ‘To mesaww, O mysaww brotherasws!’ Hesaww did not cease drawing himasws closer until hesaww seated himasws to hisasws right side.

فَقَالَ لَهُ أَصْحَابُهُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا تَرَى وَاحِداً مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ إِلَّا بَكَيْتَ

Hissaww companions said to himsaww, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Yousaww did not see one of themasws except yousaww cried’.

قَالَ يَا ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ لَوْ أَنَّ الْمَلَائِكَةَ الْمُقَرَّبِينَ وَ الْأَنْبِيَاءَ وَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ اجْتَمَعُوا عَلَى بُغْضِهِ وَ لَنْ يَفْعَلُوا لَعَذَّبَهُمُ اللَّهُ بِالنَّارِ

Hesaww said: ‘O Ibn Abbas! Even if the Angels of Proximity, and the Prophetsas, and the Messengersas were to unite upon hating himasws, and they will never do it, Allahazwj would Punish them with the Fire’.

قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ هَلْ يُبْغِضُهُ أَحَدٌ

I said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Does anyone hate himasws?’

فَقَالَ يَا ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ نَعَمْ قَوْمٌ يَذْكُرُونَ أَنَّهُمْ مِنْ أُمَّتِي لَمْ يَجْعَلِ اللَّهُ لَهُمْ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ نَصِيباً يَا ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ إِنَّ مِنْ عَلَامَةِ بُغْضِهِمْ لَهُ تَفْضِيلَ مَنْ هُوَ دُونَهُ عَلَيْهِ

Hesaww said: ‘O Ibn Abbas! Yes. A people would be mentioning they are from mysaww community, Allahazwj will not Make for them any share in Al-Islam. O Ibn Abbas! From a sign of their hatred for himasws is preferring one who is below himasws, over himasws.

وَ الَّذِي بَعَثَنِي بِالْحَقِّ نَبِيّاً مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ‏ نَبِيّاً أَكْرَمَ عَلَيْهِ مِنِّي وَ مَا خَلَقَ وَصِيّاً أَكْرَمَ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ وَصِيِّي عَلِيٍّ

By the Oneazwj Who Sent mesaww with the truth as a Prophetsaww! Allahazwj has not Created any Prophetas more prestigious to Himazwj than mesaww, and Heazwj has not Created any successorasws more prestigious to Himazwj than mysaww successorasws Aliasws’.

قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ فَلَمْ أَزَلْ لَهُ كَمَا أَمَرَنِي بِهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ وَصَّانِي بِمَوَدَّتِهِ وَ أَنَّهُ لَأَكْبَرُ عَمَلٍ عِنْدَهُ

Ibn Abbas said, ‘I did not cease to be for himasws just as Rasool-Allahsaww had instructed me with and had advised mesaww with being cordial to himasws, and it was the greatest of the deeds in hissaww presence’.

قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ ثُمَّ قَضَى مِنَ الزَّمَانِ وَ حَضَرَتْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص الْوَفَاةُ فَحَضَرْتُهُ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ فِدَاكَ أَبِي وَ أُمِّي يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَدْ دَنَا أَجَلُكَ فَمَا تَأْمُرُنِي

Ibn Abbas said, ‘Then some time passed and the expiry presented to Rasool-Allahsaww, so I presented to himsaww. I said to himsaww, ‘May my father and my mother be sacrificed for yousaww, O Rasool-Allahsaww! Yoursaww term has drawn nearer, so what do yousaww instruct me?’

فَقَالَ يَا ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ خَالِفْ مَنْ خَالَفَ عَلِيّاً وَ لَا تَكُونَنَّ عَلَيْهِ ظَهِيراً وَ لَا وَلِيّاً قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَلِمَ لَا تَأْمُرُ النَّاسَ بِتَرْكِ مُخَالَفَتِهِ

Hesaww said: ‘O Ibn Abbas! Oppose the one who opposes Aliasws, and do not become a backer against himasws, nor a friend (for others against himasws’. I said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Why did yousaww not order the people with leaving hisasws adversaries?’

قَالَ فَبَكَى ص حَتَّى أُغْمِيَ عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ سَبَقَ الْكِتَابُ فِيهِمْ وَ عِلْمُ رَبِّي وَ الَّذِي بَعَثَنِي بِالْحَقِّ نَبِيّاً لَا يَخْرُجُ أَحَدٌ مِمَّنْ خَالَفَهُ وَ أَنْكَرَ حَقَّهُ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا حَتَّى يُغَيِّرَ اللَّهُ مَا بِهِ مِنْ نِعْمَةٍ

He (the narrator) said, ‘Hesaww cried until there was faintness upon himsaww, then said: ‘O Ibn Abbas! The Book has preceded regarding them, and Knowledge of mysaww Lordazwj. By the Oneazwj Who Sent mesaww with the truth as a Prophetsaww! No one from the ones who oppose himasws will exit from the world until Allahazwj Changes whatever bounties there are with him.

يَا ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ إِنْ أَرَدْتَ وَجْهَ اللَّهِ وَ لِقَاءَهُ وَ هُوَ عَنْكَ رَاضٍ فَاسْلُكْ طَرِيقَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ مِلْ مَعَهُ حَيْثُ مَا مَالَ وَ ارْضَ بِهِ إِمَاماً وَ عَادِ مَنْ عَادَاهُ وَ وَالِ مَنْ وَالاهُ

O Ibn Abbas! If you intend the Face of Allahazwj and meeting Himazwj and Heazwj is Pleased from you, then travel the path of Ali Bin Abu Talibasws and incline with himasws wherever heasws inclines, and be pleased with himasws as an Imamasws, and be inimical to the one who is inimical to himasws, and befriend the one who befriends himasws.

يَا ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ احْذَرْ أَنْ يَدْخُلَكَ شَكٌّ فِيهِ فَإِنَّ الشَّكَّ فِي عَلِيٍّ كُفْرٌ.

O Ibn Abbas! Be cautious of the doubt regarding himasws entering into you, for the doubter regarding Aliasws - (indeed) is a Kafir’’.

أَقُولُ وَجَدْتُ مَنْقُولًا مِنْ خَطِّ شَيْخِنَا الشَّهِيدِ قَدَّسَ اللَّهُ رُوحَهُ رَوَى الدَّارَقُطْنِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ الْقَاضِي الرَّازِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي حَرْبٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيِ‏ بْنِ أُسَامَةَ مِنْ وُلْدِ أُسَامَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيِّ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ هِنْدٍ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنْ خَدِيجَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ‏ إِنَّ اللَّهَ أَعْطَانِي فِي عَلِيٍّ خِصَالًا تِسْعاً ثَلَاثاً فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ ثَلَاثاً فِي الْآخِرَةِ وَ ثَلَاثاً اثْنَتَانِ أَنَا مِنْهُمَا آمِنٌ وَ وَاحِدَةٌ أَنَا مِنْهَا وَجِلٌ

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘It is transmitted from the handwriting of our sheykh the martyr, ‘It is reported by Al Daraqutni, from Muhammad Bin Sa’ad the judge, Al Razi from Abdullah Bin Abu Harb, from Muhammad Bin Ali Bin Usama, from a son of Usama Bin Zayd, from his father, from Sufran Al Sowry, from Dawood Bin Hind, from Al Shaie, from Ibn Abbas,

‘From (Syeda) Khadeejaasws having said: ‘Iasws heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Allahazwj has Given mesaww nine characteristics regarding Aliasws in the world, and three in the Hereafter, two of the three, Isaww am secure from these, and one Isaww am apprehensive from it’.

قَالَتْ خَدِيجَةُ بِأَبِي أَنْتَ وَ أُمِّي أَخْبِرْنِي بِهَذِهِ التِّسْعَةِ مَا هِيَ

(Syeda) Khadeejaasws said: ‘May myasws father and myasws mother be (sacrificed) for yousaww! Inform measws with these nine, what are these?’

قَالَ لَهَا النَّبِيُّ ص أَمَّا الثَّلَاثُ الَّتِي فِي الدُّنْيَا يَقْضِي دَيْنِي وَ يُنْجِزُ مَوْعِدِي وَ يَسْتُرُ عَوْرَتِي

The Prophetsaww said to herasws: ‘As for the three which are in the world – heasws will pay back mysaww debts, and fulfil mysaww promises, and veil mysaww bareness.

وَ أَمَّا الثَّلَاثُ الَّتِي فِي الْآخِرَةِ فَمُتَّكَئِي يَوْمَ تَحِلُّ شَفَاعَتِي وَ الْقَائِمُ عَلَى حَوْضِي وَ قَائِدُ أُمَّتِي إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ

And as for the three in the Hereafter – Heasws will be reclining on a day releasing mysaww intercession, and the one standing at mysaww Fountain, and guide of mysaww community to the Paradise.

وَ أَمَّا الِاثْنَتَانِ الَّتِي أَنَا مِنْهُمَا آمِنٌ فَلَا يَرْجِعُ ضَالًّا بَعْدَ هُدًى وَ لَا يَمُوتُ حَتَّى يُعْطِيَنِي رَبِّي فِيهِ الَّذِي وَعَدَنِي وَ أَمَّا الْوَاحِدَةُ الَّتِي أَنَا مِنْهَا وَجِلٌ فَمَا يَصْنَعُ بِهِ قُرَيْشٌ بَعْدِي‏.

And as for the two which Isaww am secure from these – heasws will not return to straying after guidance, and will not die until mysaww Lordazwj Gives mesaww which Heazwj Promised mesaww. And as for the one which Isaww am apprehensive from – what Quraysh will do with himasws after mesaww’’. ⁸¹

باب 3 تمهيد غصب الخلافة و قصة الصحيفة الملعونة

CHAPTER 3 – PREAMBLE TO USURPATION OF THE CALIPHATE, AND STORY OF THE ACCURSED AGREEMENT

1- كا، الكافي الْعِدَّةُ عَنْ سَهْلٍ عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْجَرِيرِيِّ عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ حَصِيرَةَ الْأَسَدِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: كُنْتُ دَخَلْتُ مَعَ أَبِي الْكَعْبَةَ فَصَلَّى عَلَى الرُّخَامَةِ الْحَمْرَاءِ بَيْنَ الْعَمُودَيْنِ فَقَالَ فِي هَذَا الْمَوْضِعِ تَعَاقَدَ الْقَوْمُ إِنْ مَاتَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ لَا يَرُدُّوا هَذَا الْأَمْرَ فِي أَحَدٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ أَبَداً

Al Kafi – The number, from Sahl, from Ibn Al Fazzal, from Sufyan Bin Ibrahim Al Jareery, from Al Haris Bin Haseyra Al Asady,

‘From Abu Ja’farasws having said: ‘Iasws entered the Kabah along with myasws fatherasws. Heasws prayed Salat at the red marble between the two pillars. Heasws said to measws: ‘This is the place the group vowed that if Rasool-Allahsaww dies, this command (caliphate) will not be returned to be in anyone from Peopleasws of hissaww Household, ever!’

قَالَ قُلْتُ وَ مَنْ كَانَ قَالَ الْأَوَّلُ وَ الثَّانِي وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ وَ سَالِمُ بْنُ الْحَبِيبَةِ.

Heasws said: ‘Iasws said: ‘And who were they?’ Heasws said: ‘The first (Abu Bakr), and the second (Umar), and Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah, and Saalim Bin Al-Habeeba (Mawla)’’.82

2- فس، تفسير القمي أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ وَ بَكْرِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ قَالا حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ع عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ‏ إِنَّمَا النَّجْوى‏ مِنَ الشَّيْطانِ‏ قَالَ الثَّانِي

Tafseer Al Qummi – Ahmad Bin Idrees, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Abu Nakr Al Hazrami, and Bakr Bin Abu Bakr who both said, ‘We were narrated to by Suleyman Bin Khalid who said,

‘I asked Abu Ja’farasws about the Words of Allahazwj But rather, the secret counsels are from the Satan [58:10], heasws said: ‘The second one (Umar)’.

قَوْلُهُ‏ ما يَكُونُ مِنْ نَجْوى‏ ثَلاثَةٍ إِلَّا هُوَ رابِعُهُمْ‏ قَالَ فُلَانٌ وَ فُلَانٌ وَ أَبُو فُلَانٍ أَمِينُهُمْ حِينَ اجْتَمَعُوا وَ دَخَلُوا الْكَعْبَةَ فَكَتَبُوا بَيْنَهُمْ كِتَاباً إِنْ مَاتَ مُحَمَّدٌ أَنْ لَا يَرْجِعَ الْأَمْرُ فِيهِمْ أَبَداً.

And Hisazwj Words: There does not happen to be a secret counsel of three, except He is their fourth one [58:7], heasws said: ‘So and so, and so and so (Abu Bakr and Umar) and the son of so and so (Abdul Rahman Ibn Awf) was their trustee, when they gathered and entered the Kabah. So they wrote between them an agreement, ‘If Muhammadsaww were to die, they would not let the command to return among them, ever!’’⁸³

3- إِرْشَادُ الْقُلُوبِ، بِحَذْفِ الْأَسْنَادِ قَالَ: لَمَّا اسْتُخْلِفَ عُثْمَانُ بْنُ‏ عَفَّانَ آوَى إِلَيْهِ عَمَّهُ الْحَكَمَ بْنَ الْعَاصِ وَ وَلَدَهُ مَرْوَانَ وَ الْحَارِثَ بْنَ الْحَكَمِ وَ وَجَّهَ عُمَّالَهُ فِي الْأَمْصَارِ وَ كَانَ فِيمَنْ وَجَّهَ عُمَرُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ أَبِي الْعَاصِ بْنِ أُمَيَّةَ إِلَى مُشْكَانَ وَ الْحَارِثُ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ إِلَى الْمَدَائِنِ

(The book) ‘Irshad Al Quloob’ – By the deleted chain, (the author Al Daylami) said,

‘When Usman Bin Affan became caliph, there sheltered to him Al-Hakam Bin Al-Aas, and his son Marwan, and Al-Haris Bin Al-Hakam, and he sent his office bearers in the (various) cities, and among the ones sent was Umar Bin Sufyan Bin Al-Mugheira Bin Abu Al-Aas Bin Umayya to Mushkan, and Al-Haris Bin Al-Hakam to Al-Madain.

فَأَقَامَ فِيهَا مُدَّةً يَتَعَسَّفُ أَهْلَهَا وَ يُسِي‏ءُ مُعَامَلَتَهُمْ فَوَفَدَ مِنْهُمْ إِلَى عُثْمَانَ وَفْدٌ شَكَوْا إِلَيْهِ وَ أَعْلَمُوهُ بِسُوءِ مَا يُعَامِلُهُمْ بِهِ وَ أَغْلَظُوا عَلَيْهِ فِي الْقَوْلِ

He stayed in it for a period abusing its inhabitants and spoiling their affairs. So, they sent a delegation from them to Usman, a delegation complaining to him, and they let him know of the evil of what evil office bearers he had send with, and that they had been harsh upon in the word.

فَوَلَّى حُذَيْفَةَ بْنَ الْيَمَانِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ ذَلِكَ فِي آخِرِ أَيَّامِهِ فَلَمْ يَنْصَرِفْ حُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِ مِنَ الْمَدَائِنِ إِلَى أَنْ قُتِلَ عُثْمَانُ وَ اسْتُخْلِفَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَأَقَامَ حُذَيْفَةَ عَلَيْهَا وَ كَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ‏

So he made Huzeyfa Bin Al-Yaman in charge upon them, and that was during the end of his days. Huzeyfa Bin Al-Yaman did not leave from Al Madain until the killing of Usman and Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws became caliph. Huzeyfa stayed upon it, and heasws wrote to him: -

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ‏ مِنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلِيٍّ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع إِلَى حُذَيْفَةَ بْنِ الْيَمَانِ سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكَ فَإِنِّي وَلَّيْتُكَ مَا كُنْتَ تَلِيهِ لِمَنْ كَانَ قَبْلُ مِنْ حَرْفِ الْمَدَائِنِ وَ قَدْ جَعَلْتُ إِلَيْكَ أَعْمَالَ الْخَرَاجِ وَ الرُّسْتَاقِ وَ جِبَايَةَ أَهْلِ الذِّمَّةِ

‘In the Name of Allahazwj the Beneficent, the Merciful. From a servant of Allahazwj Aliasws, Amir Al-Momineenasws, to Huzeyfa Bin Al-Yamani. The greetings be upon you! Iasws make you to be in-charge what you have been in-charge upon, for the one who was before, from a word of Al-Madain, and Iasws have made to you the workings of the taxes, and the districts, and the levies of the people under the responsibility.

فَاجْمَعْ إِلَيْكَ ثِقَاتِكَ وَ مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ مِمَّنْ تَرْضَى دِينَهُ وَ أَمَانَتَهُ وَ اسْتَعِنْ بِهِمْ عَلَى أَعْمَالِكَ فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ أَعَزُّ لَكَ وَ لِوَلِيِّكَ وَ أَكْبَتُ لِعَدُوِّكَ وَ إِنِّي آمُرُكَ بِتَقْوَى اللَّهِ وَ طَاعَتِهِ فِي السِّرِّ وَ الْعَلَانِيَةِ

Gather your trustworthy ones to you and the ones who love you, from the ones you are pleased with in his religion, and his entrustments, and be assisted with them upon your work, for that would be a strength for you, and for your friends, and suppress your enemies. Iasws instruct you to be with the fear of Allahazwj and to be obedient to Himazwj in the private as well as in the open.

فَاحْذَرْ عِقَابَهُ فِي الْمَغِيبِ وَ الْمَشْهَدِ وَ أَتَقَدَّمُ إِلَيْكَ بِالْإِحْسَانِ إِلَى الْمُحْسِنِ وَ الشِّدَّةِ عَلَى الْمُعَانِدِ وَ آمُرُكَ بِالرِّفْقِ فِي أُمُورِكَ وَ اللِّينِ وَ الْعَدْلِ فِي رَعِيَّتِكَ فَإِنَّكَ مَسْئُولٌ عَنْ ذَلِكَ وَ إِنْصَافِ الْمَظْلُومِ وَ الْعَفْوِ عَنِ النَّاسِ وَ حُسْنِ السِّيرَةِ مَا اسْتَطَعْتَ فَاللَّهُ يَجْزِي الْمُحْسِنِينَ

Be cautious of Hisazwj Punishment in the hidden and the apparent, and advance to yourself with the goodness to the good doer, and the difficulty upon the obstinate; and Iasws instruct you to be with the kindness in your affairs, and the leniency, and the justice among your citizens, for you will be questioned about that (on the Day of Qiyamah), and the fairness to the oppressed, and the pardoning the people, and goodly ways, whatever you are able to, for Allahazwj will Recompense the good doer.

وَ آمُرُكَ أَنْ تَجْبِيَ خَرَاجَ الْأَرَضِينَ عَلَى الْحَقِّ وَ النَّصَفَةِ وَ لَا تَتَجَاوَزْ مَا تَقَدَّمْتُ بِهِ إِلَيْكَ وَ لَا تَدَعْ مِنْهُ شَيْئاً وَ لَا تَبْتَدِعْ فِيهِ أَمْراً ثُمَّ اقْسِمْهُ بَيْنَ أَهْلِهِ بِالسَّوِيَّةِ وَ الْعَدْلِ وَ اخْفِضْ لِرَعِيَّتِكَ جَنَاحَكَ وَ وَاسِ بَيْنَهُمْ فِي مَجْلِسِكَ وَ لْيَكُنِ الْقَرِيبُ وَ الْبَعِيدُ عِنْدَكَ فِي الْحَقِّ سَوَاءً

And Iasws instruct you that you obligate the land tax upon the truth, and the fairness, and not to overlook what is forwarded with to you, and do not leave anything from it, and do not innovate any matter in it. Then distribute it among its rightful ones with the fairness, and the justice, and lower your wings (be humble) to your citizens, and treat them equally in your gathering, and let the near one and the far one be the same regarding the rights.

وَ احْكُمْ‏ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ بِالْحَقِ‏ وَ أَقِمْ فِيهِمْ بِالْقِسْطِ وَ لا تَتَّبِعِ الْهَوى‏ وَ لَا تَخَفْ فِي اللَّهِ لَوْمَةَ لَائِمٍ فَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ اتَّقَوْا وَ الَّذِينَ هُمْ مُحْسِنُونَ‏

And judge between the people with the truth, and stand among them with the equity, and do not follow the whims, and do not fear any accusation of an accuser regarding Allahazwj, Surely, Allah is with those who are pious and those who are good doers [16:128].

وَ قَدْ وَجَّهْتُ إِلَيْكَ كِتَاباً لِتَقْرَأَهُ عَلَى أَهْلِ مَمْلَكَتِكَ لِيَعْلَمُوا رَأْيَنَا فِيهِمْ وَ فِي جَمِيعِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ فَأَحْضِرْهُمْ وَ اقْرَأْ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ خُذِ الْبَيْعَةَ لَنَا عَلَى الصَّغِيرِ وَ الْكَبِيرِ مِنْهُمْ إِنِ شَاءَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى

And Iasws am sending a (second) letter to you for you to read it to the people of your kingdom for them to know ourasws view regarding them, and regarding the entirety of the Muslims. So, present them and read it out to them, and take the allegiance for usasws upon the young and the old from them, if Allahazwj the Exalted so Desires’.

فَلَمَّا وَصَلَ عَهْدُ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع إِلَى حُذَيْفَةَ جَمَعَ النَّاسَ فَصَلَّى بِهِمْ ثُمَّ أَمَرَ بِالْكِتَابِ فَقُرِئَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ هُوَ

When the pact of Amir Al Momineenasws arrived to Huzeyfa, he gathered the people and prayed Salat (leading) them, then he instructed with the letter and read it to them, and it is: -

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ‏ مِنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَلِيٍّ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِلَى مَنْ بَلَغَهُ كِتَابِي هَذَا مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ سَلَامٌ عَلَيْكُمْ فَإِنِّي أَحْمَدُ إِلَيْكُمُ اللَّهَ الَّذِي لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ وَ أَسْأَلُهُ أَنْ يُصَلِّيَ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ

In the Name of Allahazwj the Beneficent, the Merciful. From a servant of Allahazwj Ali Amir Al-Momineenasws to the one from the Muslims whom this letter of mineasws reaches. Greetings be upon you all! Iasws am praising to you - Allahazwj Who there is no god except Heazwj, and Iasws ask Himazwj to Send Salawat upon Muhammadsaww and hissaww Progenyasws.

فَأَمَّا بَعْدُ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى اخْتَارَ الْإِسْلَامَ دِيناً لِنَفْسِهِ وَ مَلَائِكَتِهِ وَ رُسُلِهِ وَ إِحْكَاماً لِصُنْعِهِ وَ حُسْنِ تَدْبِيرِهِ وَ نَظَراً مِنْهُ لِعِبَادِهِ وَ خَصَّ مِنْهُ مَنْ أَحَبَّ مِنْ خَلْقِهِ فَبَعَثَ إِلَيْهِمْ مُحَمَّداً ص

As for after, verily Allahazwj Chose Al Islam as a Religion for Himselfazwj, and Hisazwj Angels, and Hisazwj Rasoolsas, and Judgments to be carried out, and goodness of its arrangement, and a warning from Himazwj to Hisazwj servants, and a Specialisation from Himazwj to the ones from Hisazwj creatures Heazwj Loves, so Heazwj Sent Muhammadsaww to them.

فَعَلَّمَهُمُ الْكِتَابَ وَ الْحِكْمَةَ إِكْرَاماً وَ تَفَضُّلًا لِهَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ وَ أَدَّبَهُمْ لِكَيْ يَهْتَدُوا وَ جَمَعَهُمْ لِئَلَّا يَتَفَرَّقُوا وَ فَقَّهَهُمْ لِئَلَّا يَجُورُوا فَلَمَّا قَضَى مَا كَانَ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ ذَلِكَ مَضَى إِلَى رَحْمَةِ رَبِّهِ حَمِيداً مَحْمُوداً

Hesaww taught them the Book and the wisdom as a prestige and preference for this community, and educated them so they would be guided, and united them lest they separate, and made them understand lest they become tyrannical. When hesaww had fulfilled what was upon himsaww from that, hesaww passed away to the Mercy of hissaww Lordazwj, praising, praised.

ثُمَّ إِنَّ بَعْضَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ أَقَامُوا بَعْدَهُ رَجُلَيْنِ رَضُوا بِهَدْيِهِمَا وَ سِيرَتِهِمَا قَامَا مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ ثُمَّ تَوَفَّاهُمَا اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ ثُمَّ وَلَّوْا بَعْدَهُمَا الثَّالِثَ فَأَحْدَثَ أَحْدَاثاً وَ وَجَدَتِ الْأُمَّةُ عَلَيْهِ فِعَالًا فَاتَّفَقُوا عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ نَقَمُوا مِنْهُ فَغَيَّرُوا

Then some Muslims established two men after himsaww, being pleased with their guidance and their ways. They stayed for as long as Allahazwj Desired, then Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic expired them. Then they made the third as a ruler after the two, and he innovated (many more) innovations, and the community found effectiveness upon him, and they harmonised upon him. Then they were resentful from him, and they changed.

ثُمَّ جَاءُونِي كَتَتَابُعِ الْخَيْلِ فَبَايَعُونِي فَأَنَا أَسْتَهْدِي اللَّهَ بِهُدَاهُ وَ أَسْتَعِينُهُ عَلَى التَّقْوَى أَلَا وَ إِنَّ لَكُمْ عَلَيْنَا الْعَمَلَ بِكِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَ سُنَّةِ نَبِيِّهِ وَ الْقِيَامَ بِحَقِّهِ وَ إِحْيَاءَ سُنَّتِهِ

Then they came to measws like followers of the horse, and pledged allegiance to me. Iasws sought Guidance of Allahazwj with Hisazwj Guidance and sought Hisazwj Assistance upon the piety. Indeed! And for you all, upon usasws, is the acting with the Book of Allahazwj and Sunnah of Hisazwj Prophetsaww, and the standing with hissaww rights, and revive hissaww Sunnah.

وَ النُّصْحَ لَكُمْ بِالْمَغِيبِ وَ الْمَشْهَدِ وَ بِاللَّهِ نَسْتَعِينُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ وَ هُوَ حَسْبُنَا وَ نِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ‏ وَ قَدْ وَلَّيْتُ أُمُورَكُمْ حُذَيْفَةَ بْنَ الْيَمَانِ وَ هُوَ مِمَّنْ أَرْتَضِي بهداه [بِهَدْيِهِ‏] وَ أَرْجُو صَلَاحَهُ وَ قَدْ أَمَرْتُهُ بِالْإِحْسَانِ إِلَى مُحْسِنِكُمْ وَ الشِّدَّةِ عَلَى مُرِيبِكُمْ وَ الرِّفْقِ بِجَمِيعِكُمْ

And the good advice to you all, the absentee and the one present, and by Allahazwj weasws are Assisted upon that, and Heazwj Suffices usasws and is the best of the guarantors; and Iasws have made Huzeyfa Bin Al-Yaman to be in-charge of your affairs, and he is from the ones Iasws am pleased with his guidance and Iasws am hopeful of his righteousness, and Iasws have instructed him with the goodness to the good doer, and the harshness of your doubtful ones, and the kindness with the entirety of you.

أَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ لَنَا وَ لَكُمْ حُسْنَ الْخِيَرَةِ وَ الْإِحْسَانَ وَ رَحْمَتَهُ الْوَاسِعَةَ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ وَ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَ رَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَ بَرَكَاتُهُ

Iasws ask Allahazwj for usasws and for you all, the good choice and the good deeds, and Hisazwj extensive Mercy in the world and the Hereafter. And the greetings be upon you, and Mercy of Allahazwj and Hisazwj Blessings’.

قَالَ ثُمَّ إِنِ حُذَيْفَةَ صَعِدَ الْمِنْبَرَ فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَ أَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ وَ صَلَّى عَلَى النَّبِيِّ وَ آلِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي أَحْيَا الْحَقَّ وَ أَمَاتَ الْبَاطِلَ وَ جَاءَ بِالْعَدْلِ وَ أَدْحَضَ الْجَوْرَ وَ كَبَتَ الظَّالِمِينَ

He (the narrator) said, ‘Then Huzeyfa ascended the pulpit and he praised Allahazwj and extolled upon Himazwj and sent Salawat upon the Prophetsaww and hissaww Progenyasws, then said, ‘The Praise is for Allahazwj Who Revived the truth and Killed the falsehood, and Came with the justice and Demolished the tyranny, and Suppressed the oppressors.

أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ‏ إِنَّما وَلِيُّكُمُ اللَّهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ‏ وَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ حَقّاً حَقّاً وَ خَيْرُ مَنْ نَعْلَمُهُ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّنَا مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ أَوْلَى النَّاسِ بِالنَّاسِ وَ أَحَقُّهُمْ بِالْأَمْرِ وَ أَقْرَبُهُمْ إِلَى الصِّدْقِ وَ أَرْشَدُهُمْ إِلَى الْعَدْلِ وَ أَهْدَاهُمْ سَبِيلًا وَ أَدْنَاهُمْ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَسِيلَةً وَ أَمَسَّهُمْ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص رَحِماً أَنِيبُوا إِلَى طَاعَةِ

O you people! But rather, your Guardian is Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww and Amir Al-Momineenasws, truly, truly, and good is the one who knows himasws after our Prophetsaww Muhammadsaww, Rasool-Allahsaww, and is the foremost of the people with the people, and most rightful of them with the common-man, and the closest of them to the truthfulness, and most guiding of them to the justice, and guiding them to the way, and the closest of them to Allahazwj as an intermediary, and their most touching of them with Rasool-Allahsaww in mercy, the most turning to obedience.

أَوَّلِ النَّاسِ سِلْماً وَ أَكْثَرِهِمْ عِلْماً وَ أَقْصَدِهِمْ طَرِيقاً وَ أَسْبَقِهِمْ إِيمَاناً وَ أَحْسَنِهِمْ يَقِيناً وَ أَكْثَرِهِمْ مَعْرُوفاً وَ أَقْدَمِهِمْ جِهَاداً وَ أَعَزِّهِمْ مَقَاماً أَخِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ ابْنِ عَمِّهِ وَ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ وَ زَوْجِ الزَّهْرَاءِ الْبَتُولِ سَيِّدَةِ نِسَاءِ الْعَالَمِينَ

The first of the people in peace, and the most abundant of them in knowledge, and the most moderate of them in ways, and most preceding of them in Eman, and best of them in certainty, and most abundant of them in acts of kindness, and most advanced of them in Jihaad, and most honourable of them in position, brotherasws of Rasool-Allahsaww and sonasws of hissaww uncleas, and fatherasws of Al-Hassanasws and Al-Husaynasws, and husband of (Syeda) Al-Zahraasws the chaste, chieftess of the women of the worlds.

فَقُومُوا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ فَبَايِعُوا عَلَى كِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَ سُنَّةِ نَبِيِّهِ ص فَإِنَّ لِلَّهِ فِي ذَلِكَ رِضًى وَ لَكُمْ مَقْنَعٌ وَ صَلَاحٌ وَ السَّلَامُ

Arise, O people, and pledge allegiance upon the Book of Allahazwj and Sunnah of Hisazwj Prophetsaww, for there is Pleasure of Allahazwj in that, and for you would be a covering (protection), and correctness, and the peace’.

فَقَامَ النَّاسُ بِأَجْمَعِهِمْ فَبَايَعُوا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع أَحْسَنَ بَيْعَةٍ وَ أَجْمَعَهَا فَلَمَّا اسْتَتَمَّتِ الْبَيْعَةُ قَامَ إِلَيْهِ فَتًى مِنْ أَبْنَاءِ الْعَجَمِ وَ وُلَاةِ الْأَنْصَارِ لِمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عُمَارَةَ بْنِ التَّيِّهَانِ أخو أبو [أَخِي أَبِي‏] الْهَيْثَمِ بْنِ التَّيِّهَانِ يُقَالُ لَهُ مُسْلِمٌ مُتَقَلِّداً سَيْفاً فَنَادَاهُ مِنْ أَقْصَى النَّاسِ أَيُّهَا الْأَمِيرُ إِنَّا سَمِعْنَاكَ تَقُولُ‏ إِنَّما وَلِيُّكُمُ اللَّهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ‏ وَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ حَقّاً حَقّاً تَعْرِيضاً بِمَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَهُ مِنَ الْخُلَفَاءِ

The people stood up in their entirety and they pledged allegiance to Amir Al-Momineenasws, a goodly allegiance, and were united. When the allegiance was completed, there stood up to him a youth from the sons of non-Arabs and rulers of the helpers of Muhammad Bin Umara Bin Al-Tayhan, brother of Abu Al-Haysam Bin Al-Tayhan, called Muslim, collaring a sword, and called out from the ends of the people, ‘O you commander! I heard you saying, ‘But rather your Guardian is Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww and Amir Al-Momineenasws, truly, truly’, turning away from the ones from the caliphs who were before himasws.

أَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَكُونُوا أُمَرَاءَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ حَقّاً فَعَرِّفْنَا ذَلِكَ أَيُّهَا الْأَمِيرُ رَحِمَكَ اللَّهُ وَ لَا تَكْتُمْنَا فَإِنَّكَ مِمَّنْ شَهِدَ وَ عَايَنَ وَ نَحْنُ مُقَلِّدُون ذَلِكَ أَعْنَاقَهُمْ وَ اللَّهُ شَاهِدٌ عَلَيْكُمْ فِيمَا تَأْتُونَ بِهِ مِنَ النَّصِيحَةِ لِأُمَّتِكُمْ وَ صِدْقِ الْخَبَرِ عَنْ نَبِيِّكُمْ ص

They did not happen to be commands of the Momineen truly, so make us recognise that, O commander, may Allahazwj have Mercy on you, and do not conceal from us, for you are from the one who attended and saw (Rasool-Allahsaww), and we are followers of that. By Allahazwj! Their necks are witness upon you regarding what advice you are coming with for your community, and truthfulness from your Prophetsaww’.

فَقَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ أَيُّهَا الرَّجُلُ أَمَّا إِذَا سَأَلْتَ وَ فَحَصْتَ هَكَذَا فَاسْمَعْ وَ افْهَمْ مَا أُخْبِرُكَ بِهِ أَمَّا مَنْ تَقَدَّمَ مِنَ الْخُلَفَاءِ قَبْلَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع مِمَّنْ تَسَمَّى أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَإِنَّهُمْ تَسَمَّوْا بِذَلِكَ فَسَمَّاهُمُ النَّاسُ بِذَلِكَ وَ أَمَّا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَإِنَّ جَبْرَئِيلَ ع سَمَّاهُ بِهَذَا الِاسْمِ عَنِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَ شَهِدَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص- عَنْ سَلَامِ جَبْرَئِيلَ ع لَهُ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ كَانَ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص يَدْعُونَهُ فِي حَيَاةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ

Huzeyfa said, ‘O you man! But, when you have asked and examined like this, then listen and understand, I shall inform you with it. As for the ones from the caliphs who preceded before Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, from the ones named as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’, they were named with that (because) the people named them with that, and as for Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, Jibraeelas named himasws with this name, from Allahazwj the Exalted, and Rasool-Allahsaww testified for himasws, from the greeting by Jibraeelas to himasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’, and the companions of Rasool-Allahsaww used to call himasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’ during the lifetime of Rasool-Allahsaww’.

قَالَ الْفَتَى خَبِّرْنَا كَيْفَ كَانَ ذَلِكَ يَرْحَمُكَ اللَّهُ

The youth said, ‘Inform us how that happened, may Allahazwj have Mercy on you’.

قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ إِنَّ النَّاسَ كَانُوا يَدْخُلُونَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص قَبْلَ الْحِجَابِ إِذَا شَاءُوا فَنَهَاهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ يَدْخُلَ أَحَدٌ إِلَيْهِ وَ عِنْدَهُ دِحْيَةُ بْنُ خَلِيفَةَ الْكَلْبِيُّ وَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يُرَاسِلُ قيصرا [قَيْصَرَ] مَلِكَ الرُّومِ وَ بَنِي حَنِيفَةَ وَ مُلُوكَ بَنِي غَسَّانَ عَلَى يَدِهِ وَ كَانَ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع يَهْبِطُ عَلَى صُورَتِهِ وَ لِذَلِكَ نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ يَدْخُلَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ عَلَيْهِ إِذَا كَانَ عِنْدَهُ دِحْيَةُ

Huzeyfa said, ‘The people were entering to see Rasool-Allahsaww before the veiling whenever they so desired to, so Rasool-Allahsaww forbade them, any of them to enter to see himsaww, and in hissaww presence was Dahiya Bin Khalifa Al-Kalby (Jibraeelas), and Rasool-Allahsaww was sending letters to Caesar king of Rome, and clan of Haneefa, and kings of clan of Gassan, upon his hand, and it was Jibraeelas who had descended upon his image, and for that (reason) Rasool-Allahsaww prohibited the Muslims to enter to see himsaww whenever Dahiya was with himsaww’.

قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ وَ إِنِّي أَقْبَلْتُ يَوْماً لِبَعْضِ أُمُورِي إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص مُهَجِّراً رَجَاءَ أَنْ أَلْقَاهُ خَالِياً فَلَمَّا صِرْتُ بِالْبَابِ فَإِذَا أَنَا بِالشَّمْلَةِ قَدْ سُدِلَتْ عَلَى الْبَابِ فَرَفَعْتُهَا وَ هَمَمْتُ بِالدُّخُولِ وَ كَذَلِكَ كُنَّا نَصْنَعُ فَإِذَا أَنَا بِدِحْيَةَ قَاعِدٌ عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ النَّبِيُّ نَائِمٌ وَ رَأْسُهُ فِي حَجْرِ دِحْيَةَ

Huzeyfa said, ‘And one day I came to Rasool-Allahsaww for one of my matters, hoping that I would meet himsaww being alone. When I came to the door, there I was with the covering having had covered upon the door. I raised it and thought of entering, and like that is what we used to do, and there was Dahiya seated in the presence of Rasool-Allahsaww, and the Prophetsaww was sleeping and hissaww head was in a lap of Dahiya.

فَلَمَّا رَأَيْتُهُ انْصَرَفْتُ فَلَقِيَنِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فِي بَعْضِ الطَّرِيقِ فَقَالَ يَا ابْنَ الْيَمَانِ مِنْ أَيْنَ أَقْبَلْتَ قُلْتُ مِنْ عِنْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ وَ مَا ذَا صَنَعْتَ عِنْدَهُ قُلْتُ أَرَدْتُ الدُّخُولَ عَلَيْهِ فِي كَذَا وَ كَذَا فَذَكَرْتُ الْأَمْرَ الَّذِي جِئْتُ لَهُ فَلَمْ يَتَهَيَّأْ لِي ذَلِكَ قَالَ وَ لِمَ قُلْتُ كَانَ عِنْدَهُ دِحْيَةُ الْكَلْبِيُّ

When I saw him, I left. Then, Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws met me in one of the streets. Heasws said: ‘O son of Al-Yaman! From where?’ I turned saying, ‘From the presence of Rasool-Allahsaww’. Heasws said: ‘And what is you done in hissaww presence’. I said, ‘I wanted to enter to see himsaww regarding such and such to mentioned the matter which I had come for to himsaww, but that was not appropriate for me’. Heasws said: ‘And why?’ I said, ‘Dahiya Al-Kalby was with himsaww’.

وَ سَأَلْتُ عَلِيّاً ع مَعُونَتِي عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فِي ذَلِكَ قَالَ فَارْجِعْ مَعِي فَرَجَعْتُ مَعَهُ‏ فَلَمَّا صِرْنَا إِلَى بَابِ بالدار [الدَّارِ] جَلَسْتُ بِالْبَابِ وَ رَفَعَ عَلِيٌّ الشَّمْلَةَ وَ دَخَلَهُ وَ سَلَّمَ فَسَمِعْتُ دِحْيَةَ يَقُولُ وَ عَلَيْكَ السَّلَامُ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ رَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَ بَرَكَاتُهُ

And I asked Aliasws to assist me upon (meeting) Rasool-Allahsaww regarding that. So he returned with me and I returned with himasws. When we came to the door of the house, I sat at the door and Aliasws raised the covering and entered, and greeted. I heard Dahiya saying, ‘And upon youasws be the greetings, O Amir Al-Momineenasws, and Mercy of Allahazwj and Hisazwj Blessings’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ اجْلِسْ فَخُذْ رَأْسَ أَخِيكَ وَ ابْنِ عَمِّكِ مِنْ حَجْرِي فَأَنْتَ أَوْلَى النَّاسِ بِهِ فَجَلَسَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ أَخَذَ رَأْسَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَجَعَلَهُ فِي حَجْرِهِ وَ خَرَجَ دِحْيَةُ مِنَ الْبَيْتِ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ادْخُلْ يَا حُذَيْفَةُ فَدَخَلْتُ وَ جَلَسْتُ

Then he said, ‘Be seated and take the head of yourasws brothersaww and sonsaww of yourasws uncleasws from my lap, for youasws are foremost of the people with it’. Aliasws sat down and held the head of Rasool-Allahsaww and made it to be in hisasws lap, and Dahiya went out from the house. Aliasws said: ‘Enter, O Huzeyfa!’ I entered and sat down.

فَمَا كَانَ بِأَسْرَعَ أَنِ انْتَبَهَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَضَحِكَ فِي وَجْهِ عَلِيٍّ ع ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ مِنْ حَجْرِ مَنْ أَخَذْتَ رَأْسِي فَقَالَ مِنْ حَجْرِ دِحْيَةَ الْكَلْبِيِّ فَقَالَ ذَلِكَ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع فَمَا قُلْتَ لَهُ حِينَ دَخَلْتَ وَ مَا قَالَ لَكَ

Rasool-Allahsaww quickly woke up and chuckled in the face of Aliasws, then said: ‘O Abu Al-Hassanasws! From whose lap did youasws take mysaww head?’ Heasws said: ‘From the lap of Dahiyat Al-Kalby’. Hesaww said: ‘That is Jibraeelas, so what did youasws say to himas when youasws entered, and what did heas say to youasws?’

قَالَ دَخَلْتُ فَسَلَّمْتُ فَقَالَ لِي وَ عَلَيْكَ السَّلَامُ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ رَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَ بَرَكَاتُهُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا عَلِيُّ سَلَّمَتْ عَلَيْكَ مَلَائِكَةُ اللَّهِ وَ سُكَّانُ سَمَاوَاتِهِ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ يُسَلِّمَ عَلَيْكَ أَهْلُ الْأَرْضِ

Heasws said: ‘Iasws entered and greeted. Heas said to measws: ‘The greetings be to youasws, O Amir Al-Momineenasws, and Mercy of Allahazwj and Hisazwj Blessings’. Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘O Aliasws! An Angel of Allahazwj and dweller of Hisazwj skies greeted unto youasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’, from before the people of the earth could greet (as such) unto youasws.

يَا عَلِيُّ إِنَّ جَبْرَئِيلَ ع فَعَلَ ذَلِكَ مِنْ أَمْرِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَ قَدْ أُوحِيَ إِلَيَّ عَنْ رَبِّي عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مِنْ قَبْلِ دُخُولِكَ أَنْ أَفْرِضَ ذَلِكَ عَلَى النَّاسِ وَ أَنَا فَاعِلٌ ذَلِكَ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى

O Aliasws! Jibraeelas did that from a Command of Allahazwj the Exalted and heas has Revealed to mesaww from mysaww Lordazwj Mighty and Majestic from before your entry that Isaww should obligate that upon the people, and Isaww shall be doing that, if Allahazwj the Exalted so Desires’.

فَلَمَّا كَانَ مِنَ الْغَدِ بَعَثَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى نَاحِيَةِ فَدَكَ فِي حَاجَةٍ فَلَبِثْتُ أَيَّاماً فَقَدِمْتُ فَوَجَدْتُ النَّاسَ يَتَحَدَّثُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص أَمَرَ النَّاسَ أَنْ يُسَلِّمُوا عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ أَنَّ جَبْرَئِيلَ أَتَاهُ بِذَلِكَ عَنِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَقُلْتُ صَدَقَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَنَا قَدْ سَمِعْتُ جَبْرَئِيلَ ع يُسَلِّمُ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ حَدَّثْتُهُمُ الْحَدِيثَ

When it was the next morning, Rasool-Allahsaww sent me to around Fadak regarding a need. I waited a few days, and I proceeded and found the people narrating that Rasool-Allahsaww had ordered the people that they should be greeting unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’, and that Jibraeelas had come to himsaww with that from Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic. I said, ‘Rasool-Allahsaww spoke the truth and I had heard Jibraeelas greeting unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineenasws’, and narrated the Hadeeth to them.

فَسَمِعَنِي عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ وَ أَنَا أُحَدِّثُ النَّاسَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ فَقَالَ لِي أَنْتَ رَأَيْتَ جَبْرَئِيلَ وَ سَمِعْتَهُ اتَّقِ الْقَوْلَ فَقَدْ قُلْتَ قَوْلًا عَظِيماً أَوْ قَدْ خُولِطَ بِكَ فَقُلْتُ نَعَمْ أَنَا سَمِعْتُ ذَلِكَ وَ رَأَيْتُهُ فَأَرْغَمَ اللَّهُ أَنْفَ مَنْ رَغِمَ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ رَأَيْتَ وَ سَمِعْتَ عَجَباً

Umar Bin Al-Khattab heard me and I was narrating to the people in the Masjid. He said to be, ‘You saw Jibraeelas and heard himsaww? Fear the words, for you have said a grievous word, or there has been confusion with you’. I said, ‘Yes, I heard himas and saw himas. May Allahazwj Rub the nose of one Heazwj Rubs’. He said, ‘O servant of Allahazwj! You saw and heard a wonder’.

قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ وَ سَمِعَنِي بُرَيْدَةُ بْنُ الْحَصِيبِ الْأَسْلَمِيُ‏ وَ أَنَا أُحَدِّثُ بِبَعْضِ‏ مَا رَأَيْتُ وَ سَمِعْتُ فَقَالَ لِي وَ اللَّهِ يَا ابْنَ الْيَمَانِ لَقَدْ أَمَرَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِالسَّلَامِ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ قُلْتُ يَا بُرَيْدَةُ أَ كُنْتَ شَاهِداً ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمَ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ مِنْ أَوَّلِهِ إِلَى آخِرِهِ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ حَدِّثْنِي بِهِ يَرْحَمُكَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى فَإِنِّي كُنْتُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ غَائِباً

Huzeyfa said, ‘And Bureyda Bin Al-Haseeb Al-Aslami heard me and I was narrating with part of what I had seen and heard. He said, to me, ‘By Allahazwj, O son of Al-Yaman! Rasool-Allahsaww had ordered them with the greeting unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’’. I said, ‘O Bureyda! Were you present on that day?’ He said, ‘Yes, from its beginning to its end’. I said to him, ‘Narrate to me with it, may Allahazwj the Exalted have Mercy on you, for I was absent on that day’.

فَقَالَ بُرَيْدَةُ كُنْتُ أَنَا وَ عَمَّارٌ أَخِي مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فِي نَخِيلِ بَنِي النَّجَّارِ فَدَخَلَ عَلَيْنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَسَلَّمَ فَرَدَّ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ ردنا [رَدَدْنَا] ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُ يَا عَلِيُّ اجْلِسْ هُنَاكَ فَجَلَسَ

Bureyda said, ‘My brother Ammar and I were with Rasool-Allahsaww in a farm house of the clan of Najjar and Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws entered. Heasws greeted and Rasool-Allahsaww returned the greetings, and we returned (as well). Then hesaww said to himasws: ‘O Aliasws! Be seated over there’. Heasws sat down.

وَ دَخَلَ رِجَالٌ فَأَمَرَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِالسَّلَامِ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَسَلَّمُوا وَ مَا كَادُوا ثُمَّ دَخَلَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ فَسَلَّمَا فَقَالَ لَهُمَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص سَلِّمَا عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَقَالا إِنَّ الْأَمْرَ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ

And some men entered, so Rasool-Allahazwj instructed them with the greeting to Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’. They greeted, but they almost did not (out of grudges). Then Abu Bakr and Umar entered, and they greeted. Rasool-Allahsaww said to both of them: ‘Greet unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’’. They said, ‘Is the command from Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww’. Hesaww said: ‘Yes’.

ثُمَّ دَخَلَ طَلْحَةُ وَ سَعْدُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ فَسَلَّمَا فَقَالَ لَهُمَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص سَلِّمَا عَلَى عَلِيٍّ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَقَالا أَمْرٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ قَالا سَمِعْنا وَ أَطَعْنا

Then Talha and Sa’ad Bin Malik entered and they greeted. Rasool-Allahsaww said to them: ‘Greet unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’’. They said, ‘A command from Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww?’ Hesaww said: ‘Yes’. They said, ‘We hear and we obey’.

ثُمَّ دَخَلَ سَلْمَانُ الْفَارِسِيُّ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا فَسَلَّمَا فَرَدَّ عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلَامَ ثُمَّ قَالَ سَلِّمَا عَلَى عَلِيٍّ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَسَلَّمَا وَ لَمْ يَقُولَا شَيْئاً ثُمَّ

Then Salman Al Farsira and Abu Zarr Al-ghifarira entered. Theyra greeted and hesaww returned the greetings to them, then said: ‘Greet unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineenasws’. Theyra greeted (Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineenasws’ ), and did not say anything (without questioning and directly submitting to the orders of Rasool-Allahsaww).

دَخَلَ خُزَيْمَةُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ وَ أَبُو الْهَيْثَمِ التَّيِّهَانُ فَسَلَّمَا فَرَدَّ عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلَامَ ثُمَّ قَالَ سَلِّمَا عَلَى عَلِيٍّ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَسَلَّمَا وَ لَمْ يَقُولَا شَيْئاً

Khuzeyman Bin Sabit and Abu Al-Haseym Al-Tayhan entered and they greeted. Hesaww returned the greeting unto them, then said: ‘Greet unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’’. They greeted and did not say anything.

ثُمَّ دَخَلَ عَمَّارٌ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ فَسَلَّمَا فَرَدَّ عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلَامَ وَ قَالَ سَلِّمَا عَلَى عَلِيٍّ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَفَعَلَا وَ لَمْ يَقُولَا شَيْئاً

Then Ammar and Al-Miqdadra entered and greeted. Hesaww returned the greeting unto them and said: ‘Greet unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’’. They did so and did not say anything.

ثُمَّ دَخَلَ عُثْمَانُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ فَسَلَّمَا فَرَدَّ عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلَامَ ثُمَّ قَالَ سَلِّمَا عَلَى عَلِيٍّ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ قَالا عَنِ اللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ قَالَ نَعَمْ

Then Usman and Abu Ubeyda entered and greeted. Hesaww returned the greeted unto them, then said: ‘Greet unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’. They said, ‘From Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww?’ Hesaww said: ‘Yes’.

ثُمَّ دَخَلَ فُلَانٌ وَ فُلَانٌ وَ عَدَّ جَمَاعَةً مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ كُلَّ ذَلِكَ يَقُولُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص سَلِّمُوا عَلَى عَلِيٍّ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَبَعْضٌ يُسَلِّمُ وَ لَا يَقُولُ شَيْئاً وَ بَعْضٌ يَقُولُ لِلنَّبِيِّ أَ عَنِ اللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ فَيَقُولُ نَعَمْ حَتَّى غَصَّ الْمَجْلِسُ بِأَهْلِهِ وَ امْتَلَأَتِ الْحُجْرَةُ وَ جَلَسَ بَعْضٌ عَلَى الْبَابِ وَ فِي الطَّرِيقِ وَ كَانُوا يَدْخُلُونَ فَيُسَلِّمُونَ وَ يَخْرُجُونَ

Then so and so, and so and so entered, and a number of a group from the Emigrants and the Helpers, (during) all that Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Greet unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’’ Some of them greeted and did not say anything, and some said to the Prophetsaww: ‘Is it from Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww?’ Hesaww said: ‘Yes’, to the extent that the gathering filled up with its people, and the room filled up, and some of them sat at the door, and in the street, and they kept entering and greeting and exiting.

ثُمَّ قَالَ لِي وَ لِأَخِي قُمْ يَا بُرَيْدَةُ أَنْتَ وَ أَخُوكَ فَسَلِّمَا عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ‏ فَقُمْنَا وَ سَلَّمْنَا ثُمَّ عُدْنَا إِلَى مَوَاضِعِنَا

Then hesaww said to me and my brother: ‘Arise, you and your brother, and greet unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’’. We arose and greeted, then we returned to our places.

قَالَ ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَلَيْهِمْ جَمِيعاً فَقَالَ اسْمَعُوا وَ عُوا إِنِّي أَمَرْتُكُمْ أَنْ تُسَلِّمُوا عَلَى عَلِيٍّ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ إِنَّ رِجَالًا سَأَلُونِي أَ ذَلِكَ عَنْ أَمْرِ اللَّهِ وَ أَمْرِ رَسُولِهِ مَا كَانَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ أَنْ يَأْتِيَ أَمْراً مِنْ تِلْقَاءِ نَفْسِهِ بَلْ بِوَحْيِ رَبِّهِ وَ أَمْرِهِ

He (Bureyda) said, ‘Then Rasool-Allahsaww faced towards them all and said: ‘Listen and retain! Isaww am ordering you all that you should be greeting unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’, and that (some) men asked mesaww, ‘Is that from a Command of Allahazwj and order of Hisazwj Rasoolsaww?’ It was not for Muhammadsaww that hesaww comes with any matter from himselfsaww. But it is a Revelation from hissaww Lordazwj and Hisazwj Command.

أَ فَرَأَيْتُمْ وَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَئِنْ أَبَيْتُمْ وَ نَقَضْتُمُوهُ لَتَكْفُرُنَّ وَ لَتُفَارِقُنَّ مَا بَعَثَنِي بِهِ رَبِّي‏ فَمَنْ شاءَ فَلْيُؤْمِنْ وَ مَنْ شاءَ فَلْيَكْفُرْ

By the Oneazwj in Whose Hand is mysaww soul! Don’t you see that if you were to break it, you will be disbelieving and separating from what mysaww Lordazwj Sent mesaww with: So the one who so desires to, let him believe, and the one who so desires to, let him disbelieve’ [18:29].

قَالَ بُرَيْدَةُ فَلَمَّا خَرَجْنَا سَمِعْتُ بَعْضَ أُولَئِكَ الَّذِينَ أُمِرُوا بِالسَّلَامِ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَقُولُ لِصَاحِبِهِ وَ قَدِ الْتَفَتَ بِهِمَا طَائِفَةٌ مِنَ الْجُفَاةِ الْبِطَاءِ عَنِ الْإِسْلَامِ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ أَ مَا رَأَيْتَ مَا صَنَعَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص بِابْنِ عَمِّهِ مِنْ عُلُوِّ الْمَنْزِلَةِ وَ الْمَكَانِ وَ لَوْ يَسْتَطِيعُ وَ اللَّهِ لَجَعَلَهُ نَبِيّاً مِنْ بَعْدِهِ

Bureyda said, ‘When we went out, I heard one of them, those who had been ordered with the greeting unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’, saying to his companion, and a party from the disloyal ones from Quraysh, having been delayed from Al-Islam, ‘Did you not see what Muhammadsaww has done with the sonasws of hissaww uncleas, from a lofty status, and the position, and by Allahazwj, if hesaww had the capacity, hesaww would have made himasws a Prophetas from after himsaww’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ صَاحِبُهُ أَمْسِكْ لَا يَكْبُرَنَّ عَلَيْكَ هَذَا الْأَمْرُ فَلَوْ أَنَّا فَقَدْنَا مُحَمَّداً لَكَانَ فِعْلُهُ هَذَا تَحْتَ أَقْدَامِنَا

His companion said to him, ‘Restrain! Do not let this matter be grievous upon you, for if we were to lose Muhammadsaww, this deed of hissaww would be under our feet’.

فَقَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ وَ مَضَى بُرَيْدَةُ إِلَى بَعْضِ طُرُقِ الشَّامِ وَ رَجَعَ وَ قَدْ قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ بَايَعَ النَّاسُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَأَقْبَلَ بُرَيْدَةُ وَ قَدْ دَخَلَ الْمَسْجِدَ وَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ وَ عُمَرُ دُونَهُ بِمِرْقَاةٍ فَنَادَاهُمَا مِنْ نَاحِيَةِ الْمَسْجِدِ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَ يَا عُمَرُ قَالا وَ مَا لَكَ يَا بُرَيْدَةُ أَ جُنِنْتَ

Huzeyfa said, ‘And Bureyda went to one of the roads of Syria and returned, and Rasool-Allahsaww had passed away, and the people had pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr. Bureyda came and entered the Masjid and Abu Bakr was upon the pulpit, and Umar was below him by a step. He called out to them from a corner of the Masjid, ‘O Abu Bakr and O Umar!’ They said, ‘And what is the matter with you, O Bureyda! Have you become mad?’

فَقَالَ لَهُمَا وَ اللَّهِ مَا جُنِنْتُ وَ لَكِنْ أَيْنَ سَلَامُكُمَا بِالْأَمْسِ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ يَا بُرَيْدَةُ الْأَمْرُ يَحْدُثُ بَعْدَهُ الْأَمْرُ وَ إِنَّكَ غِبْتَ وَ شَهِدْنَا وَ الشَّاهِدُ يَرَى مَا لَا يَرَى الْغَائِبُ

He said to them, ‘By Allahazwj! I have not gone mad, but where is your greeting yesterday unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’?’ Abu Bakr said to him, ‘O Bureyda! The matter has brought about a new matter, and you were absent, and we were present, and the one present sees what the absentee cannot see’.

فَقَالَ لَهُمَا رَأَيْتُمَا مَا لَمْ يَرَهُ اللَّهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ وَ وَفَى لَكَ صَاحِبُكَ بِقَوْلِهِ لَوْ فَقَدْنَا مُحَمَّداً لَكَانَ قَوْلُهُ هَذَا تَحْتَ أَقْدَامِنَا أَلَا إِنَّ الْمَدِينَةَ حَرَامٌ عَلَيَّ أَنْ أَسْكُنَهَا أَبَداً حَتَّى أَمُوتَ

He said to them, ‘You two saw what Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww did not see? And your companion has been loyal to his words, ‘If we were to lose Muhammadsaww, hissaww words would be under our feet’. Indeed! Al-Medina is prohibited unto me that I dwell in it, ever, until I die!’

فَخَرَجَ بُرَيْدَةُ بِأَهْلِهِ وَ وُلْدِهِ فَنَزَلَ بَيْنَ قَوْمِهِ بَنِي أَسْلَمَ فَكَانَ يَطْلُعُ فِي الْوَقْتِ دُونَ الْوَقْتِ فَلَمَّا أَفْضَى الْأَمْرُ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع سَارَ إِلَيْهِ وَ كَانَ مَعَهُ حَتَّى قَدِمَ الْعِرَاقَ فَلَمَّا أُصِيبَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع صَارَ إِلَى خُرَاسَانَ فَنَزَلَهَا وَ لَبِثَ هُنَاكَ إِلَى أَنْ مَاتَ بِرَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى

Bureyda went out with his wife and his children and ledged between his people, the clan of Aslam, and he used to emerge during the time besides the time (occasionally). When the command passed to Amir Al-Momineenasws, he came to himasws and was with himasws until heasws proceeded to Al-Iraq. When Amir Al-Momineenasws was struck, he went to Khurasan and dwelled in it, and stayed over there until he died, by the Mercy of Allahazwj the Exalted’.

قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ فَهَذَا نَبَأُ مَا سَأَلْتَنِي عَنْهُ فَقَالَ الْفَتَى لَا جَزَى اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ شَهِدُوا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ سَمِعُوهُ يَقُولُ هَذَا القَوْلَ فِي عَلِيٍّ خَيْراً فَقَدْ خَانُوا اللَّهَ وَ رَسُولَهُ‏ وَ أَزَالُوا الْأَمْرَ عَنْ وَصِيِّ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَقَرُّوهُ فِيمَنْ لَمْ يَرَهُ اللَّهُ وَ لَا رَسُولُهُ لِذَلِكَ أَهْلًا لَا جَرَمَ وَ اللَّهِ لَنْ يُفْلِحُوا بَعْدَهَا أَبَداً

Huzeyfa said, ‘So this is the news which you had asked me about’. The youth said, ‘May Allahazwj not Recompense goodly those who had witnessed Rasool-Allahsaww saying this word regarding Aliasws, for they have betrayed Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww, and they declined the command from the successorasws of Rasool-Allahsaww, and acknowledged it out among the ones Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww did not see him (acknowledge) to that welcomingly. There is no doubt Allahazwj will never let them succeed after it, ever!’

فَنَزَلَ حُذَيْفَةُ مِنْ مِنْبَرِهِ فَقَالَ يَا أَخَا الْأَنْصَارِ إِنَّ الْأَمْرَ كَانَ أَعْظَمَ مِمَّا تَظُنُّ أَنَّهُ عَزَبَ وَ اللَّهِ الْبَصَرُ وَ ذَهَبَ الْيَقِينُ وَ كَثُرَ الْمُخَالِفُ وَ قَلَّ النَّاصِرُ لِأَهْلِ الْحَقِّ

Huzeyfa descended from his pulpit and said, ‘O brother of the Ansaar! The matter is greater than what you are thinking of. By Allahazwj! The insight is distant, and the conviction is gone, and the adversaries are numerous, and the helpers of the people of truth are few’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ الْفَتَى فَهَلَّا انْتَضَيْتُمْ أَسْيَافَكُمْ وَ وَضَعْتُمُوهَا عَلَى رِقَابِكُمْ وَ ضَرَبْتُمْ بِهَا الزَّائِلِينَ عَنِ الْحَقِّ قُدُماً قُدُماً حَتَّى تَمُوتُوا أَوْ تُدْرِكُوا الْأَمْرَ الَّذِي تُحِبُّونَهُ مِنْ طَاعَةِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ طَاعَةِ رَسُولِهِ

The youth said to him, ‘So unsheathe your swords and place these upon your necks and strike with these the decliners from the truth, moving forward and forwards, until either you die or you come across the matter which you love, from obedience of Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic, and obedience of Hisazwj Rasoolsaww’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ أَيُّهَا الْفَتَى إِنَّهُ أُخِذَ وَ اللَّهِ بِأَسْمَاعِنَا وَ أَبْصَارِنَا وَ كَرِهْنَا الْمَوْتَ وَ زُيِّنَتْ عِنْدَنَا الدُّنْيَا وَ سَبَقَ عِلْمُ اللَّهِ بِإِمْرَةِ الظَّالِمِينَ وَ نَحْنُ نَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ التَّغَمُّدَ لِذُنُوبِنَا وَ الْعِصْمَةَ فِيمَا بَقِيَ مِنْ آجِلِنَا فَإِنَّهُ مَالِكٌ رَحِيمٌ

He said to him, ‘O you youth! By Allahazwj, surely it has seized our names and our sights, and we dislike the death and the world is adorned with us, and the emirate of the oppressors has preceded in the Knowledge of Allahazwj, and we ask Allahazwj of the covering of our sins and the protection during whatever remains of our lives, for Heazwj is a Merciful King’.

ثُمَّ انْصَرَفَ حُذَيْفَةُ إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ وَ تَفَرَّقَ النَّاسُ

Then Huzeyfa left to go to his house, and the people dispersed.

قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ فَبَيْنَا أَنَا ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ عِنْدَ حُذَيْفَةَ أَعُودُهُ فِي مَرَضِهِ الَّذِي مَاتَ فِيهِ وَ قَدْ كَانَ يَوْمَ قَدِمَتْ فِيهِ مِنَ الْكُوفَةِ مِنْ قَبْلِ قُدُومِ عَلِيٍّ ع إِلَى الْعِرَاقِ فَبَيْنَمَا أَنَا عِنْدَهُ إِذْ جَاءَ الْفَتَى الْأَنْصَارِيُّ فَدَخَلَ عَلَى حُذَيْفَةَ فَرَحَّبَ بِهِ وَ أَدْنَاهُ وَ قَرَّبَهُ مِنْ مَجْلِسِهِ وَ خَرَجَ مَنْ كَانَ عِنْدَ حُذَيْفَةَ مِنْ عُوَّادِهِ

Abdullah Bin Salama said, ‘One day I was in the presence of Huzeyfa, consoling him in his illness in which he died, and it was the day in which I had arrived from Al-Kufa, from before the arrival of Aliasws to Al-Iraq. While I was with him when the Ansari youth came and entered to see Huzeyfa. He was welcoming with him, and drew him closer from his seat, and the ones who were with Huzeyfa, from his consolers, went out.

وَ أَقْبَلَ عَلَيْهِ الْفَتَى فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ سَمِعْتُكَ يَوْماً تُحَدِّثُ عَنْ بُرَيْدَةَ بْنِ الْحَصِيبِ الْأَسْلَمِيِّ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ بَعْضَ الْقَوْمِ الَّذِينَ أَمَرَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ يُسَلِّمَا عَلَى عَلِيٍّ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَقُولُ لِصَاحِبِهِ أَ مَا رَأَيْتَ القوم [الْيَوْمَ‏] مَا صَنَعَ مُحَمَّدٌ بِابْنِ عَمِّهِ مِنَ التَّشْرِيفِ وَ عُلُوِّ الْمَنْزِلَةِ حَتَّى لَوْ قَدَرَ أَنْ يَجْعَلَهُ نَبِيّاً لَفَعَلَ

And the youth turned to him and said, ‘One day I heard you narrating from Bureyda Bin Al-Haseeb Al-Aslami that he had heard one of the people, those whom Rasool-Allahsaww had ordered them to greet unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’, saying to his companion, ‘Did you not see today what Muhammadsaww did with the sonasws of hissaww uncleas, and lofty status, until if hesaww had been able to make himasws a Prophetsaww, hesaww would have done so’.

فَأَجَابَهُ صَاحِبُهُ فَقَالَ لَا يَكْبُرَنَّ عَلَيْكَ فَلَوْ فَقَدْنَا مُحَمَّداً لَكَانَ قَوْلُهُ تَحْتَ أَقْدَامِنَا وَ قَدْ ظَنَنْتُ نِدَاءَ بُرَيْدَةَ لَهُمَا وَ هُمَا عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ أَنَّهُمَا صَاحِبَا الْقَوْلِ

His companion replied said, ‘Do not let it be grievous upon you. If we were to lose Muhammadsaww, hissaww words would be under our feet’, and I thought that the call of Bureyda to them both, while they were upon the pulpit, these two (Abu Bakr and Umar) were the speakers of the words’.

قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ أَجَلْ الْقَائِلُ عُمَرُ وَ الْمُجِيبُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَقَالَ الْفَتَى‏ إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَ إِنَّا إِلَيْهِ راجِعُونَ‏ هَلَكَ وَ اللَّهِ الْقَوْمُ وَ بَطَلَتْ أَعْمَالُهُمْ

Huzeyfa said, ‘Yes, the speaker was Umar and the answerer was Abu Bakr’. The youth said, ‘We are from Allahazwj and we are returning to Himazwj! By Allahazwj! The people are destroyed and their deeds are nullified’.

قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ وَ لَمْ يَزَلِ الْقَوْمُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ الِارْتِدَادِ وَ مَا يَعْلَمُ اللَّهُ مِنْهُمْ أَكْثَرُ قَالَ الْفَتَى قَدْ كُنْتُ أُحِبُّ أَنْ أَتَعَرَّفَ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ مِنْ فِعْلِهِمْ وَ لَكِنِّي أَجِدُكَ مَرِيضاً وَ أَنَا أَكْرَهُ أَنْ أَمَلَّكَ بِحَدِيثِي وَ مَسْأَلَتِي وَ قَامَ لِيَنْصَرِفَ

Huzeyfa said, ‘The people did not cease to be reneging upon that, and what Allahazwj Knows from them is more’. The youth said, ‘I used to love to recognise this matter from their deeds, but I find you ill, and I dislike it to make you work by narrating to me and my questioning’, and he stood to leave.

فَقَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ لَا بَلِ اجْلِسْ يَا ابْنَ أَخِي وَ تَلَقَّ مِنِّي حَدِيثَهُمْ وَ إِنْ كَرَبَنِي ذَلِكَ فَلَا أَحْسَبُنِي إِلَّا مُفَارِقَكُمْ إِنِّي لَا أُحِبُّ أَنْ تَغْتَرَّ بِمَنْزِلَتِهِمَا فِي النَّاسِ فَهَذَا مَا أَقْدِرُ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ النَّصِيحَةِ لَكَ وَ لِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع مِنَ الطَّاعَةِ لَهُ وَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ ذِكْرِ مَنْزِلَتِهِ

Huzeyfa said, ‘No, but be seated, O son of my brother, and receive their narration from me, and even if that distresses me, so do not reckon me except separating from you. I do not like you to be deceived by both their status among the people, so this is what I am able upon from the advising to you, and from the acts of obedience to Amir Al-Momineenasws, and to Rasool-Allahsaww’, and mentioned hisasws status.

فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ حَدِّثْنِي بِمَا عِنْدَكَ مِنْ أُمُورِهِمْ لِأَكُونَ عَلَى بَصِيرَةٍ مِنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ إِذاً وَ اللَّهِ لَأُخْبِرَنَّكَ بِخَبَرٍ سَمِعْتُهُ وَ رَأَيْتُهُ وَ لَقَدْ وَ اللَّهِ دَلَّنَا عَلَى ذَلِكَ مِنْ فِعْلِهِمْ عَلَى أَنَّهُمْ وَ اللَّهِ مَا آمَنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَ لَا بِرَسُولِهِ طَرْفَةَ عَيْنٍ

He said, ‘O servant of Allahazwj! Narrate to me with what is with you of their matters so I can happen to be upon an insight from that’. Huzeyfa said, ‘Then, by Allahazwj, I shall inform you with a Hadeeth I have heard and seen, and by Allahazwj, it has been evidenced upon by their deeds upon that they, by Allahazwj, they neither believed in Allahazwj nor in Hisazwj Rasoolsaww, even for the blink of an eye.

وَ أُخْبِرُكَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى أَمَرَ رَسُولَهُ فِي سَنَةِ عَشْرٍ مِنْ مُهَاجَرَتِهِ مِنْ مَكَّةَ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ أَنْ يَحُجَّ هُوَ وَ يَحُجَّ النَّاسُ مَعَهُ فَأَوْحَى إِلَيْهِ بِذَلِكَ‏ وَ أَذِّنْ فِي النَّاسِ بِالْحَجِّ يَأْتُوكَ رِجالًا وَ عَلى‏ كُلِّ ضامِرٍ يَأْتِينَ مِنْ كُلِّ فَجٍّ عَمِيقٍ‏

And I hereby inform you that Allahazwj the Exalted Commanded Hisazwj Rasoolsaww in the year ten from the Emigration from Makkah to Al-Medina, that hesaww goes out to Hajj and the people be with himsaww. Allahazwj Revealed to himsaww with that: And proclaim among the people with the (performance of) Hajj. They would come to you on foot, and upon every lean camel, coming from every deep ravine [22:27].

فَأَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْمُؤَذِّنِينَ فَأَذَّنُوا فِي أَهْلِ السَّافِلِ وَ الْعَالِيَةِ أَلَا إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَدْ عَزَمَ عَلَى الْحَجِّ فِي عَامِهِ هَذَا لِيُفَهِّمَ النَّاسَ حَجَّهُمْ وَ يُعَلِّمَهُمْ مَنَاسِكَهُمْ فَيَكُونَ سُنَّةً لَهُمْ إِلَى آخِرِ الدَّهْرِ

Rasool-Allahsaww ordered the pro-claimers, so they proclaimed among the people of the lower (valleys) and the higher (mountains), ‘Indeed! Rasool-Allahsaww has determine upon (performing) the Hajj during this season of hissaww to let the people understand (performance of) their Hajj, and to teach them their rituals, so it would become a Sunnah for them up to the end of times’.

قَالَ فَلَمْ يَبْقَ أَحَدٌ مِمَّنْ دَخَلَ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ إِلَّا حَجَّ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص لِسَنَةِ عَشْرٍ لِيَشْهَدُوا مَنافِعَ لَهُمْ‏ وَ يُعَلِّمَهُمْ حَجَّهُمْ وَ يُعَرِّفَهُمْ مَنَاسِكَهُمْ وَ خَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِالنَّاسِ وَ خَرَجَ بِنِسَائِهِ مَعَهُ وَ هِيَ حَجَّةُ الْوَدَاعِ

He said, ‘There did not remain anyone from the ones who had entered into Al-Islam, except he performed Hajj along with Rasool-Allahsaww in the year ten, So they would witness the benefits for them [22:28], and know their Hajj and recognise their rituals, and Rasool-Allahsaww went out with the people, and hesaww went out with hissaww womenfolk with himsaww, and it is the farewell Hajj.

فَلَمَّا اسْتَتَمَّ حَجُّهُمْ وَ قَضَوْا مَنَاسِكَهُمْ وَ عَرَّفَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعَ مَا يَحْتَاجُونَ إِلَيْهِ وَ أَعْلَمَهُمْ أَنَّهُ قَدْ أَقَامَ لَهُمْ مِلَّةَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ع وَ قَدْ أَزَالَ عَنْهُمْ جَمِيعَ مَا أَحْدَثَهُ الْمُشْرِكُونَ بَعْدَهُ وَ رَدَّ الْحَجَرَ [الْحَجَ‏] إِلَى حَالَتِهِ الْأُولَى وَ دَخَلَ مَكَّةَ فَأَقَامَ بِهَا يَوْماً وَاحِداً

When their Hajj was completed and they had fulfilled their rituals, and the people in their entirety recognised what they were needy to, and hesaww let them know that hesaww has established for them the Religion of Ibrahimas, and the entirety of what the Polytheists had innovated after himas, is (now) removed from them, and hesaww returned the (Black) Stone to its former state, and hesaww entered Makkah and stayed at it for one day.

فَهَبَطَ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع بِأَوَّلِ سُورَةِ الْعَنْكَبُوتِ فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ اقْرَأْ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ الم أَ حَسِبَ النَّاسُ أَنْ يُتْرَكُوا أَنْ يَقُولُوا آمَنَّا وَ هُمْ لا يُفْتَنُونَ وَ لَقَدْ فَتَنَّا الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ فَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ صَدَقُوا وَ لَيَعْلَمَنَّ الْكاذِبِينَ أَمْ حَسِبَ الَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ السَّيِّئاتِ أَنْ يَسْبِقُونا ساءَ ما يَحْكُمُونَ‏

Jibraeelas descended with the beginning of Surah Ankabout. Heas said: ‘O Muhammadsaww! Read: ‘In the Name of Allahazwj the Beneficent, the Merciful. Alif Lam Meem [29:1] Do the people reckon that they will be left alone on saying, ‘We believe’, and they will not be Tried? [29:2] And We have Tested those from before them. So Allah will Make known those who are truthful and He will Make known the liars [29:3] Or do those who are doing the evil deeds reckon that they can outrun Us? Evil is what they are judging [29:4]’.

فَقَالَ‏ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا جَبْرَئِيلُ وَ مَا هَذِهِ الْفِتْنَةُ

Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘O Jibraeelas! And what is this Fitna (Trial)?’

فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُقْرِئُكَ السَّلَامَ وَ يَقُولُ إِنِّي مَا أَرْسَلْتُ نَبِيّاً قَبْلَكَ إِلَّا أَمَرْتُهُ عِنْدَ انْقِضَاءِ أَجَلِهِ أَنْ يَسْتَخْلِفَ عَلَى أُمَّتِهِ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ مَنْ يَقُومُ مَقَامَهُ وَ يُحْيِي لَهُمْ سُنَّتَهُ وَ أَحْكَامَهُ

Heas said: ‘O Muhammadsaww! Allahazwj Conveys the greetings to yousaww and Says: “Iazwj did not Send any Prophetas before yousaww except Isaww Commanded himas during the termination of hisas term that hesaww should make a caliph to be in hisas community from after himas, one who would stand in hisas place and revive hisas Sunnah for them, and hissaww rulings”.

فَالْمُطِيعُونَ لِلَّهِ فِيمَا يَأْمُرُهُمْ بِهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ هُمُ الصَّادِقُونَ وَ الْمُخَالِفُونَ عَلَى أَمْرِهِ الْكَاذِبُونَ وَ قَدْ دَنَا يَا مُحَمَّدُ مَصِيرُكَ إِلَى رَبِّكَ وَ جَنَّتِهِ وَ هُوَ يَأْمُرُكَ أَنْ تَنْصِبَ لِأُمَّتِكَ مِنْ بَعْدِكَ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع وَ تَعْهَدَ إِلَيْهِ

So the obedient ones to Allahazwj in what Rasool-Allahsaww orders them with, they are the ratifiers, and the adversaries to hissaww orders are the beliers, and O Muhammadsaww, yoursaww journey to yoursaww Lordazwj and Hisazwj Paradise has drawn near, and Heazwj Commands yousaww to nominate for yoursaww community from after yousaww, Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, and pact to himasws.

فَهُوَ الْخَلِيفَةُ الْقَائِمُ بِرَعِيَّتِكَ وَ أُمَّتِكَ إِنْ أَطَاعُوهُ وَ إِنْ عَصَوْهُ وَ سَيَفْعَلُونَ ذَلِكَ وَ هِيَ الْفِتْنَةُ الَّتِي تَلَوْتُ الْآيَ فِيهَا

Heasws is the caliph, the one standing with yoursaww citizens and yoursaww community, if they obey himasws, and if they disobey himasws, and they will be doing that, and it is the Fitna (Trial) regarding that yousaww have recited the Verse.

وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَأْمُرُكَ أَنْ تُعَلِّمَهُ جَمِيعَ مَا عَلَّمَكَ وَ تَسْتَحْفِظَهُ جَمِيعَ مَا حَفَّظَكَ وَ اسْتَوْدَعَكَ فَإِنَّهُ الْأَمِينُ الْمُؤْتَمَنُ

And Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Commands you that yousaww let himasws know of the entirety of what yousaww have been Taught, and heasws should preserve the entirety of what yousaww preserved and been entrusted with, for heasws is the trustworthy, the trustee.

يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنِّي اخْتَرْتُكَ مِنْ عِبَادِي نَبِيّاً وَ اخْتَرْتُهُ لَكَ وَصِيّاً

O Muhammadsaww! Iazwj Chose yousaww from Myazwj servants as a Prophetsaww, and Chose himasws for yousaww as a successorasws!”

قَالَ فَدَعَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَلِيّاً ع يَوْماً فَخَلَا بِهِ يَوْمَ ذَلِكَ وَ لَيْلَتَهُ وَ اسْتَوْدَعَهُ الْعِلْمَ وَ الْحِكْمَةَ الَّتِي آتَاهُ إِيَّاهَا وَ عَرَّفَهُ مَا قَالَ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع وَ كَانَ ذَلِكَ فِي يَوْمِ عَائِشَةَ بِنْتِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ فَقَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ طَالَتِ اسْتِخْلَاؤُكَ بِعَلِيٍّ ع مُنْذُ الْيَوْمِ

He (the narrator) said, ‘Rasool-Allahsaww called Aliasws one day and isolated with himasws that day and its night, and entrusted himasws the knowledge and the wisdom which Heazwj had Given himsaww, and made himasws understand what Jibraeelas had said; and that was during the day of Ayesha daughter of Abu bakr. She said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Yoursaww isolation with Aliasws is prolonged since today’.

قَالَ فَأَعْرَضَ عَنْهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَتْ لِمَ تُعْرِضُ عَنِّي يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ بِأَمْرٍ لَعَلَّهُ يَكُونُ لِي صَلَاحاً

He (the narrator) said, ‘Rasool-Allahsaww turned away from her. She said, ‘Why are yousaww turning away from me, O Rasool-Allahsaww, perhaps it is a matter which happens to be correct for me’.

فَقَالَ صَدَقْتِ وَ ايْمُ اللَّهِ إِنَّهُ لَأَمْرٌ صَلَاحٌ لِمَنْ أَسْعَدَهُ اللَّهُ بِقَبُولِهِ وَ الْإِيمَانِ بِهِ وَ قَدْ أُمِرْتُ بِدُعَاءِ النَّاسِ جَمِيعاً إِلَيْهِ وَ سَتَعْلَمِينَ ذَلِكَ إِذَا أَنَا قُمْتُ بِهِ فِي النَّاسِ

Hesaww said: ‘You speak the truth, and Isaww swear by Allahazwj that surely it is a matter correct for the one whom Allahazwj Assists with its acceptance and the belief with it, and Isaww have ordered with calling the people in their entirety to it, and you will soon be knowing that, when Isaww stand with it among the people’.

قَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ لِمَ لَا تُخْبِرُنِي بِهِ الْآنَ لِأَتَقَدَّمَ بِالْعَمَلِ بِهِ وَ الْأَخْذِ بِمَا فِيهِ الصَّلَاحُ

She said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! And why don’t yousaww inform me with it now, so I can proceed with acting with it, and the taking that whatever is in it of the correctness?’

قَالَ سَأُخْبِرُكِ بِهِ فَاحْفَظِيهِ إِلَى أَنْ أُومَرَ بِالْقِيَامِ بِهِ فِي النَّاسِ جَمِيعاً فَإِنَّكِ إِنْ حَفِظْتِيهِ حَفِظَكِ اللَّهُ فِي الْعَاجِلَةِ وَ الْآجِلَةِ جَمِيعاً وَ كَانَتْ لَكِ الْفَضِيلَةُ بِالسَّبْقَةِ وَ الْمُسَارَعَةِ إِلَى الْإِيمَانِ بِاللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ

Hesaww said: ‘Isaww shall inform you with it, so preserve it until Isaww instruct for the standing with it among the people in their entirety. If you were to preserve it, Allahazwj will Protect you in the current and the future altogether, and for you would be the merit with the precedence and the quickness to the Eman with Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww.

وَ إِنْ أَضَعْتِهِ وَ تَرَكْتِ رِعَايَةَ مَا أُلْقِي إِلَيْكِ مِنْهُ كَفَرْتِ بِرَبِّكِ وَ حَبِطَ أَجْرُكِ وَ بَرِئَتْ مِنْكِ ذِمَّةُ اللَّهِ وَ ذِمَّةُ رَسُولِهِ وَ كُنْتِ مِنَ الْخَاسِرِينَ وَ لَنْ يَضُرَّ اللَّهَ ذَلِكِ وَ لَا رَسُولَهُ

And if you were to waste it and neglect the care of what Isaww cast to you from it, you will disbelieve in your Lordazwj, and your Recompense will drop, and the Guarantee of Allahazwj would be voided from you, and guarantee of Hisazwj Rasoolsaww, and you would be from the losers, and that will never harm Allahazwj, nor Hisazwj Rasoolsaww’.

فَضَمِنَتْ لَهُ حِفْظَهُ وَ الْإِيمَانَ بِهِ وَ رِعَايَتَهُ فَقَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى أَخْبَرَنِي أَنَّ عُمُرِي قَدِ انْقَضَى وَ أَمَرَنِي أَنْ أَنْصِبَ عَلِيّاً لِلنَّاسِ عَلَماً وَ أَجْعَلَهُ فِيهِمْ إِمَاماً وَ أَسْتَخْلِفَهُ‏ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الْأَنْبِيَاءُ مِنْ قَبْلِي أَوْصِيَاءَهُمْ

She guaranteed to himsaww of its preservation, and the belief in it, and care for it. Hesaww said: ‘Allahazwj the Exalted Informed mesaww that mysaww life is coming to an end and Commanded mesaww to nominate Aliasws as a flag for the people, and make himasws to be an Imamasws among them, and make himasws a caliph just as the Prophetsas from before mesaww had made caliphs of theiras successorsas.

وَ إِنِّي صَائِرٌ إِلَى أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَ آخِذٌ فِيهِ بِأَمْرِهِ فَلْيَكُنِ الْأَمْرُ مِنْكِ تَحْتَ سُوَيْدَاءِ قَلْبِكِ إِلَى أَنْ يَأْذَنَ اللَّهُ بِالْقِيَامِ بِهِ

And Isaww shall be patient to the Command of mysaww Lordazwj and take with Hisazwj Command regarding it, so to them the matter from you be under the darkness of your heart until Allahazwj Permits mesaww with the standing with it’.

فَضَمِنَتْ لَهُ ذَلِكَ وَ قَدِ اطَّلَعَ اللَّهُ نَبِيَّهُ عَلَى مَا يَكُونُ مِنْهَا فِيهِ وَ مِنْ صَاحِبَتِهَا حَفْصَةَ وَ أَبَوَيْهِمَا فَلَمْ تَلْبَثْ أَنْ أَخْبَرَتْ حَفْصَةَ وَ أَخْبَرَتْ كُلُّ وَاحِدَةٍ مِنْهُمَا أَبَاهَا فَاجْتَمَعَا وَ أَرْسَلَا إِلَى جَمَاعَةِ الطُّلَقَاءِ وَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ فَخَبَّرَاهُمْ بِالْأَمْرِ

She guaranteed that to himsaww, and Allahazwj had Notified Hisazwj Prophetsaww of what would be happening from her regarding it, and from her companion Hafsa, and both their fathers. It was not long before she informed Hafsa, and each one of them informed her father, and they gathered and sent a message to a group of the freed ones (at the conquest of Makkah) and the hypocrites and informed them with the matter.

فَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَى بَعْضٍ وَ قَالُوا إِنَّ مُحَمَّداً يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَجْعَلَ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ فِي أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ كَسُنَّةِ كِسْرَى وَ قَيْصَرَ إِلَى آخِرِ الدَّهْرِ وَ لَا وَ اللَّهِ مَا لَكُمْ فِي الْحَيَاةِ مِنْ حَظٍّ إِنْ أَفْضَى هَذَا الْأَمْرُ إِلَى عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع وَ إِنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَامَلَكُمْ عَلَى ظَاهِرِكُمْ وَ إِنَّ عَلِيّاً يُعَامِلُكُمْ عَلَى مَا يَجِدُ فِي نَفْسِهِ مِنْكُمْ فَأَحْسِنُوا النَّظَرَ لِأَنْفُسِكُمْ فِي ذَلِكَ وَ قَدِّمُوا رَأْيَكُمْ فِيهِ

They turned towards each other and said, ‘Muhammadsaww wants to make this matter to be in Peopleasws of Hisazwj Household, like the ways of Chosroe and Caesar up to the end of times, and no, by Allahazwj, there will be no share for (any of) you - if this matter goes to Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, and that Muhammadsaww works you upon your apparent, and Aliasws will be working you upon what heasws finds within himself from you. Be good with the considers for yourselves regarding that, and present your opinions regarding it’.

وَ دَارَ الْكَلَامُ فِيمَا بَيْنَهُمْ وَ أَعَادُوا الْخِطَابَ وَ أَجَالُوا الرَّأْيَ فَاتَّفَقُوا عَلَى أَنْ يَنْفِرُوا بِالنَّبِيِّ ص نَاقَتَهُ عَلَى عَقَبَةِ هَرْشَى وَ قَدْ كَانُوا عَمِلُوا مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ فِي غَزْوَةِ تَبُوكَ‏

And the speech circulated in regarding what was between them, and they repeated the address, and hastened the opinion, and they united upon that they would be alienating with the Prophetsaww upon hissaww camel at the turning of Aqaba, and they had already done similar to that during the military expedition of Tabuk.

فَصَرَفَ اللَّهُ الشَّرَّ عَنْ نَبِيِّهِ ص فَاجْتَمَعُوا فِي أَمْرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص مِنَ الْقَتْلِ وَ الِاغْتِيَالِ وَ إِسْقَاءِ السَّمِّ عَلَى غَيْرِ وَجْهٍ وَ قَدْ كَانَ اجْتَمَعَ أَعْدَاءُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص‏ مِنَ الطُّلَقَاءِ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ وَ مَنْ كَانَ فِي قَلْبِهِ الِارْتِدَادُ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ فِي الْمَدِينَةِ وَ مَا حَوْلَهَا فَتَعَاقَدُوا وَ تَحَالَفُوا عَلَى أَنْ يَنْفِرُوا بِهِ نَاقَتَهُ وَ كَانُوا أَرْبَعَةَ عَشَرَ رَجُلًا

Allahazwj Turned the evil away from Hisazwj Prophetsaww. They gathered regarding the matter of Rasool-Allahsaww, from the killing, and the assassination, and quenching the poison upon another aspect; and the enemies of Rasool-Allahsaww had gathered, from the freed ones from Quraysh, and the hypocrites from the Helpers, and the ones in whose heart was the suspicions, from the Arabs in Al-Medina and what is around it, and they vowed and took oath upon that they would be alienating with himsaww hissaww camel, and they were fourteen men.

وَ كَانَ مِنْ عَزْمِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ يُقِيمَ عَلِيّاً ع وَ يَنْصِبَهُ لِلنَّاسِ بِالْمَدِينَةِ إِذَا قَدِمَ فَسَارَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَوْمَيْنِ وَ لَيْلَتَيْنِ فَلَمَّا كَانَ فِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّالِثِ أَتَاهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع بِآخِرِ سُورَةِ الْحِجْرِ فَقَالَ اقْرَأْ فَوَ رَبِّكَ لَنَسْئَلَنَّهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ عَمَّا كانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ فَاصْدَعْ بِما تُؤْمَرُ وَ أَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ إِنَّا كَفَيْناكَ الْمُسْتَهْزِئِينَ‏

And it was from the determinations of Rasool-Allahsaww that hesaww would establish Aliasws and nominate himasws to the people at Al-Medina when hesaww arrived. Rasool-Allahsaww travelled for two days and two nights. When it was the third day, Jibraeelas came to himsaww with another Chapter, Al-Hijr. Heas said: ‘Read: So, by your Lord! We will be Questioning them altogether [15:92] About what they were doing [15:93] So proclaim what you are Commanded with and turn away from the polytheists [15:94] We will Suffice you against the scoffers [15:95]’.

قَالَ وَ رَحَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَغَذَّ السَّيْرَ مُسْرِعاً عَلَى دُخُولِهِ الْمَدِينَةَ لِيَنْصِبَ عَلِيّاً ع عَلَماً لِلنَّاسِ فَلَمَّا كَانَتِ اللَّيْلَةُ الرَّابِعَةُ هَبَطَ جَبْرَئِيلُ فِي آخِرِ اللَّيْلِ فَقَرَأَ عَلَيْهِ‏ يا أَيُّهَا الرَّسُولُ بَلِّغْ ما أُنْزِلَ إِلَيْكَ مِنْ رَبِّكَ وَ إِنْ لَمْ تَفْعَلْ فَما بَلَّغْتَ رِسالَتَهُ وَ اللَّهُ يَعْصِمُكَ مِنَ النَّاسِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْكافِرِينَ‏

He (the narrator) said, ‘And Rasool-Allahsaww departed and made the journey quickly upon hissaww entry into Al-Medina in order to nominate Aliasws as a flag for the people. When it was the fourth night, Jibraeelas descended at the end of the night and recited unto himas: O you Rasool! Deliver what has been Revealed unto you from your Lord; and if you don’t do so, then you have not delivered His Message, and Allah will Protect you from the people. Surely Allah does not Guide the Kafir people [5:67].

وَ هُمُ الَّذِينَ هَمُّوا بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَ مَا تَرَانِي يَا جَبْرَئِيلُ أُغِذُّ السَّيْرَ مُجِدّاً فِيهِ لِأَدْخُلَ الْمَدِينَةَ فَأَفْرِضَ وَلَايَتَهُ عَلَى الشَّاهِدِ وَ الْغَائِبِ

And they are those who had plotted with Rasool-Allahsaww. Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘O Jibraeelas! Don’t youas see mesaww hastening the journey being laborious in it in order to enter Al-Medina, so Isaww can obligate hisasws Wilayah upon the ones present and the absentees?’

فَقَالَ لَهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُكَ أَنْ تَفْرِضَ وَلَايَتَهُ غَداً إِذَا نَزَلْتَ مَنْزِلَكَ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص نَعَمْ يَا جَبْرَئِيلُ غَداً أَفْعَلُ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ وَ أَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِالرَّحِيلِ مِنْ وَقْتِهِ وَ سَارَ النَّاسُ مَعَهُ حَتَّى نَزَلَ بِغَدِيرِ خُمٍّ وَ صَلَّى بِالنَّاسِ وَ أَمَرَهُمْ أَنْ يَجْتَمِعُوا إِلَيْهِ

Jibraeelas said to himsaww: ‘Allahazwj Commands yousaww to Obligate hisasws Wilayah tomorrow, when yousaww descend in yoursaww encampment’. Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Yes, O Jibraeelas! Tomorrow Isaww shall do it, if Allahazwj Desires’, and Rasool-Allahsaww ordered for the departure from hissaww pausing, and the people travelled with himsaww until hesaww encamped at Ghadeer Khumm, and prayed Salat (leading) the people, and instructed them to gather to himsaww.

وَ دَعَا عَلِيّاً ع وَ رَفَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَدَ عَلِيٍّ الْيُسْرَى بِيَدِهِ الْيُمْنَى وَ رَفَعَ صَوْتَهُ بِالْوَلَاءِ لِعَلِيٍّ ع عَلَى النَّاسِ أَجْمَعِينَ وَ فَرَضَ طَاعَتَهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ أَمَرَهُمْ أَنْ لَا يَتَخَلَّفُوا عَلَيْهِ بَعْدَهُ وَ خَبَّرَهُمْ أَنَّ ذَلِكَ عَنْ أَمْرِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ

And hesaww called Aliasws, and Rasool-Allahsaww raised hisasws left hand with hissaww right hand, and raised hissaww voice with the Wilayah of Aliasws upon the people altogether, and obligated upon them the obedience to himasws, and ordered them that they should not differ upon himasws after himsaww, and informed them that, that is from a Command of Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic.

وَ قَالَ لَهُمْ أَ لَسْتُ‏ أَوْلى‏ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ‏ قَالُوا بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ فَمَنْ كُنْتُ مَوْلَاهُ فَعَلِيٌّ مَوْلَاهُ اللَّهُمَّ وَالِ مَنْ وَالاهُ وَ عَادِ مَنْ عَادَاهُ وَ انْصُرْ مَنْ نَصَرَهُ وَ اخْذُلْ مَنْ خَذَلَهُ

And hesaww said to them: ‘Am Isaww not foremost with the Momineen than their own selves?’ They said, ‘Yes, O Rasool-Allahsaww!’ Hesaww said: ‘So the one whose Mastersaww Isaww was, so Aliasws is his Masterasws. O Allahazwj! Befriend the one who befriends himasws, and be Inimical to the one who is inimical to himasws, and Help the one who helps himasws and Abandon the one who abandons himasws!’

ثُمَّ أَمَرَ النَّاسَ أَنْ يُبَايِعُوهُ فَبَايَعَهُ النَّاسُ‏ جَمِيعاً وَ لَمْ يَتَكَلَّمْ مِنْهُمْ أَحَدٌ وَ قَدْ كَانَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ تَقَدَّمَا إِلَى الْجُحْفَةِ فَبَعَثَ وَ رَدَّهُمَا ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُمَا النَّبِيُّ ص مُتَهَجِّماً يَا ابْنَ أَبِي قُحَافَةَ وَ يَا عُمَرُ بَايِعَا عَلِيّاً بِالْوَلَايَةِ مِنْ بَعْدِي

Then hesaww ordered the people that they should pledge allegiance to himasws. They all pledged allegiance to himasws and no one spoke, and Abu Bakr and Umar has gone ahead to Al-Juhfa. So, hesaww sent for them and returned them. Then the Prophetas said to them both, attackingly: ‘O Ibn Abu Qohafa, and O Umar! Pledge allegiance to Aliasws with the Wilayah from after mesaww’.

فَقَالا أَمْرٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ مِنْ رَسُولِهِ فَقَالَ وَ هَلْ يَكُونُ مِثْلُ هَذَا عَنْ غَيْرِ أَمْرِ اللَّهِ نَعَمْ أَمْرٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ مِنْ رَسُولِهِ

They said, ‘Is it a Command from Allahazwj and from Hisazwj Rasoolsaww?’ Hesaww said: ‘And can the like of this be from other than a Command from Allahazwj and from Hisazwj Rasoolsaww?’

فَقَالَ وَ بَايَعَا ثُمَّ انْصَرَفَا وَ سَارَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بَاقِيَ يَوْمِهِ وَ لَيْلَتِهِ حَتَّى إِذَا دَنَوْا مِنْ عَقَبَةِ هَرْشَى تَقَدَّمَهُ الْقَوْمُ فَتَوَارَوْا فِي ثَنِيَّةِ الْعَقَبَةِ وَ قَدْ حَمَلُوا مَعَهُمْ دِبَاباً وَ طَرَحُوا فِيهَا الْحَصَا

He (the narrator) said, ‘And they both pledged allegiance, then left, and Rasool-Allahsaww travelled for the remainder of hissaww day and its night. When they were near from Aqaba turning, he send the people ahead in the bend of Al-Aqaba, and they had carried a tank and dropped pebbles in it’.

فَقَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ فَدَعَانِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ دَعَا عَمَّارَ بْنَ يَاسِرٍ وَ أَمَرَهُ أَنْ يَسُوقَهَا وَ أَنَا أَقُودُهَا حَتَّى إِذَا صِرْنَا رَأْسَ الْعَقَبَةِ ثَارَ الْقَوْمُ مِنْ وَرَائِنَا وَ دَحْرَجُوا الدِّبَابَ بَيْنَ قَوَائِمِ النَّاقَةِ فَذُعِرَتْ وَ كَادَتْ أَنْ تَنْفِرَ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَصَاحَ بِهَا النَّبِيُّ ص أَنِ اسْكُنِي وَ لَيْسَ عَلَيْكِ بَأْسٌ

Huzeyfa said, ‘Rasool-Allahsaww called me and called Ammar Bin Yasser, and instructed him to usher it, and I should guide it, until when we came to the top of Al-Aqaba, the group agitated from behind us and they rolled down the tank between the legs of the camel. It was terrified and almost fled with Rasool-Allahsaww. The Prophetsaww shouted at it: ‘Calm down! There is no problem upon you’.

فَأَنْطَقَهَا اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بِقَوْلٍ عَرَبِيٍّ مُبِينٍ فَصِيحٍ فَقَالَتْ وَ اللَّهِ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص لَا أَزَلْتُ يَداً عَنْ مُسْتَقَرِّ يَدٍ وَ لَا رِجْلًا عَنْ مَوْضِعِ رِجْلٍ وَ أَنْتَ عَلَى ظَهْرِي فَتَقَدَّمَ الْقَوْمُ إِلَى النَّاقَةِ لِيَدْفَعُوهَا فَأَقْبَلْتُ أَنَا وَ عَمَّارٌ نَضْرِبُ وُجُوهَهُمْ بِأَسْيَافِنَا وَ كَانَتْ لَيْلَةً مُظْلِمَةً

Allahazwj the Exalted Caused it to speak with Arabic words, clear, eloquent. It said, ‘By Allahazwj, O Rasool-Allahsaww! I did not move a hand from a steady hand, nor a leg from the place of a leg while yousaww are upon my back’. The group came ahead to the camel in order to push it (into the ravine). Ammar and I struck their faces without swords, and it was a dark night.

فَزَالُوا عَنَّا وَ أَيِسُوا مِمَّا ظَنُّوا وَ قَدَّرُوا وَ دَبَّرُوا فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَنْ هَؤُلَاءِ الْقَوْمُ الَّذِينَ يُرِيدُونَ مَا تَرَى فَقَالَ ص يَا حُذَيْفَةُ هَؤُلَاءِ الْمُنَافِقُونَ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ فَقُلْتُ أَ لَا تَبْعَثُ إِلَيْهِمْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ رَهْطاً فَيَأْتُوا بِرُءُوسِهِمْ

They moved away from us and despaired from what they had thought of, and they determined and turned around. I said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Who are these people, those who wanted what you saw?’ Hesaww said: ‘O Huzeyfa! They are the hypocrites in the world and the Hereafter’. I said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Will yousaww not send a group to them, and they could come with their heads?’

فَقَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ أَمَرَنِي أَنْ أُعْرِضَ عَنْهُمْ فَأَكْرَهُ أَنْ تَقُولَ النَّاسُ إِنَّهُ دَعَا أُنَاساً مِنْ قَوْمِهِ وَ أَصْحَابِهِ إِلَى دِينِهِ فَاسْتَجَابُوا فَقَاتَلَ بِهِمْ حَتَّى إِذَا ظَهْرَ عَلَى عَدُوِّهِ أَقْبَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ فَقَتَلَهُمْ

Hesaww said: ‘Allahazwj has Commanded mesaww to turn away from them, so Isaww disliked it that the people should be saying: ‘Hesaww called the people from hissaww people and hissaww companions to hissaww Religion, and they answered, then hesaww fought with them (against the enemies) until when hesaww was victorious upon hissaww enemies, hesaww turned against them, and killed them’.

وَ لَكِنْ دَعْهُمْ يَا حُذَيْفَةُ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَهُمْ بِالْمِرْصَادِ وَ سَيُمْهِلُهُمْ قَلِيلًا ثُمَّ يَضْطَرُّهُمْ‏ إِلى‏ عَذابٍ غَلِيظٍ

But, O Huzeyfa, leave them, for Allahazwj is for them with the ambush, and Heazwj will Respite them for a little while, then Heazwj will Force them into the harsh Punishment’.

فَقُلْتُ وَ مَنْ هَؤُلَاءِ الْقَوْمُ الْمُنَافِقُونَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص أَ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ أَمْ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ فَسَمَّاهُمْ لِي رَجُلًا رَجُلًا حَتَّى فَرَغَ مِنْهُمْ وَ قَدْ كَانَ فِيهِمْ أُنَاسٌ أَنَا كَارِهٌ‏ أَنْ يَكُونُوا فِيهِمْ فَأَمْسَكْتُ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ

I said, ‘And who are they, this group of hypocrites, O Rasool-Allahsaww? Are they from the Emigrants or from the Helpers?’ Hesaww named them to me man by man until hesaww was free from them, and there were some people among them I dislike being among them, so I withheld at that.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا حُذَيْفَةُ كَأَنَّكَ شَاكٌّ فِي بَعْضِ مَنْ سَمَّيْتُ لَكَ ارْفَعْ رَأْسَكَ إِلَيْهِمْ فَرَفَعْتُ طَرْفِي إِلَى الْقَوْمِ وَ هُمْ وُقُوفٌ عَلَى الثَّنِيَّةِ فَبَرَقَتْ بَرْقَةٌ فَأَضَاءَتْ جَمِيعَ مَا حَوْلَنَا وَ ثَبَتَتِ الْبَرْقَةُ حَتَّى خِلْتُهَا شَمْساً طَالِعَةً

Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘O Huzeyfa! It is as if you are doubtful regarding some of the ones Isaww named to you. Raise your head towards them!’ I raised my eyes towards the group and they were standing at the turning. A lightning flashed and illuminated the entirety of what was around us, and the lightning affirmed until I thought it was an emerging sun.

فَنَظَرْتُ وَ اللَّهِ إِلَى الْقَوْمِ فَعَرَفْتُهُمْ رَجُلًا رَجُلًا فَإِذَا هُمْ كَمَا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَدَدُ الْقَوْمِ أَرْبَعَةَ عَشَرَ رَجُلًا تِسْعَةٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَ خَمْسَةٌ مِنْ سَائِرِ النَّاسِ

By Allahazwj! I looked at the group and recognised them, man by man, and they were just as Rasool-Allahsaww had said and counted. The group was for fourteen men, nine from Quraysh and five from the rest of the people’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ الْفَتَى سَمِّهِمْ لَنَا يَرْحَمُكَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ هُمْ وَ اللَّهِ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ وَ عُثْمَانُ وَ طَلْحَةُ وَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَوْفٍ وَ سَعْدُ بْنُ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ وَ مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ وَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْعَاصِ وَ هَؤُلَاءِ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ

The youth said to him, ‘Name them for us, may Allahazwj the Exalted have Mercy on you!’ Huzeyfa said, ‘By Allahazwj! They were – Abu Bakr, and Umar, and Usman, and Talha, and Abdul Rahman Bin Awf, and Sa’d Bin Abu Waqas, and Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah, and Muawiya Bin Abu Sufyan, and Amro Bin Al-Aas – and they are from Quraysh.

وَ أَمَّا الْخَمْسَةُ الْأُخَرُ فَأَبُو مُوسَى الْأَشْعَرِيُ‏ وَ الْمُغِيرَةُ بْنُ شُعْبَةَ الثَّقَفِيُّ وَ أَوْسُ بْنُ الْحَدَثَانِ الْبَصْرِيُ‏ وَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ وَ أَبُو طَلْحَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ

And as for the other five – Abu Musa Al-Ashary, and Al-Mugheira Bin Shu’ba Al-Saqafi, and Aws Bin Al-Hadasan Al-Basry, and Abu Hureyra, and Abu Talha Al-Ansari’.

قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ ثُمَّ انْحَدَرْنَا مِنَ الْعَقَبَةِ وَ قَدْ طَلَعَ الْفَجْرُ فَنَزَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَتَوَضَّأَ وَ انْتَظَرَ أَصْحَابَهُ حَتَّى انْحَدَرُوا مِنَ الْعَقَبَةِ وَ اجْتَمَعُوا فَرَأَيْتُ الْقَوْمَ بِأَجْمَعِهِمْ وَ قَدْ دَخَلُوا مَعَ النَّاسِ وَ صَلَّوْا خَلْفَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

Huzeyfa said, ‘Then we went down from Al-Aqaba and the dawn had emerged. Rasool-Allahsaww descended and performed Wudu’u and awaited hissaww companions until they came down from Al-Aqaba and they gathered. I saw the group in their entirety and they had mingled with the people and prayed Salat behind Rasool-Allahsaww.

فَلَمَّا انْصَرَفَ مِنْ صَلَاتِهِ الْتَفَتَ فَنَظَرَ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرَ وَ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ يَتَنَاجَوْنَ فَأَمَرَ مُنَادِياً فَنَادَى فِي النَّاسِ لَا تَجْتَمِعْ ثَلَاثَةُ نَفَرٍ مِنَ النَّاسِ يَتَنَاجَوْنَ فِيمَا بَيْنَهُمْ بِسِرٍّ وَ ارْتَحَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِالنَّاسِ مِنْ مَنْزِلِ الْعَقَبَةِ

When hesaww finished from hissaww Salat, hesaww turned towards Abu Bakr and Umar and Abu Ubeyda who were whispering to each other. Hesaww ordered a caller who called out among the people, ‘No three persons from the people should be whispering between them secretively!’, and Rasool-Allahsaww departed with the people from the encampment of Al-Aqaba.

فَلَمَّا نَزَلَ الْمَنْزِلَ الْآخَرَ رَأَى سَالِمٌ مَوْلَى حُذَيْفَةَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرَ وَ أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ يُسَارُّ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضاً فَوَقَفَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ قَالَ أَ لَيْسَ قَدْ أَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ لَا تَجْتَمِعَ ثَلَاثَةُ نَفَرٍ مِنَ النَّاسِ عَلَى سِرٍّ وَاحِدٍ وَ اللَّهِ لَتُخْبِرُونِّي فِيمَا أَنْتُمْ وَ إِلَّا أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص حَتَّى أُخْبِرَهُ بِذَلِكَ مِنْكُمْ

When hesaww descended at another encampment, he saw Saalim, a slave of Huzeyfa and Abu Bakr, and Umar, and Abu Ubeyda being secretive with each other. He paused at them and said, ‘Hasn’t Rasool-Allahsaww ordered that no three persons from the people should gather upon one secret? By Allahazwj! Either you will inform me regarding what you were (discussing) or else I shall go to Rasool-Allahsaww until I inform himsaww of that from you’.

فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ يَا سَالِمُ عَلَيْكَ عَهْدُ اللَّهِ وَ مِيثَاقُهُ لَئِنْ خَبَّرْنَاكَ بِالَّذِي نَحْنُ فِيهِ وَ بِمَا اجْتَمَعْنَا لَهُ إِنْ أَحْبَبْتَ أَنْ تَدْخُلَ مَعَنَا فِيهِ دَخَلْتَ وَ كُنْتَ رَجُلًا مِنَّا وَ إِنْ كَرِهْتَ ذَلِكَ كَتَمْتَهُ عَلَيْنَا

Abu Bakr said, ‘O Saalim! Upon you is a pact of Allahazwj and Hisazwj Covenant, if I were to inform you of that which we are in, and with what we are gathered for, I would love it if you could enter to be with us in it, and you used to be a man from us, and if you dislike that, you will conceal it upon us’.

فَقَالَ سَالِمٌ لَكُمْ ذَلِكَ وَ أَعْطَاهُمْ بِذَلِكَ عَهْدَهُ وَ مِيثَاقَهُ وَ كَانَ سَالِمٌ شَدِيدَ الْبُغْضِ وَ الْعَدَاوَةِ لِعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع وَ قَدْ عَرَفُوا ذَلِكَ مِنْهُ فَقَالُوا لَهُ إِنَّا قَدِ اجْتَمَعْنَا عَلَى أَنْ نَتَحَالَفَ وَ نَتَعَاقَدَ عَلَى أَنْ لَا نُطِيعَ مُحَمَّداً فِيمَا فَرَضَ عَلَيْنَا مِنْ وَلَايَةِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ بَعْدَهُ

Saalim said, ‘That is for you’, and he gave them his pact and his covenant; and Saalim used to be of intense hatred and enmity to Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, and that had been recognised from him. They said to him, ‘We have gathered upon that we shall swear an oath and make a pact upon that we will not obey Muhammadsaww in what hesaww has obligated upon us, from the Wilayah of Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws after himsaww’.

فَقَالَ لَهُمْ سَالِمٌ عَلَيْكُمْ عَهْدُ اللَّهِ وَ مِيثَاقُهُ إِنَّ فِي هَذَا الْأَمْرِ كُنْتُمْ تَخُوضُونَ وَ تَتَنَاجَوْنَ قَالُوا أَجَلْ عَلَيْنَا عَهْدُ اللَّهِ وَ مِيثَاقُهُ إِنَّا إِنَّمَا كُنَّا فِي هَذَا الْأَمْرِ بِعَيْنِهِ لَا فِي شَيْ‏ءٍ سِوَاهُ

Saalim said to them, ‘Upon you is a pact of Allahazwj and Hisazwj Covenant, is this the matter you were indulging in and whispering?’ They said, ‘Yes, upon us is a pact of Allahazwj and Hisazwj Covenant! But rather, we were in this matter exactly, not in anything besides it’.

قَالَ سَالِمٌ وَ أَنَا وَ اللَّهِ أَوَّلُ مَنْ يُعَاقِدُكُمْ عَلَى هَذَا الْأَمْرِ وَ لَا يُخَالِفُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ إِنَّهُ وَ اللَّهِ مَا طَلَعَتِ الشَّمْسُ عَلَى أَهْلِ بَيْتٍ أَبْغَضَ إِلَيَّ مِنْ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ وَ لَا فِي بَنِي هَاشِمٍ أَبْغَضَ إِلَيَّ وَ لَا أَمْقَتَ مِنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَاصْنَعُوا فِي‏ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ مَا بَدَا لَكُمْ فَإِنِّي وَاحِدٌ مِنْكُمْ فَتَعَاقَدُوا مِنْ وَقْتِهِمْ عَلَى هَذَا الْأَمْرِ ثُمَّ تَفَرَّقُوا

Saalim said, ‘And I, by Allahazwj, am the first one agreeing with you all upon this matter, and will not oppose you upon it. By Allahazwj! The sun has not emerged upon any household more hateful to me than the Clan of Hashimasws, nor in the Clan of Hashimasws is there anyone more hateful to me nor more abhorrent than Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, therefore do regarding this matter whatever comes to you, for I am one of you’. They made a pact at that time of their upon this matter, then they dispersed.

فَلَمَّا أَرَادَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْمَسِيرَ أَتَوْهُ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ فِيمَا كُنْتُمْ تَتَنَاجَوْنَ فِي يَوْمِكُمْ هَذَا وَ قَدْ نَهَيْتُكُمْ عَنِ النَّجْوَى فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا الْتَقَيْنَا غَيْرَ وَقْتِنَا هَذَا

When Rasool-Allahsaww intended the travel, they came to himsaww. Hesaww said to them: ‘What were you whispering in this day of yours, and Isaww had forbidden you from the secret counsels?’ They said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! We have not met each other apart from this time of ours’.

فَنَظَرَ إِلَيْهِمُ النَّبِيُّ ص مَلِيّاً قَالَ لَهُمْ‏ أَنْتُمْ أَعْلَمُ أَمِ اللَّهُ وَ مَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنْ كَتَمَ شَهادَةً عِنْدَهُ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ مَا اللَّهُ بِغافِلٍ عَمَّا تَعْمَلُونَ

The Prophetsaww looked at them for a while (then) said to them: ‘Are you more knowing or Allah?’ And who is more unjust than the one who conceals a testimony that is with him, from Allah? And Allah is not heedless of what you are doing [2:140]’.

ثُمَّ سَارَ حَتَّى دَخَلَ الْمَدِينَةَ وَ اجْتَمَعَ الْقَوْمُ جَمِيعاً وَ كَتَبُوا صَحِيفَةً بَيْنَهُمْ عَلَى ذِكْرِ مَا تَعَاهَدُوا عَلَيْهِ فِي هَذَا الْأَمْرِ وَ كَانَ أَوَّلُ مَا فِي الصَّحِيفَةِ النَّكْثَ لِوَلَايَةِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع وَ أَنَّ الْأَمْرَ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ

Then hesaww travelled until hesaww entered Al-Medina, and the whole group gathered and they wrote out an agreement between them upon a mention of what they had vowed upon regarding this matter, and the first of what was in the parchment was the breach of Wilayah of Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, and that the matter should go to Abu Bakr.

‏ وَ عُمَرَ وَ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ وَ سَالِمٌ مَعَهُمْ لَيْسَ بِخَارِجٍ مِنْهُمْ وَ شَهِدَ بِذَلِكَ أَرْبَعَةٌ وَ ثَلَاثُونَ رَجُلًا هَؤُلَاءِ أَصْحَابُ الْعَقَبَةِ وَ عِشْرُونَ رَجُلًا آخَرَ وَ اسْتَوْدَعُوا الصَّحِيفَةَ أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ بْنَ الْجَرَّاحِ وَ جَعَلُوهُ أَمِينَهُمْ عَلَيْهَا

And Umar and Abu Ubeyda and Saalim were with them, not being outside from them, and thirty four men had testified that they were the companions of Al-Aqaba, and twenty others, and they deposited the parchment with Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah, and they made him to be their trustee upon it’.

قَالَ فَقَالَ الْفَتَى يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ يَرْحَمُكَ اللَّهُ هَبْنَا نَقُولُ إِنَّ هَؤُلَاءِ الْقَوْمَ رَضُوا بِأَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرَ وَ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ لِأَنَّهُمْ مِنْ مَشِيخَةِ قُرَيْشٍ فَمَا بِالُهُمْ رَضُوا بِسَالِمٍ وَ هُوَ لَيْسَ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَ لَا مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ لَا مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ وَ إِنَّمَا هُوَ عَبْدٌ لِامْرَأَةٍ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ

He (the narrator) said, ‘The youth said, ‘O servant of Allahazwj, may Allahazwj have Mercy on you! Let us say that they are the group who were pleased with Abu Bakr and Umar and Abu Ubeyda, because they were from the sheykhs of Quraysh, but what was the matter with them being pleased with Saalim, and he was neither from Quraysh, nor from the Emigrants, nor from the Helpers, and rather he was a slave of a woman from the Helpers?’

قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ يَا فَتَى إِنَّ الْقَوْمَ أَجْمَعَ تَعَاقَدُوا عَلَى إِزَالَةِ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع حَسَداً مِنْهُمْ لَهُ وَ كَرَاهَةً لِأَمْرِهِ وَ اجْتَمَعَ لَهُمْ مَعَ ذَلِكَ مَا كَانَ فِي قُلُوبِ قُرَيْشٍ مِنْ سَفْكِ الدِّمَاءِ وَ كَانَ خَاصَّةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ كَانُوا يَطْلُبُونَ الثَّأْرَ الَّذِي أَوْقَعَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ بِهِمْ مِنْ عَلِيٍّ مِنْ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ فَإِنَّمَا كَانَ الْعَقْدُ عَلَى إِزَالَةِ الْأَمْرِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ع مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ الْأَرْبَعَةَ عَشَرَ وَ كَانُوا يَرَوْنَ أَنَّ سَالِماً رَجُلٌ مِنْهُمْ

Huzeyfa said, ‘O youth! The group were united. They pacted upon removing this matter away from Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws out of envy from them towards himasws, and abhorrence of hisasws command, and there gathered for them, along with that, what was in the hearts of Quraysh, from shedding of the blood, and it was in particular of Rasool-Allahsaww, and they were seeking the revenge which Rasool-Allahsaww had plunged them into from Aliasws, from Clan of Hashimasws. But rather the pact was from these fourteen, upon the removal of the command from Aliasws, and they were viewing that Saalim was a man from them’.

فَقَالَ الْفَتَى فَخَبِّرْنِي يَرْحَمُكَ اللَّهُ عَمَّا كَتَبَ جَمِيعُهُمْ فِي الصَّحِيفَةِ لِأَعْرِفَهُ

The youth said, ‘May Allahazwj have Mercy on you! Inform me about what they all wrote in the agreement, so I can know it’.

فَقَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ حَدَّثَتْنِي بِذَلِكَ أَسْمَاءُ بِنْتُ عُمَيْسٍ الْخَثْعَمِيَّةُ امْرَأَةُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ أَنَّ الْقَوْمَ اجْتَمَعُوا فِي مَنْزِلِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ فَتَآمَرُوا فِي ذَلِكَ وَ أَسْمَاءُ تَسْمَعُهُمْ وَ تَسْمَعُ جَمِيعَ مَا يُدَبِّرُونَهُ فِي ذَلِكَ حَتَّى اجْتَمَعَ رَأْيُهُمْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ فَأَمَرُوا سَعِيدَ بْنَ الْعَاصِ الْأُمَوِيَ‏ فَكَتَبَ هُوَ الصَّحِيفَةَ بِاتِّفَاقٍ مِنْهُمْ وَ كَانَتْ نُسْخَةُ الصَّحِيفَةِ

Huzeyfa said, ‘It was narrated to me with that by Asma Bin Umays Al-Khas’amiya, wife of Abu Bakr, that the group had gathered in the house of Abu Bakr, and they plotted regarding that, and Asma was listening to them and heard the entirety of what they had pondered regarding that until they united their view upon that. They instructed Saeed Bin Al-Aas Al-Amawy and he wrote the agreement with the accord from them, and a copy of the agreement was: -

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ‏ هَذَا مَا اتَّفَقَ عَلَيْهِ الْمَلَأُ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ الَّذِينَ مَدَحَهُمُ اللَّهُ فِي كِتَابِهِ عَلَى لِسَانِ نَبِيِّهِ ص اتَّفَقُوا جَمِيعاً بَعْدَ أَنْ أَجْهَدُوا فِي رَأْيِهِمْ وَ تَشَاوَرُوا فِي أَمْرِهِمْ وَ كَتَبُوا هَذِهِ الصَّحِيفَةَ نَظَراً مِنْهُمْ إِلَى الْإِسْلَامِ وَ أَهْلِهِ عَلَى غَابِرِ الْأَيَّامِ وَ بَاقِي الدُّهُورِ لِيَقْتَدِيَ بِهِمْ مَنْ يَأْتِي مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِمْ

In the Name of Allahazwj the Beneficent, the Merciful. This is what is pacted upon by the assembly from companions of Muhammadsaww, Rasool-Allahsaww, from Emigrants and the helpers, those Allahazwj has Praised in Hisazwj Book upon the tongue of Hisazwj Prophetsaww. They are all united in their view and they struggled in their views, and consulted regarding their affair, and wrote out this agreement, as a consideration from them to Al-Islam and its people, upon the past days and the remainder of the times, in order for them to be guided by them, the ones from the Muslims to come from after them.

أَمَّا بَعْدُ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ بِمَنِّهِ وَ كَرَمِهِ بَعَثَ مُحَمَّداً ص رَسُولًا إِلَى النَّاسِ كَافَّةً بِدِينِهِ الَّذِي ارْتَضَاهُ لِعِبَادِهِ فَأَدَّى مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَ بَلَّغَ مَا أَمَرَهُ اللَّهُ بِهِ وَ أَوْجَبَ عَلَيْنَا الْقِيَامَ بِجَمِيعِهِ

As for after, Allahazwj, by Hisazwj Conferment and Hisazwj Benevolent, Sent Muhammadsaww as a Rasoolsaww to all the people with Hisazwj Religion which Heazwj is Pleased with for Hisazwj servants. Hesaww fulfilled that and delivered whatever Allahazwj had Commanded himsaww with and obligated upon us, the standing with the entirety of it.

حَتَّى إِذَا أَكْمَلَ الدِّينَ وَ فَرَضَ الْفَرَائِضَ وَ أَحْكَمَ السُّنَنَ اخْتَارَ اللَّهُ لَهُ مَا عِنْدَهُ فَقَبَضَهُ إِلَيْهِ مُكْرَماً مَحْبُوراً مِنْ غَيْرِ أَنْ يَسْتَخْلِفَ أَحَداً مِنْ بَعْدِهِ وَ جَعَلَ الِاخْتِيَارَ إِلَى الْمُسْلِمِينَ يَخْتَارُونَ لِأَنْفُسِهِمْ مَنْ وَثِقُوا بِرَأْيِهِ وَ نُصْحِهِ لَهُمْ

Until when the Religion was perfected and the Obligations had been obligated, and the Judgments of the Sunnah, Allahazwj Chose for himsaww what is in Hisazwj Presence, honourable, delighted, from without having made anyone as a caliph from after himsaww, and made the choosing to Muslims to be choosing for themselves, someone they would trust his opinion and his good advice to them.

وَ إِنَّ لِلْمُسْلِمِينَ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةً حَسَنَةً قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى‏ لَقَدْ كانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ لِمَنْ كانَ يَرْجُوا اللَّهَ وَ الْيَوْمَ الْآخِرَ وَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص لَمْ يَسْتَخْلِفْ أَحَداً لِئَلَّا يَجْرِيَ ذَلِكَ فِي أَهْلِ بَيْتٍ وَاحِدٍ فَيَكُونَ إِرْثاً دُونَ سَائِرِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَ لِئَلَّا يَكُونَ دُولَةً بَيْنَ الْأَغْنِيَاءِ مِنْهُمْ وَ لِئَلَّا يَقُولَ الْمُسْتَخْلَفُ إِنَّ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ بَاقٍ فِي عَقِبِهِ مِنْ وَالِدٍ إِلَى وَلَدٍ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ

And for the Muslims, in Rasool-Allahsaww, there is the best example. Allahazwj the Exalted Said: There would always be for you all, in (the person of) Rasool-Allah, an excellent exemplar for one who was hoping in Allah and the Last Day, [33:21], and Rasool-Allahsaww did not chose anyone as caliph, lest that flows in the Peopleasws of the Household, so it would become an inheritance besides the rest of the Muslims, and lest the government would happen to be between the rich from them, and lest the caliph would say that this command is to remain in his posterity, from a son to a son up to the Day of Qiyamah.

وَ الَّذِي يَجِبُ عَلَى الْمُسْلِمِينَ عِنْدَ مُضِيِّ خَلِيفَةٍ مِنَ الْخُلَفَاءِ أَنْ يَجْتَمِعَ ذَوُو الرَّأْيِ وَ الصَّلَاحِ فَيَتَشَاوَرُوا فِي أُمُورِهِمْ فَمَنْ رَأَوْهُ مُسْتَحِقّاً لَهَا وَلَّوْهُ أُمُورَهُمْ وَ جَعَلُوهُ الْقَيِّمَ عَلَيْهِمْ فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَخْفَى عَلَى أَهْلِ كُلِّ زَمَانٍ مَنْ يَصْلُحُ مِنْهُمْ لِلْخِلَافَةِ

And that which is obligated upon the Muslims during the expiry of a caliph from the caliphs is that the ones with opinion and the correctors should gather and consult each other regarding their affairs, so the one whom they see as being rightful for it, they should make him to be in charge of their affairs, and make him to be the one standing upon them, for it is not hidden upon the people of every era who is correct from them for the caliphate.

فَإِنِ ادَّعَى مُدَّعٍ مِنَ النَّاسِ جَمِيعاً أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص اسْتَخْلَفَ رَجُلًا بِعَيْنِهِ نَصَبَهُ لِلنَّاسِ وَ نَصَّ عَلَيْهِ بِاسْمِهِ وَ نَسَبِهِ فَقَدْ أَبْطَلَ فِي قَوْلِهِ وَ أَتَى بِخِلَافِ مَا يَعْرِفُهُ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ خَالَفَ عَلَى جَمَاعَةِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ

So if a claimant from the people in their entirety were to claim that Rasool-Allahsaww chose a particular man as a caliph, nominating him for the people, and mentioned him by his name and nominated him, so he is false in his words and has come with opposite to what the companions of Rasool-Allahsaww recognise, and has opposed the community of the Muslims.

وَ إِنِ ادَّعَى مُدَّعٍ أَنَّ خِلَافَةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص إِرْثٌ وَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص‏ يُورَثُ فَقَدْ أَحَالَ فِي قَوْلِهِ لِأَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ نَحْنُ مَعَاشِرَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ لَا نُورَثُ مَا تَرَكْنَاهُ صَدَقَةٌ

And if a claimant were to claim that the caliphate of Rasool-Allahsaww is an inheritance and that Rasool-Allahsaww leaves inheritances, so he has differed in his words, because Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Wesaww, the community of Prophetsas, do not leave inheritance. Whatever weasws leave is charity’.

وَ إِنِ ادَّعَى مُدَّعٍ أَنَّ الْخِلَافَةَ لَا تَصْلُحُ إِلَّا لِرَجُلٍ وَاحِدٍ مِنْ بَيْنِ النَّاسِ وَ أَنَّهَا مَقْصُورَةٌ فِيهِ وَ لَا تَنْبَغِي لِغَيْرِهِ لِأَنَّهَا تَتْلُو النُّبُوَّةَ فَقَدْ كَذَبَ لِأَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص قَالَ أَصْحَابِي كَالنُّجُومِ بِأَيِّهِمُ اقْتَدَيْتُمُ اهْتَدَيْتُمْ

And if a claimant were to claim that the caliphate is not correct except for one man from between the people, and it is enclosed regarding him, and it is not befitting for others because it follows the Prophet-hood, so he has lied, because the Prophetsaww said: ‘Mysaww companions are like the stars, with whichever you seek guidance, you will be guided aright’.

وَ إِنِ ادَّعَى مُدَّعٍ أَنَّهُ مُسْتَحِقٌّ لِلْخِلَافَةِ وَ الْإِمَامَةِ بِقُرْبِهِ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص ثُمَّ هِيَ مَقْصُورَةٌ عَلَيْهِ وَ عَلَى عَقِبِهِ يَرِثُهَا الْوَلَدُ مِنْهُمْ عَنْ وَالِدِهِ ثُمَّ هِيَ كَذَلِكَ فِي كُلِّ عَصْرٍ وَ زَمَانٍ لَا تَصْلُحُ لِغَيْرِهِمْ وَ لَا يَنْبَغِي أَنْ يَكُونَ لِأَحَدٍ سِوَاهُمْ إِلَى أَنْ يَرِثَ اللَّهُ‏ الْأَرْضَ وَ مَنْ عَلَيْها فَلَيْسَ لَهُ وَ لَا لِوُلْدِهِ وَ إِنْ دَنَا مِنَ النَّبِيِّ نَسَبُهُ لِأَنَّ اللَّهَ يَقُولُ وَ قَوْلُهُ الْقَاضِي عَلَى كُلِّ أَحَدٍ إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ أَتْقاكُمْ‏

And if a claimant were to claim that he is rightful for the caliphate and the Imamate by his nearness from Rasool-Allahazwj, then it is enclosed upon him and upon his posterity, the son from them inheriting from his father, then it is like that in every era and time, not being correct for others, nor is it befitting that it happens to be for anyone besides them, until Allahazwj Inherits the earth and the ones upon it, and even if his lineage is close from the Prophet, because Allahazwj is Saying, and Hisazwj Words are the Judge upon every one: Surely, the most honourable of you in the Presence of Allah is the most pious of you. [49:13].

وَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّ ذِمَّةَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَاحِدَةٌ يَسْعَى بِهَا أَدْنَاهُمْ وَ كُلُّهُمْ يَدٌ عَلَى مَنْ سِوَاهُمْ فَمَنْ آمَنَ بِكِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَ أَقَرَّ بِسُنَّةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَدِ اسْتَقَامَ وَ أَنَابَ وَ أَخَذَ بِالصَّوَابِ وَ مَنْ كَرِهَ ذَلِكَ مِنْ فِعَالِهِمْ فَقَدْ خَالَفَ الْحَقَّ وَ الْكِتَابَ وَ فَارَقَ جَمَاعَةَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ فَاقْتُلُوهُ فَإِنَّ فِي قَتْلِهِ صَلَاحاً لِلْأُمَّةِ

And Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘The responsibility of the Muslims is one. Their lowest one should strive with it, and all of them are a hand upon the ones besides them. So, the one who believes in the Book of Allahazwj and accepts the Sunnah of Rasool-Allahsaww, so he is straight, and penitent, and has taken with the correctness; and the one who dislikes that from their deeds, so he has opposed the truth, and the Book, as separated from the group of Muslims. Therefore kill him, for in killing him is the correctness for the community.

وَ قَدْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَنْ جَاءَ إِلَى أُمَّتِي وَ هُمْ جَمِيعٌ فَفَرَّقَهُمْ فَاقْتُلُوهُ وَ اقْتُلُوا الْفَرْدَ كَائِناً مَنْ كَانَ مِنَ النَّاسِ فَإِنَّ الِاجْتِمَاعَ رَحْمَةٌ وَ الْفُرْقَةَ عَذَابٌ وَ لَا تَجْتَمِعُ أُمَّتِي عَلَى الضَّلَالِ أَبَداً وَ إِنَّ الْمُسْلِمِينَ يَدٌ وَاحِدَةٌ عَلَى مَنْ سِوَاهُمْ وَ إِنَّهُ لَا يَخْرُجُ مِنْ جَمَاعَةِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ إِلَّا مُفَارِقٌ وَ مُعَانِدٌ لَهُمْ وَ مُظَاهِرٌ عَلَيْهِمْ أَعْدَاءَهُمْ فَقَدْ أَبَاحَ اللَّهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ دَمَهُ وَ أَحَلَّ قَتْلَهُ

And Rasool-Allahsaww has said: ‘One who comes to mysaww community and they are together, and he separates them, so kill him, and kill the individual, whatever happens can happen from the people, for the unity is a mercy, and the sects are a punishment, and mysaww community will not unite upon the straying, ever, and that the Muslims are one hand upon the ones besides them, and no one will exit from the community of the Muslims except a separator, and one obstinate to them, and a supporter of their enemies against them, so Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww have legalised his blood, and permitted killing him’.

وَ كَتَبَ سَعِيدُ بْنُ الْعَاصِ بِاتِّفَاقٍ مِمَّنْ أَثْبَتَ اسْمَهُ وَ شَهَادَتَهُ آخِرَ هَذِهِ الصَّحِيفَةِ فِي الْمُحَرَّمِ سَنَةَ عَشَرَةٍ مِنَ الْهِجْرَةِ وَ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعالَمِينَ‏ وَ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ وَ سَلَّمَ

And Saeed Bin Al-Aas wrote in accordance with the ones who affirmed his name, and another ones witness – This agreement is in Muharram of the year ten from the Emigration, and the Praise is for Allahazwj, Lordazwj of the worlds, and may Allahazwj Send Salawat upon our Prophetsaww Muhammadsaww and hissaww Progenyasws, and the greetings’.

ثُمَّ دُفِعَتِ الصَّحِيفَةُ إِلَى أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ الْجَرَّاحِ فَوَجَّهَ بِهَا إِلَى مَكَّةَ فَلَمْ تَزَلِ الصَّحِيفَةُ فِي الْكَعْبَةِ مَدْفُونَةً إِلَى أَوَانِ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ فَاسْتَخْرَجَهَا مِنْ مَوْضِعِهَا وَ هِيَ الصَّحِيفَةُ الَّتِي تَمَنَّى أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع لَمَّا تُوُفِّيَ عُمَرُ فَوَقَفَ بِهِ وَ هُوَ مُسَجًّى بِثَوْبِهِ قَالَ مَا أَحَبَّ إِلَيَّ أَنْ أَلْقَى اللَّهَ بِصَحِيفَةِ هَذَا الْمُسَجَّى

Then he handed over the parchment to Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah, and he went with it to Makkah. So the parchment did not cease to be in the Kabah, buried, until the time of Umar Bin Al-Khattab. He took it out from its place, and it is the parchment which Amir Al-Momineenasws had wanted to get hold of, when Umar died. Heasws stood with it and it was wrapped in hisasws clothes (and) heasws said: ‘How beloved is to measws that Iasws meet Allahazwj with this hidden agreement’.

ثُمَّ انْصَرَفُوا وَ صَلَّى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِالنَّاسِ صَلَاةَ الْفَجْرِ ثُمَّ جَلَسَ فِي مَجْلِسِهِ يَذْكُرُ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى حَتَّى طَلَعَتِ الشَّمْسُ فَالْتَفَتَ إِلَى أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ الْجَرَّاحِ فَقَالَ لَهُ بَخْ بَخْ مَنْ مِثْلُكَ وَ قَدْ أَصْبَحْتَ أَمِينَ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ

Then they left, and Rasool-Allahsaww prayed Salat Al-Fajr (leading) the people, then sat in hissaww gathering mentioning Allahazwj the Exalted until the sun emerged. Hesaww turned towards Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah and said to him: ‘Congratulations! Congratulations! Who is like you and you have (now) become a trustee of this community’.

ثُمَّ تَلَا فَوَيْلٌ لِلَّذِينَ يَكْتُبُونَ الْكِتابَ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ ثُمَّ يَقُولُونَ هذا مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ لِيَشْتَرُوا بِهِ ثَمَناً قَلِيلًا فَوَيْلٌ لَهُمْ مِمَّا كَتَبَتْ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَ وَيْلٌ لَهُمْ مِمَّا يَكْسِبُونَ

Then hesaww recited: So woe be unto those who are writing the Book with their own hands, then they are saying, ‘This is from the Presence of Allahazwj’, in order to be taking a small price through it. So, woe is for them from what their hands wrote, and woe is for them from what they are earning [2:79].

لَقَدْ أَشْبَهَ هَؤُلَاءِ رِجَالٌ فِي هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ يَسْتَخْفُونَ مِنَ النَّاسِ وَ لا يَسْتَخْفُونَ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ هُوَ مَعَهُمْ إِذْ يُبَيِّتُونَ ما لا يَرْضى‏ مِنَ الْقَوْلِ وَ كانَ اللَّهُ بِما يَعْمَلُونَ مُحِيطاً

Men in this community have resembled, They are concealing from the people, and they cannot conceal from Allah, and He is with them when they are spending the nights in what does not Please Him from the words; and Allah was always Encompassing with what they were doing [4:108].

ثُمَّ قَالَ لَقَدْ أَصْبَحَ فِي هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ فِي يَوْمِي هَذَا قَوْمٌ ضَاهُوهُمْ فِي صَحِيفَتِهِمُ الَّتِي كَتَبُوهَا عَلَيْنَا فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ وَ عَلَّقُوهَا فِي الْكَعْبَةِ وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يُمَتِّعُهُمْ لِيَبْتَلِيَهُمْ وَ يَبْتَلِيَ مَنْ يَأْتِي بَعْدَهُمْ تَفْرِقَةً بَيْنَ الْخَبِيثِ وَ الطَّيِّبِ

Then hesaww said: ‘In this morning of this day of minesaww, a group has become a match regarding their agreement which they had written during the pre-Islamic period, and had cast it in the Kabah, and that Allahazwj the Exalted gave them a respite and let them be plagued, and plague the ones to come after them to distinguish between the wicked and the good.

وَ لَوْ لَا أَنَّهُ سُبْحَانَهُ أَمَرَنِي بِالْإِعْرَاضِ عَنْهُمْ لِلْأَمْرِ الَّذِي هُوَ بَالِغُهُ لَقَدَّمْتُهُمْ فَضَرَبْتُ أَعْنَاقَهُمْ

And if the Glorious Oneazwj has Commanded mesaww with the turning away from them for the matter which it to reach, Isaww would have brought them forwards and struck off their necks’.

قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ فَوَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ رَأَيْنَا هَؤُلَاءِ النَّفَرَ عِنْدَ قَوْلِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص هَذِهِ الْمَقَالَةَ وَ قَدْ أَخَذَتْهُمُ الرِّعْدَةُ فَمَا يَمْلِكُ أَحَدٌ مِنْهُمْ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ شَيْئاً وَ لَمْ يَخْفَ عَلَى أَحَدٍ مِمَّنْ حَضَرَ مَجْلِسَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص إِيَّاهُمْ عَنَى بِقَوْلِهِ وَ لَهُمْ ضَرَبَ تِلْكَ الْأَمْثَالَ بِمَا تَلَا مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ

Huzeyfa said, ‘By Allahazwj! We had seen these persons during the words of Rasool-Allahsaww, this speech, and the awe has seized them, and no one from them could control anything from himself, and it was not hidden from anyone, from the ones who were present in the gathering of Rasool-Allahsaww that day, that Rasool-Allahsaww had meant them by hissaww words and had struck the examples for them with what hesaww had recited from the Quran’.

قَالَ وَ لَمَّا قَدِمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنْ سَفَرِهِ ذَلِكَ نَزَلَ مَنْزِلَ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ زَوْجَتِهِ فَأَقَامَ بِهَا شَهْراً لَا يَنْزِلُ مَنْزِلًا سِوَاهُ مِنْ مَنَازِلِ أَزْوَاجِهِ كَمَا كَانَ يَفْعَلُ قَبْلَ ذَلِكَ

He (Huzeyfa) said, ‘And when Rasool-Allahsaww arrived from that journey of hissaww and descended in the house of Umm Salamara, hissaww wife, hesaww stayed with herra for a month, not lodging in any house besides it from the houses of hissaww (other) wives, just as hesaww used to do before that’.

قَالَ فَشَكَتْ عَائِشَةُ وَ حَفْصَةُ ذَلِكَ إِلَى أَبَوَيْهِمَا فَقَالا لَهُمَا إِنَّا لَنَعْلَمُ لِمَ صَنَعَ ذَلِكَ وَ لِأَيِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ هُوَ امْضِيَا إِلَيْهِ فَلَاطِفَاهُ فِي الْكَلَامِ وَ خَادِعَاهُ عَنْ نَفْسِهِ فَإِنَّكُمَا تَجِدَانِهِ حَيِيّاً كَرِيماً فَلَعَلَّكُمَا تَسُلَّانِ مَا فِي قَلْبِهِ وَ تَسْتَخْرِجَانِ سَخِيمَتَهُ

He (Huzeyfa) said, ‘Ayesha and Hafsa complained of that to their fathers (Abu Bakr and Umar). They said to them, ‘We know why hesaww has done that and for which thing (reason) hesaww is going to, so do not extinguish himsaww in the speech and deceive himsaww from himselfsaww, for you will fling himsaww welcoming, benevolent. Perhaps you could ask what is in hissaww heart and take out hissaww cloudiness’.

قَالَ فَمَضَتْ عَائِشَةُ وَحْدَهَا إِلَيْهِ فَأَصَابَتْهُ فِي مَنْزِلِ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ وَ عِنْدَهُ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَقَالَ لَهَا النَّبِيُّ مَا جَاءَ بِكِ يَا حُمَيْرَاءُ قَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَنْكَرْتُ تَخَلُّفَكَ عَنْ مَنْزِلِكَ هَذِهِ الْمَرَّةَ وَ أَنَا أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنْ سَخَطِكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

He (Huzeyfa) said, ‘Ayesha went alone to himsaww and found himsaww to be in the house of Umm Salamara and Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws was with himsaww. The Prophetsaww said to her: ‘What have you come for, O Humeyra?’ She said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! I do not like staying behind from yoursaww lodgement for this (length of) time, and I seek refuge with Allahazwj from yoursaww anger, O Rasool-Allahsaww’.

فَقَالَ لَوْ كَانَ الْأَمْرُ كَمَا تَقُولِينَ لَمَا أَظْهَرْتِ سِرّاً أَوْصَيْتُكِ بِكِتْمَانِهِ لَقَدْ هَلَكْتِ وَ أَهْلَكْتِ أُمَّةً مِنَ النَّاسِ

Hesaww said: ‘If the matter was as you are saying, you would not have manifested the secret Isaww had bequeathed you with concealing it. You are destroyed and have caused a community from the people to be destroyed’.

قَالَ ثُمَّ أَمَرَ خَادِمَةً لِأُمِّ سَلَمَةَ فَقَالَ اجْمَعِي هَؤُلَاءِ يَعْنِي نِسَاءَهُ فَجَمَعَتْهُنَّ فِي مَنْزِلِ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ فَقَالَ لَهُنَّ اسْمَعْنَ مَا أَقُولُ لَكُنَّ وَ أَشَارَ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَقَالَ لَهُنَّ هَذَا أَخِي وَ وَصِيِّي وَ وَارِثِي وَ الْقَائِمُ فِيكُنَّ وَ فِي الْأُمَّةِ مِنْ بَعْدِي فَأَطِعْنَهُ فِيمَا يَأْمُرُكُنَّ بِهِ وَ لَا تَعْصِينَهُ فَتَهْلُكْنَ بِمَعْصِيَتِهِ

He (Huzeyfa) said, ‘Then hesaww instructed a servant of Umm Salamara saying: ‘Gather them!’ – meaning hissaww wives. They gathered in the house of Umm Salamara. Hesaww said to them: ‘Listen to what Isaww am saying to you all’ – and hesaww indicated with hissaww hand towards Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws and said to them: ‘This is mysaww brotherasws, and mysaww successorasws, and mysaww inheritor, and the one standing among you and in mysaww community from after mesaww, so obey himasws in whatever heasws orders you all with, and do not disobey himasws, for you will be destroyed by disobeying himasws’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ أُوصِيكَ بِهِنَّ فَأَمْسِكْهُنَّ مَا أَطْعَنَ اللَّهَ وَ أَطَعْنَكَ وَ أَنْفِقْ عَلَيْهِنَّ مِنْ مَالِكَ وَ مُرْهُنَّ بِأَمْرِكَ وَ انْهَهُنَّ عَمَّا يَرِيبُكَ وَ خَلِّ سَبِيلَهُنَّ إِنْ عَصَيْنَكَ

Then hesaww said: ‘O Aliasws! Isaww bequeath them to youasws, so withhold them for as long as they obey Allahazwj and obey youasws, and spend upon them from yourasws wealth, and instruct them with yourasws instructions, and forbid them from what is doubtful to youasws, and free their way (divorce them on mysaww behalf) if they disobey youasws’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهُ إِنَّهُنَّ نِسَاءٌ وَ فِيهِنَّ الْوَهْنُ وَ ضَعْفُ الرَّأْيِ

Aliasws said: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! They are women, and among them is the feebleness and the weakness of opinion’.

فَقَالَ ارْفُقْ بِهِنَّ مَا كَانَ الرِّفْقُ أَمْثَلَ بِهِنَّ فَمَنْ عَصَاكَ مِنْهُنَّ فَطَلِّقْهَا طَلَاقاً يَبْرَأُ اللَّهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ مِنْهَا

Hesaww said: ‘Be kind with them with the most exemplary kindness with them. So, the one from them who disobeys youasws, divorce her (on mysaww behalf) with such a divorce, Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww would be disavowed from her’.

قَالَ وَ كُلُّ نِسَاءِ النَّبِيِّ قَدْ صَمَتْنَ فَلَمْ يَقُلْنَ شَيْئاً فَتَكَلَّمَتْ عَائِشَةُ فَقَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا كُنَّا لِتَأْمُرَنَا بِشَيْ‏ءٍ فَنُخَالِفَهُ بِمَا سِوَاهُ

He (Huzeyfa) said, ‘And every wife of the Prophetsaww has been quiet and did not say anything. Ayesha spoke, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! We have not been instructed with anything, so we opposed it with what is besides it’.

فَقَالَ لَهَا بَلَى يَا حُمَيْرَاءُ قَدْ خَالَفْتِ أَمْرِي أَشَدَّ خِلَافٍ وَ ايْمُ اللَّهِ لَتُخَالِفِنَّ قَوْلِي هَذَا وَ لَتَعْصِنَّهُ بَعْدِي وَ لَتَخْرُجِنَّ مِنَ الْبَيْتِ الَّذِي أُخَلِّفُكِ فِيهِ مُتَبَرِّجَةً قَدْ حَفَّ بِكِ فِئَامٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ فَتُخَالِفِينَهُ ظَالِمَةً لَهُ عَاصِيَةً لِرَبِّكِ وَ لَتَنْبِحَنَّكِ فِي طَرِيقِكِ كِلَابُ الْحَوْأَبِ أَلَا إِنَّ ذَلِكِ كَائِنٌ

Hesaww said to her: ‘Yes, O Humeyra! You have opposed mysaww order with a severe opposition, and Isaww swear by Allahazwj, you will be opposing these words of mine and disobey himasws after mesaww, and you will be going out from the house which Isaww leave you behind in it, improperly dressed, surrounded by a group of people, and you will oppose wrongfully to himasws, in disobedience of your Lordazwj, and there will be reproaching you in your road, the dogs of Al-Hawwab. Indeed, that will be happening’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ قُمْنَ فَانْصَرِفْنَ إِلَى مَنَازِلِكُنَّ قَالَ فَقُمْنَ فَانْصَرَفْنَ

Then hesaww said: ‘Arise and leave to go to your houses!’ They arose and left.

قَالَ ثُمَّ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص جَمَعَ أُولَئِكَ النَّفَرَ وَ مَنْ مَالَأَهُمْ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع وَ طَابَقَهُمْ عَلَى عَدَاوَتِهِ وَ مَنْ كَانَ مِنَ الطُّلَقَاءِ وَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ وَ كَانُوا زُهَاءَ أَرْبَعَةِ آلَافِ رَجُلٍ فَجَعَلَهُمْ تَحْتَ يَدَيْ أُسَامَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ مَوْلَاهُ وَ أَمَّرَهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ أَمَرَهُ بِالْخُرُوجِ إِلَى نَاحِيَةٍ مِنَ الشَّامِ

He (Huzeyfa) said, ‘Then Rasool-Allahsaww gathered those (fourteen) persons, and the ones they inclined against Aliasws, and matched them upon hisasws enmity, and the ones who were from the freed ones, and the hypocrites, and they were approximately four thousand men. Hesaww made them to be under the hand (command) of Usama Bin Zayd, hissaww slave, and made him a commander upon them, and ordered him with the going out to an area of Syria.

فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّا قَدِمْنَا مِنْ سَفَرِنَا الَّذِي كُنَّا فِيهِ مَعَكَ‏ وَ نَحْنُ نَسْأَلُكَ أَنْ تَأْذَنَ لَنَا فِي الْمَقَامِ لِنُصْلِحَ مِنْ شَأْنِنَا مَا يُصْلِحُنَا فِي سَفَرِنَا

They said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! We have just arrived from our journey which we were in with yousaww, and we ask you that yousaww permit for us regarding the staying in order to sort out our affairs what would be correct for us in our journey’.

قَالَ فَأَمَرَهُمْ أَنْ يَكُونُوا فِي الْمَدِينَةِ رَيْثَمَا يَحْتَاجُونَ إِلَيْهِ وَ أَمَرَ أُسَامَةَ بْنَ زَيْدٍ فَعَسْكَرَ بِهِمْ عَلَى أَمْيَالٍ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ فَأَقَامَ بِمَكَانِهِ الَّذِي حَدَّ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مُنْتَظِراً لِلْقَوْمِ أَنْ يُوَافُوهُ إِذَا فَرَغُوا مِنْ أُمُورِهِمْ وَ قَضَاءِ حَوَائِجِهِمْ وَ إِنَّمَا أَرَادَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِمَا صَنَعَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنْ تَخْلُوَ الْمَدِينَةُ مِنْهُمْ وَ لَا يَبْقَى بِهَا أَحَدٌ مِنَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ

He (Huzeyfa) said, ‘Hesaww ordered them that they should happen to be in Al-Medina pending they being needed to himsaww, and ordered Usama Bin Zayd to march with them upon some miles from Al-Medina. So, he stayed in the place which Rasool-Allahsaww had limited for him, awaiting the people and they would be loyal to him when they were free from their affairs and had fulfilled their needs; and rather Rasool-Allahsaww wanted with what hesaww had done from that, is that Al-Medina should be vacated from them and there should not remain at it anyone from the hypocrites’.

قَالَ فَهُمْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ مِنْ شَأْنِهِمْ وَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص رَائِبٌ يَحُثُّهُمْ وَ يَأْمُرُهُمْ بِالْخُرُوجِ وَ التَّعْجِيلِ إِلَى الْوَجْهِ الَّذِي نَدَبَهُمْ إِلَيْهِ إِذْ مَرِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَرَضَهُ الَّذِي تُوُفِّيَ فِيهِ فَلَمَّا رَأَوْا ذَلِكَ تَبَاطَئُوا عَمَّا أَمَرَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنَ الْخُرُوجِ

He (Huzeyfa) said, ‘They were upon that from their affairs, and Rasool-Allahsaww was fearful, urging them and ordering them with the going out, and the hastening to the direction which hesaww had assigned them towards, when Rasool-Allahsaww fell ill with the illness in which hesaww passed away. When they saw that, they delayed from what Rasool-Allahsaww had ordered them of the going out.

فَأَمَرَ قَيْسَ بْنَ عُبَادَةَ وَ كَانَ سباق‏ [سَيَّافَ‏] رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ الْحُبَابَ بْنَ الْمُنْذِرِ فِي جَمَاعَةٍ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ يَرْحَلُوا بِهِمْ إِلَى عَسْكَرِهِمْ فَأَخْرَجَهُمْ قَيْسُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ وَ الْحُبَابُ بْنُ الْمُنْذِرِ حَتَّى أَلْحَقَاهُمْ بِعَسْكَرِهِمْ وَ قَالا لِأُسَامَةَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَمْ يُرَخِّصْ لَكَ فِي التَّخَلُّفِ فَسِرْ مِنْ وَقْتِكَ هَذَا لِيَعْلَمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ذَلِكَ

So hesaww instructed Qays Bin Ubada, and he was a swordsman (executioner) of Rasool-Allahsaww, and Al-Hubab Bin Al-Munzar among a group of Helpers to depart with them to their army. Qays Bin Sa’ad and Al-Hubab Bin Al-Munzar took them out until they joined up with their army, and they said to Usama, ‘Rasool-Allahsaww does not allow you regarding the staying behind, so travel at this time of yours, for Rasool-Allahsaww to know that’.

فَارْتَحَلَ بِهِمْ أُسَامَةُ وَ انْصَرَفَ قَيْسٌ وَ الْحُبَابُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَأَعْلَمَاهُ بِرِحْلَةِ الْقَوْمِ فَقَالَ لَهُمَا إِنَّ الْقَوْمَ غَيْرُ سَائِرِينَ

Usama departed with them, and Qays and Al-Hubab left to go to Rasool-Allahsaww and they let himsaww know of the departure of the people. Hesaww said to them: ‘The people are not travelling’.

قَالَ فَخَلَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بِأُسَامَةَ وَ جَمَاعَةٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ فَقَالُوا إِلَى أَيْنَ نَنْطَلِقُ وَ نُخَلِّي الْمَدِينَةَ وَ نَحْنُ أَحْوَجُ مَا كُنَّا إِلَيْهَا وَ إِلَى الْمُقَامِ بِهَا فَقَالَ لَهُمْ وَ مَا ذَلِكَ

He (Huzeyfa) said: ‘Abu Bakr and Umar and Abu Ubeyda broke ranks with Usama and a group of his companions and they said, ‘Where are we going to and vacating Al-Medina, and we are most needy as can be to it, and to the staying at it’. He said to them, ‘And what is that (need)?’

قَالُوا إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَدْ نَزَلَ بِهِ الْمَوْتُ وَ وَ اللَّهِ لَئِنْ خَلَّيْنَا الْمَدِينَةَ لَتَحْدُثَنَّ بِهَا أُمُورٌ لَا يُمْكِنُ إِصْلَاحُهَا نَنْظُرُ مَا يَكُونُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص ثُمَّ الْمَسِيرُ بَيْنَ أَيْدِينَا

They said, ‘Rasool-Allahsaww, the death has descended with himsaww, and by Allahazwj, if we were to vacate Al-Medina, matters would be innovated at it, we will not be able to correct these. We shall (first) look at what is happening from the matter of Rasool-Allahsaww, then the journey would be in front of us’.

قَالَ فَرَجَعَ الْقَوْمُ إِلَى الْمُعَسْكَرِ الْأَوَّلِ وَ أَقَامُوا بِهِ وَ بَعَثُوا رَسُولًا يَتَعَرَّفُ لَهُمْ أَمْرَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَأَتَى الرَّسُولُ إِلَى عَائِشَةَ فَسَأَلَهَا عَنْ ذَلِكَ سِرّاً فَقَالَتْ امْضِ إِلَى أَبِي وَ عُمَرَ وَ مَنْ مَعَهُمَا وَ قُلْ لَهُمَا إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَدْ ثَقُلَ فَلَا يَبْرَحَنَّ أَحَدٌ مِنْكُمْ وَ أَنَا أُعْلِمُكُمْ بِالْخَبَرِ وَقْتاً بَعْدَ وَقْتٍ وَ اشْتَدَّتْ عِلَّةُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

He (Huzeyfa) said, ‘The group returned at first to the army and stayed with it, and they sent a messenger in order for them to know the matter of Rasool-Allahsaww. The messenger came to Ayesha and asked her secretly about that. She said, ‘Go to my father, and Umar and the ones with them and say to them that Rasool-Allahsaww has become heavy (with illness) so no one from you should depart, and I shall let you know with the news, time after time, and I shall witness the illness of Rasool-Allahsaww’.

فَدَعَتْ عَائِشَةُ صُهَيْباً فَقَالَتْ امْضِ إِلَى أَبِي‏ بَكْرٍ وَ أَعْلِمْهُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً فِي حَالٍ لَا يُرْجَى فَهَلُمَّ إِلَيْنَا أَنْتَ وَ عُمَرُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ وَ مَنْ رَأَيْتُمْ أَنْ يَدْخُلَ مَعَكُمْ وَ لْيَكُنْ دُخُولُكُمْ فِي اللَّيْلِ سِرّاً

Ayesha called Suheyb and she said, ‘Go to Abu Bakr and let him know that Muhammadsaww is in a state hesaww cannot return from, so come to us, you, and Umar, and Abu Ubeyda, and the ones you see to have entered to be with you, and let your entry among the people be secretive during the night’.

قَالَ فَأَتَاهُمُ الْخَبَرُ فَأَخَذُوا بِيَدِ صُهَيْبٍ فَأَدْخَلُوهُ إِلَى أُسَامَةَ فَأَخْبَرُوهُ الْخَبَرَ وَ قَالُوا لَهُ كَيْفَ يَنْبَغِي لَنَا أَنْ نَتَخَلَّفَ عَنْ مُشَاهَدَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ اسْتَأْذَنُوهُ فِي الدُّخُولِ فَأَذِنَ لَهُمْ وَ أَمَرَهُمْ أَنْ لَا يَعْلَمَ بِدُخُولِهِمْ أَحَدٌ وَ إِنْ عُوفِيَ رَسُولُ اللَّهُ رَجَعْتُمْ إِلَى عَسْكَرِكُمْ وَ إِنْ حَدَثَ حَادِثُ الْمَوْتِ عَرِّفُونَا ذَلِكَ لِنَكُونَ فِي جَمَاعَةِ النَّاسِ

He (Huzeyfa) said, ‘The news came to them, so they grabbed a hand of Suheyb and took him to Usama and informed him the news, and they said to him, ‘How can it be befitting for us that we stay behind from attending Rasool-Allahsaww ?’ And they (asked for a) permission regarding the entry to see himsaww. He permitted for them and instructed them that not to let anyone know of their entry, and if Rasool-Allahsaww were to recover, they would return to their army, and if the death were to occur, ‘Let us know that so we can become among a community of the people’.

فَدَخَلَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ لَيْلًا الْمَدِينَةَ وَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص قَدْ ثَقُلَ فَأَفَاقَ بَعْضَ الْإِفَاقَةِ فَقَالَ لَقَدْ طَرَقَ لَيْلَتَنَا هَذِهِ الْمَدِينَةَ شَرٌّ عَظِيمٌ فَقِيلَ لَهُ وَ مَا هُوَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

Abu Bakr, and Umar and Abu Ubeyda entered Al-Medina at night, and Rasool-Allahsaww had become heavy (with illness). Hesaww woke up in one of the waking and said: ‘A mighty evil has knocked this city in this night of ours’. It was said to himsaww, ‘And what is it, O Rasool-Allahsaww?’

فَقَالَ إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا فِي جَيْشِ أُسَامَةَ قَدْ رَجَعَ مِنْهُمْ نَفَرٌ يُخَالِفُونَ عَنْ أَمْرِي أَلَا إِنِّي إِلَى اللَّهِ مِنْهُمْ بَرِي‏ءٌ وَيْحَكُمْ نَفِّذُوا جَيْشَ أُسَامَةَ فَلَمْ يَزَلْ يَقُولُ ذَلِكَ حَتَّى قَالَهَا مَرَّاتٍ كَثِيرَةً

Hesaww said: ‘Those who were in the army of Usama, and number of them have returned in opposition to mysaww orders. Indeed! Isaww disavow to Allahazwj from them. Woe be unto you! Enforce the army of Usama!’ Hesaww kept saying that until hesaww had said it many times.

قَالَ وَ كَانَ بِلَالٌ مُؤَذِّنُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص يُؤَذِّنُ بِالصَّلَاةِ فِي كُلِّ وَقْتِ صَلَاةٍ فَإِنْ قَدَرَ عَلَى الْخُرُوجِ تَحَامَلَ وَ خَرَجَ وَ صَلَّى بِالنَّاسِ وَ إِنْ هُوَ لَمْ يَقْدِرْ عَلَى الْخُرُوجِ أَمَرَ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَصَلَّى بِالنَّاسِ

He (Huzeyfa) said, ‘And Bilal, Muezzin of Rasool-Allahsaww, used to proclaim Azaan for the Salaat during every time of the Salat, so if hesaww was able upon the going out, hesaww would be carried and hesaww would go out and pray Salat (leading) the people, and if hesaww was not able upon the going out, would instruct Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, and heasws would pray Salat (leading) the people.

وَ كَانَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع وَ الْفَضْلُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ لَا يُزَايِلَانِهِ فِي مَرَضِهِ ذَلِكَ فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنْ لَيْلَتِهِ تِلْكَ الَّتِي قَدِمَ فِيهَا الْقَوْمُ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا تَحْتَ يَدَيْ أُسَامَةَ أَذَّنَ بِلَالٌ ثُمَّ أَتَاهُ يُخْبِرُهُ كَعَادَتِهِ فَوَجَدَهُ قَدْ ثَقُلَ فَمُنِعَ مِنَ الدُّخُولِ إِلَيْهِ

And Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws and Al-Fazl Bin Al-Abbas were not leaving himsaww during that illness of hissaww. When Rasool-Allahsaww woke up in the morning from that night of hisas in which the group had arrived, those who had been under the hand of Usama, Bilal proclaimed Azaan, then came to himsaww informing himsaww as per his habit, but found himsaww to be heavy (with illness), and was not permitted from entering to see himsaww.

فَأَمَرَتْ عَائِشَةُ صُهَيْباً أَنْ يَمْضِيَ إِلَى أَبِيهَا فَيُعْلِمَهُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَدْ ثَقُلَ فِي مَرَضِهِ وَ لَيْسَ يُطِيقُ النُّهُوضَ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ وَ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع قَدْ شَغَلَ بِهِ وَ بِمُشَاهَدَتِهِ عَنِ الصَّلَاةِ بِالنَّاسِ فَاخْرُجْ أَنْتَ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ فَصَلِّ بِالنَّاسِ فَإِنَّهَا حَالَةٌ تَهْنِئُكَ وَ حُجَّةٌ لَكَ بَعْدَ الْيَوْمِ

Ayesha instructed Suheyb to go to her father and let him know that, ‘Rasool-Allahsaww had become heavy in hissaww illness and cannot endure going to the Masjid, and Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws has been too pre-occupied with himsaww and attending to himsaww from praying the Salat (leading) the people, so you go to the Masjid and pray Salat (leading) the people, for it is a congratulatory situation and an argument for you after today’.

قَالَ فَلَمْ يَشْعُرِ النَّاسُ وَ هُمْ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ يَنْتَظِرُونَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص أَوْ عَلِيّاً ع يُصَلِّي بِهِمْ كَعَادَتِهِ الَّتِي عَرَفُوهَا فِي مَرَضِهِ إِذْ دَخَلَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْمَسْجِدَ وَ قَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَدْ ثَقُلَ وَ قَدْ أَمَرَنِي أَنْ أُصَلِّيَ بِالنَّاسِ

He (Huzeyfa) said, ‘The people were not aware and they were in the Masjid awaiting Rasool-Allahsaww or Aliasws to (lead) Salat with them like a habit they recognised during hissaww illness, when Abu Bakr entered the Masjid and said, ‘Rasool-Allahsaww has become heavy (in illness) and has instructed me that I should lead the people in Salat’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَنَّى لَكَ ذَلِكَ وَ أَنْتَ فِي جَيْشِ أُسَامَةَ وَ لَا وَ اللَّهِ لَا أَعْلَمُ أَحَداً بَعَثَ إِلَيْكَ وَ لَا أَمَرَكَ بِالصَّلَاةِ

A man from the companions of Rasool-Allahsaww said to him, ‘And how can that be so and you were in the army of Usama? And no, by Allahazwj, I do not know of anyone having been sent to you, nor you having been instructed with (leading) the Salat?’

ثُمَّ نَادَى النَّاسَ بِلَالٌ فَقَالَ عَلَى رِسْلِكُمْ رَحِمَكُمُ اللَّهُ لِأَسْتَأْذِنَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فِي ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ أَسْرَعَ حَتَّى أَتَى الْبَابَ فَدَقَّهُ دَقّاً شَدِيداً فَسَمِعَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ مَا هَذَا الدَّقُّ الْعَنِيفُ فَانْظُرُوا مَا هُوَ

Then Bilal called the people and said, ‘(It is) upon your messenger, may Allahazwj have Mercy on you all. I shall seek permission to see Rasool-Allahsaww regarding that’. Then he hastened to the door and knocked it severely. Rasool-Allahsaww heard it and said: ‘What is this violent knocking? Go and look what it is’.

قَالَ فَخَرَجَ الْفَضْلُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ فَفَتَحَ الْبَابَ فَإِذَا بِلَالٌ فَقَالَ مَا وَرَاءَكَ يَا بِلَالُ فَقَالَ إِنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ قَدْ دَخَلَ الْمَسْجِدَ وَ قَدْ تَقَدَّمَ حَتَّى وَقَفَ فِي مَقَامِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ زَعَمَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص أَمَرَهُ بِذَلِكَ

He (Huzeyfa) said, ‘Al-Fazl Bin Al-Abbas came out and opened the door, and there was Bilal. He said, ‘What is behind you, O Bilal?’ He said, ‘Abu Bakr has entered the Masjid and has proceeded until he has stood in the place of Rasool-Allahsaww and claims that Rasool-Allahsaww had instructed him with that’.

قَالَ أَ وَ لَيْسَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مَعَ جَيْشِ أُسَامَةَ هَذَا هُوَ وَ اللَّهِ الشَّرُّ الْعَظِيمُ الَّذِي طَرَقَ الْبَارِحَةَ الْمَدِينَةَ لَقَدْ أَخْبَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِذَلِكَ وَ دَخَلَ الْفَضْلُ وَ أَدْخَلَ بِلَالًا مَعَهُ فَقَالَ مَا وَرَاءَكَ يَا بِلَالُ فَأَخْبَرَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ الْخَبَرَ

He said, ‘Or isn’t Abu Bakr with the army of Usama? By Allahazwj! This is the mighty evil which knocked Al-Medina last night. Rasool-Allahsaww had informed us with that’. And Al-Fazl entered and Bilal entered with him. Hesaww said: ‘What is behind you, O Bilal?’ He informed Rasool-Allahsaww the news.

فَقَالَ أَقِيمُونِي أَقِيمُونِي أَخْرِجُوا بِي إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ وَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ قَدْ نَزَلَتْ بِالْإِسْلَامِ نَازِلَةٌ وَ فِتْنَةٌ عَظِيمَةٌ مِنَ الْفِتَنِ

Hesaww said: ‘Stand mesaww up! Stand me up! Come out with mesaww to the Masjid. By the Oneazwj in Whose Hand is mysaww soul! A calamity has descended with Al-Islam and a mighty Fitna (strife) from the Fitnas’.

ثُمَّ خَرَجَ مَعْصُوبَ الرَّأْسَ يَتَهَادَى بَيْنَ عَلِيٍّ وَ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ وَ رِجْلَاهُ تُجَرَّانِ فِي الْأَرْضِ حَتَّى دَخَلَ الْمَسْجِدَ وَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ قَائِمٌ فِي مَقَامِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَدْ أَطَافَ بِهِ عُمَرُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ وَ سَالِمٌ وَ صُهَيْبٌ وَ النَّفَرُ الَّذِينَ دَخَلُوا وَ أَكْثَرُ النَّاسِ قَدْ وَقَفُوا عَنِ الصَّلَاةِ يَنْتَظِرُونَ مَا يَأْتِي بِلَالٌ

Then hesaww went out, bandaged of the head, wobbling between Aliasws and Al-Fazl Bin Al-Abbas, and hissaww legs were dragging in the ground, until hesaww entered the Masjid, and Abu Bakr was standing in the place of Rasool-Allahsaww, and Umar and Abu Ubeyda and Saalim and Suheyb and a the number of those who had entered had surround him, and most of the people had refrained from the Salat awaiting what (news) Bilal would be coming with.

فَلَمَّا رَأَى النَّاسُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَدْ دَخَلَ الْمَسْجِدَ وَ هُوَ بِتِلْكَ الْحَالَةِ الْعَظِيمَةِ مِنَ الْمَرَضِ أَعْظَمُوا ذَلِكَ وَ تَقَدَّمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَجَذَبَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ مِنْ وَرَائِهِ فَنَحَّاهُ عَنِ الْمِحْرَابِ

When the people saw Rasool-Allahsaww to have entered the Masjid, and hesaww was in that grievous state from the illness, they considered that grievous, and Rasool-Allahsaww moved forward and pulled Abu Bakr from his behind and pushed him aside from the prayer niche.

وَ أَقْبَلَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ النَّفَرُ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا مَعَهُ فَتَوَارَوْا خَلْفَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَقْبَلَ النَّاسُ فَصَلَّوْا خَلْفَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ هُوَ جَالِسٌ وَ بِلَالٌ يُسْمِعُ النَّاسَ التَّكْبِيرَ حَتَّى قَضَى صَلَاتَهُ

And Abu Bakr and the number of those who had been with him, they lurked behind Rasool-Allahsaww, and the people came and prayed Salat behind Rasool-Allahsaww, and hesaww was seated, and Bilal made people hear the exclamation of Takbeer until hesaww had fulfilled hissaww Salat.

ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ فَلَمْ يَرَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَقَالَ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ أَ لَا تَعْجَبُونَ مِنِ ابْنِ أَبِي قُحَافَةَ وَ أَصْحَابِهِ الَّذِينَ أَنْفَذْتُهُمْ وَ جَعَلْتُهُمْ تَحْتَ يَدَيْ أُسَامَةَ وَ أَمَرْتُهُمْ بِالْمَسِيرِ إِلَى الْوَجْهِ الَّذِي وُجِّهُوا إِلَيْهِ فَخَالَفُوا ذَلِكَ وَ رَجَعُوا إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ ابْتِغَاءَ الْفِتْنَةِ أَلَا وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ أَرْكَسَهُمْ فِيهَا اعْرُجُوا بِي إِلَى الْمِنْبَرِ

Then Rasool-Allahsaww turned, but did not see Abu Bakr, so hesaww said: ‘O you people! Are you not wondering from the son of Abu Qohafa and his companions, those whom Isaww had sent and made them to be under the hand of Usama, and had ordered them with the journeying to the direction which Isaww had diverted to? But, they opposed that and returned to Al-Medina seeking the Fitna. Indeed! And surely Allahazwj had Arranged for them to be in it. Ascend mesaww to the pulpit!’

فَقَامَ وَ هُوَ مَرْبُوطٌ حَتَّى قَعَدَ عَلَى أَدْنَى مِرْقَاةٍ فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَ أَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ‏ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنِّي قَدْ جَاءَنِي مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي مَا النَّاسُ إِلَيْهِ صَائِرُونَ وَ إِنِّي قَدْ تَرَكْتُكُمْ عَلَى الْحُجَّةِ الْوَاضِحَةِ لَيْلُهَا كَنَهَارِهَا فَلَا تَخْتَلِفُوا مِنْ بَعْدِي كَمَا اخْتَلَفَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ

Hesaww stood up and hesaww was wrapped up, until hesaww sat upon the lowest step. Heazwj praised Allahazwj and extolled upon Himazwj, then said: ‘O you people! Surely there has come to mesaww from the Commands of mysaww Lordazwj what the people are patient to it, and Isaww am leaving you all upon the Divine Authority, its night is as clear as its day, so do not differ from after mesaww just as the ones before you from the children of Israel had differed.

أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّهُ لَا أُحِلُّ لَكُمْ إِلَّا مَا أَحَلَّهُ الْقُرْآنُ وَ لَا أُحَرِّمُ عَلَيْكُمْ إِلَّا مَا حَرَّمَهُ الْقُرْآنُ وَ إِنِّي مُخَلِّفٌ فِيكُمُ الثَّقَلَيْنِ مَا إِنْ تَمَسَّكْتُمْ بِهِمَا لَنْ تَضِلُّوا وَ لَنْ تَزِلُّوا كِتَابَ اللَّهِ وَ عِتْرَتِي أَهْلَ بَيْتِي

O you people! Surely, there is nothing permissible to you except what the Quran has Permitted, nor prohibited unto you except what the Quran has Prohibited, and Isaww am leaving behind among you the two weighty things, what if you were to adhered with these two, you will never go astray and never slip – Book of Allahazwj and mysaww family, Peopleasws of mysaww Household.

هُمَا الْخَلِيفَتَانِ فِيكُمْ وَ إِنَّهُمَا لَنْ يَفْتَرِقَا حَتَّى يَرِدَا عَلَيَّ الْحَوْضَ فَأُسَائِلُكُمْ بِمَا ذَا خَلَفْتُمُونِي فِيهِمَا وَ لَيُذَادَنَّ يَوْمَئِذٍ رِجَالٌ عَنْ حَوْضِي كَمَا تُذَادُ الْغَرِيبَةُ مِنَ الْإِبِلَ فَتَقُولُ رِجَالٌ أَنَا فُلَانٌ وَ أَنَا فُلَانٌ فَأَقُولُ أَمَّا الْأَسْمَاءَ فَقَدْ عَرَفْتُ وَ لَكِنَّكُمُ ارْتَدَدْتُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِي فَسُحْقاً لَكُمْ سُحْقاً

These are the two caliphs (replacements) among you, and they will never separate until they return to mesaww at the Fountain, so Isaww shall ask you all, what is that you dealt with mesaww regarding these two, and men would be impeded from mysaww Fountain just as the strange camel, so men would say, ‘I am so and so’, so Isaww would be saying: ‘As for the names, Isaww have recognise, but you reneged from after mesaww, so remoteness be for you all, remoteness!’

ثُمَّ نَزَلَ عَنِ الْمِنْبَرِ وَ عَادَ إِلَى حُجْرَتِهِ وَ لَمْ يَظْهَرْ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ لَا أَصْحَابُهُ حَتَّى قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ كَانَ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ وَ سَعْدٍ مِنَ السَّقِيفَةِ مَا كَانَ فَمَنَعُوا أَهْلَ بَيْتِ نَبِيِّهِمْ حُقُوقَهُمُ الَّتِي جَعَلَهَا اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَهُمْ

Then hesaww descended from the pulpit and returned to hissaww chamber, and neither Abu Bakr nor his companions appeared until Rasool-Allahsaww passed away, and it happened from the Helpers, and (clan of) Sa’ad, from the Saqeefa what happened. They deprived the Peopleasws of the Household their rights which Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic had Made it to be for them.

وَ أَمَّا كِتَابُ اللَّهِ فَمَزَّقُوهُ كُلَّ مُمَزَّقٍ وَ فِيمَا أَخْبَرْتُكَ يَا أَخَا الْأَنْصَارِ مِنْ خَطْبٍ مُعْتَبَرٍ لِمَنْ أَحَبَّ اللَّهُ هِدَايَتَهُ

And as for the Book of Allahazwj, they tore it with every tearing, and among what I have informed you, O brother of Ansaar, is from a reliable address for the one whom Allahazwj Loves to Guide him’.

فَقَالَ الْفَتَى سَمِّ لِيَ الْقَوْمَ الْآخَرِينَ الَّذِينَ حَضَرُوا الصَّحِيفَةَ وَ شَهِدُوا فِيهَا

The youth said: ‘Name for me the other group, those who attended the agreement and bore witness in it’.

فَقَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ وَ عِكْرِمَةُ بْنُ أَبِي جَهْلٍ وَ صَفْوَانُ بْنُ أُمَيَّةَ بْنِ خَلَفٍ وَ سَعِيدُ بْنُ الْعَاصِ وَ خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ وَ عَيَّاشُ بْنُ أَبِي رَبِيعَةَ وَ بَشِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ وَ سُهَيْلُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو وَ حَكِيمُ بْنُ حِزَامٍ وَ صُهَيْبُ بْنُ سِنَانٍ وَ أَبُو الْأَعْوَرِ السُّلَمِيُّ وَ مُطِيعُ بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِ الْمَدَرِيُّ وَ جَمَاعَةٌ مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ مِمَّنْ سَقَطَ عَنِّي إِحْصَاءُ عَدَدِهِمْ

Huzeyfa said, ‘Abu Sufyan, and Ikrimah Bin Abu Jahl, and Safwan Bin Umayya Bin Khalaf, and Saeed Bin Al Aas, and Khalid Bin Al Waleed, and Ayyash Bin Abu Rabie, and Bashir Bin Sa’ad, and Suheyl Bin Amro, and Hakeem Bin Hizam, and Suheyb Bin Sinan, and Abu Al Awr Al Sulamy, and Mutie Bin Al-Aswad Al-Madary, and a group of those from the ones who number count is dropped from me (cannot remember)’.

فَقَالَ الْفَتَى يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ مَا هَؤُلَاءِ فِي أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص حَتَّى قَدِ انْقَلَبَ النَّاسُ أَجْمَعُونَ بِسَبَبِهِمْ

The youth said, ‘O servant of Allahazwj! They are not from the companions of Rasool-Allahsaww until all the people had overturned due to them?’

فَقَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ إِنَّ هَؤُلَاءِ رُءُوسُ الْقَبَائِلِ وَ أَشْرَافُهَا وَ مَا مِنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ إِلَّا وَ مَعَهُ مِنَ النَّاسِ خَلْقٌ عَظِيمٌ يَسْمَعُونَ لَهُ وَ يُطِيعُونَ وَ أُشْرِبُوا فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ مِنْ حُبِّ أَبِي بَكْرٍ كَمَا أُشْرِبَ قُلُوبُ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ حُبِّ الْعِجْلِ وَ السَّامِرِيِّ حَتَّى تَرَكُوا هَارُونَ وَ اسْتَضْعَفُوهُ‏

Huzeyfa said, ‘They were the chiefs of the tribes and their nobles, and there was no man from them except and with him were a lot of people listening to him, and obeying, and drinking in their hearts the love of Abu Bakr just as the hearts of the children of Israel had drunk from the love of the calf and Al-Samirila, until they left Harounas and weakened himas.

قَالَ الْفَتَى فَإِنِّي أُقْسِمُ بِاللَّهِ حَقّاً حَقّاً أَنِّي لَا أَزَالُ لَهُمْ مُبْغِضاً وَ إِلَى اللَّهِ مِنْهُمْ وَ مِنْ أَفْعَالِهِمْ مُتَبَرِّئاً وَ لَا زِلْتُ لِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع مُتَوَالِياً وَ لِأَعَادِيهِ مُعَادِياً وَ لَأَلْحَقَنَّ بِهِ وَ إِنِّي لَأُؤَمِّلُ أَنْ أُرْزَقَ الشَّهَادَةَ مَعَهُ وَشِيكاً إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى

The youth said, ‘I hereby swear by Allahazwj, truly, truly, I will not decline my hatred for them and disavowing to Allahazwj from them and from their deeds, nor cease being a friend to Amir Al-Momineenasws and an enemy to hisasws enemies, and I shall join up with him and be hopeful to be Graced the martyrdom with himasws immediately, if Allahazwj the Exalted so Desires’.

ثُمَّ وَدَّعَ حُذَيْفَةَ وَ قَالَ هَذَا وَجْهِي إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع فَخَرَجَ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ وَ اسْتَقْبَلَهُ وَ قَدْ شَخَصَ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ يُرِيدُ الْعِرَاقَ فَسَارَ مَعَهُ إِلَى الْبَصْرَةِ فَلَمَّا الْتَقَى أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع مَعَ أَصْحَابِ الْجَمَلِ كَانَ ذَلِكَ الْفَتَى أَوَّلَ مَنْ قُتِلَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ

Then he bade Huzeyfa farewell and said, ‘This is my direction to Amir Al-Momineenasws’. He went out to Al-Medina and met himasws, and heasws had determined to go out from Al-Medina intending Al-Iraq. He travelled with himasws to Al-Basra. When Amir Al-Momineenasws met (in battle) with the companions of the camel (Ayesha’s army), that youth was the first to be killed from the companions of Amir Al-Momineenasws.

وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ لَمَّا صَافَّ الْقَوْمُ وَ اجْتَمَعُوا عَلَى الْحَرْبِ أَحَبَّ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع أَنْ يَسْتَظْهِرَ عَلَيْهِمْ بِدُعَائِهِمْ إِلَى الْقُرْآنِ وَ حُكْمِهِ فَدَعَا بِمُصْحَفٍ وَ قَالَ مَنْ يَأْخُذُ هَذَا الْمُصْحَفَ يَعْرِضُهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ يَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى مَا فِيهِ فَيُحْيِيَ مَا أَحْيَاهُ وَ يُمِيتَ مَا أَمَاتَهُ

And that is because when the people formed rows (to battle) and they gathered upon the war, Amir Al-Momineenasws loved to present to them by calling them to the Quran and its Judgment. Heasws called for the Parchment and said: ‘One who takes with this Parchment, present it to them and call them to what is in it, so keep alive the one it keeps alive, and kill what it kills’.

قَالَ وَ قَدْ شَرَعَتِ الرِّمَاحُ بَيْنَ الْعَسْكَرَيْنِ حَتَّى لَوْ أَرَادَ امْرُؤٌ أَنْ يَمْشِيَ عَلَيْهَا لَمَشَى

He (the narrator) said, ‘And the lancing (with spears) had already started between the soldiers to the extent that if a person had wanted to walk to it, would have walked.

قَالَ فَقَامَ الْفَتَى فَقَالَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَنَا آخُذُهُ وَ أَعْرِضُهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ أَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى مَا فِيهِ

He (the narrator) said, ‘The youth stood up and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineenasws! I shall take it and present it to them, and call them to what is in it’.

قَالَ فَأَعْرَضَ عَنْهُ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع ثُمَّ نَادَى الثَّانِيَةَ مَنْ يَأْخُذُ هَذَا الْمُصْحَفَ فَيَعْرِضَهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ يَدْعُوَهُمْ إِلَى مَا فِيهِ فَلَمْ يَقُمْ إِلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ فَقَامَ الْفَتَى وَ قَالَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَنَا آخُذُهُ وَ أَعْرِضُهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ أَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى مَا فِيهِ

He (the narrator) said, ‘Amir Al-Momineenasws turned away from him. Then heasws called out for a second time: ‘One will take this Parchment and present it to them and call them to what is in it?’ But, no one stood up to him. The youth stood up and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineenasws! I shall take it and present it to them and call them to what is in it’.

قَالَ فَأَعْرَضَ عَنْهُ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع ثُمَّ نَادَى الثَّالِثَةَ فَلَمْ يَقُمْ إِلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ إِلَّا الْفَتَى وَ قَالَ أَنَا آخُذُهُ وَ أَعْرِضُهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ أَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى مَا فِيهِ

He (the narrator) said, ‘Amir Al-Momineenasws turned away from him. Then heasws called out for a third time, but no one from the people stood up to himasws except the youth, and said, ‘I shall take it and present it to them, and call them to what is in it’.

فَقَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع إِنَّكَ إِنْ فَعَلْتَ ذَلِكَ فَإِنَّكَ لَمَقْتُولٌ فَقَالَ وَ اللَّهِ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع مَا شَيْ‏ءٌ أَحَبَّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أُرْزَقَ الشَّهَادَةَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ وَ أَنْ أُقْتَلَ فِي طَاعَتِكَ

Amir Al-Momineenasws said: ‘You, if you were to do that, you will be killed’. He said, ‘By Allahazwj, O Amir Al-Momineenasws! There is nothing more beloved to me than to be graced the martyrdom in front of youasws, and to be killed in obedience to youasws’.

فَأَعْطَاهُ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع الْمُصْحَفَ فَتَوَجَّهَ بِهِ نَحْوَ عَسْكَرِهِمْ فَنَظَرَ إِلَيْهِ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع وَ قَالَ إِنَّ الْفَتَى مِمَّنْ حَشَا اللَّهُ قَلْبَهُ نُوراً وَ إِيمَاناً وَ هُوَ مَقْتُولٌ وَ لَقَدْ أَشْفَقْتُ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَ لَنْ يُفْلِحَ الْقَوْمُ بَعْدَ قَتَلِهِمْ إِيَّاهُ

Amir Al-Momineenasws gave him the Parchment and he headed with it around their soldiers. Amir Al-Momineenasws looked at him and said: ‘The youth is from the ones Allahazwj has Crammed his heart with Noor and Eman, and he will be killed, and Iasws was compassionate upon him from that, and the people will never be successful after their killing him’.

فَمَضَى الْفَتَى بِالْمُصْحَفِ حَتَّى وَقَفَ بِإِزَاءِ عَسْكَرِ عَائِشَةَ وَ طَلْحَةُ وَ الزُّبَيْرُ حِينَئِذٍ عَنْ يَمِينِ الْهَوْدَجِ وَ شِمَالِهِ وَ كَانَ لَهُ صَوْتٌ فَنَادَى بِأَعْلَا صَوْتِهِ مَعَاشِرَ النَّاسِ هَذَا كِتَابُ اللَّهِ فَإِنَّ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَدْعُوكُمْ إِلَى كِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَ الْحُكْمِ بِمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ فِيهِ فَأَنِيبُوا إِلَى طَاعَةِ اللَّهِ وَ الْعَمَلِ بِكِتَابِهِ

The youth went with the Parchment until he paused parallel to the soldiers of Ayesha, and Talha and Al-Zubeyr then were on the right and left of the carriage (carrying Ayesha), and there was a (loud) voice for him. He called out at the top of his voice, ‘Community of people! This is the Book of Allahazwj, and Amir Al-Momineenasws is calling you to the Book of Allahazwj and the Judgment with what Allahazwj has Revealed in it, therefore come to the obedience of Allahazwj and the acting (in accordance) with Hisazwj Book!’

قَالَ وَ كَانَتْ عَائِشَةُ وَ طَلْحَةُ وَ الزُّبَيْرُ يَسْمَعُونَ قَوْلَهُ فَأَمْسَكُوا فَلَمَّا رَأَى ذَلِكَ أَهْلُ عَسْكَرِهِمْ بَادَرُوا إِلَى الْفَتَى وَ الْمُصْحَفُ فِي يَمِينِهِ فَقَطَعُوا يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى فَتَنَاوَلَ الْمُصْحَفَ بِيَدِهِ الْيُسْرَى وَ نَادَاهُمْ بِأَعْلَا صَوْتِهِ مِثْلَ نِدَائِهِ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ

He (the narrator) said, ‘And Ayesha, and Talha and Al-Zubeyr were listening to his words, and they withheld. When people of their army saw that, they rushed towards the youth, and the Parchment was in his right hand, and they cut off his right hand. So he grabbed the Parchment with his left hand and called out to them at the top of his voice like his call the first time.

فَبَادَرُوا إِلَيْهِ وَ قَطَعُوا يَدَهُ الْيُسْرَى فَتَنَاوَلَ الْمُصْحَفَ وَ احْتَضَنَهُ وَ دِمَاؤُهُ تَجْرِي عَلَيْهِ وَ نَادَاهُمْ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ فَشَدُّوا عَلَيْهِ فَقَتَلُوهُ وَ وَقَعَ مَيِّتاً فَقَطَعُوهُ إِرْباً إِرْباً وَ لَقَدْ رَأَيْنَا شَحْمَ بَطْنِهِ أَصْفَرَ

They rushed towards him and cut off his left hand. He grabbed the Parchment and embraced it, and his blood was flowing upon it, and called them similar to that. They attacked upon him and killed him, and he fell down dead. They cut him into pieces and pieces, and we saw the fat of his belly as pale.

قَالَ وَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع وَاقِفٌ يَرَاهُمْ فَأَقْبَلَ عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ وَ قَالَ إِنِّي وَ اللَّهِ مَا كُنْتُ فِي شَكٍّ وَ لَا لَبْسٍ مِنْ ضَلَالَةِ الْقَوْمِ وَ بَاطِلِهِمْ وَ لَكِنْ أَحْبَبْتُ أَنْ يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمْ جَمِيعاً ذَلِكَ مِنْ بَعْدِ قَتْلِهِمُ الرَّجُلَ الصَّالِحَ

He (the narrator) said, ‘And Amir Al-Momineenasws was standing, seeing them. Heasws turned towards hisasws companions and said: ‘By Allahazwj! Iasws was not in doubt nor clouded from the straying of the people and their falsehood, but Iasws loved to manifest that to you all, from after their killing the righteous man’.

حَكِيمَ بْنَ جَبَلَةَ الْعَبْدِيَّ فِي رِجَالٍ صَالِحِينَ مَعَهُ وَ تَضَاعُفُ ذُنُوبِهِمْ بِهَذَا الْفَتَى وَ هُوَ يَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى كِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَ الْحُكْمِ بِهِ وَ الْعَمَلِ بِمُوجَبِهِ فَثَارُوا إِلَيْهِ فَقَتَلُوهُ وَ لَا يَرْتَابُ بِقَتْلِهِمْ مُسْلِمٌ وَ وَقَدَتِ الْحَرْبُ وَ اشْتَدَّتْ

Hakeem Bin Jabala Al Abdy was among the righteous men with him and their sins are multiplied due to this youth and he was calling them to Book of Allahazwj and the Judgment with it, and the acting with its Obligations. But they rushed to him and killed him, and no Muslim was doubtful of their killing, and the war ignited and intensified.

فَقَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع احْمِلُوا بِأَجْمَعِكُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ بِسْمِ اللَّهُ‏ حم‏ لَا يُنْصَرُونَ وَ حَمَلَ هُوَ بِنَفْسِهِ وَ الْحَسَنَانِ وَ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص مَعَهُ فَغَاصَ فِي الْقَوْمِ بِنَفْسِهِ فَوَ اللَّهِ مَا كَانَ إِلَّا سَاعَةٌ مِنْ نَهَارٍ حَتَّى رَأَيْنَا الْقَوْمَ كُلَّهُ شَلَايَا يَمِيناً وَ شِمَالًا صَرْعَى تَحْتَ سَنَابِكِ الْخَيْلِ

Amir Al Momineenasws said: ‘All of you attack upon them, in the Name of Allahazwj, Ha Meem [40:1], they will not be helped’. And heasws attacked by himselfasws, and Al Hassanasws and Al Husaynasws, and companions of Rasool-Allahsaww were with himasws. Heasws plunged into the people by himselfasws. By Allahazwj! It was not except an hour from the day until we saw the people, all of them running right and left falling under the hooves of the horses.

وَ رَجَعَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع مُؤَيَّداً مَنْصُوراً وَ فَتَحَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ مَنَحَهُ أَكْتَافَهُمْ وَ أَمَرَ بِذَلِكَ الْفَتَى وَ جَمِيعِ مَنْ قُتِلَ مَعَهُ فَلُفُّوا فِي ثِيَابِهِمْ بِدِمَائِهِمْ لَمْ تُنْزَعْ عَنْهُمْ ثِيَابُهُمْ وَ صَلَّى عَلَيْهِمْ وَ دَفَنَهُمْ

And Amir Al Momineenasws returned aided, helped, and Allahazwj Granted victory to himasws, and Gave him their shoulders, and instructed with that youth, and the entirety of the ones killed with him, so they were wrapped in their clothes in their blood, not removing their clothes from them, and prayed Salat upon them, and buried them.

وَ أَمَرَهُمْ أَنْ لَا يُجْهِزُوا عَلَى جَرِيحٍ وَ لَا يَتَّبِعُوا لَهُمْ مُدْبِراً وَ أَمَرَ بِمَا حَوَى الْعَسْكَرُ فَجُمِعَ لَهُ فَقَسَمَهُ بَيْنَ أَصْحَابِهِ

And heasws instructed them that they should neither pounce upon an injured one, nor pursue any fleer of theirs, and instructed with whatever soldiers had possessed, and it was gathered to himasws and heasws distributed it between hisasws companions.

وَ أَمَرَ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ أَنْ يُدْخِلَ أُخْتَهُ الْبَصْرَةَ فَيُقِيمَ بِهَا أَيَّاماً ثُمَّ يُرَحِّلَهَا إِلَى مَنْزِلِهَا بِالْمَدِينَةِ

And he instructed Muhammad Bin Abu Bakr that he enters his sister (Ayesha) into Al Basra, stay at it for a few days, then send her to her house at Al Medina.

قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ كُنْتُ مِمَّنْ شَهِدَ حَرْبَ أَهْلِ الْجَمَلِ فَلَمَّا وَضَعَتِ الْحَرْبُ أَوْزَارَهَا رَأَيْتُ أُمَّ ذَلِكَ الْفَتَى وَاقِفَةً عَلَيْهِ فَجَعَلَتْ تَبْكِي عَلَيْهِ وَ تُقَبِّلُهُ وَ أَنْشَأَتْ تَقُولُ‏

Abdullah Bin Salama said, ‘I was from the ones who attended the battle of the people of the camel. When the war placed its burdens (ended), I saw the mother of that youth standing at him, and she went on to cry upon him, and kissing him, and she prosed saying,

يَا رَبِّ إِنَّ مُسْلِماً أَتَاهُمْ-

يَتْلُو كِتَابَ اللَّهِ لَا يَخْشَاهُمْ-

يَأْمُرُهُمْ بِالْأَمْرِ مِنْ مَوْلَاهُمْ‏

فَخَضَبُوا مِنْ دَمِهِ قَنَاهُمْ-

وَ أُمُّهُمْ قَائِمَةٌ تَرَاهُمْ-

تَأْمُرُهُمْ بِالْغَيِّ لَا تَنْهَاهُمْ‏

‘O Lordazwj! He came to the Muslims reciting the Book of Allahazwj, not fearing them, enjoining them with the command from their Masterasws, but they dyed their spear from his blood, and his mother was standing looking at them instructing with the error, not forbidding them’’.⁸⁴

4- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب عَنِ الْبَاقِرِ ع‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى‏ كَذلِكَ يُرِيهِمُ اللَّهُ أَعْمالَهُمْ حَسَراتٍ عَلَيْهِمْ‏ إِذَا عَايَنُوا عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ مَا أُعِدَّ لَهُمْ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ الْأَلِيمِ وَ هُمْ أَصْحَابُ الصَّحِيفَةِ الَّتِي كَتَبُوا عَلَى مُخَالَفَةِ عَلِيٍ‏ وَ ما هُمْ بِخارِجِينَ مِنَ النَّارِ.

(The book) ‘Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashub,

‘From Al Baqirasws regarding Words of the Exalted: Like that, Allah will Show their deeds to them as regrets upon them, [2:167]: ‘When they witness at death what is Prepared for them of the painful Punishment – and they are the companions of the agreement which they had written upon opposition to Aliasws, and they will not be exiting from the Fire [2:167]’’.

وَ عَنْهُ ع‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى‏ يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لا تَتَّخِذُوا بِطانَةً أَعْلَمَهُمْ‏ بِمَا فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ وَ هُمْ أَصْحَابُ الصَّحِيفَةِ.

And from himasws regarding Words of the Exalted: O you who believe! Do not take for intimate ones from besides your own [3:118] – Heazwj Knew of what was in their hearts, and they are companions of the agreement’’. ⁸⁵

5- مع، معاني الأخبار مَاجِيلَوَيْهِ عَنْ عَمِّهِ عَنِ الْبَرْقِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنِ الْمُفَضَّلِ بْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع عَنْ مَعْنَى قَوْلِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع لَمَّا نَظَرَ إِلَى الثَّانِي وَ هُوَ مُسَجًّى بِثَوْبِهِ مَا أَحَدٌ أَحَبَّ إِلَيَّ أَنْ أَلْقَى اللَّهَ بِصَحِيفَتِهِ مِنْ هَذَا الْمُسَجَّى فَقَالَ عَنَى بِهَا صَحِيفَتَهُ الَّتِي كُتِبَتْ فِي الْكَعْبَةِ.

(The book) ‘Ma’any Al Akhbar’ – Majaylawiya, from his uncle, from Al Barqy, from his father, from Muhammad Bin Sinan, from Al Mufazzal Bin Umar who said,

‘I asked Abu Abdullahasws about the meaning of the words of Amir Al-Momineenasws when he looked at the second one (Umar), and he was wrapped in his clothes (shroud): ‘There is no one more beloved to measws that Iasws meet Allahazwj with his agreement, than this wrapped one’. Heasws said: ‘Heasws meant by it his agreement which he had written in the Kabah’’.⁸⁶

6- كا، الكافي بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع‏ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ ما يَكُونُ مِنْ نَجْوى‏ ثَلاثَةٍ إِلَّا هُوَ رابِعُهُمْ وَ لا خَمْسَةٍ إِلَّا هُوَ سادِسُهُمْ وَ لا أَدْنى‏ مِنْ ذلِكَ وَ لا أَكْثَرَ إِلَّا هُوَ مَعَهُمْ أَيْنَ ما كانُوا ثُمَّ يُنَبِّئُهُمْ بِما عَمِلُوا يَوْمَ الْقِيامَةِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بِكُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ عَلِيمٌ‏

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – By his chain from Abu Baseer,

‘From Abu Abdullahasws regarding Words of Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic: There does not happen to be a secret counsel of three, except He is their fourth one, nor of five except He is their sixth one, nor less than that nor more except He is with them, wherever they may happen to be. Then He would Inform them on the Day of Judgment of what they had been doing. Surely Allah is Knower of all things [58:7].

قَالَ نَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ فِي فُلَانٍ وَ فُلَانٍ وَ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ الْجَرَّاحِ وَ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ وَ سَالِمٍ مَوْلَى أَبِي حُذَيْفَةَ وَ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ شُعْبَةَ حَيْثُ كَتَبُوا الْكِتَابَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَ تَعَاهَدُوا وَ تَوَافَقُوا لَئِنْ مَضَى مُحَمَّدٌ ص لَا تَكُونُ الْخِلَافَةُ فِي بَنِي هَاشِمٍ وَ لَا النُّبُوَّةُ أَبَداً فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فِيهِمْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ

Heasws said; ‘This was Revealed regarding so and so and so and so (Abu Bakr and Umar), and Abu Ubeyda Ibn Al-Jarrah, and Abdul Rahman Ibn Awf, and Saalim Mawla Abu Huzeyfa, and Al-Mugheira Bin Sho’ba, when they wrote the agreement in between them and took a pledge and agreed that if Muhammadsaww were to pass away, they would not let the Caliphate to be in the Clan of Hashimasws, nor the Prophet-hood ever. So, Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Revealed this Verse with regards to them.

قَالَ قُلْتُ قَوْلُهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ أَمْ أَبْرَمُوا أَمْراً فَإِنَّا مُبْرِمُونَ أَمْ يَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّا لا نَسْمَعُ سِرَّهُمْ وَ نَجْواهُمْ بَلى‏ وَ رُسُلُنا لَدَيْهِمْ يَكْتُبُونَ‏ قَالَ وَ هَاتَانِ الْآيَتَانِ نَزَلَتَا فِيهِمْ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمَ

He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘The Words of the Mighty and Majestic: Or are they (trying to) conclude a matter? But We are the Concluders [43:79] Or are they reckoning that We cannot Hear their secrets and their whisperings? Yes! And our Messengers (who are) with them, are recording [43:80]. Heasws said: ‘And these two Verse were (also) Revealed regarding them on that day’.

قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع لَعَلَّكَ تَرَى أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَوْمٌ يُشْبِهُ يَوْمَ كُتِبَ الْكِتَابُ إِلَّا يَوْمَ قَتْلِ الْحُسَيْنِ ع وَ هَكَذَا كَانَ فِي سَابِقِ عِلْمِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ الَّذِي أَعْلَمَهُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ إِذَا كُتِبَ الْكِتَابُ قُتِلَ الْحُسَيْنُ ع وَ خَرَجَ الْمُلْكُ مِنْ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ‏ فَقَدْ كَانَ ذَلِكَ كُلُّهُ الْحَدِيثَ‏.

Abu Abdullahasws said: ‘Hopefully you will see that it was a day resembling the day of the writing of the agreement except for the day Al-Husaynasws was martyred, and thus it had preceded in the Knowledge of Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic which Heazwj Made known to the Rasool-Allahsaww that when the agreement is written down, Al-Husaynasws would be martyred, and the kingdom would exit from the Clan of Hashimasws. All of that did take place’’.⁸⁷

7- أَقُولُ وَجَدْتُ فِي كِتَابِ سُلَيْمِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ، عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ أَبِي عَيَّاشٍ عَنْهُ قَالَ: شَهِدْتُ أَبَا ذَرٍّ مَرِضَ مَرَضاً عَلَى عَهْدِ عُمَرَ فِي إِمَارَتِهِ فَدَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ عُمَرُ يَعُودُهُ وَ عِنْدَهُ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع وَ سَلْمَانُ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ وَ قَدْ أَوْصَى أَبُو ذَرٍّ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ع وَ كَتَبَ وَ أَشْهَدَ

I (Majlisi) am saying , ‘I found in the book of Suleym Bin Qays – From Aban Bin Ayyash, from his who said,

‘I attended Abu Zarrra who fell ill in the era of Umar during his rule. Umar entered to console himra and with himra were Amir Al-Momineenasws, and Salmanra and Al-Miqdadra, and Abu Zarrra had bequeathed to Aliasws, and it was written and witnessed.

فَلَمَّا خَرَجَ عُمَرُ قَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ أَبِي ذَرٍّ مِنْ بَنِي عَمِّهِ بَنِي غِفَارٍ مَا مَنَعَكَ أَنْ تُوصِيَ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عُمَرَ

When Umar went out, a man from the family of Abu Zarrra, from the clan of hisra uncle, clan of Ghifar, said, ‘What prevented you from bequeathing to the amir al-momineen Umar?’

قَالَ قَدْ أَوْصَيْتُ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ حَقّاً أَمَرَنَا بِهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ نَحْنُ ثَمَانُونَ رَجُلًا أَرْبَعُونَ رَجُلًا مِنَ الْعَرَبِ وَ أَرْبَعُونَ رَجُلًا مِنَ الْعَجَمِ فَسَلَّمْنَا عَلَى عَلِيٍّ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِينَا هَذَا الْقَائِمُ الَّذِي سَمَّيْتَهُ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ

Hera said, ‘Ira have bequeathed to the true Amir Al Momineen Rasool-Allahsaww had ordered us with it, and we were eighty men – forty men from the Arabs and forty men from the non-Arabs. We greeted unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al Momineen’. He was standing among us, the one whom you named as ‘Amir Al Momineen’.

وَ مَا أَحَدٌ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ وَ لَا مِنَ الْمَوَالِي الْعَجَمِ رَاجَعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص إِلَّا هَذَا وَ صُوَيْحَبُهُ الَّذِي اسْتَخْلَفَهُ فَإِنَّهُمَا قَالا أَ حَقٌّ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ مِنْ رَسُولِهِ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ حَقٌّ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ أَمَرَنِيَ اللَّهُ بِذَلِكَ فَآمُرُكُمْ بِهِ

And there was no one, neither from the Arabs nor from the friends of the non-Arabs retorting Rasool-Allahsaww except this one and his companion who made him a caliph. They said, ‘Is this a truth from Allahazwj and from Hisazwj Rasoolsaww?’ Hesaww said: ‘O Allahazwj! Yes, a truth from Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww. Allahazwj Commanded mesaww with that, so Isaww ordered you all with it’.

قَالَ سُلَيْمٌ فَقُلْتُ يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ وَ أَنْتَ يَا سَلْمَانُ وَ أَنْتَ يَا مِقْدَادُ تَقُولُونَ كَمَا قَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ قَالُوا نَعَمْ صَدَقَ قُلْتُ أَرْبَعَةُ عُدُولٍ وَ لَوْ لَمْ يُحَدِّثْنِي غَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ مَا شَكَكْتُ فِي صِدْقِهِ وَ لَكِنَّ أَرْبَعَتَكُمْ أَشَدُّ لِنَفْسِي وَ بَصِيرَتِي

Suleym said, ‘O Abu Al Hassanasws! And you Salmanra, and you Miqdadra are saying just as Abu Zarrra has said?’ They said, ‘Hera speaks the truth’. I said, ‘Four just ones, and even if one had narrated to me, I would not have doubted in his truthfulness, but the four of you have strengthened myself, and my insight’.

قُلْتُ أَصْلَحَكَ اللَّهُ أَ تُسَمُّونَ الثَّمَانِينَ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ وَ الْمَوَالِي فَسَمَّاهُمْ سَلْمَانُ رَجُلًا رَجُلًا فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ صَدَقَ سَلْمَانُ رَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَ مَغْفِرَتُهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ عَلَيْهِمْ

I said, ‘May Allahazwj Keep youra well! Can you name the eighty from the Arans and the friends?’ Salmanra named them, man by man. Aliasws, and Abu Zarrra, and Al Miqdadra said, ‘Salmanra speaks the truth, may Allahazwj and Mercy on himra and Forgive himra and them’.

فَكَانَ مِمَّنْ سَمَّى أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ وَ سَالِمٌ وَ الْخَمْسَةُ مِنَ الشُّورَي وَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ أُخْرَى وَ الْخَمْسَةُ أَصْحَابُ الصَّحِيفَةِ وَ عَمَّارُ بْنُ يَاسِرٍ وَ سَعْدُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ وَ مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ وَ الْبَاقِي مِنْ صَحَابَةِ الْعَقَبَةِ وَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ وَ النُّقَبَاءُ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ الْعَقَبَةِ وَ أُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ وَ جُلُّهُمْ وَ عُظْمُهُمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ بَدْرٍ وَ عُظْمُهُمْ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ فِيهِمْ أَبُو الْهَيْثَمِ بْنُ التَّيِّهَانِ وَ خَالِدُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ أَبُو أَيُّوبَ وَ أُسَيْدُ بْنُ حُضَيْرٍ وَ بَشِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ

From those that hear (Salman) named were – Abu Bakr, and Umar, and Abu Ubeyda, and Ma’az, and Saalim, and the five of the companions of the consultative council (Al-Shura), and Amaar Bin Yaasir, and Sa’d Bin Abaada, and the remaining ones of the companions of Al-Uqba, and Ubay Bin Ka’ab, and Abu Zarrar, and Al-Miqdadar, and the remaining ones of the majority from the people of Badr and most of them were from the Helpers, among them were Abu Al-Haysam Bin Al-Tayhaan, and Khalid Bin Zayd Abu Ayyub, and Asied Bin Hazeyr, and Bashir Bin Saeed.

قَالَ سُلَيْمٌ فَأَظُنُّنِي قَدْ لَقِيتُ عِلْيَتَهُمْ فَسَأَلْتُهُمْ وَ خَلَوْتُ بِهِمْ رَجُلًا رَجُلًا فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ سَكَتَ عَنِّي فَلَمْ يُجِبْنِي‏ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ وَ كَتَمَنِي وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ حَدَّثَنِي

Suleym said, ‘I think I met them (all) and asked them, and was alone with them, many by man. From them was one who remained silent from me and did not answer me with anything and concealed from me; and form them was one who narrated to me’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ أَصَابَتْنَا فِتْنَةٌ أَخَذَتْ بِقُلُوبِنَا وَ أَسْمَاعِنَا وَ أَبْصَارِنَا وَ ذَلِكَ لَمَّا ادَّعَى أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ إِنَّا أَهْلُ بَيْتٍ أَكْرَمَنَا اللَّهُ وَ اخْتَارَ لَنَا الْآخِرَةَ عَلَى الدُّنْيَا وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ أَبَى أَنْ يَجْمَعَ لَنَا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ النُّبُوَّةَ وَ الْخِلَافَةَ

Then he said, ‘Fitna afflicted us, seizing our hearts, and our hearing, and our sights, and that is when Abu Bakr claimed that he heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying after that: ‘Weasws, Peopleasws of the Household, Allahazwj has Honoured usasws, and has Chosen the Hereafter to be for usasws over the world, and that Allahazwj Refused to Gather for usasws, Peopleasws of the Household, the Prophet-hood and the caliphate’.

فَاحْتَجَّ بِذَلِكَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع حِينَ جِي‏ءَ بِهِ لِلْبَيْعَةِ وَ صَدَّقَهُ وَ شَهِدَ لَهُ أَرْبَعَةٌ كَانُوا عِنْدَنَا خِيَاراً غَيْرَ مُتَّهَمِينَ مِنْهُمْ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ وَ سَالِمٌ وَ عُمَرُ وَ مُعَاذٌ وَ ظَنَنَّا أَنَّهُمْ قَدْ صَدَقُوا

Abu Bakr argued by that upon Aliasws when they came with himasws for the allegiance, and they ratified him, and there testified for him forty (of them) who were good ones in our view, not indicted. From them was Ubeyda, and Saalim, and Umar, and Muaz, and we thought they had spoken the truth.

فَلَمَّا بَايَعَ عَلِيٌّ ع خَبَّرَنَا أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ مَا قَالَهُ وَ أَخْبَرَ أَنَّ هَؤُلَاءِ الْخَمْسَةَ كَتَبُوا بَيْنَهُمْ كِتَاباً تَعَاهَدُوا عَلَيْهِ وَ تَعَاقَدُوا فِي ظِلِّ الْكَعْبَةِ إِنْ مَاتَ مُحَمَّدٌ أَوْ قُتِلَ أَنْ يَتَظَاهَرُوا عَلَيَّ فَيَزْوُوا هَذَا الْأَمْرَ وَ اسْتَشْهَدَ أَرْبَعَةً سَلْمَانَ وَ أَبَا ذَرٍّ وَ الْمِقْدَادَ وَ الزُّبَيْرَ

It was only when Aliasws was pledged allegiance to, we were informed that Rasool-Allahsaww had said what hesaww had said, and we were informed that these five had written a letter between them pacting upon it, and agreed upon in the shade of the Kabah that if Muhammadsaww dies or is killed, they would overpower Aliasws and impede this caliphate, and four of them testified to this (statement of Aliasws)– Salmanra, and Abu Zarrra, and Al-Miqdadra and Al-Zubayr.

وَ شَهِدُوا لَهُ بَعْدَ مَا وَجَبَتْ فِي أَعْنَاقِنَا لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ بَيْعَتُهُ الْمَلْعُونَةُ الضَّالَّةُ فَعَلِمْنَا أَنَّ عَلِيّاً ع لَمْ يَكُنْ لِيَرْوِيَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص بَاطِلًا وَ شَهِدَ لَهُ الْأَخْيَارُ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ السَّلَامُ

And we realised (the Fitna), afterwards, when Abu Bakr’s accursed and erroneous allegiance was forced onto our necks then we came to know that Aliasws would never report from Rasool-Allahsaww any falsehood, and testified to himasws as being the best of the companions of Muhammadsaww.

فَقَالَ جُلُّ مَنْ قَالَ هَذِهِ الْمَقَالَةَ إِنَّا تَدَبَّرْنَا الْأَمْرَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَذَكَرْنَا قَوْلَ نَبِيِّ اللَّهِ ع وَ نَحْنُ نَسْمَعُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ أَرْبَعَةً مِنْ‏ أَصْحَابِي وَ أَمَرَنِي بِحُبِّهِمْ وَ إِنَّ الْجَنَّةَ تَشْتَاقُ إِلَيْهِمْ فَقُلْنَا مَنْ هُمْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

Most of them said these words, ‘We reconsidered the matter after that and we remembered the words of the Prophetsaww – and we heard: ‘Allahazwj Loves four of mysaww companions and Ordered mesaww for their love and that the Paradise is eagerly awaiting them’. We said, ‘Who are they, O Rasool-Allahsaww?’

فَقَالَ أَخِي وَ وَزِيرِي وَ وَارِثِي وَ خَلِيفَتِي فِي أُمَّتِي وَ وَلِيُّ كُلِّ مُؤْمِنٍ مِنْ بَعْدِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع وَ سَلْمَانُ الْفَارِسِيُّ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِ

Hesaww said: ‘Mysaww brother, and mysaww Vizier, and mysaww inheritor, and mysaww Caliph in mysaww community, and the Guardian of every believer after mesaww, Aliasws bin Abu Talibasws, and Salman Al-Farsira, and Abu Zarrra, and Al-Miqdad Bin Al-Aswadra’.

وَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ أَنَّهُ قَالَ أَلَا إِنَّ عَلِيّاً مِنْهُمْ ثُمَّ سَكَتَ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَلَا إِنَّ عَلِيّاً مِنْهُمْ ثُمَّ سَكَتَ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَلَا إِنَّ عَلِيّاً مِنْهُمْ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ سَلْمَانُ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ

And in another report – Hesaww said: ‘Indeed, Aliasws is from them’. Then hesaww was silent, then said: ‘‘Indeed, Aliasws is from them’. Then hesaww was silent, ‘Indeed, Aliasws is from them, and Abu Zarrra and Salmanra, and Al Miqdadra’.

وَ إِنَّا نَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ وَ نَتُوبُ إِلَيْهِ مِمَّا رَكِبْنَاهُ وَ مِمَّا أَتَيْنَاهُ

And we seek Forgiveness of Allahazwj and repent to Himazwj from what we have done and come up with.

قَدْ سَمِعْنَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ قَوْلًا لَمْ نَعْلَمْ تَأْوِيلَهُ وَ مَعْنَاهُ إِلَّا خَيْراً قَالَ لَيَرِدَنَّ عَلَيَّ الْحَوْضَ أَقْوَامٌ مِمَّنْ صَحِبَنِي وَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَكَانَةِ مِنِّي وَ الْمَنْزِلَةِ عِنْدِي حَتَّى إِذَا وَقَفُوا عَلَى مَرَاتِبِهِمُ اخْتُلِسُوا دُونِي وَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ اخْتُلِجُوا دُونِي وَ أُخِذَ بِهِمْ ذَاتَ الشِّمَالِ فَأَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ أَصْحَابِي أَصْحَابِي فَيُقَالُ إِنَّكَ لَا تَدْرِي مَا أَحْدَثُوا بَعْدَكَ وَ إِنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَزَالُوا مُرْتَدِّينَ عَلَى أَدْبَارِهِمُ الْقَهْقَرَى مُنْذُ فَارَقْتَهُمْ‏

And we have heard from Rasool-Allahsaww saying certain words that we do not understand its explanation except as good. Hesaww said: ‘A group of mysaww companions will come to mesaww at the Fountain, and they will be those who had status with mesaww and a position, until they will pause in accordance with their ranks, and they will see mesaww and come nearer to mesaww. They will be grabbed and sent to the left. Isaww will say: ‘O Lordazwj, mysaww companions, mysaww companions! It will be said to mesaww: ‘Yousaww don’t know what they have done after yousaww. They did not cease to be apostates, turning on their backs, going backwards since yousaww separated from them’.

وَ لَعَمْرُنَا لَوْ أَنَّا حِينَ قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص سَلَّمْنَا الْأَمْرَ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ع فَأَطَعْنَاهُ وَ تَابَعْنَاهُ وَ بَايَعْنَاهُ لَرَشَدْنَا وَ اهْتَدَيْنَا وَ وُفِّقْنَا

And as for our affairs, had we – since the passing away of Rasool-Allahsaww – submitted our affairs to Aliasws and obeyed himasws, and followed himasws, and paid allegiance to himasws, heasws would keep us on the right path, and guided us, and harmonise us.

وَ لَكِنَّ اللَّهَ قَضَى الِاخْتِلَافَ وَ الْفُرْقَةَ وَ الْبَلَاءَ فَلَا بُدَّ مِنْ أَنْ يَكُونَ مَا عَلِمَ اللَّهُ وَ قَضَى وَ قَدَّرَ

However, Allahazwj Ordained it (in order to test the righteous ones) that there should be differentiation, and (due to that people are divided into) the sects and the (subjected to) afflictions. Thus it had to take place, as it was in the Knowledge of Allahazwj and the fate and the destiny (as per actions of the nation)’.

سُلَيْمُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ قَالَ فَشَهِدْتُ أَبَا ذَرٍّ بِالرَّبَذَةِ حِينَ سَيَّرَهُ عُثْمَانُ وَ أَوْصَى إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ع فِي أَهْلِهِ وَ مَالِهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ قَائِلٌ لَوْ كُنْتَ أَوْصَيْتَ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عُثْمَانَ فَقَالَ قَدْ أَوْصَيْتُ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَ السَّلَامُ سَلَّمْنَا عَلَيْهِ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

Sulaym Bin Qays said, ‘I saw Abu Zarrra at Al-Rabza when Usman exiled himra, and hera bequeathed to Aliasws with regards to hisra family and hisra belongings. Someone said to him, ‘If only you had bequeathed to Amir-ul-Momineen Usman’. Hera said, ‘Ira have bequeathed to the Amir-ul-Momineenasws who is the true Amir-ul-Momineen, Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws. We had greeted himasws as ‘Amir-ul-Momineen’ in the era of Rasool-Allahsaww by the Command of Allahazwj.

بِأَمْرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ ص لَنَا سَلِّمُوا عَلَى أَخِي وَ وَزِيرِي وَ وَارِثِي وَ خَلِيفَتِي فِي أُمَّتِي وَ وَلِيِّ كُلِّ مُؤْمِنٍ بَعْدِي بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَإِنَّهُ زِرُّ الْأَرْضِ الَّذِي تَسْكُنُ إِلَيْهِ وَ لَوْ قَدْ فَقَدْتُمُوهُ أَنْكَرْتُمُ الْأَرْضَ وَ أَهْلَهَا

Hesaww said to us: ‘Greet mysaww brother, and mysaww Vizier, and mysaww inheritor, and mysaww Caliph in mysaww community, and mysaww guardian of every believer after mesaww, as ‘Amir-ul-Momineen’, for heasws is reason by which the earth is in a tranquil state, if you were to lose himasws the earth would refuse to carry you an its inhabitants.

فَرَأَيْتُ عِجْلَ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ وَ سَامِرِيَهَا رَاجَعَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالا حَقٌّ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ فَغَضِبَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ثُمَّ قَالَ حَقٌّ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ أَمَرَنِي بِذَلِكَ

I saw the calf of this community and its Samiri rebuking Rasool-Allahsaww saying, ‘Is this truth from Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww?’ Rasool-Allahsaww got angered by it and said: ‘It is truth from Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww. Allahazwj Command mesaww for that’.

فَلَمَّا سَلَّمَا عَلَيْهِ أَقْبَلَا عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِمَا سَالِمٍ وَ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ حِينَ خَرَجَا مِنْ بَيْتِ عَلِيٍّ ع مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا سَلَّمَا عَلَيْهِ فَقَالا لَهُمْ مَا بَالُ هَذَا الرَّجُلِ مَا زَالَ رَفَعَ خَسِيسَةَ ابْنِ عَمِّهِ وَ قَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا إِنَّهُ أَمَّرَ ابْنَ عَمِّهِ وَ قَالَ الْجَمِيعُ مَا لَنَا عِنْدَهُ خَيْرٌ مَا بَقِيَ عَلِيٌّ

When we had greeted himasws, the two of them went to their companions Ma’az, and Saalim, and Abu Ubeyda – when they came out of the House of Aliasws after having greeted himasws – so the two of them said to them, ‘What is it with this mansaww, hesaww does not cease to elevate hisasws cousinasws’. And one of them said, ‘Hesaww always makes good the affair of hissaww cousinasws’. And all of them said, ‘There is no good for us if Aliasws remains (alive)’.

قَالَ فَقُلْتُ يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ هَذَا التَّسْلِيمُ بَعْدَ حَجَّةِ الْوَدَاعِ أَوْ قَبْلَهَا قَالَ أَمَّا التَّسْلِيمَةُ الْأُولَى قَبْلَ حَجَّةِ الْوَدَاعِ وَ أَمَّا التَّسْلِيمَةُ الْأُخْرَى فَبَعْدَ حَجَّةِ الْوَدَاعِ قُلْتُ فَمُعَاقَدَةُ هَؤُلَاءِ الْخَمْسَةِ مَتَى كَانَ قَالَ فِي حَجَّةِ الْوَدَاعِ

Sulaym said, ‘I said, ‘O Abu Zarrar, was this greeting before or after the Farewell Hajj?’ Hear said, ‘As for the first greeting, it was before the Farewell Hajj, and as for the other one, it was after the Farewell Hajj’. I said, ‘When was the contract of those five made?’ Hear said, ‘During the Farewell Hajj’.

قُلْتُ أَخْبِرْنِي أَصْلَحَكَ اللَّهُ عَنِ الِاثْنَيْ عَشَرَ أَصْحَابِ الْعَقَبَةِ الْمُتَلَثِّمِينَ الَّذِينَ أَرَادُوا أَنْ يَنْفِرُوا بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص النَّاقَةَ مَتَى كَانَ ذَلِكَ قَالَ بِغَدِيرِ خُمٍّ مَقْفَلَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

I said, ‘May Allahazwj Keep you well, inform me about the twelve companions of Al-Uqba, who had covered their faces and intended to frighten the camel of the Messengersaww of Allahazwj, when did that happen?’ Hear said, ‘At Ghadeer Khumm, when Rasool-Allahsaww was returning from the Farewell Hajj’.

قُلْتُ أَصْلَحَكَ اللَّهُ تَعْرِفُهُمْ قَالَ إِي وَ اللَّهِ كُلَّهُمْ قُلْتُ مِنْ أَيْنَ تَعْرِفُهُمْ وَ قَدْ أَسَرَّهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى حُذَيْفَةَ قَالَ عَمَّارُ بْنُ يَاسِرٍ كَانَ قَائِداً وَ حُذَيْفَةُ سَائِقاً فَأَمَرَ حُذَيْفَةَ بِالْكِتْمَانِ‏ وَ لَمْ يَأْمُرْ بِذَلِكَ عَمَّاراً

I said, ‘May Allahazwj Keep you well, do you know them?’ Hera, said, ‘Yes, by Allahazwj, all of them’. I said, ‘From where did youra come to know them and Rasool-Allahsaww had told Huzayfa to keep it a secret?’ Hera said, ‘Ammar Bin Yaasar was the guide and Huzayfa was the usher, so Huzayfa was ordered for concealment, but that was not the order to Ammar’.

قُلْتُ تُسَمِّيهِمْ لِي قَالَ خَمْسَةٌ أَصْحَابُ الصَّحِيفَةِ وَ الْخَمْسَةُ أَصْحَابُ الشُّورَى وَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْعَاصِ وَ مُعَاوِيَةُ

I said, ‘Can you name them for me?’ Hera said, ‘Five companions of the agreement, and five companions of the consultative council, and Amr Bin Al-Aas and Muawiya’.

قُلْتُ أَصْلَحَكَ اللَّهُ كَيْفَ تَرَدَّدَ عَمَّارٌ وَ حُذَيْفَةُ فِي أَمْرِهِمْ بَعْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص حِينَ رَأَيَاهُمْ

I said, ‘May Allahazwj Keep you well, how come Ammar and Huzayfa hesitated in their affairs after Rasool-Allahsaww, when they had both seen them (companions of Al-Uqba)?’

وَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ أُخْرَى فَكَيْفَ نَزَلَ عَمَّارٌ وَ حُذَيْفَةُ فِي أَمْرِهِمْ بَعْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

And in another report: ‘How come Ammar and Huzeyfa descended in their affairs after Rasool-Allahsaww?’

قَالَ إِنَّهُمْ أَظْهَرُوا التَّوْبَةَ وَ النَّدَامَةَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ‏ وَ ادَّعَى عِجْلُهُمْ مَنْزِلَةً وَ شَهِدَ لَهُ سَامِرِيهِمْ وَ الثَّلَاثَةُ مَعَهُ بِأَنَّهُمْ سَمِعُوا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ ذَلِكَ فَقَالُوا لِعَلِيٍّ ع هَذَا أَمْرٌ حَدَثَ بَعْدَ الْأَوَّلِ فَشَكَّ مَنْ شَكَّ مِنْهُمْ إِلَّا أَنَّهُمَا تَابَا وَ عَرَفَا وَ سَلَّمَا

Hear said, ‘They had both apparently repented, and were remorseful after that. Their calf had made a claim for status and their Samiri had testified to them, and three (people) were with them, that they had heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying that. They said, ‘Perhaps this matter happened after the first one. So the ones who doubted from them doubted, except that these two repented and understood, and were safe’.

قَالَ سُلَيْمُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ فَلَقِيتُ عَمَّاراً فِي خِلَافَةِ عُثْمَانَ بَعْدَ مَا مَاتَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ فَأَخْبَرْتُهُ بِمَا قَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ فَقَالَ صَدَقَ أَخِي إِنَّهُ لَأَبَرُّ وَ أَصْدَقُ مِنْ أَنْ يُحَدِّثَ عَنْ عَمَّارٍ بِمَا لَا يَسْمَعُ مِنْهُ

Sulaym Bin Qays said, ‘I met Ammar during the Caliphate of Usman after Abu Zarrar had passed away and informed him of what Abu Zarrar had said. He said, ‘My brother Abu Zarrar spoke the truth. Hear is more righteous and truthful than to narrate from Ammar what hear had not heard from him’.

فَقُلْتُ أَصْلَحَكَ اللَّهُ وَ بِمَا تُصَدِّقُ أَبَا ذَرٍّ قَالَ أَشْهَدُ لَقَدْ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ مَا أَظَلَّتِ الْخَضْرَاءُ وَ لَا أَقَلَّتِ الْغَبْرَاءُ مِنْ ذِي لَهْجَةٍ أَصْدَقَ مِنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ وَ لَا أَبَرَّ

I said, ‘May Allahazwj Keep you well, you are ratifying Abu Zarrar?’ He said, ‘I hereby testify that I have heard Rasool-Allahsaww say: ‘The sky has not cast a shadow, nor has the dust (ground) carried anyone who is more truthful in his words than Abu Zarrar, nor anyone more righteous’.

قُلْتُ يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ وَ لَا أَهْلِ بَيْتِكَ قَالَ إِنَّمَا أَعْنِي غَيْرَهُمْ مِنَ النَّاسِ

I (Ammar) said, ‘O Prophetsaww of Allahazwj, not even the Peopleasws of yoursaww Household?’ Hesaww said: ‘What Isaww mean is apart from themasws, from the (other) people’.

ثُمَّ لَقِيتُ حُذَيْفَةَ بِالْمَدَائِنِ رَحَلْتُ إِلَيْهِ مِنَ الْكُوفَةِ فَذَكَرْتُ لَهُ مَا قَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ فَقَالَ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ أَبُو ذَرٍّ أَصْدَقُ وَ أَبَرُّ مِنْ أَنْ يُحَدِّثَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص بِغَيْرِ مَا قَالَ‏.

Then I met Huzayfa at Mada’in – I travelled to him from Al-Kufa – and I mentioned to him what Abu Zarrar had said. He said, ‘Glory be to Allahazwj, Abu Zarrar is more truthful and righteous than to narrate something from Rasool-Allahsaww with other than what hesaww had said’’.⁸⁸

باب 4 [شرح انعقاد السقيفة و كيفية السقيفة]

CHAPTER 4 – COMMENTARY ON THE CONVENING OF THE SAQEEFA AND ITS PROCEDURE

1- ج، الإحتجاج عَنْ أَبِي الْمُفَضَّلِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الشَّيْبَانِيِّ بِإِسْنَادِهِ الصَّحِيحِ عَنْ رِجَالِهِ‏ ثِقَةً عَنْ ثِقَةٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص خَرَجَ فِي مَرَضِهِ الَّذِي تُوُفِّيَ فِيهِ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ مُتَوَكِّياً عَلَى الْفَضْلِ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ وَ غُلَامٍ لَهُ يُقَالُ لَهُ ثَوْبَانُ وَ هِيَ الصَّلَاةُ الَّتِي أَرَادَ التَّخَلُّفَ عَنْهَا لِثِقَلِهِ

(The book) ‘Al Ihtijaj’ – From Abu Al Mufazzal Muhammad Bin Abdullah Al Shaybani, by his correct chain from his men, a reliable one from a reliable one –

‘The Prophetsaww came out to the Salat during hissaww illness in which hesaww passed away, relying upon Al-Fazl Bin Al-Abbas, and a slave of hissaww called Sowban, and it is the Salat which hesaww wanted a replacement for it due to hissaww heaviness (of illness).

ثُمَّ حَمَلَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ ص وَ خَرَجَ فَلَمَّا صَلَّى عَادَ إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ فَقَالَ لِغُلَامِهِ اجْلِسْ عَلَى الْبَابِ وَ لَا تَحْجُبْ أَحَداً مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ وَ تَجَلَّاهُ الْغَشْيُ وَ جَاءَتِ الْأَنْصَارُ فَأَحْدَقُوا بِالْبَابِ وَ قَالُوا ائْذَنْ لَنَا عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ

Then hesaww (took the) load upon himselfsaww and went out. When hesaww prayed Salat, hesaww returned to hissaww house. Hesaww said to hissaww slave: ‘Sit at the door and do not bar anyone from the Helpers’, and the faintness came to himsaww, and the Helpers came and they knocked on the door and said, ‘Give permission to us upon seeing Rasool-Allahsaww!’

فَقَالَ هُوَ مَغْشِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ وَ عِنْدَهُ نِسَاؤُهُ فَجَعَلُوا يَبْكُونَ فَسَمِعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْبُكَاءَ فَقَالَ مَنْ هَؤُلَاءِ قَالُوا الْأَنْصَارُ فَقَالَ ص مَنْ هَاهُنَا مِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتِي قَالُوا عَلِيٌّ وَ الْعَبَّاسُ

He said, ‘Hesaww is with unconsciousness upon him and with himsaww are hissaww wives. Then went on to wail and Rasool-Allahsaww heard the wailing. Hesaww said: ‘Who are they?’ They said, ‘The Helpers’. Hesaww said: ‘Who is over here from mysaww family?’ They said: ‘Aliasws and Al-Abbas’.

فَدَعَاهُمَا وَ خَرَجَ مُتَوَكِّئاً عَلَيْهِمَا فَاسْتَنَدَ إِلَى جَذَعٍ مِنْ أَسَاطِينِ مَسْجِدِهِ وَ كَانَ الْجَذَعُ جَرِيدُ نَخْلَةٍ فَاجْتَمَعَ النَّاسُ وَ خَطَبَ وَ قَالَ فِي كَلَامِهِ إِنَّهُ لَمْ يَمُتْ نَبِيٌّ قَطُّ إِلَّا خَلَّفَ تَرِكَةً وَ قَدْ خَلَّفْتُ فِيكُمُ الثَّقَلَيْنِ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ وَ أَهْلَ بَيْتِي فَمَنْ ضَيَّعَهُمْ ضَيَّعَهُ اللَّهُ

He called them, and went out reclining upon them, and hesaww reclined to a trunk from the pillars of hissaww Masjid, and the trunk was a branch of a palm tree. The people gathered, and hesaww addressed and said in hissaww speech: ‘No Prophetsaww dies at all except and a replacement (successor) is left behind, and Isaww am leaving behind among you all the two weighty things – Book of Allahazwj and Peopleasws of mysaww Household, so the one who wastes them, Allahazwj would Waste him.

أَلَا وَ إِنَّ الْأَنْصَارَ كَرِشِيَ الَّتِي آوِي إِلَيْهَا وَ إِنِّي أُوصِيكُمْ بِتَقْوَى اللَّهِ وَ الْإِحْسَانِ إِلَيْهِمْ فَاقْبَلُوا مِنْ مُحْسِنِهِمْ وَ تَجَاوَزُوا عَنْ مُسِيئِهِمْ‏

Indeed! And the Helpers are like mysaww feathers which Isaww can shelter to, and Isaww am bequeathing you with fearing Allahazwj, and the doing of good to them. Accept from their good deeds and overlook from their evil deeds.

ثُمَّ دَعَا أُسَامَةَ بْنَ زَيْدٍ فَقَالَ سِرْ عَلَى بَرَكَةِ اللَّهِ وَ النَّصْرِ وَ الْعَافِيَةِ حَيْثُ أَمَرْتُكَ بِمَنْ أَمَّرْتُكَ عَلَيْهِ وَ كَانَ ص قَدْ أَمَّرَهُ عَلَى جَمَاعَةٍ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ فِيهِمْ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ وَ جَمَاعَةٌ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ أَمَرَهُ أَنْ يُغِيرُوا عَلَى مُؤْتَةَ وَادٍ فِي فِلَسْطِينَ

Then hesaww called Usama Bin Zayd and said: ‘Travel upon Blessings of Allahazwj and the Help, and the well-being where Isaww order you to, with the ones Isaww make you to be in charge upon’. And hesaww had made him to be a commander upon a group of Emigrants and the Helpers, among them being Abu Bakr, and Umar, and a group of the Emigrants in the beginning, and hesaww instructed him to change at Mowtat, a valley in Palestine.

فَقَالَ لَهُ أُسَامَةُ بِأَبِي أَنْتَ وَ أُمِّي يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَ تَأْذَنُ لِي فِي الْمُقَامِ أَيَّاماً حَتَّى يَشْفِيَكَ اللَّهُ فَإِنِّي مَتَى خَرَجْتُ وَ أَنْتَ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْحَالَةِ خَرَجْتُ وَ فِي قَلْبِي مِنْكَ قَرْحَةٌ

Usama said to himsaww, ‘May my father and my mother be (sacrificed) for yousaww, O Rasool-Allahsaww! Will yousaww permit me to stay for days until Allahazwj Heals yousaww, for when I go out and yousaww are upon this state, I would be going out and in my heart would be a sore about yousaww’.

فَقَالَ أَنْفِذْ يَا أُسَامَةُ فَإِنَّ الْقُعُودَ عَنِ الْجِهَادِ لَا يَجِبُ فِي حَالٍ مِنَ الْأَحْوَالِ فَبَلَغَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص أَنَّ النَّاسَ طَعَنُوا فِي عَمَلِهِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بَلَغَنِي أَنَّكُمْ طَعَنْتُمْ فِي عَمَلِ أُسَامَةَ وَ فِي عَمَلِ أَبِيهِ مِنْ قَبْلُ وَ ايْمُ اللَّهِ إِنَّهُ لَخَلِيقٌ بِالْإِمَارَةِ وَ إِنَّ أَبَاهُ كَانَ خَلِيقاً بِهَا وَ إِنَّهُ مِنْ أَحَبِّ النَّاسِ إِلَيَّ فَأُوصِيكُمْ بِهِ خَيْراً فَلَئِنْ قُلْتُمْ فِي إِمَارَتِهِ فَقَدْ قَالَ قَائِلُكُمْ فِي إِمَارَةِ أَبِيهِ

Hesaww said: ‘Implement, O Usama, for the sitting back from the Jihad is not obliged in a state from the states’. It reached Rasool-Allahsaww that the people were taunting regarding his deed, so Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘It reached mesaww that you are taunting regarding a deed of Usama and regarding a deed of his father of before, and Isaww swear by Allahazwj, he is creative in his command, and his father was creative with it, and he is from the most beloved of the people to mesaww. Isaww bequeath good with him, so if you were to say (taunts) regarding his command, so your speaker had said regarding the command of his father’.

ثُمَّ دَخَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى بَيْتِهِ وَ خَرَجَ أُسَامَةُ مِنْ يَوْمِهِ حَتَّى عَسْكَرَ عَلَى رَأْسِ فَرْسَخٍ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ وَ نَادَى مُنَادِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ لَا يَتَخَلَّفْ عَنْ أُسَامَةَ أَحَدٌ مِمَّنْ أَمَّرْتُهُ عَلَيْهِ

Then Rasool-Allahsaww entered into hissaww house, and Usama went out from his day until the army was on top of a cliff, a Farsakh from Al-Medina, and a caller of Rasool-Allahsaww called out: ‘No one from the ones Isaww have made him a commander upon should stay behind from Usama!’

فَلَحِقَ النَّاسُ بِهِ وَ كَانَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ سَارَعَ إِلَيْهِ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ فَنَزَلُوا فِي زُقَاقٍ وَاحِدٍ مَعَ جُمْلَةِ أَهْلِ الْعَسْكَرِ

The people joined up with him, and the first one to hasten to him were Abu Bakr and Umar and Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah. They descended in one lane with the total of the people of the army’.

قَالَ وَ ثَقُلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَجَعَلَ النَّاسُ مِمَّنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ فِي بَعْثِ أُسَامَةَ يَدْخُلُونَ عَلَيْهِ أَرْسَالًا وَ سَعْدُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ شَاكٍ‏ فَكَانَ لَا يَدْخُلُ أَحَدٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ص إِلَّا انْصَرَفَ إِلَى سَعْدٍ يَعُودُهُ

He (the narrator) said, ‘And Rasool-Allahsaww became heavy (with illness), so the people, from the ones who did not happen to be among the sending of Usama, went on to entered to see himsaww in an orderly manner, and Sa’ad Bin Ubada had a complaint (illness). So, no one from the Helpers entered to see the Prophetsaww except he left to see Sa’ad to console him’.

قَالَ وَ قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَقْتَ الضُّحَى مِنْ يَوْمِ الْإِثْنَيْنِ بَعْدَ خُرُوجِ أُسَامَةَ إِلَى مُعَسْكَرِهِ بِيَوْمَيْنِ فَرَجَعَ أَهْلُ الْعَسْكَرِ وَ الْمَدِينَةُ قَدْ رَجَفَتْ بِأَهْلِهَا فَأَقْبَلَ‏ أَبُو بَكْرٍ عَلَى نَاقَةٍ لَهُ حَتَّى وَقَفَ عَلَى بَابِ الْمَسْجِدِ فَقَالَ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ مَا لَكُمْ تَمُوجُونَ إِنْ كَانَ مُحَمَّدٌ قَدْ مَاتَ فَرَبُّ مُحَمَّدٍ ص لَمْ يَمُتْ‏

He (the narrator) said, ‘And Rasool-Allahsaww passed away at morning time of the day of Monday, two days after the exit of Usama to his soldiers. The people of the army returned and Al-Medina trembled with its inhabitants. Abu Bakr came upon a camel of his until he paused at the door of the Masjid and said, ‘O you people! What is the matter with you all rippling? If Muhammadsaww has died, so perhaps hesaww did not die:

وَ ما مُحَمَّدٌ إِلَّا رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ الرُّسُلُ أَ فَإِنْ ماتَ أَوْ قُتِلَ انْقَلَبْتُمْ عَلى‏ أَعْقابِكُمْ وَ مَنْ يَنْقَلِبْ عَلى‏ عَقِبَيْهِ فَلَنْ يَضُرَّ اللَّهَ شَيْئاً

And Muhammad is not except for a Rasool; the Rasools have already passed away before him; so if he dies or is killed will you turn back upon your heels? And the one who turns back upon his heels, he will never harm Allah of anything [3:144]’.

ثُمَّ اجْتَمَعَتِ الْأَنْصَارُ إِلَى سَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ وَ جَاءُوا بِهِ إِلَى سَقِيفَةِ بَنِي سَاعِدَةَ فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ بِذَلِكَ عُمَرُ أَخْبَرَ بِهِ أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَ مَضَيَا مُسْرِعَيْنِ إِلَى السَّقِيفَةِ وَ مَعَهُمَا أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ وَ فِي السَّقِيفَةِ خَلْقٌ كَثِيرٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ وَ سَعْدُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ بَيْنَهُمْ مَرِيضٌ

Then the Helpers gathered to Sa’ad Bin Ubada and they came with him to a shed (Saqeefa) of the clan of Saida. When Umar heard of that, he informed Abu Bakr with it, and they both went quickly to the shed and with them was Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah, and in the shed there was a lot of people from the Helpers, and Sa’ad Bin Ubada was between them, sick.

فَتَنَازَعُوا الْأَمْرَ بَيْنَهُمْ فَآلُ الْأَمْرُ إِلَى أَنْ قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فِي آخِرِ كَلَامِهِ لِلْأَنْصَارِ إِنَّمَا أَدْعُوكُمْ إِلَى أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ الْجَرَّاحِ أَوْ إِلَى عُمَرَ وَ كِلَاهُمَا قَدْ رَضِيتُ لِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ وَ كِلَاهُمَا أَرَاهُ لَهُ أَهْلًا

They contended the command between them, saying the command is to’ – up to Abu Bakr saying at the end of his speech to the Helpers, ‘But rather, I am calling you all to Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah, or to Umar, and both of them have agreed to this command, and both of them see themselves to be rightful for it’.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ مَا يَنْبَغِي لَنَا أَنْ نَتَقَدَّمَكَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ أَنْتَ أَقْدَمُنَا إِسْلَاماً وَ أَنْتَ صَاحِبُ الْغَارِ وَ ثانِيَ اثْنَيْنِ‏ فَأَنْتَ أَحَقُّ بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ وَ أَوْلَانَا بِهِ

Umar and Abu Ubeyda said, ‘It is not befitting for us that we precede you, O Abu Bakr. You are our foremost one in Islam, and you were the companion (of Rasool-Allahsaww) in the cave, and second of the two, so you are more rightful with this command, and first one of us with it’.

فَقَالَتِ الْأَنْصَارُ نَحْذَرُ أَنْ يَغْلِبَ عَلَى هَذَا الْأَمْرِ مَنْ لَيْسَ مِنَّا وَ لَا مِنْكُمْ فَنَجْعَلُ مِنَّا أَمِيراً وَ مِنْكُمْ أَمِيراً وَ نَرْضَى بِهِ عَلَى أَنَّهُ إِنْ هَلَكَ اخْتَرْنَا آخَرَ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ

The Helpers said, ‘We are cautious that he would overcome upon this command, one who is neither from us nor from you, so we shall made a ruler to be from us and a rule to be from you we shall be pleased with him upon that if he were to die, we shall choose the other one from the Helpers’.

فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ بَعْدَ أَنْ مَدَحَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ أَنْتُمْ مَعَاشِرَ الْأَنْصَارِ مِمَّنْ لَا يُنْكَرُ فَضْلُهُمْ وَ لَا نِعْمَتُهُمْ الْعَظِيمَةُ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ رَضِيَكُمْ اللَّهُ أَنْصَاراً لِدِينِهِ وَ لِرَسُولِهِ وَ جَعَلَ إِلَيْكُمْ مُهَاجَرَتَهُ وَ فِيكُمْ مَحَلَّ أَزْوَاجِهِ فَلَيْسَ أَحَدٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ بَعْدَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ الْأَوَّلِينَ بِمَنْزِلَتِكُمْ فَهُمُ الْأُمَرَاءُ وَ أَنْتُمُ الْوُزَرَاءُ

Abu Bakr said after having praised the Emigrants, ‘And you, community of the Helpers, are from the ones whose merits cannot be denied, nor your great favours to Al-Islam. You Helpers have Pleased Allahazwj for Hisazwj Religion and for Hisazwj Rasoolsaww, and Made Hisazwj Emigrants to be to you, and among you is a place of hissaww wives. Thus, there isn’t anyone from the people, after the first Emigrants, being with your status, for they are the rulers and you are the ministers’.

فَقَامَ الْحُبَابُ بْنُ الْمُنْذِرِ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ فَقَالَ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْأَنْصَارِ أَمْلِكُوا عَلَى أَيْدِيكُمْ وَ إِنَّمَا النَّاسُ فِي فَيْئِكُمْ وَ ظِلَالِكُمْ وَ لَنْ يَجْتَرِئَ مُجْتَرِئٌ عَلَى خِلَافِكُمْ وَ لَنْ يَصْدُرَ النَّاسُ إِلَّا عَنْ رَأْيِكُمْ وَ أَثْنَى عَلَى الْأَنْصَارِ

Al-Hubab Bin Al-Munzar Al-Ansari stood up and said, ‘O community of the Helpers! Take control upon your own hands, and rather the people are in your shadow and your shade, and no audacious one will have the audacity upon opposing you, and the people will never implement except you your view’, and he praised upon the Helpers.

ثُمَّ قَالَ فَإِنْ أَبَى هَؤُلَاءِ تَأْمِيرَكُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ فَلَسْنَا نَرْضَى تَأْمِيرَهُمْ عَلَيْنَا وَ لَا نَقْنَعُ بِدُونِ أَنْ يَكُونَ مِنَّا أَمِيرٌ وَ مِنْهُمْ أَمِيرٌ

Then he said, ‘So, if they were to refuse to make you rulers upon them, then we do not agree their being rulers upon us, and we will not be content without there happening to be a ruler from us and a ruler from them’.

فَقَامَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ فَقَالَ هَيْهَاتَ لَا يَجْتَمِعُ سَيْفَانِ فِي غِمْدٍ وَاحِدٍ إِنَّهُ لَا تَرْضَى الْعَرَبُ أَنْ تُؤَمِّرَكُمْ وَ نَبِيُّهَا مِنْ غَيْرِكُمْ وَ لَكِنَّ الْعَرَبَ لَا تَمْتَنِعُ أَنْ تُوَلِّيَ أَمْرَهَا مَنْ كَانَتِ النُّبُوَّةُ فِيهِمْ وَ لَنَا بِذَلِكَ عَلَى مَنْ خَالَفَنَا الْحُجَّةُ الظَّاهِرَةُ وَ السُّلْطَانُ الْبَيِّنُ

Umar Bin Al-Khattab stood up and said, ‘Far be it! Two swords cannot be gathered to be in one sheath! The Arabs are not pleased to make you rulers and (although) their Prophetsaww is from other than you (Helpers), but the Arabs will not refuse for their affairs to be ruled by the ones the Prophet-hood was among them (Emigrants), and for us with that is the apparent argument against the ones who oppose us and the clear proof.

فَمَا يُنَازِعُنَا فِي سُلْطَانِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص وَ نَحْنُ أَوْلِيَاؤُهُ وَ عَشِيرَتُهُ إِلَّا مُدْلٍ بِبَاطِلٍ أَوْ مُتَجَانِفٌ لِإِثْمٍ أَوْ مُتَوَرِّطٌ فِي الْهَلَاكَةِ مُحِبٌّ لِلْفِتْنَةِ

Therefore do not contend us regarding the authority of Muhammadsaww and we are hissaww friends and hissaww clan, except the one pointing to the falsehood, or deviating to the sins, or entangled in the destruction, loving the Fitna’.

فَقَامَ الْحُبَابُ بْنُ الْمُنْذِرِ ثَانِيَةً فَقَالَ يَا مَعَاشِرَ الْأَنْصَارِ أَمْسِكُوا عَلَى أَيْدِيكُمْ وَ لَا تَسْمَعُوا مَقَالَةَ هَذَا الْجَاهِلِ وَ أَصْحَابِهِ فَيَذْهَبُوا بِنَصِيبِكُمْ مِنْ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ وَ إِنْ أَبَوْا أَنْ يَكُونَ مِنَّا أَمِيرٌ وَ مِنْهُمْ أَمِيرٌ فَأَجْلُوهُمْ عَنْ بِلَادِكُمْ وَ تَوَلَّوْا هَذَا الْأَمْرَ عَلَيْهِمْ فَأَنْتُمْ وَ اللَّهِ أَحَقُّ بِهِ مِنْهُمْ

Al-Hubab Bin Al-Munzar stood up for a second time and said, ‘O community of the Helpers! Withhold (the command) upon your hands and do not listen to the words of the ignoramus and his companions, for they will go away with your share from this command, and if they refuse for a ruler to be from us and a ruler to be from them, then evacuate them from your city (Al-Medina) and take charge of this command upon them, for by Allahazwj, you are more rightful with it than them.

فَقَدْ دَانَ بِأَسْيَافِكُمْ قَبْلَ هَذَا الْوَقْتِ مَنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ يَدِينُ بِغَيْرِهَا وَ أَنَا جُذَيْلُهَا الْمُحَكَّكُ وَ عُذَيْقُهَا الْمُرَجَّبُ وَ اللَّهِ لَئِنْ رَدَّ أَحَدٌ قَوْلِي لَأَحْطِمَنَّ أَنْفَهُ بِالسَّيْفِ

So, he has made it a religion with your swords before this time, one who did not happen to make it a religion with other than it, and its charm is worn out and its taste is desired. By Allahazwj! If anyone were to refute my words, I shall destroy his nose (pride) with the sword’.

قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ فَلَمَّا كَانَ الْحُبَابُ هُوَ الَّذِي يُجِيبُنِي لَمْ يَكُنْ لِي مَعَهُ كَلَامٌ فَإِنَّهُ جَرَتْ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَهُ مُنَازَعَةٌ فِي حَيَاةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَنَهَانِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَنْ مُهَاتَرَتِهِ فَحَلَفْتُ أَنْ لَا أُكَلِّمَهُ أَبَداً

Umar Bin Al-Khattab said, ‘When Al-Hubab was the one who answers me, there would not happen to be any speech for me with him, for there had flowed a contention between me and him during the lifetime of Rasool-Allahsaww, and Rasool-Allahsaww forbade me from battling him, and I vowed that I will not speak to him, ever!’

ثُمَّ قَالَ عُمَرُ لِأَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ يَا أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ تَكَلَّمْ فَقَامَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ وَ تَكَلَّمَ بِكَلَامٍ كَثِيرٍ ذَكَرَ فِيهِ فَضَائِلَ الْأَنْصَارِ فَكَانَ بَشِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ سَيِّدَاً مِنْ سَادَاتِ الْأَنْصَارِ لَمَّا رَأَى اجْتِمَاعَ الْأَنْصَارِ عَلَى سَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ لِتَأْمِيرِهِ حَسَدَهُ وَ سَعَى فِي إِفْسَادِ الْأَمْرِ عَلَيْهِ وَ تَكَلَّمَ فِي ذَلِكَ وَ رَضِيَ بِتَأْمِيرِ قُرَيْشٍ وَ حَثَّ النَّاسَ كُلَّهُمْ لَا سِيَّمَا الْأَنْصَارِ عَلَى الرِّضَا بِمَا يَفْعَلُهُ الْمُهَاجِرُونَ

Then Umar said to Abu Ubeyda, ‘O Abu Ubeyda! Speak’. Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah stood up and spoke with a lot of things, mentioning in it the merits of the Helpers. Bashir Bin Sa’ad was a chief from the chiefs of the Helpers. When he saw the unity of the Helpers upon Sa’ad Bin Ubada to make him the ruler, so he envied him, and strive in spoiling the matter upon him, and spoke regarding that, and agreed with a ruler of Quraysh and urged the people all of them, in particular the Helpers upon the agreement with what the Emigrants were doing.

فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ هَذَا عُمَرُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ شَيْخَا قُرَيْشٍ فَبَايِعُوا أَيَّهُمَا شِئْتُمْ

Abu Bakr said, ‘This is Umar and Abu Ubeyda, sheykhs of Quraysh, so pledge allegiance to whichever of the two you desire to’.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ مَا نَتَوَلَّى هَذَا الْأَمْرَ عَلَيْكَ امْدُدْ يَدَكَ نُبَايِعْكَ فَقَالَ بَشِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ وَ أَنَا ثَالِثُكُمَا وَ كَانَ سَيِّدَ الْأَوْسِ‏ وَ سَعْدُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ سَيِّدَ الْخَزْرَجِ

Umar said and Abu Ubeyda said, ‘We will not be in charge of this command upon you. Extend your hand, we shall pledge allegiance to you’. Bashir Bin Sa’d said, ‘And I am the third of you’, and he was a chief of the Aws (tribe) and Sa’ad Bin Ubada was chief of Al-Khazraj (tribe).

فَلَمَّا رَأَتِ الْأَوْسُ صَنِيعَ بَشِيرٍ وَ مَا دَعَتْ إِلَيْهِ الْخَزْرَجُ مِنْ تَأْمِيرِ سَعْدٍ أَكَبُّوا عَلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ بِالْبَيْعَةِ وَ تَكَاثَرُوا عَلَى ذَلِكَ وَ تَزَاحَمُوا فَجَعَلُوا يَطَئُونَ سَعْداً مِنْ شِدَّةَ الزَّحْمَةِ وَ هُوَ بَيْنَهُمْ عَلَى فِرَاشِهِ مَرِيضٌ

When Al-Aws saw the doings of Bashir and what he had called Al-Khazraj to from making Sa’ad a rule, they leapt upon Abu Bakr with the allegiance and augmented upon that, and crowded him and went on to trample Sa’d from the intensity of the crowd, and he was between them upon his bed, sick.

فَقَالَ قَتَلْتُمُونِي قَالَ عُمَرُ اقْتُلُوا سَعْداً قَتَلَهُ اللَّهُ فَوَثَبَ قَيْسُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ فَأَخَذَ بِلِحْيَةِ عُمَرَ وَ قَالَ وَ اللَّهِ يَا ابْنَ صُهَاكَ الْجَبَانَ الْفَرَّارَ فِي الْحُرُوبِ اللَّيْثَ فِي الْمَلَإِ وَ الْأَمْنِ لَوْ حَرَّكْتَ مِنْهُ شَعْرَةً مَا رَجَعْتَ وَ فِي وَجْهِكَ وَاضِحَةٌ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مَهْلًا يَا عُمَرُ فَإِنَّ الرِّفْقَ أَبْلَغُ وَ أَفْضَلُ

He said, ‘You are killing me!’ Umar said, ‘May Allahazwj Kill him’. Qays Bin Sa’ad leapt and grabbed the beard of Umar and said, ‘By Allahazwj! By Allahazwj, O son of Suhaak, the coward, the fleer in the wars, the lion in the assemblies and during the peace time! Even if a hair moves from him, you will not return and in your face would be clearness!’ Abu Bakr said, ‘No, O Umar, for the kindness is more reaching and better’.

فَقَالَ سَعْدٌ يَا ابْنَ صُهَاكَ وَ كَانَتْ جَدَّةَ عُمَرَ حَبَشِيَّةً أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ أَنَّ لِي قُوَّةً عَلَى النُّهُوضِ لَسَمِعْتُمَا مِنِّي فِي سِكَكِهَا زَئِيراً يُزْعِجُكَ وَ أَصْحَابَكَ مِنْهَا وَ لَأَلْحَقْتُكُمَا بِقَوْمٍ كُنْتُمْ فِيهِمْ أَذْنَاباً أَذِلَّاءَ تَابِعَيْنِ غَيْرَ مَتْبُوعَيْنِ لَقَدِ اجْتَرَأْتُمَا يَا آلَ الْخَزْرَجِ احْمِلُونِي مِنْ مَكَانِ الْفِتْنَةِ

Sa’ad said, ‘O son of Suhaak!’ – a grandmother of Umar was Ethiopian, ‘But, by Allahazwj, if there was strength for me upon the rising, you would have heard me roaring in the markets, you and your companions would have been distressed from it and I would have joined you to with a people you used to be among them, a disgraceful offspring, followers not being followed. You are being audacious, O family of Al-Khazraj! Carry me away from the place of Fitna!’

فَحَمَلُوهُ فَأَدْخَلُوهُ مَنْزِلَهُ فَلَمَّا كَانَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ بَعَثَ إِلَيْهِ أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَنْ قَدْ بَايَعَ النَّاسُ فَبَايِعْ

They carried him and entered him into his house. When it was after that, Abu Bakr sent a message to him, ‘The people have pledged allegiance, so (you) pledge allegiance’.

فَقَالَ لَا وَ اللَّهِ حَتَّى أَرْمِيَكُمْ بِكُلِّ سَهْمٍ فِي كِنَانَتِي وَ أَخْضِبَ مِنْكُمْ سِنَانَ رُمْحِي وَ أَضْرِبَكُمْ بِسَيْفِي مَا أَقَلَّتْ يَدِي فَأُقَاتِلُكُمْ بِمَنْ تَبِعَنِي مِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتِي وَ عَشِيرَتِي ثُمَّ وَ ايْمُ اللَّهِ لَوِ اجْتَمَعَ‏ الْجِنُّ وَ الْإِنْسُ عَلَيَّ مَا بَايَعْتُكُمَا أَيُّهَا الْغَاصِبَانِ حَتَّى أُعْرَضَ عَلَى رَبِّي وَ أَعْلَمَ مَا حِسَابِي

He said, ‘No, by Allahazwj, until I shoot at you with every arrow in my quiver, and dye the teeth from my spears, and strike you with my sword. I am not short of hands. I will fight you with the ones who follow me, from my family and my clan. Then, I swear by Allahazwj! Even if the Jinn and the humans were to gather against me, I will not pledge allegiance to you two (Abu Bakr and Umar), O you usurpers, until I am presented unto my Lordazwj and know what my Reckoning is’.

فَلَمَّا جَاءَهُمْ كَلَامُهُ قَالَ عُمَرُ لَا بُدَّ مِنْ بَيْعَتِهِ فَقَالَ بَشِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ إِنَّهُ قَدْ أَبَى وَ لَجَّ وَ لَيْسَ بِمُبَايِعٍ أَوْ يُقْتَلَ وَ لَيْسَ بِمَقْتُولٍ حَتَّى تُقْتَلَ مَعَهُ الْخَزْرَجُ وَ الْأَوْسُ فَاتْرُكُوهُ وَ لَيْسَ تَرْكُهُ بِضَائِرٍ

When his speech came to them, Umar said, ‘There is no escape from his allegiance’. Bashir Bin Sa’ad said, ‘He has refused and is vociferous, and will not be pledging allegiance, or he is killed, and he wouldn’t be killed until Al-Khazraj and Al-Aws are killed along with him. So leave him, and leaving him is not harmful’.

فَقَبِلُوا قَوْلَهُ وَ تَرَكُوا سَعْداً وَ كَانَ سَعْدٌ لَا يُصَلِّي بِصَلَاتِهِمْ وَ لَا يَقْضِي بِقَضَائِهِمْ‏ وَ لَوْ وَجَدَ أَعْوَاناً لَصَالَ بِهِمْ وَ لَقَاتَلَهُمْ فَلَمْ يَزَلْ كَذَلِكَ فِي وِلَايَةِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ حَتَّى هَلَكَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ

They accepted his words and left Sa’ad, and Sa’ad did not use to pray Salat with their Salat nor fulfilled any needs with their needs, and had he found any supporters he would have been with them and fought against them. He did not cease to be like that during the rule of Abu Bakr until Abu Bakr died.

ثُمَّ وُلِّيَ عُمَرُ فَكَانَ كَذَلِكَ فَخَشِيَ سَعْدٌ غَائِلَةَ عُمَرَ فَخَرَجَ إِلَى الشَّامِ فَمَاتَ بِحَوْرَانَ فِي وِلَايَةِ عُمَرَ وَ لَمْ يُبَايِعْ أَحَداً وَ كَانَ سَبَبُ مَوْتِهِ أَنْ رُمِيَ بِسَهْمٍ فِي اللَّيْلِ فَقَتَلَهُ وَ زُعِمَ أَنَّ الْجِنَّ رَمَوْهُ وَ قِيلَ أَيْضاً إِنَّ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ مَسْلَمَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيَّ تَوَلَّى قَتْلَهُ بِجُعْلٍ جُعِلَتْ لَهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ رُوِيَ أَنَّهُ تَوَلَّى ذَلِكَ الْمُغِيرَةُ بْنُ شُعْبَةَ

Then Umar became ruler, and he was like that. Sa’ad feared the calamity of Umar, so he went out to Syria and died at Howran during the rule of Umar, and did not pledge allegiance to anyone, and the reason for his death was that he was shot at by an arrow during the night and it killed him, and it is claimed that the Jinn shot at him, and it is said as well that Muhammad Bin Maslama Al-Ansari was in-charge of killing him, and kept on coming against him. And it is reported that Al-Mugheira Bin Shu’ba was in charge of him.

قَالَ وَ بَايَعَ جَمَاعَةٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ وَ مَنْ حَضَرَ مِنْ غَيْرِهِمْ وَ عَلِيُ‏ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع مَشْغُولٌ بِجَهَازِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَ صَلَّى عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ص وَ النَّاسُ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَيْهِ مَنْ بَايَعَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَ مَنْ لَمْ يُبَايِعْ جَلَسَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ

He (the narrator) said, ‘And a group from the Helpers pledged allegiance, and the ones presented from others, and Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws was pre-occupied with the funeral preparations of Rasool-Allahsaww. When heasws was free from that and had prayed Salat upon the Prophetsaww, and the people prayed Salat upon him, the ones who had pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr, and the ones who did not pledge allegiance sat in the Masjid.

فَاجْتَمَعَ إِلَيْهِ بَنُو هَاشِمٍ وَ مَعَهُ الزُّبَيْرُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِ وَ اجْتَمَعَتْ بَنُو أُمَيَّةَ إِلَى عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ وَ بَنُو زُهْرَةَ إِلَى عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ فَكَانُوا فِي الْمَسْجِدِ مُجْتَمِعِينَ إِذْ أَقْبَلَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ فَقَالُوا مَا لَنَا نَرَاكُمْ حَلَقاً شَتَّى قُومُوا فَبَايِعُوا أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَقَدْ بَايَعَهُ الْأَنْصَارُ وَ النَّاسُ

The Clan of Hashimasws gathered to himasws, and with himasws was Al-Zubeyr Bin Al-Awwam, and the clan of Umayya gathered to Usman Bin Affan, and the clan of Zuhra to Abdul Rahman Bin Awf, and they were gathered in the Masjid, when Abu Bakr and Umar and Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah came and they said, ‘What is the matter we see you all (seated) in various circles? Arise and pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr, for the Helpers have already pledged and (so have) the people’.

فَقَامَ عُثْمَانُ وَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَوْفٍ وَ مَنْ مَعَهُمَا فَبَايَعُوا وَ انْصَرَفَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ بَنُو هَاشِمٍ إِلَى مَنْزِلِ عَلِيٍّ ع وَ مَعَهُمُ الزُّبَيْرُ

Usman and Abdul Rahman Bin Awf and the ones with them stood up and pledged allegiance, and Aliasws and the Clan of Hashimasws left to go to the house of Aliasws, and Al-Zubeyr was with them.

قَالَ فَذَهَبَ إِلَيْهِمْ عُمَرُ فِي جَمَاعَةٍ مِمَّنْ بَايَعَ فِيهِمْ أُسَيْدُ بْنُ حُضَيْرٍ وَ سَلَمَةُ بْنُ سَلَامَةَ فَأَلْفَوْهُمْ مُجْتَمِعِينَ فَقَالُوا لَهُمْ بَايِعُوا أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَقَدْ بَايَعَهُ النَّاسُ فَوَثَبَ الزُّبَيْرُ إِلَى سَيْفِهِ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ عَلَيْكُمْ بِالْكَلْبِ فَاكْفُونَا شَرَّهُ فَبَادَرَ سَلَمَةُ بْنُ سَلَامَةَ فَانْتَزَعَ السَّيْفَ مِنْ يَدِهِ فَأَخَذَهُ عُمَرُ فَضَرَبَ بِهِ الْأَرْضَ فَكَسَرَهُ‏ وَ أَحْدَقُوا بِمَنْ كَانَ‏ هُنَاكَ مِنْ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ وَ مَضَوْا بِجَمَاعَتِهِمْ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ

He (the narrator) said, ‘Umar went to them among a group of the one who had pledged allegiance, among them were Aseyd Bin Huzeyr, and Salama Bin Salama, and took them altogether and said to them, ‘Pledge allegiance to Abu bakr, for the people have already pledged!’ Al-Zubeyr leapt to his sword. Umar said, ‘Upon you is (to deal) with the dog and stop his evil from us’. Salama Bin Salama rushed and snatched the sword from his hand, and Umar took it and struck the ground with it and broke it, and they cordoned off the ones from the Clan of Hashimasws who were there, and they went with their group to Abu Bakr.

فَلَمَّا حَضَرُوا قَالُوا بَايِعُوا أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَقَدْ بَايَعَهُ النَّاسُ وَ ايْمُ اللَّهِ لَئِنْ أَبَيْتُمْ ذَلِكَ لَنُحَاكِمَنَّكُمْ بِالسَّيْفِ

When they were presented, (Umar) said, ‘Pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr, for the people have pledged, and I swear by Allahazwj, if you were to refuse that, we shall judge you with the sword!’

فَلَمَّا رَأَى ذَلِكَ بَنُو هَاشِمٍ أَقْبَلَ رَجُلٌ رَجُلٌ فَجَعَلَ يُبَايِعُ حَتَّى لَمْ يَبْقَ مِمَّنْ حَضَرَ إِلَّا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَقَالَ لَهُ بَايِعْ أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ أَنَا أَحَقُّ بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ مِنْهُ وَ أَنْتُمْ أَوْلَى بِالْبَيْعَةِ لِي أَخَذْتُمْ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ وَ احْتَجَجْتُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ بِالْقَرَابَةِ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ تَأْخُذُونَهُ مِنَّا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ غَصْباً

When the Clan of Hashimasws saw that, man by man came and pledge allegiance until there did not remain anyone from the ones present except Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws. He (Umar) said to him (Aliasws), ‘Pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr!’ Aliasws said: ‘Iasws am more rightful with this command than him, and you all are foremost with pledging the allegiance to measws. You seized this command from the Helpers and argued against them with the kinship from Rasool-Allahsaww and seized it from usasws, Peopleasws of the Household, usurping.

أَ لَسْتُمْ زَعَمْتُمْ لِلْأَنْصَارِ أَنَّكُمْ أَوْلَى بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ مِنْهُمْ لِمَكَانِكُمْ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَأَعْطَوْكُمُ الْمَقَادَةَ وَ سَلَّمُوا لَكُمُ الْإِمَارَةَ وَ أَنَا أَحْتَجُّ عَلَيْكُمْ بِمِثْلِ مَا احْتَجَجْتُمْ عَلَى الْأَنْصَارِ أَنَا أَوْلَى بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ حَيّاً وَ مَيِّتاً وَ أَنَا وَصِيُّهُ وَ وَزِيرُهُ وَ مُسْتَوْدَعُ سِرِّهِ وَ عِلْمِهِ

Didn’t you claim to the Helpers that you (Emigrants) are foremost with this command than them due to your position from Rasool-Allahsaww, so they gave you the leadership and submitted the government to you? And Iasws am arguing against you with the like of what you had argued against the Helpers. Iasws am foremost with Rasool-Allahsaww, living and deceased, and Iasws am hissaww successorasws, and hissaww Vizier, and a depository of hissaww secrets and hissaww knowledge.

وَ أَنَا الصِّدِّيقُ الْأَكْبَرُ أَوَّلُ مَنْ آمَنَ بِهِ وَ صَدَّقَهُ وَ أَحْسَنُكُمْ بَلَاءً فِي جِهَادِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ وَ أَعْرَفُكُمْ بِالْكِتَابِ وَ السُّنَّةِ وَ أَفْقَهُكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ وَ أَعْلَمُكُمْ بِعَوَاقِبِ الْأُمُورِ وَ أَذْرَبُكُمْ لِسَاناً وَ أَثْبَتُكُمْ جِنَاناً فَعَلَامَ تُنَازِعُونَّا هَذَا الْأَمْرَ

And Iasws am the greatest truthful, the first one to believe in himsaww, and ratify himsaww and the best of you with hardship in fighting the Polytheists, and most recognising of you with the Book and the Sunnah, and most understanding of you in the Religion, and most knowledgeable of you with the results of the matters, and most eloquent of you in speaking, and most proven of you all with the Gardens, so upon what are you contending this command?

أَنْصِفُونَا إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَخَافُونَ اللَّهَ مِنْ أَنْفُسِكُمْ وَ اعْرِفُوا لَنَا مِنَ الْأَمْرِ مِثْلَ مَا عَرَفَتْهُ الْأَنْصَارُ لَكُمْ وَ إِلَّا فَبُوءُوا بِالظُّلْمِ وَ أَنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

Be fair to us, if you are fearing Allahazwj than yourselves, and recognise to us of the command like what you introduced the Helpers as being for you, or else you are going with the injustice and you are knowing’.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ أَ مَا لَكَ بِأَهْلِ بَيْتِكِ أُسْوَةٌ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع سَلُوهُمْ عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَابْتَدَرَ الْقَوْمُ الَّذِينَ بَايَعُوا مِنْ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ فَقَالُوا مَا بَيْعَتُنَا بِحُجَّةٍ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع وَ مَعَاذَ اللَّهِ أَنْ نَقُولَ إِنَّا نُوَازِيهِ فِي الْهِجْرَةِ وَ حُسْنِ الْجِهَادِ وَ الْمَحَلِّ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

Umar said, ‘Isn’t there an example for youasws with your family members (having pledged allegiance)?’ Aliasws said: ‘Ask them about that’. So, the group, those from the Clan of Hashimasws who had pledged allegiance, rushed and said, ‘Our allegiances are not an argument upon Aliasws, and Allahazwj Forbid that we should be saying we are hisasws equals in the Emigration, and the goodly Jihad, and the position from Rasool-Allahsaww’.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ إِنَّكَ لَسْتَ مَتْرُوكاً حَتَّى تُبَايِعَ طَوْعاً أَوْ كَرْهاً

Umar said, ‘You will not be left until you either pledge willingly or unwillingly’. Aliasws said: ‘

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع احْلُبْ حَلْباً لَكَ شَطْرُهُ اشْدُدْ لَهُ الْيَوْمَ لِيَرُدَّ عَلَيْكَ غَداً إِذاً وَ اللَّهِ لَا أَقْبَلَ قَوْلَكَ وَ لَا أَحْفِلَ بِمَقَامِكَ وَ لَا أُبَايِعَ

Aliasws said: ‘You are milking milk for you, being harsh for it today, it will be returned upon you tomorrow when, by Allahazwj Iasws will neither accept your words, nor will your place be celebrated, and I will not pledge allegiance’.

فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مَهْلًا يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ مَا نُشَدِّدُ عَلَيْكَ وَ لَا نُكْرِهُكَ

Abu Bakr (at this point intervened and) said: Shh no, O Abu Al-Hassanasws! We are not being harsh upon youasws, nor forcing you’.

فَقَامَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ فَقَالَ يَا ابْنَ عَمِّ لَسْنَا نَدْفَعُ قَرَابَتَكَ وَ لَا سَابِقَتَكَ وَ لَا عِلْمَكَ وَ لَا نُصْرَتَكَ وَ لَكِنَّكَ حَدَثُ السِّنِّ وَ كَانَ لِعَلِيٍّ ع يَوْمَئِذٍ ثَلَاثٌ وَ ثَلَاثُونَ سَنَةً وَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ شَيْخٌ مِنْ مَشَايِخِ قَوْمِكَ وَ هُوَ أَحْمَلُ لِثِقَلِ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ وَ قَدْ مَضَى الْأَمْرُ بِمَا فِيهِ فَسَلِّمْ‏ لَهُ

Abu Ubeyda stood up to Aliasws and said, ‘O cousin! We are not refuting yourasws kinship nor preceding youasws, nor yourasws knowledge, nor yourasws help, but you are of young age’ – and on that day Aliasws was thirty three years of age – ‘and Abu Bakr is an old man from the old men of yourasws people, and he has more endurance for the weight of this command, and the command has already passed along with whatever is in it, so submit to him.

فَإِنْ عَمَّرَكَ اللَّهُ لَسَلَّمُوا هَذَا الْأَمْرَ إِلَيْكَ وَ لَا يَخْتَلِفُ عَلَيْكَ اثْنَانِ بَعْدَ هَذَا إِلَّا وَ أَنْتَ بِهِ خَلِيقٌ وَ لَهُ حَقِيقٌ وَ لَا تَبْعَثِ الْفِتْنَةَ قَبْلَ أَوَانِ الْفِتْنَةِ قَدْ عَرَفْتَ مَا فِي قُلُوبِ الْعَرَبِ وَ غَيْرِهِمْ عَلَيْكَ

If Allahazwj were to Make youasws a ruler, this command would be submitted to youasws, and no two would differ upon youasws after this, except and you would be appropriate with it, and competent for it, and do not resurrect the Fitna before the season of the Fitna (for) youasws do recognise what is in the hearts of the Arabs and other against youasws’.

فَقَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع يَا مَعَاشِرَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ اللَّهَ اللَّهَ لَا تَنْسَوْا عَهْدَ نَبِيِّكُمْ إِلَيْكُمْ فِي أَمْرِي وَ لَا تُخْرِجُوا سُلْطَانَ مُحَمَّدٍ مِنْ دَارِهِ وَ قَعْرِ بَيْتِهِ إِلَى دُورِكُمْ وَ قَعْرِ بُيُوتِكُمْ وَ تَدْفَعُوا أَهْلَهُ عَنْ حَقِّهِ وَ مَقَامِهِ فِي النَّاسِ

Amir Al-Momineenasws said: ‘O community of the Emigrants and the Helpers! Allahazwj! Allahazwj! Do not forget the pact of your Prophetsaww to you all regarding myasws command, and do not throw out the authority of Muhammadsaww from hissaww house and the bottom of hissaww house, to your houses and bottom of your houses, and push away hissaww family from its right and its position among the people.

يَا مَعَاشِرَ الْجَمْعِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَضَى وَ حَكَمَ وَ نَبِيَّهُ أَعْلَمُ وَ أَنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ إِنَّا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ أَحَقُّ بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ أَ مَا كَانَ مِنَّا الْقَارِئُ لِكِتَابِ اللَّهِ الْفَقِيهُ فِي دِينِ اللَّهِ الْمُضْطَلِعُ بِأَمْرِ الرَّعِيَّةِ وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّهُ لَفِينَا لَا فِيكُمْ فَلَا تَتَّبِعُوا الْهَوَى فَتَزْدَادُوا مِنَ الْحَقِّ بُعْداً وَ تُفْسِدُوا قَدِيمَكُمْ بِشَرٍّ مِنْ حَدِيثِكُمْ

O community of gatherers! Surely, Allahazwj Decreed and Judged, and Hisazwj Prophetsaww is more knowing, and you are all knowing that weasws, Peopleasws of the Household are more rightful with this command than you are! Wasn’t there from usasws the reader of the Book of Allahazwj, the jurist in the Religion of Allahazwj, the expert with the matters of the citizens? By Allahazwj! It is to be in usasws, not among you! Therefore, do not pursue the whims for you will renege (default) from the truth far away and spoil your past from the evil of your newly occurring events’.

فَقَالَ بَشِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ الَّذِي وَطَّأَ الْأَمْرَ لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ قَالَتْ جَمَاعَةُ الْأَنْصَارِ يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ لَوْ كَانَ هَذَا الْكَلَامَ سَمِعَتْهُ الْأَنْصَارُ مِنْكَ قَبْلَ الِانْضِمَامِ لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ مَا اخْتَلَفَ فِيكَ اثْنَانِ

Bashir Bin Sa’d Al-Ansari, the one who made it worse for Abu Bakr, and on behalf of the Ansar group (Helpers) said ‘O Abu Al Hassanasws! If the Helpers had heard this speech from you before the adherence to Abu Bakr, no two would have differed regarding youasws’.

‏ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَا هَؤُلَاءِ أَ كُنْتُ أَدَعُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص مُسَجًّى لَا أُوَارِيهِ وَ أَخْرُجُ أُنَازِعُ فِي سُلْطَانِهِ وَ اللَّهِ مَا خِفْتُ أَحَداً يَسْمُو لَهُ وَ يُنَازِعُنَا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ فِيهِ وَ يَسْتَحِلُّ مَا اسْتَحْلَلْتُمُوهُ‏ وَ لَا عَلِمْتُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص تَرَكَ‏ يَوْمَ غَدِيرِ خُمٍّ لِأَحَدٍ حُجَّةً وَ لَا لِقَائِلٍ مَقَالًا

Aliasws said: ‘O you all! Was Iasws supposed to leave shrouding Rasool-Allahsaww and not even bury himsaww, and come out to dispute regarding hissaww authority? By Allahazwj! Iasws do not fear anyone, listening to him, and he would content usasws, Peopleasws of the Household regarding it, and he could permit what you all have permitted it, and do you not know that on the day of Ghadeer Khumm Rasool-Allahsaww neither left any argument for anyone nor any words for any speaker?

فَأَنْشُدُ اللَّهَ رَجُلًا سَمِعَ النَّبِيَّ ص يَوْمَ غَدِيرِ خُمٍّ يَقُولُ مَنْ كُنْتُ مَوْلَاهُ فَهَذَا عَلِيٌّ مَوْلَاهُ اللَّهُمَّ وَالِ مَنْ وَالاهُ وَ عَادِ مَنْ عَادَاهُ وَ انْصُرْ مَنْ نَصَرَهُ وَ اخْذُلْ مَنْ خَذَلَهُ أَنْ يَشْهَدَ بِمَا سَمِعَ

Iasws adjure any man who heard the Prophetsaww saying on the day of Ghadeer Khumm saying: ‘One whose Master Isaww was, so this Aliasws is his Masterasws. O Allahazwj! Befriend the one who befriends him, and be Inimical to the one who is inimical to himasws, and help the one who helps himasws, and Abandon the one who abandons himasws’, he should testify with what he heard’.

قَالَ زَيْدُ بْنُ أَرْقَمَ فَشَهِدَ اثْنَا عَشَرَ رَجُلًا بَدْرِيّاً بِذَلِكَ وَ كُنْتُ مِمَّنْ سَمِعَ الْقَوْلَ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَكَتَمْتُ الشَّهَادَةَ يَوْمَئِذٍ فَذَهَبَ بَصَرِي

Zayd Bin Arqam said, ‘Twelve men, participants of Badr, testified with that, and I was from the ones who had heard the words from Rasool-Allahsaww, but I concealed the testimony on that day, so my sight was gone’ (as a result of concealing the truth).

‏قَالَ وَ كَثُرَ الْكَلَامُ فِي هَذَا الْمَعْنَى وَ ارْتَفَعَ الصَّوْتُ وَ خَشِيَ عُمَرُ أَنْ‏ يُصْغَى إِلَى قَوْلِ عَلِيٍّ ع فَفَسَخَ الْمَجْلِسَ وَ قَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يُقَلِّبُ الْقُلُوبَ وَ الْأَبْصَارَ وَ لَا يَزَالُ يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ تَرْغَبُ عَنْ قَوْلِ الْجَمَاعَةِ فَانْصَرَفُوا يَوْمَهُمْ ذَلِكَ‏.

He (the narrator) said, ‘And there was numerous talk in this meaning, and the voice was raised, and Umar feared that they would hearken to the words of Aliasws, so he annulled the gathering and said, ‘Allahazwj the Exalted Overturns the hearts and the sights, and youasws, O Abu Al Hassanasws, have not cease to be desirous of the words of the group’. They left on that day of theirs’’.⁸⁹

2- ج، الإحتجاج عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ تَغْلِبَ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الصَّادِقِ ع جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ هَلْ كَانَ أَحَدٌ فِي أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص أَنْكَرَ عَلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ فِعْلَهُ وَ جُلُوسَهُ مَجْلِسَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

(The book) ‘Al Ihtijaj’ – From Aban bin Tabligh who said,

‘I said to Abu Abdullah Ja’farasws Bin Muhammad Al-Sadiqasws, ‘May I be sacrificed for youasws! Was there anyone from the companions of Rasool-Allahsaww who denied upon Abu Bakr, his deed and his sitting in the seat of Rasool-Allahsaww?’

فَقَالَ نَعَمْ كَانَ الَّذِي أَنْكَرَ عَلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ اثْنَيْ عَشَرَ رَجُلًا مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ خَالِدُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْعَاصِ وَ كَانَ مِنْ بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ وَ سَلْمَانُ الْفَارِسِيُّ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِ وَ عَمَّارُ بْنُ يَاسِرٍ وَ بُرَيْدَةُ الْأَسْلَمِيُّ

Heasws said: ‘Yes, the ones who had denied upon Abu Bakr were twelve men. From the Emigrants were – Khalid Bin Saeed Bin Al-Aas, and he was from the clan of Umayya, and Salman Al-Farsira, and Abu Zarr Al-Ghifarira, and Al-Miqdad Bin Al-Aswadra, and Ammar Bin Yasser, and Bureyda Aslami.

وَ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ أَبُو الْهَيْثَمِ بْنُ التَّيِّهَانِ وَ سَهْلٌ وَ عُثْمَانُ ابْنَا حُنَيْفٍ وَ خُزَيْمَةُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ ذُو الشَّهَادَتَيْنِ وَ أُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍ وَ أَبُو أَيُّوبَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ

And from the Helpers were – Abu Al-Haysam Bin Al-Tayhan, and Sahl and Usman two sons of Huneyf, and Khuzeyma Bin Sabit, (titled as) ‘One with two testimonies’, and Ubayy Bin Ka’ab, and Abu Ayoub Al Ansari’.

قَالَ فَلَمَّا صَعِدَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْمِنْبَرَ تَشَاوَرُوا بَيْنَهُمْ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ وَ اللَّهِ لَنَأْتِيَنَّهُ وَ لَنُنْزِلَنَّهُ عَنْ مِنْبَرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

Heasws said: ‘When Abu Bakr ascended the pulpit, they consulted between them. One of them said to the other, ‘By Allahazwj! We should go to him and bring him down from the pulpit of Rasool-Allahsaww’.

وَ قَالَ الْآخَرُونَ مِنْهُمْ وَ اللَّهِ لَئِنْ فَعَلْتُمْ ذَلِكَ إِذاً لَأَعَنْتُمْ عَلَى أَنْفُسِكُمْ وَ قَدْ قَالَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ وَ لا تُلْقُوا بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى التَّهْلُكَةِ فَانْطَلَقُوا بِنَا إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع لِنَسْتَشِيرَهُ وَ نَسْتَطْلِعَ رَأْيَهُ

And others from them said, ‘By Allahazwj! If you were to do that, you will let yourselves be cursed, and Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic has Said: and cast not yourselves to destruction with your own hands [2:195]. So, let us go to Amir Al-Momineenasws in order to consult himasws and be notified of hisasws view.

فَانْطَلَقَ‏ الْقَوْمُ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ بِأَجْمَعِهِمْ فَقَالُوا يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ تَرَكْتَ حَقّاً أَنْتَ أَحَقُّ بِهِ وَ أَوْلَى مِنْهُ لِأَنَّا سَمِعْنَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ عَلِيٌّ مَعَ الْحَقِّ وَ الْحَقُّ مَعَ عَلِيٍّ يَمِيلُ‏ مَعَ الْحَقِّ كَيْفَ مَالَ

The group in their entirety went to Amir Al-Momineenasws, and they said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineenasws! Youasws left a right which youasws are more rightful with it and foremost from it, because we did hear Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Aliasws is with the truth and the truth is with Aliasws. Heasws inclines with the truth howsoever heasws inclines’.

وَ لَقَدْ هَمَمْنَا أَنْ نَصِيرَ إِلَيْهِ فَنُنْزِلَهُ عَنْ مِنْبَرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَجِئنَاكَ نَسْتَشِيرُكَ وَ نَسْتَطْلِعُ رَأْيَكَ فِيمَا تَأْمُرُنَا

And we have thought of going to him and bring him down from the pulpit of Rasool-Allahsaww, so we have come to youasws to consult youasws and to be notified of yourasws view in what youasws are instructing us’.

فَقَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع وَ ايْمُ اللَّهِ لَوْ فَعَلْتُمْ ذَلِكَ لَمَا كُنْتُمْ لَهُمْ إِلَّا حَرْباً وَ لَكِنَّكُمْ كَالْمِلْحِ فِي الزَّادِ وَ كَالْكُحْلِ فِي الْعَيْنِ

Amir Al-Momineenasws said: ‘And Iasws swear by Allahazwj! If you were to do that, you would only be at war to them, but you are like the salt in the food, and like the Kohl in the eyes.

وَ ايْمُ اللَّهِ لَوْ فَعَلْتُمْ ذَلِكَ لَأَتَيْتُمُونِي شَاهِرِينَ أَسْيَافَكُمْ مُسْتَعِدِّينَ لِلْحَرْبِ وَ الْقِتَالِ إِذَا لأتوني [أَتَوْنِي‏] فَقَالُوا لِي بَايِعْ وَ إِلَّا قَتَلْنَاكَ فَلَا بُدَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَدْفَعَ الْقَوْمَ عَنْ نَفْسِي

And Iasws swear by Allahazwj! if you were to do that, you will be coming to measws brandishing your swords preparing for the war and the fighting, then they would come to measws and say to measws, ‘Either pledge allegiance of else we will kill youasws’. Thus, there would be no escape for measws from defending myselfasws from the people.

وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص أَوْعَزَ إِلَيَّ قَبْلَ وَفَاتِهِ قَالَ لِي يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ إِنَّ الْأُمَّةَ سَتَغْدِرُ بِكَ بَعْدِي وَ تَنْقُضُ فِيكَ عَهْدِي وَ إِنَّكَ مِنِّي بِمَنْزِلَةِ هَارُونَ مِنْ مُوسَى وَ إِنَّ الْأُمَّةَ مِنْ بَعْدِي بِمَنْزِلَةِ هَارُونَ وَ مَنِ اتَّبَعَهُ وَ السَّامِرِيِّ وَ مَنِ اتَّبَعَهُ

And that is because Rasool-Allahsaww had instructed to measws before hissaww expiry saying: ‘O Abu Al-Hassanasws! The community will be treacherous with youasws after mesaww, and break mysaww covenant regarding youasws, and youasws are from mesaww at the status of Harounas from Musaas, and that the community from after mesaww are at the status of Harounas and the ones who followed himas, and Al-Samirila and the ones who followed himla’.

فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَمَا تَعْهَدُ إِلَيَّ إِذَا كَانَ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ إِنْ وَجَدْتَ أَعْوَاناً فَبَادِرْ إِلَيْهِمْ وَ جَاهِدْهُمْ وَ إِنْ لَمْ تَجِدْ أَعْوَاناً كُفَّ يَدَكَ وَ احْقِنْ دَمَكَ حَتَّى تَلْحَقَ بِي مَظْلُوماً

Iasws said: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! So, what is yoursaww pact to measws, when that happens?’ Hesaww said: ‘If youasws were to find supporters, then rush towards them and fight them, but if youasws do not find supporters, restrain yourasws hand and save yourasws blood until youasws join up with mesaww, as an oppressed oneasws’.

وَ لَمَّا تُوُفِّيَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص اشْتَغَلْتُ بِغُسْلِهِ وَ تَكْفِينِهِ وَ الْفَرَاغِ مِنْ شَأْنِهِ ثُمَّ آلَيْتُ يَمِيناً أَنْ لَا أَرْتَدِيَ إِلَّا لِلصَّلَاةِ حَتَّى أَجْمَعَ الْقُرْآنَ فَفَعَلْتُ

And when Rasool-Allahsaww passed away, Iasws was pre-occupied with washing himsaww, and enshrouding himsaww, and to be free from hissaww affairs. Then Iasws swore an oath that Iasws will not wear myasws robe except for the Salat until Iasws gather the Quran. Iasws did so.

ثُمَّ أَخَذْتُ بِيَدِ فَاطِمَةَ وَ ابْنَيَّ الْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ فَدُرْتُ عَلَى أَهْلِ بَدْرٍ وَ أَهْلِ السَّابِقَةِ فَنَاشَدْتُهُمْ حَقِّي وَ دَعَوْتُهُمْ إِلَى نُصْرَتِي فَمَا أَجَابَنِي مِنْهُمْ إِلَّا أَرْبَعَةُ رَهْطٍ مِنْهُمْ سَلْمَانُ وَ عَمَّارٌ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ لَقَدْ رَاوَدْتُ فِي ذَلِكَ تَقْيِيدَ بَيِّنَتِي

Then Iasws grabbed a hand of (Syeda) Fatimaasws, and myasws two sonsasws Al-Hassanasws and Al-Husaynasws, and circled unto the people of Badr, and the foremost people adjuring them of myasws rights and called them to help measws. But no one from them answered measws except a group of four, from them being Salmanra, and Ammarra, and Al-Miqdadra, and Abu Zarrra, and Iasws had gone regarding that as an emphasis of myasws proof.

فَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ عَلَى السُّكُوتِ لِمَا عَلِمْتُمْ‏ مِنْ وَغْرِ صُدُورِ الْقَوْمِ وَ بُغْضِهِمْ لِلَّهِ وَ لِرَسُولِهِ وَ لِأَهْلِ بَيْتِ نَبِيِّهِ ص

Therefore, fear Allahazwj upon the silence due to what you well know of the venom (hatred) in the chests of the people and their hatred of Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww, and for Peopleasws of the Household of Hisazwj Prophetsaww.

فَانْطَلِقُوا بِأَجْمَعِكُمْ إِلَى الرَّجُلِ فَعَرِّفُوهُ مَا سَمِعْتُمْ مِنْ قَوْلِ رَسُولِكُمْ ص لِيَكُونَ ذَلِكَ أَوْكَدَ لِلْحُجَّةِ وَ أَبْلَغَ لِلْعُذْرِ وَ أَبْعَدَ لَهُمْ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص إِذَا وَرَدُوا عَلَيْهِ

So, all of you go to the man (Abu Bakr) and let him know of what you heard from the words of your Rasoolsaww for that to become a confirmation of the proof, and a denouncement of the excuse, and remoteness of theirs from Rasool-Allahsaww when they do arrive to himsaww’.

فَسَارَ الْقَوْمُ حَتَّى أَحْدَقُوا بِمِنْبَرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ كَانَ يَوْمُ الْجُمُعَةِ فَلَمَّا صَعِدَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْمِنْبَرَ قَالَ الْمُهَاجِرُونَ لِلْأَنْصَارِ تَقَدَّمُوا فَتَكَلَّمُوا وَ قَالَ الْأَنْصَارُ لِلْمُهَاجِرِينَ بَلْ تَكَلَّمُوا أَنْتُمْ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَدْنَاكُمْ فِي كِتَابِهِ إِذْ قَالَ اللَّهُ لَقَدْ تَابَ اللَّهُ بِالنَّبِيِّ عَلَى الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ

The group went until they encircled the pulpit of Rasool-Allahsaww, and it was the day of Friday. When Abu Bakr ascended the pulpit, the Emigrants said to the Helpers, ‘Go ahead and speak’. And the Helpers said to the Emigrants, ‘But, you speak, for Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic has Drawn you nearer when Allahazwj Said: Allah has Turned (Mercifully) with the Prophet to the Emigrants and the Helpers [9:117]’’.

قَالَ أَبَانٌ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ إِنَّ الْعَامَّةَ لَا تَقْرَأُ كَمَا عِنْدَكَ فَقَالَ وَ كَيْفَ تَقْرَأُ يَا أَبَانُ قَالَ قُلْتُ إِنَّهَا تَقْرَأُ لَقَدْ تابَ اللَّهُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ وَ الْمُهاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصارِ

Aban Bin Tablugh said, ‘I said to himasws, ‘O sonasws of Rasool-Allahsaww! The general Muslims are not reading it just as is with youasws’. Heasws said: ‘And how is it being recited, O Aban?’ I said, ‘It is being recited as: Allah has Turned (Mercifully) to the Prophet and the Emigrants and the Helpers [9:117]’.

فَقَالَ وَيْلَهُمْ وَ أَيُّ ذَنْبٍ كَانَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص حَتَّى تَابَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ مِنْهُ إِنَّمَا تَابَ اللَّهُ بِهِ عَلَى أُمَّتِهِ

Heasws said: ‘Woe be unto them! And which sin was there for Rasool-Allahsaww until Allahazwj Turned to himsaww from it? But rather, Allahazwj Turned with himsaww, to hissaww community’.

فَأَوَّلُ مَنْ تَكَلَّمَ بِهِ خَالِدُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْعَاصِ ثُمَّ بَاقِي الْمُهَاجِرِينَ ثُمَّ مِنْ بَعْدِهِمُ الْأَنْصَارُ

The first one to speak with it (to Abu Bakr) was Khalid Bin Saeed Bin Al-Aas, then the rest of the Emigrants, then from after them, the Helpers’.

وَ رُوِيَ أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا غُيَّباً عَنْ وَفَاةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَدِمُوا وَ قَدْ تَوَلَّى أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ هُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ أَعْلَامُ مَسْجِدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَامَ خَالِدُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْعَاصِ‏ وَ قَالَ‏ اتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ وَ نَحْنُ مُحْتَوِشُوهُ يَوْمَ قُرَيْظَةَ حِينَ فَتَحَ اللَّهُ لَهُ وَ قَدْ قَتَلَ عَلِيٌّ يَوْمَئِذٍ عِدَّةً مِنْ صَنَادِيدِ رِجَالِهِمْ وَ أُولِي الْبَأْسِ وَ النَّجْدَةِ مِنْهُمْ

And it is reported that they were absent from the expiry of Rasool-Allahsaww, and they went ahead and made Abu Bakr a ruler, and on that day they were flags of Masjid of Rasool-Allahsaww. Khalid Bin Saeed Bin Al-Aas stood up and said, ‘Fear Allahazwj, O Abu Bakr, for you know well that which Rasool-Allahsaww said, and we had left himsaww alone on the day (battle) of Qureyza, when Allahazwj Granted victory to himsaww, and on that day Aliasws had killed a number of their brave men, and ones of evil and the courageous ones from them.

يَا مَعَاشِرَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ إِنِّي مُوصِيكُمْ بِوَصِيَّةٍ فَاحْفَظُوهَا وَ مُودِعُكُمْ أَمْراً فَاحْفَظُوهُ أَلَا إِنَّ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع أَمِيرُكُمْ بَعْدِي وَ خَلِيفَتِي فِيكُمْ بِذَلِكَ أَوْصَانِي رَبِّي

(Hesaww said): ‘O community of the Emigrants and the Helpers! Isaww am advising you with a bequest, and preserving it, a matter of your promise, so keep it. Indeed! Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws is your commander after mesaww, and mysaww caliph among you all. Mysaww Lordazwj has Bequeathed mesaww with that.

أَلَا وَ إِنَّكُمْ إِنْ لَمْ تَحْفَظُوا فِيهِ وَصِيَّتِي وَ تُوَازِرُوهُ وَ تَنْصُرُوهُ اخْتَلَفْتُمْ فِي أَحْكَامِكُمْ وَ اضْطَرَبَ عَلَيْكُمْ أَمْرُ دِينِكُمْ وَ وَلِيَكُمْ شِرَارُكُمْ

Indeed! And you, when you do not preserve mysaww bequest regarding himasws, and (do not) back himasws and help himasws, you will be differing in your decisions and the matters of your Religion would waver (tremble) upon you, and your evils ones would rule you.

أَلَا إِنَّ أَهْلَ بَيْتِي هُمُ الْوَارِثُونَ لِأَمْرِي وَ الْعَالِمُونَ بِأَمْرِ أُمَّتِي مِنْ بَعْدِي اللَّهُمَّ مَنْ أَطَاعَهُمْ مِنْ أُمَّتِي وَ حَفِظَ فِيهِمْ وَصِيَّتِي فَاحْشُرْهُمْ فِي زُمْرَتِي وَ اجْعَلْ لَهُمْ نَصِيباً مِنْ مُرَافَقَتِي يُدْرِكُونَ بِهِ نُورَ الْآخِرَةِ

Indeed! The Peopleasws of mysaww Household, theyasws are the inheritors of mysaww commands, and knowledge with the matters of mysaww community from after mesaww. O Allahazwj! One from mysaww community who obeys themasws and preserves mysaww bequest regarding himasws, Resurrect them in mysaww group, and Make a share to be for them from mysaww friendship, coming across the Noor of the Hereafter by it.

اللَّهُمَّ وَ مَنْ أَسَاءَ خِلَافَتِي فِي أَهْلِ بَيْتِي فَاحْرِمْهُ الْجَنَّةَ الَّتِي‏ عَرْضُها كَعَرْضِ السَّماءِ وَ الْأَرْضِ‏

O Allahazwj! And the one who damages mysaww caliphate regarding Peopleasws of mysaww Household, Deprive him the Paradise, the expanse of it is like the sky and the earth’’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ اسْكُتْ يَا خَالِدُ فَلَسْتَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَشُورَةِ وَ لَا مِمَّنْ يُقْتَدَى بِرَأْيِهِ فَقَالَ خَالِدٌ اسْكُتْ يَا ابْنَ الْخَطَّابِ فَإِنَّكَ تَنْطِقُ عَنْ لِسَانِ غَيْرِكَ وَ ايْمُ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ عَلِمَتْ قُرَيْشٌ أَنَّكَ مِنْ أَلْأَمِهَا حَسَباً وَ أَدْنَاهَا مَنْصَباً وَ أَخَسِّهَا قَدْراً وَ أَخْمَلِهَا ذِكْراً وَ أَقَلِّهِمْ غَنَاءً عَنِ اللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ وَ إِنَّكَ لَجَبَانٌ فِي الْحُرُوبِ بَخِيلٌ بِالْمَالِ لَئِيمُ الْعُنْصُرِ

Umar Bin Al-Khattab said to him, ‘O Khalid! You aren’t from the ones one can consult with nor from the ones one can be guided by his view’. Khalid said, ‘Quiet, O ibn Al-Khattab, for you are speaking from a tongue other than yours, and I swear by Allahazwj, Quraysh have known that you are from its general affiliations, and lowest of its lineages, and the worst of its worth, and idlest of its mention, and the least of them reciting about Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww, and you are a coward during the war, stingy with the wealth, poorest of descent.

مَا لَكَ فِي قُرَيْشٍ مِنْ فَخَرٍ وَ لَا فِي الْحُرُوبِ مِنْ ذِكْرٍ وَ إِنَّكَ فِي هَذَا الْأَمْرِ بِمَنْزِلَةِ الشَّيْطانِ إِذْ قالَ لِلْإِنْسانِ اكْفُرْ فَلَمَّا كَفَرَ قالَ إِنِّي بَرِي‏ءٌ مِنْكَ إِنِّي أَخافُ اللَّهَ رَبَّ الْعالَمِينَ فَكانَ عاقِبَتَهُما أَنَّهُما فِي النَّارِ خالِدَيْنِ فِيها وَ ذلِكَ جَزاءُ الظَّالِمِينَ

There is neither any pride for you among Quraysh, nor any mention for you regarding the wars, and you in this command are at the status of the Satan when he says to the human being, ‘Commit Kufr!’ So when he does commit Kufr, he says, ‘I am disavowed from you. I fear Allah, Lord of the worlds’ [59:16] So both their end-results would be that they would both be in the Fire, abiding eternally therein, and that is a Recompense of the unjust ones [59:17]’.

فَأَبْلَسَ عُمَرُ وَ جَلَسَ خَالِدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ ثُمَّ قَامَ سَلْمَانُ الْفَارِسِيُ‏ وَ قَالَ كرديد و نكرديد و ندانيد چه‏ كرديد أَيْ فَعَلْتُمْ وَ لَمْ تَفْعَلُوا وَ مَا عَلِمْتُمْ مَا فَعَلْتُمْ وَ امْتَنَعَ مِنَ الْبَيْعَةِ قَبْلَ ذَلِكَ حَتَّى وُجِئَ عُنُقُهُ

Umar sat down, and Khalid Bin Saeed was seated. Then Salman Al-Farsira stood up and said (in Persian), ‘Kardeed Wa Na Kardeed, Wa Na Daneed Che Kardeed’, i.e. ‘Whether you do and do not do, and you do not know what you are doing’, and hera had refused from the allegiance before that until hisra neck was pained.

فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ إِلَى مَنْ تُسْنِدُ أَمْرَكَ إِذَا نَزَلَ بِكَ مَا لَا تَعْرِفُهُ‏ وَ إِلَى مَنْ تَفْزَعُ إِذَا سُئِلْتَ عَمَّا لَا تَعْلَمُهُ وَ مَا عُذْرُكَ فِي تَقَدُّمِ مَنْ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ مِنْكَ وَ أَقْرَبُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَعْلَمُ بِتَأْوِيلِ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ سُنَّةِ نَبِيِّهِ وَ مَنْ قَدَّمَهُ النَّبِيُّ ص فِي حَيَاتِهِ وَ أَوْصَاكُمْ بِهِ عِنْدَ وَفَاتِهِ

Hera said, ‘O Abu Bakr! To whom will you go to back up your matter when it befalls with you what you do not recognise, and to whom will you panic when you are asked about what you do not know, and what would be your excuse preceding someone who is more knowledgeable than you are, and closer to Rasool-Allahsaww, and more knowing of the interpretation of the Book of Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic and Sunnah of Hisazwj Prophetsaww, and one whom the Prophetsaww had advanced during hissaww lifetime, and had bequeathed with himasws during hissaww expiry.

فَنَبَذْتُمْ قَوْلَهُ وَ تَنَاسَيْتُمْ وَصِيَّتَهُ وَ أَخْلَفْتُمُ الْوَعْدَ وَ نَقَضْتُمُ الْعَهْدَ وَ حَلَلْتُمُ الْعَقْدَ الَّذِي كَانَ عَقَدَهُ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنَ النُّفُوذِ تَحْتَ رَايَةِ أُسَامَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ حَذَراً مِنْ مِثْلِ مَا أَتَيْتُمُوهُ وَ تَنْبِيهاً لِلْأُمَّةِ عَلَى عَظِيمِ مَا اجْتَرَحْتُمُوهُ مِنْ مُخَالَفَةِ أَمْرِهِ

But, you discarded hissaww words and forgot hissaww bequest, and broke the promise, and broke the pact, and your released the knot which had been tied upon you from enforcement under the flag of Usama Bin Zayd. Be cautioned from the like of what you have come with and a warning to the community upon the grievousness of the opposition of hissaww orders.

فَعَنْ قَلِيلٍ يَصْفُو لَكَ الْأَمْرُ وَ قَدْ أَثْقَلَكَ الْوِزْرُ وَ نُقِلْتَ إِلَى قَبْرِكَ وَ حَمَلْتَ مَعَكَ مَا اكْتَسَبَتْ يَدَاكَ

After a little while the matter would be clear to you, and the burden would be heavier for you, and you will be transferred to your grave, and there would be carried along with you whatever your hands had earned.

‏ فَلَوْ رَاجَعْتَ الْحَقَّ مِنْ قُرْبٍ وَ تَلَافَيْتَ نَفْسَكَ وَ تُبْتَ إِلَى اللَّهِ مِنْ عَظِيمِ مَا اجْتَرَمْتَ كَانَ ذَلِكَ أَقْرَبَ إِلَى نَجَاتِكَ يَوْمَ تَفَرَّدُ فِي حُفْرَتِكَ وَ يُسَلِّمُكَ ذَوُو نُصْرَتِكَ

If you were to revert to the truth from nearby, and avoid yourself, and repent to Allahazwj from the grievousness of crime what you have committed, that would be nearer to your salvation on the day you will be alone in your grave and won’t be surrounded by the ones who are helping you (now).

فَقَدْ سَمِعْتَ كَمَا سَمِعْنَا وَ رَأَيْتَ كَمَا رَأَيْنَا فَلَمْ يَرْدَعْكَ ذَلِكَ عَمَّا أَنْتَ مُتَشَبِّثٌ بِهِ مِنْ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ الَّذِي لَا عُذْرَ لَكَ فِي تَقَلُّدِهِ وَ لَا حَظَّ لِلدِّينِ وَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ فِي قِيَامِكَ بِهِ فَاللَّهَ اللَّهَ فِي نَفْسِكَ فَقَدْ أَعْذَرَ مَنْ أَنْذَرَ وَ لَا تَكُنْ كَمَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَ اسْتَكْبَرَ

You have heard as what we heard, and seen as what we saw, and that did not deter you from what you are clinging on with of this command which there is no excuse for you to be collared with, nor is there any share for the Religion and the Muslims regarding your standing with it. So Allahazwj, Allahazwj regarding yourself, for the one who is warned would be excused and will not be like the one who turns around and is arrogant!’

ثُمَّ قَامَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ فَقَالَ يَا مَعَاشِرَ قُرَيْشٍ أَصَبْتُمْ قَبَاحَةً وَ تَرَكْتُمْ قَرَابَةً وَ اللَّهِ لَتَرْتَدَّنَّ جَمَاعَةٌ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ‏ وَ لَتَشُكَّنَّ فِي هَذَا الدِّينِ وَ لَوْ جَعَلْتُمُ الْأَمْرَ فِي أَهْلِ بَيْتِ نَبِيِّكُمْ مَا اخْتَلَفَ عَلَيْكُمْ سَيْفَانِ

Then Abu Zarrra stood up and said, ‘O community of Quraysh! You have attained ugliness and you neglected kinship. By Allahazwj! A group of the Arabs will be reneging and doubting in this Religion, and if you were to make the command to be in Peopleasws of the Household of your Prophetsaww, no two swords would differ upon you.

وَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ صَارَتْ لِمَنْ غَلَبَ وَ لَتَطْمَحَنَ‏ إِلَيْهَا عَيْنُ مَنْ لَيْسَ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا وَ لَيُسْفَكَنَّ فِي طَلَبِهَا دِمَاءٌ كَثِيرَةٌ فَكَانَ كَمَا قَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ

By Allahazwj! You have come to the one who has overcome and been reassured to it supporting one who isn’t from its rightful ones, and you will be spilling a lot of blood in seeking it’. It transpired just as Abu Zarrra had said.

ثُمَّ قَالَ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتُمْ وَ عَلِمَ خِيَارُكُمْ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ الْأَمْرُ بَعْدِي لِعَلِيٍّ ثُمَّ لِابْنَيَّ الْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ ثُمَّ لِلطَّاهِرِينَ مِنْ ذُرِّيَّتِي

Then hera said, ‘You have known and so have your chosen ones, that Rasool-Allahsaww had said: ‘The command after mesaww is for Aliasws, then for mysaww two sonsasws Al-Hassanasws and Al-Husaynasws, then for the pure ones from mysaww offspring’.

فَاطَّرَحْتُمْ قَوْلَ نَبِيِّكُمْ وَ تَنَاسَيْتُمْ مَا عَهِدَ بِهِ إِلَيْكُمْ فَأَطَعْتُمُ الدُّنْيَا الْفَانِيَةَ وَ بِعْتُمُ الْآخِرَةَ الْبَاقِيَةَ الَّتِي لَا يَهْرَمُ شَبَابُهَا وَ لَا يَزُولُ نَعِيمُهَا وَ لَا يَحْزَنُ أَهْلُهَا وَ لَا تَمُوتُ سُكَّانُهَا بِالْحَقِيرِ التَّافِهِ الْفَانِي الزَّائِلِ

But, you rejected the words of your Prophetsaww and forsook what hesaww had vowed among you all, and you came to the perishing worlds and sold the ever-lasting Hereafter, which its youths do not age, nor doe its bounties decline, nor do its inhabitants grieve, nor do its dwellers die, for (the sake of) the vile, the temporal, the declining (world).

وَ كَذَلِكَ الْأُمَمُ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ كَفَرَتْ بَعْدَ أَنْبِيَائِهَا وَ نَكَصَتْ عَلَى أَعْقَابِهَا وَ غَيَّرَتْ وَ بَدَّلَتْ وَ اخْتَلَفَتْ فَسَاوَيْتُمُوهُمْ حَذْوَ النَّعْلِ بِالنَّعْلِ وَ الْقُذَّةِ بِالْقُذَّةِ وَ عَمَّا قَلِيلٍ تَذُوقُونَ وَبَالَ أَمْرِكُمْ وَ تُجْزَوْنَ بِمَا قَدَّمَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَ مَا اللَّهُ‏ بِظَلَّامٍ لِلْعَبِيدِ

And like that were the communities from before you. They disbelieved after their Prophetsas and turned back upon their heels, and changed, and replaced, and opposed. So, (now) you have equalled them, step of the slipper with the slipper, and the arrow with the arrow (in a quiver), and after a little while you will be tasting the evil consequences of your affairs, and be Recompensed for what your hands had sent ahead, and Allahazwj is not the least unjust to the servants’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ الْمِقْدَادُ بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِ وَ قَالَ ارْجِعْ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ عَنْ ظُلْمِكَ وَ تُبْ إِلَى رَبِّكَ وَ الْزَمْ بَيْتَكَ وَ ابْكِ عَلَى خَطِيئَتِكَ وَ سَلِّمِ الْأَمْرَ لِصَاحِبِهِ الَّذِي هُوَ أَوْلَى بِهِ مِنْكَ فَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ مَا عَقَدَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فِي عُنُقِكَ مِنْ بَيْعَتِهِ وَ أَلْزَمَكَ مِنَ النُّفُوذِ تَحْتَ رَايَةِ أُسَامَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ وَ هُوَ مَوْلَاهُ

The Al-Miqdad Bin Al-Aswadra and said, ‘Return, O Abu Bakr, from darkness, and repent to your Lordazwj, and stay in your house, and cry upon your mistake, and submit the command to its owner, the one who is foremost with it than you are. You have known what Rasool-Allahsaww had pacted in your necks of hisasws allegiance, and necessitated you of enforcement under the flag of Usama Bin Azyd, and heasws is your Masterasws.

وَ نَبَّهَ عَلَى بُطْلَانِ وُجُوبِ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ لَكَ وَ لِمَنْ عَضَدَكَ عَلَيْهِ بِضَمِّهِ لَكُمَا إِلَى عَلَمِ النِّفَاقِ وَ مَعْدِنِ الشَّنَآنِ وَ الشِّقَاقِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى فِيهِ عَلَى نَبِيِّهِ ص‏ إِنَّ شانِئَكَ هُوَ الْأَبْتَرُ

And hesaww alerted upon invalidating the obligation of this command being for you, and for the one who supported you upon it, by pressing both of you to the flag of hypocrisy and mine of atrocity and the wretched one, Amro Bin Al-Aas, for whom Allahazwj the Exalted regarding him upon Hisazwj Prophetsaww, Surely your adversary, he is the one without posterity [108:3].

فَلَا اخْتِلَافَ بَيْنَ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ أَنَّهَا نَزَلَتْ فِي عَمْرٍو وَ هُوَ كَانَ أَمِيراً عَلَيْكُمَا وَ عَلَى سَائِرِ الْمُنَافِقِينَ فِي الْوَقْتِ الَّذِي أَنْفَذَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فِي غَزَاةِ ذَاتِ السَّلَاسِلِ‏ وَ أَنَّ عَمْراً قَلَّدَكُمَا حَرْسَ عَسْكَرِهِ فَمِنَ الْحَرْسِ إِلَى الْخِلَافَةِ اتَّقِ اللَّهَ وَ بَادِرِ الِاسْتِقَالَةَ قَبْلَ فَوْتِهَا فَإِنَ‏ ذَلِكَ أَسْلَمُ لَكَ فِي حَيَاتِكَ وَ بَعْدَ وَفَاتِكَ وَ لَا تَرْكَنْ إِلَى دُنْيَاكَ وَ لَا تَغْرُرْكَ قُرَيْشٌ وَ غَيْرُهَا

There is not differing between the people of knowledge that it was Revealed regarding Amro, and he was a ruler upon you both, and upon the rest of the hypocrites, during the time in which Rasool-Allahsaww accomplished it during the military expedition of Zat Al-Salasil, and that Amro collared you two with greed of hissaww soldiers. So, from the greed to the caliphate, fear Allahazwj, and rush to the resignation before it (opportunity) is lost, for that would be safe for you during your lifetime and after your death, and do not incline to your world nor let Quraysh and its pride deceive you.

فَعَنْ قَلِيلٍ تَضْمَحِلُّ عَنْكَ دُنْيَاكَ ثُمَّ تَصِيرُ إِلَى رَبِّكَ فَيَجْزِيكَ بِعَمَلِكَ وَ قَدْ عَلِمْتَ وَ تَيَقَّنْتَ أَنَّ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع صَاحِبُ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ بَعْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَسَلَّمَهُ إِلَيْهِ بِمَا جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ لَهُ فَإِنَّهُ أَتَمُّ لِسَتْرِكَ وَ أَخَفُّ لِوِزْرِكَ فَقَدْ وَ اللَّهِ نَصَحْتُ لَكَ إِنْ قَبِلْتَ نُصْحِي‏ وَ إِلَى اللَّهِ تُرْجَعُ الْأُمُورُ

After a little while, your world will disappear, then you will come to your Lord, and Heazwj will Inform you of your deeds, and you have known that Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws is the (real) owner of this command after Rasool-Allahsaww, so submit it to himasws with what Allahazwj has Made it to be for himasws, for it would be an achievement for your veiling, and a lightening of your burden. By Allahazwj! Ira have advised to you if you accept myra advice, And to Allah return (all) the matters [2:210]’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ بُرَيْدَةُ الْأَسْلَمِيُ‏ فَقَالَ‏ إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَ إِنَّا إِلَيْهِ راجِعُونَ‏ مَا ذَا لَقِيَ‏ الْحَقُّ مِنَ الْبَاطِلِ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ أَ نَسِيتَ أَمْ تَنَاسَيْتَ أَمْ خَدَعَتْكَ نَفْسُكَ سَوَّلَتْ لَكَ الْأَبَاطِيلَ أَ وَ لَمْ تَذْكُرْ مَا أَمَرَنَا بِهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنْ تَسْمِيَةِ عَلِيٍّ ع بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ النَّبِيُّ بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِنَا وَ قَوْلَهُ فِي عِدَّةِ أَوْقَاتٍ هَذَا أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ قَاتِلُ الْقَاسِطِينَ

Then Bureyda Al-Aslamy stood up and said, ‘We are for Allahazwj and we are returning to Himazwj! What is the truth from the falsehood have you found, O Abu Bakr, are you forgetting or pretending to forget, or are you deceiving yourself? Have the falsehoods enticed you or do you not remember what Rasool-Allahsaww had ordered us with naming Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’ and the Prophetsaww was in our midst, and hissaww words in a number of times: ‘This is Amir Al-Momineen, killer of the renegades.

فَاتَّقِ اللَّهَ وَ تَدَارَكْ نَفْسَكَ قَبْلَ أَنْ لَا تُدْرِكَهَا وَ أَنْقِذْهَا مِمَّا يُهْلِكُهُا وَ ارْدُدِ الْأَمْرَ إِلَى مَنْ هُوَ أَحَقُّ بِهِ مِنْكَ وَ لَا تَتَمَادَ فِي اغْتِصَابِهِ وَ رَاجِعْ وَ أَنْتَ تَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ تَرَاجَعَ فَقَدْ مَحَضْتُكَ النُّصْحَ وَ دَلَلْتُكَ عَلَى طَرِيقِ النَّجَاةِ فَلَا تَكُونَنَّ ظَهِيراً لِلْمُجْرِمِينَ

Therefore fear Allahazwj and rectify yourself before you cannot rectify it anymore from what would destroy it, and return the command to the one who is more rightful with it than you are, and do not continue in raping it, and return while you are able to return and the advice has been given to you and you have been pointed upon the path of salvation, so do not become a support of the criminals’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ عَمَّارُ بْنُ يَاسِرٍ فَقَالَ يَا مَعَاشِرَ قُرَيْشٍ يَا مَعَاشِرَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ عَلِمْتُمْ وَ إِلَّا فَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ أَهْلَ بَيْتِ نَبِيِّكُمْ أَوْلَى بِهِ وَ أَحَقُّ بِإِرْثِهِ وَ أَقْوَمُ بِأُمُورِ الدِّينِ وَ آمَنُ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ أَحْفَظُ لِمِلَّتِهِ وَ أَنْصَحُ لِأُمَّتِهِ

Then Ammar Bin Yasser stood up and said, ‘O community of Quraysh! O community of Muslims! If you know, or else so know that Peopleasws of the Household of your Prophetsaww are foremost with it and more rightful with inheriting it, and straighter for the matters of the Religion, and safer upon the Momineen, and more protective of Hisazwj nation, and more advisory for hissaww community.

فَمُرُوا صَاحِبَكُمْ فَلْيَرُدَّ الْحَقَّ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَضْطَرِبَ حَبْلُكُمْ وَ يَضْعُفَ أَمْرُكُمْ وَ يَظْفَرَ عَدُوُّكُمْ وَ يَظْهَرَ شَتَاتُكُمْ وَ تُعْظُمَ الْفِتْنَةُ بِكُمْ وَ تَخْتَلِفُونَ فِيمَا بَيْنَكُمْ وَ يَطْمَعَ فِيكُمْ عَدُوُّكُمْ

So, instruct your companion (Umar) to let you return the right to its rightful one before your ropes are disturbed and your affairs are weakened, and your enemies win, and your disapproval appears, and the Fitna becomes large with you, and you differ in what is between you, and your enemies covet regarding you.

فَقَدْ عَلِمْتُمْ أَنَّ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ أَوْلَى بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ وَ عَلِيٌّ مِنْ بَيْنِهِمْ وَلِيُّكُمْ بِعَهْدِ اللَّهِ وَ بِرَسُولِهِ وَ فَرْقٌ ظَاهِرٌ قَدْ عَرَفْتُمُوهُ فِي حَالٍ بَعْدَ حَالٍ عِنْدَ سَدِّ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ أَبْوَابَكُمُ الَّتِي كَانَتْ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ فَسَدَّهَا كُلَّهَا غَيْرَ بَابِهِ‏ وَ إِيثَارِهِ إِيَّاهُ بِكَرِيمَتِهِ فَاطِمَةَ دُونَ‏ سَائِرِ مَنْ خَطَبَهَا إِلَيْهِ مِنْكُمْ

You have known that the Clan of Hashimasws are foremost with the command than you all are, and Aliasws is your Masterasws from between you due to the pact of Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww, and the apparent difference which you have recognised during a situation after situation, by the Prophetsaww closing your doors which were opening to the Masjid, so hesaww closed all of these apart from hisasws door, and hissaww preferring himasws for hissaww prestigious (Syeda) Fatimaasws besides the rest of the ones from you who had proposed for herasws to himsaww.

وَ قَوْلِهِ ص أَنَا مَدِينَةُ الْعِلْمِ وَ عَلِيٌّ بَابُهَا فَمَنْ أَرَادَ الْحِكْمَةَ فَلْيَأْتِهَا مِنْ بَابِهَا وَ أَنْتُمْ جَمِيعاً مُصْطَرِخُونَ فِيمَا أَشْكَلَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ أُمُورِ دِينِكُمْ إِلَيْهِ وَ هُوَ مُسْتَغْنٍ عَنْ كُلِّ أَحَدٍ مِنْكُمْ إِلَى مَا لَهُ مِنَ السَّوَابِقِ الَّتِي لَيْسَتْ لِأَفْضَلِكُمْ عِنْدَ نَفْسِهِ

And hissaww words: ‘Isaww am the city of knowledge and Aliasws is its door, so the one who wants the wisdom, then let him come to it from its door’, and all of you (have to) depend on himasws regarding what is confusing upon you from the matter of your religion, while heasws is needless from each one of you, due to what is for himasws of the precedents (from Allahazwj) which isn’t even for your superior ones in the presence of his own self.

فَمَا بَالُكُمْ تَحِيدُونَ عَنْهُ وَ تُغِيرُونَ عَلَى حَقِّهِ وَ تُؤْثِرُونَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا عَلَى الْآخِرَةِ بِئْسَ لِلظَّالِمِينَ بَدَلًا أَعْطُوهُ مَا جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ لَهُ وَ لَا تَتَوَلَّوْا عَنْهُ مُدْبِرِينَ وَ لَا تَرْتَدُّوا عَلَى أَعْقَابِكُمْ‏ فَتَنْقَلِبُوا خاسِرِينَ‏

So what is the matter with you all overriding about himasws and changing upon hisasws rights, and preferring the life of the world over the Hereafter. Evil it is for the unjust ones as a replacement. Give himasws what Allahazwj had Made it to be for himasws, and do not turn around backwards from himasws nor renege upon your heels, for you will overturn to be losers’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ أُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍ‏ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ لَا تَجْحَدْ حَقّاً جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ لِغَيْرِكَ‏ وَ لَا تَكُنْ أَوَّلَ مَنْ عَصَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فِي وَصِيِّهِ وَ صَفِيِّهِ وَ صَدَفَ عَنْ أَمْرِهِ ارْدُدِ الْحَقَّ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ تَسْلَمْ وَ لَا تَتَمَادَ فِي غَيِّكَ فَتَنْدَمَ وَ بَادِرِ الْإِنَابَةَ يَخِفَّ وِزْرُكَ

The Ubay Bin Ka’ab stood up and said, ‘O Abu Bakr! Do not reject right which Allahazwj has Made to be for others, nor become the first one to disobey Rasool-Allahsaww regarding hissaww successorasws and hissaww Elite, and turn away from hissaww orders. Return the truth to its rightful oneasws. Submit and do not continue in your error, for you will regret, and take a representative step in lightening your burden.

وَ لَا تُخَصِّصْ بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ الَّذِي لَمْ يَجْعَلْهُ اللَّهُ لَكَ نَفْسَكَ فَتَلْقَى وَبَالَ عَمَلِكَ فَعَنْ قَلِيلٍ تُفَارِقُ مَا أَنْتَ فِيهِ وَ تَصِيرُ إِلَى رَبِّكَ فَيَسْأَلُكَ عَمَّا جَنَيْتَ‏ وَ ما رَبُّكَ بِظَلَّامٍ لِلْعَبِيدِ

And do not specialise yourself with this command which Allahazwj did not Make it to be for you, for you will face the evil results of your deeds, for after a little while, you will separate from what you are in and you will come to your Lordazwj, and Heazwj will Question you about what crime you committed, and your Lordazwj is not the least unjust to the servants’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ خُزَيْمَةُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ فَقَالَ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ أَ لَسْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ قَبِلَ شَهَادَتِي وَحْدِي وَ لَمْ يُرِدْ مَعِي غَيْرِي قَالُوا بَلَى قَالَ فَأَشْهَدُ أَنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ يَقُولُ أَهْلُ بَيْتِي يَفْرُقُونَ بَيْنَ الْحَقِّ وَ الْبَاطِلِ وَ هُمُ الْأَئِمَّةُ الَّذِينَ يُقْتَدَى بِهِمْ وَ قَدْ قُلْتُ مَا عَلِمْتُ‏ وَ ما عَلَى الرَّسُولِ إِلَّا الْبَلاغُ الْمُبِينُ‏

Then Khuzeyman Bin Sabit stood up and said, ‘O you people! Don’t you know that Rasool-Allahsaww accepted my lone testimony and did not refer to anyone (else) with me?’ They said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘So, I hereby testify that I heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Peopleasws of mysaww Household are distinguisher between the truth and the falsehood, and theyasws are the Imamsasws, those one can be guided by themasws, and Isaww have said it: and it is not upon the Rasool except for the clear delivery (of the Message)’ [24:54]’’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ أَبُو الْهَيْثَمِ بْنُ التَّيِّهَانِ فَقَالَ وَ أَنَا أَشْهَدُ عَلَى نَبِيِّنَا ص أَنَّهُ أَقَامَ عَلِيّاً عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ يَعْنِي فِي يَوْمِ غَدِيرِ خُمٍّ

Then Abu Al-Haysam Bin Al-Tayhan stood up and said, ‘And I testify upon our Prophetsaww that hesaww has established Aliasws, meaning during the day of Ghadeer Khumm’.

فَقَالَتِ الْأَنْصَارُ مَا أَقَامَهُ إِلَّا لِلْخِلَافَةِ وَ قَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ مَا أَقَامَهُ إِلَّا لِيَعْلَمَ النَّاسُ أَنَّهُ مَوْلَى مَنْ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَوْلَاهُ وَ أَكْثَرُوا الْخَوْضَ فِي ذَلِكَ فَبَعَثْنَا رِجَالًا مِنَّا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَسَأَلُوهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ

The Helpers has said, ‘Hesaww did not establish himasws except for the caliphate’. And some of them said, ‘Hesaww did not establish himasws except for the people to know heasws is a Masterasws of the one Rasool-Allahsaww was his Mastersaww’, and the discussion regarding that was a lot, so we sent men from us to Rasool-Allahsaww and they asked himsaww about that.

فَقَالَ قُولُوا لَهُمْ عَلِيٌّ ع وَلِيُّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ بَعْدِي وَ أَنْصَحُ النَّاسِ لِأُمَّتِي وَ قَدْ شَهِدْتُ بِمَا حَضَرَنِي‏ فَمَنْ شاءَ فَلْيُؤْمِنْ وَ مَنْ شاءَ فَلْيَكْفُرْ إِنَّ يَوْمَ الْفَصْلِ كانَ مِيقاتاً

Hesaww said: ‘Say to them, ‘Aliasws is a guardian of the Momineen after mesaww, and the most advising of the people for mysaww community, and those who were present with mesaww had witnessed, So the one who so desires to, let him believe, and the one who so desires to, let him disbelieve’. [18:29]’’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ سَهْلُ بْنُ حُنَيْفٍ فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَ أَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ وَ صَلَّى عَلَى النَّبِيِّ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا مَعْشَرَ قُرَيْشٍ اشْهَدُوا عَلَيَّ أَنِّي أَشْهَدُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَدْ رَأَيْتُهُ فِي هَذَا الْمَكَانِ يَعْنِي الرَّوْضَةَ وَ هُوَ آخِذٌ بِيَدِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ

Then Sahl Bin Huneyf stood up, and he praised Allahazwj and extolled upon Himazwj and sent Salawat upon the Prophetsaww Muhammadsaww and hissaww Progenyasws, then said, ‘O community of Quraysh! Bear witness upon me that I testify upon Rasool-Allahsaww, and I had seen himsaww in this place, meaning the orchard, and hesaww had held a hand of Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, and hesaww was saying:

أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ هَذَا عَلِيٌّ إِمَامُكُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِي وَ وَصِيِّي فِي حَيَاتِي وَ بَعْدَ وَفَاتِي وَ قَاضِي دَينِي وَ مُنْجِزُ وَعْدِي وَ أَوَّلُ مَنْ يُصَافِحُنِي عَلَى حَوْضِي فَطُوبَى لِمَنْ تَبِعَهُ وَ نَصَرَهُ وَ الْوَيْلُ لِمَنْ تَخَلَّفَ عَنْهُ وَ خَذَلَهُ

‘This Aliasws is your Imamasws from after mesaww, and mysaww successor during mysaww lifetime, and after mysaww expiry, and payer of mysaww debts, and fulfiller of mysaww promised, and the first one to shake mysaww hand at mysaww Fountain. So, beatitude is for the one who follows himasws, and helps himasws, and the woe be for the one who stays behind from himasws, and abandons himasws’’.

وَ قَامَ مَعَهُ أَخُوهُ عُثْمَانُ بْنُ حُنَيْفٍ فَقَالَ سَمِعْنَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ أَهْلُ بَيْتِي نُجُومُ الْأَرْضِ فَلَا تَتَقَدَّمُوهُمْ وَ قَدِّمُوهُمْ فَهُمُ الْوُلَاةُ بَعْدِي فَقَامَ إِلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ أَيُّ أَهْلِ بَيْتِكَ فَقَالَ ص عَلَيٌّ وَ الطَّاهِرُونَ مِنْ وُلْدِهِ

And his brother Usman Bin Huneyf stood with him. He said, ‘We heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Peopleasws of mysaww Household are stars of the earth, so do not be preceding themasws, and advance themasws, for theyasws are the rulers after mesaww’. So a man stood up to himsaww and said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! And which Peopleasws of yoursaww Household?’ Hesaww said: ‘Aliasws and the pure one from hisasws sonsasws’.

وَ قَدْ بَيَّنَ ع فَلَا تَكُنْ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ أَوَّلَ كافِرٍ بِهِ‏ وَ لا تَخُونُوا اللَّهَ وَ الرَّسُولَ وَ تَخُونُوا أَماناتِكُمْ وَ أَنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ‏

And it has become clear, O Abu Bakr, and do not become the first disbeliever by it [2:41] Do not betray Allah and the Rasool and betray your entrustment while you know [8:27]’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ أَبُو أَيُّوبَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ فَقَالَ اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ عِبَادَ اللَّهِ فِي أَهْلِ بَيْتِ نَبِيِّكُمْ وَ رُدُّوا إِلَيْهِمْ حَقَّهُمُ الَّذِي جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ لَهُمْ فَقَدْ سَمِعْتُمْ مِثْلَ مَا سَمِعَ إِخْوَانُنَا فِي مَقَامٍ بَعْدَ مَقَامٍ لِنَبِيِّنَا ع وَ مَجْلِسٍ بَعْدَ مَجْلِسٍ يَقُولُ أَهْلُ بَيْتِي أَئِمَّتُكُمْ بَعْدِي

Then Abu Ayoub Al-Ansari stood up and said, ‘Fear Allahazwj regarding Peopleasws of the Household of your Prophetsaww, and return theirasws rights to themasws which Allahazwj has Made to be for themasws, for you have heard what our brothers have heard in place after a place of our Prophetsaww, and gathering after a gathering saying: ‘Peopleasws of mysaww Household are your Imamsasws after me;

وَ يُومِئُ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ع وَ يَقُولُ هَذَا أَمِيرُ الْبَرَرَةِ وَ قَاتِلُ الْكَفَرَةِ مَخْذُولٌ مَنْ خَذَلَهُ مَنْصُورٌ مَنْ نَصَرَهُ فَتُوبُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ مِنْ ظُلْمِكُمْ‏ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَوَّابٌ رَحِيمٌ‏ وَ لَا تَتَوَلَّوْا عَنْهُ مُدْبِرِينَ وَ لَا تَتَوَلَّوْا عَنْهُ مُعْرِضِينَ

And hesaww had gestured towards Aliasws and said: ‘This is Emir of the righteous ones and killer of the disbelievers. Abandoned the one who abandons himasws, and Helped is the one who helps himasws, therefore repent to Allahazwj from your injustices, surely Allahazwj is oft-Turning, Merciful, and do not turn around backwards from him, and do not turn around from himasws, turning away from himasws’.

قَالَ الصَّادِقُ ع فَأُفْحِمَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ حَتَّى لَمْ يُحِرْ جَوَاباً ثُمَّ قَالَ وَلِيتُكُمْ وَ لَسْتُ بِخَيْرِكُمْ أَقِيلُونِي أَقِيلُونِي‏

Al-Sadiqasws said: ‘Abu Bakr was confounded upon the pulpit to the extent that he could not respond with an answer. Then he said, ‘I am your ruler and I am not the best one of you. Dismiss me! Dismiss me!’

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ انْزِلْ عَنْهَا يَا لُكَعُ‏ إِذَا كُنْتَ لَا تَقُومُ بِحُجَجِ قُرَيْشٍ لِمَ أَقَمْتَ نَفْسَكَ هَذَا الْمَقَامَ وَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ هَمَمْتُ أَنْ أَخْلَعَكَ وَ أَجْعَلَهَا فِي سَالِمٍ مَوْلَى أَبِي حُذَيْفَةَ

Umar Bin Al-Khattab said, ‘Come down from it, O vile (evil) one, when you were not going to stand with argumentation of Quraysh, you did not stand yourself in this place. By Allahazwj! I had thought of vacating you and making it to be in Saalim Mawla Abu Huzeyfa’.

قَالَ فَنَزَلَ ثُمَّ أَخَذَ بِيَدِهِ وَ انْطَلَقَ إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ وَ بَقُوا ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ لَا يَدْخُلُونَ مَسْجِدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَلَمَّا كَانَ فِي الْيَوْمِ الرَّابِعِ جَاءَهُمْ خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ وَ مَعَهُ أَلْفُ رَجُلٍ وَ قَالَ لَهُمْ مَا جُلُوسُكُمْ فَقَدْ طَمَعَ فِيهَا وَ اللَّهِ بَنُو هَاشِمٍ

Heasws said: ‘He came down, then held his hand and went to his house, and they remained for three days not entering the Masjid of Rasool-Allahsaww. When it was the fourth day, Khalid Bin Al-Waleed came to them and with him were a thousand men, and he said to them, ‘Why are you not gathering and the Clan of Hashimasws are eager for it’.

وَ جَاءَهُمْ سَالِمٌ مَوْلَى أَبِي حُذَيْفَةَ وَ مَعَهُ أَلْفُ رَجُلٍ وَ جَاءَهُمْ مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ وَ مَعَهُ أَلْفُ رَجُلٍ فَمَا زَالَ يَجْتَمِعُ رَجُلٌ رَجُلٌ حَتَّى اجْتَمَعَ أَرْبَعَةُ آلَافِ رَجُلٍ فَخَرَجُوا شَاهِرِينَ أَسْيَافَهُمْ يَقْدُمُهُمْ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ حَتَّى وَقَفُوا بِمَسْجِدِ النَّبِيِّ ص

And Saalim Mawla Abu Huzeyfa came to them and with him were a thousand men, and Muaz Bin Jabal came to them and with him were a thousand men. Men after men did not cease to gather until four thousand men had gathered, and they came out brandishing their swords, leading them was Umar Bin Al-Khattab, until they paused at the Masjid of the Prophetsaww.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ وَ اللَّهِ يَا صَحَابَةَ عَلِيٍّ لَئِنْ ذَهَبَ الرَّجُلُ مِنْكُمْ يَتَكَلَّمُ بِالَّذِي تَكَلَّمَ بِهِ بِالْأَمْسِ لَنَأْخُذَنَّ الَّذِي فِيهِ عَيْنَاهُ

Umar said, ‘By Allahazwj, O companions of Aliasws! If the man from you were to go around speaking with that which was spoken with yesterday, we shall seize that which is in his eyes’.

فَقَامَ إِلَيْهِ خَالِدُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْعَاصِ وَ قَالَ يَا ابْنَ صُهَاكَ الْحَبَشِيَّةِ أَ بِأَسْيَافِكُمْ تُهَدِّدُونَّا أَمْ بِجَمْعِكُمْ تُفْزِعُونَّا وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ أَسْيَافَنَا أَحَدُّ مِنْ أَسْيَافِكُمْ وَ إِنَّا لَأَكْثَرُ مِنْكُمْ وَ إِنْ كُنَّا قَلِيلِينَ لِأَنَّ حُجَّةَ اللَّهِ فِينَا وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ لَا أَنِّي أَعْلَمُ أَنَّ طَاعَةَ إِمَامِي أَوْلَى بِي لَشَهَرْتُ سَيَفِي وَ لَجَاهَدْتُكُمْ فِي اللَّهِ إِلَى أَنْ أُبْلِيَ عُذْرِي

Khalid Bin Saeed Bin Al-Aas stood up to him and said, ‘O Ibn Suhaak the wicked! Are you limiting us with your swords or alarming us with your gathering? By Allahazwj! Our swords are sharper than your swords, and we are more than you are, and even though they are few (in number), because the Divine Authority of Allahazwj is among us. By Allahazwj! Had I not known that obedience to my Imamasws is foremost with me, I would have unsheathed my sword and fought you for the Sake of Allahazwj until my excuse was done’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ اجْلِسْ يَا خَالِدُ فَقَدْ عَرَفَ اللَّهُ مَقَامَكَ وَ شَكَرَ لَكَ سَعْيَكَ فَجَلَسَ

Amir Al-Momineenasws said to him: ‘Be seated, O Khalid, for Allahazwj has Recognised your stand and Thanks you for your effort’. So, he sat down.

وَ قَامَ إِلَيْهِ سَلْمَانُ الْفَارِسِيُّ وَ قَالَ اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ إِلَّا صَمَّتَا يَقُولُ بَيْنَا أَخِي وَ ابْنُ عَمِّي جَالِسٌ فِي مَسْجِدِي مَعَ نَفَرٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ إِذْ يَكْبِسُهُ جَمَاعَةٌ مِنْ كِلَابِ أَهْلِ النَّارِ يُرِيدُونَ قَتْلَهُ وَ قَتْلَ مَنْ مَعَهُ وَ لَسْتُ أَشُكُّ إِلَّا وَ إِنَّكُمْ هُمْ

And Salman Al-Farsira stood up to him and said, ‘Allahazwj is the Greatest! Allahazwj is the Greatest! Ira have heard Rasool-Allahsaww, or else Ira be mute, saying: ‘While mysaww brotherasws and sonasws of mysaww uncleas would be seated in mysaww Masjid along with a number of hisasws companions, when heasws would be pressurised by a group from the dogs, inhabitants of the Fire, intending to kill himasws, and kill the ones with himasws’, and I have no doubt except that you are they’.

فَهَمَّ بِهِ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ فَوَثَبَ إِلَيْهِ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع وَ أَخَذَ بِمَجَامِعِ ثَوْبِهِ ثُمَّ جَلَدَ بِهِ الْأَرْضَ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا ابْنَ صُهَاكَ الْحَبَشِيَّةِ لَوْ لا كِتابٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ سَبَقَ‏ وَ عَهْدٌ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص تَقَدَّمَ لَأَرَيْتُكَ أَيُّنَا أَضْعَفُ ناصِراً وَ أَقَلُّ عَدَداً

Umar Bin Al-Khattab thought of killing him, so Amir Al-Momineenasws leapt up and grabbed the generality of his clothes, then brought him down to the ground, then said: ‘O son of Suhaak, the wicked! If there had not preceded a Book from Allahazwj and a pact from Rasool-Allahsaww preceded, Iasws would have shown which of us is with weaker helpers and fewer number [72:24]’.

ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ إِلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فَقَالَ انْصَرِفُوا رَحِمَكُمُ اللَّهُ فَوَ اللَّهِ لَا دَخَلْتُ الْمَسْجِدَ إِلَّا كَمَا دَخَلَ أَخَوَايَ مُوسَى وَ هَارُونَ إِذْ قَالَ لَهُ أَصْحَابُهُ‏ فَاذْهَبْ أَنْتَ وَ رَبُّكَ فَقاتِلا إِنَّا هاهُنا قاعِدُونَ

Then heasws turned towards hisasws companions and said: ‘Leave, may Allahazwj have Mercy on you, for by Allahazwj Iasws did not enter the Masjid except just as myasws brothersas Musaas and Harounas had entered, when hisas companions said to him, therefore you and your Lord should both go and fight, we will be sitting over here’ [5:24].

‏ وَ اللَّهِ‏ لَا أَدْخُلُ إِلَّا لِزِيَارَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص أَوْ لِقَضِيَّةٍ أَقْضِيهَا فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَجُوزُ لِحُجَّةٍ أَقَامَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ يُتْرَكَ النَّاسُ فِي حَيْرَةٍ.

By Allahazwj! Iasws did not enter except for visiting (Ziyarat) of Rasool-Allahsaww, or a need Iasws could fulfil, for it is not allowed for a Divine Authority Rasool-Allahsaww had established, that heasws should leave the people in confusion’’.⁹⁰

3- ج، الإحتجاج عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ: ثُمَّ إِنَّ عُمَرَ احْتَزَمَ بِإِزَارِهِ وَ جَعَلَ يَطُوفُ بِالْمَدِينَةِ وَ يُنَادِي أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ قَدْ بُويِعَ لَهُ فَهَلُمُّوا إِلَى الْبَيْعَةِ فَيَنْثَالُ النَّاسُ فَيُبَايِعُونَ فَعَرَفَ أَنَّ جَمَاعَةً فِي بُيُوتٍ مُسْتَتِرُونَ فَكَانَ يَقْصِدُهُمْ فِي جَمْعٍ فَيَكْبِسُهُمْ وَ يُحْضِرُهُمْ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ فَيُبَايِعُونَ حَتَّى إِذَا مَضَتْ أَيَّامٌ أَقْبَلَ فِي جَمْعٍ كَثِيرٍ إِلَى مَنْزِلِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع

(The book) ‘Al Ihtijaj’ - From Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman who said,

‘Then Umar picked up his trouser and circled Al-Medina and he was calling out, ‘Abu Bakr has been pledged to, so come to the allegiance!’ He was coercing the people to pledge allegiance. It was recognised that there was a group hiding in the houses, and he aimed for them, and pressurised them and presenting them in the Masjid, and they were pledging allegiances until when the days passed, he came among a large group to the house of Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws.

فَطَالَبَهُ بِالْخُرُوجِ فَأَبَى فَدَعَا عُمَرُ بِحَطَبٍ وَ نَارٍ وَ قَالَ وَ الَّذِي نَفْسُ عُمَرَ بِيَدِهِ لَيَخْرُجَنَّ أَوْ لَأُحْرِقَنَّهُ عَلَى مَا فِيهِ فَقِيلَ لَهُ إِنَّ فِيهِ فَاطِمَةَ بِنْتَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ وُلْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ آثَارَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ فَأَنْكَرَ النَّاسُ ذَلِكَ مِنْ قَوْلِهِ

He sought himasws for the coming out, but heasws refused. So, Umar called for the firewood and the fire and said, ‘By the Oneazwj in Whose Hand is the soul of Umar! Either heasws comes out or I shall burn it down upon whatever (whoever) is in it’. It was said to him, ‘Fatimaasws daughterasws of Rasool-Allahsaww is in it and so are the children of Rasool-Allahsaww, and belongings of Rasool-Allahsaww’, and the people denied that from his words.

فَلَمَّا عَرَفَ إِنْكَارَهُمْ قَالَ مَا بَالُكُمْ أَ تَرَوْنِي فَعَلْتُ ذَلِكَ إِنَّمَا أَرَدْتُ التَّهْوِيلَ‏ فَرَاسَلَهُمْ عَلِيٌّ أَنْ لَيْسَ إِلَى خُرُوجِي حِيلَةٌ لِأَنِّي فِي جَمْعِ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ الَّذِي قَدْ نَبَذْتُمُوهُ وَ أَلْهَتْكُمُ الدُّنْيَا عَنْهُ وَ قَدْ حَلَفْتُ أَنْ لَا أَخْرُجَ مِنْ بَيْتِي وَ لَا أَضَعَ رِدَائِي عَلَى عَاتِقِي حَتَّى‏ أَجْمَعَ الْقُرْآنَ‏

When he recognised their denials, he said, ‘What is the matter with you all? Do you see me doing that? But rather, I intended the intimidation. Aliasws sent them a message: ‘There isn’t any way to myasws coming out because Iasws am in the midst of collecting the Book of Allahazwj which you have rejected and made the world to be your god instead of it, and Iasws have sworn that Iasws will not come out from myasws house, nor place myasws robe upon myasws shoulders until Iasws collect the Quran’.

قَالَ وَ خَرَجَتْ فَاطِمَةُ بِنْتُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص إِلَيْهِمْ فَوَقَفَتْ عَلَى الْبَابِ ثُمَّ قَالَتْ لَا عَهْدَ لِي بِقَوْمٍ أَسْوَأَ مَحْضَراً مِنْكُمْ تَرَكْتُمْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ جِنَازَةً بَيْنَ أَيْدِينَا وَ قَطَعْتُمْ أَمْرَكُمْ فِيمَا بَيْنَكُمْ فَلَمْ تُؤَمِّرُونَا وَ لَمْ تَرَوْا لَنَا حَقَّنَا كَأَنَّكُمْ لَمْ تَعْلَمُوا مَا قَالَ يَوْمَ غَدِيرِ خُمٍّ

He (the narrator) said, ‘And (Syeda) Fatimaasws daughterasws of Rasool-Allahsaww came out to them and paused at the door, then sheasws said: ‘There is no pact for measws with a people of worst presence than you all. You neglected the funeral of Rasool-Allahsaww in front of us and cut out your matter in what is between you, so you did not give usasws the command and did not see any rights being for usasws. It is as if you do not know what was said on the day of Ghadeer Khumm.

وَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ عَقَدَ لَهُ يَوْمَئِذٍ الْوَلَاءَ لِيَقْطَعَ مِنْكُمْ بِذَلِكَ مِنْهَا الرَّجَاءَ وَ لَكِنَّكُمْ قَطَعْتُمُ الْأَسْبَابَ بَيْنَكُمْ وَ بَيْنَ نَبِيِّكُمْ وَ اللَّهُ حَسِيبٌ بَيْنَنَا وَ بَيْنَكُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ.

By Allahazwj! The governance had been vowed for himasws on that day, of the hopes from you all to be cut off from it with that, but you cut off the means between you and your Prophetsaww, and Allahazwj will Reckon between usasws and you all in the world and the Hereafter’’.⁹¹

4- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي بِإِسْنَادٍ سَيَأْتِي فِي بَابِ أَحْوَالِ إِبْلِيسَ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: تَمَثَّلَ إِبْلِيسُ فِي أَرْبَعِ صُوَرٍ تَصَوَّرَ يَوْمَ قُبِضَ النَّبِيُّ ص فِي صُورَةِ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ شُعْبَةَ فَقَالَ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ لَا تَجْعَلُوهَا كِسْرَوَانِيَّةً وَ لَا قَيْصَرَانِيَّةً وَسِّعُوهَا تَتَّسِعْ فَلَا تَرُدُّوهَا فِي بَنِي هَاشِمٍ فَيُنْتَظَرَ بِهَا الْحَبَالَى‏.

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi, by a chain I (Majlisi) shall be coming within the chapter of the states of Ibleesla, from Jabir Bin Abdullah Al Ansari having said,

‘Ibleesla resembled in four images. Hela imaged on the day the Prophetsaww passed away, in the image of Al-Mugheira Bin Shu’ba. Hela said, ‘O you people! Do not make it to be like Chosroe followers nor Caesar followers, and expand it with an expansion, so you do not return it to be among the Clan of Hashimasws. Await the entrapment with it’’.⁹²

5- ج، الإحتجاج رُوِيَ عَنِ الصَّادِقِ ع أَنَّهُ قَالَ: لَمَّا اسْتُخْرِجَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ مَنْزِلِهِ خَرَجَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع فَمَا بَقِيَتْ هَاشِمِيَّةٌ إِلَّا خَرَجَتْ مَعَهَا حَتَّى انْتَهَتْ قَرِيباً مِنَ الْقَبْرِ فَقَالَتْ

(The book) ‘Al-Ihtijaj’ – It is reported from Al-Sadiqasws having said: ‘When Amir Al-Momineenasws came out from hisasws house, (Syeda) Fatimaasws (also) came out, and there did not remain any Hashimite woman except she came out with herasws, until sheasws ended up near the grave (of Rasool-Allahsaww) and sheasws said:

خَلُّوا عَنِ ابْنِ عَمِّي فَوَ الَّذِي بَعَثَ مُحَمَّداً بِالْحَقِّ لَئِنْ لَمْ تُخَلُّوا عَنْهُ لَأَنْشُرَنَّ شَعْرِي وَ لَأَضَعَنَّ قَمِيصَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص عَلَى رَأْسِي وَ لَأَصْرُخَنَّ إِلَى اللَّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى فَمَا نَاقَةُ صَالِحٍ بِأَكْرَمَ عَلَى اللَّهِ مِنِّي وَ لَا الْفَصِيلُ بِأَكْرَمَ عَلَى اللَّهِ مِنْ وُلْدِي

‘Stay away from the sonasws of myasws uncleas, for by the Oneazwj Who Sent Muhammadsaww with the truth! If you do not stay away from himasws, Iasws will expose myasws hair and place down the shirt of Rasool-Allahsaww upon myasws head and cry-out to Allahazwj Blessed and Exalted, for the she-camel of Salihas is not more prestigious to Allahazwj than Iasws am, nor are (its) calves more prestigious unto Allahazwj than myasws children are!’

قَالَ سَلْمَانُ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ كُنْتُ قَرِيباً مِنْهَا فَرَأَيْتُ وَ اللَّهِ أَسَاسَ حِيطَانِ الْمَسْجِدِ مَسْجِدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص تَقَلَّعَتْ مِنْ أَسْفَلِهَا حَتَّى لَوْ أَرَادَ رَجُلٌ أَنْ يَنْفُذَ مِنْ تَحْتِهَا نَفَذَ

Salmanra said, ‘Ira near from herasws and by Allahazwj Ira saw the foundations of the Masjid, Masjid of Rasool-Allahsaww, uproot from its bottom to the extent that if a man had intended go from under it, could have.

فَدَنَوْتُ مِنْهَا فَقُلْتُ يَا سَيِّدَتِي وَ مَوْلَاتِي إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى بَعَثَ أَبَاكِ رَحْمَةً فَلَا تَكُونِي نَقِمَةً

Ira went near to herasws and said, ‘O myra chieftess and O myra Ladyasws! Surely, Allahazwj Blessed and Exalted Sent yourasws fathersaww as mercy, so don’t become a destroyer’.

فَرَجَعَتْ وَ رَجَعْتِ الْحِيطَانُ حَتَّى سَطَعَتِ الْغَبَرَةُ مِنْ أَسْفَلِهَا فَدَخَلَتْ فِي خَيَاشِيمِنَا.

Sheasws returned, and the walls returned until the dust arose from its bottom, and entered into our nostrils’’.⁹³

6- ل، الخصال‏ فِيمَا ذَكَرَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع فِي جَوَابِ الَّذِي سَأَلَ عَمَّا فِيهِ مِنْ خِصَالِ الْأَوْصِيَاءِ قَالَ ع وَ أَمَّا الثَّانِيَةُ يَا أَخَا الْيَهُودِ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص أَمَّرَنِي فِي حَيَاتِهِ عَلَى جَمِيعِ أُمَّتِهِ وَ أَخَذَ عَلَى جَمِيعِ مَنْ حَضَرَهُ مِنْهُمُ الْبَيْعَةَ وَ السَّمْعَ وَ الطَّاعَةَ لِأَمْرِي وَ أَمَرَهُمْ أَنْ يُبَلِّغَ الشَّاهِدُ الْغَائِبَ ذَلِكَ

(The book) ‘Al-Khisaal’ – Among what Amir Al-Momineenasws mentioned in answer to the one who had asked about what was in himasws from the qualities of the successorsas, heasws said: ‘And as for the second, O Jewish brother! Rasool-Allahsaww had made measws an Emir (ruler) during hissaww lifetime over the entirety of hissaww community, and took the allegiance upon the entirety of the ones who were present, and the obedience to myasws orders, and instructed them that the ones present should deliver that to the absentee.

فَكُنْتُ الْمُؤَدِّيَ إِلَيْهِمْ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص أَمْرَهُ إِذَا حَضَرْتُهُ وَ الْأَمِيرَ عَلَى مَنْ حَضَرَنِي مِنْهُمْ إِذَا فَارَقْتُهُ لَا تَخْتَلِجُ فِي نَفْسِي مُنَازَعَةُ أَحَدٍ مِنَ الْخَلْقِ لِي فِي شَيْ‏ءٍ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ فِي حَيَاةِ النَّبِيِّ ص وَ لَا بَعْدَ وَفَاتِهِ

So, Iasws was the performer to them on behalf of the Rasool-Allahsaww of hissaww instructions when present to himsaww, and was the Emir upon the ones of them presenting to measws. When Iasws used to separate from them, Iasws did not think within myselfasws that anyone from the people would dispute to measws regarding anything from the command during the lifetime of the Prophetsaww nor after hissaww expiry.

ثُمَّ أَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِتَوْجِيهِ الْجَيْشِ الَّذِي وَجَّهَهُ مَعَ أُسَامَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عِنْدَ الَّذِي أَحْدَثَ اللَّهُ بِهِ مِنَ الْمَرَضِ الَّذِي تَوَفَّاهُ فِيهِ فَلَمْ يَدَعِ النَّبِيُّ ص أَحَداً مِنْ أَفْنَاءِ الْعَرَبِ‏ وَ لَا مِنَ الْأَوْسِ وَ الْخَزْرَجِ وَ غَيْرِهِمْ مِنْ سَائِرِ النَّاسِ مِمَّنْ يَخَافُ عَلَى نَقْضِهِ وَ مُنَازَعَتِهِ وَ لَا أَحَداً مِمَّنْ يَرَانِي بِعَيْنِ الْبَغْضَاءِ مِمَّنْ قَدْ وَتَرْتُهُ بِقَتْلِ أَبِيهِ أَوْ أَخِيهِ أَوْ حَمِيمِهِ إِلَّا وَجَّهَهُ فِي ذَلِكَ الْجَيْشِ

Then Rasool-Allahsaww ordered for sending of the army, which hesaww sent with Usama Bin Zayd, during the occurrence of the illness from Allahazwj with himsaww in which hesaww passed away, so Rasool-Allahsaww did not leave anyone from the unknowns of the Arabs, nor from Al-Aws and Al-Khazraj, and from the rest of the people from the ones hesaww feared upon his breaking (the pact), and his contention, nor anyone from the ones who saw measws with the eye of hatred, from the one whom Iasws had agitated by either killing his father, or his brother, or his friend, except hesaww diverted him to be in that army.

وَ لَا مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ وَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَ غَيْرِهِمْ وَ الْمُؤَلَّفَةِ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ لِتَصْفُوَ قُلُوبُ مَنْ يَبْقَى مَعِي بِحَضْرَتِهِ وَ لِئَلَّا يَقُولَ قَائِلٌ شَيْئاً مِمَّا أَكْرَهُهُ وَ لَا يَدْفَعَنِي دَافِعٌ عَنِ الْوِلَايَةِ وَ الْقِيَامِ بِأَمْرِ رَعِيَّتِهِ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ

Nor from the Emigrants and the Helpers, and the Muslims, and other, and the ones of deviated (devious) hearts, and the hypocrites, in order to clear the hearts of the ones who remained with measws in hissaww presence, and lest a speaker says anything from what Iasws might dislike, nor a repeller repelling measws from the governance and the standing with the command of hissaww citizens from after himsaww.

ثُمَّ كَانَ آخِرَ مَا تَكَلَّمَ بِهِ فِي شَيْ‏ءٍ مِنْ أَمْرِ أُمَّتِهِ أَنْ يَمْضِيَ جَيْشُ أُسَامَةَ وَ لَا يَتَخَلَّفَ عَنْهُ أَحَدٌ مِمَّنْ أَنْهَضَ مَعَهُ وَ تَقَدَّمَ فِي ذَلِكَ أَشَدَّ التَّقَدُّمِ وَ أَوْعَزَ فِيهِ أَبْلَغَ الْإِيعَازِ وَ أَكَّدَ فِيهِ أَكْثَرَ التَّأْكِيدِ

Then it was the last of what hesaww spoke with regarding something from the matters of hissaww community is: ‘Enforce the army of Usama and no one should stay behind from it!’ From the ones whom hesaww had urged to go with him, and advanced regarding that with the most intense of the advances, and communicated regarding it with the most far reaching of the communications, and emphasised regarding it with the most frequent of the emphasis.

فَلَمْ أَشْعُرْ بَعْدَ أَنْ قُبِضَ النَّبِيُّ ص إِلَّا بِرِجَالٍ مِنْ بَعْثِ أُسَامَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ وَ أَهْلِ عَسْكَرِهِ قَدْ تَرَكُوا مَرَاكِزَهُمْ وَ أَخْلَوْا بِمَوَاضِعِهِمْ وَ خَالَفُوا أَمْرَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فِيمَا أَنْهَضَهُمْ لَهُ وَ أَمَرَهُمْ بِهِ وَ تَقَدَّمَ إِلَيْهِمْ مِنْ مُلَازَمَةِ أَمِيرِهِمْ وَ السَّيْرِ مَعَهُ تَحْتَ لِوَائِهِ حَتَّى يُنْفَذَ لِوَجْهِهِ الَّذِي أَنْفَذَهُ إِلَيْهِ

Iasws was not aware afterwards that the passing away of the Prophetsaww except with the departure of Usama Bin Zayd and the people of his army, that they had left their positions, and vacated their places, and opposed the orders of Rasool-Allahsaww regarding what hesaww had sent them to, and had ordered them with, and proceeded to them of the necessitation of their commander, and the travelling with him under his flag, until they had implemented to hissaww direction which hesaww had enforced to it.

فَخَلَّفُوا أَمِيرَهُمْ مُقِيماً فِي عَسْكَرِهِ وَ أَقْبَلُوا يَتَبَادَرُونَ عَلَى الْخَيْلِ رَكْضاً إِلَى حَلِّ عُقْدَةٍ عَقَدَهَا اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ رَسُولُهُ لِي فِي أَعْنَاقِهِمْ فَحَلُّوهَا وَ عَهْدٍ عَاهَدُوا اللَّهَ وَ رَسُولَهُ فَنَكَثُوهُ وَ عَقَدُوا لِأَنْفُسِهِمْ عَقْداً ضَجَّتْ بِهِ أَصْوَاتُهُمْ وَ اخْتَصَّتْ بِهِ آرَاؤُهُمْ مِنْ غَيْرِ مُنَاظَرَةٍ لِأَحَدٍ مِنَّا بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ أَوْ مُشَارَكَةٍ فِي رَأْيٍ أَوِ اسْتِقَالَةٍ لِمَا فِي أَعْنَاقِهِمْ مِنْ بَيْعَتِي

But, they opposed their commander standing among his soldiers and they returned rushing upon the running horses to loosen a knot which Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic had Tied for measws in their necks. So they loosened it and the pact which Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww had pacted, and they broke it and tied a pact for themselves clamouring their voices with it, and particularised their views with it from without any debate to anyone from usasws, sons of Abdul Muttalibasws, or participating in any viewpoint, or dismissing of what was in their necks of myasws allegiance.

فَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ وَ أَنَا بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ مَشْغُولٌ وَ بِتَجْهِيزِهِ عَنْ سَائِرِ الْأَشْيَاءِ مَصْدُودٌ فَإِنَّهُ كَانَ أَهَمَّهَا وَ أَحَقَّ مَا بُدِئَ بِهِ مِنْهَا فَكَانَ هَذَا يَا أَخَا الْيَهُودِ أَقْرَحَ مَا وَرَدَ عَلَى قَلْبِي مَعَ الَّذِي أَنَا فِيهِ مِنْ عَظِيمِ الرَّزِيَّةِ وَ فَاجِعِ الْمُصِيبَةِ وَ فَقْدِ مَنْ لَا خَلَفَ مِنْهُ إِلَّا اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى

They did that while Iasws was with Rasool-Allahsaww, pre-occupied, and with the preparation, blocked from the rest of the things, for it was more important and more rightful to begin with that it. So this was, O Jewish brother, most injurious of what had come upon myasws heart, along with that which Iasws was (busy) in, from the mighty catastrophe, and the tragic calamity, and loss of onesaww, there is not replacement from it, except Allahazwj Blessed and Exalted.

فَصَبَرْتُ عَلَيْهَا إِذْ أَتَتْ بَعْدَ أُخْتِهَا عَلَى تَقَارُبِهَا وَ سُرْعَةِ اتِّصَالِهَا ‏.

So, Iasws was patient upon it. Then its sister (counterpart) came after him upon its nearness and quickness of its connection’.

ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ ع إِلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فَقَالَ أَ لَيْسَ كَذَلِكَ قَالُوا بَلَى يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع

Then heasws turned towards hisasws companions and heasws said: ‘Wasn’t it like that?’ They said, ‘Yes, O Amir Al-Momineenasws’’.⁹⁴

7- ل، الخصال ابْنُ الْبَرْقِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ‏ عَنِ النَّهِيكِيِّ عَنْ خَلَفِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ وَهْبٍ قَالَ: كَانَ الَّذِينَ أَنْكَرُوا عَلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ جُلُوسَهُ فِي الْخِلَافَةِ وَ تَقَدُّمَهُ عَلَى عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع اثْنَيْ عَشَرَ رَجُلًا مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ

(The book) ‘Al Khisaal’ – Ibn Al Barqy, from his father, from his grandfather, from Al Naheyki, from Khalaf Bin Salim, from Muhammad Bin Ja’far, from Shu’ba, from Usman Bin Al Mugheira, from Zayd Bin Wahab who said,

‘Those who had denied upon Abu Bakr of his sitting in the caliphate and his preceding upon Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, were twelve men from the Emigrants and the Helpers.

كَانَ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ خَالِدُ بْنِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْعَاصِ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِ وَ أُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍ وَ عَمَّارُ بْنُ يَاسِرٍ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّ وَ سَلْمَانُ الْفَارِسِيُّ وَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ وَ بُرَيْدَةُ الْأَسْلَمِيُّ

From the Emigrants were – Khalid Bin Saeed Bin Al-Aas, and Al-Miqdad Bin Al-Aswad, and Ubayy Bin Ka’b, and Ammar Bin Yasser, and Abu Zarr Al-Ghifarira, and Salman Al-Farsira, and Abdullah Bin Masoud, and Bureyda Al-Aslami.

وَ كَانَ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ خُزَيْمَةُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ ذُو الشَّهَادَتَيْنِ وَ سَهْلُ بْنُ حُنَيْفٍ وَ أَبُو أَيُّوبَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ وَ أَبُو الْهَيْثَمِ بْنُ التَّيِّهَانِ وَ غَيْرُهُمْ‏

And from the Helpers were – Khuzeyman Bin Sabit (titled as) ‘One with two testimonies’, and Sahl Bin Huneyf, and Abu Ayoub Al-Ansari, and Abu Al-Haysam Bin Al-Tayham, and others.

فَلَمَّا صَعِدَ الْمِنْبَرَ تَشَاوَرُوا بَيْنَهُمْ فِي أَمْرِهِ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ هَلَّا نَأْتِيهِ فَنُنْزِلَهُ عَنْ‏ مِنْبَرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَالَ آخَرُونَ إِنْ فَعَلْتُمْ ذَلِكَ أَعَنْتُمْ عَلَى أَنْفُسِكُمْ وَ قَدْ قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ وَ لا تُلْقُوا بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى التَّهْلُكَةِ وَ لَكِنِ امْضُوا بِنَا إِلَى عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع نَسْتَشِيرُهُ وَ نَسْتَطْلِعُ أَمْرَهُ

When he (Abu Bakr) ascended the pulpit, they consulted between them regarding his command. One of them said, ‘Come, let us go to him and bring him down from the pulpit of Rasool-Allahsaww’, and others said, ‘If you were to do that, you will be assisting against yourselves, and Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic has Said: and cast not yourselves to destruction with your own hands [2:195]. But, let us go to Ali Bin Abu Talibasws, consult himasws and be notified of hisasws instructions’.

فَأَتَوْا عَلِيّاً ع فَقَالُوا يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ضَيَّعْتَ نَفْسَكَ وَ تَرَكْتَ حَقّاً أَنْتَ أَوْلَى بِهِ وَ قَدْ أَرَدْنَا أَنْ نَأْتِيَ الرَّجُلَ فَنُنْزِلَهُ عَنْ مِنْبَرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَإِنَّ الْحَقَّ حَقُّكَ وَ أَنْتَ أَوْلَى بِالْأَمْرِ مِنْهُ فَكَرِهْنَا أَنْ نُنْزِلَهُ مِنْ دُونِ مُشَاوَرَتِكَ

They came to Aliasws and they said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineenasws! Youasws have weakened yourselfasws and left a right which youasws were foremost with it, and we wanted to go to the man and bring him down from the pulpit of Rasool-Allahsaww. So, if the right is yourasws right and youasws are foremost with the command than him, we would dislike it for us to bring him down without having consulted youasws’.

فَقَالَ لَهُمْ عَلِيٌّ ع لَوْ فَعَلْتُمْ ذَلِكَ مَا كُنْتُمْ إِلَّا حَرْباً لَهُمْ وَ لَا كُنْتُمْ إِلَّا كَالْكُحْلِ فِي الْعَيْنِ أَوْ كَالْمِلْحِ فِي الزَّادِ وَ قَدِ اتَّفَقَتْ عَلَيْهِ الْأُمَّةُ التَّارِكَةُ لِقَوْلِ نَبِيِّهَا وَ الْكَاذِبَةُ عَلَى رَبِّهَا وَ لَقَدْ شَاوَرْتُ فِي ذَلِكَ أَهْلَ بَيْتِي فَأَبَوْا إِلَّا السُّكُوتَ لِمَا يَعْلَمُونَ مِنْ وَغْرِ صُدُورِ الْقَوْمِ وَ بُغْضِهِمْ لِلَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ لِأَهْلِ بَيْتِ نَبِيِّهِ وَ أَنَّهُمْ يُطَالِبُونَ بِثَأْرَاتِ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ

Aliasws said to them: ‘If you were to do that, you would not be except at war to them, and you would not be except like the kohl in the eyes or like the salt in the food, and the community, the neglecter of the words of its Prophetsaww, has agreed upon him, and the belie upon its Lordazwj, has agreed upon him, and Iasws have not consulted myasws family members regarding that and they have refused except for the silence to what they know of the venom in the chests of the people, and their hatred to Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic and to the Peopleasws of the Household of Hisazwj Prophetsaww, and they are seeking revenge of the pre-Islamic period.

وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ فَعَلْتُمْ ذَلِكَ لَشَهَرُوا سُيُوفَهُمْ مُسْتَعِدِّينَ لِلْحَرْبِ وَ الْقِتَالِ كَمَا فَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ حَتَّى قَهَرُونِي وَ غَلَبُونِي عَلَى نَفْسِي وَ لَبَّبُونِي وَ قَالُوا لِي بَايِعْ وَ إِلَّا قَتَلْنَاكَ فَلَمْ أَجِدْ حِيلَةً إِلَّا أَنْ أَدْفَعَ الْقَوْمَ عَنْ نَفْسِي

By Allahazwj! If you were to do that, you will be unsheathing your swords preparing for the war and the fighting, just as they would be doing that, until they forced measws and overcome upon myselfasws until they would call measws and say to measws, ‘Either pledge allegiance or we will kill youasws’. So Iasws will not find any choice except to defend myselfasws from the people.

وَ ذَاكَ أَنِّي ذَكَرْتُ قَوْلَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص يَا عَلِيُّ إِنَّ الْقَوْمَ نَقَضُوا أَمْرَكَ وَ اسْتَبَدُّوا بِهَا دُونَكَ وَ عَصَوْنِي فِيكَ فَعَلَيْكَ بِالصَّبْرِ حَتَّى يُنْزِلَ اللَّهُ الْأَمْرَ وَ إِنَّهُمْ سَيَغْدِرُونَ بِكَ لَا مَحَالَةَ فَلَا تَجْعَلْ لَهُمْ سَبِيلًا إِلَى إِذْلَالِكَ وَ سَفْكِ دَمِكَ

And that is because Iasws remember the words of Rasool-Allahsaww: ‘O Aliasws! The people will be breaking yourasws orders and tyrannise with it besides youasws, and disobey mesaww regarding youasws. Thus, upon youasws is to be with the patience until Allahazwj Reveals the matter, and they will be treacherous with youasws inevitably, so do not make a way to be for them to humiliate youasws and shed yourasws blood.

فَإِنَّ الْأُمَّةَ سَتَغْدِرُ بِكَ بَعْدِي كَذَلِكَ أَخْبَرَنِي جَبْرَئِيلُ ع مِنْ رَبِّي تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى وَ لَكِنِ ائْتُوا الرَّجُلَ فَأَخْبِرُوهُ بِمَا سَمِعْتُمْ مِنْ نَبِيِّكُمْ وَ لَا تَدَعُوهُ فِي الشُّبْهَةِ مِنْ أَمْرِهِ لِيَكُونَ ذَلِكَ أَعْظَمَ لِلْحُجَّةِ عَلَيْهِ وَ أَبْلَغَ فِي عُقُوبَتِهِ إِذَا أَتَى رَبَّهُ وَ قَدْ عَصَى نَبِيَّهُ وَ خَالَفَ أَمْرَهُ

So if the community were to be treacherous with youasws after mesaww, like that Jibraeelas has informed mesaww from mysaww Lordazwj Blessed and Exalted, but go to the man (Abu Bakr) and inform him with what you had heard from your Prophetsaww, and do not leave him in the doubt of his matter, for that to become the greatest of the arguments against him, and far reaching in its Punishment when he comes to his Lordazwj, and he would have disobeyed Hisazwj Prophetsaww and opposed hissaww orders’.

قَالَ فَانْطَلَقُوا حَتَّى حَفُّوا بِمِنْبَرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص يَوْمَ جُمُعَةٍ فَقَالُوا لِلْمُهَاجِرِينَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بَدَأَ بِكُمْ فِي الْقُرْآنِ فَقَالَ‏ لَقَدْ تابَ اللَّهُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ وَ الْمُهاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصارِ فَبِكُمْ بَدَأَ

He (the narrator) said, ‘They went until they surrounded the pulpit of Rasool-Allahsaww on the day of Friday. They said to the Emigrants, ‘Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic has Begun with you in the Quran. Heazwj Said: Allah has Turned (Mercifully) to the Prophet and the Emigrants and the Helpers [9:117]. Thus Heazwj Began with you first’.

فَكَانَ أَوَّلُ مَنْ بَدَأَ وَ قَامَ خَالِدَ بْنَ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْعَاصِ بِإِدْلَالِهِ بِبَنِي أُمَيَّةَ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ اتَّقِ اللَّهَ فَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ مَا تَقَدَّمَ لِعَلِيٍّ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص أَ لَا تَعْلَمُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ لَنَا وَ نَحْنُ مُحْتَوِشُوهُ فِي يَوْمِ بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ وَ قَدْ أَقْبَلَ عَلَى رِجَالٍ مِنَّا ذَوِي قَدْرٍ فَقَالَ مَعَاشِرَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ أُوصِيكُمْ بِوَصِيَّةٍ فَاحْفَظُوهَا وَ إِنِّي مُؤَدٍّ إِلَيْكُمْ أَمْراً فَاقْبَلُوهُ

So the first one to begin and stand was Khalid Bin Saeed Bin Al-Aas with his evidence with the clan of Umayya. He said, ‘O Abu Bakr! Fear Allahazwj! You have known what has preceded for Aliasws from Rasool-Allahsaww. Indeed! You know that Rasool-Allahsaww had said to us, and we had left himsaww along during the day (battle) of the clan of Qureyza, and hesaww had faced the worthy ones from us. Hesaww said: ‘Community of the Emigrants and the Helpers! Isaww bequeath you with a bequest, so preserve it, and Iasws am giving you an order, so accept it.

أَلَا إِنَّ عَلِيّاً ع أَمِيرُكُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِي وَ خَلِيفَتِي فِيكُمْ أَوْصَانِي بِذَلِكَ رَبِّي وَ رَبُّكُمْ وَ إِنَّكُمْ إِنْ لَمْ تَحْفَظُوا وَصِيَّتِي فِيهِ وَ تُؤْوُوهُ وَ تَنْصُرُوهُ اخْتَلَفْتُمْ فِي أَحْكَامِكُمْ وَ اضْطَرَبَ عَلَيْكُمْ أَمْرُ دِينِكُمْ وَ وَلِيَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْأَمْرَ شِرَارُكُمْ

Indeed! Aliasws is your Emir (ruler) from after mesaww, and mysaww caliph among you. Mysaww Lordazwj and your Lordazwj has Bequeathed to mesaww with that, and if you do not preserve mysaww bequest regarding himasws, and (do not) shelter himasws and help himasws, you will differ in your decisions, and the matters of your Religion would be wavering upon you, and your most evil ones would rule upon you.

أَلَا وَ إِنَّ أَهْلَ بَيْتِي هُمُ الْوَارِثُونَ أَمْرِي الْقَائِمُونَ بِأَمْرِ أُمَّتِي اللَّهُمَّ فَمَنْ حَفِظَ فِيهِمْ وَصِيَّتِي فَاحْشُرْهُ فِي زُمْرَتِي وَ اجْعَلْ لَهُ مِنْ مُرَافَقَتِي نَصِيباً يُدْرِكُ بِهِ فَوْزَ الْآخِرَةِ

Indeed! And surely Peopleasws of mysaww Household, theyasws are the inheritors of mysaww command, the ones standing with the command of mysaww community. O Allahazwj! The one who preserves mysaww bequest regarding themasws, Resurrect him in mysaww group, and Make a share to be for him from mysaww friends, coming across the success of the Hereafter by it.

اللَّهُمَّ وَ مَنْ أَسَاءَ خِلَافَتِي فِي أَهْلِ بَيْتِي فَاحْرِمْهُ الْجَنَّةَ الَّتِي‏ عَرْضُهَا السَّماواتُ‏ وَ الْأَرْضُ‏

O Allahazwj! And the one who spoils mysaww caliphate regarding Peopleasws of mysaww Household, Deprive him the Paradise, the width of it is as the skies and the earth’’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ اسْكُتْ يَا خَالِدُ فَلَسْتَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الشُّورَى وَ لَا مِمَّنْ يُرْضَى بِقَوْلِهِ

Umar Bin Al-Khattab said: ‘Be quiet, O Khalid, for you aren’t from the people to be consulted nor from the ones (with whom) one can be pleased with his words!’

فَقَالَ خَالِدٌ بَلْ اسْكُتْ أَنْتَ يَا ابْنَ الْخَطَّابِ فَوَ اللَّهِ إِنَّكَ لَتَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ لَتَنْطِقُ بِغَيْرِ لِسَانِكَ وَ تَعْتَصِمُ بِغَيْرِ أَرْكَانِكَ وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ قُرَيْشاً لَتَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ أَلْأَمُهَا حَسَباً وَ أَقَلُّهَا أَدَباً وَ أَخْمَلُهَا ذِكْراً وَ أَقَلُّهَا غَنَاءً عَنِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ عَنْ رَسُولِهِ وَ إِنَّكَ لَجَبَانٌ عِنْدَ الْحَرْبِ بَخِيلٌ فِي الْجَدْبِ لَئِيمُ الْعُنْصُرِ مَا لَكَ فِي قُرَيْشٍ مَفْخَرٌ قَالَ فَأَسْكَتَهُ خَالِدٌ فَجَلَسَ

Khalid said, ‘But you keep quiet O son of Al-Khattab! By Allahazwj! You know that you are speaking with another tongue, and you are hanging without your support. By Allahazwj! Quraysh know that you are its general one of affiliations, and least of it in etiquettes, and idlest of it of mention, and lowest of it in praise from Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic and from Hisazwj Rasoolsaww. You are a coward during the war, stingy during the famine, poorest of the descent. There is no matter of pride for you among Quraysh’. Khalid silenced him and he sat down.

ثُمَّ قَامَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ رَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ بَعْدَ أَنْ حَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَ أَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ أَمَّا بَعْدُ يَا مَعَاشِرَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتُمْ وَ عَلِمَ خِيَارُكُمْ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ الْأَمْرُ لِعَلِيٍّ ع بَعْدِي ثُمَّ لِلْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ ثُمَّ فِي أَهْلِ بَيْتِي مِنْ وُلْدِ الْحُسَيْنِ ع

Then Abu Zarrra stood up and said after having praised Allahazwj and extolling upon Himazwj, ‘As for after, O community of the Emigrants and the Helpers! You have known, and your good ones have known that Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘The command is for Aliasws after mesaww, then for Al-Hassanasws, and Al-Husaynasws, then in the Peopleasws of mysaww Household from the sonsasws of Al-Husaynasws’.

فَاطَّرَحْتُمْ قَوْلَ نَبِيِّكُمْ وَ تَنَاسَيْتُمْ مَا أَوْعَزَ إِلَيْكُمْ وَ اتَّبَعْتُمُ الدُّنْيَا وَ تَرَكْتُمْ نَعِيمَ الْآخِرَةِ الْبَاقِيَةِ الَّتِي لَا يُهْدَمُ بُنْيَانُهَا وَ لَا يَزُولُ نَعِيمُهَا وَ لَا يَحْزَنُ أَهْلُهَا وَ لَا يَمُوتُ سُكَّانُهَا

But you rejected the words of your Prophetsaww, and you forgot what hesaww had advised to you and (instead) pursued the world, and you neglected the everlasting bounties of the Hereafter which neither is buildings get destroyed, nor do its bounties decline, nor do its inhabitants grieve, nor do its dwellers die.

وَ كَذَلِكَ الْأُمَمُ الَّتِي كَفَرَتْ بَعْدَ أَنْبِيَائِهَا فَبَدَّلَتْ وَ غَيَّرَتْ فَحَاذَيْتُمُوهَا حَذْوَ الْقُذَّةِ بِالْقُذَّةِ وَ النَّعْلِ بِالنَّعْلِ فَعَمَّا قَلِيلٍ تَذُوقُونَ وَبَالَ أَمْرِكُمْ وَ مَا اللَّهُ‏ بِظَلَّامٍ لِلْعَبِيدِ

And like that is how were the communities which disbelieved after their Prophetsas. They replaced, and changed, so you did the same as them, same as the arrow with the arrow (in a quiver), and the slipper with the slipper. After a little while you will be tasting the evil results of your affairs, and Allahazwj is not the least unjust to the servants’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ سَلْمَانُ الْفَارِسِيُّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ‏ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ إِلَى مَنْ تُسْنِدُ أَمْرَكَ إِذَا نَزَلَ بِكَ الْقَضَاءُ وَ إِلَى مَنْ تَفْزَعُ إِذَا سُئِلْتَ عَمَّا لَا تَعْلَمُ وَ فِي الْقَوْمِ مَنْ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ مِنْكَ وَ أَكْثَرُ فِي الْخَيْرِ أَعْلَاماً وَ مَنَاقِبَ مِنْكَ وَ أَقْرَبُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص قَرَابَةً وَ قِدْمَةً فِي حَيَاتِهِ

The Salman Al-Farsira stood up and said, ‘O Abu Bakr! To whom will you to back up your matter when there befalls with you the decree, and to whom will you panic when you are asked about what you don’t know while there is among the people someone who is more knowledgeable than you are, and more in the good signs and virtues than you, and closer to Rasool-Allahsaww in kinship and advanced during hissaww lifetime.

وَ قَدْ أَوْعَزَ إِلَيْكُمْ فَتَرَكْتُمْ قَوْلَهُ وَ تَنَاسَيْتُمْ وَصِيَّتَهُ فَعَمَّا قَلِيلٍ يَصْفُو لَكَ الْأَمْرُ حِينَ تَزُورُ الْقُبُورَ وَ قَدْ أَثْقَلْتَ ظَهْرَكَ مِنَ الْأَوْزَارِ لَوْ حُمِلْتَ إِلَى قَبْرِكَ لَقَدِمْتَ عَلَى مَا قَدَّمْتَ

And hesaww had advised to you but you neglected hissaww words and forgot hissaww bequest. After a little while it would become clear to you when you visit the graves, and your back would be heavy from the burdens, if these were to be carried to your grave, sending ahead on top of what you have already sent ahead.

فَلَوْ رَاجَعْتَ الْحَقَّ وَ أَنْصَفْتَ أَهْلَهُ لَكَانَ ذَلِكَ نَجَاةً لَكَ يَوْمَ تَحْتَاجُ إِلَى عَمَلِكَ وَ تَفَرَّدُ فِي حُفْرَتِكَ بِذُنُوبِكَ وَ قَدْ سَمِعْتَ كَمَا سَمِعْنَا وَ رَأَيْتَ كَمَا رَأَيْنَا فَلَمْ يَرْدَعْكَ ذَلِكَ عَمَّا أَنْتَ لَهُ فَاعِلٌ فَاللَّهَ اللَّهَ فِي نَفْسِكَ فَقَدْ أَعْذَرَ مَنْ أَنْذَرَ

If only you would return the right and be fair to its people, that would be a salvation for you on the day you will be needy to your deeds, and will be alone with your deeds in your grave, and you have heard as what we heard, and you have seen what we saw, but that did not deter you from what you are doing for it. So, Allahazwj, Allahazwj regarding yourself - for he may be excused, one who is warned’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ الْمِقْدَادُ بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِ ره فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ ارْبَعْ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ وَ قِسْ شِبْرَكَ بِفِتْرِكَ وَ الْزَمْ بَيْتَكَ وَ ابْكِ عَلَى خَطِيئَتِكَ فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ أَسْلَمُ لَكَ فِي حَيَاتِكَ وَ مَمَاتِكَ وَ رُدَّ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ إِلَى حَيْثُ جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ رَسُولُهُ ص وَ لَا تَرْكَنْ إِلَى الدُّنْيَا وَ لَا يَغُرَّنَّكَ مَنْ قَدْ تَرَى مِنْ أَوْغَادِهَا

Then Al-Miqdad Bin Al-Aswadra stood up and said, ‘O Abu Bakr! Sit square-legged by yourself, and hold your legs with your palms, and cry upon your mistake, for that would be safer for you during your lifetime and your death, and return this command to where Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww had made it to be, and do not incline to the world, nor let it deceive you, one you have seen to be from its scoundrels (villain).

فَعَمَّا قَلِيلٍ تَضْمَحِلُّ دُنْيَاكَ ثُمَّ تَصِيرُ إِلَى رَبِّكَ فَيَجْزِيكَ بِعَمَلِكَ وَ قَدْ عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ لِعَلِيٍّ وَ هُوَ صَاحِبُهُ بَعْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَدْ نَصَحْتُكَ إِنْ قَبِلْتَ نُصْحِي

After a little while your world will disappear, then you will come to your Lordazwj, and Heazwj will Recompense you for your deeds, and you have known that this command is for Aliasws, and heasws is its (rightful) owner after Rasool-Allahsaww, and I have advised you, if you accept my advice’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ بُرَيْدَةُ الْأَسْلَمِيُّ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ نَسِيتَ أَمْ تَنَاسَيْتَ أَمْ خَادَعَتْكَ نَفْسُكَ أَ مَا تَذْكُرُ إِذْ أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَسَلَّمْنَا عَلَى عَلِيٍّ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ نَبِيُّنَا بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِنَا

Then Bureyda Al-Aslami stood up and said, ‘O Abu Bakr! Have you forgotten or pretending to forget, or are you deceiving yourself? Don’t you remember when Rasool-Allahsaww had ordered us, so we greeted unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’ and our Prophetsaww was in our midst?

فَاتَّقِ اللَّهَ رَبَّكَ وَ أَدْرِكْ نَفْسَكَ قَبْلَ أَنْ لَا تُدْرِكَهَا وَ أَنْقِذْهَا مِنْ هَلَكَتِهَا وَ دَعْ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ وَ كِلْهُ إِلَى مَنْ هُوَ أَحَقُّ بِهِ مِنْكَ وَ لَا تَمَادَ فِي غَيِّكَ وَ ارْجِعْ وَ أَنْتَ تَسْتَطِيعُ الرُّجُوعَ وَ قَدْ مَنَحْتُكَ نُصْحِي وَ بَذَلْتُ لَكَ مَا عِنْدِي وَ إِنْ قَبِلْتَ وُفِّقْتَ وَ رَشَدْتَ

Fear Allahazwj and rectify yourself before you cannot rectify, and save it from its destruction, and leave this command, and allocate it to the oneasws who is more rightful with it than you are, and do not continue in your error and return while you are able to return, and I have given you my advice, and exerted for you whatever was with me, and if you accept, you will harmonise and be rightly guided’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ فَقَالَ يَا مَعْشَرَ قُرَيْشٍ قَدْ عَلِمْتُمْ وَ عَلِمَ خِيَارُكُمْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ بَيْتِ نَبِيِّكُمْ أَقْرَبُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص مِنْكُمْ وَ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ إِنَّمَا تَدَّعُونَ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ بِقَرَابَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ تَقُولُونَ إِنَّ السَّابِقَةَ لَنَا

Then Abdullah Bin Masoud stood up and said, ‘O community of Quraysh! You have known, and your good ones know that Peopleasws of the Household of your Prophetsaww are closer to Rasool-Allahsaww than you are, and even though you are claiming this command based on the kinship of Rasool-Allahsaww and are saying that you have precedence to us.

فَأَهْلُ بَيْتِ نَبِيِّكُمْ أَقْرَبُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص مِنْكُمْ وَ أَقْدَمُ سَابِقَةً مِنْكُمْ وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ صَاحِبُ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّكُمْ فَأَعْطُوهُ مَا جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ لَهُ وَ لَا تَرْتَدُّوا عَلَى أَعْقَابِكُمْ‏ فَتَنْقَلِبُوا خاسِرِينَ‏

The Peopleasws of the Household of your Prophetsaww are closer to Rasool-Allahsaww than you are, and of more ancient precedence than you and (for) Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws is this command after your Prophetsaww, so give himasws what Allahazwj has Made to be for himasws, and do not turn back upon your heels, for you will overturn to be losers’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ عَمَّارُ بْنُ يَاسِرٍ ره فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ لَا تَجْعَلْ لِنَفْسِكَ حَقّاً جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لِغَيْرِكَ وَ لَا تَكُنْ أَوَّلَ مَنْ عَصَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ خَالَفَهُ فِي أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ وَ ارْدُدِ الْحَقَّ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ يَخِفُّ ظَهْرُكَ وَ يَقِلُّ وِزْرُكَ وَ تَلْقَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ هُوَ عَنْكَ رَاضٍ ثُمَّ تَصِيرُ إِلَى الرَّحْمَنِ فَيُحَاسِبُكَ بِعَمَلِكَ وَ يَسْأَلُكَ عَمَّا فَعَلْتَ

Then Ammar Bin Yasser stood up and said, ‘O Abu Bakr! Do not make a right to be for yourself which Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic has Made it to be for someone else, and do not become the first one to have disobeyed Rasool-Allahsaww and opposed himsaww regarding Peopleasws of hissaww Household, and return the right to its rightful ones, lighten your back and reduce your burden, and meet Rasool-Allahazwj and hesaww being pleased about you, then you will come to the Beneficent and Heazwj will Reckon you with your deeds and Question you about what you did’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ خُزَيْمَةُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ ذُو الشَّهَادَتَيْنِ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ أَ لَسْتَ تَعْلَمُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَبِلَ شَهَادَتِي وَحْدِي وَ لَمْ يُرِدْ مَعِي غَيْرِي قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَ فَأَشْهَدُ بِاللَّهِ أَنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ أَهْلُ بَيْتِي يَفْرُقُونَ بَيْنَ الْحَقِّ وَ الْبَاطِلِ وَ هُمُ الْأَئِمَّةُ الَّذِينَ يُقْتَدَى بِهِمْ

Then Khuzeyman Bin Sabit, one with two testimonies, stood up and said, ‘O Abu Bakr! Don’t you know that Rasool-Allahsaww accepted my lone testimony and did not refer to anyone else with me?’ He said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘So, I hereby testify with Allahazwj that I heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Peopleasws of mysaww Household will be distinguishing between the truth and the falsehood, and theyasws are the Imamsasws (for) those ones (who) can be guided by themasws’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ أَبُو الْهَيْثَمِ بْنُ التَّيِّهَانِ فَقَالَ أَنَا أَشْهَدُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ أَنَّهُ أَقَامَ عَلِيّاً فَقَالَتِ الْأَنْصَارُ مَا أَقَامَهُ إِلَّا لِلْخِلَافَةِ وَ قَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ مَا أَقَامَهُ إِلَّا لِيُعْلِمَ النَّاسَ أَنَّهُ وَلِيُّ مَنْ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَوْلَاهُ

Then Abu Al-Haysam Bin Al-Tayhan stood up and said, ‘I testify upon the Prophetsaww that hesaww established Aliasws, so the Helpers said, ‘Heasws did not establish himasws except for the caliphate’. And some of them said, ‘Hesaww did not establish himasws except for the people to know that heasws is a Masterasws of the ones Rasool-Allahsaww was a Mastersaww of’.

فَقَالَ ع إِنَّ أَهْلَ بَيْتِي نُجُومُ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ فَقَدِّمُوهُمْ وَ لَا تَقَدَّمُوهُمْ

Heazwj said: ‘Peopleasws of mysaww Household are stars for the people of the earth, so advance themasws, and do not be ahead of themasws’’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ سَهْلُ بْنُ حُنَيْفٍ فَقَالَ أَشْهَدُ أَنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ إِمَامُكُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع وَ هُوَ أَنْصَحُ النَّاسِ لِأُمَّتِي

Then Sahl Bin Huneyf stood up and said, ‘I testify that I heard Rasool-Allahsaww say upon the pulpit: ‘Your Imamasws from after mesaww is Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, and heasws is the most advising of the people for mysaww community’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ أَبُو أَيُّوبَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ فَقَالَ اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ فِي أَهْلِ بَيْتِ نَبِيِّكُمْ وَ رُدُّوا هَذَا الْأَمْرَ إِلَيْهِمْ فَقَدْ سَمِعْتُمْ كَمَا سَمِعْنَا فِي مَقَامٍ بَعْدَ مَقَامٍ مِنْ نَبِيِّ اللَّهِ ص أَنَّهُمْ أَوْلَى بِهِ مِنْكُمْ ثُمَّ جَلَسَ

Then Abu Ayoub Al-Ansari stood up and said, ‘Fear Allahazwj regarding Peopleasws of the Household of your Prophetsaww and return this command to themasws, for you have heard as what I heard, in place after a place, from the Prophetsaww of Allahazwj: ‘Theyasws are foremost with mesaww than you are!’ Then he sat down.

ثُمَّ قَامَ زَيْدُ بْنُ وَهْبٍ‏ فَتَكَلَّمَ وَ قَامَ جَمَاعَةٌ بَعْدَهُ فَتَكَلَّمُوا بِنَحْوِ هَذَا

Then Zayd Bin Wahab stood up and spoke, and a group stood up afterwards and they spoke with the approximate of this.

فَأَخْبَرَ الثِّقَةُ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ جَلَسَ فِي بَيْتِهِ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ فَلَمَّا كَانَ الْيَوْمُ الثَّالِثُ أَتَاهُ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ وَ طَلْحَةُ وَ الزُّبَيْرُ وَ عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَ وَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَوْفٍ وَ سَعْدُ بْنُ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ مَعَ كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ عَشَرَةُ رِجَالٍ مِنْ عَشَائِرِهِمْ شَاهِرِينَ لِلسُّيُوفِ فَأَخْرَجُوهُ مِنْ مَنْزِلِهِ وَ عَلَا الْمِنْبَرَ

The reliable ones from the companions of Rasool-Allahsaww have informed that Abu Bakr sat in his house for three days. When it was the third day, there came to him Umar Bin Al-Khattab, and Talha, and Al-Zubeyr, and Usman Bin Affan, and Abdul Rahman Bin Awf, and Sa’ad Bin Abu Waqqas, and Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah. With each one of them there were ten men of their clan, having unsheathed their swords, and they brought him out from his house and (seated him) upon the pulpit.

فَقَالَ قَائِلٌ مِنْهُمْ وَ اللَّهِ لَئِنْ عَادَ مِنْكُمْ أَحَدٌ فَتَكَلَّمَ بِمِثْلِ الَّذِي تَكَلَّمَ بِهِ لَنَمْلَأَنَّ أَسْيَافَنَا مِنْهُ‏ فَجَلَسُوا فِي مَنَازِلِهِمْ وَ لَمْ يَتَكَلَّمْ أَحَدٌ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ‏.

A speaker of them said, ‘By Allahazwj! If anyone of you were to repeat and speaks with the like of which he had spoken with, we shall fill our swords from him’. So, they said in their houses and no one spoke after that’’.⁹⁵

8 شف، كشف اليقين فيما نذكره عن أحمد بن محمد الطبري المعروف بالخليلي من رواتهم و رجالهم‏ فيما رواه من إنكار اثني عشر نفسا على أبي بكر بصريح مقالهم عقيب ولايته على المسلمين و ما ذكره بعضهم بما عرف من رسول الله ص أَنَّ عَلِيّاً أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ

(The book) ‘Kashf Al-Yaqeen’ – Among what we mention from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Al-Tabari, famous as Al-Khaleeli, from their reporters and their men, in what he reported of the denial of the twelve persons upon Abu Bakr, their frank words, commenting on his governance upon the Muslims, and what some of them mentioned with what they knew from Rasool-Allahsaww that Aliasws is ‘Amir Al-Momineen’.

و رواه أيضا محمد بن جرير الطبري صاحب التاريخ في كتاب مناقب أهل البيت ع و يزيد بعضهم على بعض في روايته

And it is reported as well by Muhammad Bin Jareer Al-Tabari, author of Al-Tareekh (The history), in the book of virtues of Peopleasws of the Household, and some of them have increased upon other in its reporting.

فقال أحمد بن محمد الطبري ما هذا لفظه خبر الاثني عشر الذين أنكروا على أبي بكر جلوسه في مجلس رسول الله ص- و لنذكر بعد ذلك تتمة رواية السيد للاختلاف الكثير بين الروايتين و هو هكذا.

Ahmad Bin Muhammad Al-Tabari said, ‘These are not the words of the news of the twelve, those who denied upon Abu Bakr of his sitting in the seat of Rasool-Allahsaww, and let us mention after that, the complete report of the seyyid, of the numerous differing between the reports, and it is like this: -

ثُمَّ قَامَ عَمَّارُ بْنُ يَاسِرٍ فَقَالَ مَعَاشِرَ قُرَيْشٍ هَلْ عَلِمْتُمْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ بَيْتِ نَبِيِّكُمْ أَحَقُّ بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ فَمُرُوا صَاحِبَكُمْ فَلْيَرُدَّ الْحَقَّ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَضْطَرِبَ حَبْلُكُمْ وَ يَضْعُفَ مَسْلَكُكُمْ وَ تَخْتَلِفُوا فِيمَا بَيْنَكُمْ

‘Then Ammar Bin Yasser stood up and said, ‘Community of Quraysh! Do you know that Peopleasws of the Household of your Prophetsaww are more rightful of this command than you! So, instruct your companion and let him return the right to its rightful ones before your ropes are disrupted and your ways are weakened, and you differ regarding what is between you.

فَقَدْ عَلِمْتُمْ أَنَّ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ أَوْلَى بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ وَ أَقْرَبُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ إِنْ قُلْتُمْ إِنَّ السَّابِقَةَ لَنَا فَأَهْلُ بَيْتِ نَبِيِّكُمْ أَقْدَمُ مِنْكُمْ سَابِقَةً وَ أَعْظَمُ غَنَاءً مِنْ صَاحِبِهِمْ وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ صَاحِبُ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ مِنْ بَعْدِ نَبِيِّكُمْ فَأَعْطُوهُ مَا جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ لَهُ‏ وَ لا تَرْتَدُّوا عَلى‏ أَدْبارِكُمْ فَتَنْقَلِبُوا خاسِرِينَ‏

You have known that the Clan of Hashimasws are foremost with this command than you are, and closer to Rasool-Allahsaww. And if you are saying that the preceding is for us, so the Peopleasws of the Household of your Prophetsaww are more ancient than you of preceding, and of greater praise than their companion, and Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws is the one for this command from after your Prophetsaww, so give himasws what Allahazwj has Made to be for himasws, and turn not on your backs for then you will be turning back as losers [5:21]’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ سَهْلُ بْنُ حُنَيْفٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ لَا تَجْحَدْ حَقّاً مَا جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ لَكَ وَ لَا تَكُنْ أَوَّلَ مَنْ عَصَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فِي أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ وَ أَدِّ الْحَقَّ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ يَخَفَّ ظَهْرُكَ وَ يَقِلَّ وِزْرُكَ وَ تَلْقَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ رَاضِياً وَ لَا تَخْتَصَّ بِهِ نَفْسَكَ

Then Sahl Bin Huneyf Al-Ansari stood up and said, ‘O Abu Bakr! Do not fight for a right what Allahazwj has not Made to be for you, and do not become the first one to have disobeyed Rasool-Allahsaww regarding Peopleasws of hissaww Household, and return the right to its rightful one, lighten your back and reduce your burden, and meet Rasool-Allahsaww with pleasure and do not specialise yourself with it.

فَعَمَّا قَلِيلٍ يَنْقَضِي عَنْكَ مَا أَنْتَ فِيهِ ثُمَّ تَصِيرُ إِلَى الْمَلِكِ الرَّحْمَنِ فَيُحَاسِبُكَ بِعَمَلِكَ وَ يَسْأَلُكَ عَمَّا جِئْتَ لَهُ وَ مَا اللَّهُ‏ بِظَلَّامٍ لِلْعَبِيدِ

After a little while it will elapse from you what you are in, then you will come to the King, the Beneficent, and Heazwj will Reckon you and Question you about what you had come with, and Allahazwj is not the least unjust to the servants’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ خُزَيْمَةُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ ذُو الشَّهَادَتَيْنِ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ أَ لَسْتَ تَعْلَمُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَبِلَ شَهَادَتِي وَحْدِي وَ لَمْ يُرِدْ مَعِي غَيْرِي قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَ فَأَشْهَدُ بِاللَّهِ أَنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ عَلِيٌّ إِمَامُكُمْ بَعْدِي.

Then Khuzeyma Bin Sabit, one with two testimonies, stood up and said, ‘O Abu Bakr! Don’t you know that Rasool-Allahsaww accepted my lone testimony and did not want anyone else with me?’ He said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘So I hereby testify with Allahazwj that I heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Aliasws is your Imamasws after mesaww’’.

قَالَ وَ قَامَ أُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ فَقَالَ أَشْهَدُ أَنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ‏ ص يَقُولُ: أَهْلُ بَيْتِي يَفْرُقُونَ بَيْنَ الْحَقِّ وَ الْبَاطِلِ وَ هُمُ الْأَئِمَّةُ الَّذِينَ يُقْتَدَى بِهِمْ:

He (the narrator) said, ‘And Ubayy Bin Ka’ab Al-Ansari and said, ‘I testify that I heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Peopleasws of mysaww Household distinguish between the truth and the falsehood, and theyasws are the Imamsasws, those one can be guided with’’.

وَ قَامَ أَبُو الْهَيْثَمِ بْنُ التَّيِّهَانِ فَقَالَ: وَ أَنَا أَشْهَدُ عَلَى نَبِيِّنَا مُحَمَّدٍ ص أَنَّهُ أَقَامَ عَلِيّاً لِنُسَلِّمَ لَهُ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ مَا أَقَامَهُ إِلَّا لِلْخِلَافَةِ وَ قَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ مَا أَقَامَهُ إِلَّا لِيُعْلِمَ النَّاسَ أَنَّهُ مَوْلَى مَنْ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَوْلَاهُ

And Abu Al-Haysam Bin Al-Tayhan stood up and said, ‘And I testify upon our Prophetsaww Muhammadsaww that hesaww established Aliasws for us to greet to himasws. Some of them said, ‘Hesaww did not establish himasws except for the caliphate’, and some of them said, ‘Hesaww did not establish himasws except for the people to know that heasws is the Masterasws of the ones Rasoolsaww was a Mastersaww of’.

فَتَشَاجَرُوا فِي ذَلِكَ فَبَعَثُوا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص رَجُلًا يَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص هُوَ وَلِيُّكُمْ بَعْدِي وَ أَنْصَحُ النَّاسِ لَكُمْ بَعْدَ وَفَاتِي:

They quarrelled regarding that and they sent a man to Rasool-Allahazwj to ask himsaww about that. Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Heasws is your ruler after mesaww, and the most advising of the people for you after mysaww expiry’.

وَ قَامَ عُثْمَانُ بْنُ حُنَيْفٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ فَقَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ: أَهْلُ بَيْتِي نُجُومُ الْأَرْضِ وَ نُورُ الْأَرْضِ فَلَا تَقَدَّمُوهُمْ وَ قَدِّمُوهُمْ فَهُمُ الْوُلَاةُ بَعْدِي فَقَامَ إِلَيْهِ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَيُّ أَهْلِ بَيْتِكَ أَوْلَى بِذَلِكَ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ وَ وُلْدُهُ

And Usman Bin Huneyf Al-Ansari stood up and said, ‘I heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Peopleasws of mysaww Household are stars of the earth and Noor of the earth, so do not precede themasws, and advance themasws, for theyasws are the rulers after mesaww’. So a man stood up to himsaww and said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww, and which people of yoursaww Household are foremost with that?’ Hesaww said: ‘Aliasws and hisasws sonsasws’.

وَ قَامَ أَبُو أَيُّوبَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ فَقَالَ اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ فِي أَهْلِ بَيْتِ نَبِيِّكُمْ وَ رُدُّوا إِلَيْهِمْ حَقَّهُمُ الَّذِي جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ لَهُمْ فَقَدْ سَمِعْنَا مِثْلَ مَا سَمِعَ إِخْوَانُنَا فِي مَقَامٍ بَعْدَ مَقَامٍ لِنَبِيِّنَا ص وَ مَجْلِسٍ بَعْدَ مَجْلِسٍ يَقُولُ أَهْلُ بَيْتِي أَئِمَّتُكُمْ بَعْدِي.

And Abu Ayoub Al-Ansari stood up and said, ‘Fear Allahazwj regarding Peopleasws of mysaww Household, and return theirasws right to themasws, what which Allahazwj has Made to be for themasws, for I have heard similar to what our brothers have heard, in place after place of our Prophetsaww, and gathering after gathering, saying: ‘Peopleasws of mysaww Household are your Imamsasws after mesaww’’.

قَالَ فَجَلَسَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فِي بَيْتِهِ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ فَأَتَاهُ عُمَرُ وَ عُثْمَانُ وَ طَلْحَةُ وَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَوْفٍ وَ سَعْدُ بْنُ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ وَ سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ نُفَيْلٍ فَأَتَاهُ كُلٌّ مِنْهُمْ مُتَسَلِّحاً فِي قَوْمِهِ حَتَّى أَخْرَجُوهُ مِنْ بَيْتِهِ ثُمَّ أَصْعَدُوهُ الْمِنْبَرَ وَ قَدْ سَلُّوا سُيُوفَهُمْ

He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Bakr stayed in his house for three days. Then there came to him Umar, and Usman, and Talha, and Abdul Rahman Bin Awf, and Sa’ad Bin Abu Waqqas, and Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah, and Saeed Bin Amro bin Nufeyl. Each one of them came to him armed among his own people until they brought him out from his house, then made him ascend the pulpit, and they had unsheathed their swords.

فَقَالَ قَائِلٌ مِنْهُمْ وَ اللَّهِ لَئِنْ عَادَ أَحَدٌ مِنْكُمْ بِمِثْلِ مَا تَكَلَّمَ بِهِ رَعَاعٌ مِنْكُمْ بِالْأَمْسِ لَنَمْلَأَنَّ سُيُوفَنَا مِنْهُ فَأَحْجَمَ وَ اللَّهِ الْقَوْمُ وَ كَرِهُوا الْمَوْتَ.

A speaker from them said, ‘By Allahazwj! If anyone of you were to repeat with the like of what the riffraff from you had spoken with yesterday, we will fill our swords from him’. By Allahazwj! The people refrained, and they disliked the death’’.⁹⁶

9- فس، تفسير القمي أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ النُّعْمَانِ عَنِ ابْنِ مُسْكَانَ عَنْ مُيَسِّرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: قُلْتُ‏ ظَهَرَ الْفَسادُ فِي الْبَرِّ وَ الْبَحْرِ بِما كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِي النَّاسِ‏ قَالَ ذَلِكَ وَ اللَّهِ يَوْمَ قَالَتِ الْأَنْصَارُ مِنَّا أَمِيرٌ وَ مِنْكُمْ أَمِيرٌ.

Tafseer Al Qummi – Ahmad Bin Idrees, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Numan, from Ibn Muskan, from Muyassir,

‘From Abu Ja’farasws, he (the narrator) said, I said, ‘Corruption has appeared in the land and the sea due to what the hands of the people have earned [30:41], heasws said: ‘By Allahazwj, that was when the Helpers said, ‘There should be an Emir (ruler) from us and an Emir from you (Emigrants)’, (referring to the event of Saqifa)’’.⁹⁷

10- ختص، الإختصاص ير، بصائر الدرجات أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ رَبِيعِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْمُسْلِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: لَمَّا أُخْرِجَ بِعَلِيٍّ ع مُلَبَّباً وَقَفَ عِنْدَ قَبْرِ النَّبِيِّ ص قَالَ يَا ابْنَ أُمَّ إِنَّ الْقَوْمَ اسْتَضْعَفُونِي وَ كادُوا يَقْتُلُونَنِي‏

(The books) ‘Al Ikhtisaas’ (and) ‘Basaair Al Darajaat’ – Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Rabie Bin Muhammad, from Al Musly, from Abdullah Bin Suleyman,

‘From Abu Abdullahasws having said: ‘When Aliasws was brought out cloaked (covered in cloth as a captive), heasws paused by the grave of the Prophetsaww. Heasws said: ‘Son of my mother! Surely the people weakened me and they almost killed me, [7:150]’.

قَالَ فَخَرَجَتْ يَدٌ مِنْ قَبْرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص يَعْرِفُونَ أَنَّهَا يَدُهُ وَ صَوْتٌ يَعْرِفُونَ أَنَّهُ صَوْتُهُ نَحْوَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ يَا هَذَا أَ كَفَرْتَ بِالَّذِي خَلَقَكَ مِنْ تُرابٍ ثُمَّ مِنْ نُطْفَةٍ ثُمَّ سَوَّاكَ رَجُلًا.

Heasws said: ‘A hand emerged from the grave of Rasool-Allahsaww, they recognised that it was a hand of Rasool-Allahsaww and recognised that it was hissaww voice, (gesturing) around Abu Bakr: ‘O you! ‘Are you committing Kufr with the One Who Created you from dust, then from a seed, then Completed you as a man? [18:37]’’.⁹⁸

11- ير، بصائر الدرجات عَبْدُ اللَّهِ [بْنُ‏] مُحَمَّدٍ يَرْفَعُهُ بِإِسْنَادٍ لَهُ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: لَمَّا اسْتُخْلِفَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَقْبَلَ عُمَرُ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع فَقَالَ أَ مَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ قَدِ اسْتُخْلِفَ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَمَنْ جَعَلَهُ كَذَلِكَ قَالَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ رَضُوا بِذَلِكَ

(The book) ‘Basaair Al Darajaat’ – Abdullah Bin Muhammad raising it, by a chain of his to,

‘Abu Abdullahasws having said: ‘When Abu Bakr became caliph, Umar came to Aliasws and said, ‘Do youasws not know that Abu Bakr has become caliph?’ Aliasws said: ‘So who made him to be like that?’ He said, ‘The Muslims are pleased with that’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ اللَّهِ لَأَسْرَعَ مَا خَالَفُوا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ نَقَضُوا عَهْدَهُ وَ لَقَدْ سَمَّوْهُ بِغَيْرِ اسْمِهِ وَ اللَّهِ مَا اسْتَخْلَفَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص

Aliasws said: ‘By Allahazwj! How quickly they opposed Rasool-Allahsaww and broke hissaww pact, and they have named him with other than his (rightful) name (Amir Al-Momineen). By Allahazwj! Rasool-Allahsaww had not made him the caliph’.

‏ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ كَذَبْتَ فَعَلَ اللَّهُ بِكَ وَ فَعَلَ فَقَالَ‏ عَلِيٌّ ع إِنْ شِئْتَ أَنْ أُرِيَكَ بُرْهَاناً عَلَى ذَلِكَ فَعَلْتُ فَقَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ مَا تَزَالُ تَكْذِبُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فِي حَيَاتِهِ وَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهِ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع انْطَلِقْ بِنَا لِنَعْلَمَ أَيُّنَا الْكَذَّابُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فِي حَيَاتِهِ وَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهِ

Umar said, ‘Youasws are lying! Allahazwj Dealt with youasws and dealt’. Aliasws said: ‘If you like measws to show you a proof upon that, Iasws will do so’. Umar said to himasws, ‘Youasws have not ceased lying upon Rasool-Allahsaww during hissaww lifetime and after hissaww death’. Come with usasws to know which of us is the liar upon Rasool-Allahsaww during hissaww lifetime and after hissaww expiry’.

فَانْطَلَقَ مَعَهُ حَتَّى أَتَى إِلَى الْقَبْرِ فَإِذَا كَفٌّ فِيهَا مَكْتُوبٌ‏ أَ كَفَرْتَ‏ يَا عُمَرُ بِالَّذِي خَلَقَكَ مِنْ تُرابٍ ثُمَّ مِنْ نُطْفَةٍ ثُمَّ سَوَّاكَ رَجُلًا فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع أَ رَضِيتَ وَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ جَحَدْتَ اللَّهَ فِي حَيَاتِهِ وَ بَعْدَ وَفَاتِهِ‏.

Heasws went with him until heasws came to the grave, and there was a palm wherein was inscribed, ‘Are you committing Kufr – O Umar - with the One Who Created you from dust, then from a seed, then Completed you as a man? [18:37]’. Aliasws said to him: ‘Do you agree? By Allahazwj! You had rejected Allahazwj during hissaww lifetime and after hissaww expiry’’.⁹⁹

12- شف، كشف اليقين مِنْ أَصْلٍ عَتِيقٍ مِنْ رِوَايَةِ الْمُخَالِفِينَ بِإِسْنَادِهِ قَالَ: ثُمَّ قَامَ بُرَيْدَةُ الْأَسْلَمِيُّ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ أَ تَنَاسَيْتَ أَمْ تَعَاشَيْتَ أَمْ خَادَعَتْكَ نَفْسُكَ أَ مَا تَذْكُرُ إِذْ أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ فَسَلَّمْنَا عَلَى عَلِيٍّ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ هُوَ بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِنَا

(The book) ‘Kashf Al Yaqeen’ – From an ancient origin, from the reports of the adversaries, by his chain, said,

‘Then Bureyda Al-Aslami stood up and said, ‘O Abu Bakr! Are you pretending to forget or trying to live, or deceiving yourself? Don’t you remember that Rasool-Allahsaww had ordered and we greeted unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’, and hesaww was in our midst?

فَاتَّقِ اللَّهَ وَ تَدَارَكْ نَفْسَكَ قَبْلَ أَنْ لَا تُدْرِكَهَا وَ أَنْقِذْهَا مِنْ هَلَكَتِهَا وَ ادْفَعْ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ إِلَى مَنْ هُوَ أَحَقُّ بِهِ مِنْكَ مِنْ أَهْلِهِ وَ لَا تَمَادَ فِي اغْتِصَابِهِ وَ ارْجِعْ وَ أَنْتَ تَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ تَرْجِعَ فَقَدْ مَحَضْتُ نَصِيحَتَكَ وَ بَذَلْتُ لَكَ مَا عِنْدِي مَا إِنْ فَعَلْتَهُ وُفِّقْتَ وَ رَشَدْتَ‏.

Fear Allahazwj and rectify yourself before you cannot rectify it anymore, and save it from its destruction, and hand over this command to the one who is more rightful with it than you are, from its rightful ones, and do not continue in your usurpation, and return while you are able to return. I have advised you and exerted for you what was with me what, if you were to do it, you will harmonise and be rightly guided’’.¹⁰⁰

13- شف، كشف اليقين مِنْ أَصْلٍ عَتِيقٍ مِنْ رِوَايَةِ الْمُخَالِفِينَ بِإِسْنَادِهِ‏ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ‏ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ع قَالَ: لَمَّا خَطَبَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ قَامَ أُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍ يَوْمَ جُمُعَةٍ وَ كَانَ أَوَّلَ يَوْمٍ مِنْ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ فَقَالَ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ الَّذِينَ هَاجَرُوا وَ اتَّبَعُوا مَرْضَاةَ الرَّحْمَنِ وَ أَثْنَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ فِي الْقُرْآنِ وَ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْأَنْصَارِ الَّذِينَ تَبَوَّؤُا الدَّارَ وَ الْإِيمانَ‏ وَ أَثْنَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ فِي الْقُرْآنِ

(The book) ‘Kashf Al Yaqeen’, from an ancient origin, from reports of the adversaries, by his chain from Yahya Bin Abdullah Bin Al Hassan, from his father, from his grandfather,

‘From Aliasws having said: ‘When Abu Bakr addressed on the day of Friday, Ubay Bin Ka’ab stood up, and it was the first day from the Month of Ramazan, and he said, ‘O community of Emigrants, those who emigrated and pursued the Pleasure of the beneficent, and Allahazwj Praised upon them in the Quran! And O community of Helpers, And those who had the home (in Al-Medina), and had the Eman [59:9], and Allahazwj Praised upon them.

تَنَاسَيْتُمْ أَمْ نَسِيتُمْ أَمْ بَدَّلْتُمْ أَمْ غَيَّرْتُمْ أَمْ خَذَلْتُمْ أَمْ عَجَّزْتُمْ أَ لَسْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَامَ فِينَا مَقَاماً أَقَامَ ص لَنَا عَلِيّاً فَقَالَ مَنْ كُنْتُ مَوْلَاهُ فَعَلِيٌّ مَوْلَاهُ وَ مَنْ كُنْتُ نَبِيَّهُ فَهَذَا أَمِيرُهُ

Are you all pretending to forget, or you have forgotten, or you have changed, or have forsaken, or are you frustrated? Don’t you know that Rasool-Allahsaww had stood among us in a place hesaww made Aliasws to stand and said: ‘One whose Mastersaww Isaww was, so Aliasws is his Masterasws, and the one whose Prophetsaww Isaww was, so this is his Emir (ruler)!’?

أَ لَسْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ أَنْتَ مِنِّي بِمَنْزِلَةِ هَارُونَ مِنْ مُوسَى طَاعَتُكَ وَاجِبَةٌ عَلَى مَنْ بَعْدِي

Don’t you all know that Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘O Aliasws! Youasws are from mesaww at the status of Harounas from Musaas. Obedience to youasws is obligatory upon the ones after mesaww’?

أَ وَ لَسْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ أُوصِيكُمْ بِأَهْلِ بَيْتِي خَيْراً فَقَدِّمُوهُمْ وَ لَا تَتَقَدَّمُوهُمْ وَ أَمِّرُوهُمْ وَ لَا تَأَمَّرُوا عَلَيْهِمْ

Or don’t you all know that Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Isaww bequeath you all with being good with Peopleasws of mysaww Household, so advance themasws and do not precede themasws, and make themasws rulers and do not be rulers upon them’.

أَ وَ لَسْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ أَهْلُ بَيْتِي الْأَئِمَّةُ مِنْ بَعْدِي

Or don’t you all know that Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Peopleasws of mysaww Household are the Imamsasws from after mesaww’?

أَ وَ لَسْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ أَهْلُ بَيْتِي مَنَارُ الْهُدَى وَ الْمُدِلُّونَ عَلَى اللَّهِ

Or don’t you all know that Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Peopleasws of mysaww Household are minarets of guidance, and the pointers (guides) to Allahazwj’?

أَ وَ لَسْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ أَنْتَ الْهَادِي لِمَنْ ضَلَّ

Or don’t you all know that Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘O Aliasws! Youasws are the guide for the ones who strays’?

أَ وَ لَسْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ الْمُحْيِي لِسُنَّتِي وَ مُعَلِّمُ أُمَّتِي وَ الْقَائِمُ بِحُجَّتِي وَ خَيْرُ مَنْ أُخَلِّفُ بَعْدِي وَ سَيِّدُ أَهْلِ بَيْتِي وَ أَحَبُّ النَّاسِ إِلَيَّ طَاعَتُهُ مِنْ بَعْدِي كَطَاعَتِي عَلَى أُمَّتِي

Or don’t you all know that Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Aliasws is the reviver of mysaww Sunnah and teacher of mysaww community, and the one standing with mysaww Divine Authority, and best of the ones Isaww leave behind after mesaww, and chief of mysaww family members, and the most beloved of the people to mesaww. Obedience to himasws after mesaww is like obedience to mesaww upon mysaww community’?

أَ وَ لَسْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَمْ يُوَلِّ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع أَحَداً مِنْكُمْ وَ وَلَّاهُ فِي كُلِّ غَيْبَةٍ عَلَيْكُمْ

Or don’t you all know that Rasool-Allahsaww did not place anyone from you to be in-charge over Aliasws, and made himasws to be in-charge upon you all during every absence?

أَ وَ لَسْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّهُمَا كَانَا مَنْزِلَتُهُمَا وَاحِداً وَ أَمْرُهُمَا وَاحِداً

Or don’t you all know that both of themasws were such that theirasws status was one, and theirasws matter is one?

أَ وَ لَسْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ إِذَا غِبْتُ عَنْكُمْ وَ خَلَّفْتُ فِيكُمْ عَلِيّاً فَقَدْ خَلَّفْتُ فِيكُمْ رَجُلًا كَنَفْسِي

Or don’t you don’t know that hesaww said: ‘Whenever Isaww am absent from you, and leave behind Aliasws among you, so Isaww have left behind a man like myselfsaww’?

أَ وَ لَسْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهُ جَمَعَنَا قَبْلَ مَوْتِهِ فِي بَيْتِ ابْنَتِهِ فَاطِمَةَ ع فَقَالَ لَنَا إِنَّ اللَّهَ أَوْحَى إِلَى مُوسَى أَنِ اتَّخِذْ أَخاً مِنْ أَهْلِكَ أَجْعَلْهُ نَبِيّاً وَ أَجْعَلْ أَهْلَهُ لَكَ وُلْداً وَ أُطَهِّرْهُمْ مِنَ الْآفَاتِ وَ أَخْلَعْهُمْ مِنَ الذُّنُوبِ

Or don’t you know that Rasool-Allahsaww gathered us before hissaww expiry in the house of hissaww daughterasws (Syeda) Fatimaasws and said to us: ‘Allahazwj Revealed to Musaas: “Take a brother from youras family, Iazwj shall Make himas a Prophetas, and Make hisas family to be children for youasws, Purify them from the scourges, and Vacate them from the sins!”

فَاتَّخَذَ مُوسَى هَارُونَ وَ وُلْدَهُ وَ كَانُوا أَئِمَّةَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ وَ الَّذِينَ يَحِلُّ لَهُمْ فِي مَسَاجِدِهُمْ مَا يَحِلُّ لِمُوسَى

So, Musaas took Harounas and hisas sons, and they were the Imams (leaders) of the children of Israel from after himas, and the ones for whom it was permissible for them in their Masjids what was permissible for Musaas.

أَلَا وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى أَوْحَى إِلَيَّ أَنِ اتَّخِذْ عَلِيّاً أَخاً كَمُوسَى اتَّخَذَ هَارُونَ أَخاً وَ اتَّخِذْهُ وُلْداً فَقَدْ طَهَّرْتُهُمْ كَمَا طَهَّرْتُ وُلْدَ هَارُونَ أَلَا وَ إِنِّي خَتَمْتُ بِكَ النَّبِيِّينَ فَلَا نَبِيَّ بَعْدَكَ فَهُمُ الْأَئِمَّةُ

Indeed! And Allahazwj the Exalted Revealed to mesaww: “Take Aliasws as a brotherasws like Musaas had taken Harounas as a brotheras, and take hisasws sonsasws and Iazwj have Purified them just as the sons of Harounas had been Purified. Indeed! And Isaww have Ended the Prophetsas with yousaww, so there is no Prophetas after yousaww, and theyasws are the Imamsasws!”

أَ فَمَا تَفْقَهُونَ أَ مَا تُبْصِرُونَ أَ مَا تَسْمَعُونَ ضُرِبَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الشُّبُهَاتُ فَكَانَ مَثَلُكُمْ كَمَثَلِ رَجُلٍ فِي سَفَرٍ أَصَابَهُ عَطَشٌ شَدِيدٌ حَتَّى خَشِيَ أَنْ يَهْلِكَ فَلَقِيَ رَجُلًا هَادِياً بِالطَّرِيقِ فَسَأَلَهُ عَنِ الْمَاءِ فَقَالَ أَمَامَكَ عَيْنَانِ إِحْدَاهُمَا مَالِحَةٌ وَ الْأُخْرَى عَذْبَةٌ فَإِنْ أَصَبْتَ مِنَ الْمَالِحَةِ ضَلَلْتَ وَ هَلَكْتَ وَ إِنْ أَصَبْتَ مِنَ الْعَذْبَةِ هُدِيتَ وَ رَوِيتَ

Do you not understand? Are you not having insight? Are you not hearing the suspicious striking upon you? So an example of you would be like an example of a man during a journey and severe thirst hits him until he fears the death. Then he meets a guiding man on the road, so he asks him about the water. He says, ‘In front of you there are two springs, one of them salty and the other sweet. So, if you were to take from the salty you would have strayed and will die, and if you attain from the sweet, you would be guided and be saturated’.

فَهَذَا مَثَلُكُمْ أَيَّتُهَا الْأُمَّةُ الْمُهْمَلَةُ كَمَا زَعَمْتُمْ وَ ايْمُ اللَّهِ مَا أُهْمِلْتُمْ لَقَدْ نُصِبَ لَكُمْ عَلَمٌ يُحِلُّ لَكُمُ الْحَلَالَ وَ يُحَرِّمُ عَلَيْكُمُ الْحَرَامَ وَ لَوْ أَطَعْتُمُوهُ مَا اخْتَلَفْتُمْ وَ لَا تَدَابَرْتُمْ وَ لَا تَعَلَّلْتُمْ وَ لَا بَرِئَ بَعْضُكُمْ مِنْ بَعْضٍ

So this is your example, O you community, the neglected, just as you are claiming to be. And Isaww swear by Allahazwj! You have not been neglected! Isaww have installed a flag for you all. Heasws will permit for you the Permissible, and prohibited upon you the Prohibited, and if you were to obey himasws, you will neither differ, nor disaccord, nor be distracted, nor will you disavow each other’.

فَوَ اللَّهِ إِنَّكُمْ بَعْدَهُ لَمُخْتَلِفُونَ فِي أَحْكَامِكُمْ وَ إِنَّكُمْ بَعْدَهُ لَنَاقِضُونَ عَهْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ إِنَّكُمْ عَلَى عِتْرَتِهِ لَمُخْتَلِفُونَ وَ مُتَبَاغِضُونَ

By Allahazwj! After himsaww you have been differing in your decisions, and after himsaww you are breaking a pact of Rasool-Allahsaww, and you are differing upon hissaww family, being hateful.

إِنْ سُئِلَ هَذَا عَنْ غَيْرِ مَا عَلِمَ أَفْتَى بِرَأْيِهِ وَ إِنْ سُئِلَ هَذَا عَمَّا يَعْلَمُ أَفْتَى بِرَأْيِهِ فَقَدْ تَحَارَيْتُمْ وَ زَعَمْتُمْ أَنَّ الِاخْتِلَافَ رَحْمَةٌ

If this one is asked about other than what he knows, he gives a verdict (fatwa) by his opinion, and if this ones is asked about what he does know (even then) he issues a verdict by his opinion. You are confused and are (now) claiming that the differing is a mercy.

هَيْهَاتَ أَبَى كِتَابُ اللَّهِ ذَلِكَ عَلَيْكُمْ يَقُولُ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى‏ وَ لا تَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ تَفَرَّقُوا وَ اخْتَلَفُوا مِنْ بَعْدِ ما جاءَهُمُ الْبَيِّناتُ وَ أُولئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذابٌ عَظِيمٌ‏

Far be it! The Book of Allahazwj Refuses that upon you. Allahazwj Blessed and Exalted Says: And do not become like those who disunited and differed from after the clear proofs having come to them, and they, for them is a painful Punishment [3:105].

وَ أَخْبَرَنَا بِاخْتِلَافِهِمْ فَقَالَ‏ وَ لا يَزالُونَ مُخْتَلِفِينَ إِلَّا مَنْ رَحِمَ رَبُّكَ وَ لِذلِكَ خَلَقَهُمْ‏ أَيْ لِلرَّحْمَةِ وَ هُمْ آلُ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ شِيعَتُهُمْ

And Heazwj Informed of their differing so Heazwj Said: and they will not stop differing [11:118] Except the one whom your Lord shows Mercy, and it is for that He Created them. [11:119], i.e., for the Mercy, and theyasws are Progenyasws of Muhammadsaww and theirasws Shias.

وَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ‏ ص يَقُولُ يَا عَلِيُّ أَنْتَ وَ شِيعَتُكَ عَلَى الْفِطْرَةِ وَ النَّاسُ مِنْهَا بِرَاءٌ فَهَلَّا قَبِلْتُمْ مِنْ نَبِيِّكُمْ كَيْفَ وَ هُوَ يُخْبِرُكُمْ بِانْتِكَاصِكُمْ وَ يَنْهَاكُمْ عَنْ خِلَافِ وَصِيِّهِ وَ أَمِينِهِ وَ وَزِيرِهِ وَ أَخِيهِ وَ وَلِيِّهِ

And I heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘O Aliasws! Youasws and yourasws Shias are upon the nature, and the people are away from it’. So, why didn’t you accept from your Prophetsaww? How, and hesaww was informing you all of your backsliding, and forbidding you from opposing hissaww successorasws and hissaww trustee, and hissaww Vizier, and hissaww brotherasws, and hissaww guardian?

أَطْهَرِكُمْ قَلْباً وَ أَعْلَمِكُمْ عِلْماً وَ أَقْدَمِكُمْ إِسْلَاماً وَ أَعْظَمِكُمْ غَنَاءً عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص أَعْطَاهُ تُرَاثَهُ‏ وَ أَوْصَاهُ بِعِدَاتِهِ وَ اسْتَخْلَفَهُ‏ عَلَى أُمَّتِهِ وَ وَضَعَ عِنْدَهُ رَأْسَهُ

(Theyasws are) cleanest of hearts, and more knowledgeable than you in knowledge, and more advanced than you of Islam, and greater than you of praise from Rasool-Allahsaww. Heasws is given hissaww inheritance, and bequeathed with fulfilling it, and made a caliph upon hissaww community, and hissaww head was placed with himasws.

فَهُوَ وَلِيُّهُ دُونَكُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ وَ أَحَقُّ بِهِ مِنْكُمْ أَكْتَعِينَ سَيِّدُ الْوَصِيِّينَ وَ أَفْضَلُ الْمُتَّقِينَ وَ أَطْوَعُ الْأُمَّةِ لِرَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَ سُلِّمَ عَلَيْهِ بِخِلَافَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِي حَيَاةِ سَيِّدِ النَّبِيِّينَ وَ خَاتَمِ الْمُرْسَلِينَ

Thus, heasws is hissaww guardian besides you all, and more rightful with it than you, chief of the successorsasws, and most superior of the pious ones, and the most obedience of the community to Lordazwj of the worlds, and caliphate of the Muslims was submitted to himasws during the lifetime of chief of the Prophetssaww, and last of the Messengersas.

‏ قَدْ أَعْذَرَ مَنْ أَنْذَرَ وَ أَدَّى النَّصِيحَةَ مَنْ وَعَظَ وَ بَصَّرَ مَنْ عَمِيَ وَ تَعَاشَى وَ رَدِيَ فَقَدْ سَمِعْتُمْ كَمَا سَمِعْنَا وَ رَأَيْتُمْ كَمَا رَأَيْنَا وَ شَهِدْتُمْ كَمَا شَهِدْنَا

I have excused the one I warned, and given the advice to one who heeds advice, and seen the one who is blinded, and lived and responded. You have heard as we heard, and you have seen as what we saw, and you had witnessed as what we witnessed’.

فَقَالَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَوْفٍ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ وَ مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ فَقَالُوا اقْعُدْ يَا أُبَيُّ أَصَابَكَ خَبَلٌ أَمْ أَصَابَتْكَ جُنَّةٌ

Abdul Rahman Bin Awf and Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah, and Muaz Bin Jabal said, ‘Sit down, O Ubay! Either you are hit by dementia or hit by insanity!’

فَقَالَ بَلِ الْخَبَلُ فِيكُمْ كُنْتُ عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَأَلْفَيْتُهُ يُكَلِّمُ رَجُلًا وَ أَسْمَعُ كَلَامَهُ وَ لَا أَرَى وَجْهَهُ فَقَالَ فِيمَا يُخَاطِبُهُ مَا أَنْصَحَهُ لَكَ وَ لِأُمَّتِكَ وَ أَعْلَمَهُ بِسُنَّتِكَ

He said, ‘But the dementia is among you. I was in the presence of Rasool-Allahsaww, and hesaww turned towards a man speaking to him, and I heard his speech and did not see his face. He said among what he addressed himsaww, ‘What I advise for yousaww and for yoursaww community, and let himasws know of yoursaww Sunnah’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ أَ فَتَرَى أُمَّتِي تَنْقَادُ لَهُ مِنْ بَعْدِي قَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ يَتْبَعُهُ مِنْ أُمَّتِكَ أَبْرَارُهَا وَ يُخَالِفُ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ أُمَّتِكَ فُجَّارُهَا وَ كَذَلِكَ أَوْصِيَاءُ النَّبِيِّينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ

Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Do you see mysaww community being critical to himasws from after mesaww?’ He said, ‘O Muhammadsaww! There will be following himasws, the righteous ones from yoursaww community, and they will be opposing himasws from yoursaww community, it’s immoral ones, and like that have been the successorsas of the Prophetsas from before yousaww.

يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنَّ مُوسَى بْنَ عِمْرَانَ أَوْصَى إِلَى يُوشَعَ بْنِ نُونٍ وَ كَانَ أَعْلَمَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَ أَخْوَفَهُمْ لِلَّهِ وَ أَطْوَعَهُمْ لَهُ وَ أَمَرَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَنْ يَتَّخِذَهُ وَصِيّاً كَمَا اتَّخَذْتَ عَلِيّاً وَصِيّاً وَ كَمَا أُمِرْتَ بِذَلِكَ

O Muhammadsaww! Musaas Bin Imranas had bequeathed to Yoshuaas Bin Nounas, and heas was the most knowledgeable of the children of Israel, and most fearful of them of Allahazwj and their most obedient one to Himazwj, and Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Commanded himsaww to take himas as a successoras just as yousaww have taken Aliasws as a successor, and just as yousaww are Commanded with that.

فَحَسَدَهُ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ سِبْطُ مُوسَى خَاصَّةً فَلَعَنُوهُ وَ شَتَمُوهُ وَ عَنَّفُوهُ وَ وَضَعُوا مِنْهُ فَإِنْ أَخَذَتْ أُمَّتُكَ سُنَنَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ كَذَّبُوا وَصِيَّكَ وَ جَحَدُوا أَمْرَهُ وَ ابْتَزُّوا خِلَافَتَهُ وَ غَالَطُوهُ فِي عِلْمِهِ

The children of Israel envied himas, the tribe of Musaas in particular, and they cursed himas, and reviled himas, and abused himas, and wasted from himas. So, if yoursaww community were to take to the ways of the children of Israel, they will belie yourasws successoras, and reject hisas command, and swindle (himasws of hisasws) caliphate, and try to find mistakes in hisasws knowledge’.

فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَنْ هَذَا فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص هَذَا مَلَكٌ مِنْ مَلَائِكَةِ رَبِّي عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يُنَبِّئُنِي أَنَّ أُمَّتِي تَخْتَلِفُ عَلَى وَصِيِّي عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ إِنِّي أُوصِيكَ يَا أُبَيُّ بِوَصِيَّةٍ إِنْ حَفِظْتَهَا لَمْ تَزَلْ بِخَيْرٍ

I said, ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Who is this?’ Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘An Angel from the Angels of mysaww Lordazwj Mighty and Majestic. He informed mesaww that mysaww community will be opposing upon mysaww successor Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, and Isaww am bequeathing you, O Ubayy, with a bequest, if you were to preserve it, you will not cease to be with good.

يَا أُبَيُّ عَلَيْكَ بِعَلِيٍّ فَإِنَّهُ الْهَادِي الْمَهْدِيُّ النَّاصِحُ لِأُمَّتِي الْمُحْيِي لِسُنَّتِي وَ هُوَ إِمَامُكُمْ بَعْدِي فَمَنْ رَضِيَ بِذَلِكَ لَقِيَنِي عَلَى مَا فَارَقْتُهُ عَلَيْهِ

O Ubay! Upon you is to be with Aliasws, the guide, the Guided, the advisor of mysaww community, the reviver of mysaww Sunnah, and heasws is your Imamasws after mesaww. So, the one who is pleased with that would meet mesaww upon what Isaww separated from him.

يَا أُبَيُّ وَ مَنْ غَيَّرَ أَوْ بَدَّلَ لَقِيَنِي نَاكِثاً لِبَيْعَتِي عَاصِياً أَمْرِي جَاحِداً لِنُبُوَّتِي لَا أَشْفَعُ لَهُ عِنْدَ رَبِّي وَ لَا أَسْقِيهِ مِنْ حَوْضِي

O Ubay! And the one who changes, or replaces, would meet mesaww having broken mysaww allegiance having disobeyed mysaww orders, as a rejecter of mysaww Prophet-hood. Isaww will not intercede for him in the Presence of mysaww Lordazwj, nor will Isaww quench him from mysaww Fountain’.

فَقَامَتْ إِلَيْهِ رِجَالٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ فَقَالُوا اقْعُدْ رَحِمَكَ اللَّهُ يَا أُبَيُّ فَقَدْ أَدَّيْتَ مَا سَمِعْتَ وَ وَفَيْتَ بِعَهْدِكَ‏.

Some men from the Helpers stood up to him and they said, ‘Sit down, may Allahazwj have Mercy on you, O Ubay! You have fulfilled what you heard and have been loyal with your pact’’.¹⁰¹

13- شي، تفسير العياشي عَنْ مُيَسِّرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ وَ لا تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ بَعْدَ إِصْلاحِها قَالَ إِنَّ الْأَرْضَ كَانَتْ فَاسِدَةً فَأَصْلَحَهُ اللَّهُ بِنَبِيِّهِ فَقَالَ‏ لا تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ بَعْدَ إِصْلاحِها.

Tafseer Al Ayyashi, from Muyasser,

‘From Abu Ja’farasws regarding Hisazwj Words: And do not make mischief in the earth after it has been set in order, [7:56], heasws said: ‘The earth was spoilt, so Allahazwj Corrected it through Hisazwj Prophetsaww, so Heazwj Said: And do not make mischief in the earth after it has been set in order, [7:56]’’.¹⁰²

14- شي، تفسير العياشي عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ أَبِي الْمِقْدَامِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ: مَا أَتَى عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع يَوْمٌ قَطُّ أَعْظَمُ مِنْ يَوْمَيْنِ أَتَيَاهُ فَأَمَّا أَوَّلُ يَوْمٍ فَيَوْمَ قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَمَّا الْيَوْمُ الثَّانِي فَوَ اللَّهِ إِنِّي لَجَالِسٌ فِي سَقِيفَةِ بَنِي سَاعِدَةَ عَنْ يَمِينِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ النَّاسُ يُبَايِعُونَهُ إِذْ قَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ يَا هَذَا لَيْسَ فِي يَدَيْكَ شَيْ‏ءٌ مِنْهُ مَا لَمْ يُبَايِعْكَ عَلِيٌّ فَابْعَثْ إِلَيْهِ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَكَ فَيُبَايِعَكَ فَإِنَّمَا هَؤُلَاءِ رَعَاعٌ

Tafseer Al Ayyashi – From Amro Bin Abu Al Miqdam, from his father, from his grandfather who said,

‘There did not come upon Aliasws days more grievous than two days which came to himasws. As for the first, it was the day Rasool-Allahsaww passed away, and as for the second day, by Allahazwj, I was seated in the Saqeefa of the clan of Sa’ada on the right of Abu Bakr and the people were pledging allegiance to him when Umar said to him, ‘O you! There isn’t anything from it (caliphate) in your hands so long as Aliasws does not pledge allegiance to you, so send for himasws until heasws comes to you and pledges allegiance to you, for rather these ones are only sheep’.

فَبَعَثَ إِلَيْهِ قُنْفُذاً فَقَالَ لَهُ اذْهَبْ فَقُلْ لِعَلِيٍّ أَجِبْ خَلِيفَةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَذَهَبَ قُنْفُذٌ فَمَا لَبِثَ أَنْ رَجَعَ فَقَالَ لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ قَالَ لَكَ مَا خَلَّفَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَحَداً غَيْرِي

He sent Qunfuz to himasws, saying to him, ‘Go and say to Aliasws, ‘Answer to the caliph of Rasool-Allahsaww!’ Qunfuz went, and it was not long before he returned and said to Abu Bakr, ‘Heasws says to you: ‘Rasool-Allahsaww did not make anyone a caliph apart from measws’’.

قَالَ ارْجِعْ إِلَيْهِ فَقُلْ أَجِبْ فَإِنَّ النَّاسَ قَدْ أَجْمَعُوا عَلَى بَيْعَتِهِمْ إِيَّاهُ وَ هَؤُلَاءِ الْمُهَاجِرُونَ وَ الْأَنْصَارُ يُبَايِعُونَهُ وَ قُرَيْشٌ وَ إِنَّمَا أَنْتَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ لَكَ مَا لَهُمْ وَ عَلَيْكَ مَا عَلَيْهِمْ

He said, ‘Return to himasws and say, ‘Answer, for the people have gathered upon their allegiance to him, and they are the Emigrants and the Helpers, pledging allegiance to him and (so have) Quraysh, and rather youasws are a man from the Muslims, for youasws is what is for them, and against youasws is what is against them’’.

وَ ذَهَبَ إِلَيْهِ قُنْفُذٌ فَمَا لَبِثَ أَنْ رَجَعَ فَقَالَ قَالَ لَكَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ لِي وَ أَوْصَانِي إِذَا وَارَيْتُهُ فِي حُفْرَتِهِ أَنْ لَا أَخْرُجَ مِنْ بَيْتِي حَتَّى أُؤَلِّفَ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ فَإِنَّهُ فِي جَرَائِدِ النَّخْلِ وَ فِي أَكْتَافِ الْإِبِلِ

And Qunfuz went to him, and it was not long before he returned and said, ‘Heasws says to you: ‘Rasool-Allahsaww said to measws, and bequeathed to measws, when Iasws have buried himsaww in hissaww grave, Iasws should not exit from myasws house until Iasws have compiled the Book of Allahazwj, and it is in the branches of the palm trees, and in the shoulder bones of the camels’.

قَالَ قَالَ عُمَرُ قُومُوا بِنَا إِلَيْهِ فَقَامَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ وَ عُثْمَانُ وَ خَالِدُ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ وَ الْمُغِيرَةُ بْنُ شُعْبَةَ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ وَ سَالِمٌ مَوْلَى أَبِي حُذَيْفَةَ وَ قُنْفُذٌ وَ قُمْتُ مَعَهُمْ

He (the narrator) said, ‘Umar said, ‘Arise with us to go to himasws!’ So, Abu Bakr, and Umar, and Usman, and Khalid Bin Al-Waleed, and Al-Mugheira Bin Shu’ba, and Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah, and Saalim Mawla Abu Huzeyfa, and Qunfuz arose, and I stood up along with them.

فَلَمَّا انْتَهَيْنَا إِلَى الْبَابِ فَرَأَتْهُمْ فَاطِمَةُ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهَا أَغْلَقَتِ الْبَابَ فِي وُجُوهِهِمْ وَ هِيَ لَا تَشُكُّ أَنْ لَا يُدْخَلَ عَلَيْهَا إِلَّا بِإِذْنِهَا فَضَرَبَ عُمَرُ الْبَابَ بِرِجْلِهِ فَكَسَرَهُ وَ كَانَ مِنْ سَعَفٍ

When we ended up to the door, they saw (Syeda) Fatimaasws at it. Sheasws locked the door in their faces, and sheasws had no doubt that they will not enter upon herasws except with herasws permission. But, Umar hit the door with his leg and broke it, and it was of foliage leaves.

ثُمَّ دَخَلُوا فَأَخْرَجُوا عَلِيّاً ع مُلَبَّباً فَخَرَجَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع فَقَالَتْ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ أَ تُرِيدُ أَنْ تُرْمِلَنِي مِنْ زَوْجِي وَ اللَّهِ لَئِنْ لَمْ تَكُفَّ عَنْهُ لَأَنْشُرَنَّ شَعْرِي وَ لَأَشُقَّنَ جَيْبِي وَ لَآَتِيَنَّ قَبْرَ أَبِي وَ لَأَصِيحَنَّ إِلَى رَبِّي

Then they entered and brought Aliasws out folded (tied up). (Syeda) Fatimaasws came out and said, ‘O Abu Bakr! Do you intend to make measws a widow from myasws husband? By Allahazwj! If you do not refrain from himasws, Iasws shall expose myasws hair, and tear myasws pocket and will go to the grace of myasws husband, and Iasws will cry loud (beseeching) to myasws Lordazwj!’

فَأَخَذَتْ بِيَدِ الْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ ع وَ خَرَجَتْ تُرِيدُ قَبْرَ النَّبِيِّ ص فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع لِسَلْمَانَ أَدْرِكْ ابْنَةَ مُحَمَّدٍ فَإِنِّي أَرَى جَنْبَتَيِ الْمَدِينَةِ تُكْفَئَانِ وَ اللَّهِ إِنْ نَشَرَتْ شَعْرَهَا وَ شَقَّتْ جَيْبَهَا وَ أَتَتْ قَبْرَ أَبِيهَا وَ صَاحَتْ إِلَى رَبِّهَا لَا يُنَاظَرُ بِالْمَدِينَةِ أَنْ يُخْسَفَ بِهَا وَ بِمَنْ فِيهَا

Sheasws grabbed the hands of Al-Hassanasws and Al-Husaynasws and went out intending the grave of the Prophetsaww. Aliasws said to Salmanra: ‘Reach the daughter of Muhammadsaww, for Iasws see the two sides of Al-Medina to have had (been lifted). By Allahazwj! If sheasws were to expose herasws hair and tears up herasws pocket, and come to the grave of herasws fathersaww, and beseeches to herasws Lordazwj, there is no doubt with Al-Medina that it would submerge and with the ones in it!’

فَأَدْرَكَهَا سَلْمَانُ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ فَقَالَ يَا بِنْتَ مُحَمَّدٍ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بَعَثَ أَبَاكِ رَحْمَةً فَارْجِعِي فَقَالَتْ يَا سَلْمَانُ يُرِيدُونَ قَتْلَ عَلِيٍّ مَا عَلَيَّ صَبْرٌ فَدَعْنِي حَتَّى آتِيَ قَبْرَ أَبِي فَأَنْشُرَ شَعْرِي وَ أَشُقَّ جَيْبِي وَ أَصِيحَ إِلَى رَبِّي

Salmanra reached herasws and said, ‘O daughterasws of Muhammadsaww! Allahazwj Sent yourasws fathersaww as a mercy, so return!’ Sheasws said: ‘O Salmanra! They are intending to kill Aliasws, there is no patience upon measws, so leave measws until Iasws go to the grave of myasws fathersaww, and expose myasws hair, and tear up myasws pocket, and beseech to myasws Lordazwj’.

فَقَالَ سَلْمَانُ إِنِّي أَخَافُ أَنْ يُخْسَفَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ وَ عَلِيٌّ بَعَثَنِي إِلَيْكِ يَأْمُرُكِ أَنْ تَرْجِعِي لَهُ إِلَى بَيْتِكِ وَ تَنْصَرِفِي فَقَالَتْ إِذاً أَرْجِعُ وَ أَصْبِرُ وَ أَسْمَعُ لَهُ وَ أُطِيعُ

Salmanra said, ‘Ira fear that there would be a submergence with Al-Medina, and Aliasws sent mera to youasws, instructing youasws to return to yourasws house, and leave’. Sheasws said: ‘Then Iasws shall return and be patient, and listen to himasws, and obey’.

قَالَ فَأَخْرَجُوهُ مِنْ مَنْزِلِهِ مُلَبَّباً وَ مَرُّوا بِهِ عَلَى قَبْرِ النَّبِيِّ ص قَالَ فَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ يَا ابْنَ أُمَّ إِنَّ الْقَوْمَ اسْتَضْعَفُونِي وَ كادُوا يَقْتُلُونَنِي‏

He (the narrator) said, ‘They brought himasws out from hisasws house tied up, and they went with himasws to the grave of the Prophetsaww, and I heard himasws saying: ‘‘Son of my mother! Surely the people weakened me and they almost killed me [7:150]’.

وَ جَلَسَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فِي سَقِيفَةِ بَنِي سَاعِدَةَ وَ قَدِمَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَقَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ بَايِعْ فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع فَإِنْ أَنَا لَمْ أَفْعَلْ فَمَهْ فَقَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ إِذاً أَضْرِبَ وَ اللَّهِ عُنُقَكَ

And Abu Bakr sat in the shed of the clan of Saida and brought Aliasws forward. Umar said to himasws, ‘Pledge allegiance!’ Aliasws said to him: ‘Supposing Iasws do not it, then what?’ Umar said to himasws, ‘Then by Allahazwj I will strike off yourasws neck’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ إِذاً وَ اللَّهِ‏ أَكُونَ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ الْمَقْتُولَ وَ أَخَا رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ عُمَرُ أَمَّا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ الْمَقْتُولُ فَنَعَمْ وَ أَمَّا أَخُو رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَلَا حَتَّى قَالَهَا ثَلَاثاً

Aliasws said to him: ‘Then, by Allahazwj, Iasws would become a murdered servant of Allahazwj, and brother of Rasool-Allahsaww’. Umar said, ‘As for youasws being a killed servant of Allahazwj, so yes, and as for being a brother of Rasool-Allahsaww, so no’ – until he said it thrice.

فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ الْعَبَّاسَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ فَأَقْبَلَ مُسْرِعاً يُهَرْوِلُ فَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ ارْفُقُوا بِابْنِ أَخِي وَ لَكُمْ عَلَيَّ أَنْ يُبَايِعَكُمْ فَأَقْبَلَ الْعَبَّاسُ وَ أَخَذَ بِيَدِ عَلِيٍّ ع فَمَسَحَهَا عَلَى يَدِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ ثُمَّ خَلَّوْهُ مُغْضَباً

That reached Al-Abbas Bin Abdul Muttalibasws, and he came sprinting hurriedly, and I heard him saying, ‘Be gentle O sonasws of my brotheras, and for you all it is upon me that heasws pledges allegiance to you’. Al-Abbas came and grabbed a hand of Aliasws and wiped it upon the hand of Abu Bakr.

فَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ وَ رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّكَ تَعْلَمُ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص قَدْ قَالَ لِي إِنْ تَمُّوا عِشْرِينَ فَجَاهِدْهُمْ وَ هُوَ قَوْلُكَ فِي كِتَابِكَ‏ إِنْ يَكُنْ مِنْكُمْ عِشْرُونَ صابِرُونَ يَغْلِبُوا مِائَتَيْنِ‏

Then they untied himasws angrily, and I heard himasws saying, and heasws had raised hisasws head towards the sky: ‘O Allahazwj! Youazwj Know that the Prophetsaww had said: ‘If they are complete twenty (supporters), then fight them, and it is Yourazwj Word in Yourazwj Book: If there happen to be twenty patient ones from you, they would overcome two hundred [8:65]’.

قَالَ وَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ اللَّهُمَّ وَ إِنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَتِمُّوا عِشْرِينَ حَتَّى قَالَهَا ثَلَاثاً ثُمَّ انْصَرَفَ‏.

He (the narrator) said, ‘And I heard himasws saying: ‘O Allahazwj! And they are not even twenty complete’ – until heasws had said it thrice, then left’’.¹⁰³

15- ختص، الإختصاص أَخْبَرَنِي عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ شَاذَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفَرَزْدَقِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَمْرَوَيْهِ الْوَرَّاقِ عَنْ أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مُوسَى عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ أَبِي الْمِقْدَامِ‏ مِثْلَهُ وَ زَادَ بَعْدَ قَوْلِهِ فَأَخْرَجُوهُ مِنْ مَنْزِلِهِ مُلَبَّباً قَالَ وَ أَقْبَلَ الزُّبَيْرُ مُخْتَرِطاً سَيْفَهُ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ يَا مَعْشَرَ بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ أَ يُفْعَلُ هَذَا بِعَلِيٍّ ع وَ أَنْتُمْ أَحْيَاءٌ

(The book) ‘Al Ikhtisas’ – Ubeydullah informed me from Ahmad Bin Ali Bin Al Hassan Bin Shazan, from Muhammad Bin Ali Bin Al Fazl Bin Aamir, from Al Husayn Bin Muhammad Bin Al Fuzari, from Muhammad Bin Ali Bin Amraqiya Al Warraq, from Abu Muhammad Al Hassan Bin Musa, from Amro Bin Abu Al Miqdam –

Similar to it, and there is an increased after his words, ‘They brought himasws out from hisasws house tied up, and Al-Zubeyr came brandishing his sword and he was saying, ‘O community of clan of Abdul Muttalibasws! They are doing this with Aliasws and (although) you are alive?’’

وَ شَدَّ عَلَى عُمَرَ لِيَضْرِبَهُ بِالسَّيْفِ فَرَمَاهُ خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ بِصَخْرَةٍ فَأَصَابَتْ قَفَاهُ وَ سَقَطَ السَّيْفُ مِنْ يَدِهِ فَأَخَذَهُ عُمَرُ وَ ضَرَبَهُ عَلَى صَخْرَةٍ فَانْكَسَرَ وَ مَرَّ عَلِيٌّ عَلَى قَبْرِ النَّبِيِّ ص فَقَالَ يَا ابْنَ أُمَّ إِلَى آخِرِ الْخَبَرِ.

And he was harsh upon Umar in order to strike him with the sword, but Khalid Bin Al-Waleed pelted him with a rock and it hit his palm, and the sword fell down from his hand. Umar grabbed it and struck it on the rock, and it broke, and Aliasws passed by to go to the grave of the Prophetsaww. Heasws said: ‘‘‘Son of my mother! [7:150]’ – up to the end of the Hadeeth’’.¹⁰⁴

16- شي، تفسير العياشي عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحَدِهِمَا قَالَ: إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَضَى الِاخْتِلَافَ عَلَى خَلْقِهِ وَ كَانَ أَمْراً قَدْ قَضَاهُ فِي عِلْمِهِ كَمَا قَضَى عَلَى الْأُمَمِ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ وَ هِيَ السُّنَنُ وَ الْأَمْثَالُ يَجْرِي عَلَى النَّاسِ

Tafseer Al Ayyashi – From one of our companions,

‘From one of the two (5th or 6th Imamasws) having said: ‘Allahazwj Decreed the differing upon Hisazwj creatures, and it was a matter Heazwj had Decreed in Hisazwj Knowledge, just as Heazwj Decreed upon the communities from before you, and it is the ways and the examples flowing upon the people.

فَجَرَتْ عَلَيْنَا كَمَا جَرَتْ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِنَا وَ قَوْلُ اللَّهِ حَقٌّ قَالَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص‏ سُنَّةَ مَنْ قَدْ أَرْسَلْنا قَبْلَكَ مِنْ رُسُلِنا وَ لا تَجِدُ لِسُنَّتِنا تَحْوِيلًا

So it flowed upon usasws just as it had flowed upon those from before usasws, and the Word of Allahazwj is True. Allahazwj Blessed and Exalted Said to Muhammadsaww: A Sunnah of the ones We Sent before you from Our Rasools, and you will not find an alteration to Our Sunnah [17:77].

وَ قَالَ‏ فَهَلْ يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَّا سُنَّتَ الْأَوَّلِينَ فَلَنْ تَجِدَ لِسُنَّتِ اللَّهِ تَبْدِيلًا وَ لَنْ تَجِدَ لِسُنَّتِ اللَّهِ تَحْوِيلًا

And Said: are they awaiting except for the ways of the former ones? You will never find a replacement in the Sunnah of Allah, and you will never find an alteration in the Sunnah of Allah [35:43].

وَ قَالَ‏ فَهَلْ يَنْتَظِرُونَ إِلَّا مِثْلَ أَيَّامِ الَّذِينَ خَلَوْا مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ قُلْ فَانْتَظِرُوا إِنِّي مَعَكُمْ مِنَ الْمُنْتَظِرِينَ‏

And Said: So are they waiting except for the days like of those who passed away before them? Say: ‘Then wait, I too am with you from the waiting ones’ [10:102]’.

وَ قَالَ ع لَا تَبْدِيلَ لِقَوْلِ اللَّهِ‏ وَ قَدْ قَضَى اللَّهُ عَلَى مُوسَى ع وَ هُوَ مَعَ قَوْمِهِ يُرِيهِمُ الْآيَاتِ وَ النُّذُرَ ثُمَّ مَرُّوا عَلَى قَوْمٍ يَعْبُدُونَ أَصْنَاماً قالُوا يا مُوسَى اجْعَلْ لَنا إِلهاً كَما لَهُمْ آلِهَةٌ قالَ إِنَّكُمْ قَوْمٌ تَجْهَلُونَ‏

And heasws said: ‘There is no replacement to the Words of Allahazwj, and Allahazwj had Decreed upon Musaas, and heas was with hisas people, to show them the Signs (miracles) and the warnings, then they passed by a people worshipping idols. They said, ‘O Musa! Make a god for us just as there is a god for them’. He said, ‘You are an ignorant people [7:138].

فَاسْتَخْلَفَ مُوسَى هَارُونَ فَنَصَبُوا عِجْلًا جَسَداً لَهُ خُوارٌ فَقالُوا هذا إِلهُكُمْ وَ إِلهُ مُوسى‏ وَ تَرَكُوا هَارُونَ فَقَالَ‏ يا قَوْمِ إِنَّما فُتِنْتُمْ بِهِ وَ إِنَّ رَبَّكُمُ الرَّحْمنُ فَاتَّبِعُونِي وَ أَطِيعُوا أَمْرِي قالُوا لَنْ نَبْرَحَ عَلَيْهِ عاكِفِينَ حَتَّى يَرْجِعَ إِلَيْنا مُوسى

So Musaas made Harounas a caliph, but they installed a body of a calf for it being a mooing sound, and they said, ‘This is your god and god of Musa, [20:88], and they neglected Harounas. Heas said: ‘‘O people! But rather you are being tempted by it, and surely your Lord is the Beneficent, therefore follow me and obey my order’ [20:90] They said: ‘Never! We will continue our devotion upon it until Musa returns to us’ [20:91].

‏ فَضَرَبَ لَكُمْ أَمْثَالَهُمْ وَ بَيَّنَ لَكُمْ كَيْفَ صَنَعَ بِهِمْ

So Heazwj Struck their examples for you all and Explained to you how they dealt with them’.

وَ قَالَ إِنَّ نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ ص لَمْ يُقْبَضْ حَتَّى أَعْلَمَ النَّاسَ أَمْرَ عَلِيٍّ ع فَقَالَ مَنْ كُنْتُ مَوْلَاهُ فَعَلِيٌّ مَوْلَاهُ وَ قَالَ إِنَّهُ مِنِّي بِمَنْزِلَةِ هَارُونَ مِنْ مُوسَى غَيْرَ أَنَّهُ لَا نَبِيَّ بَعْدِي

And heasws said: ‘The Prophetsaww of Allahazwj did not pass away until hesaww had let the people know the matter of Aliasws, so hesaww said: ‘One whose Mastersaww Isaww was, so Aliasws his Masterasws’. And hesaww said: ‘Heasws is from mesaww at the status of Harounas from Musaas, apart from that there is no Prophetsaww after mesaww’.

وَ كَانَ صَاحِبَ رَايَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فِي الْمَوَاطِنِ كُلِّهَا وَ كَانَ مَعَهُ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ يَدْخُلُهُ عَلَى كُلِّ حَالٍ وَ كَانَ أَوَّلَ النَّاسِ إِيمَاناً بِهِ فَلَمَّا قُبِضَ نَبِيُّ اللَّهِ ص كَانَ الَّذِي كَانَ لِمَا قَدْ قُضِيَ مِنَ الِاخْتِلَافِ وَ عَمَدَ عُمَرُ فَبَايَعَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَ لَمْ يُدْفَنْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بَعْدُ

And heasws was the bearer of the flag of Rasool-Allahsaww in all the places, and with himsaww in the Masjid. Heasws could enter it upon all states, and heasws was the first of the people in believing in himsaww. When the Prophetsaww of Allahazwj passed away, heasws was the one, when the differing had been determined, and Umar deliberated and pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr, and Rasool-Allahsaww had yet to be buried.

فَلَمَّا رَأَى ذَلِكَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ رَأَى النَّاسَ قَدْ بَايَعُوا أَبَا بَكْرٍ خَشِيَ أَنْ يَفْتَتِنَ النَّاسُ فَفَرَغَ إِلَى كِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَ أَخَذَ يَجْمَعُهُ فِي مُصْحَفٍ

When Aliasws saw that and saw the people to have pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr, heasws feared that the people might be tempted, so heasws freed himselfasws to the Book of Allahazwj and took to collecting it in a Parchment.

فَأَرْسَلَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ إِلَيْهِ أَنْ تَعَالَ فَبَايِعْ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع لَا أَخْرُجُ حَتَّى أَجْمَعَ الْقُرْآنَ فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ مَرَّةً أُخْرَى فَقَالَ لَا أَخْرُجُ حَتَّى أَفْرُغَ فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ الثَّالِثَةَ عُمَرُ رَجُلًا يُقَالُ لَهُ قُنْفُذٌ

Abu Bakr sent a message to himasws, ‘Come and pledge allegiance’. Aliasws said: ‘Iasws will not come out until Iasws collect the Quran’. He sent messages to himasws once again. Heasws said: ‘Iasws will not come out until Iasws am free’. So, he sent a message to him for the third time, Umar and a man called Qunfuz.

فَقَامَتْ فَاطِمَةُ بِنْتُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهَا تَحُولُ بَيْنَهُ وَ بَيْنَ عَلِيٍّ ع فَضَرَبَهَا فَانْطَلَقَ قُنْفُذٌ وَ لَيْسَ مَعَهُ عَلِيٌّ فَخَشِيَ أَنْ يَجْمَعَ عَلِيٌّ النَّاسَ فَأَمَرَ بِحَطَبٍ فَجَعَلَ حَوَالَيْ بَيْتِهِ ثُمَّ انْطَلَقَ عُمَرُ بِنَارٍ فَأَرَادَ أَنْ يُحْرِقَ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ بَيْتَهُ وَ عَلَى فَاطِمَةَ وَ الْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمْ فَلَمَّا رَأَى ع ذَلِكَ خَرَجَ فَبَايَعَ كَارِهاً غَيْرَ طَائِعٍ‏.

(Syeda) Fatimaasws daughterasws of Rasool-Allahsaww stood to be a barrier between him and Aliasws. He hit herasws. Qunfuz went back without Aliasws, and he feared that Aliasws would gather the people, so he ordered for the firewood and made it to be around hisasws house. Then Umar came with fire and wanted to burn down upon Aliasws, hisasws house, and upon Fatimaasws, and Al-Hassanasws, and Al-Husaynasws. When heasws saw that, heasws came out and pledged allegiance unwillingly, not willingly’’.¹⁰⁵

17- جا، المجالس للمفيد الْجِعَابِيُّ عَنِ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ عُفَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ لَهِيعَةَ عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي هِلَالٍ عَنْ مَرْوَانَ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ قَالَ: لَمَّا بَايَعَ النَّاسُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ دَخَلَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ الزُّبَيْرُ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ بَيْتَ فَاطِمَةَ ع وَ أَبَوْا أَنْ يَخْرُجُوا فَقَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ أَضْرِمُوا عَلَيْهِمُ الْبَيْتَ نَاراً فَخَرَجَ الزُّبَيْرُ وَ مَعَهُ سَيْفُهُ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ عَلَيْكُمْ بِالْكَلْبِ

(The book) ‘Al Majaalis’ of Al Mufeed – Al JIany, from Al Abbas Bin Al Mugheira, from Ahmad Bin Mansour, from Saeed Bin Ufeyr, from Ibn Lahiya, from Khalid Bin Yazeed, from Ibn Abu Hilal, from Marwan Bin Usman who said,

‘When the people pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr, Aliasws and Al-Zubeyr and Al-Miqdadra entered the house of (Syeda) Fatimaasws and refused to come out. Umar Bin Al-Khattab said, ‘Ignite fire (and) set the house (on fire and) around them!’ Al-Zubeyr came out and with him was his sword. Abu Bakr said, ‘Upon you is to deal with the dog!’

فَقَصَدُوا نَحْوَهُ فَزَلَّتْ قَدَمُهُ وَ سَقَطَ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ وَ وَقَعَ السَّيْفُ مِنْ يَدِهِ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ اضْرِبُوا بِهِ الْحَجَرَ فَضُرِبَ بِهِ الْحَجَرُ حَتَّى انْكَسَرَ وَ خَرَجَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع نَحْوَ الْعَالِيَةِ فَلَقِيَهُ ثَابِتُ بْنُ قَيْسِ بْنِ شَمَّاسٍ فَقَالَ مَا شَأْنُكَ يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ

They aimed to around him, and his foot slipped and he fell upon the ground, and the sword fell from his hands. Abu Bakr said, ‘Strike the rock with it’. They struck the rock with it until it broke, and Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws came out to around the high slope and was met by Sabit Bin Qays Bin Shammas. He said, ‘What is your concern O Abu Al-Hassanasws?’

فَقَالَ أَرَادُوا أَنْ يُحْرِقُوا عَلَيَّ بَيْتِي وَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ يُبَايَعُ لَهُ لَا يَدْفَعُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ وَ لَا يُنْكِرُ فَقَالَ لَهُ ثَابِتٌ وَ لَا تُفَارِقُ كَفِّي يَدَكَ أَبَداً حَتَّى أُقْتَلَ دُونَكَ

They want to burn down myasws house upon measws, and Abu Bakr is upon the pulpit being pledged to, neither is he being repelled from that nor denied!’ Sabit said to himasws, ‘My palm will not separate from yourasws hand, ever, until I kill the ones besides youasws’.

فَانْطَلَقَا جَمِيعاً حَتَّى عاد [عَادَا] إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ وَ فَاطِمَةُ ع وَاقِفَةٌ عَلَى بَابِهَا وَ قَدْ خَلَتْ دَارُهَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ وَ هِيَ تَقُولُ لَا عَهْدَ لِي بِقَوْمٍ أَسْوَأَ مَحْضَراً مِنْكُمْ تَرَكْتُمْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص جِنَازَةً بَيْنَ أَيْدِينَا وَ قَطَعْتُمْ أَمْرَكُمْ بَيْنَكُمْ لَمْ تَسْتَأْمِرُونَا وَ صَنَعْتُمْ بِنَا مَا صَنَعْتُمْ وَ لَمْ تَرَوْا لَنَا حَقّاً.

They both went together until they returned to Al-Medina, and Fatimaasws was standing at herasws door, and herasws house had been vacated (its interior) from every one of the group, and sheasws was saying: ‘There is no pact for measws with a people or eviler presence of you all. You neglected the funeral of Rasool-Allahsaww in front of usasws, and divided your matters between you. You did not make usasws the rulers and did with usasws what you did, and you did not see any right being for usasws’’.¹⁰⁶

18- جا، المجالس للمفيد الْكَاتِبُ عَنِ الزَّعْفَرَانِيِّ عَنِ الثَّقَفِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْمَاعِيلَ الْعَطَّارِ عَنِ ابْنِ لَهِيعَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْأَسْوَدِ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ قَالَ: لَمَّا بَايَعَ النَّاسُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ خَرَجَتْ فَاطِمَةُ بِنْتُ مُحَمَّدٍ ص فَوَقَفَتْ عَلَى بَابِهَا وَ قَالَتْ مَا رَأَيْتُ كَالْيَوْمِ قَطُّ حَضَرُوا أَسْوَأَ مَحْضَرٍ وَ تَرَكُوا نَبِيَّهُمْ ص جِنَازَةً بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِنَا وَ اسْتَبَدُّوا بِالْأَمْرِ دُونَنَا.

(The book) ‘Al Majaalis’ – The scribe, from Al Zafrany, from Abu Ismail Al Attar, from Ibn Lahiya, from Abu Al Aswd, from Urwat bin Al Zubeyr who said,

‘When the people pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr, (Syeda) Fatimaasws daughterasws of Muhammadsaww came out and paused at herasws door and sheasws said: ‘Iasws have not seen like today at all! They presented with the evilest of presentations, and they neglected the funeral of their Prophetsaww in our midst, and began with the command besides usasws!’’¹⁰⁷

19- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب فَضَائِلُ السَّمْعَانِيِّ وَ أَبِي السَّعَادَاتِ وَ تَارِيخُ الْخَطِيبِ وَ اللَّفْظُ لِلسَّمْعَانِيِّ قَالَ أُسَامَةُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ جَاءَ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ ع إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ هُوَ عَلَى مِنْبَرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ انْزِلْ عَنْ مَجْلِسِ أَبِي

(The book) ‘Al Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashub, ‘Fazail’ of al Sam’any, and Abu Al Sa’daaat, and ‘Tareekh’ of Al Khateeb, and the words of Al Sam’any who said,

‘Usama Bin Zayd said, ‘Al-Hassanasws Bin Aliasws came to Abu Bakr, and he was upon the pulpit of Rasool-Allahsaww. He said, ‘Descend from the seat of myasws fatherasws!’

قَالَ صَدَقْتَ إِنَّهُ مَجْلِسُ أَبِيكَ ثُمَّ أَجْلَسَهُ فِي حَجْرِهِ وَ بَكَى فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ اللَّهِ مَا كَانَ هَذَا عَنْ أَمْرِي فَقَالَ صَدَّقْتُكَ وَ اللَّهِ مَا اتَّهَمْتُكَ‏.

He (Abu Bakr) said, ‘Youasws speak the truth! It is the seat of yourasws fatherasws, then I had himasws seated in hisasws chamber’ – and he (Abu Bakr) wept. Aliasws said: ‘By Allahazwj! This was not from myasws matters’. Heasws (Al Hassanasws) said: ‘He ratified youasws, by Allahazwj what he had accused youasws of’’.

وَ فِي رِوَايَةِ الْخَطِيبِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ الْحُسَيْنُ ع‏ قُلْتُ لِعُمَرَ انْزِلْ عَنْ مِنْبَرِ أَبِي وَ اذْهَبْ إِلَى مِنْبَرِ أَبِيكَ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ لَمْ يَكُنْ لِأَبِي مِنْبَرٌ وَ أَخَذَنِي وَ أَجْلَسَنِي مَعَهُ ثُمَّ سَأَلَنِي مَنْ عَلَّمَكَ هَذَا فَقُلْتُ وَ اللَّهِ مَا عَلَّمَنِي أَحَدٌ.

And in a report of Al-Khateeb – Al-Husaynasws said: ‘Iasws said to Umar: ‘Descend from the pulpit of myasws fatherasws, and go to the pulpit of your father’. Umar said, ‘There does not happen to be any pulpit for my father’ – and he took measws and seated measws with him. Then he asked measws, ‘Who taught you this?’ Iasws said: ‘By Allahazwj! No one taught measws’’.¹⁰⁸

20- مَأْخُوذٌ مِنْ مَنَاقِبِ ابْنِ الْجَوْزِيِّ، خُطْبَةٌ خَطَبَ بِهَا أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع بَعْدَ وَفَاةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص رَوَى مُجَاهِدٌ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ:

It is taken from (the book) ‘Manaqib’ of Ibn Al Jowzy –

‘A sermon Amir Al-Momineenasws addressed with after the expiry of Rasool-Allahsaww, reported by Mujahid from Ibn Abbas who said,

لَمَّا دُفِنَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص جَاءَ الْعَبَّاسُ وَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ بْنُ حَرْبٍ وَ نَفَرٌ مِنْ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع فَقَالُوا مُدَّ يَدَكَ نُبَايِعْكَ وَ هَذَا الْيَوْمُ الَّذِي قَالَ فِيهِ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ إِنْ شِئْتَ مَلَأْتُهَا خَيْلًا وَ رَجِلًا وَ حَرَّضُوهُ فَامْتَنَعَ وَ قَالَ لَهُ الْعَبَّاسُ أَنْتَ وَ اللَّهِ بَعْدَ أَيَّامٍ عَبْدُ الْعَصَا

‘When Rasool-Allahsaww had been buried, Al-Abbas and Abu Sufyan Bin Harb, and a number of the Clan of Hashimasws came to Amir Al-Momineenasws, and they said, ‘Extend yourasws hand, and today, this is the day in which Abu Sufyan said, ‘If youasws like, I shall fill it (Al-Medina) with cavalry and infantry, and incite it’. Al-Abbas refrained and said to him, ‘By Allahazwj! After a few days you will be a servant of the stick’.

فَخَطَبَ وَ قَالَ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ شُقُّوا أَمْوَاجَ الْفِتَنِ بِسُفُنِ النَّجَاةِ وَ عَرِّجُوا عَنْ طَرِيقِ‏ الْمُنَافَرَةِ وَ ضَعُوا تِيجَانَ الْمُفَاخَرَةِ فَقَدْ فَازَ مَنْ نَهَضَ بِجَنَاحٍ أَوِ اسْتَسْلَمَ

Heasws addressed and said: ‘O you people! Split apart the waves of Fitna by the ship of salvation, and hobble away from the path of intimidation, and place down the crowns of bragging, for the successful is the one who rises with wings, or submits.

فَارْتَاحَ مَاءٌ آجِنٌ وَ لُقْمَةٌ يَغَصُّ بِهَا آكِلُهَا أَجْدَرُ بِالْعَاقِلِ مِنْ لُقْمَةٍ تخشى [تُحْشَى‏] بِزُنْبُورٍ وَ مِنْ شَرْبَةٍ تَلَذُّ بِهَا شَارِبُهَا مَعَ تَرْكِ النَّظَرِ فِي عَوَاقِبِ الْأُمُورِ

So he (Abu Bakr) soaked up putrid water, and swallowed a morsel he would suffocate with it. It was more reasonable with the intellectual than a morsel filled with wasps, and from a drink its drinker deriving pleasure with it along with neglecting the consideration regarding the end-results of the matters.

فَإِنْ أَقُلْ يَقُولُوا حَرَصَ عَلَى الْمُلْكِ وَ إِنْ أَسْكُتْ يَقُولُوا جَزِعَ مِنَ الْمَوْتِ هَيْهَاتَ هَيْهَاتَ بَعْدَ اللَّتَيَّا وَ الَّتِي وَ اللَّهِ لَابْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ آنَسُ بِالْمَوْتِ مِنَ الطِّفْلِ بِثَدْيِ أُمِّهِ وَ مِنَ الرَّجُلِ بِأَخِيهِ وَ عَمِّهِ

So, if Iasws say (anything), they say, ‘Heasws greedy upon the kingdom’, and if Iasws keep quiet, they say, ‘Heasws is panicking from the death’. Far be it! Far be it! After that which Iasws have been through. By Allahazwj! The sonasws of Abu Talibasws is more comfortable with the death than the child is with a breast of its mother, and more than a brother is with his brother, and his uncle.

وَ لَقَدِ انْدَمَجْتُ عَلَى عِلْمٍ لَوْ بُحْتُ بِهِ لَاضْطَرَبْتُمُ اضْطِرَابَ الْأَرْشِيَةِ فِي الطَّوِيِّ الْبَعِيدَةِ وَ ذَكَرَ كَلَاماً كَثِيراً.

Iasws am integrated upon such knowledge, if Iasws were to disclose it, you will tremble the trembling of the rope in the deep well’ – and mentioned a lot of speech’’.¹⁰⁹

21- كش، رجال الكشي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ شَاذَانَ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ وَهْبِ بْنِ حَفْصٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: جَاءَ الْمُهَاجِرُونَ وَ الْأَنْصَارُ وَ غَيْرُهُمْ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ع فَقَالُوا لَهُ أَنْتَ وَ اللَّهِ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ أَنْتَ وَ اللَّهِ أَحَقُّ النَّاسِ وَ أَوْلَاهُمْ بِالنَّبِيِّ ص هَلُمَّ يَدَكَ نُبَايِعْكَ فَوَ اللَّهِ لَنَمُوتَنَّ قُدَّامَكَ

(The book) ‘Rijaal Al Kashy’ – Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Al Fazl Bin Shazan, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Wahb Bin Hafs, from Abu Baseer,

‘From Abu Ja’farasws having said: ‘After that, the Emigrants, and the Helpers and others came to Aliasws and they said to himasws, ‘By Allahazwj! Youasws are Amir Al-Momineen, and by Allahazwj youasws are the most rightful of the people, and their foremost with the Prophetsaww. Give yourasws hand, we shall pledge allegiance to you. By Allahazwj! We shall die (fighting) in front of youasws’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَادِقِينَ فَاغْدُوا عَلَيَّ غَداً مُحَلِّقِينَ فَحَلَقَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع وَ حَلَقَ سَلْمَانُ وَ حَلَقَ مِقْدَادٌ وَ حَلَقَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ لَمْ يَحْلِقْ غَيْرُهُمْ ثُمَّ انْصَرَفُوا

Aliasws said: ‘If you were truthful, then come to me tomorrow morning having shaved your heads!’ Amir Al-Momineenasws shaved hisasws head, and Salmanra shaved, and Miqdadra shaved, and Abu Zarrra shaved, and others did not shave. Then they dispersed.

فَجَاءُوا مَرَّةً أُخْرَى بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَقَالُوا لَهُ أَنْتَ وَ اللَّهِ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ أَنْتَ أَحَقُّ النَّاسِ وَ أَوْلَاهُمْ بِالنَّبِيِّ ص هَلُمَّ يَدَكَ نُبَايِعْكَ وَ حَلَفُوا

They came to himasws again after that and they said to himasws, ‘Youasws, by Allahazwj, are Amir Al-Momineenasws, and youasws are the most rightful of the people, and their foremost with the Prophetsaww. Give yourasws hand, we shall pledge allegiance to youasws’, and they swore oaths.

فَقَالَ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَادِقِينَ فَاغْدُوا عَلَيَّ مُحَلِّقِينَ فَمَا حَلَّقَ إِلَّا هَؤُلَاءِ الثَّلَاثَةُ

Heasws said: ‘If you were truthful, then come to measws in the morning having shaved your heads’. But, no one shaved except those three’.

قُلْتُ فَمَا كَانَ فِيهِمْ عَمَّارٌ فَقَالَ لَا قُلْتُ فَعَمَّارٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الرِّدَّةِ فَقَالَ إِنَّ عَمَّاراً قَدْ قَاتَلَ مَعَ عَلِيٍّ ع بَعْدُ.

I said, ‘Ammar wasn’t among them?’ Heasws said: ‘No’. I said, ‘So, is Ammar from the people of apostasy?’ Heasws said: ‘Ammar had fought alongside Aliasws afterwards’’.¹¹⁰

22- كش، رجال الكشي أَبُو الْحَسَنِ وَ أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ حَمْدَوَيْهِ وَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ ابْنَا نُصَيْرٍ قَالا حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ حَنَانِ بْنِ سَدِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: كَانَ النَّاسُ أَهْلَ رِدَّةٍ بَعْدَ النَّبِيِّ ص إِلَّا ثَلَاثَةً فَقُلْتُ وَ مَنِ الثَّلَاثَةُ فَقَالَ الْمِقْدَادُ بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّ وَ سَلْمَانُ الْفَارِسِيُّ ثُمَّ عَرَفَ النَّاسُ بَعْدَ يَسِيرٍ

(The book) ‘Rijal Al Kashy’ – Abu Al Hassan, and Abu Is’haq Hamdawiya and Ibrahim, two sons of Nuseyr, both said, ‘It was narrated to us by Muhammad Bin Usman, from hanan Bin Sadeye, from his father,

‘Abu Ja’farasws having said: ‘The people had turned to be apostates after the Prophetsaww except three’. I said, ‘And who are the three?’ Heasws said: ‘Al-Miqdad Bin Al-Aswadra, and Abu Zarr Al-Ghifarira, and Salman Al-Farsira. Then the people realised after a little while’.

وَ قَالَ هَؤُلَاءِ الَّذِينَ دَارَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ الرَّحَى وَ أَبَوْا أَنْ يُبَايِعُوا حَتَّى جَاءُوا بِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع مُكْرَهاً فَبَايَعَ وَ ذَلِكَ قَوْلُ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ وَ ما مُحَمَّدٌ إِلَّا رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ الرُّسُلُ أَ فَإِنْ ماتَ‏ أَوْ قُتِلَ انْقَلَبْتُمْ عَلى‏ أَعْقابِكُمْ‏ الْآيَةَ.

And heasws said: ‘They are those upon them the mill turned (they were ground), and they refused to pledge allegiance until they came to Amir Al-Momineenasws. They were coerced, so they pledged allegiance (to Abu Bakr), and that is the Word of Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic: And Muhammad is not except for a Rasool; the Rasools have already passed away before him; so if he dies or is killed will you turn back upon your heels? [3:144] – the Verse’’.¹¹¹

23- كش، رجال الكشي عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْقُتَيْبِيِّ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الرَّازِيِّ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ع يَقُولُ‏ لَمَّا مَرُّوا بِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع وَ فِي رَقَبَتِهِ حَبْلٌ إِلَى زُرَيْقٍ ضَرَبَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ بِيَدِهِ عَلَى الْأُخْرَى فَقَالَ لَيْتَ السُّيُوفَ قَدْ عَادَتْ بِأَيْدِينَا ثَانِيَةً

(The book) ‘Rijal al Kashy’ – Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Al Quteybi, from Ja’far Bin Muhammad Al Razy, from Amro Bin usman, from a man from Abu Hamza who said,

‘I heard Abu Ja’farasws saying: ‘When they passed dragging Amir Al-Momineenasws to Zureyq (Abu Bakr), and in hisasws neck was a rope, Abu Zarrra struck hisra hand upon the other and said, ‘If only the swords had been returned to our hands again’.

وَ قَالَ مِقْدَادٌ لَوْ شَاءَ لَدَعَا عَلَيْهِ رَبَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ قَالَ سَلْمَانُ مَوْلَايَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا هُوَ فِيهِ‏.

And Miqdadra said, ‘If heasws so desires, heasws supplicated to hisasws Lordazwj Mighty and Majestic’. And Salmanra said, ‘Myra Masterasws is more knowing with what situation heasws is in’’.¹¹²

24- كش، رجال الكشي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنِ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ وَ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ الْمَلِكِ بْنَ أَعْيَنَ يَسْأَلُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع فَلَمْ يَزَلْ يَسْأَلُهُ حَتَّى قَالَ لَهُ فَهَلَكَ النَّاسُ إِذاً قَالَ إِي وَ اللَّهِ يَا ابْنَ أَعْيَنَ هَلَكَ النَّاسُ أَجْمَعُونَ قُلْتُ مَنْ فِي الشَّرْقِ وَ مَنْ فِي الْغَرْبِ

(The book) ‘Rijal al Kashy’ – Muhammad Bin Masoud, from ali Bin Fazzal, from Al Abbas Bin Aamir, and Ja’far Bin Muhammad Bin Hakeem, from Aban Bin usman, from Al Haris Bin Al Mugheira who said,

‘I heard Abdul Malik Bin Ayn asking Abu Abdullahasws, and did not cease asking himasws until he said to himasws, ‘The people were (all) destroyed, then!’ Heasws said: ‘Yes, by Allahazwj, O Ibn Ayn! The people were all destroyed’. I said, ‘Ones in the east and ones in the west?’

قَالَ فَقَالَ إِنَّهَا فُتِحَتْ عَلَى الضَّلَالِ إِي وَ اللَّهِ هَلَكُوا إِلَّا ثَلَاثَةً ثُمَّ لَحِقَ أَبُو سَاسَانَ وَ عَمَّارٌ وَ شُتَيْرَةُ وَ أَبُو عَمْرَةَ فَصَارُوا سَبْعَةً.

He (the narrator) said, ‘So heasws said: ‘Surely it (door) was opened up for the straying. Yes, by Allahazwj, they were all destroyed, except three’. Then Abu Sasan, and Ammar, and Shuteyra, and Abu Amro joined up, and they became seven’’.¹¹³

25- كش، رجال الكشي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ شَاذَانَ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع ارْتَدَّ النَّاسُ إِلَّا ثَلَاثَةٌ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ سَلْمَانُ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ قَالَ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع فَأَيْنَ أَبُو سَاسَانَ وَ أَبُو عَمْرَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيُ‏.

(The book) ‘Rijal Al Kashy’ – Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Al Fazl Bin Shazan, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Ibrahim bin Abdul Hameed, from Abu Baseer who said,

‘I said to Abu Abdullahasws, ‘The people (all of them) became apostates except three – Abu Zarrra, and Salmanra, and Al Miqdadra?’ Abu Abdullahasws said: ‘So where is (your mention of) Abu Sanan, and Abu Amro Al-Ansari?’’¹¹⁴

26- كش، رجال الكشي عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَمِيرَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع‏ ارْتَدَّ النَّاسُ إِلَّا ثَلَاثَةُ نَفَرٍ سَلْمَانُ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ قَالَ قُلْتُ فَعَمَّارٌ قَالَ قَدْ كَانَ حَاصَ حَيْصَةً ثُمَّ رَجَعَ

(The book) ‘Rijal al Kashy’ – Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Ibn Ameyra, from Abu Bakr Al Hazramy who said,

‘Abu Ja’farasws said: ‘The people became apostates except three persons – Salmanra, and Abu Zarrra and Al-Miqdadra’. I said, ‘So what (about) Ammar?’ Heasws said: ‘He fled escaping, then returned’.

قَالَ إِنْ أَرَدْتَ الَّذِي لَمْ يَشُكَّ وَ لَمْ يَدْخُلْهُ شَيْ‏ءٌ فَالْمِقْدَادُ

Heasws said: ‘If you intend the ones who did not doubt, and nothing entered into him (of the suspicion), then Al-Miqdadra.

فَأَمَّا سَلْمَانُ فَإِنَّهُ عَرَضَ فِي قَلْبِهِ عَارِضٌ أَنَّ عِنْدَ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع اسْمَ اللَّهِ الْأَعْظَمَ وَ لَوْ تَكَلَّمَ بِهِ لَأَخَذَتْهُمُ الْأَرْضُ وَ هُوَ هَكَذَا فَلُبِّبَ وَ وُجِئَتْ عُنُقُهُ حَتَّى تُرِكَتْ كَالسِّلْعَةِ فَمَرَّ بِهِ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ هَذَا مِنْ ذَلِكَ بَايِعْ فَبَايَعَ

As for Salmanra, hera there had presented an issue in hisra heart that a Magnificent Name of Allahazwj was with Amir Al-Momineenasws, and if heasws were to speak with it, the ground would seize them (adversaries), and it is like that. So hera was satisfied, and hisra neck was pained (beaten up) until hera was discarded like a commodity. Amir Al-Momineenasws passed by himra and said to himra: ‘O servant of Allahazwj! This is from (refusing) that allegiance, so pledge allegiance (to Abu Bakr)’.

وَ أَمَّا أَبُو ذَرٍّ فَأَمَرَهُ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع بِالسُّكُوتِ وَ لَمْ يَكُنْ يَأْخُذُهُ فِي اللَّهِ لَوْمَةُ لَائِمٍ فَأَبَى إِلَّا أَنْ يَتَكَلَّمَ فَمَرَّ بِهِ عُثْمَانُ فَأَمَرَ بِهِ

And as for Abu Zarrra, Amir Al-Momineenasws had ordered himra with the silence, and hera should not take any accusation regarding Allahazwj of any accuser’. But hera refused, except that hera would speak. Usman passed by himasws and ordered with himra.

ثُمَّ أَنَابَ النَّاسُ بَعْدُ وَ كَانَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ أَنَابَ أَبُو سَاسَانَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ وَ أَبُو عَمْرَةَ وَ شُتَيْرَةُ وَ كَانُوا سَبْعَةً فَلَمْ يَكُنْ يَعْرِفُ حَقَّ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع إِلَّا هَؤُلَاءِ السَّبْعَةُ.

Then the people repented afterwards, and the first one to turn was Abu Sasan Al-Ansari, and Abu Amra, and Shuteyra, and they became seven. So, no one happened to have recognised the right of Amir Al-Momineenasws except these seven’’.¹¹⁵

27- كا، الكافي فِي الرَّوْضَةِ، مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَعْمَرٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ‏ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَيُّوبَ الْأَشْعَرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَمْرٍو الْأَوْزَاعِيِّ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شِمْرٍ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْهَيْثَمِ بْنِ التَّيِّهَانِ‏ أَنَّ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع خَطَبَ النَّاسَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ فَقَالَ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ كَانَ حَيّاً بِلَا كَيْفٍ وَ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ كَانَ وَ لَا كَانَ لِكَانَهُ كَيْفٌ وَ لَا كَانَ لَهُ أَيْنٌ وَ لَا كَانَ فِي شَيْ‏ءٍ وَ لَا كَانَ عَلَى شَيْ‏ءٍ وَ لَا ابْتَدَعَ لِكَانَهُ مَكَاناً

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – in ‘Al Rawda’ – Muhammad Bin Ali Bin Ma’mar, from Muhammad Bin Ali, from bdullah Bin Ayoub Al Ashary, from Abu Amro Al Awasie, from Amro Bin Shimr, from Salama Bin Kuheyl, from Abu Al Haysam Bin Al Tayhan,

‘Amir Al-Momineenasws addressed the people at Al-Medina. Heasws said: ‘The Praise is for Allahazwj Who, there is no god except Heazwj. Hesaww would always be alive without ‘how’, and there does not happen to be any ‘was’ for Himazwj, nor would there be a ‘how’ for Hisazwj Existence, nor is there any ‘where’ for Hisazwj Existence, nor did Heazwj exist in anything, nor was Heazwj upon anything, nor is there a place for the beginning for Hisazwj Existence.

وَ لَا قَوِيَ بَعْدَ مَا كَوَّنَ شَيْئاً وَ لَا كَانَ ضَعِيفاً قَبْلَ أَنْ يُكَوِّنَ شَيْئاً وَ لَا كَانَ مُسْتَوْحِشاً قَبْلَ أَنْ يَبْتَدِعَ شَيْئاً وَ لَا يُشْبِهُ شَيْئاً وَ لَا كَانَ خِلْواً مِنْ الْمُلْكِ قَبْلَ إِنْشَائِهِ وَ لَا يَكُونُ خِلْواً مِنْهُ بَعْدَ ذَهَابِهِ

And Heazwj did not become stronger after having Created anything, nor was Heazwj ever weak before Heazwj had Created anything, nor was Heazwj lonesome before Heazwj Began anything, nor does anything resemble Himazwj, nor was Heazwj vacant from the kingdom before Heazwj Crated it, nor will Heazwj happen to be vacant from it after its disappearance.

كَانَ إِلَهاً حَيّاً بِلَا حَيَاةٍ وَ مَالِكاً قَبْلَ أَنْ يُنْشِئَ شَيْئاً وَ مَالِكاً بَعْدَ إِنْشَائِهِ لِلْكَوْنِ وَ لَيْسَ يَكُونُ لِلَّهِ كَيْفٌ وَ لَا أَيْنٌ وَ لَا حَدٌّ يُعْرَفُ وَ لَا شَيْ‏ءٌ يُشْبِهُهُ وَ لَا يَهْرَمُ لِطُولِ بَقَائِهِ وَ لَا يَضْعُفُ لِذُعْرِهِ وَ لَا يَخَافُ كَمَا يَخَافُ خَلِيقَتُهُ مِنْ شَيْ‏ءٍ

Heazwj was a living God without life, and a King before Heazwj Created anything, and a King after Heazwj Created it, and there isn’t any ‘how’ to happen to be for Allahazwj, nor ‘where’, nor a limit recognisable, nor anything resembling Himazwj, nor does Heazwj age due to the prolongation of Hisazwj Life, nor does Heazwj weaken of Hisazwj fright, nor does Heazwj fear like the fear of Hisazwj creatures.

وَ لَكِنْ سَمِيعٌ بِغَيْرِ سَمْعٍ وَ بَصِيرٌ بِغَيْرِ بَصَرٍ وَ قَوِيٌّ بِغَيْرِ قُوَّةٍ مِنْ خَلْقِهِ لَا تُدْرِكُهُ حَدَقُ النَّاظِرِينَ وَ لَا يُحِيطُ بِسَمْعِهِ سَمْعُ السَّامِعِينَ

But, Heazwj Hears without ears, and Sees without sight (eyes), and is Strong without strength from Hisazwj creatures, nor can the gaze of the beholders realise Himazwj, nor can the hearing of the listeners comprehend Hisazwj Hearing.

إِذَا أَرَادَ شَيْئاً كَانَ بِلَا مَشُورَةٍ وَ لَا مُظَاهَرَةٍ وَ لَا مُخَابَرَةٍ وَ لَا يَسْأَلُ أَحَداً عَنْ شَيْ‏ءٍ مِنْ خَلْقِهِ أَرَادَهُ‏ لا تُدْرِكُهُ الْأَبْصارُ وَ هُوَ يُدْرِكُ الْأَبْصارَ وَ هُوَ اللَّطِيفُ الْخَبِيرُ وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ

Whenever Heazwj Intends anything, it would be without consultation, nor demonstration, nor information, nor does Heazwj Ask anyone from Hisazwj creatures about anything Heazwj Wants: Visions cannot comprehend Him, and He Comprehends the visions; and He is the Knower of the subtleties, the Aware [6:103]. And Iasws testify that there is no god except Allahazwj Alone, there being no associates for Himazwj.

وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ أَرْسَلَهُ‏ بِالْهُدى‏ وَ دِينِ الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ وَ لَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ‏

And Iasws testify that Muhammadsaww is Hisazwj servant and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww. Heazwj Sent himsaww with the Guidance and the Religion of Truth in order to prevail it upon all the Religions, and even if the Polytheists dislike it [9:33].

فَبَلَّغَ الرِّسَالَةَ وَ أَنْهَجَ الدَّلَالَةَ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ أَيُّهَا الْأُمَّةُ الَّتِي خُدِعَتْ فَانْخَدَعَتْ وَ عَرَفَتْ خَدِيعَةَ مَنْ خَدَعَهَا فَأَصَرَّتْ عَلَى مَا عَرَفَتْ وَ اتَّبَعَتْ أَهْوَاءَهَا وَ ضَرَبَتْ فِي عَشْوَاءِ غوائها [غَوَايَتِهَا] وَ قَدِ اسْتَبَانَ لَهَا الْحَقُ فَصَدَعَتْ عَنْهُ وَ الطَّرِيقُ الْوَاضِحُ فَتَنَكَّبَتْهُ

Hesaww delivered the Message, and clarified the evidence. O you community (who was) deceived so it deceived, and recognised the deception of the one who deceived, and came to be upon what it recognised, and pursued its whims, and struck out in the darkness of its errors, and (although) the truth had been clarified for it, but it blocked from it, and the clear path, but it censured it.

أَمَا وَ الَّذِي فَلَقَ الْحَبَّةَ وَ بَرَأَ النَّسَمَةَ لَوِ اقْتَبَسْتُمُ الْعِلْمَ مِنْ مَعْدِنِهِ وَ شَرِبْتُمُ الْمَاءَ بِعُذُوبَتِهِ وَ ادَّخَرْتُمُ الْخَيْرَ مِنْ مَوْضِعِهِ وَ أَخَذْتُمْ مِنَ الطَّرِيقِ وَاضِحَهُ وَ سَلَكْتُمْ مِنَ الْحَقِّ نَهْجَهُ لَنَهَجَتْ بِكُمُ السُّبُلُ وَ بَدَتْ لَكُمُ الْأَعْلَامُ وَ أَضَاءَ لَكُمُ الْإِسْلَامُ فَأَكَلْتُمْ رَغَداً وَ مَا عَالَ فِيكُمْ عَائِلٌ وَ لَا ظُلِمَ مِنْكُمْ مُسْلِمٌ وَ لَا مُعَاهَدٌ

But, by the Oneazwj Who Split the seed and Formed the person! If you were to attain the knowledge from its mine, and drunk the water with its sweetness, and hoarded the goodness from its place, and took from the clear road and travelled from the truth on its manifesto, you would have followed the paths, and the signs would have been manifested to you, and Al-Islam would have been illuminated for you, and you would have eaten well and nor dependant of your would have been ill, nor Muslim from you would have been oppressed, nor any ally.

وَ لَكِنْ سَلَكْتُمْ سَبِيلَ الظَّلَامِ فَأَظْلَمَتْ عَلَيْكُمْ دُنْيَاكُمْ بِرُحْبِهَا وَ سُدَّتْ عَلَيْكُمْ أَبْوَابُ الْعِلْمِ فَقُلْتُمْ بِأَهْوَائِكُمْ وَ اخْتَلَفْتُمْ فِي دِينِكُمْ فَأَفْتَيْتُمْ فِي دِينِ اللَّهِ بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ وَ اتَّبَعْتُمُ الْغُوَاةَ فَأَغْوَتْكُمْ وَ تَرَكْتُمُ الْأَئِمَّةَ فَتَرَكُوكُمْ

But, you travelled the way of the darkness, so your world became dark upon you with its welcome, and closed the doors of knowledge upon you. So, you spoke with your whims, and differed in your religion, and you issued verdicts in the Religion of Allahazwj without knowledge, and followed the deviants, so they deviated you, and you neglected the Imamsasws, and theyasws left you.

فَأَصْبَحْتُمْ تَحْكُمُونَ بِأَهْوَائِكُمْ إِذَا ذُكِرَ الْأَمْرُ سَأَلْتُمْ أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ فَإِذَا أَفْتَوْكُمْ قُلْتُمْ هُوَ الْعِلْمُ بِعَيْنِهِ فَكَيْفَ وَ قَدْ تَرَكْتُمُوهُ وَ نَبَذْتُمُوهُ وَ خَالَفْتُمُوهُ رُوَيْداً عَمَّا قَلِيلٍ تَحْصُدُونَ جَمِيعَ مَا زَرَعْتُمْ وَ تَجِدُونَ وَخِيمَ مَا اجْتَرَمْتُمْ وَ مَا اجْتَلَبْتُمْ

So, you became judging by your whims. When the matter was mentioned that you should be asking the people of Al-Zikr when you issue your verdicts, you said, ‘It is the knowledge exactly’. How, and you have left himasws, and rejected himasws, and opposed himasws? Little by little, after a little while, you will be reaping the entirety of what you have sowed, and you will find the severity of what crimes you had committed, and what you had brought about.

وَ الَّذِي فَلَقَ الْحَبَّةَ وَ بَرَأَ النَّسَمَةَ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتُمْ أَنِّي صَاحِبُكُمْ وَ الَّذِي بِهِ أُمِرْتُمْ وَ إِنِّي عَالِمُكُمْ وَ الَّذِي بِعِلْمِهِ نَجَاتُكُمْ وَ وَصِيُّ نَبِيِّكُمْ ص وَ خِيَرَةُ رَبِّكُمْ وَ لِسَانُ نُورِكُمْ وَ الْعَالِمُ بِمَا يُصْلِحُكُمْ

By the Oneazwj Who Split the seed and Formed the person! You have known that Iasws am your Masterasws, and the one you have been Commanded with, and Iasws am your most knowledgeable one and the one with hissaww knowledge, your salvation, and successorasws of your Prophetsaww and the Choice of your Lordazwj, and tongue of your light, and the knowledge with what you can be corrected.

فَعَنْ قَلِيلٍ رُوَيْداً يَنْزِلُ بِكُمْ مَا وُعِدْتُمْ وَ مَا نَزَلَ بِالْأُمَمِ قَبْلَكُمْ وَ سَيَسْأَلُكُمُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَنْ أَئِمَّتِكُمْ مَعَهُمْ تُحْشَرُونَ وَ إِلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ غَداً تَصِيرُونَ

After a little while, little by little, it will befall with you what you have been Threatened with, and what had befallen with the communities before you, and Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic will be Questioning you about your leaders – (with whom) you would be Resurrected with to Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic tomorrow you will be coming to.

أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ كَانَ لِي عِدَّةُ أَصْحَابِ طَالُوتَ أَوْ عِدَّةُ أَهْلِ بَدْرٍ وَ هُمْ أَعْدَاؤُكُمْ لَضَرَبْتُكُمْ بِالسَّيْفِ حَتَّى تَئُولُوا إِلَى الْحَقِّ وَ تُنِيبُوا لِلصِّدْقِ فَكَانَ أَرْتَقَ لِلْفَتْقِ وَ آخَذَ بِالرِّفْقِ

But, by Allahazwj! If there was for me the number of companions of Talut, or the number of the people at Badr, and they were your enemies, Iasws would have struck you all with the sword until you would have returned to the truth, and be reprimanded for (having left) the truthfulness, so you would progress for the disassociation and take with the gentleness.

اللَّهُمَّ فَاحْكُمْ بَيْنَنَا بِالْحَقِّ وَ أَنْتَ خَيْرُ الْحَاكِمِينَ

O Allahazwj! Judge between us with the truth and Youazwj are the best of the judges!’

قَالَ ثُمَّ خَرَجَ مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ فَمَرَّ بِصِيرَةٍ فِيهَا نَحْوٌ مِنْ ثَلَاثِينَ شَاةً فَقَالَ وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ أَنَّ لِي رِجَالًا يَنْصَحُونَ لِلَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص بِعَدَدِ هَذِهِ الشِّيَاهِ لَأَزَلْتُ ابْنَ آكِلَةِ الذِّبَّانِ عَنْ مُلْكِهِ

He (the narrator) said, ‘Then heasws went out from the Masjid and passed by an enclosure and in it were around thirty sheep. Heasws said: ‘By Allahazwj! If there were for me men advising for Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic and for Rasool-Allahsaww, the number of these sheep, Iasws would have removed the eater of the swarms of flies, from his kingdom’.

قَالَ فَلَمَّا أَمْسَى بَايَعَهُ ثَلَاثُمِائَةٍ وَ سِتُّونَ رَجُلًا عَلَى الْمَوْتِ فَقَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع اغْدُوا بِنَا إِلَى أَحْجَارِ الزَّيْتِ مُحَلِّقِينَ وَ حَلَّقَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع فَمَا وَافَى مِنَ الْقَوْمِ مُحَلِّقاً إِلَّا أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ وَ حُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِ وَ عَمَّارُ بْنُ يَاسِرٍ وَ جَاءَ سَلْمَانُ فِي آخِرِ الْقَوْمِ

He (the narrator) said, ‘When it was evening, three hundred and sixty men had pledge to himasws upon the death. Amir Al-Momineenasws said: ‘Come to us in the morning at the olive trees having shaved your heads’; and Amir Al-Momineenasws shaved. But, no one from the people was loyal having shaved their heads, except Abu Zarrra, and Al-Miqdad, and Huzeyfa Bin Al-Yaman, and Ammar Bin Yasser, and Salmanra came at the end of the group.

فَرَفَعَ يَدَيْهِ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فَقَالَ اللَّهُمَ‏ إِنَّ الْقَوْمَ اسْتَضْعَفُونِي‏ كَمَا اسْتَضْعَفَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ هَارُونَ اللَّهُمَّ فَ إِنَّكَ تَعْلَمُ ما نُخْفِي وَ ما نُعْلِنُ‏ وَ مَا يَخْفَى عَلَيْكَ‏ شَيْ‏ءٌ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ لا فِي السَّماءِ* تَوَفَّنِي مُسْلِماً وَ أَلْحِقْنِي بِالصَّالِحِينَ‏

Heasws raised hisasws hands towards the sky and said: ‘O Allahazwj! Surely the people weakened me [7:150], just as the children of Israel had weakened Harounas. O Allahazwj! Surely You Know what we hide and what we announce, [14:38], and there is nothing hidden upon Youazwj in the earth, nor in the sky. Cause me to die a submitter and join me with the righteous ones’ [12:101].

أَمَا وَ الْبَيْتِ وَ الْمُفْضِي إِلَى الْبَيْتِ‏ وَ فِي النُّسْخَةِ وَ الْمُزْدَلِفَةِ وَ الْخِفَافِ إِلَى التَّجْمِيرِ لَوْ لَا عَهْدٌ عَهِدَهُ إِلَيَّ النَّبِيُّ ص لَأَوْرَدْتُ الْمُخَالِفِينَ خَلِيجَ الْمَنِيَّةِ وَ لَأَرْسَلْتُ عَلَيْهِمْ شَآبِيبَ صَوَاعِقِ الْمَوْتِ وَ عَنْ قَلِيلٍ سَيَعْلَمُونَ.

But, by the House (Kabah) and the pilgrims to the House!’ – and in a copy, ‘And Al-Muzdalif and the stones (pebbles) to the stoning! If the Prophetsaww had not pacted to measws hissaww pact, Iasws would have sent the gulf of death to the adversaries, and would have sent flashes of lighting of death upon them, and after a little while, they will come to know’’.¹¹⁶

28- فر، تفسير فرات بن إبراهيم الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ بَزِيعٍ بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ أَبِي رَجَاءٍ الْعُطَارِدِيِّ قَالَ: لَمَّا بَايَعَ النَّاسُ لِأَبِي بِكْرٍ دَخَلَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ الْمَسْجِدَ فَقَالَ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ‏ إِنَّ اللَّهَ اصْطَفى‏ آدَمَ وَ نُوحاً وَ آلَ إِبْراهِيمَ وَ آلَ عِمْرانَ عَلَى الْعالَمِينَ ذُرِّيَّةً بَعْضُها مِنْ بَعْضٍ وَ اللَّهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ‏

Tafseer Furaat Bin Ibrahim – Al Husayn Bin Ali Bin Bazie, by his chain from Abu Raja’a, by his chain, from Raja’a Al Utaridy who said,

‘When the people pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr, Abu Zarr Al-Ghifarira entered the Masjid and said, ‘Surely Allah chose Adam and Noah and the progeny of Ibrahim and the progeny of Imran above the worlds [3:33] Offspring, one being from the other; and Allah is Hearing, Knowing [3:34].

فَأَهْلُ بَيْتَ نَبِيِّكُمْ هُمُ الْآلُ مِنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَ الصَّفْوَةُ وَ السُّلَالَةُ مِنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ وَ الْعِتْرَةُ الْهَادِيَةُ مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ ص

The Peopleasws of the Household of your Prophetsaww, theyasws are the progeny from Ibrahimas, and the elites, and the descent from Ismailas, and the guiding familyasws from Muhammadsaww.

فَبِمُحَمَّدٍ شُرِّفَ شَرِيفُهُمْ فَاسْتَوْجَبُوا حَقَّهُمْ وَ نَالُوا الْفَضِيلَةَ مِنَ رَبِّهِمْ كَالسَّمَاءِ الْمَبْنِيَّةِ وَ الْأَرْضِ الْمَدْحِيَّةِ وَ الْجِبَالِ الْمَنْصُوبَةِ وَ الْكَعْبَةِ الْمَسْتُورَةِ وَ الشَّمْسِ الضَّاحِيَةِ وَ النُّجُومِ الْهَادِيَةِ وَ الشَّجَرَةِ النَّبَوِيَّةِ أَضَاءَ زَيْتُهَا وَ بُورِكَ مَا حَوْلَهَا

So, by Muhammadsaww, theirasws nobility is ennobled, and theirasws rights are obligated, and the merits is Given from theirasws Lordazwj, like the built sky, and the spread out earth, and the installed mountains, and the veiled Kabah, and the illuminating sun, and the guiding stars, and the tree of Prophet-hood is more illuminating in its oil, and Blessed is what is around it.

فَمُحَمَّدٌ ص وَصِيُّ آدَمَ وَ وَارِثُ عِلْمِهِ وَ إِمَامُ الْمُتَّقِينَ وَ قَائِدُ الْغُرِّ الْمُحَجَّلِينَ وَ تَأْوِيلُ الْقُرْآنِ الْعَظِيمِ وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع الصِّدِّيقُ الْأَكْبَرُ وَ الْفَارُوقُ الْأَعْظَمُ وَ وَصِيُّ مُحَمَّدٍ ص وَ وَارِثُ عِلْمِهِ وَ أَخُوهُ

So, Muhammadsaww is a successor of Adamas, and inheritor of hisas knowledge, and Imamsaww of the pious, and guide of the resplendent, and the great interpreter of the Quran; and Aliasws is the greatest truthful, and the magnificent separator, and successorasws of Muhammadsaww, and inheritor of hissaww knowledge, and hissaww brotherasws.

فَمَا بَالُكُمْ أَيَّتُهَا الْأُمَّةُ الْمُتَحَيِّرَةُ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّهَا لَوْ قَدَّمْتُمْ مَنْ قَدَّمَ اللَّهُ وَ خَلَّفْتُمُ الْوِلَايَةَ لِمَنْ خَلَّفَهَا لَهُ النَّبِيُّ وَ اللَّهِ لَمَا عَالَ وَلِيُّ اللَّهِ وَ لَا اخْتَلَفَ اثْنَانِ فِي حُكْمِ اللَّهِ وَ لَا سَقَطَ سَهْمٌ مِنْ فَرَائِضِ اللَّهِ وَ لَا تَنَازَعَتْ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ فِي شَيْ‏ءٍ مِنْ أَمْرِ دِينِهَا إِلَّا وَجَدْتُمْ عِلْمَ ذَلِكَ عِنْدَ أَهْلِ بَيْتِ نَبِيِّكُمْ لِأَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يَقُولُ فِي كِتَابِهِ الْعَزِيزِ الَّذِينَ آتَيْناهُمُ الْكِتابَ يَتْلُونَهُ حَقَّ تِلاوَتِهِ‏

So what is the matter with you all, O you community confused after its Prophetsaww? Had you advanced the one Allahazwj had Advanced, and left behind the governance for the one whom the Prophetsaww had left it behind for himasws, by Allahazwj, you would have raised high a Guardian of Allahazwj, and no two would have differed in a Judgment of Allahazwj, nor would any share from the Obligations of Allahazwj would have fallen, nor would this community have disputed regarding anything from the matters of its Religion, except you would have found the knowledge of that with Peopleasws of the Household of your Prophetsaww, because Allahazwj the Exalted is Saying in the Mighty Book: Those whom We gave the Book are reciting it as is its true recitation [2:121].

فَذُوقُوا وَبَالَ مَا فَرَّطْتُمْ‏ وَ سَيَعْلَمُ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا أَيَّ مُنْقَلَبٍ يَنْقَلِبُونَ‏.

So taste the scourge of what your failures are, And they shall come to know, those who are being unjust, which overturning they would be Overturned with [26:227]’’.¹¹⁷

29- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي جا، المجالس للمفيد عَنْ أَبِي الْمُفَضَّلِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَهْدِيٍّ إِمْلَاءً مِنْ‏ كِتَابِهِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا ع عَنْ آبَائِهِ ع قَالَ: لَمَّا أَتَى أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ إِلَى مَنْزِلِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع وَ خَاطَبَاهُ فِي أَمْرِ الْبَيْعَةِ وَ خَرَجَا مِنْ عِنْدِهِ خَرَجَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi, (and) ‘Al Majaalis’ of Al Mufeed, form Abu Al Mufazzal, from Ahmad Bin Ali Bin Mahdi, dictated from his book, from his father,

‘From Abu Al-Hassan Al-Rezaasws, from hisasws forefathersasws having said: ‘When Abu Bakr and Umar came to the house of Amir Al-Momineenasws, and addressed himasws regarding the matter of the allegiance, and they exited from hisasws presence, Amir Al-Momineenasws went out to the Masjid.

فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَ أَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ بِمَا اصْطَنَعَ عِنْدَهُمْ أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ إِذْ بَعَثَ فِيهِمْ رَسُولًا مِنْهُمْ وَ أَذْهَبَ عَنْهُمُ الرِّجْسَ وَ طَهَّرَهُمْ تَطْهِيراً

Heasws praised Allahazwj and extolled upon Himazwj with what Peopleasws of the Household had faced in their presence, when Heazwj had already Sent a Rasoolsaww from themasws, and Kept away the uncleanness from them, and Purified themasws with a Purification.

ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ فُلَاناً وَ فُلَاناً أَتَيَانِي وَ طَالَبَانِي بِالْبَيْعَةِ لِمَنْ سَبِيلُهُ أَنْ يُبَايِعَنِي أَنَا ابْنُ عَمِّ النَّبِيِّ وَ أَبُو بَنِيهِ وَ الصِّدِّيقُ الْأَكْبَرُ وَ أَخُو رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص لَا يَقُولُهَا أَحَدٌ غَيْرِي إِلَّا كَاذِبٌ

Then heasws said: ‘So and so, and so and so had come to measws and they sought the allegiance from measws for the one, his way is that he should be pledging allegiance to measws. Iasws am a sonasws of an uncleas of the Prophetsaww, and fatherasws of hissaww (grand) sonsasws, and the greatest truthful, and brotherasws of Rasool-Allahsaww. None would say it apart from measws, except a liar.

وَ أَسْلَمْتُ وَ صَلَّيْتُ قَبْلَ كُلِّ أَحَدٍ وَ أَنَا وَصِيُّهُ وَ زَوْجُ ابْنَتِهِ سَيِّدَةِ نِسَاءِ الْعَالَمِينَ فَاطِمَةَ بِنْتِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ أَبُو حَسَنٍ وَ حُسَيْنٍ سِبْطَيْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ

And Iasws professed Islam and prayed Salat before every one, and Iasws am hissaww successorasws, and husband of hissaww daughterasws, chieftess of women of the worlds, (Syeda) Fatimaasws daughterasws of Muhammadsaww, and am fatherasws of Hassanasws and Husaynasws, two grandsonsasws of Rasool-Allahsaww.

وَ نَحْنُ أَهْلُ بَيْتِ الرَّحْمَةِ بِنَا هَدَاكُمُ اللَّهُ وَ بِنَا اسْتَنْقَذَكُمْ مِنَ الضَّلَالَةِ وَ أَنَا صَاحِبُ يَوْمِ الدَّوْحِ‏ وَ فِيَّ نَزَلَتْ سُورَةٌ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ‏ وَ أَنَا الْوَصِيُّ عَلَى الْأَمْوَاتِ مِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ ص وَ أَنَا بَقِيَّتُهُ عَلَى الْأَحْيَاءِ مِنْ أُمَّتِهِ فَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ‏ يُثَبِّتْ أَقْدامَكُمْ‏ وَ يُتِمُّ نِعْمَتَهُ عَلَيْكُمْ‏ ثُمَّ رَجَعَ إِلَى بَيْتِهِ‏.

And weasws are Peopleasws of the Household of Mercy. Through usasws, Allahazwj Guided you all, and by usasws Heazwj Saved you from the straying, and Iasws am the Masterasws of the day of Al-Douh (Ghadeer Khumm), and a Chapter from the Quran was Revealed regarding measws (Surah Al-Dahr), and Iasws am the bequeathed upon the deceased ones from hissaww family, and Iasws am hissaww remaining one upon the living ones from hissaww community, therefore fear Allahazwj, He will Help you and Affirm your feet [47:7] He would Complete His Favours upon you, [16:81]’. Then heasws returned to hisasws house’’.¹¹⁸

30- كا، الكافي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ عُقْبَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْجُعْفِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ وَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالا إِنَّ فَاطِمَةَ ع لَمَّا كَانَ مِنْ أَمْرِهِمْ مَا كَانَ أَخَذَتْ بِتَلَابِيبِ عُمَرَ فَجَذَبَتْهُ إِلَيْهَا ثُمَّ قَالَتْ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ يَا ابْنَ الْخَطَّابِ لَوْ لَا أَنِّي أَكْرَهُ أَنْ يُصِيبَ الْبَلَاءُ مَنْ لَا ذَنْبَ لَهُ لَعَلِمْتَ سَأُقْسِمُ عَلَى اللَّهِ ثُمَّ أَجِدُهُ سَرِيعَ الْإِجَابَةِ.

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Salih bin Uqba, from Abdullah Bin Muhammad Al Jufy,

‘From Abu Ja’farasws and Abu Abdullahasws both having said: (Syeda) ‘Fatimaasws, when it was from their matters what happened, sheasws grabbed the cloth of Umar and pulled him, then sheasws said, ‘But, by Allahazwj, O son of Al-Khattab! Had it not been that Iasws dislike the affliction to hit the ones having no sin for him, you would have known, Iasws would have sworn upon Allahazwj, then Iasws would have found Himazwj to be of a quick in Response’’.¹¹⁹

31- كا، الكافي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ النُّعْمَانِ عَنِ ابْنِ مُسْكَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ ظَهَرَ الْفَسادُ فِي الْبَرِّ وَ الْبَحْرِ بِما كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِي النَّاسِ‏ قَالَ ذَاكَ وَ اللَّهِ حِينَ قَالَتِ الْأَنْصَارُ مِنَّا أَمِيرٌ وَ مِنْكُمْ أَمِيرٌ.

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Ali Bin Al Numan, from Ibn Muskan, from Muhammad Bin Muslim,

‘From Abu Ja’farasws regarding words of Mighty and Majestic: Corruption has appeared in the land and the sea due to what the hands of the people have earned [30:41]. Heasws said: ‘That, by Allahazwj, was when the Helpers said, ‘There should be a ruler from us and a ruler from you (Emigrants)’’.¹²⁰

32- كا، الكافي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنِ ابْنِ مُسْكَانَ عَنْ مُيَسِّرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: قُلْتُ قَوْلُ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ وَ لا تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ بَعْدَ إِصْلاحِها قَالَ فَقَالَ يَا مُيَسِّرُ إِنَّ الْأَرْضَ كَانَتْ فَاسِدَةً فَأَصْلَحَهَا اللَّهُ بِنَبِيِّهِ ص فَقَالَ‏ وَ لا تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ بَعْدَ إِصْلاحِها.

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Ali, from Ibn Muskan, from Muyasser,

‘From Abu Ja’farasws, he (the narrator) said: ‘Iasws said, ‘And do not make mischief in the earth after it has been set in order [7:56], so heasws said: ‘O Muyassar, verily the earth used to be in a state of disorder, so Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Corrected it by Hisazwj Prophetsaww, therefore Heazwj Said: And do not make mischief in the earth after it has been set in order [7:56]’’.¹²¹

33- كا، الكافي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ النُّعْمَانِ عَنِ ابْنِ مُسْكَانَ عَنْ سَدِيرٍ قَالَ: كُنَّا عِنْدَ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع فَذَكَرْنَا مَا أَحْدَثَ النَّاسُ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّهِمْ ص وَ اسْتِذْلَالَهُمْ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ أَصْلَحَكَ اللَّهُ فَأَيْنَ كَانَ عِزُّ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ وَ مَا كَانُوا فِيهِ مِنَ الْعَدَدِ

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from Ali Bin Al Numan, from Ibn Muskan, from Sadeyr who said,

‘We were in the presence of Abu Ja’farasws, and we mentioned what the people had done after their Prophetsaww, and their humiliating Amir Al-Momineenasws. A man from the group said, ‘May Allahazwj Keep youasws well! So where were the mighty ones of the Clan of Hashimasws, and what were they in, from the numbers?’

فَقَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع وَ مَنْ كَانَ بَقِيَ مِنْ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ إِنَّمَا كَانَ جَعْفَرٌ وَ حَمْزَةُ فَمَضَيَا وَ بَقِيَ مَعَهُ رَجُلَانِ ضَعِيفَانِ ذَلِيلَانِ حَدِيثَا عَهْدٍ بِالْإِسْلَامِ عَبَّاسٌ وَ عَقِيلٌ وَ كَانَا مِنَ الطُّلَقَاءِ

Abu Ja’farasws said: ‘And whom from the Clan had remained? But rather, Ja’faras and Hamzaas had both passed away, and there had remained two men with them, both weak, humble, new to the pact of Al-Islam, Abbas and Aqeel, and they were both from the freed ones.

أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ أَنَّ حَمْزَةَ وَ جَعْفَراً كَانَا بِحَضْرَتِهِمَا مَا وَصَلَا إِلَيْهِ وَ لَوْ كَانَا شَاهِدَيْهِمَا لَأَتْلَفَا نَفْسَيْهِمَا.

But, by Allahazwj! If Hamzaas and Ja’faras had both been in their presence, they would not have arrive to himasws, and if they had both witnessed them they would have destroyed themselves’’.¹²²

34- كا، الكافي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنِ ابْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُصَيْنِ عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ الْقُمِّيِّ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع‏ فِي قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ وَ حَسِبُوا أَلَّا تَكُونَ فِتْنَةٌ قَالَ حَيْثُ كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ص بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِهِمْ‏ فَعَمُوا وَ صَمُّوا حَيْثُ قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ ثُمَّ تابَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ‏ حَيْثُ قَامَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع قَالَ‏ ثُمَّ عَمُوا وَ صَمُّوا إِلَى السَّاعَةِ.

And they reckoned that strife would not be happening [5:71]. Heasws said: ‘This was when the Rasool-Allahsaww was present among them. so they were blinded and deafened when the Rasool-Allahsaww passed away. Then Allah Turned to them when Heazwj Established Amir-Al-Momineenasws. then many of them were blinded and deafened [5:71], up to this time’’.¹²³

35- كا، الكافي الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْمُعَلَّى عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ أَبَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي هَاشِمٍ قَالَ: لَمَّا أُخْرِجَ بِعَلِيٍّ ع خَرَجَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع وَاضِعَةً قَمِيصَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص عَلَى رَأْسِهَا آخِذَةً بِيَدَيِ ابْنَيْهَا فَقَالَتْ مَا لِي وَ لَكَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ تُرِيدُ أَنْ تؤتم [تُوتِمَ‏] ابْنَيَّ وَ تُرْمِلَنِي مِنْ زَوْجِي وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ لَا أَنْ يَكُونَ سَيِّئَةٌ لَنَشَرْتُ شَعْرِي وَ لَصَرَخْتُ إِلَى رَبِّي

When they came out with Aliasws, (Syeda) Fatimaasws also came out having placed the shirt of the Rasool-Allahsaww upon herasws head, taking herasws two sonsasws by the hand. Sheasws said: ‘What is it between measws and you, O Abu Bakr that you want to orphan myasws two sonsasws and widow measws from myasws husbandasws? By Allahazwj! Had it not been inappropriate, Iasws would have released myasws hair and cried out to myasws Lordazwj!’

فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ مَا تُرِيدُ إِلَى هَذَا ثُمَّ أَخَذَتْ بِيَدِهِ فَانْطَلَقَتْ بِهِ‏.

A man from the people said, ‘What do you want (from all) this?’ Then sheasws took himasws (Aliasws) by hisasws hand and left with himasws’’.

وَ بِالْإِسْنَادِ عَنْ أَبَانٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ الطَّائِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ نَشَرَتْ شَعْرَهَا مَاتُوا طُرّاً.

And by the chain from Aban, ,from Ali Bin Abdul Aziz, from Abdul Hameed Al Taie,

‘From Abu Ja’farasws having said: ‘By Allahazwj! If sheasws had exposed herasws hair, they would have died immediately’’.¹²⁴

36- كا، الكافي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ الْعِدَّةُ عَنْ سَهْلٍ جَمِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ أَبِي الْمِقْدَامِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع إِنَّ الْعَامَّةَ يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّ بَيْعَةَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ حَيْثُ اجْتَمَعَ النَّاسُ كَانَتْ رِضًا لِلَّهِ عَزَّ ذِكْرُهُ وَ مَا كَانَ اللَّهُ لِيَفْتِنَ أُمَّةَ مُحَمَّدٍ ص مِنْ بَعْدِهِ

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and the number, from Sahl, altogether from Ibn Mahboub, from Amro Bin Abu Al Miqdam, from his father who said,

‘I said to Abu Ja’farasws, ‘The general Muslim are claiming that the allegiance to Abu Bakr, when the people gathered to him, was a Pleasure of Allahazwj, Mighty is Hisazwj Mention, and it was not for Allahazwj to Try the community of Muhammadsaww from after himsaww’.

فَقَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع أَ وَ مَا يَقْرَءُونَ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ أَ وَ لَيْسَ اللَّهُ يَقُولُ‏ وَ ما مُحَمَّدٌ إِلَّا رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ الرُّسُلُ أَ فَإِنْ ماتَ أَوْ قُتِلَ انْقَلَبْتُمْ عَلى‏ أَعْقابِكُمْ وَ مَنْ يَنْقَلِبْ عَلى‏ عَقِبَيْهِ فَلَنْ يَضُرَّ اللَّهَ شَيْئاً وَ سَيَجْزِي اللَّهُ الشَّاكِرِينَ‏

Abu Ja’farasws said: ‘Or are they not reading the Book of Allahazwj? Or isn’t Allahazwj Saying: And Muhammad is not except for a Rasool; the Rasools have already passed away before him; so if he dies or is killed will you turn back upon your heels? And the one who turns back upon his heels, he will never harm Allah of anything and Allah would be Recompensing the grateful [3:144]?’

قَالَ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ إِنَّهُمْ يُفَسِّرُونَ عَلَى وَجْهٍ آخَرَ

He (the narrator) said, ‘I said to himasws, ‘They are interpreting upon another perspective’.

فَقَالَ أَ وَ لَيْسَ قَدْ أَخْبَرَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَنِ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ مِنَ الْأُمَمِ أَنَّهُمْ قَدِ اخْتَلَفُوا مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا جَاءَتْهُمُ الْبَيِّنَاتُ حَيْثُ قَالَ‏ وَ آتَيْنا عِيسَى ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ الْبَيِّناتِ وَ أَيَّدْناهُ بِرُوحِ الْقُدُسِ وَ لَوْ شاءَ اللَّهُ مَا اقْتَتَلَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ ما جاءَتْهُمُ الْبَيِّناتُ وَ لكِنِ اخْتَلَفُوا فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ آمَنَ وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ كَفَرَ وَ لَوْ شاءَ اللَّهُ مَا اقْتَتَلُوا وَ لكِنَّ اللَّهَ يَفْعَلُ ما يُرِيدُ

Heasws said: ‘Or hasn’t Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Informed about those from the communities before them? They had differed from after the proof had come to them, where Heazwj Says: And We Gave Isa Ibn Maryam the Clear Proofs and Assisted him with the Holy Spirit; and had Allah so Desired, those (people) from after them (Rasools) would not have fought after the clear proofs had come to them. But, they differed, so from them was one who expressed belief, and from them was one who committed Kufr. And had Allah so Desired, they would not have fought, but Allah Does whatever He Wants to [2:253].

وَ فِي هَذَا مَا يُسْتَدَلُّ بِهِ عَلَى أَنَّ أَصْحَابَ مُحَمَّدٍ ص قَدِ اخْتَلَفُوا مِنْ بَعْدِهِ‏ فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ آمَنَ وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ كَفَرَ.

And in this is what points upon that the companions of Muhammadsaww had differed from after himsaww, so from them was one who expressed belief, and from them was one who committed Kufr [4:55]’’.¹²⁵

37- كا، الكافي حُمَيْدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْكِنْدِيِّ عَنْ غَيْرِ وَاحِدٍ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ الْأَحْوَلِ وَ الْفُضَيْلِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ زَكَرِيَّا النَّقَّاضِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ‏ النَّاسُ صَارُوا بَعْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص بِمَنْزِلَةِ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ هَارُونَ ع وَ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ الْعِجْلَ وَ إِنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ دَعَا فَأَبَى عَلِيٌّ ع إِلَّا الْقُرْآنَ وَ إِنَّ عُمَرَ دَعَا فَأَبَى عَلِيٌّ ع إِلَّا الْقُرْآنَ وَ إِنَّ عُثْمَانَ دَعَا فَأَبَى عَلِيٌّ ع إِلَّا الْقُرْآنَ

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Humeyd Bin Ziyad, from Al Hassan Bin Muhammad Al Kindi, from someone else, from Aban Bin Usman, from Abu Ja’far Al Ahown and Al Fuzeyl Bin Yasaar, from Zakariya Al Naqaz,

‘From Abu Ja’farasws, he (the narrator) said, ‘I heard himasws saying: ‘After Rasool-Allahsaww, the people became at the status of the ones who followed Harounas and the ones who followed the calf. And Abu Bakr had called, but Aliasws refused except the (compilation of) Quran, and Umar called and Aliasws refused except (compilation) the Quran, and Usman called, but Aliasws refused except (due to the compiling of) the Quran.

وَ إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ مِنْ أَحَدٍ يَدْعُو إِلَى أَنْ يَخْرُجَ الدَّجَّالُ إِلَّا سَيَجِدُ مَنْ يُبَايِعُهُ وَ مَنْ رَفَعَ رَايَةَ ضَلَالٍ فَصَاحِبُهَا طَاغُوتٌ‏.

And surely there is no one who would be calling (to himself) up to the emergence of Al-Dajjalla except he would find one pledging allegiance to him, and one who raises a flag of straying, so its owner is a tyrant’’.¹²⁶

38- كا، الكافي بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ عَنْ أَبَانٍ عَنِ الْفُضَيْلِ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: إِنَّ النَّاسَ لَمَّا صَنَعُوا مَا صَنَعُوا إِذْ بَايَعُوا أَبَا بَكْرٍ لَمْ يُمْنَعْ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع مِنْ أَنْ يَدْعُوَ إِلَى نَفْسِهِ إِلَّا نَظَراً لِلنَّاسِ وَ تَخَوُّفاً عَلَيْهِمْ أَنْ يَرْتَدُّوا عَنِ الْإِسْلَامِ فَيَعْبُدُوا الْأَوْثَانَ وَ لَا يَشْهَدُوا أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً رَسُولُ اللَّهِ

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’, by this chain from Aban, from Al Fuzeyl, from Zurara,

‘From Abu Ja’farasws having said: ‘When the people did what they did when they pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr, nothing prevented Amir Al-Momineenasws from calling to himselfasws except as consideration for the people, and fear upon them that they would be reneging from Al-Islam, and they would (once again) worship the idols, and not testify that there is no god except Allahazwj and that Muhammadsaww is Rasool-Allahsaww.

وَ كَانَ الْأَحَبَّ إِلَيْهِ أَنْ يُقِرَّهُمْ عَلَى مَا صَنَعُوا مِنْ أَنْ يَرْتَدُّوا عَنِ الْإِسْلَامِ وَ إِنَّمَا هَلَكَ الَّذِينَ رَكِبُوا مَا رَكِبُوا

And it was more beloved to himasws that he acknowledge to them upon what they had done, than for them to renege from Al-Islam, and rather destroyed are the ones who indulged in what they indulged in.

فَأَمَّا مَنْ لَمْ يَصْنَعْ ذَلِكَ وَ دَخَلَ فِيمَا دَخَلَ فِيهِ النَّاسُ عَلَى غَيْرِ عِلْمٍ وَ لَا عَدَاوَةٍ لِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ لَا يُكْفِرُهُ وَ لَا يُخْرِجُهُ مِنَ الْإِسْلَامِ فَلِذَلِكَ كَتَمَ عَلِيٌّ ع أَمْرَهُ وَ بَايَعَ مُكْرَهاً حَيْثُ لَمْ يَجِدْ أَعْوَاناً.

As for the one who did not do that, and entered along with the people what they had entered into, upon without having knowledge, and not enmity for Amir Al-Momineenasws, so that one neither disbelieved nor exited from Al-Islam. For that reason Aliasws concealed hisasws matter and pledged allegiance unwillingly when heasws did not find any supporters’’.¹²⁷

39- كا، الكافي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ النُّعْمَانِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُسْكَانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحِيمِ الْقَصِيرِ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع إِنَّ النَّاسَ يَفْزَعُونَ إِذَا قُلْنَا إِنَّ النَّاسَ ارْتَدُّوا

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from Ali Bin Al Numan, from Abdullah Bin Muskan, from Abdul Rahman Al Qaseer who said,

‘I said to Abu Ja’farasws, ‘The people get alarmed when we say that the people became apostate’.

فَقَالَ يَا عَبْدَ الرَّحِيمِ إِنَّ النَّاسَ عَادُوا بَعْدَ مَا قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَهْلَ جَاهِلِيَّةٍ إِنَّ الْأَنْصَارَ اعْتَزَلَتْ فَلَمْ تَعْتَزِلْ بِخَيْرٍ جَعَلُوا يُبَايِعُونَ سَعْداً وَ هُمْ يَرْتَجِزُونَ ارْتِجَازَ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ

يَا سَعْدُ أَنْتَ الْمُرَجَّى‏

وَ شَعْرُكَ الْمُرَجَّلُ‏

وَ فَحْلُكَ الْمُرَجَّمُ‏

Heasws said: ‘O Abdul Rahman! After Rasool-Allahsaww passed away, the people returned to the pre-Islamic (ways). The Helpers detached themselves but did not detach with good. They went on to pledge allegiance to Sa’d, and they were reciting slogans, slogans of the pre-Islamic period – ‘O Sa’d! You are the hope, and your slogan is the vessel, and your solution is being repelled’’.¹²⁸

40- كا، الكافي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْيَمَانِيِّ عَنْ مَنِيعِ بْنِ الْحَجَّاجِ عَنْ صَبَّاحٍ الْحَذَّاءِ عَنْ صَبَّاحٍ الْمُزَنِيِّ عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: لَمَّا أَخَذَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِيَدِ عَلِيٍّ ع يَوْمَ الْغَدِيرِ صَرَخَ إِبْلِيسُ فِي جُنُودِهِ صَرْخَةً فَلَمْ يَبْقَ مِنْهُمْ أَحَدٌ فِي بَرٍّ وَ لَا بَحْرٍ إِلَّا أَتَاهُ فَقَالُوا يَا سَيِّدَهُمْ وَ مَوْلَاهُمْ مَا ذَا دَهَاكَ فَمَا سَمِعْنَا لَكَ صَرْخَةً أَوْحَشَ مِنْ صَرْخَتِكَ هَذِهِ

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Suleyman, from Abdullah Bin Muhammad Al Yamani, from manie Bin al Hajjaj, from Sabbah Al Haza’a, from Sabbad Al Muzny, from Jabir,

‘From Abu Ja’farasws having said: ‘When the Rasool-Allahsaww grabbed the hand of Aliasws on the Day of Al-Ghadeer, Ibleesla screamed in hisla army a loud scream. So there did not remain anyone from among them, either in the land or in the sea except that he came to himla. They said, ‘O our chief and our master! What was that shriek which we heard which was so frightening that youla have never screamed like this before?’

فَقَالَ لَهُمْ فَعَلَ هَذَا النَّبِيُّ فِعْلًا إِنْ تَمَّ لَمْ يُعْصَ اللَّهُ أَبَداً فَقَالُوا يَا سَيِّدَهُمْ أَنْتَ كُنْتَ لِآدَمَ

Hela said to them, ‘It was the action of this Prophetsaww, if acted upon, no one would disobey Allahazwj ever!’ They said, ‘O our chief, youla dealt with Adamas’.

فَلَمَّا قَالَ الْمُنَافِقُونَ إِنَّهُ يَنْطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوَى وَ قَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا لِصَاحِبِهِ أَ مَا تَرَى عَيْنَيْهِ تَدُورَانِ فِي رَأْسِهِ كَأَنَّهُ مَجْنُونٌ يَعْنُونَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص صَرَخَ إِبْلِيسُ صَرْخَةً يَطْرَبُ

So when the hypocrites said, ‘Hesaww speaks out of desires’, and one of the two (Abu Bakr and Umar) said to his companion, ‘Did you see hissaww turn in hissaww head as if hesaww is insane?’ - meaning Rasool-Allahsaww, Ibleesla screamed with a scream of pleasure.

فَجَمَعَ أَوْلِيَاءَهُ فَقَالَ أَ مَا عَلِمْتُمْ أَنِّي كُنْتُ لآِدَمَ مِنْ قَبْلُ قَالُوا نَعَمْ قَالَ آدَمُ نَقَضَ الْعَهْدَ وَ لَمْ يَكْفُرْ بِالرَّبِّ وَ هَؤُلَاءِ نَقَضُوا الْعَهْدَ وَ كَفَرُوا بِالرَّسُولِ ص

Hisla friends gathered. Hela said, ‘But, do you know that Ila dealt with Adamas beforehand?’ They said, ‘Yes’. Hela said, ‘Adamas set aside the Covenant and did not blaspheme with the Lordazwj, and these ones have set aside the Covenant and have blasphemed against Rasool-Allahsaww’.

فَلَمَّا قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَقَامَ النَّاسُ غَيْرَ عَلِيٍّ لَبِسَ إِبْلِيسُ تَاجَ الْمُلْكِ وَ نَصَبَ مِنْبَراً وَ قَعَدَ فِي الزِّينَةِ وَ جَمَعَ خَيْلَهُ وَ رَجِلَهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُمْ اطْرَبُوا لَا يُطَاعُ اللَّهُ حَتَّى يَقُومَ إِمَامٌ

When Rasool-Allahsaww passed away and the people established someone other than Aliasws, Ibleesla wore a crown of the king and established a pulpit and sat upon the cushion, and gathered hisla cavalry and hisla infantry. Then hela said to them, ‘Be delighted! Allahazwj will not be obeyed until the Imamasws (Al-Mahdiasws) rises’.

وَ تَلَا أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع‏ وَ لَقَدْ صَدَّقَ عَلَيْهِمْ إِبْلِيسُ ظَنَّهُ فَاتَّبَعُوهُ إِلَّا فَرِيقاً مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ‏ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع كَانَ تَأْوِيلُ هَذِهِ الْآيَةِ لَمَّا قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ الظَّنُّ مِنْ إِبْلِيسَ حِينَ قَالُوا لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّهُ يَنْطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوَى فَظَنَّ بِهِمْ إِبْلِيسُ ظَنّاً فَصَدَّقُوا ظَنَّهُ‏.

And Abu Ja’farasws recited: And Iblees did ratify his conjecture upon them, so they (all) followed him except a group from the Momineen [34:20]. Abu Ja’farasws said: ‘The explanation of this Verse came to the fore when the Rasool-Allahsaww passed away, and the conjecture from Ibleesla where they said to the Rasool-Allahsaww that hesaww speak out of desire, so Ibleesla conjectured about them with a conjecture and they ratified hisla conjecture’’.¹²⁹

41- كا، الكافي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنِ ابْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ حَدِيدٍ عَنْ جَمِيلِ بْنِ دَرَّاجٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ أَحَدِهِمَا ع قَالَ: أَصْبَحَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَوْماً كَئِيباً حَزِيناً فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع مَا لِي أَرَاكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَئِيباً حَزِيناً

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Muhammad Ibn Yahya, from Ibn Isa, from Ali Bin Hadeed, from Hameel Bin Darraj, from Zurara,

‘From one of the two (5th or 6th Imamasws) having said: ‘One morning the Rasool-Allahsaww was grim and in grief. Aliasws said to himsaww: ‘What is it that Iasws see yousaww to be grim and sad, O Rasool-Allahsaww?’

فَقَالَ وَ كَيْفَ لَا أَكُونُ كَذَلِكَ وَ قَدْ رَأَيْتُ فِي لَيْلَتِي هَذِهِ أَنَّ بَنِي تَيْمٍ وَ بَنِي عَدِيٍّ وَ بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ يَصْعَدُونَ‏ مِنْبَرِي هَذَا يَرُدُّونَ النَّاسَ عَنِ الْإِسْلَامِ الْقَهْقَرَى فَقُلْتُ يَا رَبِّ فِي حَيَاتِي أَوْ بَعْدَ مَوْتِي فَقَالَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِكَ.

Hesaww said; ‘How can Isaww not be like that and Isaww have dreamt last night that the Clan of Taym (Abu Bakr’s clan), and clan of Adayy (Umar’s clan) ascending upon this Pulpit of minesaww, returning the people back from Al-Islam backwards? So Isaww said: ‘O Lordazwj! Will it be during mysaww lifetime or after mysaww passing away?’ Heazwj Said; “After yoursaww passing away”.¹³⁰

42- ختص، الإختصاص عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنِ ابْنِ الْوَلِيدِ عَنِ الصَّفَّارِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ سَعْدَانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ ثَابِتٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَقُولُ‏ إِنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص لَمَّا قُبِضَ ارْتَدَّ النَّاسُ عَلَى أَعْقَابِهِمُ كُفَّاراً إِلَّا ثَلَاثَةٌ سَلْمَانُ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيُّ

(The book) ‘Al Ikhtisas’ – A number of our companions, from Ibn Al Waleed, from Al Saffar, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Musa bin Sa’dan, from Abdullah Bin Al Qasim Al Hazrami, from Amro Bin Sabit who said,

‘I heard Abu Abdullahasws saying: ‘When the Prophetsaww passed away, the people turned upon their heels as Kafirs, except three – Salmanra, and Al-Miqdadra, and Abu Zarr Al-Ghifarira.

إِنَّهُ لَمَّا قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص جَاءَ أَرْبَعُونَ رَجُلًا إِلَى عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَقَالُوا لَا وَ اللَّهِ لَا نُعْطِي أَحَداً طَاعَةً بَعْدَكَ أَبَداً قَالَ وَ لِمَ قَالُوا إِنَّا سَمِعْنَا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فِيكَ يَوْمَ غَدِيرٍ قَالَ وَ تَفْعَلُونَ قَالُوا نَعَمْ قَالَ فَأْتُونِي غَداً مُحَلِّقِينَ

When Rasool-Allahsaww passed away, forty men came to Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws and they said, ‘No, by Allahazwj! We will not obey anyone in obedience after youasws, ever’. Heasws said: ‘And why?’ They said, ‘We heard from Rasool-Allahsaww on the day of Ghadeer regarding youasws’. Heasws said: ‘And you will be doing so?’ They said, ‘Yes’. Heasws said: ‘Then come to measws in the morning, having shaved your heads’.

قَالَ فَمَا أَتَاهُ إِلَّا هَؤُلَاءِ الثَّلَاثَةُ قَالَ وَ جَاءَهُ عَمَّارُ بْنُ يَاسِرٍ بَعْدَ الظُّهْرِ فَضَرَبَ يَدَهُ عَلَى صَدْرِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُ مَا آنَ لَكَ أَنْ تَسْتَيْقِظَ مِنْ نَوْمَةِ الْغَفْلَةِ ارْجِعُوا فَلَا حَاجَةَ لِي فِيكُمْ أَنْتُمْ لَمْ تُطِيعُونِي فِي حَلْقِ الرَّأْسِ فَكَيْفَ تُطِيعُونِي فِي قِتَالِ جِبَالِ الْحَدِيدِ ارْجِعُوا فَلَا حَاجَةَ لِي فِيكُمْ‏.

Heasws said: ‘No one came to himasws except the three. And Ammar Bin Yasser came to himasws after Al-Zohr (midday). Heasws struck hisasws hand upon hisasws chest, then said to him: ‘What is now for you. Did you wake up from the sleep of heedlessness? Return! There is no need for measws regarding you all! You did not obey me in shaving the head, so how will you obey measws regarding fighting the iron mountain? Return, there is no need for measws regarding you all!’’¹³¹

43- ختص، الإختصاص جَعْفَرُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْمُؤْمِنُ عَنِ ابْنِ الْوَلِيدِ عَنِ الصَّفَّارِ عَنِ ابْنِ عِيسَى يَرْفَعُهُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: إِنَّ سَلْمَانَ كَانَ مِنْهُ إِلَى ارْتِفَاعِ النَّهَارِ فَعَاقَبَهُ اللَّهُ أَنْ وُجِئَ فِي عُنُقِهِ حَتَّى صُيِّرَتْ كَهَيْئَةِ السِّلْعَةِ حَمْرَاءَ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ كَانَ مِنْهُ إِلَى وَقْتِ الظُّهْرِ فَعَاقَبَهُ اللَّهُ إِلَى أَنْ سَلَّطَ عَلَيْهِ عُثْمَانَ حَتَّى حَمَلَهُ عَلَى قَتَبٍ وَ أُكِلَ لَحْمُ أَلْيَتَيْهِ وَ طَرَدَهُ عَنْ جِوَارِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

(The book) ‘Al Ikhtisas’ – Ja’far Bin Al Husayn al momin, from Ibn Al Waleed, from Al Saffar, from Ibn Isa, raising it,

‘From Abu Abdullahasws having said: ‘Salmanra was with himasws up to the rise of the day, so Allahazwj Punished him, that hera was pained in hisra neck until it became as if it was the red rib; and Abu Zarrra was from it up to the time of Al-Zohr so Allahazwj Punished himra up to Usman overcame upon himra until hera was carried up a hump, and the flesh of hisra back was eaten up, and hera was kicked out from the vicinity of Rasool-Allahsaww.

فَأَمَّا الَّذِي لَمْ يَتَغَيَّرْ مُنْذُ قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص حَتَّى فَارَقَ الدُّنْيَا طَرْفَةَ عَيْنٍ فَالْمِقْدَادُ بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِ لَمْ يَزَلْ‏ قَائِماً قَابِضاً عَلَى قَائِمِ السَّيْفِ عَيْنَاهُ فِي عَيْنَيْ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع يَنْتَظِرُ مَتَى يَأْمُرُهُ فَيَمْضِيَ‏.

As for the one who did not change for the blink of an eye since Rasool-Allahsaww had passed away, until he left the world, so it is Al-Miqdad Bin Al-Aswadra. Hera did not cease to stand, grabbing upon the hilt of the sword, hisra eyes being following the eye of Amir Al-Momineenasws, awaiting when heasws would instructing, so hera would go’’.¹³²

44- ختص، الإختصاص جَعْفَرُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنِ ابْنِ الْوَلِيدِ عَنِ الصَّفَّارِ عَنِ الْبَرْقِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو عَنْ كَرَّامٍ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ جَابِرٍ عَنْ مُفَضَّلِ بْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع‏ لَمَّا بَايَعَ النَّاسُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ أُتِيَ بِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع مُلَبَّباً لِيُبَايِعَ

(The book) ‘Al Ikhtisaas’ – Ja’far Bin Al Husayn, from Ibn Al Waleed, from Al Saffar, from Al Barqy, from his father, from Muhammad Bin Amro, from Karram, from Ismail Bin Jabir, from Mufazzal Bin Umar who said,

‘Abu Abdullahasws said: ‘When Abu Bakr was pledged allegiance to, they came with Amir Al-Momineenasws tied up to pledge allegiance (forcefully).

قَالَ سَلْمَانُ أَ يُصْنَعُ ذَا بِهَذَا وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ أَقْسَمَ عَلَى اللَّهِ لَانْطَبَقَتْ ذِهْ عَلَى ذِهْ قَالَ وَ قَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ قَالَ الْمِقْدَادُ وَ اللَّهِ هَكَذَا أَرَادَ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَكُونَ

Salmanra said, ‘Are you doing that with this one? By Allahazwj! If Ira were to swear upon Allahazwj, Ira would apply same upon the same’. And Abu Zarrra said and Al-Miqdadra said, ‘Allahazwj Wanted it to happen’.

فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع كَانَ الْمِقْدَادُ أَعْظَمَ النَّاسِ إِيمَاناً تِلْكَ السَّاعَةَ.

Abu Abdullahasws said: ‘Al-Miqdadra was the greatest of the people in Eman at that moment’’.¹³³

45- أَقُولُ وَجَدْتُ فِي كِتَابِ سُلَيْمِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ الْهِلَالِيِّ، بِرِوَايَةِ أَبَانِ بْنِ أَبِي عَيَّاشٍ عَنْهُ مُوَافِقاً لِمَا رَوَاهُ الطَّبْرِسِيُّ ره عَنْهُ فِي الْإِحْتِجَاجِ‏ سُلَيْمُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَلْمَانَ الْفَارِسِيَّ ره قَالَ: لَمَّا أَنْ قُبِضَ النَّبِيُّ ص وَ صَنَعَ النَّاسُ مَا صَنَعُوا جَاءَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ فَخَاصَمُوا الْأَنْصَارَ فَخَصَمُوهُمْ بِحُجَّةِ عَلِيٍّ

I (Msjlisi) am saying, ‘I found in the book of Suleym Bin Qays Al Hilali by a report of Aban Bin Abu Usma Abu Ayyash, from his, in accordance to what is reported by Al Tabarsy, from him in (the book) ‘Al Ihtijaj’ –

‘Suleym Bin Qays said, ‘I heard Salman Al-Farsira said: ‘When the Prophetsaww passed away and the people did what they did, Abu Bakr and Umar and Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah came and disputed to the Helpers, and they (Helpers) disputed to them by the argument of Aliasws.

فَقَالُوا يَا مَعْشَرَ الْأَنْصَارِ قُرَيْشٌ أَحَقُّ بِالْأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ لِأَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَ الْمُهَاجِرُونَ خَيْرٌ مِنْكُمْ لِأَنَّ اللَّهَ بَدَأَ بِهِمْ فِي كِتَابِهِ وَ فَضَّلَهُمْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْأَئِمَّةُ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ‏

They (Emigrants) said, ‘O communities of Helpers! Quraysh are more rightful with the command than you are because Allahazwj Began with them in Hisazwj Book, and merited them. Rasool-Allahsaww had said: ‘The Imamsasws are from Quraysh’.

وَ قَالَ سَلْمَانُ فَأَتَيْتُ عَلِيّاً وَ هُوَ يُغَسِّلُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَدْ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَوْصَى عَلِيّاً ع أَنْ لَا يَلِيَ غُسْلَهُ غَيْرُهُ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص مَنْ يُعِينُنِي عَلَى ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ جَبْرَئِيلُ

And Salmanra said, ‘Ira came to Aliasws and heasws was washing (the body of) Rasool-Allahsaww, and Rasool-Allahsaww had bequeathed to Aliasws that no one should be in charge of washing himsaww apart from himasws. Heasws said: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Who will assist measws upon that?’ Hesaww said: ‘Jibraeelas’.

فَكَانَ عَلِيٌّ ع لَا يُرِيدُ عُضْواً إِلَّا قُلِّبَ لَهُ فَلَمَّا غَسَّلَهُ وَ حَنَّطَهُ وَ كَفَّنَهُ أَدْخَلَنِي وَ أَدْخَلَ أَبَا ذَرٍّ وَ الْمِقْدَادَ وَ فَاطِمَةَ وَ الْحَسَنَ وَ الْحُسَيْنَ ع فَتَقَدَّمَ وَ صَفَفْنَا خَلْفَهُ وَ صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ وَ الْعَائِشَةُ فِي الْحُجْرَةِ لَا تَعْلَمُ قَدْ أَخَذَ اللَّهُ بِبَصَرِهَا

So, Aliasws did not intend any limb, except it was turned for himasws. When heasws had washed himsaww, and embalmed himsaww, and enshrouded himsaww, allowed mera to enter, and Abu Zarrra, and Al-Miqdadra, and (Syeda) Fatimaasws, and Al-Hassanasws, and Al-Husaynasws. Heasws proceeded and we formed rows behind himasws, and prayed Salat upon himsaww; and Ayesha was in the chamber, not knowing, Allahazwj had Seized her sight.

ثُمَّ أَدْخَلَ عَشَرَةً مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ عَشَرَةً مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ فَكَانُوا يَدْخُلُونَ وَ يَدْعُونَ وَ يَخْرُجُونَ حَتَّى لَمْ يَبْقَ أَحَدٌ شَهِدَ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ إِلَّا صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ

Then ten from the Emigrants and ten from the Helpers entered. They were entering and supplicating and exiting until there had not remained anyone present from the Emigrants and the Helpers except he had prayed Salat upon himsaww.

قَالَ سَلْمَانُ الْفَارِسِيُّ فَأَخْبَرْتُ عَلِيّاً ع وَ هُوَ يُغَسِّلُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص بِمَا صَنَعَ الْقَوْمُ وَ قُلْتُ إِنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ السَّاعَةَ لَعَلَى مِنْبَرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص مَا يَرْضَوْنَ أَنْ يُبَايِعُوا لَهُ بِيَدٍ وَاحِدَةٍ وَ إِنَّهُمْ لَيُبَايِعُونَهُ بِيَدَيْهِ جَمِيعاً بِيَمِينِهِ وَ شِمَالِهِ

Salman Al-Farsira said, ‘Ira informed Aliasws while heasws was washing Rasool-Allahsaww, with what the people had done, and Ira said, ‘Abu Bakr, at the moment, is upon the pulpit of Rasool-Allahsaww. They are not pleased pledging allegiance to him with one hand, and they are pledging allegiance to him with both his hands together, his right hand and his left hand’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَا سَلْمَانُ وَ هَلْ تَدْرِي مَنْ أَوَّلُ مَنْ بَايَعَهُ عَلَى مِنْبَرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ قُلْتُ لَا إِلَّا أَنِّي رَأَيْتُهُ فِي ظُلَّةِ بَنِي سَاعِدَةَ حِينَ خَصَمَتِ الْأَنْصَارَ وَ كَانَ أَوَّلُ مَنْ بَايَعَهُ الْمُغِيرَةَ بْنَ شُعْبَةَ ثُمَّ بَشِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ ثُمَّ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ ثُمَّ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ ثُمَّ سَالِمٌ مَوْلَى أَبِي حُذَيْفَةَ وَ مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ

Aliasws said: ‘O Salmanra! And do youra know who was the first one to pledge allegiance to him upon the pulpit of Rasool-Allahsaww?’ Ira said, ‘No, except Ira saw him in the shed of the clan of Saaida when the Helpers disputed, and the first one to pledge allegiance was Al-Mugheira Bin Shu’ba, then Bashir Bin Sa’d, then Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah, then Umar Bin Al-Khattab, then Saalim Mawla Abu Huzeyfa, and Muaz Bin Jabal’.

قَالَ لَسْتُ أَسْأَلُكَ عَنْ هَؤُلَاءِ وَ لَكِنْ تَدْرِي مَنْ أَوَّلُ مَنْ بَايَعَهُ حِينَ صَعِدَ الْمِنْبَرَ قُلْتُ لَا وَ لَكِنْ رَأَيْتُ شَيْخاً كَبِيراً يَتَوَكَّأُ عَلَى عَصَاهُ بَيْنَ عَيْنَيْهِ سَجَّادَةٌ شَدِيدُ التَّشْمِيرِ صَعِدَ الْمِنْبَرَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ صَعِدَ وَ خَرَّ وَ هُوَ يَبْكِي وَ يَقُولُ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي لَمْ يُمِتْنِي حَتَّى رَأَيْتُكَ فِي هَذَا الْمَكَانِ ابْسُطْ يَدَكَ

Heasws said: ‘Iasws am not asking youra about them, but do you know the first one to pledge allegiance to him when he ascended the pulpit?’ Ira said, ‘No, but I saw an old man, aged, leaning upon his staff, there was the mark between his eyes due to intense prostrations, ascending the pulpit, the first one to ascend and he fell (in Sajdah) and he was crying and saying, ‘The Praise is for Allahazwj Who did not Cause me to die until I saw you in this place. Extend your hand!’

فَبَسَطَ يَدَهُ فَبَايَعَهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَوْمٌ كَيَوْمِ آدَمَ ثُمَّ نَزَلَ فَخَرَجَ مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ

He (Abu Bakr) extended his hand, and he pledged allegiance to him. Then he said, ‘A day like the day of Adamas. Then he descended and went out from the Masjid’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَا سَلْمَانُ أَ تَدْرِي مَنْ هُوَ قُلْتُ لَا وَ لَقَدْ سَاءَتْنِي مَقَالَتُهُ كَأَنَّهُ شَامِتٌ بِمَوْتِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

Aliasws said: ‘O Salmanra! Do you know who he was?’ Ira said, ‘No, and his words had displeased mera, as if he was gloating with the expiry of Rasool-Allahsaww’.

قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ إِبْلِيسُ لَعَنَهُ اللَّهُ أَخْبَرَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنَّ إِبْلِيسَ وَ رُؤَسَاءَ أَصْحَابِهِ شَهِدُوا نَصْبَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص إِيَّايَ يَوْمَ غَدِيرِ خُمٍّ بِمَا أَمَرَهُ اللَّهُ فَأَخْبَرَهُمْ بِأَنِّي أَوْلَى بِهِمْ مِنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ وَ أَمَرَهُمْ أَنْ يُبَلِّغَ الشَّاهِدُ الْغَائِبَ

Aliasws said: ‘For sure he was Ibleesla, may Allahazwj Curse himla. Rasool-Allahsaww informed measws that Ibleesla and the chief of hisla companions attended myasws nomination by Rasool-Allahsaww on the day of Ghadeer Khumm with what Allahazwj had Commanded him. So hesaww informed them that Iasws was foremost with them than their own selves, and ordered them that the one present should deliver to the absentee.

فَأَقْبَلَ إِلَى إِبْلِيسَ أَبَالِسَتُهُ وَ مَرَدَةُ أَصْحَابِهِ فَقَالُوا إِنَّ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةَ أُمَّةٌ مَرْحُومَةٌ مَعْصُومَةٌ فَمَا لَكَ وَ لَا لَنَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبِيلٌ وَ قَدْ أُعْلِمُوا مَفْزَعَهُمْ وَ إِمَامَهُمْ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّهِمْ فَانْطَلَقَ إِبْلِيسُ كَئِيباً حَزِيناً وَ

So they turned to Ibleesla, hisla devils, and castaways of hisla companions and they said to himla, ‘This community is a Mercied community, protected. There is neither any way for youla nor for us upon them, and they have already known their shelter and their Imamasws after their Prophetsaww’. Ibleesla went away bleak, grieving.

قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع فَأَخْبَرَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ لَوْ قُبِضَ أَنَّ النَّاسَ سَيُبَايِعُونَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ فِي ظُلَّةِ بَنِي سَاعِدَةَ بَعْدَ تَخَاصُمِهِمْ بِحَقِّنَا وَ حُجَّتِنَا ثُمَّ يَأْتُونَ الْمَسْجِدَ فَيَكُونُ أَوَّلُ مَنْ يُبَايِعُهُ عَلَى مِنْبَرِي إِبْلِيسَ فِي صُورَةِ شَيْخٍ كَبِيرٍ مُشَمِّرٍ يَقُولُ كَذَا وَ كَذَا

Amir Al-Momineenasws said: ‘Rasool-Allahsaww informed measws: ‘If Isaww were to pass away, the people would be pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr in a shade (shed) of the clan of Saaida after their disputing ourasws rights and ourasws arguments. Then they would come to the Masjid and the first one to pledge allegiance to upon mysaww pulpit would be Ibleesla in the image of an old man, aged, tucked up. Hela would be saying such and such.

ثُمَّ يَخْرُجُ فَيَجْمَعُ شَيَاطِينَهُ وَ أَبَالِسَتَهُ فَيَخِرُّونَ سُجَّداً وَ يَقُولُونَ يَا سَيِّدَهُمْ وَ يَا كَبِيرَهُمْ أَنْتَ الَّذِي أَخْرَجْتَ آدَمَ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ

Then hela would go out and gather hisla satans, and hisla devils. They would fall down in Sajdah and say, ‘O their chief, and O their elder! Youla are the one who got Adamas expelled from the Paradise’.

فَيَقُولُ أَيُّ أُمَّةٍ لَمْ تَضِلَّ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّهَا كَلَّا زَعَمْتُمْ أَنْ لَيْسَ لِي عَلَيْهِمْ سَبِيلٌ فَكَيْفَ رَأَيْتُمُونِي صَنَعْتُ بِهِمْ حِينَ تَرَكُوا مَا أَمَرَهُمُ اللَّهُ بِهِ مِنْ طَاعَتِهِ وَ أَمَرَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ وَ ذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ تَعَالَى‏ وَ لَقَدْ صَدَّقَ عَلَيْهِمْ إِبْلِيسُ ظَنَّهُ فَاتَّبَعُوهُ إِلَّا فَرِيقاً مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ‏

Hela would say, ‘Yes, Which community did not stray after its Prophetas? Never! You are alleging that there is no way for mela upon them, so how do youla see mela doing with them when they neglected what Allahazwj had Commanded them with of obeying himasws, and Rasool-Allahsaww had ordered them (as well), and that is the Word of the Exalted: And Iblees did ratify his conjecture upon them, so they (all) followed him except a group from the Momineen [34:20]’.

قَالَ سَلْمَانُ فَلَمَّا أَنْ كَانَ اللَّيْلُ حَمَلَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَاطِمَةَ ع عَلَى حِمَارٍ وَ أَخَذَ بِيَدِ ابْنَيْهِ الْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ ع فَلَمْ يَدَعْ أَحَداً مِنْ أَهْلِ بَدْرٍ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ لَا مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ إِلَّا أَتَاهُ فِي مَنْزِلِهِ فَذَكَّرَهُمْ حَقَّهُ وَ دَعَاهُمْ إِلَى نُصْرَتِهِ

Salmanra said, ‘When it was the night, Aliasws carried (Syeda) Fatimaasws upon a donkey and held the hands of hisasws two sonsasws Al-Hassanasws and Al-Husaynasws. Heasws did not leave anyone from the people of Badr (participants in the battle), neither from the Emigrants nor from the Helpers, except heasws came to him in his house, and reminded them of hisasws right, and called them to help himasws.

فَمَا اسْتَجَابَ لَهُ مِنْهُمْ إِلَّا أَرْبَعَةٌ وَ أَرْبَعُونَ رَجُلًا فَأَمَرَهُمْ أَنْ يُصْبِحُوا بُكْرَةً مُحَلِّقِينَ رُءُوسَهُمْ مَعَهُمْ سِلَاحُهُمْ لِيُبَايِعُوهُ عَلَى الْمَوْتِ فَأَصْبَحُوا فَلَمْ يُوَافِ مِنْهُمْ أَحَدٌ إِلَّا أَرْبَعَةٌ

But no one from them answered to himasws except forty four men. Heasws instructed them they should come in early morning having shaved their heads, having their weapons with them, in order to pledge allegiance to himasws upon the death. They woke up in the morning and not one of them was loyal except four’.

فَقُلْتُ لِسَلْمَانَ مَنِ الْأَرْبَعَةُ فَقَالَ أَنَا وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ وَ الزُّبَيْرُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِ ثُمَّ أَتَاهُمْ عَلِيٌّ ع مِنَ اللَّيْلَةِ الْمُقْبِلَةِ فَنَاشَدَهُمْ فَقَالُوا نُصْبِحُكَ بُكْرَةً فَمَا مِنْهُمْ أَحَدٌ أَتَاهُ غَيْرُنَا ثُمَّ أَتَاهُمُ اللَّيْلَةَ الثَّالِثَةَ فَمَا أَتَاهُ غَيْرُنَا

I said to Salmanra, ‘Who were the four?’ Hera said, ‘Ira, and Abu Zarrra, and Al-Miqdadra, and Al-Zubeyr Bin Al-Awwam. Then Aliasws came to them in the next night, and adjured them. They said, ‘We shall come tomorrow morning’. But, not one of them came to himasws apart from usra. Then heasws went to them the third night. But no one came to himasws apart from usra.

فَلَمَّا رَأَى عَلِيٌّ ع غَدْرَهُمْ وَ قِلَّةَ وَفَائِهِمْ لَهُ لَزِمَ بَيْتَهُ وَ أَقْبَلَ عَلَى الْقُرْآنِ يُؤَلِّفُهُ وَ يَجْمَعُهُ فَلَمْ يَخْرُجْ مِنْ بَيْتِهِ حَتَّى جَمَعَهُ وَ كَانَ فِي الصُّحُفِ وَ الشِّظَاظِ وَ الْأَكْتَافِ وَ الرِّقَاعِ

When Aliasws saw their betrayal and scarcity of their loyalty to himasws, heasws stayed in hisasws house and turned to the Quran, compiling it, and collecting it. Heasws did not come out from hisasws house until heasws had collected it, and it used to be in the papers, and the fragments, and the (animal) shoulder bones, and the palm leaves.

فَلَمَّا جَمَعَهُ كُلَّهُ وَ كَتَبَهُ بِيَدِهِ تَنْزِيلَهُ وَ تَأْوِيلَهُ وَ النَّاسِخَ مِنْهُ وَ الْمَنْسُوخَ بَعَثَ إِلَيْهِ أَبُو بَكْرٍ اخْرُجْ فَبَايِعْ فَبَعَثَ إِلَيْهِ عَلِيٌّ ع أَنِّي مَشْغُولٌ وَ قَدْ آلَيْتُ عَلَى نَفْسِي يَمِيناً أَنْ لَا أَرْتَدِيَ بِرِدَاءٍ إِلَّا لِلصَّلَاةِ حَتَّى أُؤَلِّفَ الْقُرْآنَ وَ أَجْمَعَهُ‏

When heasws had collected all of it and written it with hisasws hand, and interpreted it, and the Abrogating from it and the Abrogated, Abu Bakr sent a message to him, ‘Come out and pledge allegiance’. Aliasws sent a message to him: ‘Iasws am busy and have sworn a vow upon myselfasws that Iasws will not cloak myself with a cloak except for the Salat, until Iasws have compiled the Quran and have collected it’.

فَسَكَتُوا عَنْهُ أَيَّاماً فَجَمَعَهُ فِي ثَوْبٍ وَاحِدٍ وَ خَتَمَهُ ثُمَّ خَرَجَ إِلَى النَّاسِ وَ هُمْ مُجْتَمِعُونَ مَعَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ فِي مَسْجِدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَنَادَى عَلِيٌّ ع بِأَعْلَا صَوْتِهِ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ أَنِّي لَمْ أَزَلْ مُنْذُ قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَشْغُولًا بِغُسْلِهِ ثُمَّ بِالْقُرْآنِ حَتَّى جَمَعْتُهُ كُلَّهُ فِي هَذَا الثَّوْبِ الْوَاحِدِ

They were silent from him for days. Heasws collected it in one cloth and sealed it. Then heasws came out to the people, and they were gathered with Abu Bakr in the Masjid of Rasool-Allahsaww. Aliasws called out at the top of hisasws voice: ‘O you people! Since Rasool-Allahsaww passed away Iasws have been pre-occupied with washing himsaww, then with the Quran until Iasws have (now) collected it, all of it, in this one cloth.

فَلَمْ يُنْزِلِ اللَّهُ عَلَى رَسُولِهِ آيَةً مِنْهُ إِلَّا وَ قَدْ جَمَعْتُهَا وَ لَيْسَتْ مِنْهُ آيَةٌ إِلَّا وَ قَدْ أَقْرَأَنِيهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَلَّمَنِي تَأْوِيلَهَا

There is no Verse from it Allahazwj Revealed unto Hisazwj Prophetsaww except and Iasws have collected it, and there isn’t any Verse from it except and Rasool-Allahsaww had read it out to measws and taught measws its interpretation’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع لِئَلَّا تَقُولُوا غَداً إِنَّا كُنَّا عَنْ هذا غافِلِينَ‏

Then Aliasws said: ‘Lest you might be saying tomorrow, ‘We were oblivious of this’ [7:172]’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُمْ عَلِيٌّ ع لَا تَقُولُوا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ إِنِّي لَمْ أَدْعُكُمْ إِلَى نُصْرَتِي وَ لَمْ أُذَكِّرْكُمْ حَقِّي وَ لَمْ أَدْعُكُمْ إِلَى كِتَابِ اللَّهِ مِنْ فَاتِحَتِهِ إِلَى خَاتِمَتِهِ

Then Aliasws said to them: ‘You cannot be saying on the Day of Qiyamah that Iasws did not call you all to help measws, and Iasws did not make you realise myasws rights, and Iasws did not call you to the Book of Allahazwj, from its beginning to its end’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ مَا أَغْنَانَا بِمَا مَعَنَا مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ عَمَّا تَدْعُونَا إِلَيْهِ ثُمَّ دَخَلَ عَلِيٌّ ع بَيْتَهُ

Then Umar said to him, ‘We are needless with what is with us from the Quran, from what youasws are calling us to’. Then Aliasws entered hisasws house.

وَ قَالَ عُمَرُ لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ أَرْسِلْ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ فَلْيُبَايِعْ فَإِنَّا لَسْنَا فِي شَيْ‏ءٍ حَتَّى يُبَايِعَ وَ لَوْ قَدْ بَايَعَ أَمِنَّاهُ

And Umar said to Abu Bakr, ‘Send a message to Aliasws and let himasws pledge allegiance, for we aren’t in anything until heasws pledges allegiance, and if heasws were to pledge allegiance, we would be secure’.

فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَجِبْ خَلِيفَةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَأَتَاهُ الرَّسُولُ فَقَالَ لَهُ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ مَا أَسْرَعَ مَا كَذَبْتُمْ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّهُ لَيَعْلَمُ وَ يَعْلَمُ الَّذِينَ حَوْلَهُ أَنَّ اللَّهَ وَ رَسُولَهُ لَمْ يَسْتَخْلِفَا غَيْرِي

Abu Bakr send a message to himasws, ‘Answer the caliph of Rasool-Allahsaww’. The messenger came to himasws and said that to himasws. Aliasws said to him: ‘Glory be to Allahazwj! How quickly you have belied upon Rasool-Allahsaww! Surely he knows, and so do the ones around him that Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww did not make a Caliph apart from measws’.

وَ ذَهَبَ الرَّسُولُ فَأَخْبَرَهُ بِمَا قَالَ لَهُ فَقَالَ اذْهَبْ فَقُلْ لَهُ أَجِبْ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَأَتَاهُ فَأَخْبَرَهُ بِمَا قَالَ

And the messenger went and informed him with what heasws had said to him. He said, ‘Go and say to himasws, ‘Answer to ‘Amir Al-Momineen’ Abu Bakr’. He came to himasws and informed himasws with what he had said.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ مَا وَ اللَّهِ طَالَ الْعَهْدُ فَيَنْسَى وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّهُ لَيَعْلَمُ أَنَّ هَذَا الِاسْمَ لَا يَصْلُحُ إِلَّا لِي وَ لَقَدْ أَمَرَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ هُوَ سَابِعُ سَبْعَةٍ فَسَلَّمُوا عَلَيَّ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ‏

Aliasws said: ‘Glory be to Allahazwj! By Allahazwj, the time has not been long and he has forgotten. By Allahazwj, he knows that this is the name not correct except for measws, and Rasool-Allahsaww had ordered him, and he was the seventh of the seven, and they had greeted unto measws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’.

فَاسْتَفْهَمَ هُوَ وَ صَاحِبُهُ مِنْ بَيْنِ السَّبْعَةِ فَقَالا أَمْرٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ

Thus, he and his companion did understand, from between the seven, so they said, ‘Is it a Command from Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww?’

فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص نَعَمْ حَقّاً مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ إِنَّهُ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ سَيِّدُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَ صَاحِبُ لِوَاءِ الْغُرِّ الْمُحَجَّلِينَ‏ يُقْعِدُهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عَلَى الصِّرَاطِ فَيُدْخِلُ أَوْلِيَاءَهُ الْجَنَّةَ وَ أَعْدَاءَهُ النَّارَ

Rasool-Allahsaww said to them: ‘Yes, truly from Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww. Heasws is ‘Amir Al-Momineen’, and chief of the Muslims, and owner of the flag of the resplendent. Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic would Make himasws to be seated upon the Bridge, and heasws would enter hisasws friends into the Paradise, and hisasws enemies into the Fire’.

فَانْطَلَقَ الرَّسُولُ فَأَخْبَرَهُ بِمَا قَالَ فَسَكَتُوا عَنْهُ يَوْمَهُمْ ذَلِكَ

The messenger went and informed him with what heasws had said. They were silent from himasws on that day of theirs.

قَالَ فَلَمَّا كَانَ اللَّيْلُ حَمَلَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَاطِمَةَ ع عَلَى حِمَارٍ وَ أَخَذَ بِيَدِ ابْنَيْهِ الْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ ع فَلَمْ يَدَعْ أَحَداً مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص إِلَّا أَتَاهُ فِي مَنْزِلِهِ فَنَاشَدَهُمُ اللَّهَ حَقَّهُ وَ دَعَاهُمْ إِلَى نُصْرَتِهِ فَمَا اسْتَجَابَ مِنْهُمْ رَجُلٌ غَيْرُنَا أَرْبَعَةٌ

He (Salmanra) said, ‘When it was the night, Aliasws carried (Syeda) Fatimaasws upon a donkey, and held the hands of hisasws two sonsasws, Al-Hassanasws and Al-Husaynasws. Heasws did not leave anyone from the companions of Rasool-Allahsaww except heasws went to his house and adjured them with Allahazwj of hisasws rights, and called them to help himasws. But no man from them answered apart from usra four.

فَإِنَّا حَلَّقْنَا رُءُوسَنَا وَ بَذَلْنَا لَهُ نُصْرَتَنَا وَ كَانَ الزُّبَيْرُ أَشَدَّنَا بَصِيرَةً فِي نُصْرَتِهِ فَلَمَّا أَنْ رَأَى عَلِيٌّ ع خِذْلَانَ النَّاسِ إِيَّاهُ وَ تَرْكَهُمْ نُصْرَتَهُ وَ اجْتِمَاعَ كَلِمَتِهِمْ مَعَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ تَعْظِيمَهُمْ إِيَّاهُ لَزِمَ بَيْتَهُ

So, wera shaved ourasws heads and we exerted ourasws help to himasws, and Al-Zubeyr was the most intense of us of insight in our helping himasws. When Aliasws saw the abandonment of the people to himasws, and their negligence in helping himasws, and their gathering their words with Abu Bakr, and their revering him, heasws stayed in hisasws house.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ مَا يَمْنَعُكَ أَنْ تَبْعَثَ إِلَيْهِ فَيُبَايِعَ فَإِنَّهُ لَمْ يَبْقَ أَحَدٌ إِلَّا وَ قَدْ بَايَعَ غَيْرَهُ وَ غَيْرَ هَؤُلَاءِ الْأَرْبَعَةِ

Umar said to Abu Bakr, ‘What prevents you from dispatching (men) to himasws, so heasws pledge allegiance, for there does not remain anyone except and he has pledged allegiance apart from himasws and those four’.

وَ كَانَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَرَقَّ الرَّجُلَيْنِ وَ أَرْفَقَهُمَا وَ أَدْهَاهُمَا وَ أَبْعَدَهُمَا غَوْراً وَ الْآخَرُ أَفَظَّهُمَا وَ أَغْلَظَهُمَا وَ أَجْفَاهُمَا

And Abu Bakr was softer of the two men, and gentler of the two, and more benign of the two, and more thoughtful of the two; and the other one (Umar) was more shot-tempered of the two, and harsher of the two, and more treacherous of the two.

فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مَنْ نُرْسِلُ إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ نُرْسِلُ إِلَيْهِ قُنْفُذاً فَهُوَ رَجُلٌ فَظٌّ غَلِيظٌ جَافٍ مِنَ الطُّلَقَاءِ أَحَدُ بَنِي عَدِيِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ

Abu Bakr said to him, ‘Who shall we sent to himasws?’ Umar said, ‘We should send Qunfuz to him, for he is a rude, harsh man, from the freed ones of (battle of) Ohad of the clan of Uday Bin Ka’ab’.

فَأَرْسَلَهُ وَ أَرْسَلَ مَعَهُ أَعْوَاناً وَ انْطَلَقَ فَاسْتَأْذَنَ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع فَأَبَى أَنْ يَأْذَنَ لَهُمْ فَرَجَعَ أَصْحَابُ قُنْفُذٍ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرَ وَ هُمَا جَالِسَانِ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ وَ النَّاسُ حَوْلَهُمَا فَقَالُوا لَمْ يُؤْذَنْ لَنَا فَقَالَ عُمَرُ اذْهَبُوا فَإِنْ أَذِنَ لَكُمْ وَ إِلَّا فَادْخُلُوا بِغَيْرِ إِذْنٍ

He sent him, and sent assistants with him, and he went and sought permission to see Aliasws, but heasws refused to give permission to them. The companions of Qunfuz returned to Abu bakr and Umar, and they were both seated in the Masjid, and the people were around them. They said, ‘He did not permit for us’. Umar said, ‘Go! Either heasws permits for you or else entered without permission’.

فَانْطَلَقُوا فَاسْتَأْذَنُوا فَقَالَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع أُحَرِّجُ عَلَيْكُمْ أَنْ تَدْخُلُوا عَلَى بَيْتِي بِغَيْرِ إِذْنٍ فَرَجَعُوا وَ ثَبَتَ قُنْفُذٌ الْمَلْعُونُ فَقَالُوا إِنَّ فَاطِمَةَ قَالَتْ كَذَا وَ كَذَا فَتَحَرَّجْنَا أَنْ نَدْخُلَ بَيْتَهَا بِغَيْرِ إِذْنٍ

They went and sought permission. (Syeda) Fatimaasws said: ‘Iasws forbid you from entering into myasws house without permission’. They returned and Qunfuz the accursed stayed affirmed. They said, (Syeda) ‘Fatimaasws said such and such, and sheasws forbid us from entering herasws house without permission’.

فَغَضِبَ عُمَرُ وَ قَالَ مَا لَنَا وَ لِلنِّسَاءِ ثُمَّ أَمَرَ أُنَاساً حَوْلَهُ بِتَحْصِيلِ الْحَطَبِ‏ وَ حَمَلُوا الْحَطَبَ وَ حَمَلَ مَعَهُمْ عُمَرُ فَجَعَلُوهُ حَوْلَ مَنْزِلِ عَلِيٍّ ع وَ فِيهِ عَلِيٌّ وَ فَاطِمَةُ وَ ابْنَاهُمَا ع

Umar got angered and said, ‘What is it to us and the women?’ Then he ordered the people around him with collecting the firewood, and they carried the firewood, and Umar carried along with them, and they made it to be around the house of Aliasws, and in it were Aliasws, and (Syeda) Fatimaasws, and herasws two sonsasws’.

ثُمَّ نَادَى عُمَرُ حَتَّى أَسْمَعَ عَلِيّاً وَ فَاطِمَةَ وَ اللَّهِ لَتَخْرُجَنَّ يَا عَلِيُّ وَ لَتُبَايِعَنَّ خَلِيفَةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ إِلَّا أَضْرَمْتُ عَلَيْكَ النَّارَ

Then Umar called out until Aliasws and (Syeda) Fatimaasws heard, ‘By Allahazwj! Either youasws will come out, O Aliasws, and pledged allegiance to the caliph of Rasool-Allahsaww, or else I will ignite the fire upon youasws!’

فَقَامَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع فَقَالَتْ يَا عُمَرُ مَا لَنَا وَ لَكَ فَقَالَ افْتَحِي الْبَابَ وَ إِلَّا أَحْرَقْنَا عَلَيْكُمْ بَيْتَكُمْ فَقَالَتْ يَا عُمَرُ أَ مَا تَتَّقِي اللَّهَ تَدْخُلُ عَلَى بَيْتِي

(Syeda) Fatimaasws stood up and said, ‘O Umar! What have weasws to do with you?’ He said, ‘Open the door or else I will burn your house upon you’. Sheasws said, ‘O Umar! Do you not fear Allahazwj, in entering into myasws house?’

فَأَبَى أَنْ يَنْصَرِفَ وَ دَعَا عُمَرُ بِالنَّارِ فَأَضْرَمَهَا فِي الْبَابِ ثُمَّ دَفَعَهُ فَدَخَلَ فَاسْتَقْبَلَتْهُ فَاطِمَةُ ع وَ صَاحَتْ يَا أَبَتَاهْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَرَفَعَ عُمَرُ السَّيْفَ وَ هُوَ فِي غِمْدِهِ فَوَجَأَ بِهِ جَنْبَهَا فَصَرَخَتْ يَا أَبَتَاهْ فَرَفَعَ السَّوْطَ فَضَرَبَ بِهِ ذِرَاعَهَا فَنَادَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَبِئْسَ مَا خَلَفَكَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ

But he refused to leave. And Umar called for the fire and ignited it in the door. Then he pushed it and entered. (Syeda) Fatimaasws was facing him, and sheasws shouted: ‘O fathersaww! O Rasool-Allahsaww!’ Umar raised the sword, and it was in its sheath, and pained herasws side with it. Sheasws cried out: ‘O fathersaww!’ He raised the whip and struck herasws forearm with it. Sheasws called out: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Evil is what Abu Bakr and Umar have replaced yousaww with!’

فَوَثَبَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَأَخَذَ بِتَلَابِيهِ فَصَرَعَهُ وَ وَجَأَ أَنْفَهُ وَ رَقَبَتَهُ وَ هَمَّ بِقَتْلِهِ فَذَكَرَ قَوْلَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ مَا أَوْصَاهُ بِهِ فَقَالَ وَ الَّذِي كَرَّمَ مُحَمَّداً ص بِالنُّبُوَّةِ يَا ابْنَ صُهَاكَ‏ لَوْ لا كِتابٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ سَبَقَ‏ وَ عَهْدٌ عَهِدَ إِلَيَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَعَلِمْتَ أَنَّكَ لَا تَدْخُلُ بَيْتِي

Aliasws leapt and grabbed his collar and wrestled him and pained his nose and his neck, and thought of killing him. Then heasws remembered the words of Rasool-Allahsaww and what hesaww had bequeathed himasws with. Heasws said: ‘By the Oneazwj Who Honoured Muhammadsaww with the Prophet-hood, O Ibn Sahhak! Had there not been a preceding Book from Allah [8:68], and a pact promised to measws by Rasool-Allahsaww, you would have known that you cannot enter myasws house!’

فَأَرْسَلَ عُمَرُ يَسْتَغِيثُ فَأَقْبَلَ النَّاسُ حَتَّى دَخَلُوا الدَّارَ وَ ثَارَ عَلِيٌّ ع إِلَى سَيْفِهِ فَرَجَعَ قُنْفُذٌ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ هُوَ يَتَخَوَّفُ أَنْ يَخْرُجَ عَلِيٌّ ع بِسَيْفِهِ لِمَا قَدْ عَرَفَ مِنْ بَأْسِهِ وَ شِدَّتِهِ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ لِقُنْفُذٍ ارْجِعْ فَإِنْ خَرَجَ فَاقْتَحِمْ عَلَيْهِ بَيْتَهُ فَإِنِ امْتَنَعَ فَأَضْرِمْ عَلَيْهِمْ بَيْتَهُمُ النَّارَ

Umar yelled for help, and the people came until they enter the house, and Aliasws reached for hisasws sword. So, Qunfuz returned and he was scared of Aliasws bringing out hisasws sword due to what he had recognise from hisasws bravery and severity. Abu Bakr said to Qunfuz, ‘Return. If heasws comes out, storm hisasws house unto himasws, and if heasws refuses, then ignite the fire upon their house!’

فَانْطَلَقَ قُنْفُذٌ الْمَلْعُونُ فَاقْتَحَمَ هُوَ وَ أَصْحَابُهُ بِغَيْرِ إِذْنٍ‏ وَ ثَارَ عَلِيٌّ ع إِلَى سَيْفِهِ فَسَبَقُوهُ إِلَيْهِ وَ كَاثَرُوهُ فَتَنَاوَلَ بَعْضَ سُيُوفِهِمْ فَكَاثَرُوهُ فَأَلْقَوْا فِي عُنُقِهِ حَبْلًا وَ حَالَتْ بَيْنَهُمْ وَ بَيْنَهُ فَاطِمَةُ ع عِنْدَ بَابِ الْبَيْتِ

Qunfuz the accursed went, and he and his companions stormed in without permission, and Aliasws reached for hisasws sword, but he preceded himasws to it, and they were many of them. Some of them grabbed their swords and they were many, and they threw a rope upon hisasws neck, and (Syeda) Fatimaasws blocked between them and himasws at the door of the house.

فَضَرَبَهَا قُنْفُذٌ الْمَلْعُونُ بِالسَّوْطِ فَمَاتَتْ حِينَ مَاتَتْ وَ إِنَّ فِي عَضُدِهَا مِثْلَ الدُّمْلُجِ مِنْ ضَرْبَتِهِ لَعَنَهُ اللَّهُ

Qunfuz the accursed hit herasws with the whip. Sheasws passed away when sheasws passed away and in herasws upper arm was the swelling from hisla strike, may Allahazwj Curse himla.

ثُمَّ انْطَلَقُوا بِعَلِيٍّ ع يُتَلُ‏ حَتَّى انْتُهِيَ بِهِ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ قَائِمٌ بِالسَّيْفِ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ وَ خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ وَ سَالِمٌ مَوْلَى أَبِي حُذَيْفَةَ وَ مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ وَ الْمُغِيرَةُ بْنُ شُعْبَةَ وَ أُسَيْدُ بْنُ حُضَيْرٍ وَ بَشِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ وَ سَائِرُ النَّاسِ حَوْلَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ عَلَيْهِمُ السِّلَاحُ

Then they went with Aliasws dragging until they ended with himasws to Abu Bakr, and Umar was standing with the sword upon his head, and (so were) Khalid Bin Al-Waleed and Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah, and Saalim Mawla Abu Huzeyfa, and Muaz Bin Jabal, and Al-Mugheira Bin Shu’ba, and Aseyd Bin Huzeyr, and Bashir Bin Sa’ad. And the rest of the people were around Abu Bakr, having the weapons upon them’.

قَالَ قُلْتُ لِسَلْمَانَ أَ دَخَلُوا عَلَى فَاطِمَةَ بِغَيْرِ إِذْنٍ قَالَ إِي وَ اللَّهِ وَ مَا عَلَيْهَا خِمَارٌ فَنَادَتْ يَا أَبَتَاهْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَلَبِئْسَ مَا خَلَفَكَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ وَ عَيْنَاكَ لَمْ تَتَفَقَّأْ فِي قَبْرِكَ تُنَادِي بِأَعْلَى صَوْتِهَا

He (Suleym) said, ‘I said to Salmanra, ‘They entered upon (the house of) (Syeda) Fatimaasws without permission?’ Hera said, ‘Yes, by Allahazwj! There was no scarf upon herasws. Sheasws called out: ‘O fathersaww! O Rasool-Allahsaww! Evil is what Abu Bakr and Umar have replaced yousaww, and yoursaww have not even closed in yoursaww grave’, calling out at the top of herasws voice.

فَلَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَ مَنْ حَوْلَهُ يَبْكُونَ مَا فِيهِمْ إِلَّا بَاكٍ غَيْرَ عُمَرَ وَ خَالِدِ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ وَ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ شُعْبَةَ وَ عُمَرُ يَقُولُ إِنَّا لَسْنَا مِنَ النِّسَاءِ وَ رَأْيِهِنَّ فِي شَيْ‏ءٍ

And Abu Bakr and the ones around him were seen to be crying. There was no one among them except he cried, apart from Umar, and Khalid Bin Al-Waleed, and Al-Mugheira Bin Shuba, and Umar said, ‘We have nothing to do with women and their opinions’.

قَالَ فَانْتَهَوْا بِعَلِيٍّ ع إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ وَقَعَ سَيْفِي فِي يَدِي لَعَلِمْتُمْ أَنَّكُمْ لَمْ تَصِلُوا إِلَى هَذَا أَبَداً أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ مَا أَلُومُ نَفْسِي فِي جِهَادِكُمْ وَ لَوْ كُنْتُ أَسْتَمْسِكُ مِنْ أَرْبَعِينَ رَجُلًا لَفَرَّقْتُ جَمَاعَتَكُمْ وَ لَكِنْ لَعَنَ اللَّهُ أَقْوَاماً بَايَعُونِي ثُمَّ خَذَلُونِي

He (Salmanra) said, ‘They ended up with Aliasws to Abu Bakr, and heasws was saying: ‘But, by Allahazwj, if myasws sword were to fall into myasws hand, you would have known, you could not have come to this, ever! But, by Allahazwj! And if Iasws could have got hold of forty men, Iasws would have dispersed your group, but may Allahazwj Curse the people who pledged allegiance to measws, then abandoned measws!’

وَ لَمَّا أَنْ بَصُرَ بِهِ أَبُو بَكْرٍ صَاحَ خَلُّوا سَبِيلَهُ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ مَا أَسْرَعَ مَا تَوَثَّبْتُمْ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص بِأَيِّ حَقٍّ وَ بِأَيِّ مَنْزِلَةٍ دَعَوْتَ النَّاسَ إِلَى بَيْعَتِكَ أَ لَمْ تُبَايِعْنِي بِالْأَمْسِ بِأَمْرِ اللَّهِ وَ أَمْرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ

When Abu Bakr sighted himasws, he shouted, ‘Free his way!’ Aliasws said: ‘O Abu Bakr! How quickly you have proven to be against Rasool-Allahazwj. By which status did you call the people to your allegiance? Did you not pledge allegiance to me yesterday by the Command of Allahazwj and the order of Rasool-Allahsaww?’

وَ قَدْ كَانَ قُنْفُذٌ لَعَنَهُ اللَّهُ ضَرَبَ فَاطِمَةَ ع بِالسَّوْطِ حِينَ حَالَتْ بَيْنَهُ وَ بَيْنَ زَوْجِهَا وَ أَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ عُمَرُ إِنْ حَالَتْ بَيْنَكَ وَ بَيْنَهُ فَاطِمَةُ فَاضْرِبْهَا فَأَلْجَأَهَا قُنْفُذٌ إِلَى عِضَادَةِ بَيْتِهَا وَ دَفَعَهَا فَكَسَرَ ضِلْعاً مِنْ جَنْبِهَا فَأَلْقَتْ جَنِيناً مِنْ بَطْنِهَا فَلَمْ تَزَلْ صَاحِبَةَ فِرَاشٍ حَتَّى مَاتَتْ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهَا مِنْ ذَلِكَ شَهِيدَةً

And Qunfuzla, may Allahazwj Curse himla, had hit (Syeda) Fatimaasws with the whip when sheasws blocked between him and herasws husbandasws, and Umar had sent a message to him, ‘If (Syeda) Fatimaasws were to come between you and himasws, then hit herasws’. Qunfuzla lashed herasws and sheasws sheltered the frame of herasws house, and he pushed it and broke herasws ribs from herasws side. Herasws unborn child was martyred in herasws lap. Sheasws did not cease to be in bed until sheasws passed away from that, a martyr’.

قَالَ وَ لَمَّا انْتُهِيَ بِعَلِيٍّ ع إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ انْتَهَرَهُ عُمَرُ وَ قَالَ لَهُ بَايِعْ وَ دَعْ عَنْكَ هَذِهِ الْأَبَاطِيلَ فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع فَإِنْ لَمْ أَفْعَلْ فَمَا أَنْتُمْ صَانِعُونَ

He (Salmanra) said, ‘And when they ended with Aliasws to Abu Bakr, Umar snubbed himasws and said to himasws, ‘Pledge allegiance and leave these falsities from youasws’. Aliasws said to him: ‘Supposing Iasws don’t do it, then what will you be doing?’

قَالُوا نَقْتُلُكَ ذُلًّا وَ صَغَاراً فَقَالَ إِذاً تَقْتُلُونَ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ وَ أَخَا رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَمَّا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ فَنَعَمْ وَ أَمَّا أَخُو رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَمَا نُقِرُّ لَكَ بِهَذَا قَالَ أَ تَجْحَدُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص آخَى بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَهُ قَالَ نَعَمْ فَأَعَادَ ذَلِكَ عَلَيْهِ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ‏

They said, ‘We will kill youasws disgracefully and belittling’. Heasws said: ‘Then you would be killing a servant of Allahazwj and a brotherasws of Rasool-Allahsaww’. Abu bakr said, ‘As for (youasws being) a servant of Allahazwj, so yes, and as for (youasws being) a brotherasws of Rasool-Allahsaww, we do not acknowledge to youasws with this’. Heasws said: ‘Are you rejecting that Rasool-Allahsaww established brother-hood between measws and himsaww?’ He said, ‘Yes’. Heasws repeated to him repeatedly.

ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ عَلِيٌّ ع فَقَالَ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ أَنْشُدُكُمُ اللَّهَ أَ سَمِعْتُمْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ يَوْمَ غَدِيرِ خُمٍّ كَذَا وَ كَذَا وَ فِي غَزْوَةِ تَبُوكَ كَذَا وَ كَذَا

Then Aliasws turned towards them and said: ‘O community of Muslims, and the Emigrants and the Helpers! Iasws adjure you all with Allahazwj! Didn’t you hear Rasool-Allahsaww saying on the day of Ghadeer Khumm, such and such, and during the military expedition of Tabuk, such and such?’

فَلَمْ يَدَعْ عَلِيٌّ ع شَيْئاً قَالَهُ فِيهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَلَانِيَةً لِلْعَامَّةِ إِلَّا ذَكَّرَهُمْ إِيَّاهُ فَقَالُوا اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ

Aliasws did not leave anything Rasool-Allahsaww had said regarding himasws, announcing to the general public, except heasws reminded them of it. They kept saying, ‘O Allahazwj, yes!’

فَلَمَّا تَخَوَّفَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَنْ يَنْصُرَهُ النَّاسُ وَ أَنْ يَمْنَعُوهُ بَادَرَهُمْ فَقَالَ كُلُّ مَا قُلْتَ حَقٌّ قَدْ سَمِعْنَاهُ بِآذَانِنَا وَ وَعَتْهُ قُلُوبُنَا وَ لَكِنْ قَدْ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ بَعْدَ هَذَا إِنَّا أَهْلُ بَيْتٍ اصْطَفَانَا اللَّهُ وَ أَكْرَمَنَا وَ اخْتَارَ لَنَا الْآخِرَةَ عَلَى الدُّنْيَا وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَمْ يَكُنْ لِيَجْمَعَ لَنَا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ النُّبُوَّةَ وَ الْخِلَافَةَ

When Abu Bakr feared that the people might help himasws, and even if he forbids them, he rushed them said, ‘All what youasws say is true. We have heard it with our ears, and our hearts retained it, but we have heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying after this: ‘Weasws, Peopleasws of the Household, Allahazwj Chose usasws, and Honoured usasws, and Chose the Hereafter to be for usasws over the world, and that Allahazwj will not happen to Gather for usasws, Peopleasws of the Household, the Prophet-hood and the Caliphate’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع هَلْ أَحَدٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص شَهِدَ هَذَا مَعَكَ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ صَدَقَ خَلِيفَةُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ قَدْ سَمِعْنَا هَذَا مِنْهُ كَمَا قَالَ‏ وَ قَالَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ وَ سَالِمٌ مَوْلَى أَبِي حُذَيْفَةَ وَ مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ قَدْ سَمِعْنَا ذَلِكَ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

Aliasws said: ‘Is there anyone from the companions of Rasool-Allahsaww who witnessed this with you?’ Umar said, ‘The caliph of Rasool-Allahsaww speaks the truth. We have heard this from himsaww just as he says’. And Abu Ubeyda, and Saalim Mawla Abu Huzeyfa, and Muaz Bin Jabal said, ‘We have heard that from Rasool-Allahsaww’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ وَفَيْتُمْ بِصَحِيفَتِكُمْ الْمَلْعُونَةِ الَّتِي قَدْ تَعَاقَدْتُمْ عَلَيْهَا فِي الْكَعْبَةِ إِنْ قَتَلَ اللَّهُ مُحَمَّداً أَوْ مَاتَ لَتَزْوُنَّ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ عَنَّا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَمَا عِلْمُكَ بِذَلِكَ مَا أَطْلَعْنَاكَ عَلَيْهَا

Aliasws said: ‘You have been loyal to your agreement, the accursed, which you had agreed upon in the Kabah that, If Allahazwj Kills Muhammadsaww, or hesaww dies, you will be removing this command from usasws, Peopleasws of the Household’’. Abu Bakr said, ‘So what made youasws know that? We did not notify youasws upon it!’

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع أَنْتَ يَا زُبَيْرُ وَ أَنْتَ يَا سَلْمَانُ وَ أَنْتَ يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ وَ أَنْتَ يَا مِقْدَادُ أَسْأَلُكُمْ بِاللَّهِ وَ بِالْإِسْلَامِ أَ مَا سَمِعْتُمْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ ذَلِكَ وَ أَنْتُمْ تَسْمَعُونَ إِنَّ فُلَاناً وَ فُلَاناً حَتَّى عَدَّ هَؤُلَاءِ الْخَمْسَةَ قَدْ كَتَبُوا بَيْنَهُمْ كِتَاباً وَ تَعَاهَدُوا فِيهِ وَ تَعَاقَدُوا عَلَى مَا صَنَعُوا

Aliasws said: ‘You, O Abu Zarrra, and you O Salmanra, and you O Abu Zarrra, and you O Miqdadra! Iasws ask youra by Allahazwj, and by Al-Islam, did youra not hear Rasool-Allahsaww saying that, and youra were listening: ‘So and so, and so and so’ – until heasws counted those five who had written a letter between them and vowed regarding it, and they had agreed upon what they would do.

فَقَالُوا اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ قَدْ سَمِعْنَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ ذَلِكَ لَكَ إِنَّهُمْ قَدْ تَعَاهَدُوا وَ تَعَاقَدُوا عَلَى مَا صَنَعُوا وَ كَتَبُوا بَيْنَهُمْ كِتَاباً إِنْ قُتِلْتُ أَوْ مِتُّ أَنْ يَزْوُوا عَنْكَ هَذَا يَا عَلِيُّ

Theyra said, ‘O Allahazwj, yes wera have heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying that to youasws, they have contracted and agreed upon what they would do, and written a letter between them if hesaww is killed or dies, they would impeded this from youasws, O Aliasws’.

فَقُلْتُ بِأَبِي أَنْتَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَمَا تَأْمُرُنِي إِذَا كَانَ ذَلِكَ أَنْ أَفْعَلَ فَقَالَ لَكَ إِنْ وَجَدْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ أَعْوَاناً فَجَاهِدْهُمْ وَ نَابِذْهُمْ وَ إِنْ لَمْ تَجِدْ أَعْوَاناً فَبَايِعْهُمْ وَ احْقُنْ دَمَكَ

Iasws said: ‘May myasws fatheras be (sacrificed) for yousaww, O Rasool-Allahsaww! What do yousaww instruct measws to do when that happens?’ Hesaww said: ‘For youasws is if youasws were to find supporters against them, then fight them, and get rid of them, and if youasws do not find supporters, then pledge allegiance to them and save yourasws blood’.

فَقَالَ‏ عَلِيٌّ ع أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ أَنَّ أُولَئِكَ الْأَرْبَعِينَ رَجُلًا الَّذِينَ بَايَعُونِي وَفَوْا لِي لَجَاهَدْتُكُمْ فِي اللَّهِ وَ لَكِنْ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ لَا يَنَالُهَا أَحَدٌ مِنْ عَقِبِكُمَا إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ

Aliasws said: ‘By Allahazwj! If those forty men, those who had pledged allegiance to measws had been loyal, Iasws would have fought against you regarding Allahazwj. But, by Allahazwj, no one from both your (Abu Bakr and Umar) posterity will attain it (caliphate) up to the Day of Qiyamah.

وَ فِيمَا يُكَذِّبُ قَوْلَكُمْ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص قَوْلُ اللَّهِ‏ أَمْ يَحْسُدُونَ النَّاسَ عَلى‏ ما آتاهُمُ اللَّهُ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ فَقَدْ آتَيْنا آلَ إِبْراهِيمَ الْكِتابَ وَ الْحِكْمَةَ وَ آتَيْناهُمْ مُلْكاً عَظِيماً فَالْكِتَابُ النُّبُوَّةُ وَ الْحِكْمَةُ السُّنَّةُ وَ الْمُلْكُ الْخِلَافَةُ وَ نَحْنُ آلُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ

And regarding what you are belying in your words upon Rasool-Allahsaww, are the Words of Allahazwj: Or are they envying the people upon what Allah has Given them from His Grace? So We have Given the Progeny of Ibrahim, the Book and the Wisdom, and have Given them a grand kingdom [4:54], so it is the Book, the Prophet-hood, and the Wisdom is the Sunnah, and the kingdom is the caliphate, and weasws are the progenyasws of Ibrahimas’.

فَقَامَ الْمِقْدَادُ فَقَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ بِمَا تَأْمُرُ وَ اللَّهِ إِنْ أَمَرْتَنِي لَأَضْرِبَنَّ بِسَيْفِي وَ إِنْ أَمَرْتَنِي كَفَفْتُ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع كُفَّ يَا مِقْدَادُ وَ اذْكُرْ عَهْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ مَا أَوْصَاكَ بِهِ

Al-Miqdadra stood up and said, ‘O Aliasws! What are yourasws orders? By Allahazwj! If youasws were to order mera, I will strike with my sword, and if youasws order mera, Iasws shall refrain’. Aliasws said: ‘Refrain, O Miqdadra, and remember the pact of Rasool-Allahsaww and what hesaww has bequeathed with’.

ثُمَّ قُمْتُ وَ قُلْتُ وَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَوْ أَنِّي أَعْلَمُ أَنِّي أَدْفَعُ ضَيْماً وَ أُعِزُّ لِلَّهِ دِيناً لَوَضَعْتُ سَيْفِي عَلَى عُنُقِي ثُمَّ ضَرَبْتُ بِهِ قُدُماً أَ تَثِبُونَ عَلَى أَخِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ وَصِيِّهِ وَ خَلِيفَتِهِ فِي أُمَّتِهِ وَ أَبِي وُلْدِهِ فَأَبْشِرُوا بِالْبَلَاءِ وَ اقْنَطُوا مِنَ الرَّخَاءِ

Then I (Salmanra) stood up and said, ‘By the Oneazwj in Whose Hand is myra soul! If Ira knew that Ira can repel a wrong, and honour the Religion of Allahazwj, Ira would place myra sword upon myra neck, then Ira would strike with it ahead! Are you pouncing upon the brotherasws of Rasool-Allahsaww, and hissaww successorasws, and hissaww caliph in hissaww community, and fatherasws of hissaww children? Then receive news of the affliction termination from the hopes!’

وَ قَامَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ فَقَالَ أَيَّتُهَا الْأُمَّةُ الْمُتَحَيِّرَةُ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّهَا الْمَخْذُولَةُ بِعِصْيَانِهَا إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَقُولُ‏ إِنَّ اللَّهَ اصْطَفى‏ آدَمَ وَ نُوحاً وَ آلَ إِبْراهِيمَ وَ آلَ عِمْرانَ عَلَى الْعالَمِينَ ذُرِّيَّةً بَعْضُها مِنْ بَعْضٍ وَ اللَّهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ‏

And Abu Zarrra stood up and said, ‘O you community, the confused ones after its Prophetsaww, and on the way with its acts of disobedience! Allahazwj Says: Surely Allah chose Adam and Noah and the progeny of Ibrahim and the progeny of Imran above the worlds [3:33] Offspring, one being from the other; and Allah is Hearing, Knowing [3:34].

وَ آلُ مُحَمَّدٍ ص الْأَخْلَافُ مِنْ نُوحٍ وَ آلُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ مِنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَ الصَّفْوَةُ وَ السُّلَالَةُ مِنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ وَ عِتْرَةُ النَّبِيِّ ص مُحَمَّدٍ أَهْلُ بَيْتِ النُّبُوَّةِ وَ مَوْضِعُ الرِّسَالَةِ وَ مُخْتَلَفُ الْمَلَائِكَةِ

And the Progenyasws of Muhammadsaww are the replacements from Noahas, and are the progenyasws of Ibrahimas from Ibrahim, and the descendants from Ismailas, and familyasws of the Prophetsaww Muhammadsaww, Peopleasws of the Household of Prophet-hood, and place of the Message, and interchange of the Angels.

وَ هُمْ كَالسَّمَاءِ الْمَرْفُوعَةِ وَ الْجِبَالِ الْمَنْصُوبَةِ وَ الْكَعْبَةِ الْمَسْتُورَةِ وَ الْعَيْنِ الصَّافِيَةِ وَ النُّجُومِ الْهَادِيَةِ وَ الشَّجَرَةِ الْمُبَارَكَةِ أَضَاءَ نُورُهَا وَ بُورِكَ زَيْتُهَا

And theyasws are like the raised sky, and the installed mountains, and the veiled Kabah, and the clear spring, and the guiding stars, and the Blessed tree illuminating its light, and its Blessed oil.

مُحَمَّدٌ خَاتَمُ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ وَ سَيِّدُ وُلْدِ آدَمَ وَ عَلِيٌّ وَصِيُّ الْأَوْصِيَاءِ وَ إِمَامُ الْمُتَّقِينَ وَ قَائِدُ الْغُرِّ الْمُحَجَّلِينَ وَ هُوَ الصِّدِّيقُ الْأَكْبَرُ وَ الْفَارُوقُ الْأَعْظَمُ وَ وَصِيُّ مُحَمَّدٍ ص وَ وَارِثُ عِلْمِهِ

Muhammadsaww is the last of the Prophetsas, and chief of the children of Adamas, and Aliasws the successorasws of the successorsas, and Imamasws of the pious, and guide of the resplendent, and heasws is the greatest truthful, and the magnificent distinguisher, and successorasws of Muhammadsaww, and inheritor of hissaww knowledge.

وَ أَوْلَى النَّاسِ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ كَمَا قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى‏ النَّبِيُّ أَوْلى‏ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ وَ أَزْواجُهُ أُمَّهاتُهُمْ وَ أُولُوا الْأَرْحامِ‏ بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلى‏ بِبَعْضٍ فِي كِتابِ اللَّهِ‏

And heasws is foremost of the people with the Momineenasws than their own selves, just as Allahazwj the Exalted Said: The Prophet is foremost with the Momineen than their own selves, and his wives are their mothers; and the possessors of the womb relationships, some of them are higher than the others in the Book of Allah, [33:6].

فَقَدِّمُوا مَنْ قَدَّمَ اللَّهُ وَ أَخِّرُوا مَنْ أَخَّرَ اللَّهُ وَ اجْعَلُوا الْوِلَايَةَ وَ الْوِزَارَةَ لِمَنْ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ

So, advance the one whom Allahazwj Advanced, and keep back the one whom Allahazwj Kept back, and make the governance and the ministry to be for the one Allahazwj has Made it for’.

فَقَامَ عُمَرُ فَقَالَ لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ هُوَ جَالِسٌ فَوْقَ الْمِنْبَرِ مَا يُجْلِسُكَ فَوْقَ الْمِنْبَرِ وَ هَذَا جَالِسٌ مُحَارِبٌ لَا يَقُومُ فَيُبَايِعَكَ أَ وَ تَأْمُرُ بِهِ فَنَضْرِبَ عُنُقَهُ

Umar stood up and said to Abu Bakr and he was seated at the top of the pulpit, ‘Why are you just sitting at the top of the pulpit and this seated one is a fighter not standing up to pledge allegiance to you, or will you order with and I will strike off hisasws neck?’

وَ الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ ع قَائِمَانِ فَلَمَّا سَمِعَا مَقَالَةَ عُمَرَ بَكَيَا فَضَمَّهُمَا إِلَى صَدْرِهِ فَقَالَ لَا تَبْكِيَا فَوَ اللَّهِ مَا يَقْدِرَانِ عَلَى قَتْلِ أَبِيكُمَا

And Al-Hassanasws and Al-Husaynasws were standing. When theyasws heard the words of Umar, theyasws cried. So, heasws hugged themasws to hisasws chest and said: ‘Do not cry, for by Allahazwj, they are not able upon killing yourasws fatherasws’.

وَ أَقْبَلَتْ أُمُّ أَيْمَنَ حَاضِنَةُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فقال [فَقَالَتْ‏] يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ مَا أَسْرَعَ مَا أَبْدَيْتُمْ حَسَدَكُمْ وَ نِفَاقَكُمْ فَأَمَرَ بِهَا عُمَرُ فَأُخْرِجَتْ مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ وَ قَالَ مَا لَنَا وَ لِلنِّسَاءِ

And Umm Aymanra came grieving Rasool-Allahsaww and said, ‘O Abu Bakr! How quickly you have begun your envy and your hypocrisy!’ Umar ordered with herra, and shera was expelled from the Masjid, and he said, ‘What have we to do with the women’.

وَ قَامَ بُرَيْدَةُ الْأَسْلَمِيُّ وَ قَالَ يَا عُمَرُ أَ تَثِبُ عَلَى أَخِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ أَبِي وُلْدِهِ وَ أَنْتَ الَّذِي نَعْرِفُكَ فِي قُرَيْشٍ بِمَا نَعْرِفُكَ أَ لَسْتُمَا اللَّذَيْنِ قَالَ لَكُمَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص انْطَلِقَا إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ع وَ سَلِّمَا عَلَيْهِ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَقُلْتُمَا أَ عَنْ أَمْرِ اللَّهِ وَ أَمْرِ رَسُولِهِ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ

And Bureyda Al-Aslami stood up and said, ‘O Umar! Are you pouncing upon the brotherasws of Rasool-Allahsaww, and fatherasws of hissaww children, and you are the one, we know you among Quraysh with what we recognise you. Aren’t you two the ones to whom Rasool-Allahsaww had said: ‘Go to Aliasws and greet unto himasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’?’ So you both said, ‘Is it a Command from Allahazwj and order of Hisazwj Rasoolsaww?’ Hesaww said: ‘Yes’’.

فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ قَدْ كَانَ ذَلِكَ وَ لَكِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ لَا يَجْتَمِعُ لِأَهْلِ بَيْتِي الْخِلَافَةُ وَ النُّبُوَّةُ فَقَالَ وَ اللَّهِ مَا قَالَ هَذَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ اللَّهِ لَا سَكَنْتُ فِي بَلْدَةٍ أَنْتَ فِيهَا أَمِيرٌ فَأَمَرَ بِهِ عُمَرُ فَضُرِبَ وَ طُرِدَ

Abu Bakr said, ‘That was like that, but Rasool-Allahsaww said after that: ‘There will not gather to the Peopleasws of mysaww Household, the caliphate and the Prophet-hood’. He said, ‘Rasool-Allahsaww did not say this! By Allahazwj, I will not dwell in a city you are a ruler in it’. Umar ordered with him, so he was hit and expelled.

ثُمَّ قَالَ قُمْ يَا ابْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَبَايِعْ فَقَالَ ع فَإِنْ لَمْ أَفْعَلْ قَالَ إِذاً وَ اللَّهِ نَضْرِبَ عُنُقَكَ فَاحْتَجَّ عَلَيْهِمْ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ ثُمَّ مَدَّ يَدَهُ مِنْ غَيْرِ أَنْ يَفْتَحَ كَفَّهُ فَضَرَبَ عَلَيْهَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ رَضِيَ بِذَلِكَ مِنْهُ

Then he said, ‘Stand O sonasws of Abu Talibasws and pledge allegiance!’ Heasws said: ‘Supposing Iasws do not do it?’ He said, ‘Then by Allahazwj, we will strike off yourasws neck’. Heasws argued against them three times, them extended hisasws hand from without having opened hisasws palm, and Abu Bakr hit his own hand upon it, and he was pleased with that from himasws.

فَنَادَى عَلِيٌّ ع قَبْلَ أَنْ يُبَايِعَ وَ الْحَبْلُ فِي عُنُقِهِ يَا ابْنَ أُمَّ إِنَّ الْقَوْمَ اسْتَضْعَفُونِي وَ كادُوا يَقْتُلُونَنِي‏

Aliasws called out before heasws pledged allegiance, and the rope was still in hisasws neck: ‘‘Son of my mother! Surely the people weakened me and they almost killed me [7:150]’.

وَ قِيلَ لِلزُّبَيْرِ بَايِعْ فَأَبَى فَوَثَبَ عُمَرُ وَ خَالِدٌ وَ الْمُغِيرَةُ بْنُ شُعْبَةَ فِي أُنَاسٍ فَانْتَزَعُوا سَيْفَهُ فَضَرَبُوا بِهِ الْأَرْضَ حَتَّى كَسَرُوهُ ثُمَّ لَبَّبُوهُ فَقَالَ الزُّبَيْرُ وَ عُمَرُ عَلَى صَدْرِهِ يَا ابْنَ صُهَاكَ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ أَنَّ سَيْفِي فِي يَدِي لَحِدْتَ عَنِّي فَبَايَعَ

And he said to Al-Zubeyr, ‘Pledge allegiance!’ But he refused, so Umar and Khalid and Al-Mugheira Bin Shu’ba among people, leapt and snatched his sword, and they struck the ground with it until they broke it. Then they tied him. Al-Zubeyr said while Umar was upon his chest, ‘O Ibn Suhaak! But, by Allahazwj! If my sword was in my hand, you would have fallen from me’. He pledged allegiance’.

قَالَ سَلْمَانُ ثُمَّ أَخَذُونِي فَوَجَئُوا عُنُقِي حَتَّى تَرَكُوهَا كَالسِّلْعَةِ ثُمَّ أَخَذُوا يَدِي وَ فَتَلُوهَا فَبَايَعْتُ مُكْرَهاً ثُمَّ بَايَعَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ مُكْرَهَيْنِ وَ مَا بَايَعَ أَحَدٌ مِنَ الْأُمَّةِ مُكْرَهاً غَيْرُ عَلِيٍّ وَ أَرْبَعَتِنَا

Salmanra said, ‘Then they seized mera and pained myra neck until they left it like the (bent) rib’. Then they grabbed myra hand and wriggled it and Ira pledged allegiance abhorrently. Then Abu Zarrra, and Al-Miqdadra pledged unwillingly, and no one from the community pledged unwillingly apart from Aliasws and four of usra.

وَ لَمْ يَكُنْ مِنَّا أَحَدٌ أَشَدَّ قَوْلًا مِنَ الزُّبَيْرِ فَإِنَّهُ لَمَّا بَايَعَ قَالَ يَا ابْنَ صُهَاكَ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ لَا هَؤُلَاءِ الطُّغَاةُ الَّذِينَ أَعَانُوكَ لَمَا كُنْتَ تُقْدِمُ عَلَيَّ وَ مَعِي سَيْفِي لِمَا أَعْرِفُ مِنْ جُبْنِكَ وَ لُؤْمِكَ وَ لَكِنْ وَجَدْتَ طُغَاةً تَقْوَى بِهِمْ وَ تَصُولُ

And there did not happen to be anyone from usra of more severe words than Al-Zubeyr. When he pledged allegiance, he said, ‘O Ibn Suhaak! But, by Allahazwj, had it not been for these tyrants supporting you, you would not have advanced to me, and with me would be my sword, due to what I know of your cowardice and your vileness. But, you found tyrants to be strengthened by them, and you arrived’.

فَغَضِبَ عُمَرُ وَ قَالَ أَ تَذْكُرُ صهاكا [صُهَاكَ‏] فَقَالَ وَ مَنْ صُهَاكُ وَ مَا يَمْنَعُنِي مِنْ ذِكْرِهَا وَ قَدْ كَانَتْ صُهَاكُ زَانِيَةً أَ وَ تُنْكِرُ ذَلِكَ أَ وَ لَيْسَ قَدْ كَانَتْ أَمَةً حَبَشِيَّةً لِجَدِّي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ فَزَنَى بِهَا جَدُّكَ نُفَيْلٌ فَوَلَدَتْ أَبَاكَ الْخَطَّابَ

Umar was angered and said, ‘Are you mentioning Suhaak?’ He said, ‘And who is Suhaak, and what prevents you from her mention, and Suhaak used to be an adulteress. Or, are you denying that, or isn’t it the case that she was an Ethiopian maid of my grandfatherasws Abdul Muttalibasws. Your father Nufeyl committed adultery with her and she gave birth to your father Al-Khattab.

فَوَهَبَهَا عَبْدُ الْمُطَّلِبِ لَهُ بَعْدَ مَا زَنَى بِهَا فَوَلَدَتْهُ وَ إِنَّهُ لَعَبْدُ جَدِّي وَلَدُ زِنًا فَأَصْلَحَ بَيْنَهُمَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ كَفَّ كُلَّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا عَنْ صَاحِبِهِ

So Abdul Muttalibasws gifted her to him after him having had committed adultery with her, and he (your father) was born, and he, born of adultery, is a slave of my grandfatheras’. Abu Bakr reconciled between the two, and the palm of each one of them was upon his companion’.

قَالَ سُلَيْمٌ فَقُلْتُ لِسَلْمَانَ فَبَايَعْتَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ يَا سَلْمَانُ وَ لَمْ تَقُلْ شَيْئاً

Suleym said, ‘I said to Salmanra, ‘So, youra pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr, O Salmanra, and did not say anything?’

قَالَ قَدْ قُلْتُ بَعْدَ مَا بَايَعْتُ تَبّاً لَكُمْ سَائِرَ الدَّهْرِ أَ وَ تَدْرُونَ مَا صَنَعْتُمْ بِأَنْفُسِكُمْ أَصَبْتُمْ وَ أَخْطَأْتُمْ أَصَبْتُمْ سُنَّةَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ مِنَ الْفُرْقَةِ وَ الِاخْتِلَافِ وَ أَخْطَأْتُمْ سُنَّةَ نَبِيِّكُمْ ص حَتَّى أَخْرَجْتُمُوهَا مِنْ مَعْدِنِهَا وَ أَهْلِهَا

Hera said, ‘Ira had said after pledging, ‘Damnation be for you all for the rest of the time! Or, do you know what you are doing with yourselves? You have got it correct but are mistaken. You have got onto the ways of the ones who were before you of the sects, and the differing; and you are mistaken in the Sunnah of your Prophetsaww, unless you extract it from its mine, and its peopleasws’.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ يَا سَلْمَانُ أَمَّا إِذْ بَايَعَ صَاحِبُكَ وَ بَايَعْتَ فَقُلْ مَا شِئْتَ وَ افْعَلْ مَا بَدَا لَكَ وَ لْيَقُلْ صَاحِبُكَ مَا بَدَا لَهُ

Umar said, ‘O Salmanra! But, then yourra companionasws has pledged, and youra have pledged, so say whatever you like, and do whatever comes to youra, and let yourra companionasws say whatever comes to himasws’.

قَالَ سَلْمَانُ فَقُلْتُ إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ إِنَّ عَلَيْكَ وَ عَلَى صَاحِبِكَ الَّذِي بَايَعْتَهُ مِثْلَ ذُنُوبِ أُمَّتِهِ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ وَ مِثْلَ عَذَابِهِمْ جَمِيعاً

Salmanra said, ‘Ira said, ‘Ira heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Upon you (Abu Bakr) and upon your companion (Umar) who pledged to you, would be the like of sins of hissaww (whole) community up to the Day of Qiyamah, and like their punishment, in their entirety’.

فَقَالَ قُلْ مَا شِئْتَ أَ لَيْسَ قَدْ بَايَعْتَ وَ لَمْ يُقِرَّ اللَّهُ عَيْنَكَ بِأَنْ يَلِيَهَا صَاحِبُكَ

He said, ‘Say whatever you like. Haven’t you pledged allegiance, and Allahazwj will not delight yourra eyes by it going to yourra companionasws’.

فَقُلْتُ أَشْهَدُ أَنِّي قَدْ قَرَأْتُ فِي بَعْضِ كُتُبِ اللَّهِ الْمُنْزَلَةِ أَنَّهُ بِاسْمِكَ وَ نَسَبِكَ وَ صِفَتِكَ بَابٌ مِنْ أَبْوَابِ جَهَنَّمَ

Ira said, ‘Ira testify that Ira have read in one of the Revealed Books of Allahazwj being with your name, and your lineage, and your description is on a door from the doors of Hell’.

فَقَالَ لِي قُلْ مَا شِئْتَ أَ لَيْسَ قَدْ أَزَالَهَا اللَّهُ عَنْ أَهْلِ الْبَيْتِ الَّذِينَ اتَّخَذْتُمُوهُمْ أَرْبَاباً مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ

He said to mera, ‘Say whatever you like. Hasn’t Allahazwj Removed it from Peopleasws of the Household, those you are taking themasws to be lords from besides Allahazwj?’

فَقُلْتُ لَهُ أَشْهَدُ أَنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ وَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةِ فَيَوْمَئِذٍ لا يُعَذِّبُ عَذابَهُ أَحَدٌ وَ لا يُوثِقُ وَثاقَهُ أَحَدٌ فَأَخْبَرَنِي أَنَّكَ‏ أَنْتَ هُوَ

Ira said to him, ‘Ira testify that Ira heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying, and Ira had asked himsaww about this Verse: So, on that Day, no one will Punish (like) His Punishment [89:25] And no one will bind (like) His Binding [89:26]. Hesaww informed measws that you are he’.

فَقَالَ لِي عُمَرُ اسْكُتْ أَسْكَتَ اللَّهُ نَأمَتَكَ أَيُّهَا الْعَبْدُ ابْنَ اللَّخْنَاءِ فَقَالَ لِي عَلِيٌّ ع أَقْسَمْتُ عَلَيْكَ يَا سَلْمَانُ لَمَّا سَكَتَّ

Umar said to mera, ‘Be quiet! Be quiet! May Allahazwj Kill youra, O you slave, sonra of the evil-tongued one!’ Aliasws said to me: ‘Iasws vow upon youra, O Salmanra, be quiet’.

فَقَالَ سَلْمَانُ وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ لَمْ يَأْمُرْنِي عَلِيٌّ ع بِالسُّكُوتِ لَخَبَّرْتُهُ بِكُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ نَزَلَ فِيهِ وَ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ سَمِعْتُهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ فِيهِ وَ فِي صَاحِبِهِ

Salmanra said, ‘By Allahazwj! If Aliasws had not ordered mera with the silence, Ira would have informed him with all things Revealed regarding him, and all things Ira had heard from Rasool-Allahsaww regarding him and his companion’.

فَلَمَّا رَآنِي عُمَرُ قَدْ سَكَتُّ قَالَ إِنَّكَ لَهُ لَمُطِيعٌ مُسَلِّمٌ فَلَمَّا أَنْ بَايَعَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ وَ لَمْ يَقُولَا شَيْئاً قَالَ عُمَرُ يَا سَلْمَانُ أَ لَا تَكُفُّ كَمَا كَفَّ صَاحِبَاكَ وَ اللَّهِ مَا أَنْتَ بِأَشَدَّ حُبّاً لِأَهْلِ هَذَا الْبَيْتِ مِنْهُمَا وَ لَا أَشَدَّ تَعْظِيماً لِحَقِّهِمْ مِنْهُمَا وَ قَدْ كَفَّا كَمَا تَرَى وَ بَايَعَا

When Umar saw mera to have quietened, he said, ‘Youra are obedience to himasws, a submitter’. When Abu Zarrra, and Al-Miqdadra pledged allegiance and did not say anything, Umar said, ‘O Salmanra! Will youra not refrain just as yourra two companionsra have refrained? By Allahazwj! Youra are not with more intense love for the Peopleasws Household than these two, nor more intense reverence to theirasws rights, and they have both refrained, just as youasws can see, and pledged their allegiances’.

قَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ أَ فَتُعَيِّرُنَا يَا عُمَرُ بِحُبِّ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص وَ تَعْظِيمِهِمْ لَعَنَ اللَّهُ وَ قَدْ فَعَلَ مَنْ أَبْغَضَهُمْ وَ افْتَرَى عَلَيْهِمْ وَ ظَلَمَهُمْ حَقَّهُمْ وَ حَمَلَ النَّاسَ عَلَى رِقَابِهِمْ وَ رَدَّ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةَ الْقَهْقَرَى عَلَى أَدْبَارِهَا

Abu Zarrra said, ‘Are you faulting usra, O Umar, with having love for Progenyasws of Muhammadsaww, and revering themasws? May Allahazwj Curse, and Heazwj has Done so, the one who hates themasws, and fabricates upon themasws, and oppresses themasws of theirasws rights, and loads the people upon theirasws necks, and this community has turned backwards upon its back’.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ آمِينَ لَعَنَ اللَّهُ مَنْ ظَلَمَهُمْ حُقُوقَهُمْ لَا وَ اللَّهِ مَا لَهُمْ فِيهَا حَقٌّ وَ مَا هُمْ فِيهَا وَ عُرْضُ النَّاسِ إِلَّا سَوَاءً

Umar said, ‘Ameen! May Allahazwj Curse the one who oppresses themasws of theirasws rights. By Allahazwj! There is no right for them in it (caliphate), and theyasws and the rest of the people are only equal in it’.

قَالَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ فَلِمَ خَاصَمْتُمُ الْأَنْصَارَ بِحَقِّهِمْ وَ حُجَّتِهِمْ

Abu Zarrra said, ‘Then why did you dispute the Helpers of their rights and their arguments?’

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع لِعُمَرَ يَا ابْنُ صُهَاكَ فَلَيْسَ لَنَا فِيهَا حَقٌّ وَ هِيَ لَكَ وَ لِابْنِ آكِلَةِ الذِّبَّانِ قَالَ عُمَرُ كُفَّ الْآنَ يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ إِذْ بَايَعْتَ فَإِنَّ الْعَامَّةَ رَضُوا بِصَاحِبِي وَ لَمْ يَرْضَوْا بِكَ فَمَا ذَنْبِي

Aliasws said to Umar: ‘O Ibn Suhaak! So, there aren’t any rights for usasws in it, and it is for you and for the son of eater of swarms of flies?’ Umar said, ‘Refrain, O Abu Al-Hassanasws, when youasws have already pledged allegiance, for the general public are pleased with my companions, and are not pleased with youasws, so what is my fault?’

قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ لَكِنَّ اللَّهَ وَ رَسُولَهُ لَمْ يَرْضَيَا إِلَّا بِي فَأَبْشِرْ أَنْتَ وَ صَاحِبُكَ وَ مَنِ اتَّبَعَكُمَا وَ وَازَرَكُمَا بِسَخَطٍ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ عَذَابِهِ وَ خِزْيِهِ وَيْلَكَ يَا ابْنَ الْخَطَّابِ لَوْ تَدْرِي مِمَّا خَرَجْتَ وَ فِيمَا دَخَلْتَ وَ مَا ذَا جَنَيْتَ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ وَ عَلَى صَاحِبِكَ

Aliasws said: ‘But Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww are not pleased except with measws, so receive news, you and your companions and the ones who follow you two, and support you, of the Wrath from Allahazwj and Hisazwj Punishment, and Hisazwj Disgrace. Woe be unto you, O Ibn Al-Khattab! If only you knew what you are coming out from and what you are entering into, and what crime you have committed upon yourself and upon your companion!’

فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ يَا عُمَرُ أَمَّا إِذْ قَدْ بَايَعَنَا وَ أَمِنَّا شَرَّهُ وَ فَتْكَهُ وَ غَائِلَتَهُ فَدَعْهُ يَقُولُ مَا شَاءَ

Abu Bakr said, ‘O Umar! When heasws has already pledged allegiance, and we are secure from hisasws evil, and hisasws attack, and hisasws destruction, so leave himasws to say whatever heasws likes to’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع لَسْتُ بِقَائِلٍ غَيْرَ شَيْ‏ءٍ وَاحِدٍ أُذَكِّرُكُمْ اللَّهَ أَيُّهَا الْأَرْبَعَةُ قَالَ لِسَلْمَانَ وَ أَبِي ذَرٍّ وَ الزُّبَيْرِ وَ الْمِقْدَادِ أَ سَمِعْتُمْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ إِنَّ فِي النَّارِ لَتَابُوتاً مِنْ نَارٍ أَرَى فِيهِ اثْنَيْ عَشَرَ رَجُلًا سِتَّةً مِنَ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ سِتَّةً مِنَ الْآخِرِينَ فِي جُبٍّ فِي قَعْرِ جَهَنَّمَ فِي تَابُوتٍ مُقَفَّلٍ عَلَى ذَلِكَ الْجُبِّ صَخْرَةٌ فَإِذَا أَرَادَ اللَّهُ أَنْ يُسَعِّرَ جَهَنَّمَ كَشَفَ تِلْكَ الصَّخْرَةَ عَنْ ذَلِكَ الْجُبِّ فَاسْتَعَرَتْ جَهَنَّمُ مِنْ وَهْجِ ذَلِكَ الْجُبِّ وَ مِنْ حَرِّهِ

Aliasws said: ‘Iasws won’t be saying apart from one thing. Iasws remind you of Allahazwj, O you four!’ – saying to Salmanra, and Abu Zarrra, and Al-Zubeyr, and Al-Miqdadra. Did youra hear from Rasool-Allahsaww saying that in the Fire (Hell) there is a coffin of fire. Isaww see twelve men being in it, six from the former ones and six from the latter ones, in a pit in the bottom of Hell, in a coffin. Locking upon that pit is a rock. So, whenever Allahazwj Wants to Inflame Hell, the rock is removed from the pit, and Hell is set ablaze from the glow of that pit and from its heat’.

قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَسَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص عَنْهُمْ وَ أَنْتُمْ شُهُودٌ فَقَالَ ص أَمَّا الْأَوَّلُونَ فَابْنُ آدَمَ الَّذِي قَتَلَ أَخَاهُ وَ فِرْعَوْنُ الْفَرَاعِنَةِ وَ الَّذِي حَاجَّ إِبْراهِيمَ فِي رَبِّهِ‏ وَ رَجُلَانِ مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ بَدَّلَا كِتَابَهُمْ وَ غَيَّرَا سُنَّتَهُمْ أَمَّا أَحَدُهُمَا فَهَوَّدَ الْيَهُودَ وَ الْآخَرُ نَصَّرَ النَّصَارَى وَ إِبْلِيسُ سَادِسُهُمْ

Aliasws said: ‘So Iasws asked Rasool-Allahazwj about them, and youra are witnesses, hesaww said; ‘As for the former ones, it is the son of Adamas who killed his brother, and Pharohla of the Pharaohs, and the one who argued with Ibrahimas regarding hisas Lordazwj, and two men from the children of Israel who replaced their Book and changed their ways. As for one of them, he Judaised the Jews, and the other one Christianised the Christians, and Ibleesla is their sixth.

وَ الدَّجَّالُ فِي الْآخِرِينَ وَ هَؤُلَاءِ الْخَمْسَةُ أَصْحَابُ الصَّحِيفَةِ الَّذِينَ تَعَاهَدُوا وَ تَعَاقَدُوا عَلَى عَدَاوَتِكَ يَا أَخِي وَ تَظَاهَرُوا عَلَيْكَ بَعْدِي هَذَا وَ هَذَا حَتَّى سَمَّاهُمْ وَ عَدَّهُمْ لَنَا

And Al-Dajjalla among the latter ones, and these five, companions of the agreement which they had vowed and agreed upon being inimical to youasws. O mysaww brother! And they will be backing each other against youasws after mesaww, this one, and this one’ – until hesaww had named them and counted them to us’.

قَالَ سَلْمَانُ فَقُلْنَا صَدَقْتَ نَشْهَدُ أَنَّا سَمِعْنَا ذَلِكَ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

Salmanra said, ‘Wera said, ‘Youasws speak the truth! Wera testify that weasws have heard that from Rasool-Allahsaww’.

فَقَالَ عُثْمَانُ يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ أَ مَا عِنْدَ أَصْحَابِكَ هَؤُلَاءِ حَدِيثٌ فِيَّ فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع بَلَى سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَلْعَنُكَ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَسْتَغْفِرِ اللَّهَ لَكَ بَعْدَ مَا لَعَنَكَ‏

Usman said, ‘O Abu Al-Hassanasws! Is there any Hadeeth with these companions of yoursasws regarding me?’ Aliasws said to him: ‘But, Iasws heard Rasool-Allahsaww cursing you, then hesaww did not seek Forgiveness for you after having cursed you’.

فَغَضِبَ عُثْمَانُ‏ ثُمَّ قَالَ مَا لِي وَ مَا لَكَ لَا تَدَعُنِي عَلَى حَالِي عَلَى عَهْدِ النَّبِيِّ ص وَ لَا بَعْدَهُ‏

Usman was angered, then said. ‘What is it to me, and what is the matter with youasws? Youasws did not leave me to be upon my state in the era of the Prophetsaww, nor after himsaww’.

فَقَالَ الزُّبَيْرُ نَعَمْ فَأَرْغَمَ اللَّهُ أَنْفَكَ فَقَالَ عُثْمَانُ فَوَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ إِنَّ الزُّبَيْرَ يُقْتَلُ مُرْتَدّاً عَنِ الْإِسْلَامِ

Al-Zubeyr said, ‘Yes, may Allahazwj Rub your nose’. Usman said, ‘By Allahazwj! I heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Al-Zubeyr would be killed as an apostate from Al-Islam’.

قَالَ سَلْمَانُ فَقَالَ لِي عَلِيٌّ ع فِيمَا بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَهُ صَدَقَ عُثْمَانُ وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ الزُّبَيْرَ يُبَايِعُنِي بَعْدَ قَتْلِ عُثْمَانَ فَيَنْكُثُ بَيْعَتِي فَيُقْتَلُ مُرْتَدّاً

Salmanra said, ‘Aliasws said to mera in what is between mera and himasws: ‘Usman spoke the truth. Al-Zubeyr will pledge allegiance to measws after the killing of Usman, and he would break myasws allegiance and will be killed as an apostate’.

قَالَ سُلَيْمٌ ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَيَّ سَلْمَانُ فَقَالَ إِنَّ النَّاسَ كُلَّهُمْ ارْتَدُّوا بَعْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص غَيْرَ أَرْبَعَةٍ إِنَّ النَّاسَ صَارُوا بَعْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص بِمَنْزِلَةِ هَارُونَ وَ مَنْ تَبِعَهُ وَ مَنْزِلَةِ الْعِجْلِ وَ مَنْ تَبِعَهُ

Suleym said, ‘Then Aliasws turned towards Salmanra and said: ‘The people all of them became apostates after Rasool-Allahsaww apart from four. After Rasool-Allahsaww, the people committed to what was done in the era of Harounas and the ones who followed himas and at the status of the calf and the ones following it’.

فَعَلِيٌّ فِي سُنَّةِ هَارُونَ وَ عَتِيقٌ فِي سُنَّةِ الْعِجْلِ وَ عُمَرُ فِي سُنَّةِ السَّامِرِيِّ وَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ لَتَجِي‏ءُ قَوْمٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِي مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْيَةِ وَ الْمَكَانَةِ مِنِّي لِيَمُرُّوا عَلَى الصِّرَاطِ فَإِذَا رَأَيْتُهُمْ وَ رَأَوْنِي وَ عَرَفْتُهُمْ وَ عَرَفُونِي اخْتُلِجُوا دُونِي

Thus, Aliasws is in Sunnah of Harounas, and Ateeq (Abu Bakr) in the sunnah of the calf, and Umar in the sunnah of Al-Samirila. And I heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘There will come a group from mysaww companions from the people held in high regard and position from mesaww to pass over the Bridge. When Isaww see them and they see mesaww, and Isaww recognise them and they recognise mesaww, they would be taken away from mesaww.

فَأَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ أَصْحَابِي أَصْحَابِي فَيُقَالُ لَا تَدْرِي مَا أَحْدَثُوا بَعْدَكَ إِنَّهُمْ‏ ارْتَدُّوا عَلى‏ أَدْبارِهِمْ‏ حَيْثُ فَارَقْتَهُمْ فَأَقُولُ بُعْداً وَ سُحْقاً

Isaww shall say: ‘O Lordazwj! Mysaww companions! Mysaww companions!’ Heazwj will Say: “Don’t yousaww know what they innovated after yousaww. They turned upon their heels when yousaww separated from them’. So, Isaww shall say: ‘Be distant and crushed!’

وَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ لَتَرْكَبَنَّ أُمَّتِي سُنَّةَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ حَذْوَ النَّعْلِ بِالنَّعْلِ وَ حَذْوَ الْقُذَّةِ بِالْقُذَّةِ شِبْراً بِشِبْرٍ وَ ذِرَاعاً بِذِرَاعٍ وَ بَاعاً بِبَاعٍ إِذِ التَّوْرَاةُ وَ الْقُرْآنُ كَتَبَهُ يَدٌ وَاحِدَةٌ فِي رَقٍّ بِقَلَمٍ وَاحِدٍ وَ جَرَتِ الْأَمْثَالُ وَ السُّنَنُ سَوَاءً.

And I heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Mysaww community will be adopting the ways of the children of Israel, step of the slipper with the slipper, and step of the arrow with the arrow (in a quiver), palm’s width by palm’s width, and cubit by cubit, and inch by inch, when the Torah and the Quran are Written by One Hand, and in a Parchment with one pen, and the Sunnahs and the examples flow in the same manner’’.¹³⁴

46- وَ أَيْضاً وَجَدْتُ فِي كِتَابِ سُلَيْمِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ الْهِلَالِيِّ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الْبَرَاءَ بْنَ عَازِبٍ‏ يَقُولُ‏ كُنْتُ أُحِبُّ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ حُبّاً شَدِيداً فِي حَيَاةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ بَعْدَ وَفَاتِهِ فَلَمَّا قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَوْصَى عَلِيّاً ع أَنْ لَا يَلِيَ غُسْلَهُ غَيْرُهُ وَ أَنَّهُ لَا يَنْبَغِي لِأَحَدٍ أَنْ يَرَى عَوْرَتَهُ غَيْرُهُ وَ أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ أَحَدٌ يَرَى عَوْرَةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص إِلَّا ذَهَبَ بَصَرُهُ

And as well I (Majlisi) found in the book of Suleym Bin Qays Al Hilali having heard Al Bara’a Bin Aazib saying,

‘I used to love the Clan of Hashimasws with intense love during the lifetime of Rasool-Allahsaww and after hissaww expiry. When Rasool-Allahsaww passed away, hesaww had bequeathed to Aliasws that no one would be in charge of washing himsaww apart from himasws and it is not befitting for anyone that he sees hissaww private parts apart from himasws, and it isn’t for anyone to see the private parts of Rasool-Allahazwj except his sight would be gone.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَمَنْ يُعِينُنِي عَلَى غُسْلِكَ قَالَ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع فِي جُنُودٍ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ

Aliasws said: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! Who will assist measws upon washing yousaww?’ Hesaww said: ‘Jibraeelas among armies of Angels’.

فَكَانَ عَلِيٌّ ع يُغَسِّلُهُ وَ الْفَضْلُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ مَرْبُوطَ الْعَيْنَيْنِ يَصُبُّ الْمَاءَ وَ الْمَلَائِكَةُ يُقَلِّبُونَهُ لَهُ كَيْفَ شَاءَ وَ لَقَدْ أَرَادَ عَلِيٌّ ع أَنْ يَنْزِعَ قَمِيصَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَصَاحَ بِهِ صَائِحٌ لَا تَنْزِعْ قَمِيصَ نَبِيِّكَ يَا عَلِيُّ فَأَدْخَلَ يَدَهُ تَحْتَ الْقَمِيصِ فَغَسَّلَهُ

So, Aliasws was washing himsaww, and Al-Fazl Bin A-Abbas was blindfolded of the eyes, pouring the water, and the Angels were turning himsaww for himasws however heasws so desired; and Aliasws had intended to remove the shirt of Rasool-Allahsaww, and he (Jibraeelas) said (as per Command of Allahazwj) to himasws: ‘Do not remove the shirt of yourasws Prophetsaww, O Aliasws!’ So, heasws inserted hisasws hand beneath the shirt and washed himsaww.

ثُمَّ حَنَّطَهُ وَ كَفَّنَهُ ثُمَّ نَزَعَ الْقَمِيصَ عِنْدَ تَكْفِينِهِ وَ تَحْنِيطِهِ‏

Then heasws embalmed himsaww, then removed the shirt during enshrouding him and embalming himsaww.

قَالَ الْبَرَاءُ بْنُ عَازِبٍ فَلَمَّا قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص تَخَوَّفْتُ أَنْ يَتَظَاهَرَ قُرَيْشٌ عَلَى إِخْرَاجِ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ مِنْ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ فَلَمَّا صَنَعَ النَّاسُ مَا صَنَعُوا مِنْ بَيْعَةِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ أَخَذَنِي مَا يَأْخُذُ الْوَالِهَ الثَّكُولَ مَعَ مَا بِي مِنَ الْحُزْنِ لِوَفَاةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

Al-Bara’a Bin Aazib said, ‘When Rasool-Allahsaww passed away, I feared that Quraysh would overcome upon extracting this command from the Clan of Hashimasws. When the people did what they did, from pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr, there seized me the grief what tends to seize a bereaved mother, along with the grief there was with me due to the expiry of Rasool-Allahsaww.

فَجَعَلْتُ أَتَرَدَّدُ وَ أَرْمُقُ وُجُوهَ النَّاسِ وَ قَدْ خَلَا الْهَاشِمِيُّونَ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص لِغُسْلِهِ وَ تَحْنِيطِهِ وَ قَدْ بَلَغَنِي الَّذِي كَانَ مِنْ قَوْلِ سَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ وَ مَنِ اتَّبَعَهُ مِنْ جُمْلَةِ أَصْحَابِهِ فَلَمْ أَحْفِلْ بِهِمْ وَ عَلِمْتُ أَنَّهُ لَا يَئُولُ إِلَى شَيْ‏ءٍ

I reluctantly went on to scan the faces of the people, and the Clan of Hashimasws had isolated with Rasool-Allahsaww for washing himsaww, and embalming himsaww, and it had reached me from the words of Sa’ad Bin Ubada, and the ones who followed him from the totality of his companions. I did not care about them and knew that it will not come to anything.

فَجَعَلْتُ أَتَرَدَّدُ بَيْنَهُمْ وَ بَيْنَ الْمَسْجِدِ وَ أَتَفَقَّدُ وُجُوهَ قُرَيْشٍ وَ كَأَنِّي لَكَذَلِكَ‏ إِذْ فَقَدْتُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرَ ثُمَّ لَمْ أَلْبَثْ حَتَّى إِذَا أَنَا بِأَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرَ وَ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ قَدْ أَقْبَلُوا فِي أَهْلِ السَّقِيفَةِ وَ هُمْ مُحْتَجِزُونَ بِالْأُزُرِ الصَّنْعَانِيَةِ لَا يَمُرُّ بِهِمْ أَحَدٌ إِلَّا خَبَطُوهُ فَإِذَا عَرَفُوهُ مَدُّوا يَدَهُ عَلَى يَدِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ شَاءَ ذَلِكَ أَمْ أَبَى

I reluctantly went on to be between them and between the Masjid, and surveyed faces of Quraysh, and it is as if I was like that when I missed Abu Bakr and Umar. Then it was not long before I was with Abu Bakr and Umar and Ubeyda having had come among the people of the shed (Saqeefa), and they were with the manufactured cloth. No one passed by them except they thwarted him. So, when they recognised him, they would forcibly extend his hand upon the hand of Abu Bakr, whether he liked that or refused.

فَأَنْكَرْتُ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ عَقْلِي جَزَعاً مِنْهُ مَعَ الْمُصِيبَةِ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَخَرَجْتُ مُسْرِعاً حَتَّى أَتَيْتُ الْمَسْجِدَ ثُمَّ أَتَيْتُ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ وَ الْبَابُ مُغْلَقٌ دُونَهُمْ فَضَرَبْتُ الْبَابَ ضَرْباً عَنِيفاً وَ قُلْتُ يَا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ

My intellect disliked during that, being alarmed from it, along with the calamity with Rasool-Allahazwj. So I went out hurriedly until I came to the Masjid. Then I went to the Clan of Hashimasws, and the door was locked besides them. I knocked the door with violent knocking and I said, ‘O Peopleasws of the Household!’

فَخَرَجَ إِلَيَّ الْفَضْلُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ فَقُلْتُ قَدْ بَايَعَ النَّاسُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَقَالَ الْعَبَّاسُ قَدْ تَرِبَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ مِنْهَا آخِرَ الدَّهْرِ أَمَا إِنِّي قَدْ أَمَرْتُكُمْ فَعَصَيْتُمُونِي

Al-Fazl Bin Al-Abbas came out to me, and I said, ‘The people have pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr’. Al-Abbas said, ‘You have raised your hands from it up to the end of times. But, I had instructed you, but you disobeyed me’.

فَمَكَثْتُ أُكَابِدُ مَا فِي نَفْسِي فَلَمَّا كَانَ اللَّيْلُ خَرَجْتُ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ فَلَمَّا صِرْتُ فِيهِ تَذَكَّرْتُ أَنِّي كُنْتُ أَسْمَعُ هَمْهَمَةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص بِالْقُرْآنِ فَانْبَعَثْتُ مِنْ مَكَانِي‏ فَخَرَجْتُ نَحْوَ الْفَضَاءِ فَوَجَدْتُ نَفَراً يَتَنَاجَوْنَ فَلَمَّا دَنَوْتُ مِنْهُمْ سَكَتُوا فَانْصَرَفْتُ‏ عَنْهُمْ فَعَرَفُونِي وَ مَا عَرَفْتُهُمْ

I remained suffering with what was within myself. When it was the night, I went out to the Masjid. When I came to be in it, I remembered that I used to hear the humming of Rasool-Allahsaww with the Quran. I got up from my place and went out to around the space, and I found a number (of men) whispering. When I went near to them, they became silent. So, I turned to leave from them, and they recognised me, and I did not recognise them.

فَدَعَوْنِي فَأَتَيْتُهُمْ وَ إِذَا الْمِقْدَادُ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ سَلْمَانُ‏ وَ عَمَّارُ بْنُ يَاسِرٍ وَ عُبَادَةُ بْنُ الصَّامِتِ وَ حُذَيْفَةُ بْنُ الْيَمَانِ وَ الزُّبَيْرُ بْنُ‏ الْعَوَّامِ‏ وَ حُذَيْفَةُ يَقُولُ وَ اللَّهِ لَيَفْعَلُنَّ مَا أَخْبَرْتُكُمْ بِهِ فَوَ اللَّهِ مَا كَذَبْتُ وَ لَا كُذِبْتُ وَ إِذَا الْقَوْمُ يُرِيدُونَ أَنْ يُعِيدُوا الْأَمْرَ شُورَى بَيْنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ

They called me, so I went to them, and there was Al-Miqdadra, and Abu Zarrra, and Amman Bin Yasser, and Ubada Bin Al-Samit, and Huzeyfa Bin Al-Yaman, and Al-Zubeyr Bin Al-Awwam, and Huzeyfa saying, ‘By Allahazwj! They are doing (exactly) what I had informed you all with. By Allahazwj! Neither am I lying nor was I lied to. And then the people would want to return the command to a consultation between the Emigrants and the Helpers’.

فَقَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ انْطَلِقُوا بِنَا إِلَى أُبَيِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ فَقَدْ عَلِمَ مِثْلَ مَا عَلِمْتُ فَانْطَلَقُوا إِلَى أُبَيِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ وَ ضَرَبْنَا عَلَيْهِ بَابَهُ فَأَتَى حَتَّى صَارَ خَلْفَ الْبَابِ ثُمَّ قَالَ مَنْ أَنْتُمْ فَكَلَّمَهُ الْمِقْدَادُ فَقَالَ مَا جَاءَ بِكَ فَقَالَ افْتَحْ فَإِنَّ الْأَمْرَ الَّذِي جِئْنَا فِيهِ أَعْظَمُ مِنْ أَنْ يَجْرِيَ وَرَاءَ الْبَابِ

Huzeyfa said, ‘Let us go to Ubay Bin Ka’b, for he knows similar to what I know’. So we went to Ubay Bin Ka’ab, and we knocked his door to him. He came until he was behind the door, then said, ‘Who are you?’ Al-Miqdadra spoke. He said, ‘What have you come for?’ He said, ‘Open, for the matter which we have come for is greater than to flow behind the door’.

فَقَالَ مَا أَنَا بِفَاتِحٍ بَابِي وَ قَدْ عَلِمْتُ مَا جِئْتُمْ لَهُ وَ مَا أَنَا بِفَاتِحٍ بَابِي كَأَنَّكُمْ أَرَدْتُمُ النَّظَرَ فِي هَذَا الْعَقْدِ فَقُلْنَا نَعَمْ فَقَالَ أَ فِيكُمْ حُذَيْفَةُ فَقُلْنَا نَعَمْ فَقَالَ الْقَوْلُ مَا قَالَ حُذَيْفَةُ فَأَمَّا أَنَا فَلَا أَفْتَحُ بَابِي حَتَّى يَجْرِيَ عَلَيَّ مَا هُوَ جَارٍ عَلَيْهِ وَ مَا يَكُونُ بَعْدَهَا شَرٌّ مِنْهَا وَ إِلَى اللَّهِ جَلَّ ثَنَاؤُهُ الْمُشْتَكَى قَالَ فَرَجَعُوا ثُمَّ دَخَلَ أُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍ بَيْتَهُ

He said, ‘I will not be opening my door, and I know what you have come for, and I will not open my door. It is as if you are wanting the considering regarding this pact’. We said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘Is Huzeyfa among you?’ We said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘The word is what Huzeyfa says. As for me, I will not open my door until there flows upon me what has upon him, and what will be happening after it would be more evil than it, and I complain to Allahazwj, Majestic is Hisazwj Praise’. They returned, then Ubay Bin Ka’ab entered his house.

قَالَ وَ بَلَغَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرَ الْخَبَرُ فَأَرْسَلَا إِلَى أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ الْجَرَّاحِ وَ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ شُعْبَةَ فَسَأَلَاهُمَا الرَّأْيَ فَقَالَ الْمُغِيرَةُ بْنُ شُعْبَةَ أَرَى أَنْ تَلْقُوا الْعَبَّاسَ بْنَ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ فَتُطْمِعُوهُ فِي أَنْ يَكُونَ لَهُ فِي هَذَا الْأَمْرِ نَصِيبٌ يَكُونُ لَهُ وَ لِعَقِبِهِ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ فَتَقْطَعُوهُ بِذَلِكَ عَنِ ابْنِ أَخِيهِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَإِنَّ الْعَبَّاسَ لَوْ صَارَ مَعَكُمْ كَانَتِ الْحُجَّةُ عَلَى النَّاسِ وَ هَانَ عَلَيْكُمْ أَمْرُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَحْدَهُ

He said, ‘and the news reached Abu Bakr and Umar so they sent a message to Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah, and Al-Mugheira Bin Shu’ba, and asked them for the opinion. Al-Mugheira Bin Shu’ba said, ‘I view that you should meet Al-Abbas son of Abdul Muttalibasws, and entice him regarding that there would happen to be a share for him in this command, to be for him and for his posterity from after him. So cut him out from the sonasws of his brotheras Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, for if Al-Abbas were to become with you, it would be the argument upon the people, and the matter would be easy for you, Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws would be alone’.

قَالَ فَانْطَلَقَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ وَ الْمُغِيرَةُ بْنُ شُعْبَةَ حَتَّى دَخَلُوا عَلَى الْعَبَّاسِ فِي اللَّيْلَةِ الثَّانِيَةِ مِنْ وَفَاةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

He said, ‘Abu Bakr, and Umar, and Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jarrah, and Al-Mugheira Bin Shu’ba went until they entered to see Al-Abbas during the second night from the expiry of Rasool-Allahsaww’.

قَالَ فَتَكَلَّمَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ جَلَّ وَ عَزَّ وَ أَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ ابْتَعَثَ مُحَمَّداً ص نَبِيّاً وَ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَلِيّاً فَمَنَّ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ بِكَوْنِهِ بَيْنَ ظَهْرَانَيْهِمْ حَتَّى اخْتَارَ لَهُ مَا عِنْدَهُ وَ تَرَكَ لِلنَّاسِ أَمْرَهُمْ لِيَخْتَارُوا لِأَنْفُسِهِمْ مَصْلَحَتَهُمْ مُتَّفِقِينَ لَا مُخْتَلِفِينَ

He said, ‘Abu Bakr spoke. He praised Allahazwj Majestic and Mighty, and extolled upon Himazwj, then said, ‘Allahazwj had Send Muhammadsaww as a Prophetsaww and a guardian for the Momineen. Allahazwj Conferred upon them with hissaww being in their midst until Heazwj Chose for him what is in Hisazwj Presence, and left for the people, their affairs for choose for themselves, their benefits, harmonised, not differing.

‏ فَاخْتَارُونِي عَلَيْهِمْ وَالِياً وَ لِأُمُورِهِمْ رَاعِياً فَتَوَلَّوْنِي ذَلِكَ وَ مَا أَخَافُ بِعَوْنِ اللَّهِ وَهْناً وَ لَا حَيْرَةً وَ لَا جُبْناً وَ ما تَوْفِيقِي إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ تَوَكَّلْتُ وَ إِلَيْهِ أُنِيبُ‏ غَيْرَ أَنِّي لَا أَنْفَكُّ مِنْ طَاعِنٍ يَبْلُغُنِي فَيَقُولُ بِخِلَافِ قَوْلِ الْعَامَّةِ

So they chose me as a ruler upon them and a shepherd for their affairs, making me to be in charge of that, and by the Assistance of Allahazwj, I neither fear any weakness, nor confusion, nor cowardice, and my success is only with Allah. Upon Him do I rely and to Him do I turn [11:88], apart from that I cannot until myself from the taunts that have reached me, and he is saying opposite to the words of the general public.

فَيَتَّخِذُكُمْ لَجَأً فَتَكُونُونَ حِصْنَهُ الْمَنِيعَ وَ خَطْبَهُ الْبَدِيعَ فَإِمَّا دَخَلْتُمْ مَعَ النَّاسِ فِيمَا اجْتَمَعُوا عَلَيْهِ أَوْ صَرَفْتُمُوهُمْ عَمَّا مَالُوا إِلَيْهِ فَقَدْ جِئْنَاكَ وَ نَحْنُ نُرِيدُ أَنْ نَجْعَلَ لَكَ فِي هَذَا الْأَمْرِ نَصِيباً يَكُونُ لَكَ وَ لِعَقِبِكَ مِنْ بَعْدِكَ إِذْ كُنْتَ عَمَّ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ إِنْ كَانَ النَّاسُ قَدْ رَأَوْا مَكَانَكَ وَ مَكَانَ صَاحِبِكَ فَعَدَلُوا بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ عَنْكُمَا

So they would take you as a shelter and you will become his impregnable fortress, and his amazing speeches. If you were to enter along with the people into what they have united upon, or you turn them away from what they are inclining towards. We have come to you and we want you make a share for you to be in this command, to be for you and for your posterity from after you, since you are an uncle of Rasool-Allahsaww, and even though the people have seen your position and position of your companion (Aliasws), and they have distanced this command from both of you’.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ إِي وَ اللَّهِ وَ أُخْرَى يَا بَنِي هَاشِمٍ عَلَى رِسْلِكُمْ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص مِنَّا وَ مِنْكُمْ وَ لَمْ نَأْتِكَ حَاجَةً مِنَّا إِلَيْكُمْ وَ لَكِنْ كَرِهْنَا أَنْ يَكُونَ الطَّعْنُ فِيمَا اجْتَمَعَ عَلَيْهِ الْمُسْلِمُونَ فَيَتَفَاقَمَ الْخَطْبُ بِكُمْ وَ بِهِمْ فَانْظُرُوا لِأَنْفُسِكُمْ وَ لِلْعَامَّةِ

Umar said, ‘By Allahazwj! And another (thing), O Clan of Hashimasws upon your Rasoolsaww. Surely, Rasool-Allahsaww is from us and from you, and we did not come to you for a need from us to you, but we disliked that the taunts should happen in what the Muslims have united upon, so the speech would become aggravated between you and them. So, consider for yourselves and for the general public’.

فَتَكَلَّمَ الْعَبَّاسُ فَقَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ ابْتَعَثَ مُحَمَّداً ص نَبِيّاً وَ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَلِيّاً فَإِنْ‏ كُنْتَ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص طَلَبْتَ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ فَحَقَّنَا أَخَذْتَ وَ إِنْ كُنْتَ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ طَلَبْتَ فَنَحْنُ مِنْهُمْ مَا تَقَدَّمَ رَأْيُنَا فِي أَمْرِكَ وَ لَا شُوِّرْنَا وَ لَا نُحِبُّ لَكَ ذَلِكَ إِذْ كُنَّا مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ كُنَّا لَكَ كَارِهِينَ‏

Al-Abbas spoke, he said, ‘Allahazwj had Sent Muhammadsaww as a Prophetsaww and a guardian for the Momineen. So, if you were seeking this command by Rasool-Allahsaww, so you have seized our right, and if you were seeking with the Momineen, then we are from them. You did not advance our view regarding your command, nor did you consult us, and we do not like that for you, and we were (also) from the Momineen, and we were from those who were hating you.

وَ أَمَّا قَوْلُكَ أَنْ تَجْعَلَ لِي فِي هَذَا الْأَمْرِ نَصِيباً فَإِنْ كَانَ هَذَا الْأَمْرُ لَكَ خَاصَّةً فَأَمْسِكْ عَلَيْكَ فَلَسْنَا مُحْتَاجِينَ إِلَيْكَ وَ إِنْ كَانَ حَقَّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَلَيْسَ لَكَ أَنْ تَحْكُمَ فِي حَقِّهِمْ وَ إِنْ كَانَ حَقَّنَا فَإِنَّا لَا نَرْضَى بِبَعْضِهِ دُونَ بَعْضٍ‏

And as for your words that you will make a share to be for me in this command, so if this command was for you in particular, then withhold it to you, for we are not needy to you, and if it was a right of the Momineen, then it isn’t for you that you decide regarding their rights, and if it was our right, then we are not pleased with part of it besides a part.

وَ أَمَّا قَوْلُكَ يَا عُمَرُ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص مِنَّا وَ مِنْكُمْ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص شَجَرَةٌ نَحْنُ أَغْصَانُهَا وَ أَنْتُمْ جِيرَانُهَا فَنَحْنُ أَوْلَى بِهِ مِنْكُمْ

And as for your words, O Umar, ‘Rasool-Allahsaww is from us and for you’, so Rasool-Allahsaww is a tree, and we are its branches, and you are its neighbours. Thus, we are foremost with it than you are.

وَ أَمَّا قَوْلُكَ إني [إِنَّا] نَخَافُ تَفَاقُمَ الْخَطْبِ بِكُمْ فَهَذَا الَّذِي فَعَلْتُمُوهُ أَوَائِلُ ذَلِكَ‏ وَ اللَّهُ الْمُسْتَعانُ‏

And as for your words that it would aggravate the speech with you, so this is which you have done in the beginning of that, and Allah is the Helper [12:18]’.

فَخَرَجُوا مِنْ عِنْدِهِ وَ أَنْشَأَ الْعَبَّاسُ يَقُولُ‏

مَا كُنْتُ أَحْسَبُ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ مُنْحَرِفاً-

عَنْ هَاشِمٍ ثُمَّ مِنْهَا عَنْ أَبِي حَسَنٍ‏

أَ لَيْسَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ صَلَّى لِقِبْلَتِكُمْ-

وَ أَعْلَمَ النَّاسِ بِالْآثَارِ وَ السُّنَنِ-

وَ أَقْرَبَ النَّاسِ عَهْداً بِالنَّبِيِّ وَ مَنْ-

جِبْرِيلُ عَوْنٌ لَهُ بِالْغُسْلِ وَ الْكَفَنِ-

مَنْ فِيهِ مَا فِي جَمِيعِ النَّاسِ كُلِّهِمْ‏

وَ لَيْسَ فِي النَّاسِ مَا فِيهِ مِنَ الْحَسَنِ‏

مَنْ ذَا الَّذِي رَدَّكُمْ عَنْهُ فَنَعْرِفَهُ-

هَا إِنَّ بَيْعَتَكُمْ مِنْ أَوَّلِ الْفِتَنِ‏

They went out from his presence and Al-Abbas prosed saying, ‘I did not reckon this command would turn away from (Clan of) Hashimasws, then from it away from Abu Hassanasws. Isn’t heasws the first one to pray Salat to your qiblah, and most knowledgeable of the people with the Ahadeeth and the Sunnah, and the closest of the people in pact with the Prophetsaww, and the one whom Jibraeelas was an assistant of for the washing, and the enshrouding, one in whom is whatever is in the entirety of the people, and there isn’t in the people what there is in himasws of the beauties. Who is that who can return you from it? Here, your allegiance is from the first of the strifes (Fitna)’’.¹³⁵

47- وَ وَجَدْتُ أَيْضاً فِي كِتَابِ سُلَيْمٍ‏، فِي مَوْضِعٍ آخَرَ قَالَ أَبَانُ بْنُ أَبِي عَيَّاشٍ قَالَ لِي أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع‏ مَا لَقِينَا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ مِنْ ظُلْمِ قُرَيْشٍ وَ تَظَاهُرِهِمْ عَلَيْنَا وَ قَتْلِهِمْ إِيَّانَا وَ مَا لَقِيَتْ شِيعَتُنَا وَ مُحِبُّونَا مِنَ النَّاسِ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قُبِضَ وَ قَدْ قَامَ بِحَقِّنَا وَ أَمَرَ بِطَاعَتِنَا وَ فَرَضَ وَلَايَتَنَا وَ مَوَدَّتَنَا وَ أَخْبَرَهُمْ بِأَنَّا أَوْلَى بِهِمْ مِنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ وَ أَمَرَ أَنْ يُبَلِّغَ الشَّاهِدُ الْغَائِبَ

And I (Majlisi) found as well in the book of Suleym, in another place – Aban Bin Abu Ayyash said,

‘Abu Ja’farasws said to me: ‘What is faced by usasws, Peopleasws of the Household, from the oppression of Quraysh, their backing each other against usasws, and their killing usasws, and what is faced by ourasws Shias and ones who love usasws, from the people, is because Rasool-Allahsaww passed away and hesaww had stood with ourasws rights, and ordered with obedience to usasws, and Obligated ourasws Wilayah, and ourasws cordiality, and informed them what weasws are foremost with them than their ownselves, and ordered that the one presented deliver it to the absentee’.

فَتَظَاهَرُوا عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع فَاحْتَجَّ عَلَيْهِمْ بِمَا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فِيهِ وَ مَا سَمِعْتِ الْعَامَّةُ فَقَالُوا صَدَقْتَ قَدْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ لَكِنْ قَدْ نَسَخَهُ فَقَالَ إِنَّا أَهْلُ بَيْتٍ أَكْرَمَنَا اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ اصْطَفَانَا وَ لَمْ يَرْضَ لَنَا بِالدُّنْيَا وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَجْمَعُ لَنَا النُّبُوَّةَ وَ الْخِلَافَةَ

But they backed each other against Aliasws. Heasws argued against them with what Rasool-Allahsaww had said regarding himasws, and what the general public had heard. They said, ‘Youasws speak the truth, Rasool-Allahsaww had said it, but abrogated it. (They alleged that) Hesaww said: ‘Weasws, Peopleasws of the Household, Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Honoured usasws, and Chose usasws, and was not Pleased for the world being for usasws, and that Allahazwj will not Gatherer for usasws, the Prophet-hood and the caliphate’.

فَشَهِدَ لَهُ بِذَلِكَ أَرْبَعَةُ نَفَرٍ عُمَرُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ وَ مُعَاذُ بْنُ جَبَلٍ وَ سَالِمٌ مَوْلَى أَبِي حُذَيْفَةَ فَشَبَّهُوا عَلَى الْعَامَّةِ وَ صَدَّقُوهُمْ وَ رَدُّوهُمْ عَلَى أَدْبَارِهِمْ وَ أَخْرَجُوهَا مِنْ مَعْدِنِهَا حَيْثُ جَعَلَهَا اللَّهُ وَ احْتَجُّوا عَلَى الْأَنْصَارِ بِحَقِّنَا فَعَقَدُوهَا لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ

Forty persons testified with that for him (Abu Bakr), and (so did) Abu Ubeyda, and Muaz Bin Jabal, and Saalim Mawla Abu Huzeyfa. They confused upon the general public, and they ratified them, and they returned them upon their backs, and they took it out from its mine when Allahazwj had Made it to be, and they argued against the Helpers with ourasws right, and they tied it to Abu Bakr.

ثُمَّ رَدَّهَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ إِلَى عُمَرَ يُكَافِيهِ بِهَا ثُمَّ جَعَلَهَا عُمَرُ شُورَى بَيْنَ سِتَّةٍ ثُمَّ جَعَلَهَا ابْنُ عَوْفٍ لِعُثْمَانَ عَلَى أَنْ يَرُدَّهَا عَلَيْهِ‏ فَغَدَرَ بِهِ عُثْمَانُ وَ أَظْهَرَ ابْنُ عَوْفٍ كُفْرَهُ وَ جَهْلَهُ وَ طُعِنَ فِي حَيَاتِهِ وَ زَعَمَ أَنَّ عُثْمَانَ سَمَّهُ فَمَاتَ

Then Abu Bakr returned it to Umar sufficing him (of his support) with it. Then Umar made it to be a consultation between six. Then Ibn Awf made it to be for Usman upon (a condition) that he would return it to him. But, Usman was treacherous with him, and Ibn Awf manifested his Kufr, and his ignorance, and accused him during his lifetime and claimed that Usman had poisoned him, Then he died.

ثُمَّ قَامَ طَلْحَةُ وَ الزُّبَيْرُ فَبَايَعَا عَلِيّاً ع طَائِعَيْنِ غَيْرَ مُكْرَهَيْنِ ثُمَّ نَكَثَا وَ غَدَرَا وَ ذَهَبَا بِعَائِشَةَ مَعَهُمَا إِلَى الْبَصْرَةِ ثُمَّ دَعَا مُعَاوِيَةُ طُغَاةَ أَهْلِ الشَّامِ إِلَى الطَّلَبِ بِدَمِ عُثْمَانَ وَ نَصَبَ لَنَا الْحَرْبَ

Then Talha and Al-Zubeyr stood and pledged allegiance to Aliasws willingly, without abhorrence. Then they broke it and betrayed, and Ayesha went with them to Al-Basra (to fight against Aliasws). Then Muawiya called the tyrants of the people of Syria to seeking the blood of Usman, and established the war to usasws.

ثُمَّ خَالَفَهُ أَهْلُ حَرُورَاءَ عَلَى أَنْ يَحُكِّمَ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ وَ سُنَّةَ نَبِيِّهِ ص فَلَوْ كَانَا حَكَمَا بِمَا شُرِطَ عَلَيْهِمَا لَحَكَمَا أَنَّ عَلِيّاً أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَ عَلَى لِسَانِ نَبِيِّهِ ص وَ فِي سُنَّتِهِ فَخَالَفَهُ أَهْلُ النَّهْرَوَانِ وَ قَاتَلُوهُ‏.

Then the people of Haroura opposed himasws upon that the Book of Allahazwj and the Sunnah of Hisazwj Prophetsaww would decide. If they had both decide with what was stipulated upon them, they would have decided that Aliasws is Ami Al-Momineen in the Book of Allahazwj upon the tongue of Hisazwj Prophetsaww, and in hissaww Sunnah. The people of Al-Naharwan opposed himasws and they fought against himasws’’.¹³⁶

48- أَقُولُ وَجَدْتُ أَيْضاً فِي كِتَابِ سُلَيْمِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ، بِرِوَايَةِ ابْنِ أَبِي عَيَّاشٍ عَنْهُ قَالَ: كُنْتُ عِنْدَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ‏ فِي بَيْتِهِ وَ مَعَنَا جَمَاعَةٌ مِنْ شِيعَةِ عَلِيٍّ ع فَحَدَّثَنَا فَكَانَ فِيمَا حَدَّثَنَا أَنْ قَالَ يَا إِخْوَتِي تُوُفِّيَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَوْمَ تُوُفِّيَ فَلَمْ يُوضَعْ فِي حُفْرَتِهِ حَتَّى نَكَثَ النَّاسُ وَ ارْتَدُّوا وَ أَجْمَعُوا عَلَى الْخِلَافِ

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘I found as well in the book of Suleym Bin Qays, by a report of Ibn Abu Ayyash, from him who said,

‘I was in the presence of Abdullah Bin Abbas in his house, and with us was a group of Shias of Aliasws. He narrated to us, and it was among what he narrated to us is that he said, ‘O my brothers! Rasool-Allahsaww passed away on the day hesaww passed away, and hesaww had not been placed in hissaww until the people broke (the pact), and they became apostates, and they united upon the opposition.

وَ اشْتَغَلَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص حَتَّى فَرَغَ مِنْ غُسْلِهِ وَ تَكْفِينِهِ وَ تَحْنِيطِهِ وَ وَضَعَهُ فِي حُفْرَتِهِ ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَى تَأْلِيفِ الْقُرْآنِ وَ شَغَلَ عَنْهُمْ بِوَصِيَّةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ لَمْ يَكُنْ هِمَّتُهُ الْمُلْكَ لِمَا كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَخْبَرَهُ عَنِ الْقَوْمِ

And Aliasws was pre-occupied with Rasool-Allahsaww until hesaww was free from washing himsaww, and enshrouding himsaww, and embalming himsaww, and placing himsaww in hissaww grave. Then heasws turn to compiling the Quran, and was too pre-occupied from them with the bequest of Rasool-Allahsaww, and the kingdom did not happen to be hisasws concern due to what Rasool-Allahsaww had informed himasws about the people.

فَافْتَتَنَ النَّاسُ‏ بِالَّذِي افْتَتَنُوا بِهِ مِنَ الرَّجُلَيْنِ فَلَمْ يَبْقَ إِلَّا عَلِيٌّ ع وَ بَنُو هَاشِمٍ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ وَ سَلْمَانُ فِي أُنَاسٍ مَعَهُمْ يَسِيرٍ

The people were tempted by that which they were tempted with from the two men (Abu Bakr and Umar), so there did not remain anyone except Aliasws, and the Clan of Hashimasws, and Abu Zarrra, and Al-Miqdadra, and Salmanra among a few people with them.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ يَا هَذَا إِنَّ النَّاسَ أَجْمَعِينَ قَدْ بَايَعُوكَ مَا خَلَا هَذَا الرَّجُلَ وَ أَهْلَ بَيْتِهِ وَ هَؤُلَاءِ النَّفَرَ فَابْعَثْ إِلَيْهِ

Umar said to Abu Bakr, ‘O you! The people in their entirety have pledged allegiance to you, apart from this manasws and hisasws family members, and those persons, so send a message to himasws’.

فَبَعَثَ إِلَيْهِ ابْنَ عَمٍّ لِعُمَرَ يُقَالُ لَهُ قُنْفُذٌ فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا قُنْفُذُ انْطَلِقْ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ فَقُلْ لَهُ أَجِبْ خَلِيفَةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهُ فَانْطَلَقَ فَأَبْلَغَهُ‏ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع مَا أَسْرَعَ مَا كَذَبْتُمْ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ ارْتَدَدْتُمْ وَ اللَّهِ مَا اسْتَخْلَفَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص غَيْرِي فَارْجِعْ يَا قُنْفُذُ فَإِنَّمَا أَنْتَ رَسُولٌ فَقُلْ لَهُ قَالَ لَكَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ اللَّهِ مَا اسْتَخْلَفَكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ وَ إِنَّكَ لَتَعْلَمُ مَنْ خَلِيفَةُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ

He sent a cousin of Umar to himasws called Qunfuz. He said to him, ‘O Qunfuz! Go to Aliasws and say to him, ‘Answer to the caliph of Rasool-Allahsaww’. He went and delivered it. Aliasws said, ‘How quickly you have lied upon Rasool-Allahsaww. You have become apostates, by Allahazwj! Rasool-Allahsaww did not make a caliph apart from measws. So return, O Qunfuz, for you are a messenger, and say to him, ‘Aliasws says to you: ‘By Allahazwj! Rasool-Allahsaww did not make you a caliph, and you know well who the caliph of Rasool-Allahsaww is’’.

فَأَقْبَلَ قُنْفُذٌ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ فَبَلَّغَهُ الرِّسَالَةَ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ صَدَقَ عَلِيٌّ مَا اسْتَخْلَفَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَغَضِبَ عُمَرُ وَ وَثَبَ وَ قَامَ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ اجْلِسْ ثُمَّ قَالَ لِقُنْفُذٍ اذْهَبْ إِلَيْهِ فَقُلْ لَهُ أَجِبْ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ

Qunfuz returned to Abu Bakr and delivered the message. Abu Bakr said, ‘Aliasws speaks the truth. Rasool-Allahsaww did not make me a caliph’. Umar got angry and leapt and stood up. Abu Bakr said, ‘Sit down!’ Then he said to Qunfuz, ‘Go to himasws and say to himasws, ‘Answer to Amir Al-Momineen Abu Bakr’.

فَأَقْبَلَ قُنْفُذٌ حَتَّى دَخَلَ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع فَأَبْلَغَهُ الرِّسَالَةَ فَقَالَ كَذَبَ وَ اللَّهِ انْطَلِقْ إِلَيْهِ فَقُلْ لَهُ لَقَدْ تَسَمَّيْتَ بِاسْمٍ لَيْسَ لَكَ فَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ غَيْرُكَ

Qunfuz came back until he entered to see Aliasws and delivered the message to himasws. Heasws said: ‘He is lying, by Allahazwj! Go to him and say to him, ‘You have named yourself with a name which isn’t for you, for you have known that Amir Al-Momineen is other than you’.

فَرَجَعَ قُنْفُذٌ فَأَخْبَرَهُمَا فَوَثَبَ عُمَرُ غَضْبَانَ فَقَالَ وَ اللَّهِ إِنِّي لَعَارِفٌ بِسَخْفِهِ وَ ضَعْفِ رَأْيِهِ وَ إِنَّهُ لَا يَسْتَقِيمُ لَنَا أَمْرٌ حَتَّى نَقْتُلَهُ فَخَلِّنِي آتِيكَ بِرَأْسِهِ

Qunfuz returned and informed them both. Umar leapt up in anger and said, ‘By Allahazwj! I recognise hisasws absurdity and weakness of hisasws view, and heasws cannot establish an order to us until we kill himasws. Leave me, I will come to you with hisasws head!’

فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ اجْلِسْ فَأَبَى فَأَقْسَمَ عَلَيْهِ فَجَلَسَ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا قُنْفُذُ انْطَلِقْ فَقُلْ لَهُ أَجِبْ أَبَا بَكْرٍ

Abu Bakr said, ‘Sit down!’ But he refused’ He vowed upon him, then he sat down. Then he said, ‘O Qunfuz! Go, say to himasws, ‘Answer to Abu Bakr’.

فَأَقْبَلَ قُنْفُذٌ فَقَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ أَجِبْ أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع إِنِّي لَفِي شُغُلٍ عَنْهُ وَ مَا كُنْتُ بِالَّذِي أَتْرُكُ وَصِيَّةَ خَلِيلِي وَ أَخِي‏ وَ انْطَلِقْ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ مَا اجْتَمَعْتُمْ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الْجَوْرِ

Qunfuz came and said, ‘O Aliasws! Answer Abu Bakr’. Aliasws said: ‘Iasws am too pre-occupied from him, and Iasws was not going to neglect a bequest of myasws friend, and myasws brothersaww, and go to Abu Bakr and what tyrannies they have gathered to him’.

فَانْطَلَقَ قُنْفُذٌ فَأَخْبَرَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَوَثَبَ عُمَرُ غَضْبَانَ فَنَادَى خَالِدَ بْنَ الْوَلِيدِ وَ قُنْفُذاً فَأَمَرَهُمَا أَنْ يَحْمِلَا حَطَباً وَ نَاراً ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ حَتَّى انْتَهَى إِلَى بَابِ عَلِيٍّ وَ فَاطِمَةُ ع قَاعِدَةٌ خَلْفَ الْبَابِ قَدْ عَصَبَتْ رَأْسَهَا وَ نَحَلَ جِسْمُهَا فِي وَفَاةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

Qunfuz went and informed Abu Bakr. Umar leapt up in anger and called Khalid Bin Al-Waleed and Qunfuz, and ordered them to carry firewood and fire. Then he came until he ended up at the door of Aliasws, and (Syeda) Fatimaasws was seated behind the door. Herasws head was bandaged and herasws body had weakened due to the expiry of Rasool-Allahsaww.

فَأَقْبَلَ عُمَرُ حَتَّى ضَرَبَ الْبَابَ ثُمَّ نَادَى يَا ابْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ افْتَحِ الْبَابَ فَقَالَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع يَا عُمَرُ مَا لَنَا وَ لَكَ لَا تَدَعُنَا وَ مَا نَحْنُ فِيهِ

Umar came until he hit the door, then called out, ‘O sonasws of Abu Talibasws! Open the door!’ (Syeda) Fatimaasws said: ‘O Umar! What have we to do with you, and you do not leave usasws and what (grief) weasws are in’.

قَالَ افْتَحِي الْبَابَ وَ إِلَّا أَحْرَقْنَا عَلَيْكُمْ فَقَالَتْ يَا عُمَرُ أَ مَا تَتَّقِي اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ تَدْخُلُ عَلَى بَيْتِي وَ تَهْجُمُ عَلَى دَارِي فَأَبَى أَنْ يَنْصَرِفَ

He said, ‘Open the door or else I will burn it down upon youasws all!’ Sheasws said: ‘O Umar! Are you not fearing Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic? You will enter into myasws house and storm into myasws house?’ He refused to leave.

ثُمَّ عَادَ عُمَرُ بِالنَّارِ فَأَضْرَمَهَا فِي الْبَابِ فَأَحْرَقَ الْبَابَ‏ ثُمَّ دَفَعَهُ عُمَرُ فَاسْتَقْبَلَتْهُ فَاطِمَةُ ع وَ صَاحَتْ يَا أَبَتَاهْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَرَفَعَ السَّيْفَ وَ هُوَ فِي غِمْدِهِ فَوَجَأَ بِهِ جَنْبَهَا فَصَرَخَتْ فَرَفَعَ السَّوْطَ فَضَرَبَ بِهِ ذِرَاعَهَا فَصَاحَتْ يَا أَبَتَاهْ

Then Umar returned with the fire and ignited it at the door and burnt down the door. Then Umar pushed it, and (Syeda) Fatimaasws faced him shouting: ‘O fathersaww! O Rasool-Allahsaww!’ He raised the sword and it was in its sheath and pained herasws side with it. Sheasws cried out. He raised the whip and hit herasws forearm with it. Sheasws cried out: ‘O fathersaww!’

فَوَثَبَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَأَخَذَ بَتَلَابِيبِ عُمَرَ ثُمَّ هَزَّهُ فَصَرَعَهُ وَ وَجَأَ أَنْفَهُ وَ رَقَبَتَهُ وَ هَمَّ بِقَتْلِهِ فَذُكِّرَ قَوْلَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ مَا أَوْصَى بِهِ مِنَ الصَّبْرِ وَ الطَّاعَةِ فَقَالَ وَ الَّذِي كَرَّمَ مُحَمَّداً ص بِالنُّبُوَّةِ يَا ابْنَ صُهَاكَ‏ لَوْ لا كِتابٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ سَبَقَ‏ لَعَلِمْتَ أَنَّكَ لَا تَدْخُلُ بَيْتِي

Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws leapt up and grabbed the collar of Umar, then shook him and wrestled him (to the ground), and pained his nose, and his neck and thought of killing him. Then heasws remember the words of Rasool-Allahsaww and what hesaww had bequeathed with, from the patience and the obedience. Heasws said: ‘By the Oneazwj Who Honoured Muhammadsaww with the Prophet-hood! O Ibn Suhaak! Had there not been a preceding Book from Allah [8:68], and a pact vowed to measws by Rasool-Allahsaww, you would have known that you cannot enter myasws house!’

فَأَرْسَلَ عُمَرُ يَسْتَغِيثُ فَأَقْبَلَ النَّاسُ حَتَّى دَخَلُوا الدَّارَ وَ سَلَّ خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ السَّيْفَ لِيَضْرِبَ بِهِ عَلِيّاً ع فَحَمَلَ عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ بِسَيْفِهِ فَأَقْسَمَ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ فَكَفَّ وَ أَقْبَلَ الْمِقْدَادُ وَ سَلْمَانُ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ عَمَّارٌ وَ بُرَيْدَةُ الْأَسْلَمِيُّ حَتَّى دَخَلُوا الدَّارَ أَعْوَاناً لِعَلِيٍّ ع حَتَّى كَادَتْ تَقَعُ فِتْنَةٌ

Umar sent for help and the people came until they entered the house, and Khalid Bin Al-Waleed unsheathed the sword in order to strike Aliasws with it. Aliasws attacked upon him with hisasws sword. He swore upon Aliasws. Heasws refrained. And, Al-Miqdadra, and Salmanra, and Abu Zarrra, and Ammar, and Bureyda Al-Aslami came until they entered the house as supporters of Aliasws until Fitna almost occurred.

فَأُخْرِجَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ تَبِعَهُ النَّاسُ وَ اتَّبَعَهُ سَلْمَانُ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ وَ عَمَّارٌ وَ بُرَيْدَةُ وَ هُمْ يَقُولُونَ مَا أَسْرَعَ مَا خُنْتُمْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَخْرَجْتُمُ الضَّغَائِنَ الَّتِي فِي‏ صُدُورِكُمْ

Aliasws went out, and the people followed himasws, and Salmanra and Abu Zarrra and Al-Miqdadra and Ammarra and Bureyda followed himasws, and they were saying, ‘How quickly you have betrayed Rasool-Allahsaww and brought out the grudges which were in your chests!’

وَ قَالَ بُرَيْدَةُ بْنُ الْحَصِيبِ الْأَسْلَمِيُّ يَا عُمَرُ أَتَيْتَ عَلَى أَخِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ وَصِيِّهِ وَ عَلَى ابْنَتِهِ فَتَضْرِبُهَا وَ أَنْتَ الَّذِي تَعْرِفُكَ قُرَيْشٌ بِمَا تَعْرِفُكَ بِهِ

And Bureyda Bin Al-Haseeb Al-Aslami said, ‘O Umar! You went to the brotherasws of Rasool-Allahsaww and hissaww successorasws and hissaww daughterasws and you hit herasws, and you are the one whom the Quraysh recognise you with what they recognise you with!’

فَرَفَعَ خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ السَّيْفَ لِيَضْرِبَ بُرَيْدَةَ وَ هُوَ فِي غِمْدِهِ فَتَعَلَّقَ بِهِ عُمَرُ وَ مَنَعَهُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ فَانْتَهُوا بِعَلِيٍّ ع إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ مُلَبَّباً فَلَمَّا نَظَرَ بِهِ أَبُو بَكْرٍ صَاحَ خَلُّوا سَبِيلَهُ

Khalid Bin Al-Waleed raised the sword in order to strike Bureyda, and it was in its sheath. Umar freed it and prevented him from that. They ended up with Aliasws to Abu Bakr, tied up. When Abu Bakr looked at himasws, he shouted, ‘Free hisasws way!’

فَقَالَ مَا أَسْرَعَ مَا تَوَثَّبْتُمْ عَلَى أَهْلِ بَيْتِ نَبِيِّكُمْ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ بِأَيِّ حَقٍّ وَ بِأَيِّ مِيرَاثٍ وَ بِأَيِّ سَابِقَةٍ تَحُثُّ النَّاسَ إِلَى بَيْعَتِكَ أَ لَمْ تُبَايِعْنِي بِالْأَمْسِ بِأَمْرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ

Heasws said: ‘How quickly you have pounced upon Peopleasws of the Household of your Prophetsaww. O Abu Bakr! By which right, and by which inheritance, and by which precedence did you urge the people to your allegiance? Did you not pledge allegiance to measws yesterday by the orders of Rasool-Allahsaww?’

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ دَعْ هَذَا عَنْكَ يَا عَلِيُّ فَوَ اللَّهِ إِنْ لَمْ تُبَايِعْ لَنَقْتُلَنَّكَ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع إِذاً وَ اللَّهِ أَكُونَ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ وَ أَخَا رَسُولِهِ الْمَقْتُولَ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ أَمَّا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ الْمَقْتُولُ فَنَعَمْ وَ أَمَّا أَخُو رَسُولِ اللَّهِ فَلَا

Umar said, ‘Leave this one from you, O Aliasws. By Allahazwj, If youasws do not pledge allegiance, we will kill youasws!’ Aliasws said ‘Then, by Allahazwj, Iasws would become the killed servant of Allahazwj and brotherasws of Rasool-Allahsaww’. Umar said, ‘As for (youasws being) the killed servant of Allahazwj, so yes, and as for (youasws being) the brotherasws of Rasool-Allahsaww, so, no’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ لَا قَضَاءٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ سَبَقَ وَ عَهْدٌ عَهِدَهُ إِلَيَّ خَلِيلِي لَسْتُ أَجُوزُهُ لَعَلِمْتَ أَيُّنَا أَضْعَفُ ناصِراً وَ أَقَلُّ عَدَداً

Aliasws said: ‘But, by Allahazwj! If the Decree from Allahazwj had not preceded, and a pact myasws friendsaww vowed to measws, Iasws would not allow it. You would have known which of us is with weaker helpers and fewer number [72:24]’.

وَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ سَاكِتٌ لَا يَتَكَلَّمُ فَقَامَ بُرَيْدَةُ فَقَالَ يَا عُمَرُ أَ لَسْتُمَا اللَّذَيْنِ قَالَ لَكُمَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص انْطَلِقَا إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ع فَسَلِّمَا عَلَيْهِ بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ‏ فَقُلْتُمَا أَ عَنْ أَمْرِ اللَّهِ وَ أَمْرِ رَسُولِهِ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ

And Abu Bakr was silent, not speaking. Bureyda stood up and said, ‘Aren’t you two those to whom Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘Go to Aliasws and greet unto himasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineenasws’? So you two said, ‘Is it a Command from Allahazwj and order of Hisazwj Rasoolsaww?’ Hesaww said: ‘Yes’’.

فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ قَدْ كَانَ ذَلِكَ يَا بُرَيْدَةُ وَ لَكِنَّكَ غِبْتَ وَ شَهِدْنَا وَ الْأَمْرُ يَحْدُثُ بَعْدَهُ الْأَمْرُ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ مَا أَنْتَ وَ هَذَا يَا بُرَيْدَةُ وَ مَا يُدْخِلُكَ فِي هَذَا قَالَ بُرَيْدَةُ وَ اللَّهِ لَا سَكَنْتُ فِي بَلْدَةٍ أَنْتُمْ فِيهَا أُمَرَاءُ فَأَمَرَ بِهِ عُمَرُ فَضُرِبَ وَ أُخْرِجَ

Abu Bakr said, ‘That has happened, O Bureyda, but you were absent and we witnessed, and the new matter occurred after the matter’. Umar said, ‘What is it to you and this, O Bureyda, and what makes you interfere in this?’ Bureyda said, ‘I will not dwell in a city you are rulers in it’. Umar ordered with him, and he was hit and thrown out.

ثُمَّ قَامَ سَلْمَانُ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ اتَّقِ اللَّهَ وَ قُمْ عَنْ هَذَا الْمَجْلِسِ وَ دَعْهُ لِأَهْلِهِ يَأْكُلُوا بِهِ رَغَداً إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ لَا يَخْتَلِفْ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ سَيْفَانِ فَلَمْ يُجِبْهُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَأَعَادَ سَلْمَانُ فَقَالَ مِثْلَهَا

Then Salmanra stood up and said, ‘O Abu Bakr! Fear Allahazwj and stand from this seat and leave it for its rightful oneasws, eating plentifully with it up to the Day of Qiyamah, no two swords would differing upon this community’. Abu Bakr did not answer, so Salmanra repeated, saying similar to it.

فَانْتَهَرَهُ عُمَرُ وَ قَالَ مَا لَكَ وَ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ وَ مَا يُدْخِلُكَ فِيمَا هَاهُنَا فَقَالَ مَهْلًا يَا عُمَرُ قُمْ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ عَنْ هَذَا الْمَجْلِسِ وَ دَعْهُ لِأَهْلِهِ يَأْكُلُوا بِهِ وَ اللَّهِ خُضْراً إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ وَ إِنْ أَبَيْتُمْ لَتَحْلَبُنَّ بِهِ دَماً وَ لَيَطْمَعَنَّ فِيهَا الطُّلَقَاءُ وَ الطُّرَدَاءُ وَ الْمُنَافِقُونَ‏

Umar snubbed him and said, ‘What is it for youra and this matter, and what makes youra interfere in this over here?’ Hera said, ‘No, O Umar! Stand up, O Abu Bakr, from this seat and leave it for its rightful onesasws, eating by it, by Allahazwj, up to the Day of Qiyamah, and if you refuse, you will milk blood with it, and the freed ones would covet regarding it, and the expelled ones, and the hypocrites.

وَ اللَّهِ إِنِّي لَوْ أَعْلَمُ أَنِّي أَدْفَعُ ضَيْماً أَوْ أُعِزُّ لِلَّهِ دِيناً لَوَضَعْتُ سَيْفِي عَلَى عُنُقِي ثُمَّ ضَرَبْتُ بِهِ قُدُماً أَ تَثِبُونَ عَلَى وَصِيِّ رَسُولِ اللَّهُ فَأَبْشِرُوا بِالْبَلَاءِ وَ اقْنَطُوا مِنَ الرَّخَاءِ

By Allahazwj! If Ira know Ira would repel a wrong or honour the Religion for Allahazwj, Ira would place myra sword upon myra neck, then strike with it ahead. Are you pouncing upon the successorasws of Rasool-Allahsaww? Receive news of the afflictions, and termination from the hope’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ وَ عَمَّارٌ فَقَالُوا لِعَلِيٍّ ع مَا تَأْمُرُ وَ اللَّهِ إِنْ أَمَرْتَنَا لَنَضْرِبَنَّ بِالسَّيْفِ حَتَّى نُقْتَلَ

Then Abu Zarrra, and Al-Miqdadra and Ammar stood up and said to Aliasws, ‘What are youasws orders? By Allahazwj! If youasws were to order us, we will strike with the sword until we are killed’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع كُفُّوا رَحِمَكُمُ اللَّهُ وَ اذْكُرُوا عَهْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ مَا أَوْصَاكُمْ بِهِ فَكَفُّوا

Aliasws said: ‘Refrain, may Allahazwj have Mercy on you, and remember the pact of Rasool-Allahsaww and what hesaww has bequeathed you with’. So, they refrained.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ هُوَ جَالِسٌ فَوْقَ الْمِنْبَرِ مَا يُجْلِسُكَ فَوْقَ الْمِنْبَرِ وَ هَذَا جَالِسٌ مُحَارِبٌ لَا يَقُومُ فَيُبَايِعَكَ أَ وَ تَأْمُرُ بِهِ فَنَضْرِبَ عُنُقَهُ

Umar said to Abu Bakr, and he was seated at the top of the pulpit, ‘What makes you sit at the top of the pulpit and this seated fighter is not standing and pledging allegiance to you? Or, will you order with himasws, and we will strike off hisasws neck?’

وَ الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ ع قَائِمَانِ عَلَى رَأْسِ عَلِيٍّ ع فَلَمَّا سَمِعَا مَقَالَةَ عُمَرَ بَكَيَا وَ رَفَعَا أَصْوَاتَهُمَا يَا جَدَّاهْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهُ فَضَمَّهُمَا عَلِيٌّ ع إِلَى صَدْرِهِ وَ قَالَ لَا تَبْكِيَا فَوَ اللَّهِ لَا يَقْدِرَانِ عَلَى قَتْلِ أَبِيكُمَا هُمَا أَذَلُّ وَ أَدْخَرُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ

And Al-Hassanasws and Al-Husaynasws were standing by the head of Aliasws. When theyasws heard the words of Umar, theyasws cried and raised theirasws voices: ‘O grandfathersaww! O Rasool-Allahsaww!’ Aliasws hugged themasws to hisasws chest and said: ‘Do not cry. By Allahazwj! They are not able upon killing yourasws fatherasws. They are both disgraceful and weak from that’.

وَ أَقْبَلَتْ أُمُّ أَيْمَنَ النُّوبِيَّةُ حَاضِنَةُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ أُمُّ سَلَمَةَ فَقَالَتَا يَا عَتِيقُ مَا أَسْرَعَ مَا أَبْدَيْتُمْ حَسَدَكُمْ لِآلِ مُحَمَّدٍ فَأَمَرَ بِهِمَا عُمَرُ أَنْ تُخْرَجَا مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ وَ قَالَ مَا لَنَا وَ لِلنِّسَاءِ

And Umm Aymanra, the special Nubian nurse-maid, and Umm Salamara came and said, ‘O Ateeq! How quickly you began your envy towards Progenyasws of Muhammadsaww’. Umar ordered with them and they were expelled from the Masjid, and he said, ‘What have we to do with the women?’

ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ قُمْ بَايِعْ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع إِنْ لَمْ أَفْعَلْ قَالَ إِذاً وَ اللَّهِ نَضْرِبَ عُنُقَكَ قَالَ كَذَبْتَ وَ اللَّهِ يَا ابْنَ صُهَاكَ لَا تَقْدِرُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ أَنْتَ أَلْأَمُ وَ أَضْعَفُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ

Then he said, ‘O Aliasws! Stand and pledge allegiance!’ Aliasws said: ‘If Iasws I do not do so?’ He said, ‘Then, by Allahazwj, we will strike off yourasws neck’. Heasws said: ‘You are lying, by Allahazwj, O Ibn Suhaak! You are unable upon that. You are lower and weaker than that’.

فَوَثَبَ خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ وَ اخْتَرَطَ سَيْفَهُ وَ قَالَ وَ اللَّهِ لَئِنْ لَمْ تَفْعَلْ لَأَقْتُلَنَّكَ فَقَامَ إِلَيْهِ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ أَخَذَ بِمَجَامِعِ ثَوْبِهِ ثُمَّ دَفَعَهُ حَتَّى أَلْقَاهُ عَلَى قَفَاهُ وَ وَقَعَ السَّيْفُ مِنْ يَدِهِ

Khalid Bin Al-Waleed leapt up and grabbed his sword and said, ‘By Allahazwj! If youasws do not do it, we will kill youasws!’ Aliasws stood up to him and grabbed the generality of his clothes, then pushed him until heasws threw him upon his hand, and the sword fell from his hand.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ قُمْ يَا عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَبَايِعْ قَالَ فَإِنْ لَمْ أَفْعَلْ قَالَ إِذَنْ وَ اللَّهِ نَقْتُلَكَ وَ احْتَجَّ عَلَيْهِمْ عَلِيٌّ ع ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ ثُمَّ مَدَّ يَدَهُ مِنْ غَيْرِ أَنْ يَفْتَحَ كَفَّهُ فَضَرَبَ عَلَيْهَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ رَضِيَ بِذَلِكَ ثُمَّ تَوَجَّهَ إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ وَ تَبِعَهُ النَّاسُ

Umar said, ‘Stand, O Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws and pledge allegiance!’ Heasws said: ‘Supposing Iasws do not do it?’ He said, ‘Then, by Allahazwj, we will kill youasws’. And Aliasws argued against him three times, then extended hisasws hand from without opening hisasws palm, and Abu Bakr hit upon it and was pleased with that, then heasws headed to hisasws house, and the people followed.

قَالَ ثُمَّ إِنَّ فَاطِمَةَ ع بَلَغَهَا أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ قَبَضَ فَدَكاً فَخَرَجَتْ فِي نِسَاءِ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ حَتَّى دَخَلَتْ عَلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ فَقَالَتْ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ تُرِيدُ أَنْ تَأْخُذَ مِنِّي أَرْضاً جَعَلَهَا لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ تَصَدَّقَ بِهَا عَلَيَّ مِنَ الْوَجِيفِ الَّذِي لَمْ يُوجِفِ الْمُسْلِمُونَ عَلَيْهِ بِ خَيْلٍ وَ لا رِكابٍ‏

He (the narrator) said, ‘Then it reached (Syeda) Fatimaasws that Abu Bakr had seized (the estate of) Fadak. Sheasws came out among womenfolk of the Clan of Hashimasws until sheasws entered to see Abu Bakr, and sheasws said: ‘O Abu Bakr! You want to seize a land from measws which Rasool-Allahsaww had made it to be for measws, and the distinguished ones had testified with it upon measws, that it is which the Muslims did not make an expedition upon it, neither by horses nor camels, [59:6].

أَ مَا كَانَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْمَرْءُ يُحْفَظُ فِي وُلْدِهِ وَ قَدْ عَلِمْتَ أَنَّهُ ص لَمْ يَتْرُكْ لِوُلْدِهِ شَيْئاً غَيْرَهَا

Had not Rasool-Allahsaww said: ‘The person is preserved in his children?’ And you have known that hesaww did not leave anything for hissaww children other than it’.

فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مَقَالَتَهَا وَ النِّسْوَةُ مَعَهَا دَعَا بِدَوَاةٍ لِيَكْتُبَ بِهِ لَهَا فَدَخَلَ عُمَرُ فَقَالَ يَا خَلِيفَةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص لَا تَكْتُبْ لَهَا حَتَّى تُقِيمَ الْبَيِّنَةَ بِمَا تَدَّعِي‏

When Abu Bakr heard herasws words, and the womenfolk were with herasws, he called for the ink in order to write it for herasws. But, Umar entered and said, ‘O caliph of Rasool-Allahsaww! Do not write it for herasws until sheasws establishes the proof with what sheasws is claiming’.

فَقَالَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع نَعَمْ أُقِيمُ الْبَيِّنَةَ قَالَ مَنْ قَالَتْ عَلِيٌّ وَ أُمُّ أَيْمَنَ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ وَ لَا تُقْبَلُ شَهَادَةُ امْرَأَةٍ أَعْجَمِيَّةٍ لَا تُفْصِحُ وَ أَمَّا عَلِيٌّ فَيَجُرُّ النَّارَ إِلَى قُرْصَتِهِ

(Syeda) Fatimaasws said, ‘Yes, Iasws shall establish the proof’. He said, ‘Who?’ Sheasws said: ‘Aliasws and Umm Aymanra’. Umar said, ‘And a testimony is not acceptable from a non-Arab woman, not eloquent. And as for Aliasws, the fire flows to hisasws fingers’.

‏ فَرَجَعَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع وَ قَدْ دَخَلَهَا مِنَ الْغَيْظِ مَا لَا يُوصَفُ فَمَرِضَتْ وَ كَانَ عَلِيٌّ ع يُصَلِّي فِي الْمَسْجِدِ الصَّلَوَاتِ الْخَمْسَ فَلَمَّا صَلَّى قَالَ لَهُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ كَيْفَ بِنْتُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ إِلَى أَنْ ثَقُلَتْ فَسَأَلَا عَنْهَا وَ قَالا قَدْ كَانَ بَيْنَنَا وَ بَيْنَهَا مَا قَدْ عَلِمْتَ فَإِنْ رَأَيْتَ أَنْ تَأْذَنَ لَنَا لِنَعْتَذِرَ إِلَيْهَا مِنْ ذَنْبِنَا

(Syeda) Fatimaasws returned, and such anger had entered into herasws which cannot be described. Sheasws fell ill, and Aliasws used to pray Salat in the Masjid, the five (daily) Salats. Whenever heasws prayed Salat, Abu Bakr and Umar would say to himasws, ‘How is the daughterasws of Rasool-Allahsaww?’ – until heasws was bereaved, they would ask about herasws, and said: ‘And it has happened between us and herasws what you have known, so if youasws see fit, then seek permission for us, so we can present our excuse to herasws from our sin’.

قَالَ ذَلِكَ إِلَيْكُمَا فَقَامَا فَجَلَسَا بِالْبَابِ‏ وَ دَخَلَ عَلِيٌّ ع عَلَى فَاطِمَةَ ع فَقَالَ لَهَا أَيَّتُهَا الْحُرَّةُ فُلَانٌ وَ فُلَانٌ بِالْبَابِ يُرِيدَانِ أَنْ يُسَلِّمَا عَلَيْكِ فَمَا تَرَيْنَ قَالَتْ الْبَيْتُ بَيْتُكَ وَ الْحُرَّةُ زَوْجَتُكَ افْعَلْ مَا تَشَاءُ

Heasws said: ‘That is up to you two’. They stayed seated at the door, and Aliasws entered to see (Syeda) Fatimaasws. Heasws said to herasws: ‘O youasws free one! So and so, and so and so are at the door wanting to greet unto youasws. What is yourasws view?’ Sheasws said: ‘The house is your house, and the free one is yourasws wife. Do what youasws want’.

فَقَالَ سُدِّي قِنَاعَكِ فَسَدَّتْ قِنَاعَهَا وَ حَوَّلَتْ وَجْهَهَا إِلَى الْحَائِطِ فَدَخَلَا وَ سَلَّمَا وَ قَالا ارْضَيْ عَنَّا رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْكِ فَقَالَتْ مَا دَعَاكُمَا إِلَى هَذَا فَقَالا اعْتَرَفْنَا بِالْإِسَاءَةِ وَ رَجَوْنَا أَنْ تَعْفِي عَنَّا وَ تُخْرِجِي سَخِيمَتَكِ

Heasws said: ‘Cover (with) yourasws veil’. Sheasws covered (with) herasws veil and turned around towards the wall, and they greeted and said, ‘Be pleased from us, may Allahazwj be Pleased from youasws’. Sheasws said: ‘What called you both to (be doing) this?’ They said, ‘We acknowledge with the evil and we hope that youasws will pardon us, and throw out yourasws anger’.

فَقَالَتْ إِنْ كُنْتُمَا صَادِقَيْنِ فَأَخْبِرَانِي عَمَّا أَسْأَلُكُمَا عَنْهُ فَإِنِّي لَا أَسْأَلُكُمَا عَنْ أَمْرٍ إِلَّا أَنَا عَارِفَةٌ بِأَنَّكُمَا تَعْلَمَانِهِ فَإِنْ صَدَقْتُمَا عَلِمْتُ أَنَّكُمَا صَادِقَانِ فِي مَجِيئِكُمَا قَالا سَلِي عَمَّا بَدَا لَكِ

Sheasws said, ‘If you two were truthful, then inform me what Iasws ask you about, for Iasws will not ask you about any matter except Iasws recognise that you both know of it. If you two speak the truth, Iasws would know that you are both truthful in your decision’. They said, ‘Ask about whatever comes to youasws’.

قَالَتْ نَشَدْتُكُمَا بِاللَّهِ هَلْ سَمِعْتُمَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ فَاطِمَةُ بَضْعَةٌ مِنِّي فَمَنْ آذَاهَا فَقَدْ آذَانِي‏ قَالا نَعَمْ

Sheasws said: ‘Weasws adjure you both with Allahazwj, did you hear Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Fatimaasws is a part from mesaww, so the one who hurts herasws so he has hurt measws?’ They said, ‘Yes’.

فَرَفَعَتْ يَدَهَا إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فَقَالَتْ اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّهُمَا قَدْ آذَيَانِي فَأَنَا أَشْكُوهُمَا إِلَيْكَ وَ إِلَى رَسُولِكَ لَا وَ اللَّهِ لَا أَرْضَى عَنْكُمَا أَبَداً حَتَّى أَلْقَى أَبِي رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فَأُخْبِرَهُ بِمَا صَنَعْتُمَا فَيَكُونَ هُوَ الْحَاكِمَ فِيكُمَا

Sheasws raised herasws hands towards the sky and said: ‘O Allahazwj! These two have hurt measws, and Iasws complain to youasws of them to Yourazwj Rasoolsaww!’ No, by Allahazwj! Iasws will not be pleased with them, ever, until Iasws meet myasws fathersaww Rasool-Allahsaww and inform himsaww with what you two have done, and he would be the judge regarding you two’.

قَالَ فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ دَعَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ بِالْوَيْلِ وَ الثُّبُورِ وَ جَزِعَ جَزَعاً شَدِيداً فَقَالَ عُمَرُ تَجْزَعُ يَا خَلِيفَةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ مِنْ قَوْلِ امْرَأَةٍ

He (the narrator) said, ‘During that Abu Bakr called for the woe and the destruction, and was alarmed with severe alarm. Umar said, ‘You are panicking, O caliph of Rasool-Allahsaww, from the words of a woman?’

قَالَ فَبَقِيَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع بَعْدَ وَفَاةِ أَبِيهَا رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً فَلَمَّا اشْتَدَّ بِهَا الْأَمْرُ دَعَتْ عَلِيّاً ع وَ قَالَتْ يَا ابْنَ عَمِّ مَا أَرَانِي إِلَّا لِمَا بِي وَ أَنَا أُوصِيكَ أَنْ تَتَزَوَّجَ أُمَامَةَ بِنْتَ أُخْتِي زَيْنَبَ تَكُونُ لِوُلْدِي مِثْلِي وَ اتَّخِذْ لِي نَعْشاً فَإِنِّي رَأَيْتُ الْمَلَائِكَةَ يَصِفُونَهُ لِي‏ وَ أَنْ لَا تُشْهِدَ أَحَداً مِنْ أَعْدَاءِ اللَّهِ جِنَازَتِي وَ لَا دَفْنِي وَ لَا الصَّلَاةَ عَلَيَّ

He (the narrator) said, ‘Fatimaasws remained after the expiry of Rasool-Allahsaww, for forty nights. When the matter intensified with herasws, sheasws called Aliasws and said: ‘O sonasws of uncleas! Iasws cannot see except what is with measws, and Iasws hereby bequeath to youasws that you will marry Umama daughter of myasws sister Zainabas, so she would become for myasws children like measws, and take a casket for measws, for Iasws see the Angels forming rows for measws, and that youasws will not let anyone from the enemies of Allahazwj to attend myasws funeral, nor myasws burial, nor the Salat upon measws’.

قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ وَ هُوَ قَوْلُ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع أَشْيَاءُ لَمْ أَجِدْ إِلَى تَرْكِهِنَّ سَبِيلًا لِأَنَّ الْقُرْآنَ بِهَا أُنْزِلَ عَلَى قَلْبِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص قِتَالُ النَّاكِثِينَ وَ الْقَاسِطِينَ وَ الْمَارِقِينَ الَّذِي أَوْصَانِي وَ عَهِدَ إِلَيَّ خَلِيلِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِقِتَالِهِمْ وَ تَزْوِيجُ أُمَامَةَ بِنْتِ زَيْنَبَ أَوْصَتْنِي بِهَا فَاطِمَةُ ع

Ibn Abbas said, ‘And it is the word of Amir Al-Momineenasws: ‘There are things Iasws cannot find a way to neglecting these, because the Quran was Revealed with these, descending upon the heart of Muhammadsaww – fighting against the breakers (of the Covenant), and the renegades, and the deviants, those myasws friend Rasool-Allahsaww bequeathed to me and vowed to measws; and marrying Umama daughter of Zainabas whom Fatimaasws had bequeathed measws with’’.

قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ فَقُبِضَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع مِنْ يَوْمِهَا فَارْتَجَّتِ الْمَدِينَةُ بِالْبُكَاءِ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ وَ النِّسَاءِ وَ دَهِشَ النَّاسُ كَيَوْمٍ قُبِضَ فِيهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص

Ibn Abbas said, ‘ (Syeda) Fatimaasws passed away on that very day, and Al-Medina trembled with the wailing from the men and the women, and the people were staggered like the day in which Rasool-Allahsaww passed away.

فَأَقْبَلَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ يُعَزِّيَانِ عَلِيّاً ع وَ يَقُولَانِ لَهُ يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ لَا تَسْبِقْنَا بِالصَّلَاةِ عَلَى ابْنَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ

Abu Bakr and Umar came to console Aliasws and they said to himasws, ‘O Abu Al-Hassanasws! Do not precede us with the Salat upon the daughterasws of Rasool-Allahsaww’.

فَلَمَّا كَانَ فِي اللَّيْلِ دَعَا عَلِيٌّ الْعَبَّاسَ وَ الْفَضْلَ وَ الْمِقْدَادَ وَ سَلْمَانَ وَ أَبَا ذَرٍّ وَ عَمَّاراً فَقَدَّمَ الْعَبَّاسَ فَصَلَّى عَلَيْهَا وَ دَفَنُوهَا فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحَ النَّاسُ أَقْبَلَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ وَ النَّاسُ يُرِيدُونَ الصَّلَاةَ عَلَى فَاطِمَةَ ع فَقَالَ الْمِقْدَادُ قَدْ دَفَنَّا فَاطِمَةَ الْبَارِحَةَ

When it was during the night, Aliasws called Al-Abbas, and Al-Fazl, and Al-Miqdadra, and Salmanra, and Abu Zarrra, and Ammar. Al-Abbas proceeded to pray Salat upon herasws and herasws burial (behind Ali asws). When the people woke up in the morning, Abu Bakr and Umar and the people came intending the Salat upon (Syeda) Fatimaasws. Al-Miqdadra said, ‘Sheasws has already been buried last night’.

فَالْتَفَتَ عُمَرُ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ فَقَالَ لَمْ أَقُلْ لَكَ إِنَّهُمْ سَيَفْعَلُونَ قَالَ الْعَبَّاسُ إِنَّهَا أَوْصَتْ أَنْ لَا تُصَلِّيَا عَلَيْهَا

Umar turned towards Abu Bakr and said, ‘Did I not say to you they would be doing so?’ Al-Abbas said, ‘Sheasws had bequeathed that you two should not pray Salat upon herasws.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ لَا تَتْرُكُونَ يَا بَنِي هَاشِمٍ حَسَدَكُمُ الْقَدِيمَ لَنَا أَبَداً إِنَّ هَذِهِ الضَّغَائِنَ الَّتِي فِي صُدُورِكُمْ لَنْ تَذْهَبَ وَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ هَمَمْتُ أَنْ أَنْبُشَهَا فَأُصَلِّيَ عَلَيْهَا

Umar said, ‘O Clan of Hashimasws! You will not leave your jealousy towards us, ever. Surely, these are grudges which are in your chests will never go away. By Allahazwj! I am thinking of exhuming herasws and praying Salat upon herasws’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ رُمْتَ ذَاكَ يَا ابْنَ صُهَاكَ لَا رَجَعَتْ إِلَيْكَ يَمِينُكَ لَئِنْ سَلَلْتُ سَيْفِي لَا غَمَدْتُهُ دُونَ إِزْهَاقِ نَفْسِكَ فَرُمْ ذَلِكَ فَانْكَسَرَ عُمَرُ وَ سَكَتَ وَ عَلِمَ أَنَّ عَلِيّاً ع إِذَا حَلَفَ صَدَقَ

Aliasws said: ‘By Allahazwj! If you were to do that, O Ibn Suhaak, your right hand will not return to youasws (cut it off) if Iasws were to unsheathe myasws sword, besides taking your breath away (killing you), so (try) doing that!’ Umar was broken and was silent, and he knew that when Aliasws swears an oath, heasws is true to it.

ثُمَّ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَا عُمَرُ أَ لَسْتَ الَّذِي هَمَّ بِكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَرْسَلَ إِلَيَّ فَجِئْتُ مُتَقَلِّداً بِسَيْفِي ثُمَّ أَقْبَلْتُ نَحْوَكَ لِأَقْتُلَكَ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ فَلا تَعْجَلْ عَلَيْهِمْ إِنَّما نَعُدُّ لَهُمْ عَدًّا

Then Aliasws said, ‘O Umar! Aren’t you the one Rasool-Allahsaww thought of killing you and sent a message to measws, collared with myasws swords, then Iasws came around you to kill you, and Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Revealed: Therefore, do not be hasty against them, but rather We only Number out a number to them [19:84]’’.

قَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ ثُمَّ إِنَّهُمْ تَآمَرُوا وَ تَذَاكَرُوا فَقَالُوا لَا يَسْتَقِيمُ لَنَا أَمْرٌ مَا دَامَ هَذَا الرَّجُلُ حَيّاً فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مَنْ لَنَا بِقَتْلِهِ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ فَأَرْسَلَا إِلَيْهِ فَقَالا يَا خَالِدُ مَا رَأْيُكَ فِي أَمْرٍ نَحْمِلُكَ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ احْمِلَانِي عَلَى مَا شِئْتُمَا فَوَ اللَّهِ إِنْ حَمَلْتُمَانِي عَلَى قَتْلِ ابْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ لَفَعَلْتُ

Ibn Abbas said, ‘Then they conspired and discussed, and they said, ‘The command will not be straight for us for as long as this manasws is alive’. Abu Bakr said, ‘Who is for us with killing himasws?’ Umar said, ‘Khalid Bin Al-Waleed’. They went to him and said, ‘O Khalid! What is your view regarding a matter we are to assign you upon it?’ He said, ‘You can assign me upon whatever you so desired to, for by Allahazwj, even if you were to assign me upon killing the sonasws of Abu Talibasws, I would do so’.

فَقَالا وَ اللَّهِ مَا نُرِيدُ غَيْرَهُ قَالَ فَإِنِّي لَهُ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ إِذَا قُمْتُمَا فِي الصَّلَاةِ صَلَاةِ الْفَجْرِ فَقُمْ إِلَى جَانِبِهِ وَ مَعَكَ السَّيْفُ فَإِذَا سَلَّمْتُ فَاضْرِبْ عُنُقَهُ قَالَ نَعَمْ فَافْتَرَقُوا عَلَى ذَلِكَ

They said, ‘By Allahazwj! We do not want other than it!’ He said, ‘Then I am for it’. Abu Bakr said, ‘When you stand during the Salat, Salat Al-Fajr, then stand to hisasws side and the sword should be with you. So, when you have greeted (Salaam), then strike off hisasws neck’. He said, ‘Yes’. The dispersed (having agreed) upon that.

ثُمَّ إِنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ تَفَكَّرَ فِيمَا أَمَرَ بِهِ مِنْ قَتْلِ عَلِيٍّ ع وَ عَرَفَ إِنْ فَعَلَ ذَلِكَ وَقَعَتْ حُرُوبٌ شَدِيدَةٌ وَ بَلَاءٌ طَوِيلٌ فَنَدِمَ عَلَى مَا أَمَرَ بِهِ فَلَمْ يَنَمْ لَيْلَتَهُ تِلْكَ حَتَّى أَتَى الْمَسْجِدَ وَ قَدْ أُقِيمَتِ الصَّلَاةُ فَتَقَدَّمَ وَ صَلَّى بِالنَّاسِ مُفَكِّراً لَا يَدْرِي مَا يَقُولُ

Then Abu Bakr thought regarding what he had ordered him with, of killing Aliasws, and he realised that if he were to do that, severe wars would break out and prolonged calamities, so he regretted upon what he had ordered with. That night of his wasn’t complete until he went to the Masjid, and the Salat had been established. So, he proceeded and prayed Salat (leading) the people, thoughtful, not knowing what he should be saying.

وَ أَقْبَلَ خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ مُتَقَلِّداً بِالسَّيْفِ حَتَّى قَامَ إِلَى جَانِبِ عَلِيٍّ ع وَ قَدْ فَطَنَ عَلِيٌّ ع بِبَعْضِ ذَلِكَ فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مِنْ تَشَهُّدِهِ صَاحَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُسَلِّمَ يَا خَالِدُ لَا تَفْعَلْ مَا أَمَرْتُكَ‏ فَإِنْ فَعَلْتَ قَتَلْتُكَ ثُمَّ سَلَّمَ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَ شِمَالِهِ‏

And Khalid Bin Al-Waleed came collared with the sword until he stood to the side of Aliasws, and Aliasws had discerned part of that. When Abu Bakr was free from his Tashahhud (testimonies), he shouted before he greeted (Salaam), ‘O Khalid! Do not do what I had instructed you with, for if you were to do so, I will kill you!’ Then he greeted on his right and his left.

فَوَثَبَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَأَخَذَ بَتَلَابِيبِ خَالِدٍ وَ انْتَزَعَ السَّيْفَ مِنْ يَدِهِ ثُمَّ صَرَعَهُ وَ جَلَسَ عَلَى صَدْرِهِ وَ أَخَذَ سَيْفَهُ لِيَقْتُلَهُ وَ اجْتَمَعَ عَلَيْهِ أَهْلُ الْمَسْجِدِ لِيُخَلِّصُوا خَالِداً فَمَا قَدَرُوا عَلَيْهِ

Aliasws leapt and seized the collar of Khalid and snatched away the sword from his hand, then wrestled him to the ground and sat upon his chest, and grabbed hisasws sword in order to kill him; and the people of the Masjid gathered to himasws in order to finish Khalid off from it, but they were not able upon it.

فَقَالَ الْعَبَّاسُ حَلِّفُوهُ بِحَقِّ الْقَبْرِ لَمَّا كَفَفْتَ فَحَلَّفُوهُ بِالْقَبْرِ فَتَرَكُوهُ فَتَرَكَهُ وَ قَامَ فَانْطَلَقَ إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ وَ جَاءَ الزُّبَيْرُ وَ الْعَبَّاسُ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ وَ بَنُو هَاشِمٍ وَ اخْتَرَطُوا السُّيُوفَ وَ قَالُوا وَ اللَّهِ لَا يَنْتَهُونَ حَتَّى يَتَكَلَّمَ وَ يَفْعَلَ

Al-Abbas said, ‘Oath himasws by the right of the grave (of Rasool-Allahsaww) to restrain!’ They pleaded to himasws with the grave and heasws left him, and he separated from himasws, and heasws stood up and went to hisasws house; and Al-Zubeyr, and Al-Abbas, and Abu Zarrra, and Al-Miqdadra, and the Clan of Hashimasws came and they unsheathed the sword, and they said, ‘By Allahazwj! We will not end until heasws speaks and does!’

وَ اخْتَلَفَ النَّاسُ وَ مَاجُوا وَ اضْطَرَبُوا وَ خَرَجَتْ نِسْوَةُ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ فَصَرَخْنَ وَ قُلْنَ يَا أَعْدَاءَ اللَّهِ مَا أَسْرَعَ مَا أَبْدَيْتُمُ الْعَدَاوَةَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ وَ لَطَالَ مَا أَرَدْتُمْ هَذَا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ

And the people differed, and they were turbulent and were disturbed, and the womenfolk of the Clan of Hashimasws came out shouting and were saying, ‘O enemies of Allahazwj! How quickly you began the enmity to Rasool-Allahsaww and Peopleasws of hissaww Household, and for long you have been wanting this from Rasool-Allahsaww!

فَلَمْ تَقْدِرُوا عَلَيْهِ فَقَتَلْتُمُ ابْنَتَهُ بِالْأَمْسِ ثُمَّ تُرِيدُونَ الْيَوْمَ أَنْ تَقْتُلُوا أَخَاهُ وَ ابْنَ عَمِّهِ وَ وَصِيَّهُ وَ أَبَا وُلْدِهِ كَذَبْتُمْ وَ رَبِّ الْكَعْبَةِ وَ مَا كُنْتُمْ تَصِلُونَ إِلَى قَتْلِهِ حَتَّى تَخَوَّفَ النَّاسُ أَنْ تَقَعَ فِتْنَةٌ عَظِيمَةٌ.

But you were not able upon himsaww but you killed hissaww daughterasws yesterday, then today you wanted to kill hisasws brotherasws, and sonasws of hissaww uncleas, and hissaww successorasws, and fatherasws of hissaww children. You are lying, by Lordazwj of the Kabah, and you will not be arriving to killing himasws!’ – until the people were frightened that major Fitna would occur’’.¹³⁷

49- فس، تفسير القمي أَبِي عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفُضَيْلِ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ: جَاءَ الْعَبَّاسُ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع فَقَالَ انْطَلِقْ نُبَايِعْ لَكَ النَّاسَ فَقَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع أَ تَرَاهُمْ فَاعِلِينَ قَالَ نَعَمْ

Tafseer Al Qummi – My father, from Muhammad Bin Al Fuzeyl,

‘Abu Al-Hassanasws having said: ‘Al-Abbas came to Amir Al-Momineenasws and said, ‘let us go and get the people to pledge allegiance to youasws’. Amir Al-Momineenasws said: ‘Do you see them doing it?’ He said, ‘Yes’.

قَالَ فَأَيْنَ قَوْلُ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى‏ الم أَ حَسِبَ النَّاسُ أَنْ يُتْرَكُوا أَنْ يَقُولُوا آمَنَّا وَ هُمْ لا يُفْتَنُونَ وَ لَقَدْ فَتَنَّا الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ فَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ صَدَقُوا وَ لَيَعْلَمَنَّ الْكاذِبِينَ‏.

Heasws said: ‘So where are the Words of Allahazwj the Exalted: Alif Lam Meem [29:1] Do the people reckon that they will be left alone on saying, ‘We believe’, and they will not be Tried? [29:2] And We have Tested those from before them. So Allah will Make known those who are truthful and He will Make known the liars [29:3]?’’¹³⁸

50- أَقُولُ قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْمَسْعُودِيُّ فِي كِتَابِ الْوَصِيَّةِ، قَامَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع بِأَمْرِ اللَّهِ جَلَّ وَ عَلَا وَ عُمُرُهُ خَمْسٌ وَ ثَلَاثُونَ سَنَةً وَ اتَّبَعَهُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَ قَعَدَ عَنْهُ الْمُنَافِقُونَ وَ نَصَبُوا لِلْمُلْكِ وَ أَمْرِ الدُّنْيَا رَجُلًا اخْتَارُوهُ لِأَنْفُسِهِمْ دُونَ مَنِ اخْتَارَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص.

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘Ali Bin Al Husayn Al Masoudi said in the book ‘Al Wasiya’ –

‘Amir Al-Momineen Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws stood with the Commands of Allahazwj Majestic and Lofty, and hisasws age was of thirty-five years, and the Momineen followed himasws, and the hypocrites sat back from himasws, and they installed for the kingdom and matters of the world, a man they had chosen for themselves, besides the oneasws whom Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic and Rasool-Allahsaww had chosen’’.

فَرَوَى أَنَّ الْعَبَّاسَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ صَارَ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع وَ قَدْ قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ لَهُ امْدُدْ يَدَكَ أُبَايِعْكَ فَقَالَ وَ مَنْ يَطْلُبُ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ وَ مَنْ يَصْلُحُ لَهُ غَيْرُنَا وَ صَارَ إِلَيْهِ نَاسٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ مِنْهُمُ الزُّبَيْرُ وَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ صَخْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ فَأَبَى

It is reported that Al-Abbas came to Amir Al-Momineenasws, and Rasool-Allahsaww had passed away. He said to himasws, ‘Extend your hand, I shall pledge allegiance to youasws’. Heasws said: ‘And who can seek this command and who is correct for it apart from us?’ And some people from the Muslims came to himasws, from them were Al-Zubeyr, and Abu Sufyan Sakhr Bin Harbm but heasws refused.

وَ اخْتَلَفَ الْمُهَاجِرُونَ وَ الْأَنْصَارُ فَقَالَتِ الْأَنْصَارُ مِنَّا أَمِيرٌ وَ مِنْكُمْ أَمِيرٌ فَقَالَ قَوْمٌ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ سَمِعْنَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ الْخِلَافَةُ فِي قُرَيْشٍ فَسَلَّمَتِ الْأَنْصَارُ لِقُرَيْشٍ بَعْدَ أَنْ دَاسُوا سَعْدَ بْنَ عُبَادَةَ وَ وَطِئُوا بَطْنَهُ

And the Emigrants and the Helpers differed. The Helpers said, ‘There should be a ruler from us and a ruler from you’. A group from the Emigrants said, ‘We heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘The caliphate would be among Quraysh’. So the Helpers submitted to Quraysh after they had trampled Sa’ad Bin Ubada and trodden upon his belly.

وَ بَايَعَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَ صَفَقَ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ ثُمَّ بَايَعَهُ قَوْمُهُ مِمَّنْ قَدِمَ الْمَدِينَةَ ذَلِكَ الْوَقْتَ مِنَ‏ الْأَعْرَابِ وَ الْمُؤَلَّفَةِ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَ تَابَعَهُمْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ غَيْرُهُمْ.

And Umar Bin Al-Khattab pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr and clapped his hands. Then his people, from the ones who had arrived at Al-Medina at that time, from the Bedouins and the inclined of hearts, pledged allegiance to him, and others followed them upon that.

وَ اتَّصَلَ الْخَبَرُ بِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع بَعْدَ فَرَاغِهِ مِنْ غُسْلِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ تَحْنِيطِهِ وَ تَكْفِينِهِ وَ تَجْهِيزِهِ وَ دَفْنِهِ بَعْدَ الصَّلَاةِ عَلَيْهِ مَعَ مَنْ حَضَرَ مِنْ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ وَ قَوْمٍ مِنْ صَحَابَتِهِ مِثْلِ سَلْمَانَ وَ أَبِي ذَرٍّ وَ الْمِقْدَادِ وَ عَمَّارٍ وَ حُذَيْفَةَ وَ أُبَيِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ وَ جَمَاعَةٍ نَحْوَ أَرْبَعِينَ رَجُلًا

And the news arrived to Amir Al-Momineenasws after hisasws being free from washing Rasool-Allahsaww, and embalming himsaww, and enshrouding himsaww, and preparing himasws, and burying himsaww after the Salat upon him, along with the ones present from the Clan of Hashimasws, and a group of hisasws companions, like Salmanra, and Abu Zarrra, and Al-Miqdadra, and Ammarra, and Huzeyfa, and Ubay Bin Ka’ab, and a group of around forty men.

فَقَامَ خَطِيباً فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَ أَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنْ كَانَتِ الْإِمَامَةُ فِي قُرَيْشٍ فَأَنَا أَحَقُّ قُرَيْشٍ بِهَا وَ إِنْ لَا تَكُنْ فِي قُرَيْشٍ فَالْأَنْصَارُ عَلَى دَعْوَاهُمْ‏ ثُمَّ اعْتَزَلَهُمْ وَ دَخَلَ بَيْتَهُ

Heasws stood addressing. Heasws praised Allahazwj and extolled upon Himazwj, then said: ‘If the Imamate was to be among Quraysh, then Iasws am most rightful of the Quraysh with it, and if it cannot happen to be among Quraysh, then the Helpers are upon their claim’. Then heasws left them and entered hisasws house.

فَأَقَامَ فِيهِمْ وَ مَنِ اتَّبَعَهُ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَ قَالَ إِنَّ لِي فِي خَمْسَةٍ مِنَ النَّبِيِّينَ أُسْوَةً نُوحٍ إِذْ قَالَ‏ أَنِّي مَغْلُوبٌ فَانْتَصِرْ وَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ إِذْ قَالَ‏ وَ أَعْتَزِلُكُمْ وَ ما تَدْعُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ‏ وَ لُوطٍ إِذْ قَالَ‏ لَوْ أَنَّ لِي بِكُمْ قُوَّةً أَوْ آوِي إِلى‏ رُكْنٍ شَدِيدٍ وَ مُوسَى إِذْ قَالَ‏ فَفَرَرْتُ مِنْكُمْ لَمَّا خِفْتُكُمْ‏ وَ هَارُونَ إِذْ قَالَ‏ إِنَّ الْقَوْمَ اسْتَضْعَفُونِي وَ كادُوا يَقْتُلُونَنِي‏

Heasws stood among them, and the ones from the Muslims who followed himasws from the Muslims and said, ‘There are five examples for measws from five of the Prophetsas – Noahas when heas said: ‘‘I am overcome, so Help!’ [54:10]; and Ibrahimas when heas said: And I will withdraw from you and what you call on besides Allah, [19:48]; and Lutas when heas said: ‘‘If only there was strength for me against you, or a recourse to a strong support’ [11:80]; and Musaas when heas said: So I fled from you when I feared you. [26:21]; and Harounas when heas said: ‘Son of my mother! Surely the people weakened me and they almost killed me, [7:150]’.

ثُمَّ أَلَّفَ ع الْقُرْآنَ وَ خَرَجَ إِلَى النَّاسِ وَ قَدْ حَمَلَهُ فِي إِزَارٍ مَعَهُ وَ هُوَ يَئِطُّ مِنْ تَحْتِهِ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ هَذَا كِتَابُ اللَّهِ قَدْ أَلَّفْتُهُ كَمَا أَمَرَنِي وَ أَوْصَانِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص كَمَا أُنْزِلَ

Then Aliasws compiled the Quran and came out to the people, and heasws had carried it in a cloth with himasws, and it was weighing down from under himasws. Heasws said to them: ‘This is the Book of Allahazwj. Iasws have compiled it just as Rasool-Allahsaww had instructed measws and bequeathed measws, just as it had been Revealed’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ بَعْضُهُمْ اتْرُكْهُ وَ امْضِ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ لَكُمْ إِنِّي مُخَلِّفٌ فِيكُمُ الثَّقَلَيْنِ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ وَ عِتْرَتِي لَنْ يَفْتَرِقَا حَتَّى يَرِدَا عَلَيَّ الْحَوْضَ فَإِنْ قَبِلْتُمُوهُ فَاقْبَلُونِي مَعَهُ أَحْكُمْ بَيْنَكُمْ بِمَا فِيهِ مِنْ أَحْكَامِ اللَّهِ

One of them said, ‘Leave it and go!’ Heasws said to them: ‘Rasool-Allahsaww had said to you all: ‘Isaww am leaving behind among you all the two weighty things – Book of Allahazwj an mysaww familyasws. They will never separate until they return to mesaww at the Fountain’. Thus, if you were to accept it then accept measws along with it. Iasws shall judge between you with whatever is in it from the Judgments of Allahazwj’.

فَقَالُوا لَا حَاجَةَ لَنَا فِيهِ وَ لَا فِيكَ فَانْصَرِفْ بِهِ مَعَكَ لَا تُفَارِقْهُ فَانْصَرَفَ عَنْهُمْ‏.

They said, ‘There is no need for us regarding it, nor regarding youasws, so leave with it with youasws. Do not separate from it’. So, heasws left from them.

فَأَقَامَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع وَ مَنْ مَعَهُ مِنْ شِيعَتِهِ فِي مَنَازِلِهِمْ بِمَا عَهِدَهُ إِلَيْهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَوَجَّهُوا إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ فَهَجَمُوا عَلَيْهِ وَ أَحْرَقُوا بَابَهُ وَ اسْتَخْرَجُوهُ مِنْهُ كَرْهاً وَ ضَغَطُوا سَيِّدَةَ النِّسَاءِ بِالْبَابِ حَتَّى أَسْقَطَتْ مُحَسِّناً

Amir Al-Momineenasws and the ones with himasws from hisasws Shias, stayed in their houses due to what Rasool-Allahsaww had pacted to himasws, and they headed to hisasws house. And they (others) crowded to himasws, and burnt down hisasws door, and brought himasws out from it forcefully, and they squeezed chieftess of the women (Fatimaasws) at the door until Mohsinasws (herasws little child) was martyred.

وَ أَخَذُوهُ‏ بِالْبَيْعَةِ فَامْتَنَعَ وَ قَالَ لَا أَفْعَلُ فَقَالُوا نَقْتُلُكَ فَقَالَ إِنْ تَقْتُلُونِي فَإِنِّي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ وَ أَخُو رَسُولِهِ وَ بَسَطُوا يَدَهُ فَقَبَضَهَا وَ عَسُرَ عَلَيْهِمْ فَتْحُهَا فَمَسَحُوا عَلَيْهِ وَ هِيَ مَضْمُومَة.

And they seized himasws with the allegiance, but heasws refused and said: ‘Iasws will not do it’. They said, ‘We will kill youasws!’ Heasws said: ‘If you were to kill measws, so Iasws am a servant of Allahazwj and brotherasws of Hisazwj Rasoolsaww’, and they (forcibly) extended hisasws hand and heasws grabbed it (making a fist), and made it difficult upon them. They opened it and wiped upon it, and it was pressed’.

ثُمَّ لَقِيَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ بَعْدَ هَذَا الْفِعْلِ بِأَيَّامٍ أَحَدَ الْقَوْمِ فَنَاشَدَهُ اللَّهَ وَ ذَكَّرَهُ بِأَيَّامِ اللَّهِ وَ قَالَ لَهُ هَلْ لَكَ أَنْ أَجْمَعَ بَيْنَكَ وَ بَيْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ حَتَّى يَأْمُرَكَ وَ يَنْهَاكَ فَقَالَ لَهُ نَعَمْ

Then one of the people (Abu Bakr) met Amir Al-Momineenasws, a few days after this deed, so heasws adjured him with Allahazwj and reminded him of the days of Allahazwj and said to him: ‘Is it for you if Iasws were to gather between you and Rasool-Allahazwj until hesaww orders you and forbids you?’ He said to himasws, ‘Yes’.

فَخَرَجَا إِلَى مَسْجِدِ قُبَاءَ فَأَرَاهُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَاعِداً فِيهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا فُلَانُ عَلَى هَذَا عَاهَدْتُمُونِي فِي تَسْلِيمِ الْأَمْرِ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ وَ هُوَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ

They went out to Masjid Quba, and heasws showed him Rasool-Allahsaww seated in it. Hesaww said to him: ‘O so and so (Abu Bakr)!’ Is this what you had vowed me regarding submitting the command to Aliasws, and heasws is Amir Al-Momineen?’

فَرَجَعَ وَ قَدْ هَمَّ بِتَسْلِيمِ الْأَمْرِ إِلَيْهِ فَمَنَعَهُ صَاحِبُهُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ هَذَا سِحْرٌ مُبِينٌ مَعْرُوفٌ مِنْ سِحْرِ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ أَ وَ مَا تَذْكُرُ يَوْمَ كُنَّا مَعَ ابْنِ أَبِي كَبْشَةَ فَأَمَرَ شَجَرَتَيْنِ فَالْتَقَتَا فَقَضَى حَاجَتَهُ خَلْفَهُمَا ثُمَّ أَمَرَهُمَا فَتَفَرَّقَتَا وَ عَادَتَا إِلَى حَالِهِمَا

He returned and had thought of submitting the command to himasws. But his companion (Umar) prevented him from that saying, ‘This is clear sorcery, well-known from the sorcery of the Clan of Hashimasws. Or, do you not remember the day we were with Abu Kabasha (Rasool-Allahsaww), and hesaww ordered two trees, and they joined up, and hesaww fulfilled hissaww need behind them? Then hesaww ordered them, and they separated and returned to their (former) state?’

فَقَالَ لَهُ أَمَا إِنْ ذَكَّرْتَنِي هَذَا فَقَدْ كُنْتُ مَعَهُ فِي الْكَهْفِ فَمَسَحَ يَدَهُ عَلَى وَجْهِي ثُمَّ أَهْوَى بِرِجْلِهِ فَأَرَانِي الْبَحْرَ ثُمَّ أَرَانِي جَعْفَراً وَ أَصْحَابَهُ فِي سَفِينَةٍ تَعُومُ فِي الْبَحْرِ.

He said to him, ‘But you are reminding of this, so I had been with himsaww in the cave, and hesaww wiped hissaww hand upon my face, then gestured by hissaww left and showed me the sea, then hesaww showed me Ja’faras and hisas companions in a ship, floating in the sea’.

فَرَجَعَ عَمَّا كَانَ عَزَمَ عَلَيْهِ وَ هَمُّوا بِقَتْلِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ تَوَاصَوْا وَ تَوَاعَدُوا بِذَلِكَ وَ أَنْ يَتَوَلَّى قَتْلَهُ خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ فَبَعَثَتْ أَسْمَاءُ بِنْتُ عُمَيْسٍ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ بِجَارِيَةٍ لَهَا فَأَخَذَتْ بِعِضَادَتَيِ الْبَابِ وَ نَادَتْ‏ إِنَّ الْمَلَأَ يَأْتَمِرُونَ بِكَ لِيَقْتُلُوكَ فَاخْرُجْ إِنِّي لَكَ مِنَ النَّاصِحِينَ‏

So, he returned from what he had determined upon, and they thought of killing Amir Al-Momineenasws, and they advised and agreed with each other with that, and placed Khalid Bin Al-Waleed in charge of killing himasws. Asman Bint Umeysra sent a maid of hersra to Amir Al-Momineenasws, and she grabbed the frames of the door and called out, The chiefs have issued an order for you to be killed, therefore get out (from the city). I am from the (sincere) advisers to you [28:20]’.

فَخَرَجَ ع مُشْتَمِلًا بِسَيْفِهِ وَ كَانَ الْوَعْدُ فِي قَتْلِهِ أَنْ يُسَلِّمَ إِمَامُهُمْ فَيَقُومَ خَالِدٌ إِلَيْهِ بِسَيْفِهِ فَأَحَسُّوا بَأْسَهُ فَقَالَ الْإِمَامُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُسَلِّمَ لَا تَفْعَلَنَّ خَالِدُ مَا أَمَرْتُ بِهِ‏.

Heasws went out carrying hisasws sword, and the appointment regarding hisasws killing was that their prayer leader would greet (Salaat – finishing the Salat), so Khalid would stand to himasws and make himasws feel it’s evil. But the prayer leader (Abu Bakr) said before he greeted (Salaam), ‘Don’t do it, Khalid, what I had instructed with!’

ثُمَّ كَانَ مِنْ أَقَاصِيصِهِمْ مَا رَوَاهُ النَّاسُ.

Then it was from their stories what the people reported.

وَ فِي سَنَتَيْنِ وَ شَهْرَيْنِ وَ سَبْعَةِ أَيَّامٍ مِنْ إِمَامَةِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مَاتَ ابْنُ أَبِي قُحَافَةَ وَ هُوَ عَتِيقُ بْنُ عُثْمَانَ وَ أَوْصَى بِالْأَمْرِ بَعْدَهُ إِلَى عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ لِعَهْدٍ كَانَ بَيْنَهُمَا وَ اعْتَزَلَهُ‏ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع كَاعْتِزَالِهِ لِصَاحِبِهِ قَبْلَهُ إِلَّا بِمَا لَمْ يَجِدْ مِنْهُ بُدّاً وَ لَا يَنْهَى إِلَّا عَمَّا لَمْ يَجِدْ مِنَ النَّهْيِ عَنْهُ بُدّاً وَ هُمْ فِي خِلَالِ ذَلِكَ يَسْأَلُونَهُ وَ يَسْتَفْتُونَهُ فِي حَلَالِهِمْ وَ حَرَامِهِمْ وَ فِي تَأْوِيلِ الْكِتَابِ وَ فَصْلِ الْخِطَابِ‏.

And during the two years and two months and seven days from the Imamate of Amir Al-Momineenasws, Ibn Abu Qohafa (Abu Bakr), and he is Ateeq Bin Usman, died, and bequeathed with the command after him to Umar Bin Al-Khattab, due to a pact which was between the two, and they isolated Amir Al-Momineenasws like the isolation (done) by his companion (Abu Bakr) before him, except from what they could not find any escape from, nor forbid except from what they could not find any escape from hisasws forbiddance, and they, during the midst of that, were asking him, and seeking hisasws verdicts regarding their Permissibles, and their Prohibitions, and regarding interpretation of the Book and the decisive address’’.¹³⁹

51- وَ قَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي الْحَدِيدِ عِنْدَ شَرْحِ قَوْلِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع‏ فَنَظَرْتُ فَإِذَا لَيْسَ لِي مُعِينٌ إِلَّا أَهْلُ بَيْتِي فَضَنِنْتُ بِهِمْ عَنِ الْمَوْتِ فَأَغْضَيْتُ عَلَى الْقَذَى وَ شَرِبْتُ عَلَى الشَّجَا وَ صَبَرْتُ عَلَى أَخْذِ الْكَظَمِ وَ عَلَى أَمَرَّ مِنْ طَعْمِ الْعَلْقَمِ.

And Ibn Abu Al-Hadeeth said during the commentary (of Nahj Al-Balagah), the words of Amir Al-Momineenasws: ‘Iasws looked around and there weren’t’ any supporters for measws except myasws family members, and (so Iasws) protected them from the death. So, Iasws closed myasws eyes from the mote, and drank upon the choking, and was patient upon cramp seizures, and upon the bitterest of the food to swallow’’.¹⁴⁰

52- وَ رَوَى ابْنُ أَبِي الْحَدِيدِ أَيْضاً فِي الْكِتَابِ الْمَذْكُورِ مِنْ كِتَابِ السَّقِيفَةِ لِلْجَوْهَرِيِّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو زَيْدٍ عُمَرُ بْنُ شَبَّةَ عَنْ رِجَالِهِ قَالَ: جَاءَ عُمَرُ إِلَى بَيْتِ فَاطِمَةَ فِي رِجَالٍ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ وَ نَفَرٍ قَلِيلٍ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ فَقَالَ وَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَتَخْرُجُنَّ إِلَى الْبَيْعَةِ أَوْ لَأُحْرِقَنَّ الْبَيْتَ عَلَيْكُمْ

And it is reported by Ibn Abu Al Hadeed as well in the mentioned book, from the book ‘Saqeefa’ of Al Jowhari, from his men who said,

‘Umar came to the house of (Syeda) Fatimaasws among men from the Helpers and a small number from the Emigrants, and he said, ‘By the Oneazwj is Whose Hand is my soul! Either youasws come out for the allegiance or I will burn down the house upon youasws all!’

فَخَرَجَ الزُّبَيْرُ مُصْلِتاً بِالسَّيْفِ فَاعْتَنَقَهُ زِيَادُ بْنُ لَبِيدٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ وَ رَجُلٌ آخَرُ فَنَدَرَ السَّيْفُ مِنْ يَدِهِ فَضَرَبَ بِهِ عُمَرُ الْحَجَرَ فَكَسَرَهُ ثُمَّ أَخْرَجَهُمْ بِتَلَابِيبِهِمْ يُسَاقَوْنَ سَوْقاً عَنِيفاً حَتَّى بَايَعُوا أَبَا بَكْرٍ.

Al-Zubeyr came out with the sword unsheathed, and he was confronted by Zayd Bin Labeed Al-Ansari and another man, and the sword fell from his hand. Umar struck the rock with it, then he brought them out with their collars being ushered a violent ushering, until they pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr’.

قَالَ أَبُو زَيْدٍ رَوَى النَّضْرُ بْنُ شُمَيْلٍ قَالَ: حُمِلَ سَيْفُ الزُّبَيْرِ لَمَّا نَدَرَ مِنْ يَدِهِ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ هُوَ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ يَخْطُبُ فَقَالَ اضْرِبُوا بِهِ الْحَجَرَ

Abu Zayd said, ‘It is reported by Al-Nazr Bin Shumeyl who said, ‘The sword of Al-Zubeyr which fell from his hand, was carried to Abu Bakr, and he was addressing upon the pulpit. He said, ‘Strike the rock with it’.

وَ قَالَ أَبُو عَمْرِو بْنِ حِمَاسٍ وَ لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ الْحَجَرَ وَ فِيهِ تِلْكَ الضَّرْبَةُ وَ النَّاسُ يَقُولُونَ هَذَا أَثَرُ ضَرْبَةِ سَيْفِ الزُّبَيْرِ-.

And Abu Amro Bin Himas said, ‘And I saw the rock and in it was that strike, and the people were saying, ‘This is the impact of the strike of the sword of Al-Zubeyr’’.¹⁴¹ (Mu’tazali source)

وَ رَوَى أَيْضاً عَنِ الْجَوْهَرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْبَاهِلِيِّ- عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ مُجَالِدٍ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ يَا عُمَرُ أَيْنَ خَالِدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ قَالَ هُوَ هَذَا فَقَالَ انْطَلِقَا إِلَيْهِمَا يَعْنِي عَلِيّاً ع وَ الزُّبَيْرَ فَأْتِيَانِي بِهِمَا فَدَخَلَ عُمَرُ وَ وَقَفَ خَالِدٌ عَلَى الْبَابِ مِنْ خَارِجٍ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ لِلزُّبَيْرِ مَا هَذَا السَّيْفُ قَالَ أَعْدَدْتُهُ لِأُبَايِعَ عَلِيّاً

And it is reported as well from Al Jowhari, from Abu Bakr Al Bahily, from Ismail Bin Mukhalid, from Al Shabi who said,

‘Abu Bakr said, ‘O Umar! Where is Khalid Bin Al-Waleed?’ He said, ‘He is there’. He said, ‘Both of you go to them – meaning to Aliasws and Al-Zubeyr, and come to me with them both’. Umar entered and Khalid paused at the door from outside. Umar said to Al-Zubeyr, ‘What is this sword?’ He said, ‘I had prepared it to pledge allegiance to Aliasws’.

قَالَ وَ كَانَ فِي الْبَيْتِ نَاسٌ كَثِيرٌ مِنْهُمُ الْمِقْدَادُ بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِ وَ جُمْهُورُ الْهَاشِمِيِّينَ فَاخْتَرَطَ عُمَرُ السَّيْفَ فَضَرَبَ بِهِ صَخْرَةً فِي الْبَيْتِ فَكَسَرَهُ ثُمَّ أَخَذَ بِيَدِ الزُّبَيْرِ فَأَقَامَهُ ثُمَّ دَفَعَهُ فَأَخْرَجَهُ وَ قَالَ يَا خَالِدُ دُونَكَ هَذَا فَأَمْسَكَهُ خَالِدٌ وَ كَانَ فِي الْخَارِجِ مَعَ خَالِدٍ جَمْعٌ كَثِيرٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ أَرْسَلَهُمْ أَبُو بَكْرٍ رِدْءاً لَهُمَا

He (the narrator) said, ‘And there were many people in the house, from them were Al-Miqdad Bin Al-Aswadra and Jamhour Al-Hashimy. Umar took the sword and hit a rock in the house with it, and it broke. Then he grabbed the hand of Al-Zubeyr and stood him up, then pushed him and brought him out and said, ‘O Khalid! It is for you with this one’. So Khalid withheld him, and there were a lot of people with Khalid on the outside. Abu Bakr had sent them to fetch them (Aliasws and al Zubeyr).

ثُمَّ دَخَلَ عُمَرُ فَقَالَ لِعَلِيٍّ ع قُمْ فَبَايِعْ فَتَلَكَّأَ وَ احْتَبَسَ فَأَخَذَ بِيَدِهِ فَقَالَ قُمْ فَأَبَى أَنْ يَقُومَ فَحَمَلَهُ وَ دَفَعَهُ كَمَا دَفَعَ الزُّبَيْرَ ثُمَّ أَمْسَكَهُمَا خَالِدٌ وَ سَاقَهُمَا عُمَرُ وَ مَنْ مَعَهُ سَوْقاً عَنِيفاً وَ اجْتَمَعَ النَّاسُ يَنْظُرُونَ وَ امْتَلَأَتْ شَوَارِعُ الْمَدِينَةِ بِالرِّجَالِ

Then Umar entered and said to Aliasws, ‘Stand up and pledge allegiance!’ Heasws leaned back and withheld. So he grabbed hisasws hand and said, ‘Stand!’ But heasws refused to stand. He had himasws carried and pushed just as Al-Zubeyr had been pushed (outside). Then Khalid held them both. Umar and the ones with him ushered them with a violent ushering, and the people gathered awaiting, and the streets of Al-Medina had filled up with the men.

وَ رَأَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع مَا صَنَعَ عُمَرُ فَصَرَخَتْ وَ وَلْوَلَتْ وَ اجْتَمَعَتْ مَعَهَا نِسْوَةٌ كَثِيرَةٌ مِنَ الْهَاشِمِيَّاتِ وَ غَيْرِهِنَّ فَخَرَجَتْ إِلَى بَابِ حُجْرَتِهَا وَ نَادَتْ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ مَا أَسْرَعَ مَا أَغَرْتُمْ عَلَى أَهْلِ بَيْتِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ اللَّهِ لَا أُكَلِّمُ عُمَرَ حَتَّى أَلْقَى اللَّهَ

And (Syeda) Fatimaasws saw what Umar had done, and sheasws cried and ululated, and a lot of women from the Hashemite’s gathered with herasws. Sheasws went out of the door of her chamber and called out: ‘O Abu Bakr! How quickly you have deceived upon Peopleasws of the Household of Rasool-Allahsaww! By Allahazwj! Iasws will not speak to Umar until Iasws meet Allahazwj!’’¹⁴² (Non-Shia source)

54 - قَالَ وَ رَوَى أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ- عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ شَبَّةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ قَالَ- كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ص قَدْ بَعَثَ أَبَا سُفْيَانَ سَاعِياً فَرَجَعَ مِنْ سِعَايَتِهِ وَ قَدْ مَاتَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَلَقِيَهُ قَوْمٌ فَسَأَلَهُمْ فَقَالُوا مَاتَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ مَنْ وُلِّيَ بَعْدَهُ قِيلَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ قَالَ أَبُو الْفَصِيلِ قَالُوا نَعَمْ قَالَ فَمَا فَعَلَ الْمُسْتَضْعَفَانِ عَلِيٌّ وَ الْعَبَّاسُ أَمَا وَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَأَرْفَعَنَّ لَهُمَا مِنْ أَعْضَادِهِمَا

He said, ‘And it is reported by Ahmad Bin Umar Bin Abdul Aziz, from Umar Bin Shabbah, from Muhammad Bin Mansour, from Ja’far Bin Suleyman, from Malik Bin Dinar who said,

‘The Prophetsaww had sent Abu Sufyan as a courier. He returned from it, and Rasool-Allahsaww had passed away. He met a group and he asked them. They said, ‘Rasool-Allahsaww has passed away’. He said, ‘Who is the ruler after himsaww?’ It was said, ‘Abu Bakr’. He said, ‘Abu Al-Faseyl?’ They said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘So what was done with the two weakened ones, Aliasws and Al-Abbas?’ But, by the Oneazwj in Whose Hand is my soul! I will lift them up from their arms’.

قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ وَ ذَكَرُ جَعْفَرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ أَنَّ أَبَا سُفْيَانَ قَالَ شَيْئاً آخَرَ لَمْ تَحْفَظْهُ الرُّوَاةُ فَلَمَّا قَدِمَ الْمَدِينَةَ قَالَ إِنِّي لَأَرَى عَجَاجَةً لَا يُطْفِيهَا إِلَّا الدَّمُ

Abu Bakr Ahmad Bin Abdul Aziz said, and Ja’far Bin Suleyman mentioned, ‘Abu Sufyan said another thing, the reporters have not preserved it. When he arrived at Al-Medina, he said, ‘I can see such smoke, nothing will extinguish it except the blood’.

قَالَ فَكَلَّمَ عُمَرُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَقَالَ إِنَّ أَبَا سُفْيَانَ قَدْ قَدِمَ وَ إِنَّا لَا نَأْمَنُ مِنْ شَرِّهِ فَدَعْ‏ لَهُ مَا فِي يَدِهِ فَتَرَكَهُ فَرَضِيَ‏.

He (the narrator) said, ‘Umar spoke to Abu Bakr, he said, ‘Abu Sufyan has arrived and we are not safe from his evil, so leave for him whatever is in his hands’. He left him, and he was pleased’’.¹⁴³ (Non-Shia source)

55- و قال ابن أبي الحديد في موضع آخر: لما قبض رسول الله ص و اشتغل علي ع بغسله و دفنه و بويع أبو بكر خلا الزبير و أبو سفيان و جماعة من المهاجرين بعلي ع و العباس لإجالة الرأي و تكلموا بكلام يقتضي الاستنهاض و التهييج

And Ibn Abu Al-Hadeed said in another place – ‘When Rasool-Allahsaww passed away and Aliasws was busy with washing himsaww, and burying himsaww, and Abu Bakr was being pledged to, Al-Zubeyr and Abu Sufyan and a group from the Emigrants isolated with Aliasws and Al-Abbas for getting the views, and they spoke with speeches requiring agitation and the annoyance.

فقال العباس رضي الله عنه قد سمعنا قولكم فلا لِقِلَّةٍ نستعين بكم و لا لِظِنَّةٍ نترك آراءكم فأمهلونا نراجع الفكر فَإِنْ يَكُنْ لَنَا مِنَ الْإِثْمِ مُخْرَجٌ يَصِرَّ بِنَا وَ بِهِمُ الْحَقُّ صَرِيرَ الْجُدْجُدِ وَ نَبْسُطْ إِلَى الْمَجْدِ أَكُفّاً لَا نَقْبِضُهَا أَوْ نَبْلُغَ الْمَدَى

Al-Abbas said, ‘We have heard your words, and we are not leaving your views due to the scarcity of your assistance nor for your though. Respite us to review the thinking, so if there happens to be a way out for us from the sins, the truth would squeak between us and them the squeaking of the cockroach, and we shall extend to the glory sufficiently, we won’t be able to hold it, or we shall reach the term.

وَ إِنْ تَكُنِ الْأُخْرَى فَلَا لِقِلَّةٍ فِي الْعَدَدِ وَ لَا لِوَهْنٍ فِي الْأَيْدِ و الله لو لا أن الإسلام قيد الفتك لتدكدكت جنادل صخر يسمع اصطكاكها من المحل العلي

And if it happens to be another, so it is not due to scarcity of the numbers, nor due to weakness in the hands. By Allahazwj! Had it not been for Al-Islam having restrictions of the lethality, I would have rock the boats of Sakhar, its chatter would have been heard from the high place!

فحل عَلِيٌّ ع حبوته و قال الصبر حلم و التقوى دين و الحجة محجة و الطريق الصراط أيها الناس شقوا أمواج الفتن إلى آخر ما نقلنا سابقا ثم نهض فدخل إلى منزله و افترق القوم‏-

Aliasws released hisasws love and said: ‘The patience, and leniency, and the piety is Religion, and the Divine Authority is the argument, and the path is the (Straight) Path. O you people! Cleave the waves of Fitna’ – up to the end of what we have transmitted before. Then heasws got up and entered into hisasws house, and the people dispersed.

وَ قَالَ أَيْضاً فِي شَرْحِ هَذَا الْكَلَامِ مِنْهُ ع لَمَّا اجْتَمَعَ الْمُهَاجِرُونَ عَلَى بَيْعَةِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ أَقْبَلَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ إِنِّي لَأَرَى عَجَاجَةً لَا يُطْفِيهَا إِلَّا الدَّمُ يَا لِعَبْدِ مَنَافٍ فِيمَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مِنْ أَمْرِكُمْ أَيْنَ الْمُسْتَضْعَفَانِ أَيْنَ الْأَذَلَّانِ يَعْنِي عَلِيّاً ع وَ الْعَبَّاسَ مَا بَالُ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ فِي أَقَلِّ حَيٍّ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ

And he said as well in the commentary, this speech from himasws, when the Emigrants gathered upon pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr, Abu Sufyan came and he was saying, ‘But, by Allahazwj! I see such smoke; nothing can extinguish it except the blood! O Abd Manaf! In what is Abu Bakr from your affairs? Where are the two weakened ones? Where are the two humiliated ones?’ – meaning Aliasws and Al-Abbas. ‘How come this command is among the lowest tribe of Quraysh?’

ثُمَّ قَالَ لِعَلِيٍّ ع ابْسُطْ يَدَكَ أُبَايِعْكَ فَوَ اللَّهِ إِنْ شِئْتَ لَأَمْلَأَنَّهَا عَلَى أَبِي فَصِيلٍ ... خَيْلًا وَ رَجِلًا فَامْتَنَعَ عَلَيْهِ عَلِيٌّ ع فَلَمَّا يَئِسَ مِنْهُ قَامَ عَنْهُ وَ هُوَ يُنْشِدُ شِعْرَ الْمُتَلَمِّسِ‏

وَ لَا يُقِيمُ عَلَى ضَيْمٍ يُرَادُ بِهِ-

إِلَّا الْأَذَلَّانِ عَيْرُ الْحَيِّ وَ الْوَتَدُ

هَذَا عَلَى الْخَسْفِ مَرْبُوطٌ بِرُمَّتِهِ-

وَ ذَا يُشَجُّ فَلَا يَرْثِي لَهُ أَحَدٌ

Then he said to Aliasws, ‘Extend yourasws hand, I will pledge allegiance to youasws, for by Allahazwj, if youasws like, I will fill it (Al-Medina) with cavalry and infantry) against Abu Al-Faseyl (Abu Bakr)!’ Aliasws refused. When he despaired from himasws, he stood up from himasws, and he was prosing a poem of the seeker, ‘And it cannot stand upon an inferior ones, intended with it, except the two humiliated ones being a vein of life and the stabiliser. This is has been tied upon the wretched one with its ritual, and that one is with a scar, so no one will lament for him’.

وَ قِيلَ لِأَبِي قُحَافَةَ يَوْمَ وُلِّيَ الْأَمْرَ ابْنُهُ قَدْ وُلِّيَ ابْنُكَ الْخِلَافَةَ فَقَرَأَ قُلِ اللَّهُمَّ مالِكَ الْمُلْكِ تُؤْتِي الْمُلْكَ مَنْ تَشاءُ وَ تَنْزِعُ الْمُلْكَ مِمَّنْ تَشاءُ ثُمَّ قَالَ لِمَ وَلَّوْهُ قَالُوا لِسِنِّهِ قَالَ فَأَنَا أَسَنُّ مِنْهُ‏.

And it was said to Abu Qohafa (Abu Bakr’s father) on the day his son was in charge of the command, ‘Your son is in charge of the caliphate’. He recited, Say: ‘O Allah, Master of the Kingdom! You Give the Kingdom to whomsoever You so Desire to and Remove the Kingdom from the one You so Desire to, [3:26]’. Then he said, ‘Why was he made the ruler?’ They said, ‘Due to his age’. He said, ‘But I am older than him’.

وَ قَالَ أَيْضاً عِنْدَ مَا ذَكَرَ تَنْفِيذَ جَيْشِ أُسَامَةَ كَمَا سَنَذْكُرُهُ حَيْثُ قَالَ فَلَمَّا رَكِبَ يَعْنِي أُسَامَةَ جَاءَهُ رَسُولُ أُمِّ أَيْمَنَ فَقَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَمُوتُ فَأَقْبَلَ وَ مَعَهُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ فَانْتَهَوْا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص حِينَ زَالَتِ الشَّمْسُ مِنْ يَوْمِ الْإِثْنَيْنِ وَ قَدْ مَاتَ

And he said as well during what he mentioned at the enforcement of the army of Usama, just as we shall be mentioning it, where he said, ‘When he rode, meaning Usama, a messenger of Umm Ayman came to him and he said, ‘Rasool-Allahsaww has passed away’. So, he returned and with him was Abu Bakr and Umar and Abu Ubeyda, and they ended up to Rasool-Allahsaww when the sun had declined from the day of Monday, and hesaww had passed away.

وَ اللِّوَاءُ مَعَ بُرَيْدَةَ بْنِ الْخَصِيبِ فَدَخَلَ بِاللِّوَاءِ فَرَكَزَهُ عِنْدَ بَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ هُوَ مُغْلَقٌ وَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ بَعْضُ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ مُشْتَغِلُونَ بِإِعْدَادِ جَهَازِهِ وَ غُسْلِهِ

And the flag was with Bureyda Bin Al-Khaseeb, and he entered with the flag and tied it as the door of Rasool-Allahsaww, and it was locked, and Aliasws and some of the Clan of Hashimasws were pre-occupied with preparing hissaww funeral, and washing himsaww.

فَقَالَ الْعَبَّاسُ لِعَلِيٍّ ع وَ هُمَا فِي الدَّارِ امْدُدْ يَدَكَ أُبَايِعْكَ فَيَقُولَ النَّاسُ عَمُّ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص بَايَعَ ابْنَ عَمِّ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ فَلَا يَخْتَلِفَ عَلَيْكَ اثْنَانِ

Al-Abbas said to Aliasws, and they were both in the house, ‘Extend yourasws hand, I shall pledge allegiance to youasws, so the people can be saying, ‘Uncle of Rasool-Allahsaww has pledged allegiance to a sonasws of the uncleas of Rasool-Allahsaww’, and no two would differ upon youasws’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ أَ وَ يَطْمَعُ يَا عَمِّ فِيهَا طَامِعٌ غَيْرِي قَالَ سَتَعْلَمُ فَلَمْ يَلْبَثَا أَنْ جَاءَتْهُمَا الْأَخْبَارُ بِأَنَّ الْأَنْصَارَ أَقْعَدَتْ سَعْداً لِتُبَايِعَهُ وَ أَنَّ عُمَرَ جَاءَ بِأَبِي بَكْرٍ فَبَايَعَهُ وَ سَبَقَ الْأَنْصَارُ بِالْبَيْعَةِ

Heasws said to him: ‘Or are you greedy, O uncle, regarding it, the greed of others?’ He said, ‘Youasws will soon know’. It was not long before news came to them that the Helpers had seated Sa’ad in order to pledge to him, and that Umar had come to Abu Bakr and pledged allegiance to him, and the Helpers had preceded with the allegiance’.

فَنَدِمَ عَلِيٌّ ع عَلَى تَفْرِيطِهِ فِي أَمْرِ الْبَيْعَةِ وَ تَقَاعُدِهِ عَنْهَا وَ أَنْشَدَهُ الْعَبَّاسُ قَوْلَ دُرَيْدٍ

أَمَرْتُهُمْ أَمْرِي بِمُنْعَرَجِ اللِّوَى-

فَلَمْ يَسْتَبِينُوا النُّصْحَ إِلَّا ضُحَى الْغَدِ

Aliasws was sad upon unreasonableness regarding the matter of hisasws caliphate, and staying back from it, and Al-Abbas prosed the words of Dureyd, ‘I instructed them of my instruction of twisting the flag, but they did not seek the advice except the next morning’’.¹⁴⁴ (Mu’tazali source)

56- وَ رَوَى الشَّيْخُ قُدِّسَ سِرُّهُ فِي تَلْخِيصِ الشَّافِي، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ أَبِي‏ مِخْنَفٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي عُمْرَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيِ‏ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص لَمَّا قُبِضَ اجْتَمَعَتِ الْأَنْصَارُ فِي سَقِيفَةِ بَنِي سَاعِدَةَ فَقَالُوا نُوَلِّي هَذَا الْأَمْرَ مِنْ بَعْدِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص سَعْدَ بْنَ عُبَادَةَ وَ أَخْرَجُوا سَعْداً إِلَيْهِمْ وَ هُوَ مَرِيضٌ

And it is reported by the sheykh in (the book) ‘Talkhees Al Shafy’, from Hisham Bin Muhammad, from Abu Mikhnaf, from Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman Bin Abu Umra Al Ansari,

‘When the Prophetsaww passed away, the Helpers gathered in the shed (Saqeefa) of the clan of Saaida and they said, ‘We will be Sa’ad Bin Ubada to be a ruler after Muhammadsaww’, and they brought out Sa’ad to them and he was ill’.

قَالَ فَلَمَّا اجْتَمَعُوا قَالَ لِابْنِهِ أَوْ لِبَعْضِ بَنِي عَمِّهِ إِنِّي لَا أَقْدِرُ لِشَكْوَايَ أَنْ أُسْمِعَ الْقَوْمَ كُلَّهُمْ كَلَامِي وَ لَكِنْ تَلَقَّ مِنِّي قَوْلِي فَأَسْمِعْهُمْ فَكَانَ يَتَكَلَّمُ وَ يَحْفَظُ الرَّجُلُ قَوْلَهُ فَيَرْفَعُ بِهِ صَوْتَهُ وَ يُسْمِعُ بِهِ أَصْحَابَهُ

He (the narrator) said, ‘When they had gathered, he said to his son, or to one of the clan of Umayya, ‘I am not able upon getting my complaint to be heard by all of the people, but you receive my words from me and get it to be heard by them’. So he was speaking and the man was memorising his words. He raised his voice and got his companions to hear it.

فَقَالَ بَعْدَ أَنْ حَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَ أَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْأَنْصَارِ إِنَّ لَكُمْ سَابِقَةً فِي الدِّينِ وَ فَضِيلَةً فِي الْإِسْلَامِ لَيْسَتْ لِقَبِيلَةٍ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ إِنَّ مُحَمَّداً ص لَبِثَ بِضْعَ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً فِي قَوْمِهِ يَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى عِبَادَةِ الرَّحْمَنِ وَ خَلْعِ الْأَوْثَانِ فَمَا آمَنَ بِهِ مِنْ قَوْمِهِ إِلَّا رِجَالٌ قَلِيلٌ

He said after he had praised Allahazwj and Extolled upon Himazwj, ‘O community of the Helpers! For you is the precedence in the Religion and a merit in Al-Islam, not being for any tribe from the Arabs. Muhammadsaww stayed among hissaww people for ten years calling them to worship the Beneficent, and leave the idols. But no one from hissaww people believed except a few men.

وَ اللَّهِ مَا كَانُوا يَقْدِرُونَ عَلَى أَنْ يَمْنَعُوا رَسُولَهُ وَ لَا أَنْ يُعِزُّوا دِينَهُ وَ لَا أَنْ يَدْفَعُوا عَنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ ضَيْماً عُمُّوا بِهِ حَتَّى إِذَا أَرَادَ بِكُمْ رَبُّكُمُ الْفَضِيلَةَ وَ سَاقَ إِلَيْكُمُ الْكَرَامَةَ وَ خَصَّكُمْ بِالنِّعْمَةِ وَ رَزَقَكُمُ الْإِيمَانَ بِهِ وَ بِرَسُولِهِ وَ الْمَنْعَ لَهُ وَ لِأَصْحَابِهِ وَ الْإِعْزَازَ لَهُ وَ لِدِينِهِ وَ الْجِهَادَ لِأَعْدَائِهِ

By Allahazwj! They were neither able upon preventing Hisazwj Rasoolsaww nor strengthen Hisazwj Religion, nor defend from themselves any wrong being blinded with it, until when your Lordazwj Wanted the merit with you, and Usher the honour to you, and specialise you with the Favour, and Grace you with the Eman in Himazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww, and the prevention for himsaww and for hissaww companions, and the strengthening for himsaww and hissaww Religion, and fighting against hissaww enemies.

وَ كُنْتُمْ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ عَلَى عَدُوِّهِ مِنْهُمْ وَ أَثْقَلَهُ عَلَى عَدُوِّهِ مِنْ غَيْرِكُمْ حَتَّى اسْتَقَامَتِ الْعَرَبُ لِأَمْرِ اللَّهِ طَوْعاً وَ كَرْهاً وَ أَعْطَى الْبَعِيدُ الْمَقَادَةَ صَاغِراً دَاخِراً وَ حَتَّى أَثْخَنَ اللَّهُ لِرَسُولِهِ بِكُمُ الْأَرْضَ وَ دَانَتْ بِأَسْيَافِكُمْ لَهُ الْعَرَبُ وَ تَوَفَّاهُ اللَّهُ إِلَيْهِ وَ هُوَ عَنْكُمْ رَاضٍ وَ بِكُمْ قَرِيرُ عَيْنٍ اسْتَبِدُّوا بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ دُونَ النَّاسِ فَإِنَّهُ لَكُمْ دُونَ النَّاسِ

And you were the strongest of the people against hissaww enemies than they were, and heavier upon hissaww enemies than others, until they were straightened for the Commands of Allahazwj, willingly and unwillingly, and the distant ones came belittled, humbled, and until Allahazwj Strengthened the earth for Hisazwj Rasoolsaww through you, and the Arabs had a Religion by your swords, and Allahazwj Caused himsaww to pass away to Himazwj, and hesaww was pleased from you, and hissaww eyes would be delighted by you having begun with this command besides the (other) people, for it is for you besides the people’.

فَأَجَابُوهُ بِأَجْمَعِهِمْ بِأَنْ قَدْ وُفِّقْتَ فِي الرَّأْيِ وَ أَصَبْتَ فِي الْقَوْلِ وَ لَنْ نَعْدُوَ مَا رَأَيْتَ نُوَلِّيكَ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ فَإِنَّكَ فِينَا مُتَّبَعٌ وَ لِصَالِحِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رِضًا

They answered him in their entirety with, ‘We are concordant in the view, and correct with the words, and we will never leave what you are viewing. We will make you in charge of this command, for you are among us, following the interests of the Momineen, agreeable.

ثُمَّ إِنَّهُمْ تَرَادُّوا الْكَلَامَ فَقَالُوا فَإِنْ أَبَتْ مُهَاجِرَةُ قُرَيْشٍ فَقَالُوا نَحْنُ الْمُهَاجِرُونَ وَ صَحَابَةُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ الْأَوَّلُونَ وَ نَحْنُ عَشِيرَتُهُ وَ أَوْلِيَاؤُهُ فَعَلَامَ تُنَازِعُونَنَا الْأَمْرَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ فَقَالَتْ طَائِفَةٌ مِنْهُمْ فَإِنَّا نَقُولُ إِذاً مِنَّا أَمِيرٌ وَ مِنْكُمْ أَمِيرٌ وَ لَنْ نَرْضَى بِدُونِ هَذَا أَبَداً

Then they turned the speech and they said, ‘Supposing the Emigrants of Quraysh refuse and they said, ‘We are the Emigrants and companions of Rasool-Allahsaww, the formers ones, and we are hissaww clan, and hissaww friends, so why are you disputing with us regarding the command from after himsaww?’ A group from them said, ‘We are saying then, there would be a ruler from us and a ruler from you, and will never be pleased with anything besides this, ever!’

فَقَالَ سَعْدُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ حِينَ سَمِعَهَا هَذَا أَوَّلُ الْوَهْنِ وَ أَتَى عُمَرَ الْخَبَرُ فَأَقْبَلَ إِلَى مَنْزِلِ النَّبِيِّ ص فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فِي الدَّارِ وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع دَائِبٌ فِي جَهَازِ النَّبِيِّ ص

Sa’ad Bin Ubada said when he heard this, ‘This is the first weakness’. And the news came to Umar, so he came to the house of the Prophetsaww and sent a message to Abu Bakr, and Abu Bakr was in the house, and Aliasws Bin Abu Talib was persevering in the funeral preparations of the Prophetsaww.

فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ أَنِ اخْرُجْ إِلَيَّ فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ أَنِّي مُشْتَغِلٌ فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ أَنَّهُ قَدْ حَدَثَ أَمْرٌ لَا بُدَّ لَكَ مِنْ حُضُورِهِ فَخَرَجَ إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَ أَ مَا عَلِمْتَ أَنَّ الْأَنْصَارَ قَدِ اجْتَمَعَتْ فِي سَقِيفَةِ بَنِي سَاعِدَةَ يُرِيدُونَ أَنْ يُوَلُّوا هَذَا الْأَمْرَ سَعْدَ بْنَ عُبَادَةَ وَ أَحْسَنُهُمْ مَقَالَةً مَنْ يَقُولُ مِنَّا أَمِيرٌ وَ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ أَمِيرٌ

Abu Bakr sent a message to him (Umar), ‘Come out to me’. He sent a message to him: ‘I am busy’. He sent a message to him, ‘An event has occurred, there is no escape for you being present’. He went out to him. He said, ‘Do you not know that the helpers have gathered in the shed of the clan of Saaida wanting Sa’ad Bin Ubada to be in charge of this command, and their excelled words are of the one who said, ‘There should be a ruler from us and a ruler from Quraysh’.

فَمَضَيَا مُسْرِعَيْنِ نَحْوَهُمْ فَلَقِيَا أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ فَتَمَاشَوْا إِلَيْهِمْ فَلَقِيَهُمْ عَاصِمُ بْنُ عَدِيٍّ وَ عُوَيْمُ بْنُ سَاعِدَةَ فَقَالا لَهُمْ ارْجِعُوا فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَكُونُ إِلَّا مَا تُحِبُّونَ فَقَالُوا لَا تَفْعَلْ فَجَاءَهُمْ وَ هُمْ مُجْتَمِعُونَ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ أَتَيْنَاهُمْ وَ قَدْ كُنْتُ زَوَّرْتُ كَلَاماً أَرَدْتُ أَنْ أَقُومَ بِهِ فِيهِمْ

They both went hurriedly and met Abu Ubeyda walking towards them. Then they met Aasim Bin Adayy, and Uweym Bin Saaida. They both said to them, ‘Return, for it will not happen except what you love’. They said, ‘You don’t do it’. They came to them and they had gathered. Umar Bin Al-Khattab said, ‘I have come to them and I used to be with false speech. I wanted to stand with it among them’.

فَلَمَّا انْدَفَعْتُ إِلَيْهِمْ ذَهَبْتُ لِأَبْتَدِئَ الْمَنْطِقَ فَقَالَ لِي أَبُو بَكْرٍ رُوَيْداً حَتَّى أَتَكَلَّمَ ثُمَّ انْطِقْ بَعْدُ مَا أَحْبَبْتَ فَنَطَقَ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ فَمَا شَيْ‏ءٌ كُنْتُ أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَقُولَ بِهِ إِلَّا وَ قَدْ أَتَى بِهِ أَوْ زَادَ عَلَيْهِ

When I rushed towards them, going to beginning the talk, Abu Bakr said to me, ‘Slowly, until I speak, then speak whatever you like’. He spoke. Umar said, ‘I did not want anything I should be speaking with except you have come with it or increased upon it.

قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ فَبَدَأَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَ أَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بَعَثَ مُحَمَّداً ص رَسُولًا إِلَى خَلْقِهِ وَ شَهِيداً عَلَى أُمَّتِهِ لِيَعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ وَ يُوَحِّدُوهُ وَ هُمْ يَعْبُدُونَ مِنْ دُونِهِ آلِهَةً شَتَّى يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّهَا لِمَنْ عَبَدَهَا شَافِعَةٌ وَ لَهُمْ نَافِعَةٌ وَ إِنَّمَا هِيَ مِنْ حَجَرٍ مَنْحُوتٍ وَ خَشَبٍ مَنْجُورٍ

Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman said, ‘Abu Bakr began. He praised Allahazwj and extolled upon Himazwj, the said, ‘Allahazwj Sent Muhammadsaww as a Rasoolsaww to Hisazwj creatures, and a witness upon hissaww community for them to be worshipping Allahazwj, and profess Hisazwj unity, and they were worshipping various gods from besides Himazwj, claiming that these (gods) would intercede for the ones who worships these and beneficial to them, and rather these were of sculpted stone and carved wood’.

ثُمَّ قَرَأَ وَ يَعْبُدُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ ما لا يَضُرُّهُمْ وَ لا يَنْفَعُهُمْ وَ يَقُولُونَ هؤُلاءِ شُفَعاؤُنا عِنْدَ اللَّهِ وَ قَالُوا ما نَعْبُدُهُمْ إِلَّا لِيُقَرِّبُونا إِلَى اللَّهِ زُلْفى‏ فَعَظُمَ عَلَى الْعَرَبِ أَنْ يَتْرُكُوا دِيْنَ آبَائِهِمْ

Then he recited, And they are worshipping from besides Allah what can neither harm them nor benefit them, and they are saying: ‘These would be our intercessors in the Presence of Allah. [10:18], and they said, ‘We do not worship them except they draw us closer to Allah’. [39:3]. So, it was grievous upon the Arabs that they leave the religion of their forefathers.

فَخَصَّ اللَّهُ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ الْأَوَّلِينَ مِنْ قَوْمِهِ بِتَصْدِيقِهِ وَ الْإِيمَانِ بِهِ وَ الْمُوَاسَاةِ لَهُ وَ الصَّبْرِ مَعَهُ عَلَى شِدَّةِ أَذَى قَوْمِهِمْ لَهُمْ وَ تَكْذِيبِهِمْ إِيَّاهُ وَ كُلُّ النَّاسِ لَهُمْ مُخَالِفٌ وَ عَلَيْهِمْ زَارٍ فَلَمْ يَسْتَوْحِشُوا لِقِلَّةِ عَدَدِهِمْ وَ تَشَذُّبِ النَّاسِ عَنْهُمْ وَ إِجْمَاعِ قَوْمِهِمْ عَلَيْهِمْ

Allahazwj Specialised the Emigrants, the first ones from hissaww people, with ratifying himsaww, and the consolation to himsaww, and the patience with himsaww upon the difficulties. Their people were harmful towards them and their belying himsaww, and all the people, have adversaries for them, and upon them are visitors, so they would not feel lonely due to the fewness of their numbers. The people cut back from them, and their people united against them.

فَهُمْ أَوَّلُ مَنْ عَبَدَ اللَّهَ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ آمَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَ بِالرَّسُولِ وَ هُمْ أَوْلِيَاؤُهُ وَ عَشِيرَتُهُ وَ أَحَقُّ النَّاسِ بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ وَ لَا يُنَازِعُهُمْ فِي ذَلِكَ إِلَّا ظَالِمٌ وَ أَنْتُمْ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْأَنْصَارِ مَنْ لَا يُنْكَرُ فَضْلُهُمْ فِي الدِّينِ وَ لَا سَابِقَتُهُمُ الْعَظِيمَةُ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ

They were the first ones to worship Allahazwj in the earth, and believe in Allahazwj and the Rasoolsaww, and they are hissaww friends, and hissaww clan, and most rightful of the people with this command, and no one would dispute them regarding that except an unjust one, and you, O Helpers, are one who do not deny their merits in the Religion, nor do you preceded them the greatness in Al-Islam.

رَضِيَكُمُ اللَّهُ أَنْصَاراً لِدِينِهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ وَ جَعَلَ إِلَيْكُمْ هِجْرَتَهَ وَ فِيكُمْ جُلَّةُ أَزْوَاجِهِ وَ أَصْحَابِهِ وَ لَيْسَ بَعْدَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ الْأَوَّلِينَ عِنْدَنَا بِمَنْزِلَتِكُمْ فَنَحْنُ الْأُمَرَاءُ وَ أَنْتُمُ الْوُزَرَاءُ لَا تَفْتَاتُونَ بِمَشُورَةٍ وَ لَا يُقْضَى دُونَكُمُ الْأُمُورُ

Allahazwj was Pleased with you as helpers to Hisazwj Religion and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww, and Made the emigration to you, and among you are the frail ones of hissaww wives, and hissaww companions, and there isn’t anyone after the first Emigrants with us at your status. Thus, we are the ruler and you are the ministers. Do not be rattled with consultation nor will decisions of the matters be made besides you’.

فَقَامَ الْمُنْذِرُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِ بْنِ الْجَمُوحِ هَكَذَا رَوَى الطَّبَرِيُ‏ وَ الَّذِي رَوَاهُ غَيْرُهُ أَنَّهُ الْحُبَابُ بْنُ الْمُنْذِرِ فَقَالَ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْأَنْصَارِ امْلِكُوا عَلَى أَيْدِيكُمْ وَ سَاقَ الْحَدِيثَ نَحْواً مِمَّا رَوَاهُ ابْنُ أَبِي الْحَدِيدِ عَنِ الطَّبَرِيِّ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ فَقَامُوا إِلَيْهِ فَبَايَعُوهُ فَانْكَسَرَ عَلَى سَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ وَ عَلَى الْخَزْرَجِ مَا كَانُوا اجْتَمَعُوا لَهُ مِنْ أَمْرِهِمْ

Al-Munzar Bin Al-Hubab Bin Al-Jamouh stood up. That is how Al-Tabari has reported, and that which is reported by others is that Al-Hubab Bin Al-Munzir said, ‘O community of the Helpers! Control should be upon your hands’ – and continued the Hadeeth approximated with what is reported by Ibn Abu Al-Hadeed, from Al-Tabari up to his words: - ‘They stood up to him and pledged allegiance to him, and it was broken up upon Sa’ad Bin Ubada, and upon Al-Khazraj, what they had gathered for of their matter.

ثُمَّ قَالَ قَالَ هِشَامٌ قَالَ أَبُو مِخْنَفٍ وَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْخُزَاعِيُّ أَنَّ أَسْلَمَ أَقْبَلَتْ بِجَمَاعَتِهَا حَتَّى تَضَايَقَتْ بِهِمُ السِّكَكُ لِيُبَايِعُوا أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَكَانَ عُمَرُ يَقُولُ مَا هُوَ إِلَّا أَنْ رَأَيْتُ أَسْلَمَ فَأَيْقَنْتُ بِالنَّصْرِ

Then he said, ‘Hisham said, ‘Abu Mikhnaf said, and it was narrated to me by Abu Bakr Bin Muhammad Al-Khuzaie, ‘(The clan of) Aslam came with their groups such that the markets were disturbed by them, in order to pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr, and Umar was saying, ‘It was not until I was (the clan of) Aslam, then I was convinced of the victory’.

قَالَ هِشَامٌ عَنْ أَبِي مِخْنَفٍ قَالَ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ فَأَقْبَلَ النَّاسُ مِنْ كُلِّ جَانِبٍ يُبَايِعُونَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَ كَادُوا يَطَئُونَ سَعْدَ بْنَ عُبَادَةَ فَقَالَ نَاسٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ سَعْدٍ اتَّقُوا سَعْداً لَا تَطَئُوهُ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ اقْتُلُوهُ قَتَلَهُ اللَّهُ‏

Hisham said, from Abu Mikhnaf having said, ‘Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman said, ‘The people came from every side pledging allegiances to Abu bakr, and they almost trampled Sa’ad Bin Ubada. Some people from the companions of Sa’d said. ‘Save Sa’d, don’t let him be trampled!’ Umar Bin Al-Khattab said, ‘Kill him, may Allahazwj Kill him’.

ثُمَّ قَامَ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ فَقَالَ لَقَدْ هَمَمْتُ أَنْ أَطَأَكَ حَتَّى تَنْدُرَ عَضُدُكَ فَأَخَذَ قَيْسُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ بِلِحْيَةِ عُمَرَ ثُمَّ قَالَ وَ اللَّهِ لَئِنْ حَصْحَصْتَ مِنْهُ شَعْرَةً مَا رَجَعْتَ وَ فِي فِيكَ وَاضِحَةٌ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مَهْلًا يَا عُمَرُ الرِّفْقُ هَاهُنَا أَبْلَغُ فَأَعْرَضَ عَنْهُ

Then he stood at his head and said, ‘I had thought of trampling you until your arm is torn off’. Qays Bin Sa’ad grabbed the beard of Umar, then said, ‘By Allahazwj! If you even prick a hair, you will not return and in your mouth would be clearness’. Abu Bakr said, ‘No, O Umar, the kindness is more reaching over here’. He turned away from him.

وَ قَالَ سَعْدٌ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ أَرَى مِنْ قُوَّةٍ مَا أَقْوَى عَلَى النُّهُوضِ لَسَمِعْتُمْ مِنِّي بِأَقْطَارِهَا وَ سِكَكِهَا زَئِيراً يَحْجُرُكَ وَ أَصْحَابَكَ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ إِذاً لَأُلْحِقَنَّكَ بِقَوْمٍ كُنْتَ فِيهِمْ تَابِعاً غَيْرَ مَتْبُوعٍ احْمِلُونِي مِنْ هَذَا الْمَكَانِ

And Sa’ad said, ‘But, by Allahazwj! If I had seen strength what I could be strengthened upon getting up, you would have heard from me up to its horizons and its markets such a roar, rattling you and your companions. But, by Allahazwj! I will not join with a people I used to be among them, followed not following. Carry me away from this place!’

فَحَمَلُوهُ فَأَدْخَلُوهُ دَارَهُ وَ تُرِكَ أَيَّاماً ثُمَّ بُعِثَ إِلَيْهِ أَنْ أَقْبِلْ فَبَايِعْ فَقَدْ بَايَعَ النَّاسُ وَ بَايَعَ قَوْمُكَ

They carried him away and entered him into his house, and he was left for days. Then he (Abu Bakr) sent a message to him, ‘Come, pledge allegiance, for the (other) people have pledged allegiance, and your people have pledged (as well)’.

فَقَالَ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ حَتَّى أَرْمِيَكُمْ بِمَا فِي كِنَانَتِي مِنْ نَبْلٍ وَ أَخْضِبَ مِنْكُمْ سِنَانَ رُمْحِي وَ أَضْرِبَكُمْ بِسَيْفِي مَا مَلَكَتْهُ يَدِي وَ أُقَاتِلَكُمْ بِأَهْلِ بَيْتِي وَ مَنْ أَطَاعَنِي مِنْ قَوْمِي وَ لَا أَفْعَلُ وَ ايْمُ اللَّهِ لَوْ أَنَّ الْجِنَّ اجْتَمَعَتْ لَكُمْ مَعَ الْإِنْسِ مَا بَايَعْتُكُمْ حَتَّى أُعْرَضَ عَلَى رَبِّي وَ أَعْلَمَ مَا حِسَابِي

He said, ‘No, by Allahazwj, until I shoot at you with whatever is in my quiver of the arrows, and I dye your teeth with my shooting, and strike you with my sword whatever my hand can possess, and I fight you all by my family members, and the ones from my people who obey me, and I will not do it. And I swear by Allahazwj! Even if the Jinn were to gather for you all along with the people, I will not pledge allegiance to you until I present to my Lord and know what my Reckoning is’.

فَلَمَّا أُتِيَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ بِذَلِكَ قَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ لَا تَدَعْهُ حَتَّى يُبَايِعَ فَقَالَ لَهُ بَشِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ إِنَّهُ قَدْ لَجَّ وَ أَبَى فَلَيْسَ يُبَايِعُكُمْ حَتَّى يُقْتَلَ وَ لَيْسَ بِمَقْتُولٍ حَتَّى يُقْتَلَ مَعَهُ وُلْدُهُ وَ أَهْلُ بَيْتِهِ وَ طَائِفَةٌ مِنْ عَشِيرَتِهِ فَلَيْسَ تَرْكُهُ بِضَارِّكُمْ إِنَّمَا هُوَ رَجُلٌ وَاحِدٌ فَتَرَكُوهُ

When they came to Abu Bakr with that, Umar said to him, ‘Do not leave him until he pledges allegiance’. Bashir Bin Sa’ad said to him, ‘He has been vociferous and refuses and will not be pledging allegiance to you until he is killed, and he wouldn’t be killed his son, and his family members, and a group from his clam are killed with him. Thus, leaving him would not be harmful to you. But rather, he is one man, so leave him’.

وَ قَبِلُوا مَشُورَةَ بَشِيرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ وَ اسْتَنْصَحُوهُ لِمَا بَدَا لَهُمْ مِنْهُ وَ كَانَ سَعْدٌ لَا يُصَلِّي‏ بِصَلَاتِهِمْ وَ لَا يَجْمَعُ مَعَهُمْ وَ يَحُجُّ وَ لَا يَحُجُّ مَعَهُمْ وَ يُفِيضُ فَلَا يُفِيضُ مَعَهُمْ بِإِفَاضَتِهِمْ‏ فَلَمْ يَزَلْ كَذَلِكَ حَتَّى هَلَكَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ.

And they accepted the consultation of Bashir Bin Sa’d and they heeded his advice of what had appeared to them from him. And Sa’d neither used to pray Salat with their Salats, nor gather with them, nor perform Hajj with their Hajj, and they departed (for Hajj) and he did not depart with them. He did not be to be like that until Abu Bakr died’’.¹⁴⁵ (Non-Shia source)

57 أقول قال السيد رضي الله عنه بعد إيراد هذا الخبر: فهذا الخبر يتضمن من شرح أمر السقيفة ما فيه للناظرين معتبر و يستفيد الواقف عليه أشياء منها خلوه من احتجاج قريش على الأنصار بجعل النبي ص الإمامة فيهم لأنه تضمن من احتجاجهم عليهم ما يخالف ذلك و أنهم إنما ادعوا كونهم أحق بالأمر من حيث كانت النبوة فيهم و من حيث كانوا أقرب إلى النبي ص نسبا و أولهم له اتباعا و منها أن الأمر إنما بني في السقيفة على المغالبة و المخالسة و أن كلا منهم كان يجذبه بما اتفق له و عن حق و باطل و قوي و ضعيف و منها أن سبب ضعف الأنصار و قوة المهاجرين عليهم انحياز بشير بن سعد حسدا لسعد بن عبادة و انحياز الأوس بانحيازه عن الأنصار و منها أن خلاف سعد و أهله و قومه كان باقيا لم يرجعوا عنه و إنما أقعدهم عن الخلاف فيه بالسيف قلة الناصر انتهى كلامه رفع الله مقامه‏.

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58- و قال ابن الأثير في الكامل‏،: لما توفي رسول الله ص اجتمع الأنصار في سقيفة بني ساعدة ليبايعوا سعد بن عبادة فبلغ ذلك أبا بكر فأتاهم و معه عمر و أبو عبيدة بن الجراح فقال ما هذا فقالوا منا أمير و منكم أمير فقال أبو بكر منا الأمراء و منكم الوزراء

And Ibn Al-Aseer in (the book) ‘Al-Kamil’ – When Rasool-Allahsaww passed away, the Helpers gathered in the shed of the clan of Saaida in order to pledge allegiance of Sa’ad Bin Ubada. That reached Abu Bakr, and he came to them, and with him were Umar and Abu Ubeyda Bin Al-Jaffah. He said, ‘What is this?’ They said, ‘There should be a ruler from us and a ruler from you’. Abu Bakr said, ‘From us should be the rulers and from you the minsters’.

ثم قال أبو بكر قد رضيت لكم أحد هذين الرجلين عمر و أبو عبيدة أمين هذه الأمة فقال عمر أيكم يطيب نفسه أن يُخَلِّفَ قَدَمَيْنِ قَدَّمَهُمَا النبيُّ ص فبايعه عمر و بايعه الناس فقالت الأنصار أو بعضهم لا نبايع إلا عليا

Then Abu Bakr said, ‘I agree to you with one of these two men – Umar and Abu Ubeyda, trustee of this community’. Umar said, ‘Whichever of you is good himself that he be a replacement, advance the one the Prophetsaww advance’. So Umar pledge allegiance to him (Abu Bakr) and the people pledged. The Helpers, or some of them said, ‘We will not pledge allegiance to except Aliasws’.

قال و تخلف عليٌّ و بنو هاشم و الزبير و طلحة عن البيعة قال الزبير لا أغمد سيفي حتى يبايع عليٌّ فقال عمر خذوا سيفه و اضربوا به الحجر ثم أتاهم عمر فأخذهم للبيعة ثم ذكر ما مر من قصة أبي سفيان و العباس-.

He (the narrator) said, ‘Aliasws, and the Clan of Hashimasws, and Al-Zubeyr, and Talha stayed behind from the allegiance. Al-Zubeyr said, ‘I will not sheathe my sword until Aliasws is pledged allegiance to’. Umar said, ‘Seize his sword and strike the rock with it’. Then Umar came to them and seized them for the allegiance’. Then he mentioned what has passed from the story of Abu Sufyan and Al-Abbas.

ثُمَّ رَوَى عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ حَدِيثاً طَوِيلًا وَ سَاقَهُ إِلَى أَنْ قَالَ- لَمَّا رَجَعَ عُمَرُ مِنَ الْحَجِّ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ جَلَسَ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ وَ قَالَ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ قَائِلًا مِنْكُمْ يَقُولُ لَوْ مَاتَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ بَايَعْتُ فُلَاناً فَلَا يَغُرَّنَّ امْرَأً أَنْ يَقُولَ إِنَّ بَيْعَةَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ كَانَتْ فَلْتَةً فَقَدْ كَانَتْ كَذَلِكَ وَ لَكِنَّ اللَّهَ وَقَى شَرَّهَا

Then, a lengthy Hadeeth is reported from Ibn Abbas, from Abdul Rahman Bin Awf, and he continued it up to he said, ‘When Umar returned from the Hajj to Al-Medina, he sat upon the pulpit and said, ‘It has reached me that there is a speaker from you saying, ‘If the amir al-momineen (Umar) were to die, he will pledge allegiance to so and so’. Do not be deceived by a man if he says that the allegiance pledged to Abu Bakr was a slip. It has been like that but Allahazwj Saved us from its evil.

وَ لَيْسَ مِنْكُمْ مَنْ تَقَطَّعُ إِلَيْهِ الْأَعْنَاقُ مِثْلَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ إِنَّهُ كَانَ حَرِيّاً حِينَ تُوُفِّيَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ إِنَّ عَلِيّاً ع وَ الزُّبَيْرَ وَ مَنْ مَعَهُمَا تَخَلَّفُوا عَنَّا فِي بَيْتِ فَاطِمَةَ ع وَ تَخَلَّفَ عَنَّا الْأَنْصَارُ وَ اجْتَمَعَ الْمُهَاجِرُونَ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ سَاقَ قِصَّةَ السَّقِيفَةِ نَحْواً مِمَّا مَرّ.

And there isn’t anyone from your necks are cut to him like Abu Bakr, and he was appropriate when Rasool-Allahsaww expired, and that Aliasws and Al-Zubeyr, and the ones with them had stayed back from us in the house of (Syeda) Fatimaasws, and Helpers stayed back from us, and the Emigrants gathered to Abu Bakr’ – and he continued the story of Al-Saqeefa approximate to what has passed’.

ثُمَّ رَوَى عَنْ أَبِي عَمْرَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ مِثْلَ مَا أَخْرَجْنَاهُ مِنْ تَلْخِيصِ الشَّافِي وَ سَاقَ الْكَلَامَ إِلَى أَنْ قَالَ وَ قَالَ الزُّهْرِيُ‏ بَقِيَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ بَنُو هَاشِمٍ وَ الزُّبَيْرُ سِتَّةَ أَشْهُرٍ لَمْ يُبَايِعُوا أَبَا بَكْرٍ حَتَّى مَاتَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع فَبَايَعُوهُ فَلَمَّا كَانَ الْغَدُ مِنْ بَيْعَةِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ جَلَسَ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ وَ بَايَعَهُ النَّاسُ بَيْعَةً عَامَّةً انْتَهَى‏.

Then it is reported from Abu Amra Al-Ansari, similar to what I brought from the summarisation of Al-Shaqy, and he continued the speech up to he said, ‘And Al-Zuhry said, ‘There remain Aliasws, and the clan of Hashimasws, and Al-Zubeyr, for six months, not pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr, until (Syeda) Fatimaasws passed away. Then they pledged allegiance to him. When it was the next morning from the allegiance, Abu Bakr sat on the pulpit and the people pledged allegiance to him a general allegiance’’. ¹⁴⁷ (Non-Shia source)

59- وَ قَالَ الْعَلَّامَةُ قُدِّسَ سِرُّهُ فِي كِتَابِ كَشْفِ الْحَقِّ، رَوَى الطَّبَرِيُّ فِي تَارِيخِهِ قَالَ: أَتَى عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ مَنْزِلَ عَلِيٍّ ع فَقَالَ وَ اللَّهِ لَأُحْرِقَنَّ عَلَيْكُمْ أَوْ لَتَخْرُجُنَ‏ لِلْبَيْعَةِ.

The Allama said in the book ‘Kashf Al-Haq’ – it is reported by Al-Tabari in his history, said, ‘Umar Bin Al-Khattab came to the house of Aliasws and said, ‘By Allahazwj! I will burn it down upon youasws all, or youasws come out to for the allegiance!’’

وَ رَوَى الْوَاقِدِيُ‏ أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ جَاءَ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ع فِي عِصَابَةٍ فِيهِمْ أُسَيْدُ بْنُ حُضَيْرٍ وَ سَلَمَةُ بْنُ أَسْلَمَ فَقَالَ اخْرُجُوا أَوْ لَنُحْرِقَنَّهَا عَلَيْكُمْ‏.

And it is reported by Al-Waqidi (Wahabi imam), ‘Umar Bin Al Khattab came to Aliasws among a group, among them was Useyd Bin Huzar, and Salama Bin Aslam. He said, ‘Either come out or we shall burn it down upon you!’’

وَ رَوَى ابْنُ خِنْزَابَةَ فِي غُرَرِهِ قَالَ زَيْدُ بْنُ أَسْلَمَ- كُنْتُ مِمَّنْ حَمَلَ الْحَطَبَ مَعَ عُمَرَ إِلَى بَابِ فَاطِمَةَ ع حِينَ امْتَنَعَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ أَصْحَابُهُ عَنِ الْبَيْعَةِ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ لِفَاطِمَةَ أَخْرِجِي مَنْ فِي الْبَيْتِ أَوْ لَأُحْرِقَنَّهُ وَ مَنْ فِيهِ

And it is reported by Ibn Jinzaba in (the book) ‘Gurar’ – Zayd Bin Aslam said, ‘I was from the ones who carried the firewood along with Umar to the door of (Syeda) Fatimaasws when Aliasws and hisasws companions had refused from pledging the allegiance. Umar said to (Syeda) Fatimaasws, ‘Bring out the ones in the house or I will burn it down and the ones in it!’

قَالَ وَ فِي الْبَيْتِ عَلِيٌّ وَ فَاطِمَةُ وَ الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ ع وَ جَمَاعَةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ص فَقَالَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع أَ تُحْرِقُ عَلِيّاً وَ وُلْدِي قَالَ إِي وَ اللَّهِ أَوْ لَيَخْرُجَنَّ وَ لَيُبَايِعَنَ‏.

He said, ‘And in the house were Aliasws, and (Syeda) Fatimaasws, and Al-Hassanasws, and Al-Husaynasws, and a group from companions of the Prophetsaww. (Syeda) Fatimaasws said: ‘Will you burn down Aliasws and myasws childrenasws?’ He said, ‘Yes, by Allahazwj, or they come out and pledge allegiance’’.

وَ قَالَ ابْنُ عَبْدِ رَبِّهِ‏ وَ هُوَ مِنْ أَعْيَانِهِمْ- فَأَمَّا عَلِيٌّ ع وَ الْعَبَّاسُ فَقَعَدَا فِي بَيْتِ فَاطِمَةَ ع وَ قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ لِعُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ إِنْ أَبَيَا فَقَاتِلْهُمَا فَأَقْبَلَ بِقَبَسٍ مِنْ نَارٍ عَلَى أَنْ يُضْرِمَ عَلَيْهِمَا النَّارَ فَلَقِيَتْهُ فَاطِمَةُ ع فَقَالَتْ يَا ابْنَ الْخَطَّابِ أَ جِئْتَ لِتُحْرِقَ دَارَنَا قَالَ نَعَمْ-.

And Ibn Abd Rabbih said, and he is from their supporters, ‘As for Aliasws and Al-Abbas, they both sat back in the house of (Syeda) Fatimaasws, and Abu Bakr said to Umar Bin Al-Khattab, ‘If they refuse, kill them!’ He came with a firebrand of fire to ignite the fire upon them. (Syeda) Fatimaasws faced them and sheasws said: ‘O Ibn Al-Khattab! Have you come to burn down ourasws house?’ He said, ‘Yes’’.¹⁴⁸ (Non-Shia source)

60- وَ رَوَى ابْنُ أَبِي الْحَدِيدِ فِي شَرْحِ نَهْجِ الْبَلَاغَةِ فِي أَوَّلِ الْمُجَلَّدِ السَّادِسِ مِنْ كِتَابِ السَّقِيفَةِ لِأَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ الْجَوْهَرِيِّ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ سَيَّارٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ كَثِيرٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِ‏ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص لَمَّا قُبِضَ اجْتَمَعَتِ الْأَنْصَارُ فِي سَقِيفَةِ بَنِي سَاعِدَةَ فَقَالُوا إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَدْ قُبِضَ فَقَالَ سَعْدُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ لِابْنِهِ قَيْسٍ أَوْ لِبَعْضِ بَنِيهِ إِنِّي لَا أَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ أُسْمِعَ النَّاسَ كَلَامِي لِمَرَضِي وَ لَكِنْ تَلَقَّ مِنِّي قَوْلِي فَأَسْمِعْهُمْ فَكَانَ سَعْدٌ يَتَكَلَّمُ وَ يَسْمَعُ ابْنُهُ يَرْفَعُ بِهِ صَوْتَهُ لِيُسْمِعَ قَوْمَهُ فَكَانَ مِنْ قَوْلِهِ بَعْدَ حَمْدِ اللَّهِ وَ الثَّنَاءِ عَلَيْهِ أَنْ قَالَ.

And it is reported by Ibn Abi Al Hadeed in commentary of (the book) ‘Nahj Al Balagah’ in the beginning of the sixth volume, from the book of Saqeefa of Ahmad Bin Abdul Aziz Al Jowhari, from Ahmad Bin Is’haq, from Ahmad Bin Sayyar, from Saeed Bin Kaseer Al Ansari,

‘When the Prophetsaww passed away, the Helpers gathered in the shed of the clan of Saaida and they said, ‘Rasool-Allahsaww has passed away!’ Sa’ad Bin Ubada said to his son Qays, or to one of his sons, ‘I am not able to get the people to hear my speech due to my illness, but speak my words from me and make them hear’. So, Sa’ad was speaking and his son relayed it raising his voice in order to his people to her. It was from his words after having praised Allahazwj and the extollation upon Himazwj, that he said –

إِنَّ لَكُمْ سَابِقَةً إِلَى الدِّينِ وَ فَضِيلَةً فِي الْإِسْلَامِ لَيْسَتْ لِقَبِيلَةٍ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص لَبِثَ فِي قَوْمِهِ بِضْعَ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً يَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى عِبَادَةِ الرَّحْمَنِ وَ خَلْعِ الْأَوْثَانِ فَمَا آمَنَ بِهِ مِنْ قَوْمِهِ إِلَّا قَلِيلٌ

‘For you (Helpers) there is precedence to the Religion and a merit in Al-Islam. What isn’t for any tribe from the Arabs. Rasool-Allahsaww remained among hissaww people for some ten years calling them to worship the Beneficent, and leave the idols. No one from hisasws people believed except a few.

وَ اللَّهِ مَا كَانُوا يَقْدِرُونَ أَنْ يَمْنَعُوا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ لَا يُعِزُّوا دِينَهُ وَ لَا يَدْفَعُوا عَنْهُ عَدَاهُ حَتَّى أَرَادَ اللَّهُ بِكُمْ خَيْرَ الْفَضِيلَةِ وَ سَاقَ إِلَيْكُمُ الْكَرَامَةَ وَ خَصَّكُمْ بِدِينِهِ وَ رَزَقَكُمُ الْإِيمَانَ بِهِ وَ بِرَسُولِهِ وَ الْإِعْزَازَ لِدِينِهِ وَ الْجِهَادَ لِأَعْدَائِهِ

By Allahazwj! They were neither able upon preventing Rasool-Allahsaww nor strengthen hissaww Religion, nor repel hissaww enemies from himsaww until Allahazwj Wanted the good merit for you, and Ushered the honour to you, and Specialised you with Hisazwj Religion, and Graced you the Eman with Himazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww, and the strengthening of Hisazwj Religion, and the fighting against hissaww enemies.

فَكُنْتُمْ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ عَلَى مَنْ تَخَلَّفَ عَنْهُ مِنْكُمْ وَ أَثْقَلَهُمْ عَلَى عَدُوِّهِ مِنْ غَيْرِكُمْ حَتَّى اسْتَقَامُوا لِأَمْرِ اللَّهِ طَوْعاً وَ كَرْهاً وَ أَعْطَى الْبَعِيدُ الْمَقَادَةَ بِأَسْيَافِكُمْ صَاغِراً دَاحِضاً حَتَّى أَنْجَزَ اللَّهُ لِنَبِيِّكُمُ الْوَعْدَ وَ دَانَتْ لِأَسْيَافِكُمُ الْعَرَبُ

So you were the severed of the people upon the ones who stayed behind from himsaww, and heaviest upon hissaww enemies than others, until they stood to the Command of Allahazwj willingly and unwillingly, and gave to the remote, the taste of your swords, becoming belittled, humiliated, until Allahazwj Fulfilled the Promise for your Prophetsaww, and the Arabs had a religion due to your swords.

ثُمَّ تَوَفَّاهُ اللَّهُ إِلَيْهِ وَ هُوَ عَنْكُمْ رَاضٍ وَ بِكُمْ قَرِيرُ الْعَيْنِ فَشُدُّوا أَيْدِيَكُمْ بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ فَإِنَّكُمْ أَحَقُّ النَّاسِ وَ أَوْلَاهُمْ بِهِ‏.

Then Allahazwj Caused himsaww to pass away to Himazwj, and hesaww was pleased from you and with you the eyes were delighted, therefore strengthened your hand with this command, for you are more rightful of the people and foremost with it’’.

فَأَجَابُوا جَمِيعاً أَنْ وُفِّقْتَ فِي الرَّأْيِ وَ أَصَبْتَ فِي الْقَوْلِ وَ لَنْ نَعْدُوَ مَا أَمَرْتَ نُوَلِّيكَ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ فَأَنْتَ لَنَا مَقْنَعٌ وَ لِصَالِحِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رِضًى.

They all answered: ‘We are concordant in the view and correct in the words, and we will never leave what you are instructing. We will make you in charge of this command, for you are a covering for you, and pleased for the interests of the Momineen’.

ثُمَّ إِنَّهُمْ تَرَادُّوا الْكَلَامَ بَيْنَهُمْ فَقَالُوا إِنْ أَبَتْ مُهَاجِرُو قُرَيْشٍ فَقَالُوا نَحْنُ الْمُهَاجِرُونَ وَ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص الْأَوَّلُونَ وَ نَحْنُ عَشِيرَتُهُ وَ أَوْلِيَاؤُهُ فَعَلَامَ تُنَازِعُونَّا هَذَا الْأَمْرَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ.

Then they turned the speech between them and they said, ‘If the Emigrants of Quraysh refuse and they said, ‘We are the Emigrants and the first companions of Rasool-Allahsaww, and we are hissaww clan, and hissaww friends. So, upon what are you disputing with us of this command from after himsaww?’

فَقَالَتْ طَائِفَةٌ مِنْهُمْ إِذاً نَقُولَ مِنَّا أَمِيرٌ وَ مِنْكُمْ أَمِيرٌ لَنْ نَرْضَى بِدُونِ هَذَا أَبَداً لَنَا فِي الْإِيوَاءِ وَ النُّصْرَةِ مَا لَهُمْ فِي الْهِجْرَةِ وَ لَنَا فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ مَا لَهُمْ فَلَيْسُوا يَعُدُّونَ شَيْئاً إِلَّا وَ نَعُدُّ مِثْلَهُ وَ لَيْسَ مِنْ رَأْيِنَا الِاسْتِيثَارُ عَلَيْهِمْ فَمِنَّا أَمِيرٌ وَ مِنْهُمْ أَمِيرٌ.

A group from them said, ‘The we shall say, ‘There should be a ruler from us and a ruler from you. We will not be pleased with less than this, ever!’ For us there is regarding the sheltering and the helping what is for them regarding the emigration, and there is for us in the Book of Allahazwj what is not for them. Thus, they cannot count anything except and we can count the like of it, and there isn’t from our opinion the preference upon them, then from us should be a ruler, and from them, a ruler’.

فَقَالَ سَعْدُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ هَذَا أَوَّلُ الْوَهْنِ.

Sa’ad Bin Ubada said, ‘This is the first weakness’.

وَ أَتَى الْخَبَرُ عُمَرَ فَأَتَى مَنْزِلَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَوَجَدَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ فِي الدَّارِ وَ عَلِيّاً فِي جَهَازِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ كَانَ الَّذِي أَتَاهُ بِالْخَبَرِ مَعْنَ بْنَ عَدِيٍّ فَأَخَذَ بِيَدِ عُمَرَ وَ قَالَ‏ قُمْ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ إِنِّي عَنْكَ مَشْغُولٌ فَقَالَ إِنَّهُ لَا بُدَّ مِنْ قِيَامٍ فَقَامَ مَعَهُ

And the news came to Umar, so he came to the house of Rasool-Allahsaww and found Abu Bakr in the house, and Aliasws was (busy) in preparing the funeral Rasool-Allahsaww, and the first one who came to him with the news Ma’an Bin Aday. He grabbed the hand of Umar and said, ‘Arise!’ Umar said, ‘I am too busy from you’. He said, ‘There is no escape from standing’. So he stood with him.

فَقَالَ لَهُ إِنَّ هَذَا الْحَيَّ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ قَدِ اجْتَمَعُوا فِي سَقِيفَةِ بَنِي سَاعِدَةَ مَعَهُمْ سَعْدُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ يَدُورُونَ حَوْلَهُ أَنْتَ الْمُرَجَّى وَ نَجْلُكَ‏ الْمُرَجَّى وَ ثَمَّ أُنَاسٌ مِنْ أَشْرَافِهِمْ وَ قَدْ خَشِيتُ الْفِتْنَةَ فَانْظُرْ يَا عُمَرُ مَا ذَا تَرَى وَ اذْكُرْ لِإِخْوَتِكَ وَ احْتَالُوا لِأَنْفُسِكُمْ فَإِنِّي أَنْظُرُ إِلَى بَابِ فِتْنَةٍ قَدْ فُتِحَ السَّاعَةَ إِلَّا أَنْ يُغْلِقَهُ اللَّهُ.

He said to him, ‘This tribe from the Helpers have gather in the shed of the clan of Saaida, with them is Sa’ad Bin Ubada circling around him. You are the hopeful, and your offspring is the hopeful, and then people from their nobles, and I have feared the Fitna, so look, O Umar, what is that you see, and mentioned to your brothers, and let them wrangle for themselves, for I am looking at a door of Fitna to have opened at the moment, unless Allahazwj Locks it’.

فَفَزِعَ عُمَرُ أَشَدَّ الْفَزَعِ حَتَّى أَتَى أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَأَخَذَ بِيَدِهِ فَقَالَ قُمْ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ إِنِّي عَنْكَ مَشْغُولٌ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ لَا بُدَّ مِنْ قِيَامٍ وَ سَنَرْجِعُ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ فَقَامَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مَعَ عُمَرَ فَحَدَّثَهُ الْحَدِيثَ

Umar was alarmed with severe alarm until he went to Abu Bakr and grabbed his hand and said, ‘Stand up’. Abu Bakr said, ‘I am too busy from you’. Umar said, ‘There is no escape from standing and if Allahazwj so Desires, we shall return’. Abu Bakr stood with Umar, and he narrated the event to him.

فَفَزِعَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ أَشَدَّ الْفَزَعِ وَ خَرَجَا مُسْرِعَيْنِ إِلَى سَقِيفَةِ بَنِي سَاعِدَةَ وَ فِيهَا رِجَالٌ مِنْ أَشْرَافِ الْأَنْصَارِ وَ مَعَهُمْ سَعْدُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ وَ هُوَ مَرِيضٌ بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِهِمْ فَأَرَادَ عُمَرُ أَنْ يَتَكَلَّمَ وَ يَمْهَدَ لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ قَالَ خَشِيتُ أَنْ يَقْصُرَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ الْكَلَامِ فَلَمَّا ابْتَدَأَ عُمَرُ كَفَّهُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ قَالَ عَلَى رِسْلِكَ فَتَلَقَّ الْكَلَامَ ثُمَّ تَكَلَّمْ بَعْدَ كَلَامِي بِمَا بَدَا لَكَ

Abu Bakr was alarmed with intense alarm and they both went out hurriedly to the shed of the clan of Saaida, and therein were men from the nobles of the Helpers, and with them was Sa’ad Bin Ubada in their midst, and he was ill. Umar intended to speak and praise Abu Bakr and said, ‘I feared that Abu Bakr might be deficient from past of the speech. When Umar began, Abu Bakr refrained him and said, ‘Upon your message, so leave the speech, then you can speak after my speech with whatever comes to you’.

فَتَشَهَّدَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ جَلَّ ثَنَاؤُهُ بَعَثَ مُحَمَّداً بِالْهُدَى وَ دِينِ الْحَقِّ فَدَعَا إِلَى الْإِسْلَامِ فَأَخَذَ اللَّهُ بِقُلُوبِنَا وَ نَوَاصِينَا إِلَى مَا دَعَانَا إِلَيْهِ وَ كُنَّا مَعَاشِرَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ أَوَّلَ النَّاسِ إِسْلَاماً وَ النَّاسُ لَنَا فِي ذَلِكَ تَبَعٌ وَ نَحْنُ عَشِيرَةُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَوْسَطُ الْعَرَبِ أَنْسَاباً لَيْسَ مِنْ قَبَائِلِ الْعَرَبِ قَبِيلَةٌ إِلَّا وَ لِقُرَيْشٍ فِيهَا وِلَادَةٌ

Abu Bakr testified, then said, ‘Allahazwj, Majestic is Hisazwj Praise, Sent Muhammadsaww with the guidance and Religion of the truth. Hesaww called to Al-Islam and Allahazwj Seized our hearts and our forelocks to what hesaww had called us to, and we are the community of Emigrants, foremost of the people in professing Islam, and the people followed us in that, and we are the clan of Rasool-Allahsaww, and most extensive of the Arabs in lineage. There isn’t any tribe of the Arabs except and there is a birth for it for Quraysh.

وَ أَنْتُمْ أَنْصَارُ اللَّهِ وَ أَنْتُمْ نَصَرْتُمْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص ثُمَّ أَنْتُمْ وُزَرَاءُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ إِخْوَانُنَا فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَ شُرَكَاؤُنَا فِي الدِّينِ وَ فِيمَا كُنَّا فِيهِ مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَأَنْتُمْ أَحَبُّ النَّاسِ إِلَيْنَا وَ أَكْرَمُهُمْ عَلَيْنَا وَ أَحَقُّ النَّاسِ بِالرِّضَا بِقَضَاءِ اللَّهِ وَ التَّسْلِيمِ لِمَا سَاقَ اللَّهُ إِلَى إِخْوَانِكُمْ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ أَحَقُّ النَّاسِ أَنْ لَا تَحْسُدُوهُمْ

And you are helpers of Allahazwj, and you helped Rasool-Allahazwj, then you are ministers of Rasool-Allahsaww and our brothers in the Book of Allahazwj, and our partners in the Religion and in what we used to be in from the goodness. You are the most beloved of the people to us and their most honourable to us, and the most rightful of the people with the pleasure with the Decree of Allahazwj and the submitters to what Allahazwj Ushered to your brothers from the Emigrants, and most rightful of the people not to envy them.

فَأَنْتُمُ الْمُؤْثِرُونَ عَلَى أَنْفُسِهِمْ حِينَ الْخَصَاصَةِ وَ أَحَقُّ النَّاسِ أَنْ لَا يَكُونَ‏ انْتِقَاضُ هَذَا الْأَمْرِ وَ اخْتِلَاطُهُ عَلَى أَيْدِيكُمْ وَ أَنَا أَدْعُوكُمْ إِلَى أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ وَ عُمَرَ فَكِلَاهُمَا قَدْ رَضِيتُ لِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ وَ كِلَاهُمَا أَرَاهُ لَهُ أَهْلًا.

Thus, you are the ones preferred upon yourselves where the specialisation is, and most rightful of the people not to become pouncing upon this command, and mingling it upon your hands, and I am calling you to Abu Ubeyda and Umar, both of them have agreed for this command, and both of them I see to be rightful for it’.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ مَا يَنْبَغِي لِأَحَدٍ مِنَ النَّاسِ أَنْ يَكُونَ فَوْقَكَ أَنْتَ صَاحِبُ الْغَارِ ثانِيَ اثْنَيْنِ‏ وَ أَمَرَكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِالصَّلَاةِ فَأَنْتَ أَحَقُّ النَّاسِ بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ

Umar and Abu Ubeyda said, ‘It is not befitting for anyone from the people that he happens to be above you (Abu Bakr). You are the companion in the cave, being the second of the two [9:40], and Rasool-Allahsaww had instructed you with (leading) the Salat, so you are most rightful of the people with this command’.

فَقَالَ الْأَنْصَارُ وَ اللَّهِ مَا نَحْسُدُكُمْ عَلَى خَيْرٍ سَاقَهُ اللَّهُ إِلَيْكُمْ وَ لَا أَحَدَ أَحَبُّ إِلَيْنَا وَ لَا أَرْضَى عِنْدَنَا مِنْكُمْ وَ لَكِنَّا نُشْفِقُ مِمَّا بَعْدَ هَذَا الْيَوْمِ وَ نَحْذَرُ أَنْ يَغْلِبَ عَلَى هَذَا الْأَمْرِ مَنْ لَيْسَ مِنَّا وَ لَا مِنْكُمْ

The Helpers said, ‘By Allahazwj! We are not envying you upon good which Allahazwj has Ushered towards you, nor is anyone more beloved to us, nor more pleasing in our presence that you are, but we fear from after this day, and are cautious that he would overcome upon this command, one who is neither from us nor from you.

فَلَوْ جَعَلْتُمُ الْيَوْمَ رَجُلًا مِنْكُمْ بَايَعْنَا وَ رَضِينَا عَلَى أَنَّهُ إِذَا هَلَكَ اخْتَرْنَا وَاحِداً مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ فَإِذَا هَلَكَ كَانَ آخَرُ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ أَبَداً مَا بَقِيَتْ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ كَانَ ذَلِكَ أَجْدَرَ أَنْ يُعْدَلَ فِي أُمَّةِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص

So, if today you could make a man from you we can pledge allegiance to, and we shall be pleased upon that when he dies, we shall choose one from the Helpers. So, when he dies, then another one from the Emigrants, (and so on) forever, for as long as this community remains. That would be better and more just regarding the community of Muhammadsaww’.

فَيُشْفِقَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ أَنْ يَزِيغَ فَيَقْبِضَ عَلَيْهِ الْقُرَشِيُّ وَ يُشْفِقَ الْقُرَشِيُّ أَنْ يَزِيغَ فَيَقْبِضَ عَلَيْهِ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ فَقَامَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَقَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص لَمَّا بُعِثَ عَظُمَ عَلَى الْعَرَبِ أَنْ يَتْرُكُوا دِيْنَ آبَائِهِمْ فَخَالَفُوهُ وَ شَاقُّوهُ وَ خَصَّ اللَّهُ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ الْأَوَّلِينَ بِتَصْدِيقِهِ وَ الْإِيمَانِ بِهِ وَ الْمُوَاسَاةِ لَهُ وَ الصَّبْرِ مَعَهُ عَلَى شِدَّةِ أَذَى قَوْمِهِ وَ لَمْ يَسْتَوْحِشُوا لِكَثْرَةِ عَدُوِّهِمْ

The Helper feared that the Qureyshi would capture upon it, and the Qureyshi feared that the Helper would capture upon it. So, Abu Bakr stood up and said, ‘When Rasool-Allahsaww sent the great Messaged to the Arabs that they should leave the religion of their forefathers, so they opposed himsaww and burdened himsaww, and Allahazwj Specialised the first Emigrants with ratifying himsaww, and the belief in himsaww, and the consoling to himasws, and the patience with himsaww upon severe harm of hissaww people, and hesaww was not lonely due to the large numbers of their enemies.

فَهُمْ أَوَّلُ مَنْ عَبَدَ اللَّهَ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ هُمْ أَوَّلُ مَنْ آمَنَ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ هُمْ أَوْلِيَاؤُهُ وَ عِتْرَتُهُ وَ أَحَقُّ النَّاسِ بِالْأَمْرِ بَعْدَهُ لَا يُنَازِعُهُمْ فِيهِ إِلَّا ظَالِمٌ وَ لَيْسَ أَحَدٌ بَعْدَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ يُعَدُّ فَضْلًا وَ قَدَماً فِي الْإِسْلَامِ مِثْلَكُمْ فَنَحْنُ الْأُمَرَاءُ وَ أَنْتُمُ الْوُزَرَاءُ لَا نَفْتَاتُ دُونَكُمْ بِمَشُورَةٍ وَ لَا نَقْضِي دُونَكُمُ الْأُمُورَ.

So they were the first ones to worship Allahazwj in the earth, and they are the first ones to believe in Rasool-Allahsaww, and there are hissaww friends, and hissaww family, and most rightful of the people with the command after himsaww. No one will dispute them regarding it except an unjust one, and there isn’t anyone after the Emigrants who can count merits, and precedence in Al-Islam like you can. Thus, we are the rulers, and you are the ministers. We will not issue verdicts without consulting you, nor will we judge the matters without you all’.

فَقَامَ الْحُبَابُ بْنُ الْمُنْذِرِ بْنِ الْجَمُوحِ فَقَالَ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْأَنْصَارِ امْلِكُوا عَلَيْكُمْ أَيْدِيَكُمْ إِنَّمَا النَّاسُ فِي فَيْئِكُمْ وَ ظِلِّكُمْ وَ لَنْ يَجْتَرِئَ مُجْتَرِئٌ عَلَى خِلَافِكُمْ وَ لَا يَصْدُرُ النَّاسُ إِلَّا عَنْ أَمْرِكُمْ أَنْتُمْ أَهْلُ الْإِيوَاءِ وَ النُّصْرَةِ وَ إِلَيْكُمْ كَانَتِ الْهِجْرَةُ وَ أَنْتُمْ أَصْحَابُ الدَّارِ وَ الْإِيمَانِ

Al-Hubab Bin Al-Munzar Bin Al-Jamouh stood up and said, ‘O community of the Helpers! Make your hands to rule upon you! But rather the people should be in your shade and your shadow, and no one would be brave enough to oppose you nor should the people implement matters except from your matters. You are the people of the sheltering, and the helping, and to you was the emigration, and you are the owners of the house, and the Eman.

وَ اللَّهِ مَا عُبِدَ اللَّهُ عَلَانِيَةً إِلَّا عِنْدَكُمْ وَ فِي بِلَادِكُمْ وَ لَا جُمِعَتِ الصَّلَاةُ إِلَّا فِي مَسَاجِدِكُمْ وَ لَا عُرِفَ الْإِيمَانُ إِلَّا مِنْ أَسْيَافِكُمْ فَامْلِكُوا عَلَيْكُمْ أَمْرَكُمْ فَإِنْ أَبَى هَؤُلَاءِ إِلَّا مَا سَمِعْتُمْ فَمِنَّا أَمِيرٌ وَ مِنْهُمْ أَمِيرٌ.

By Allahazwj! Allahazwj has not been worshipped openly except in your presence, and in your city, nor a congregational Salat except in your Masjids, nor is the Eman recognise except from your swords. So take control of your matters upon you. If they refuse except what you have heard, then from us should be a ruler, and from them a ruler’.

فَقَالَ عُمَرٌ هَيْهَاتَ لَا يَجْتَمِعُ سَيْفَانِ فِي غِمْدٍ إِنَّ الْعَرَبَ لَا تَرْضَى أَنْ تُؤَمِّرَكُمْ وَ نَبِيُّهَا مِنْ غَيْرِكُمْ وَ لَيْسَ تَمْتَنِعُ الْعَرَبُ أَنْ تُوَلِّيَ أَمْرَهَا مَنْ كَانَتِ النُّبُوَّةُ فِيهِمْ وَ أَوَّلُ الْأَمْرِ مِنْهُمْ لَنَا بِذَلِكَ الْحُجَّةُ الظَّاهِرَةُ عَلَى مَنْ خَالَفَنَا وَ السُّلْطَانُ الْمُبِينُ عَلَى مَنْ نَازَعَنَا

Umar said, ‘Far be it! Two swords cannot gather in one sheath. The Arabs will not agree to make you the rulers and their Prophetsaww is from others, and the Arabs will not refuse for their affairs to be ruled by ones the Prophet-hood was among them, and the first of the commands from them is for us due to that apparent argument against the ones who oppose us, and the clear authorisation against the ones who dispute us.

مَنْ ذَا يُخَاصِمُنَا فِي سُلْطَانِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ مِيرَاثِهِ وَ نَحْنُ أَوْلِيَاؤُهُ وَ عَشِيرَتُهُ إِلَّا مُدْلٍ بِبَاطِلٍ أَوْ مُتَجَانِفٌ لِإِثْمٍ أَوْ مُتَوَرِّطٌ فِي هَلَكَةٍ.

Who is that who would dispute us regarding the authority of Muhammadsaww, and hissaww inheritance, and we are hissaww friends, and hissaww clan, except one pointing with the falsehood, or congruent with the sin, or one embroiled in destruction’.

فَقَامَ الْحُبَابُ وَ قَالَ يَا مَعَاشِرَ الْأَنْصَارِ لَا تَسْمَعُوا مَقَالَةَ هَذَا وَ أَصْحَابِهِ فَيَذْهَبُوا بِنَصِيبِكُمْ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ فَإِنْ أَبَوْا عَلَيْكُمْ مَا أَعْطَيْتُمُوهُمْ فَأَجْلُوهُمْ عَنْ بِلَادِكُمْ وَ تَوَلَّوْا هَذَا الْأَمْرَ عَلَيْهِمْ فَأَنْتُمْ أَوْلَى النَّاسِ بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ إِنَّهُ دَانَ لِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ بِأَسْيَافِكُمْ

Al-Hubab got up and said, ‘O community of the Helpers! Do not listen to the words of this one and his companions, for they will go away with your share from the command. If they refuse upon you what you are giving them, then exile them from your city, and take charge of this command upon them, for you are foremost of the people with this command. Surely this command has come by your swords.

مَنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ يَدِينُ لَهُ أَنَا جُذَيْلُهَا الْمُحَكَّكُ وَ عُذَيْقُهَا الْمُرَجَّبُ إِنْ شِئْتُمْ لَنُعِيدَنَّهَا جَذَعَةً وَ اللَّهِ لَا يَرُدُّ أَحَدٌ عَلَيَّ مَا أَقُولُ إِلَّا حَطَمْتُ أَنْفَهُ بِالسَّيْفِ.

One who does not happens to profess to it, I will encourage its criterion, and make it taste the hope. If you like, we can return it as ‘Jaz’a’ (after four years). By Allahazwj! No one will return upon me what I am saying except I will smash his nose with the sword!’

قَالَ فَلَمَّا رَأَى بَشِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ الْخَزْرَجِيُّ مَا اجْتَمَعَتْ عَلَيْهِ الْأَنْصَارُ مِنْ أَمْرِ سَعْدِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ وَ كَانَ حَاسِداً لَهُ وَ كَانَ مِنْ سَادَةِ الْخَزْرَجِ قَامَ فَقَالَ أَيُّهَا الْأَنْصَارُ إِنَّا وَ إِنْ كُنَّا ذَوِي سَابِقَةٍ فَإِنَّا لَمْ نُرِدْ بِجِهَادِنَا وَ إِسْلَامِنَا إِلَّا رِضَى رَبِّنَا وَ طَاعَةَ نَبِيِّنَا

He said, ‘When Bashir Bin Sa’ad Al-Khazraji saw what the Helpers had united upon, from the matter of Sa’ad Bin ubada, and he was jealous to him, and he was from the chiefs of Al-Khazraj, he stood up and said, ‘O you Helpers! We, and even though we are with precedence, we do not want our fight and our Islam to be except for Pleasure of our Lordazwj and obedience of our Prophetsaww.

وَ لَا يَنْبَغِي لَنَا أَنْ نَسْتَظْهِرَ بِذَلِكَ عَلَى النَّاسِ وَ لَا نَبْتَغِي بِهِ عِوَضاً مِنَ الدُّنْيَا إِنَّ مُحَمَّداً رَجُلٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَ قَوْمُهُ أَحَقُّ بِمِيرَاثِ أَمْرِهِ وَ ايْمُ اللَّهِ لَا يَرَانِي اللَّهُ أُنَازِعُهُمْ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ فَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَ لَا تُنَازِعُوهُمْ وَ لَا تُخَالِفُوهُمْ.

And it is not befitting for us what we prevail with that upon the people and we do not seek any compensation with it from the world. Muhammadsaww was a man from Quraysh, and hissaww people are more rightful with inheriting hissaww command. And I swear by Allahazwj! May Allahazwj no Show me disputing them of this command, therefore fear Allahazwj and do not dispute them nor oppose them’.

فَقَامَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ قَالَ هَذَا عُمَرُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بَايِعُوا أَيَّهُمَا شِئْتُمْ فَقَالا وَ اللَّهِ لَا نَتَوَلَّى هَذَا الْأَمْرَ عَلَيْكَ وَ أَنْتَ أَفْضَلُ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ ثَانِي اثْنَيْنِ وَ خَلِيفَةُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص عَلَى الصَّلَاةِ وَ الصَّلَاةُ أَفْضَلُ الدِّينِ ابْسُطْ يَدَكَ نُبَايِعْكَ‏

Abu Bakr stood up and said, ‘This is Umar and Abu Ubeyda! Pledge allegiance to whichever of the two you desire to’. They both said, ‘By Allahazwj! We will not take charge of this command upon you, and you are the most superior of the Emigrants, and second of the two (in the cave), and a replacement of Rasool-Allahsaww upon the Salat, and the Salat is the most superior of the Religion. Extend your hand, we shall pledge allegiance to you!’

فَلَمَّا بَسَطَ يَدَهُ وَ ذَهَبَا يُبَايِعَانِهِ سَبَقَهُمَا إِلَيْهِ بَشِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ فَبَايَعَهُ.

When he extended his hand and they went to pledge their allegiances, Bashir Bin Sa’ad beat them to it and pledged.

فَنَادَاهُ الْحُبَابُ بْنُ الْمُنْذِرِ يَا بَشِيرُ عَقَّتْكَ عِقَاقٌ وَ اللَّهِ مَا اضْطَرَّكَ إِلَى هَذَا إِلَّا الْحَسَدُ لِابْنِ عَمِّكَ

Al-Hubab Bin Al-Munzir called out to him, ‘O Bashir! Detach your bitterness. By Allahazwj! You are not desperate to this except for the envy for the son of your uncle’.

فَلَمَّا رَأَتِ الْأَوْسُ أَنَّ رَئِيساً مِنْ رُؤَسَاءِ الْخَزْرَجِ قَدْ بَايَعَ قَامَ أُسَيْدُ بْنُ حُضَيْرٍ وَ هُوَ رَئِيسُ الْأَوْسِ فَبَايَعَ حَسَداً لِسَعْدٍ أَيْضاً وَ مُنَافَسَةً لَهُ أَنْ يَلِيَ الْأَمْرَ فَبَايَعَتِ الْأَوْسُ كُلُّهَا لَمَّا بَايَعَ أُسَيْدٌ.

When Al-Aws saw that a chief from the chiefs of Al-Khazrah had pledged allegiance, Ased Bin Huzeyr stood up, and he was a chief of Al -Aws, and he pledged out of envy for Sa’ad as well, and rivalry to him to be in charge of the command. So, Al-Aws, all of them pledged allegiance when Aseyd had pledged.

وَ حُمِلَ سَعْدُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ وَ هُوَ مَرِيضٌ فَأُدْخِلَ إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ فَامْتَنَعَ مِنَ الْبَيْعَةِ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ وَ فِيمَا بَعْدَهُ وَ أَرَادَ عُمَرُ أَنْ يُكْرِهَهُ عَلَيْهَا فَأُشِيرَ عَلَيْهِ أَنْ لَا يَفْعَلَ وَ أَنَّهُ لَا يُبَايِعُ حَتَّى يُقْتَلَ وَ أَنَّهُ لَا يُقْتَلُ حَتَّى يُقْتَلَ أَهْلُهُ وَ لَا يُقْتَلُ أَهْلُهُ حَتَّى يُقْتَلَ الْخَزْرَجُ كُلُّهَا وَ إِنْ حُورِبَتِ الْخَزْرَجُ كَانَتِ الْأَوْسُ مَعَهَا وَ فَسَدَ الْأَمْرُ

And Sa’ad Bin Ubada was carried away, and he was ill, and entered into his house, and he refused from the allegiance during that day, and during what was after it, and Umar wanted to force him upon it, and he gestured to him not to do so, and he will not pledge until he is killed, and he will not be killed until his family is killed, and his family would not be killed until Al-Khazraj would be killed, all of them, and if Al-Khazraj go to war, Al-Aws would be with them, and the matter would be spoilt.

فَتَرَكُوهُ فَكَانَ لَا يُصَلِّي بِصَلَاتِهِمْ وَ لَا يُجَمِّعُ بِجَمَاعَتِهِمْ وَ لَا يَقْضِي بِقَضَائِهِمْ وَ لَوْ وَجَدَ أَعْوَاناً لَضَارَبَهُمْ وَ لَمْ يَزَلْ كَذَلِكَ حَتَّى مَاتَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ

So they left him. He neither used to pray with their Salat, nor gather with their group, nor fulfil any needs with the, and if he had found supporters he would have struck them. And he did not cease to be like that until Abu Bakr died.

ثُمَّ لَقِيَ عُمَرَ فِي خِلَافَتِهِ وَ هُوَ عَلَى فَرَسٍ وَ عُمَرُ عَلَى بَعِيرٍ فَقَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ هَيْهَاتَ يَا سَعْدُ فَقَالَ سَعْدٌ هَيْهَاتَ يَا عُمَرُ فَقَالَ أَنْتَ صَاحِبُ مَنْ أَنْتَ صَاحِبُهُ قَالَ نَعَمْ أَنَا ذَاكَ

Then he met Umar during his caliphate, and he was upon a horse and Umar was upon a camel. Umar said to him, ‘Far be it, O Sa’ad!’ Sa’ad said, ‘Far be it, O Umar!’ He said, ‘You are a companions of the one you are a companion of?’ He said, ‘Yes, I am like that’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ لِعُمَرَ وَ اللَّهِ مَا جَاوَرَنِي أَحَدٌ هُوَ أَبْغَضُ إِلَيَّ جِوَاراً مِنْكَ قَالَ عُمَرُ فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ كَرِهَ جِوَارَ رَجُلٍ انْتَقَلَ عَنْهُ فَقَالَ سَعْدٌ إِنِّي لَأَرْجُو أَنْ أُخَلِّيَهَا لَكَ عَاجِلًا إِلَى جِوَارِ مَنْ هُوَ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ جِوَاراً مِنْكَ وَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِكَ

Then he said to Umar, ‘By Allahazwj! No one has been a neighbour to me who is more hateful to me than you as a neighbour’. Umar said, ‘Surely the one who dislikes a neighbour, transfers away from him’. Sa’ad said, ‘I wish I can vacate it for you immediately to the vicinity of one who is more beloved to me as a neighbour than you are, and from your companions’.

فَلَمْ يَلْبَثْ سَعْدٌ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا حَتَّى خَرَجَ إِلَى الشَّامِ فَمَاتَ فِيهَا وَ لَمْ يُبَايِعْ لِأَحَدٍ لَا لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ لَا لِعُمَرَ وَ لَا لِغَيْرِهِمَا.

Sa’ad did not live after that except a little until he went out to Syria and died therein. And he did not pledge allegiance to anyone, neither to Abu Bakr, nor to Umar, nor to anyone else.

قَالَ وَ كَثُرَ النَّاسُ عَلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ فَبَايَعَهُ مُعْظَمُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ وَ اجْتَمَعَتْ بَنُو هَاشِمٍ إِلَى بَيْتِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع وَ مَعَهُمُ الزُّبَيْرُ وَ كَانَ يَعُدُّ نَفْسَهُ رَجُلًا مِنْ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ كَانَ عَلِيٌّ يَقُولُ مَا زَالَ الزُّبَيْرُ مِنَّا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ حَتَّى نَشَأَ بَنُوهُ فَصَرَفُوهُ عَنَّا

He (the narrator) said, ‘And the people became a lot to Abu Bakr and most of the Muslims pledged allegiance to him during that day, and the Clan of Hashimasws gathered to the house of Aliasws Bin Abu Talibasws, and with them was Al-Zubeyr, and he used to count himself as a man from the Clan of Hashimasws. Aliasws was saying: ‘Al-Zubeyr did not cease to be from us, Peopleasws of the Household until his children grew up, and they left from usasws’.

وَ اجْتَمَعَتْ بَنُو أُمَيَّةَ إِلَى عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ وَ اجْتَمَعَتْ بَنُو زُهْرَةَ إِلَى‏ سَعْدٍ وَ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ فَأَقْبَلَ عُمَرُ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ فَقَالَ مَا لِي أَرَاكُمْ حَلَقاً قُومُوا فَبَايِعُوا أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَقَدْ بَايَعَ لَهُ النَّاسُ وَ بَايَعَهُ الْأَنْصَارُ فَقَامَ عُثْمَانُ وَ مَنْ مَعَهُ وَ قَامَ سَعْدٌ وَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ وَ مَنْ مَعَهُمَا فَبَايَعُوا أَبَا بَكْرٍ

And the clan of Umayya gathered to Usman Bin Affan, and the clan of Zuhra gathered to Sa’ad and Abdul Rahman. Umar and Abu Ubeyda came, and he said, ‘What is the matter I see you in a circle? Arise and pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr, so the people have pledged allegiance to him, and the helpers have (also) pledged allegiance to him’. Usman and the ones with him stood up, and Sa’ad and Abdul Rahman and the ones with them stood up and pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr.

وَ ذَهَبَ عُمَرُ وَ مَعَهُ عِصَابَةٌ إِلَى بَيْتِ فَاطِمَةَ ع مَعَهُمْ أُسَيْدُ بْنُ حُضَيْرٍ وَ سَلَمَةُ بْنُ أَسْلَمَ فَقَالَ لَهُمُ انْطَلِقُوا فَبَايِعُوا فَأَبَوْا عَلَيْهِ وَ خَرَجَ الزُّبَيْرُ بِسَيْفِهِ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ عَلَيْكُمُ الْكَلْبَ فَوَثَبَ عَلَيْهِ سَلَمَةُ بْنُ أَسْلَمَ فَأَخَذَ السَّيْفَ مِنْ يَدِهِ فَضَرَبَ بِهِ الْجِدَارَ

And Umar went and with him was a group, to the house of (Syeda) Fatimaasws, with them was Aseyd Bin Huzeyr and Salama Bin Aslam. He said to them, ‘Go and pledge allegiance’, but they refused to him, and Al-Zubeyr came out with his sword. Umar said, ‘Upon you is (to deal with) the dog’. Salama Bin Aslam leapt upon him and seized the sword from his hand and hit the wall with it.

ثُمَّ انْطَلَقُوا بِهِ وَ بِعَلِيٍّ وَ مَعَهُمَا بَنُو هَاشِمٍ وَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَقُولُ أَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ وَ أَخُو رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص حَتَّى انْتَهَوْا بِهِ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ فَقِيلَ لَهُ بَايِعْ فَقَالَ أَنَا أَحَقُّ بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ لَا أُبَايِعُكُمْ وَ أَنْتُمْ أَوْلَى بِالْبَيْعَةِ لِي

Then they went with him and with Aliasws, and with them were the Clan of Hashimasws, and Aliasws was saying: ‘Iasws am a servant of Allahazwj and brotherasws of Rasool-Allahsaww’, until they ended up with himasws to Abu Bakr. He said to himasws, ‘Pledge allegiance’. Heasws said: ‘Iasws am more rightful with this command than you are. I will not pledge allegiance to you and you are foremost with pledging allegiance to measws.

أَخَذْتُمْ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ وَ احْتَجَجْتُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ بِالْقَرَابَةِ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَأَعْطَوْكُمُ الْمَقَادَةَ وَ سَلَّمُوا إِلَيْكُمُ الْإِمَارَةَ وَ أَنَا أَحْتَجُّ عَلَيْكُمْ بِمِثْلِ مَا احْتَجَجْتُمْ بِهِ عَلَى الْأَنْصَارِ فَأَنْصِفُونَا إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَخَافُونَ اللَّهَ مِنْ أَنْفُسِكُمْ وَ اعْرِفُوا لَنَا مِنَ الْأَمْرِ مِثْلَ مَا عَرَفَتِ الْأَنْصَارُ لَكُمْ وَ إِلَّا فَبُوءُوا بِالظُّلْمِ وَ أَنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ.

You seized this command from the helpers and argued against them by the kinship from Rasool-Allahsaww. So, they gave you the leaders and submitted the emirate (rulership) to you, and Iasws am arguing against you with the like of what you argued against them with upon the Helpers. Be fair to us if you fear Allahazwj from yourselves, and recognise for us from the command like what the Helpers recognised for you, or else so you got it with the injustice and you are knowing’.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ إِنَّكَ لَسْتَ مَتْرُوكاً حَتَّى تُبَايِعَ فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع احْلِبْ يَا عُمَرُ حَلْباً لَكَ شَطْرُهُ اشْدُدْ لَهُ الْيَوْمَ أَمْرَهُ لِيَرُدَّ عَلَيْكَ غَداً لَا وَ اللَّهِ لَا أَقْبَلُ قَوْلَكَ وَ لَا أُبَايِعُهُ

Umar said, ‘Youasws will not be left alone until youasws pledge allegiance’. Aliasws said to him: ‘O Umar! Milk the milk for you, part of it has been strengthened for it today, tomorrow it would be returned to you as bitter. No, by Allahazwj! Iasws will not accept your words, nor will Iasws pledge allegiance to you’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَإِنْ لَمْ تُبَايِعْنِي لَمْ أُكْرِهْكَ

Abu Bakr said to himasws, ‘If you do not pledge allegiance to me, I will not force youasws’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ إِنَّكَ حَدَثُ السِّنِّ وَ هَؤُلَاءِ مَشِيخَةُ قُرَيْشٍ قَوْمِكَ لَيْسَ لَكَ مِثْلُ تَجْرِبَتِهِمْ وَ مَعْرِفَتِهِمْ بِالْأُمُورِ وَ لَا أَرَى أَبَا بَكْرٍ إِلَّا أَقْوَى عَلَى هَذَا الْأَمْرِ مِنْكَ وَ أَشَدَّ احْتِمَالًا لَهُ وَ اضْطِلَاعاً بِهِ فَسَلِّمْ لَهُ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ وَ ارْضَ بِهِ فَإِنَّكَ إِنْ تَعِشْ وَ يَطُلْ عُمُرُكَ فَأَنْتَ لِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ خَلِيقٌ وَ بِهِ حَقِيقٌ فِي فَضْلِكَ وَ قَرَابَتِكَ وَ سَابِقَتِكَ وَ جِهَادِكَ.

Abu Ubeyda said to himasws, ‘O Abu Al-Hassanasws!’ Youasws are of young age, and they are elders of Quraysh, yourasws people. There isn’t for youasws like their experience and their recognition with the affairs, and I do not see Abu Bakr except as stronger upon this command than youasws, and formidable of endurance for it, and stronger with it, so submit this command to him, and be pleased with it, for youasws, for if youasws live and yourasws life is prolonged, then youasws would be appropriate for it, and capable with it considering yourasws merit, and yourasws kinship, and yourasws precedence and yourasws Jihaad’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَا مَعْشَرَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ اللَّهَ اللَّهَ لَا تُخْرِجُوا سُلْطَانَ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ‏ دَارِهِ وَ بَيْتِهِ إِلَى بُيُوتِكُمْ وَ دُورِكُمْ وَ لَا تَدْفَعُوا أَهْلَهُ عَنْ مَقَامِهِ فِي النَّاسِ وَ حَقِّهِ

Aliasws said: ‘O community of the Emigrants! Allahazwj, Allahazwj! Do not take the authority of Muhammadsaww out from hissaww house and hissaww Household to your households and your houses, and do not push hissaww away from hissaww position among the people and hissaww right.

فَوَ اللَّهِ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ لَنَحْنُ أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ أَحَقُّ بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ أَ مَا كَانَ مِنَّا الْقَارِي لِكِتَابِ اللَّهِ الْفَقِيهُ فِي دِينِ اللَّهِ الْعَالِمُ بِالسُّنَّةِ الْمُضْطَلِعُ بِأَمْرِ الرَّعِيَّةِ وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّهُ لَفِينَا فَلَا تَتَّبِعُوا الْهَوَى فَتَزْدَادُوا مِنَ الْحَقِّ بُعْداً.

By Allahazwj, O community of Emigrants! Weasws Peopleasws of the Household are more rightful with this command than you are. Was there not from usasws the reader of the Book of Allahazwj, the understanding one in the religion of Allahazwj, and knower with the Sunnah, the expert with the affairs of the citizens. By Allahazwj! It is regarding usasws, so do not pursue the whims, for you will only increase in remoteness from the truth’.

فَقَالَ بَشِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ لَوْ كَانَ هَذَا الْكَلَامُ سَمِعَتْهُ مِنْكَ الْأَنْصَارُ يَا عَلِيُّ قَبْلَ بَيْعَتِهِمْ لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ مَا اخْتَلَفَ عَلَيْكَ اثْنَانِ وَ لَكِنَّهُمْ قَدْ بَايَعُوا

Bashir Bin Sa’ad said, ‘If only the Helpers had heard the speech from youasws, O Aliasws, before they pledged their allegiances to Abu Bakr, no two would have differed upon youasws, but they have already pledged their allegiance’.

وَ انْصَرَفَ عَلِيٌّ ع إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ وَ لَمْ يُبَايِعْ وَ لَزِمَ بَيْتَهُ حَتَّى مَاتَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع فَبَايَعَ..

And Aliasws left to go to hisasws house and did not pledge allegiance and stayed in hisasws house until (Syeda) Fatimaasws passed away, and heasws pledged allegiance’’.¹⁴⁹ (Non-Shia source)

61- ثُمَّ رَوَى مِنْ كِتَابِ السَّقِيفَةِ لِأَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ الْجَوْهَرِيِّ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ‏ إِسْحَاقَ عَنِ ابْنِ عُفَيْرٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ ع‏ أَنَّ عَلِيّاً ع حَمَلَ فَاطِمَةَ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهَا عَلَى حِمَارٍ وَ سَارَ بِهَا لَيْلًا إِلَى بُيُوتِ الْأَنْصَارِ يَسْأَلُهُمُ النُّصْرَةَ وَ تَسْأَلُهُمْ فَاطِمَةُ ع الِانْتِصَارَ لَهُ

Then it is reported from the book ‘Al Saqifa’ of Ahmad Bin Abdul Aziz Al Jowhary, from Ahmad Bin Is’haq, from Ibn Ufeyr, from Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman,

‘From Abu Ja’farasws Muhammad Bin Aliasws: ‘Aliasws carried (Syeda) Fatimaasws upon a donkey and travelled with her at night to the houses of the Helpers asking them for the help, and (Syeda) Fatimaasws as for the victory for himasws.

فَكَانُوا يَقُولُونَ يَا بِنْتَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ قَدْ مَضَتْ بَيْعَتُنَا لِهَذَا الرَّجُلِ لَوْ كَانَ ابْنُ عَمِّكِ سَبَقَ إِلَيْنَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ مَا عَدَلْنَاهُ بِهِ

They were saying, ‘O daughterasws of Rasool-Allahsaww! Our allegiances have already gone to his man (Abu Bakr). If the sonasws of yourasws uncleas had preceded Abu Bakr to us, we would not have abandoned himasws with it’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع أَ كُنْتُ أَتْرُكُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَيْتاً فِي بَيْتِهِ لَا أُجَهِّزُهُ وَ أَخْرُجُ إِلَى النَّاسِ أُنَازِعُهُمْ فِي سُلْطَانِهِ

Aliasws said: ‘Should Iasws have neglected Rasool-Allahsaww deceased in hissaww house, not preparing hissaww funeral, and gone out to the people disputing them regarding hissaww authority?’

وَ قَالَتْ فَاطِمَةُ مَا صَنَعَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ إِلَّا مَا كَانَ يَنْبَغِي لَهُ وَ صَنَعُوا هُمْ مَا اللَّهُ حَسِيبُهُمْ عَلَيْهِ‏.

And (Syeda) Fatimaasws said: ‘Abu Al-Hassanasws only did what was appropriate for himasws, and they did what Allahazwj would be Reckoning them upon it’’.¹⁵⁰

62- وَ رَوَى أَيْضاً مِنَ الْكِتَابِ الْمَذْكُورِ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ شَبَّةَ عَنْ أَبِي قَبِيصَةَ قَالَ: لَمَّا تُوُفِّيَ النَّبِيُّ ص وَ جَرَى فِي السَّقِيفَةِ مَا جَرَى تَمَثَّلَ عَلِيٌ‏

وَ أَصْبَحَ أَقْوَامٌ يَقُولُونَ مَا اشْتَهَوْا.

وَ يَطْغَوْنَ لَمَّا غَالَ زَيْداً غَوَائِلُهُ‏.

And it is reported as well from the mentioned book, from Umar Bin Shabba, from Abu Quseyba who said, ‘When the Prophetsaww expired and it flowed in Al-Saqeefa what flowed, Aliasws (cited) a resemblance (in prose): ‘And people became saying whatever they desired, and they were overwhelmed to what was expensive increase in its calamities’’.¹⁵¹

63- وَ قَالَ وَ رَوَى الزُّبَيْرُ بْنُ بَكَّارٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ‏ أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ لَمَّا بُويِعَ افْتَخَرَتْ تَيْمُ بْنُ مُرَّةَ قَالَ وَ كَانَ عَامَّةُ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ جُلُّ الْأَنْصَارِ لَا يَشُكُّونَ أَنَّ عَلِيّاً ع هُوَ صَاحِبُ الْأَمْرِ بَعْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

And he said, ‘And it is reported by Al Zubeyr Bin Bakkar, from Muhammad Bin Is’haq,

‘When Abu Bakr was pledged allegiance to, the (clan of) Taym Bin Murra prided, and the generality of the Emigrants and most of the Helpers had not doubts that Aliasws, heasws was the owner of the command after Rasool-Allahsaww.

فَقَالَ الْفَضْلُ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍ يَا مَعْشَرَ قُرَيْشٍ وَ خُصُوصاً يَا بَنِي تَيْمٍ إِنَّكُمْ إِنَّمَا أَخَذْتُمُ الْخِلَافَةَ بِالنُّبُوَّةِ وَ نَحْنُ أَهْلُهَا دُونَكُمْ وَ لَوْ طَلَبْنَا هَذَا الْأَمْرَ الَّذِي نَحْنُ أَهْلُهُ لَكَانَتْ كَرَاهَةُ النَّاسِ لَنَا أَعْظَمَ مِنْ كَرَاهَتِهِمْ لِغَيْرِنَا حَسَداً مِنْهُمْ لَنَا وَ حِقْداً عَلَيْنَا وَ إِنَّا لَنَعْلَمُ أَنَّ عِنْدَ صَاحِبِنَا عَهْداً هُوَ يَنْتَهِي إِلَيْهِ.

Al-Fazl Bin Al-Abbas said, ‘O community of Quraysh and disputers! O clan of Taym! But rather you seized the caliphate by the Prophet-hood and (although) we are its rightful ones besides you, and had we sought this command which we are rightful of, the abhorrence of the people to us would have been greater than their abhorrence to others due to envy from them towards us and spitefulness upon us, and we know that with our Masterasws, there is a pact heasws ending up to himasws’’.¹⁵² (Non-Shia source)

64- و قال بعض ولد أبي لهب بن عبد المطلب شعرا

مَا كُنْتُ أَحْسَبُ أَنَّ الْأَمْرَ مُنصْرِفٌ.

عَنْ هَاشِمٍ ثُمَّ مِنْهَا عَنْ أَبِي حَسَنٍ.

أَ لَيْسَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ صَلَّى لِقِبْلَتِكُمْ.

وَ أَعْلَمَ النَّاسِ بِالْآثَارِ وَ السُّنَنِ.

وَ أَقْرَبَ النَّاسِ عَهْداً بِالنَّبِيِّ وَ مَنْ.

جِبْرِيلُ عَوْنٌ لَهُ فِي الْغُسْلِ وَ الْكَفَنِ.

مَنْ فِيهِ مَا فِيهِمْ لَا يَمْتَرُونَ بِهِ.

وَ لَيْسَ فِي الْقَوْمِ مَا فِيهِ مِنَ الْحَسَنِ.

مَا ذَا الَّذِي رَدَّهُمْ عَنْهُ فَنَعْلَمَهُ.

هَا إِنَّ ذَا غَبَنٌ مِنْ أَعْظَمِ الْغَبَنِ.

And one of the sons of Abu Lahabla son of Abdul Muttalibasws said a poem, ‘I did not used to reckon that the command would leave from Hashimasws, then from it, away from Abu Hassanasws. Isn’t heasws the first one to pray Salat to your Qiblah? And most knowledgeable of the people with the Ahadeeth and the Sunnahs? And the closest of the people of a pact with the Prophetsaww? And one whom Jibraeelas assisted himasws during the washing and the enshrouding? One in whom is what they cannot be disputing with, and there isn’t anyone in the people having goodness what is in himasws. What is that which they rejected from himasws, we know it. Behold! That is a fraud from the greatest of frauds’’.¹⁵³ (Non-Shia source)

65- قَالَ الزُّبَيْرُ فَبَعَثَ إِلَيْهِ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ نَهَاهُ وَ أَمَرَهُ أَنْ لَا يَعُودَ وَ قَالَ سَلَامَةُ الدِّينِ أَحَبُّ إِلَيْنَا مِنْ غَيْرِهِ‏.

Al-Zubeyr said, ‘Aliasws sent a message to him and forbade him and instructed him that he should not repeat, and said: ‘Safety of the Religion is more beloved to us that something else’’.¹⁵⁴ (Non-Shia source)

66- ثُمَّ قَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي الْحَدِيدِ وَ رَوَى الْبُخَارِيُّ وَ مُسْلِمٌ فِي الصَّحِيحَيْنِ بِإِسْنَادِهِمَا إِلَى عَائِشَةَ أَنَّ فَاطِمَةَ وَ الْعَبَّاسَ أَتَيَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ يَلْتَمِسَانِ مِيرَاثَهُمَا مِنَ النَّبِيِّ ص وَ هُمَا يَطْلُبَانِ أَرْضَهُ مِنْ فَدَكَ وَ سَهْمَهُ مِنْ خَيْبَرَ

Then Ibn Abi Al Hadeed said, and it is reported by Al Bukhari and Musilm in ‘Al Saheeh’, by their chain to Ayesha (well-known fabricatress),

(Syeda)‘Fatimaasws and Al-Abbas both came to Abu Bakr seeking their inheritances from the Prophetsaww, and they were seeking from hissaww land of Fadak, and hissaww share from Khyber.

فَقَالَ لَهُمَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ إِنَّا مَعَاشِرَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ لَا نُورَثُ مَا تَرَكْنَاهُ صَدَقَةٌ إِنَّمَا يَأْكُلُ آلُ مُحَمَّدٍ مِنْ هَذَا الْمَالِ وَ إِنِّي وَ اللَّهِ لَا أَدَعُ أَمْراً رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَصْنَعُهُ إِلَّا صَنَعْتُهُ

Abu bakr said to them, ‘I heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Wesaww, community of the Prophetsas do not leave inheritances. Whatever weas leave is charity’. But rather the Progenyasws of Muhammadsaww is consuming from this wealth, and surely, by Allahazwj, I don’t leave any matter I have seen Rasool-Allahsaww doing it, except I do it (as well)’.

فَهَجَرَتْهُ فَاطِمَةُ وَ لَمْ تُكَلِّمْهُ فِي ذَلِكَ حَتَّى مَاتَتْ فَدَفَنَهَا عَلِيٌّ ع لَيْلًا وَ لَمْ يُؤْذِنْ بِهَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَ كَانَ لِعَلِيٍّ وَجْهٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ حَيَاةَ فَاطِمَةَ فَلَمَّا تُوُفِّيَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع انْصَرَفَتْ وُجُوهُ النَّاسِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ع فَمَكَثَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع سِتَّةَ أَشْهُرٍ ثُمَّ تُوُفِّيَتْ

So (Syeda) Fatimaasws deserted him and did not speak to him regarding that until sheasws passed away. Aliasws buried herasws at night and did not permit Abu Bakr with it, and for Aliasws there was a face (honour) from the people during the lifetime of (Syeda) Fatimaasws. When (Syeda) Fatimaasws passed away, the faces of the people turned away from Aliasws. (Syeda) Fatimaasws lived for six months then sheasws passed away’.

فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ لِلزُّهْرِيِّ وَ هُوَ الرَّاوِي لِهَذَا الْخَبَرِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ فَلَمْ يُبَايِعْهُ إِلَى سِتَّةِ أَشْهُرٍ قَالَ وَ لَا أَحَدٌ مِنْ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ حَتَّى بَايَعَهُ عَلِيٌّ فَلَمَّا رَأَى ذَلِكَ ضَرَعَ إِلَى مُبَايَعَةِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ

A man said to Al-Zuhry, and he is the reported of this Hadeeth from Ayesha, ‘So, why did heasws not pledge allegiance to him for six months?’ He said, ‘No, and not even one from the Clan of Hashimasws, until Aliasws pledged allegiance. When they saw that, they went to pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr.

فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ أَنِ ائْتِنَا وَ لَا يَأْتِنَا مَعَكَ أَحَدٌ وَ كَرِهَ أَنْ يَأْتِيَهُ عُمَرُ لِمَا عَرَفَ مِنْ شِدَّتِهِ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ لَا تَأْتِهِمْ وَحْدَكَ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ اللَّهِ لَآتِيَنَّهُمْ وَحْدِي وَ مَا عَسَى أَنْ يَصْنَعُوا بِي

Heasws sent a message to Abu Bakr, ‘If you come to us, and no one should come with you’, and heasws dislike it that Umar should come to himasws due to what heasws recognised from his harshness. Umar said, ‘Do not go to them along’. Abu Bakr said, ‘By Allahazwj! I will go to them alone, and what can they do with me?’

فَانْطَلَقَ حَتَّى دَخَلَ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع وَ قَدْ جَمَعَ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ عِنْدَهُ فَقَامَ عَلِيٌّ فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَ أَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ بِمَا هُوَ أَهْلُهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَمَّا بَعْدُ فَإِنَّا لَمْ يَمْنَعْنَا أَنْ نُبَايِعَكَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ إِنْكَارٌ لِفَضْلِكَ وَ لَا نَفَاسَةٌ لِخَيْرٍ سَاقَهُ اللَّهُ إِلَيْكَ وَ لَكِنَّا كُنَّا نَرَى أَنَّ لَنَا فِي هَذَا الْأَمْرِ حَقّاً فَاسْتَبْدَدْتُمْ بِهِ عَلَيْنَا وَ ذَكَرَ قَرَابَتَهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ حَقَّهُ فَلَمْ يَزَلْ يَذْكُرُ ذَلِكَ حَتَّى بَكَى أَبُو بَكْرٍ.

He went until he entered to see Aliasws, and the Clan of Hashimasws had gathered in hisasws presence. Aliasws stood up, heasws praised Allahazwj and extolled upon Himazwj with what Heazwj is Rightful of, then said: ‘As for after, we were not prevent from pledging allegiance to you, O Abu Bakr, denial of your merits, nor competing for goodness Allahazwj has Ushered to you, but we saw that there is a right for us in this command, but you enslaved with it against us’ – and heasws mentioned kinship from Rasool-Allahsaww and hissaww rights. Heasws did not cease mentioning that until Abu Bakr cried.

فَلَمَّا صَمَتَ عَلِيٌّ ع تَشَهَّدَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَ أَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ بِمَا هُوَ أَهْلُهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَمَّا بَعْدَ فَقَرَابَةُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ أَنْ أَصِلَهَا مِنْ قَرَابَتِي وَ إِنِّي وَ اللَّهِ مَا آلُوكُمْ مِنْ هَذِهِ الْأَمْوَالِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَكُمْ إِلَّا الْخَيْرَ وَ لَكِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ لَا نُورَثُ مَا تَرَكْنَاهُ صَدَقَةٌ وَ إِنَّمَا يَأْكُلُ آلُ مُحَمَّدٍ ص فِي هَذَا الْمَالِ وَ إِنِّي وَ اللَّهِ لَا أَتْرُكُ أَمْراً صَنَعَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَّا صَنَعْتُهُ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ

When Aliasws was silent, Abu Bakr testified. He praised Allahazwj and extolled upon Himazwj with what Heazwj is Rightful of, then said, ‘As for after, the kinship of Rasool-Allahsaww is more beloved to me than its origin from my kinship, and surely by Allahazwj, I am not preventing you from the wealth which was between me and you except the goodness, but I heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Weasws do not leave inheritance. Whatever weas leave behind is charity, and rather the Progenyasws of Muhammadsaww in this wealth, by Allahazwj I do not neglect any matter Rasool-Allahsaww had some except I shall do it (as well) if Allahazwj so Desires’.

قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع مَوْعِدُكَ الْعَشِيَّةُ لِلْبَيْعَةِ فَلَمَّا صَلَّى أَبُو بَكْرٍ الظُّهْرَ أَقْبَلَ عَلَى النَّاسِ ثُمَّ عَذَّرَ عَلِيّاً بِبَعْضِ مَا اعْتَذَرَ بِهِ ثُمَّ قَامَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَعَظَّمَ مِنْ حَقِّ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ ذَكَرَ فَضْلَهُ وَ سَابِقَتَهُ ثُمَّ مَضَى إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ فَبَايَعَهُ فَأَقْبَلَ النَّاسُ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ فَقَالُوا أَصَبْتَ وَ أَحْسَنْتَ‏.

Aliasws said: ‘Your appointment for the allegiance is the evening’. When Abu Bakr had prayed Al Zohr Salat, turned towards the people, then excused Aliasws with part of what he excused himasws with. Then Aliasws stood up and magnified from the right of Abu Bakr, and mentioned his merits and his precedence, then went to Abu Bakr and pledged allegiance to him. The people turned towards Aliasws and they said, ‘You have been correct and done good’’.¹⁵⁵ (Non-Shia source)

67- أَقُولُ رَوَى أَبُو مُحَمَّدِ بْنُ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ قُتَيْبَةَ مِنْ أَعَاظِمِ عُلَمَاءِ الْمُخَالِفِينَ وَ مُؤَرِّخُهُم فِي تَارِيخِهِ الْمَشْهُورِ عَنْ أَبِي عُفَيْرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَوْنٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ قِصَّةَ السَّقِيفَةِ بِطُولِهَا نَحْواً مِمَّا رَوَاهُ ابْنُ أَبِي الْحَدِيدِ مِنْ كِتَابِ السَّقِيفَةِ إِلَّا أَنَّهُ قَالَ مَكَانَ بَشِيرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ قَيْسَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ فَسَاقَ الْكَلَامَ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ فَلَمَّا ذَهَبَا أَيْ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ وَ عُمَرُ يُبَايِعَانِهِ سَبَقَهُمَا إِلَيْهِ قَيْسُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ فَبَايَعَهُ

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘It is reported by Abu Muhammad Bin Muslim Bin Quteyba, from great scholars from the adversaries and historian in the famour history, from Abu Ufeyr, from Abu Awn, from Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman Al Ansari, story of Al Saqeefa, with its length, approximate to what is reported by Abu Al Hadeed, from the book ‘Al Saqeefa’, except that he said,

‘Position of Bashir Bin Sa’ad Qays Bin Sa’ad’ – and he continued the speech up to his words, ‘When they both, meaning Abu Ubeyda and Umar, went to pledge allegiance to him (Abu Bakr), they were preceded to it by Qays Bin Sa’ad, and he pledged allegiance to him.

فَنَادَى الْحُبَابُ بْنُ الْمُنْذِرِ يَا قَيْسَ بْنَ سَعْدٍ عَاقَكَ عَائِقٌ مَا اضْطَرَّكَ إِلَى مَا صَنَعْتَ حَسَدْتَ ابْنَ عَمِّكَ عَلَى الْإِمَارَةِ قَالَ لَا وَ لَكِنِّي كَرِهْتُ أَنْ أُنَازِعَ قَوْماً حَقّاً هُوَ لَهُمْ

Al-Hubab Bin Al Munzir called out, ‘O Qays Bin Sa’ad! Detach your bitterness! You are not desperate to what you have done (except) out of envy to son of your uncle upon the rulership’. He said, ‘No, but I disliked to dispute a people of a right which is for them’.

فَلَمَّا رَأَتِ الْأَوْسُ مَا صَنَعَ قَيْسٌ وَ هُوَ سَيِّدُ الْخَزْرَجِ وَ مَا دُعُوا إِلَيْهِ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَ مَا يَطْلُبُ الْخَزْرَجُ مِنْ تَأْمِيرِ سَعْدٍ قَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ وَ فِيهِمْ أُسَيْدُ بْنُ حُضَيْرٍ وَ اللَّهِ لَئِنْ وَلَّيْتُمُوهَا سَعْداً عَلَيْكُمْ مَرَّةً وَاحِدَةً لَا زَالَتْ لَهُمْ بِذَلِكَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْفَضِيلَةُ وَ لَا جَعَلُوا لَكُمْ فِيهَا نَصِيباً أَبَداً فَقُومُوا فَبَايِعُوا أَبَا بَكْرٍ

When (the tribe of) Al Aws saw what Qays had done, and he was a chief of (the tribe of) Al-Khazraj, and what Quraysh had been called to, and what Al-Khazraj had sought from the rulership of Sa’ad, they said to each other, and among them was Useyd Bin Huzeyr, ‘By Allahazwj! If they were to make Sa’ad in charge upon you, that would not cease to be for them as the merit upon you, nor will they ever make a share to be for you in it. Arise and pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr’.

فَقَامُوا إِلَيْهِ فَبَايَعُوهُ فَقَامَ الْحُبَابُ إِلَى سَيْفِهِ فَأَخَذَهُ فَبَادَرُوا إِلَيْهِ فَأَخَذُوا سَيْفَهُ وَ جَعَلَ يَضْرِبُ بِثَوْبِهِ وُجُوهَهُمْ حَتَّى فَرَغُوا مِنَ الْبَيْعَةِ فَقَالَ فَعَلْتُمُوهَا يَا مَعْشَرَ الْأَنْصَارِ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ لَكَأَنِّي بِأَبْنَائِكُمْ عَلَى أَبْوَابِ أَبْنَائِهِمْ قَدْ وُقِفُوا يَسْأَلُونَهُمْ بِأَكُفِّهِمْ لَا يَسْقُونَهُمُ الْمَاءَ.

They stood up to him and pledged allegiance to him. Al-Hubab stood up to his sword and grabbed it. They rushed towards him and seized his sword and he went on to hit their faces with his cloth until they were free from the allegiance. He said, ‘You are doing it, O community of the Helpers! But, by Allahazwj, it is as if I am with your sons at the doors of their sons, having paused to ask them with their palms, but they are not quenching them the water’.

وَ سَاقَ الْحَدِيثَ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ فَقَالَ سَعْدُ بْنُ عُبَادَةَ أَمَا لَوْ أَنَّ لِي مَا أَقْوَى بِهِ عَلَى النُّهُوضِ لَسَمِعْتُمْ فِي أَقْطَارِهَا وَ سِكَكِهَا زَئِيراً يُخْرِجُكَ وَ أَصْحَابَكَ وَ لَأَلْحَقْتُكَ بِقَوْمٍ كُنْتَ فِيهِمْ تَابِعاً غَيْرَ مَتْبُوعٍ خَامِلًا غَيْرَ عَزِيزٍ.

And he continued the Hadeeth up to his words, ‘Sa’ad Bin Ubada said, ‘But, if only there was for me what I could be strengthened with upon the getting up, I would have made hear its horizons and its markets a road, expelling you and your companions, you would join up with the people you used to be among them, following not followed, sluggish without might’.

ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ أَنَّ سَعْداً لَمْ يُبَايِعْ وَ كَانَ لَا يُصَلِّي بِصَلَاتِهِمْ وَ لَا يُجَمِّعُ بِجُمَعِهِمْ وَ لَا يُفِيضُ بِإِفَاضَتِهِمْ وَ لَوْ يَجِدُ عَلَيْهِمْ أَعْوَاناً لَصَالَ بِهِمْ وَ لَوْ تَابَعَهُ أَحَدٌ عَلَى قِتَالِهِمْ لَقَاتَلَهُمْ فَلَمْ يَزَلْ كَذَلِكَ حَتَّى هَلَكَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ وُلِّيَ عُمَرُ فَخَرَجَ إِلَى الشَّامِ وَ مَاتَ بِهَا وَ لَمْ يُبَايِعْ لِأَحَدٍ ره.

Then he mentioned that Sa’ad did not pledge allegiance, and he was neither praying with their Salat, nor gather with their gatherings, nor departing (for Hajj) with their departure, and had he found supporters against them, he would have attacked with them, and if anyone had followed him upon fighting against them, he would have fought them. He did not cease to be like that until Abu Bakr died, and Umar became ruler. He went out to Syria and died at it, and did not pledge allegiance to anyone’.

ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ امْتِنَاعَ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ مِنَ الْبَيْعَةِ وَ اجْتِمَاعَهُمْ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع وَ أَنَّهُ ذَهَبَ عُمَرُ مَعَ جَمَاعَةٍ إِلَيْهِمْ وَ خَرَجَ عَلَيْهِمُ الزُّبَيْرُ بِسَيْفِهِ وَ سَاقَ مَا مَرَّ فِي رِوَايَةِ الْجَوْهَرِيِّ إِلَى أَنْ قَالَ.

Then he mentioned the refusal of the Clan of Hashimasws from the allegiance, and their gathering to Amir Al-Momineenasws, and that Umar went with a group to them, and al Zubeyr came out to them with his sword’ – and continued what has passed in the report of Al-Jowhary, up to he said –

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلِيّاً أُتِيَ بِهِ أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ أَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ وَ أَخُو رَسُولِهِ فَقِيلَ لَهُ بَايِعْ أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَقَالَ أَنَا أَحَقُّ بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ لَا أُبَايِعُكُمْ وَ أَنْتُمْ أَوْلَى بِالْبَيْعَةِ لِي أَخَذْتُمْ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ وَ احْتَجَجْتُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ بِالْقَرَابَةِ مِنَ النَّبِيِّ ص وَ تَأْخُذُونَهُ مِنَّا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتَ غَصْباً.

Then Aliasws was brought to Abu Bakr, and heasws was saying: ‘Iasws am a servant of Allahazwj and brotherasws of Hisazwj Rasoolsaww’. It was said to himasws, ‘Pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr!’ Heasws said: ‘Iasws am more rightful with this command than you are. Iasws will not pledge allegiance to you, and you are foremost with pledging allegiance to measws. You seized this command from the Helpers and argued against them by the kinship from the Prophetsaww, and you seized it from usasws, Peopleasws of the Household, usurping’.

ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ مَا احْتَجَّ ع بِهِ نَحْواً مِمَّا مَرَّ مَعَ زِيَادَاتٍ تَرَكْنَاهَا إِلَى أَنْ قَالَ وَ خَرَجَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَحْمِلُ فَاطِمَةَ بِنْتَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص عَلَى دَابَّةٍ لَيْلًا يَدُورُ فِي مَجَالِسِ الْأَنْصَارِ تَسْأَلُهُمُ النُّصْرَةَ

Then he mentioned what heasws argued with approximate to what has passed, with an increase we have left it out, up to he said, ‘And Aliasws went out carrying (Syeda) Fatimaasws daughterasws of Rasool-Allahsaww upon a riding animal (donkey) at night circling among the gathering of the Helpers, asking them of the help.

فَكَانُوا يَقُولُونَ يَا بِنْتَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص قَدْ مَضَتْ بَيْعَتُنَا لِهَذَا الرَّجُلِ وَ لَوْ أَنَّ زَوْجَكِ وَ ابْنَ عَمِّكِ سَبَقَ إِلَيْنَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ مَا عَدَلْنَا بِهِ

They were saying, ‘O daughterasws of Rasool-Allahsaww! Our allegiance are gone to this man (Abu Bakr), and if yourasws husband and sonasws of yourasws uncleas had preceded Abu Bakr to us, we would not have abandoned himasws with it’.

فَيَقُولُ عَلِيٌّ ع أَ فَكُنْتُ أَدَعُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فِي بَيْتِهِ لَمْ أَدْفَنْهُ وَ أَخْرُجُ أُنَازِعُ النَّاسَ سُلْطَانَهُ

Aliasws said: ‘Should Iasws have left Rasool-Allahsaww in hissaww house, not burying himsaww, and should have come out to dispute the people of hissaww authority?’

فَقَالَتْ فَاطِمَةُ مَا صَنَعَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ إِلَّا مَا كَانَ يَنْبَغِي لَهُ وَ قَدْ صَنَعُوا مَا اللَّهُ حَسِيبُهُمْ وَ طَالِبُهُمْ.

(Syeda) Fatimaasws said: ‘What Abu Al-Hassanasws did not do except what was appropriate for himasws, and they have done what Allahazwj will Reckon them with and Demand them’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ وَ إِنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ أُخْبِرَ بِقَوْمٍ تَخَلَّفُوا عَنْ بَيْعَتِهِ عِنْدَ عَلِيٍّ ع فَبَعَثَ إِلَيْهِمْ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ فَجَاءَ فَنَادَاهُمْ وَ هُمْ فِي دَارِ عَلِيٍّ ع فَأَبَوْا أَنْ يَخْرُجُوا فَدَعَا عُمَرُ بِالْحَطَبِ فَقَالَ وَ الَّذِي نَفْسُ عُمَرَ بِيَدِهِ لَتَخْرُجُنَّ أَوْ لَأُحْرِقَنَّهَا عَلَيْكُمْ عَلَى مَنْ فِيهَا فَقِيلَ لَهُ يَا أَبَا حَفْصٍ إِنَّ فِيهَا فَاطِمَةَ فَقَالَ وَ إِنْ.

Then he said, ‘And Abu Bakr was informed of a group who had stayed behind from pledging allegiance to him being in the presence of Aliasws. He sent Umar Bin Al-Khattab to them. He came calling out to them, and they were in the house of Aliasws. They refused to come out. Umar called for the firewood and said, ‘By the Oneazwj in Whose Hand is the soul of Umar! Either you come out or else I will burn it down upon you, upon the ones who are in it’. It was said to him, ‘O Abu Hafsa! Fatimaasws is in it!’ He said, ‘And even if sheasws is’.

فَخَرَجُوا فَبَايَعُوا إِلَّا عَلِيٌّ فَإِنَّهُ زُعِمَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ حَلَفْتُ أَنْ لَا أَخْرُجَ وَ لَا أَضَعَ ثَوْبِي عَلَى عَاتِقِي حَتَّى أَجْمَعَ الْقُرْآنَ

They came out and pledged allegiance except Aliasws, and it is claimed that heasws said: ‘Iasws have vowed that Iasws will not come out nor place my cloth (robe) upon myasws shoulders until Iasws collect the Quran’.

فَوَقَفَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع عَلَى بَابِهَا فَقَالَتْ لَا عَهْدَ لِي بِقَوْمٍ حَضَرُوا أَسْوَأَ مَحْضَرٍ مِنْكُمْ تَرَكْتُمْ جِنَازَةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص بَيْنَ أَيْدِينَا وَ قَطَعْتُمْ أَمْرَكُمْ بَيْنَكُمْ لَمْ تُشَاوِرُونَا وَ لَمْ تَرَوْا لَنَا حَقّاً

Fatimaasws paused at herasws door and sheasws said: ‘There is no pact for me with a people with a presentation as evil are your presentation. You neglected the funeral of Rasool-Allahsaww in front of us and you divided your matter between you. You did not consult us and did not see any right being for us’.

فَأَتَى عُمَرُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَ لَا تَأْخُذُ هَذَا الْمُتَخَلِّفَ عَنْكَ بِالْبَيْعَةِ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ يَا قُنْفُذُ وَ هُوَ مَوْلًى لَهُ اذْهَبْ فَادْعُ عَلِيّاً

Umar came to Abu Bakr and said to him, ‘Will you not seize this remainer staying behind from you with the allegiance?’ Abu Bakr said, ‘O Qunfuz!’, and he was a slave of his, ‘Go and call Aliasws’.

قَالَ فَذَهَبَ قُنْفُذٌ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ع فَقَالَ مَا حَاجَتُكَ قَالَ يَدْعُوكَ خَلِيفَةُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع لَسَرِيعٌ مَا كَذَبْتُمْ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ فَرَجَعَ قُنْفُذٌ فَأَبْلَغَ الرِّسَالَةَ

He (the narrator) said, ‘Qunfuz went to Aliasws. Heasws said: ‘What is your need?’ He said, ‘Caliph of Rasool-Allahsaww is calling you’. Aliasws said: ‘How quickly you have belied upon Rasool-Allahsaww!’. Qunfuz returned and delivered the message’.

قَالَ فَبَكَى أَبُو بَكْرٍ طَوِيلًا فَقَالَ عُمَرُ الثَّانِيَةَ أَ لَا تَضُمُّ هَذَا الْمُتَخَلِّفَ عَنْكَ بِالْبَيْعَةِ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ لِقُنْفُذٍ عُدْ إِلَيْهِ فَقُلْ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَدْعُوكَ لِتُبَايِعَ

He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Bakr wept for a long time. Umar said for a second time, ‘Will you not pressurise this remaining one staying behind from you, with the allegiance?’ Abu Bakr said to Qunfuz, ‘Return to him and say, ‘Amir Al Momineen calls you for the allegiance’.

فَجَاءَهُ قُنْفُذٌ فَأَدَّى مَا أُمِرَ بِهِ فَرَفَعَ عَلِيٌّ صَوْتَهُ فَقَالَ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ لَقَدِ ادَّعَى مَا لَيْسَ لَهُ فَرَجَعَ قُنْفُذٌ فَأَبْلَغَ الرِّسَالَةَ قَالَ فَبَكَى أَبُو بَكْرٍ طَوِيلًا.

Qunfuz came to himasws and related what he had been ordered with. Aliasws raised hisasws voice and said: ‘Glory be to Allahazwj! He has claimed what isn’t for him’. Qunfuz returned and delivered the message. Abu Bakr wept for a long time.

ثُمَّ قَامَ عُمَرُ فَمَشَى مَعَهُ جَمَاعَةٌ حَتَّى أَتَوْا بَابَ فَاطِمَةَ ع فَدَقُّوا الْبَابَ فَلَمَّا سَمِعَتْ أَصْوَاتَهُمْ نَادَتْ بِأَعْلَى صَوْتِهَا بَاكِيَةً يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا ذَا لَقِينَا بَعْدَكَ مِنِ ابْنِ الْخَطَّابِ وَ ابْنِ أَبِي قُحَافَةَ

Then Umar stood up and a group walked with him until they came to the door of Fatimaasws. They knocked the door. When sheasws heard their voices, sheasws called out at the top of herasws voice crying: ‘O Rasool-Allahsaww! What are weasws facing after yousaww of the son of Al Khattab, and son of Abu Qohafa!’

فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ الْقَوْمُ صَوْتَهَا وَ بُكَاءَهَا انْصَرَفُوا بَاكِينَ فَكَادَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ تَتَصَدَّعُ وَ أَكْبَادُهُمْ تَتَفَطَّرُ وَ بَقِيَ عُمَرُ وَ مَعَهُ قَوْمٌ

When the people heard herasws voice and herasws crying, they left weeping, and their hearts were almost rendered, and the livers almost broke up, and there remained Umar and with him was a group.

فَأَخْرَجُوا عَلِيّاً وَ مَضَوْا بِهِ إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ فَقَالُوا بَايِعْ فَقَالَ إِنْ أَنَا لَمْ أَفْعَلْ فَمَهْ قَالُوا إِذاً وَ اللَّهِ الَّذِي لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ نَضْرِبَ عُنُقَكَ

They brought Aliasws out and went with himasws to Abu Bakr. They said, ‘Pledge allegiance!’ Heasws said: ‘If Iasws don’t do it, then what?’ They said, ‘Then by Allahazwj, Who there is no god except Heazwj, we will strike off yourasws neck’.

قَالَ إِذاً تَقْتُلُونَ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ وَ أَخَا رَسُولِهِ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ أَمَّا عَبْدُ اللَّهُ فَنَعَمْ وَ أَمَّا أَخَا رَسُولِهِ فَلَا وَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ سَاكِتٌ لَا يَتَكَلَّمُ.

He (the narrator) said, ‘Then you would be killing a servant of Allahazwj and brotherasws of Hisazwj Rasoolsaww’. Umar said, ‘As for a servant of Allahazwj, so yes, and as for brotherasws of Rasool-Allahsaww, so no!’ And Abu Bakr was silent, not speaking’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ أَ لَا تَأْمُرُ فِيهِ بِأَمْرِكَ فَقَالَ لَا أُكْرِهُهُ عَلَى شَيْ‏ءٍ مَا كَانَتْ فَاطِمَةُ إِلَى جَنْبِهِ فَلَحِقَ عَلِيٌّ بِقَبْرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص يَصِيحُ وَ يَبْكِي وَ يُنَادِي يَا ابْنَ أُمَّ إِنَّ الْقَوْمَ اسْتَضْعَفُونِي وَ كادُوا يَقْتُلُونَنِي‏

Umar said to him, ‘Will you not order regarding himasws with your order?’ He said, ‘I will not force himasws upon something for as long as Fatimaasws is by hisasws side’. Aliasws adhered to the grave of Rasool-Allahsaww, shrieking, wailing, and calling out: ‘O ‘Son of my mother! Surely the people weakened me and they almost killed me, [7:150]’.

فَقَالَ عُمَرُ لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ انْطَلِقْ بِنَا إِلَى فَاطِمَةَ فَإِنَّا قَدْ أَغْضَبْنَاهَا فَانْطَلَقَا جَمِيعاً فَاسْتَأْذَنَا عَلَى فَاطِمَةَ فَلَمْ تَأْذَنْ لَهُمَا فَأَتَيَا عَلِيّاً فَكَلَّمَاهُ فَأَدْخَلَهُمَا عَلَيْهَا

Umar said to Abu Bakr, ‘Come with us to (Syeda) Fatimaasws for we have angered herasws’. They went together and sought permission to see (Syeda) Fatimaasws. But sheasws did not permit them. They came to Aliasws and spoke to himasws. Heasws entered them both to see herasws.

فَلَمَّا قَعَدَا عِنْدَهَا حَوَّلَتْ وَجْهَهَا إِلَى الْحَائِطِ فَسَلَّمَا عَلَيْهَا فَلَمْ تَرُدَّ عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلَامَ

When they said in herasws presence, sheasws turned herasws face away from them to the wall. They greeted unto herasws, but sheasws did not return the greeting to them.

فَتَكَلَّمَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَقَالَ يَا حَبِيبَةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ قَرَابَةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ أَنْ أَصِلَ مِنْ قَرَابَتِي وَ إِنَّكِ لَأَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ عَائِشَةَ ابْنَتِي وَ لَوَدِدْتُ يَوْمَ مَاتَ أَبُوكِ أَنِّي مِتُّ وَ لَا أَبْقَى بَعْدَهُ

Abu Bakr spoke, he said, ‘O beloved of Rasool-Allahsaww! The kinship of Rasool-Allahsaww is more beloved to me in the origin than my own kinship, and youasws more beloved to me than my daughter Ayesha, and on the day yourasws fathersaww passed away, I loved to have died and not remain after himasws.

أَ فَتَرَانِي أَعْرِفُكِ وَ أَعْرِفُ فَضْلَكِ وَ شَرَفَكِ وَ أَمْنَعُكِ حَقَّكِ وَ مِيرَاثَكِ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ إِلَّا أَنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ نَحْنُ مَعَاشِرَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ لَا نُورَثُ وَ مَا تَرَكْنَاهُ فَهُوَ صَدَقَةٌ

Don’t youasws see me? I do recognise yourasws merit, and yourasws nobility, and I prevented yourasws right and yourasws inheritance from Rasool-Allahazwj only because I heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Weasws community of Prophetsas, do not leave inheritance, and whatever weas leave, it is charity’.

فَقَالَتْ أَ رَأَيْتَكُمَا إِنْ حَدَّثْتُكُمَا حَدِيثاً مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص أَ تَعْرِفَانِهِ وَ تَعْقِلَانِهِ قَالا نَعَمْ فَقَالَتْ نَشَدْتُكُمَا بِاللَّهِ أَ لَمْ تَسْمَعَا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ رِضَا فَاطِمَةَ مِنْ رِضَايَ وَ سَخَطُ فَاطِمَةَ مِنْ سَخَطِي وَ مَنْ أَحَبَّ فَاطِمَةَ ابْنَتِي فَقَدْ أَحَبَّنِي وَ مَنْ أَرْضَى فَاطِمَةَ فَقَدْ أَرْضَانِي وَ مَنْ أَسْخَطَ فَاطِمَةَ فَقَدْ أَسْخَطَنِي

Sheasws said: ‘What are both your views if Iasws were to narrate to you a Hadeeth from Rasool-Allahsaww, will you recognise it and listen to it?’ They said, ‘Yes’. Sheasws said: ‘Weasws adjure you both with Allahazwj! Did you not hear from Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Pleasure of Fatimaasws is from mysaww pleasure and wrath of Fatimaasws is from mysaww wrath, and one who loves mysaww daughterasws Fatimaasws, so he has loved mesaww, and one who pleases Fatimaasws, so he has pleased mesaww, and one who angers Fatimaasws, so he has angered mesaww?’

قَالا نَعَمْ سَمِعْنَاهُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

They said, ‘Yes, we have heard it from Rasool-Allahsaww’.

قَالَتْ فَإِنِّي أُشْهِدُ اللَّهَ وَ مَلَائِكَتَهُ أَنَّكُمَا أَسْخَطْتُمَانِي وَ مَا أَرْضَيْتُمَانِي وَ لَئِنْ لَقِيتُ النَّبِيَّ ص لَأَشْكُوَنَّكُمَا إِلَيْهِ

Sheasws said: ‘Iasws hereby keep Allahazwj as Witness and Hisazwj Angels, you have both angered measws and have not pleased me, and when Iasws meet the Prophetsaww Iasws will complain to him of you both!’

قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ عَائِذاً بِاللَّهِ مِنْ سَخَطِهِ وَ سَخَطِكِ يَا فَاطِمَةُ ثُمَّ انْتَحَبَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ بَاكِياً يَكَادُ نَفْسُهُ أَنْ تَزْهَقَ وَ هِيَ تَقُولُ وَ اللَّهِ‏ لَأَدْعُوَنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَيْكَ فِي كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ أُصَلِّيهَا.

Abu Bakr said, ‘I seek Refuge with Allahazwj from Hisazwj Wrath and yourasws wrath, O Fatimaasws’. Then Abu Bakr wailed crying, almost losing his soul, and sheasws said: ‘By Allahazwj! Isaww will supplicate to Allahazwj against you every Salat Iasws pray!’

ثُمَّ خَرَجَ بَاكِياً فَاجْتَمَعَ إِلَيْهِ النَّاسُ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ أَ يَبِيتُ كُلُّ رَجُلٍ مِنْكُمْ مُعَانِقاً لِحَلِيلَتِهِ مَسْرُوراً بِأَهْلِهِ وَ تَرَكْتُمُونِي وَ مَا أَنَا فِيهِ لَا حَاجَةَ لِي فِي بَيْعَتِكُمْ أَقِيلُونِي بَيْعَتِي

Then he went out crying, and the people gathered to him. He said to them, ‘Every man from you spent last night hugging his wife, happy with his wife, and you left me and what I am in. There is no need for me regarding your allegiances. Dismiss my allegiance’.

فَقَالُوا يَا خَلِيفَةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ إِنَّ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ لَا يَسْتَقِيمُ وَ أَنْتَ أَعْلَمُنَا بِذَلِكَ إِنَّهُ إِنْ كَانَ هَذَا لَا يَقُمْ لِلَّهِ دِينٌ

They said, ‘O caliph of Rasool-Allahsaww! This command cannot stand straight, and you are most knowing of us with that. If this happens, the Religion will not stand for Allahazwj’.

فَقَالَ وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ لَا ذَلِكَ وَ مَا أَخَافُ مِنْ رَخَاءِ هَذِهِ الْعُرْوَةِ مَا بِتُّ لَيْلَةً وَ لِي فِي عُنُقِ مُسْلِمٍ بَيْعَةٌ بَعْدَ مَا سَمِعْتُ وَ رَأَيْتُ مِنْ فَاطِمَةَ

He said, ‘By Allahazwj! Had it not been that, and I fear from the prosperity of this handle (caliphate), I would not have spent any night and there was an allegiance to me in the necks of the Muslims, after what I have heard and seen from (Syeda) Fatimaasws’.

قَالَ فَلَمْ يُبَايِعْ عَلِيٌّ حَتَّى مَاتَتْ فَاطِمَةُ وَ لَمْ تَمْكُثْ بَعْدَ أَبِيهَا إِلَّا خَمْساً وَ سَبْعِينَ لَيْلَةً.

He (the narrator) said, ‘Aliasws did not pledge allegiance until Fatimaasws passed away, and sheasws did not remain after herasws fathersaww except for seventy five days’’.¹⁵⁶ (Non-Shia source)

Notes:

وَ قَالَ‏ بَعْضُهُمْ‏ إِنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص أَمَرَ النَّاسَ فِي مَرَضِهِ بِالصَّلَاةِ وَ لَمْ يُعَيِّنْ‏ أَحَداً.

And some of them (reporters) said, ‘The Prophetsaww, during hissaww illness, had ordered with the Salat and did not mean anyone (in particular)’. (Non-Shia source)

فَقَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ لِبِلَالٍ‏ إِنَّهُ ص أَمَرَ أَنَّ يَؤُمَّ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فِي الصَّلَاةِ فَلَمَّا اطَّلَعَ النَّبِيُّ عَلَى تِلْكَ الْحَالِ وَضَعَ إِحْدَى يَدَيْهِ عَلَى مَنْكِبِ عَلِيٍّ ع وَ الْأُخْرَى عَلَى مَنْكِبِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ وَ خَرَجَ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ وَ نَحَّى أَبَا بَكْرٍ عَنِ الْمِحْرَابِ فَصَلَّى بِالنَّاسِ حَتَّى لَا تَصِيرَ إِمَامَتُهُ موجبا [مُوجِبَةً] لِلْخَلَلِ فِي الدِّينِ.

Ayesha (well-known fabricatress) daughter of Abu Bakr said to Bilal, ‘Hesaww had ordered Abu Bakr to lead in the Salat. When the Prophetsaww was notified upon that state, placed one of hissaww hands upon a shoulder of Aliasws and the other upon the shoulder of Al Fazl Bin Al Abbas, and went out to the Masjid, and Abu Bakr stepped aside from the prayer niche, and prayed Salat with the people until his leadership did not become obligatory for the imbalance in the Religion’.

و يعضده‏ مَا رَوَاهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ فَوَجَدَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنْ نَفْسِهِ خِفَّةً فَخَرَجَ إِلَى الْمِحْرَابِ فَكَانَ أَبُو بِكْرٍ يُصَلِّي بِصَلَاةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ النَّاسُ يُصَلُّونَ بِصَلَاةِ أَبِي بِكْرٍ أَيْ بِتَكْبِيرِهِ انْتَهَى‏.

And it is supported by what is reported by Al Bukhari by his chain from Urwah, ‘Rasool-Allahsaww found lightness from himselfsaww, so hesaww went out to the prayer niche. So Abu Bakr prayed Salat with the Salat of Rasool-Allahsaww and the people were praying Salat with the Salat of Abu Bakr, i.e. by his exclamations of Takbeer, ending’. (Non-Shia source)

و أن بني هاشم لم يبايعوا أولا ثم قهروا و بايعوا بعد ستة أشهر حتى أن معاوية كتب إلى علي ع يُؤَنِّبُهُ بذلك حيث يقول إنك كنت تقاد كما يقاد الجمل المخشوش

And the Clan of Hashimasws did not pledge allegiance at first, then they were forced and they pledge allegiance after six months, to the extent that Muawiya wrote to Aliasws rebuking himasws with that where he saying, ‘Youasws had sat back just as the fearful camel’.

و كتب ع في جوابه و قلت إني كنت أُقَادُ كما يقاد الجمل المخشوش حتى أبايع و لعمر الله لقد أردت أن تذم فمدحت و أن تفضح فافتضحت و ما على المسلم من غضاضة في أن يكون مظلوما ما لم يكن شاكا في دينه أو مرتابا في يقينه و هذه حجتي عليك و على غيرك‏.

And heasws wrote in its answer and said: ‘Iasws had sat back just as the fearful camel until Iasws pledged allegiance and for the Command of Allahazwj, and Iasws wanted to condemn, but Iasws praised, and if Iasws had exposed, Iasws would have been exposed (to danger), and there is no shortcoming upon the Muslims regarding measws that he happens to be oppressed, for as long as he does not doubt in his Religion, or suspects within himself, and this is myasws argument against you and against others’.

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص أَنَّهُ قَالَ: عَلِيٌّ مَعَ الْحَقِّ وَ الْحَقُّ مَعَ عَلِيٍّ يَدُورُ مَعَهُ حَيْثُ مَا دَارَ.

From the Prophetsaww having said: ‘Aliasws is with the truth and the truth is with Aliasws, circling with himasws wherever heasws circles’. (Non-Shia source)

رَوَى أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الثَّقَفِيُّ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ الْعَبْسِيِّ عَنْ خَالِدٍ الْمَدَائِنِيِّ عَنْ خَالِدٍ الْحَذَّاءِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَلِيّاً ع عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ يَقُولُ قُبِضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ مَا مِنَ النَّاسِ أَحَدٌ أَوْلَى بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ مِنِّي‏.

It is reported by Abu Is’haq Ibrahim Bin Saeed Al Saqafi, from usman Bin Abu Shayba Al Absy, from Khalid Al Madainy, from Khalid Al Haza’a, from Abdul Rahman Bin Abu Bakrah who said,

‘I heard Aliasws saying upon the pulpit: ‘Rasool-Allahsaww passed away and there is no one from the people foremost with this command than Iasws am’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ الثَّقَفِيُّ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَ أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ الْفَضْلُ بْنُ دُكَيْنٍ عَنْ فِطْرِ بْنِ خَلِيفَةَ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حُرَيْثٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَلِيّاً ع يَقُولُ‏ مَا زِلْتُ مَظْلُوماً مُنْذُ قَبَضَ اللَّهُ نَبِيَّهُ ص إِلَى يَوْمِ النَّاسِ هَذَا.

And it is reported by Ibrahim Al Saqafi who said, Usman Bin Abu Shayba informed us, and Abu Nueym Bin Zukeyn, from Fitr Bin Khalifa, from Ja’far Bin Amro Bin Hureys, from his father who said,

‘I heard Aliasws saying: 'Iasws have ceased to be oppressed since Allahazwj Caused Hisazwj Prophetsaww to pass away up to this day of the people’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ الْحِمَّانِيِّ وَ عَبَّادِ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ الْأَسَدِيِّ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍ عَنْ مُسَيَّبِ بْنِ نَجَبَةَ قَالَ: بَيْنَمَا عَلِيٌّ ع يَخْطُبُ وَ أَعْرَابِيٌّ يَقُولُ وَا مَظْلِمَتَاهْ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع ادْنُ فَدَنَا فَقَالَ لَقَدْ ظُلِمْتُ عَدَدَ الْمَدَرِ وَ الْوَبَرِ.

And it is reported by Ibrahim, from Yahya Bin Abdul Hameed Al Himmany, and Abbad Bin Yaqoub Al Asady, from Amro Bin Sabit, from Salama Bin Khueyl, from Musayyib Bin Najdab who said,

‘While Aliasws was addressing, a Bedouin said, ‘Oh yourasws being oppressed!’ Aliasws said: ‘Approach!’ He went near. Heasws said: ‘Iasws have been oppressed the number of the mud and fluff (uncountable times)’.

وَ فِي حَدِيثِ عُبَادَةَ قَالَ: جَاءَ أَعْرَابِيٌّ يَتَخَطَّى فَنَادَى يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مَظْلُومٌ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَيْحَكَ وَ أَنَا مَظْلُومٌ ظُلِمْتُ عَدَدَ الْمَدَرِ وَ الْوَبَرِ.

And in a Hadeeth of Ubada, he said, ‘A Bedouin came making his way forward and called out, ‘O Amir Al Momineenasws! Oppressed!’ Aliasws said: ‘Woe be unto you, and Iasws am oppressed. Iasws have been oppressed the number of the mud and the fluff (uncountable times)’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ الْفَضْلُ بْنُ دُكَيْنٍ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ أَبِي مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ كُنَّا جُلُوساً عِنْدَ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حُرَيْثٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي وَالِدِي‏ أَنَّ عَلِيّاً ع لَمْ يَقُمْ مَرَّةً عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ إِلَّا قَالَ فِي آخِرِ كَلَامِهِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَنْزِلَ مَا زِلْتُ مَظْلُوماً مُنْذُ قَبَضَ اللَّهُ نَبِيَّهُ ص.

And it is reported by Abu Nueym Al Fazl Bin Dukeyn, from Umar Bin Abu Muslim who said, ‘We were seated in the presence of Ja’far Bin Amro Bin Hureys who said,

‘My father narrated to me that Aliasws did not stand even once upon the pulpit except heasws said at the end of hisasws speech before heasws descended: ‘Iasws have not ceased to be oppressed since Allahazwj Caused Hisazwj Prophetsaww to pass away’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ عَنِ الْقَنَّادِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ هَاشِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْجَحَّافِ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ ثَعْلَبَةَ قَالَ: جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى أَبِي ذَرٍّ رَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ وَ هُوَ جَالِسٌ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ وَ عَلِيٌّ ع يُصَلِّي أَمَامَهُ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا ذَرٍّ أَ لَا تُحَدِّثُنِي بِأَحَبِّ النَّاسِ إِلَيْكَ فَوَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتُ أَنَ‏ أَحَبَّهُمْ إِلَيْكَ أَحَبُّهُمْ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

And it is reported by Ibrahim, from Al Qannad, from Ali Bin Hashim, from Abu Al Jahhaf, from Muawiya Bin Sa’alba who said,

‘A man came to Abu Zarrra, and hera was seated in the Masjid, and Aliasws was praying Salat in front of himra. He said, ‘O Abu Zarrra! Will you not narrated to me with the most beloved of the people to youra, for by Allahazwj I know that the one most beloved to youra would be the most beloved one to Rasool-Allahsaww’.

قَالَ أَجَلْ وَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ إِنَّ أَحَبَّهُمْ إِلَيَّ لَأَحَبُّهُمْ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ هُوَ هَذَا الشَّيْخُ الْمَظْلُومُ الْمُضْطَهَدُ حَقُّهُ‏.

Hera said, ‘Yes, by the Oneazwj in Whose Hand is myra soul! The most beloved one to mera is the one most beloved to Rasool-Allahsaww, and it is this sheykh, the oppressed, the oneasws persecuted of hisasws rights’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ قَدْ رُوِيَ مِنْ طُرُقٍ كَثِيرَةٍ أَنَّهُ ع كَانَ يَقُولُ‏ أَنَا أَوَّلُ مَنْ يُحْشَرُ لِلْخُصُومَةِ بَيْنَ يَدَيِ اللَّهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ.

And it has been reported by many ways that heasws had said: ‘Iasws would be the first one Resurrected for the disputing in front of Allahazwj on the Day of Qiyamah’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ قَوْلُهُ ع‏ يَا عَجَباً بَيْنَمَا يَسْتَقِيلُهَا فِي حَيَاتِهِ إِذْ عَقَدَهَا لِآخَرَ بَعْدَ وَفَاتِهِ.

And hisasws words: ‘O strange, that he (Abu Bakr) had resigned it during his lifetime when he was holding it for another one (Umar) after his death’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَائِشٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْجَحَّافِ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ ثَعْلَبَةَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: أَ لَا أُحَدِّثُكَ حَدِيثاً لَا يَخْتَلِطُ قُلْتُ بَلَى قَالَ مَرِضَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ مَرَضاً شَدِيداً فَأَوْصَى إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ع فَقَالَ لَهُ بَعْضُ مَنْ يَدْخُلُ عَلَيْهِ لَوْ أَوْصَيْتَ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ كَانَ أَجْمَلَ مِنْ وَصِيَّتِكَ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ع قَالَ وَ اللَّهِ قَدْ أَوْصَيْتُ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ حَقّاً.

And it is reported by Ibrahim, from Ismail, from Usman Bin Saeed, from Ali Bin Ayish, from Abu Al Jahhaf, from Muawiya Bin Sa’alba having said,

‘Shall I narrate a Hadeeth to you will not be mixed up (confused)?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘Abu Zarrra was ill with severe illness, so hera bequeathed to Aliasws. One of ones who had entered to see himra said to himra, ‘If you could bequeath to Amir Al Momineen (Usman), it would be more beautiful than yourra bequeathing to Aliasws’. Hera said: ‘By Allahazwj! Ira have bequeathed to the true Amir Al-Momineen’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ جَبَلَةَ الْكِنَانِيُّ عَنْ ذَرِيحٍ الْمُحَارِبِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي حَمْزَةَ الثُّمَالِيِّ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ ع‏ أَنَّ بُرَيْدَةَ كَانَ غَائِباً بِالشَّامِ فَقَدِمَ وَ قَدْ بَايَعَ النَّاسُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَأَتَاهُ فِي مَجْلِسِهِ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ هَلْ نَسِيتَ تَسْلِيمَنَا عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع بِإِمْرَةِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَاجِبَةً مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ

And it is reported by Abdullah Bin Habala Al Kinany, from Zareeh Al Muhariby, from Abu Hamza Al Sumali,

‘From Ja’far Bin Muhammadasws: ‘Bureyda was absent being in Syria. When he arrive the people had already pledged to Abu Bakr. He came to him in his gather and said, ‘O Abu Bakr! Have you forgotten our greeting unto Aliasws as ‘Amir Al-Momineen’, being an Obligation from Allahazwj and Hisazwj Rasoolsaww?’

قَالَ يَا بُرَيْدَةُ إِنَّكَ غِبْتَ وَ شَهِدْنَا وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى يُحْدِثُ الْأَمْرَ بَعْدَ الْأَمْرِ وَ لَمْ يَكُنِ اللَّهُ لِيَجْمَعَ لِأَهْلِ هَذَا الْبَيْتِ النُّبُوَّةَ وَ الْمُلْكَ.

He said, ‘O Bureyda! You were absent and we were present, and Allahazwj the Exalted Brought about the Command after the Command, and Allahazwj did not happen to gather for the Peopleasws of this Household, the Prophet-hood and the kingdom’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ الثَّقَفِيُّ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ الْحِمَّانِيِّ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ حُرَيْثٍ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَبِي ثَابِتٍ عَنْ ثَعْلَبَةَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ الْحِمَّانِيِّ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ع قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ‏ كَانَ فِيمَا عَهِدَ إِلَيَّ النَّبِيُّ الْأُمِّيُّ أَنَّ الْأُمَّةَ سَتَغْدِرُ بِكَ‏.

And it is reported by Ibrahim Al Saqafy, from Yahya Bin Abdul Hameed Al Himany, from Amro Bin Hureys, from Habeeb Bin Abu Sabit, from Sa’alba Bin Yazeed Al Himani,

‘From Aliasws, he (the narrator) said, ‘I heard himasws saying: ‘Among what the Ummy Prophetsaww pacted to measws: ‘The community will be betraying youasws’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ عَمْرٍو الْبَجَلِيِّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا هُشَيْمُ بْنُ بَشِيرٍ الْوَاسِطِيُّ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ سَالِمٍ الْأَسَدِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي إِدْرِيسَ الْأَوْدِيِّ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ع قَالَ: لَأَنْ أَخِرَّ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ فَتَخْطَفَنِي الطَّيْرُ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَقُولَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ لَمْ أَسْمَعْهُ قَالَ لِي يَا عَلِيُّ سَتَغْدِرُ بِكَ الْأُمَّةُ بَعْدِي.

And it is reported by Ibrahim, from Ismail Bin Amro Al Bajali who said, ‘It is narrated to us by Husheym Bin Bashir Al Wasity, from Ismail Bin Salim Al Asady, from Abu Idrees Al Awdy,

‘From Aliasws having said: ‘If Iasws were to fall from the sky to the earth, the bird picks measws up, it would be more beloved to measws than for measws to be saying Iasws heard (such and such) from Rasool-Allahsaww and Iasws had not heard it. Hesaww said to measws: ‘O Aliasws! The community will be betraying youasws after mesaww’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى زَيْدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ قَالَ كَانَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَقُولُ‏ بَايَعَ النَّاسُ وَ اللَّهِ أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَ أَنَا أَوْلَى بِهِمْ مِنِّي بِقَمِيصِي هَذَا فَكَظَمْتُ غَيْظِي وَ انْتَظَرْتُ أَمْرِي وَ أَلْزَقْتُ كَلْكَلِي بِالْأَرْضِ

And it is reported by Zayd son of Ali Bin Al Husaynasws having said, ‘Aliasws said: ‘By Allahazwj! The people pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr and although Iasws was foremost with them with this shirt (caliphate) of mine. But Iasws swallowed myasws anger and waited myasws Command and affixed myasws chest with the ground.

ثُمَّ إِنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ هَلَكَ وَ اسْتَخْلَفَ عُمَرَ وَ قَدْ وَ اللَّهِ [أ] عَلِمَ أَنِّي أَوْلَى بِالنَّاسِ مِنِّي بِقَمِيصِي هَذَا فَكَظَمْتُ غَيْظِي وَ انْتَظَرْتُ أَمْرِي

Then Abu Bakr died, and made Umar the caliph, and by Allahazwj, he knew Iasws was foremost with the people with this shirt (caliphate) of mineasws. But, Iasws swallowed myasws anger, and Iasws awaited myasws Command.

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عُمَرَ هَلَكَ وَ جَعَلَهَا شُورَى‏ وَ جَعَلَنِي فِيهِمْ سَادِسَ سِتَّةٍ كَسَهْمِ الْجَدَّةِ فَقَالَ اقْتُلُوا الْأَقَلَّ فَكَظَمْتُ غَيْظِي وَ انْتَظَرْتُ أَمْرِي وَ أَلْزَقْتُ كَلْكَلِي بِالْأَرْضِ حَتَّى مَا وَجَدْتُ إِلَّا الْقِتَالَ أَوِ الْكُفْرَ بِاللَّهِ‏.

Then Umar died and made it to a consultative council and made measws to be among them as sixth of six, like a share of a grandmother and he said, ‘Kill the minority’. So, Iasws swallowed myasws anger and waited myasws Command, and adhered myasws chest with the ground until Iasws could not find except the fighting or the Kufr with Allahazwj’’.

و روى جميع أهل السِّيَر أن أمير المؤمنين ع و العباس لما تنازعا في الميراث و تخاصما إلى عمر قال عمر من يعذرني من هذين ولي أبو بكر فقالا عقَّ و ظلم و الله يعلم أنه كان برا تقيا ثم وليت فقالا عقَّ و ظلم‏.

And all the recorders of the Seerah reported, ‘When Amir Al Momineenasws and Al Abbas disputed regarding the inheritance and they took their case to Umar, Umar said, ‘Who can excuse me from these two. Abu Bakr was in charge’. They said, ‘He was disloyal and unjust, and Allahazwj Knows he used to be righteous, pious, then turned around’. They said, ‘Disloyal and unjust’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى الْوَاقِدِيُّ فِي كِتَابِ الْجَمَلِ بِإِسْنَادِهِ‏ أَنَّ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع حِينَ بُويِعَ خَطَبَ فَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ وَ أَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ حَقٌّ وَ بَاطِلٌ وَ لِكُلٍّ أَهْلٌ وَ لَئِنْ أَمِرَ الْبَاطِلُ لَقَدِيماً فَعَلَ وَ لَئِنْ قَلَّ الْحَقُّ لَرُبَّمَا وَ لَعَلَّ وَ لَقَلَّمَا أَدْبَرَ شَيْ‏ءٌ فَأَقْبَلَ

And it is reported by Al Waqidy (Wahabi imam) in the book ‘Al Jamal’, by his chain, ‘When allegiance was pledged to Amir Al Momineenasws, heasws addressed the people and extolled upon Himazwj, then said: ‘Truth, and falsehood, and for each there are people and even if the matter of falsehood is ancient, do it and even if the truth is little maybe, rarely would something come back.

وَ إِنِّي لَأَخْشَى أَنْ‏ تَكُونُوا فِي فَتْرَةٍ وَ مَا عَلَيَّ إِلَّا الِاجْتِهَادُ وَ قَدْ كَانَتْ أُمُورٌ مَضَتْ فَمِلْتُمْ فِيهَا مَيْلَةً كَانَتْ عَلَيْكُمْ مَا كُنْتُمْ فِيهَا عِنْدِي بِمَحْمُودِينَ

And Iasws fear that you would become in nature and there would be nothing upon measws except the struggle, and the matters have passed and you inclined in it an inclination which was upon you. During it you were not praised ones in myasws presence.

أَمَا إِنِّي لَوْ أَشَاءُ لَقُلْتُ‏ عَفَا اللَّهُ عَمَّا سَلَفَ‏ سَبَقَ الرَّجُلَانِ وَ قَامَ الثَّالِثُ كَالْغُرَابِ هِمَّتُهُ بَطْنُهُ يَا وَيْلَهُ لَوْ قُصَّ جَنَاحَاهُ وَ قُطِعَ رَأْسُهُ لَكَانَ خَيْراً لَهُ فِي كَلَامٍ طَوِيلٍ بَعْدَهَا.

But Iasws, if Iasws so desired, would say: Allah Pardons from what is past [5:95]. The two men (Abu Bakr and Umar) preceded, and the third one (Usman) stood like the crow, his main concern was his belly. O woe be unto him! If wings had been clipped and his head cut off, it would have been better for him’ – in a lengthy speech after it’.

وَ رَوَى الطَّبَرِيُّ فِي تَارِيخِهِ عَنْ شُيُوخِهِ مِنْ طُرُقٍ مُخْتَلِفَةٍ أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ لَمَّا طُعِنَ قِيلَ لَهُ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ لَوِ اسْتَخْلَفْتَ

And it is reported by Al Tabari in his history, from his elders, from the way of the adversaries, ‘When Umar Bin Al Khattab was stabbed, it was said to him, ‘O Amir Al Momineen, if only you would choose a caliph’.

قَالَ مَنْ أَسْتَخْلِفُ لَوْ كَانَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ حَيّاً لَاسْتَخْلَفْتُهُ فَإِنْ سَأَلَنِي رَبِّي قُلْتُ سَمِعْتُ نَبِيَّكَ ص يَقُولُ إِنَّهُ أَمِينُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ

He said, ‘Who can I choose as caliph? If Ubeyda Bin Al Jarrah had been alive, I would have chosen him as caliph, for if my Lordazwj were to Ask me, I would say, ‘I heard Youazwj Prophetsaww saying he is a trustee of this community’.

وَ لَوْ كَانَ سَالِمٌ مَوْلَى أَبِي حُذَيْفَةَ حَيّاً اسْتَخْلَفْتُهُ فَإِنْ سَأَلَنِي رَبِّي قُلْتُ سَمِعْتُ نَبِيَّكَ يَقُولُ إِنَّ سَالِماً شَدِيدُ الْحُبِّ لِلَّهِ

And if Saalim Mawla Abu Huzeyfa would have been alive, I would have chosen his as caliph, so if my Lordazwj were to Ask me, I would say, ‘I heard Yourazwj Prophetsaww saying that Saalim is of intense love for Allahazwj’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ رَجُلٌ أَدُلُّكَ عَلَيْهِ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عُمَرَ فَقَالَ قَاتَلَكَ اللَّهُ وَ اللَّهِ مَا أَرَدْتُ اللَّهَ بِهَذَا وَيْحَكَ كَيْفَ أَسْتَخْلِفُ رَجُلًا عَجَزَ عَنْ طَلَاقِ امْرَأَتِهِ‏.

The man said to him, ‘I point you upon Abdullah Bin Umar’. He said, ‘May Allahazwj Kill you! By Allahazwj! Allahazwj did not Want this. Woe be unto you! How can I choose a man to be caliph who is unable to even divorce his wife?’’ (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى الْبَلاذُرِيُّ فِي كِتَابِهِ الْمَعْرُوفِ بِتَارِيخِ الْأَشْرَافِ عَنْ عَفَّانَ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي رَافِعٍ‏ أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ كَانَ مُسْتَنِداً إِلَى ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ وَ عِنْدَهُ ابْنُ عُمَرَ وَ سَعِيدُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ فَقَالَ اعْلَمُوا أَنِّي لَمْ أَقُلْ فِي الْكَلَالَةِ شَيْئاً وَ لَمْ أَسْتَخْلِفْ بَعْدِي أَحَداً وَ أَنَّهُ مَنْ أَدْرَكَ وَفَاتِي مِنْ سَبْيِ الْعَرَبِ فَهُوَ حُرٌّ مِنْ مَالِ اللَّهِ

And it is reported by Al Balazury in his book well known as ‘Tareekh Al Ashraaf’ – From Affan Bin Muslim, from Hammad Bin Salama, from Ali Bin Zayd, from Abu Rafie,

‘Umar Bin Al Khattab used to trust Ibn Abbas, and Ibn Umare and Seed Bin Zayd were with him. He said, ‘Know that I am not saying anything regarding the person who has neither parents nor offspring, and am not making anyone a caliph after me, and the one who comes across my death from the captives of the Arabs, so he is free from the wealth of Allahazwj’.

قَالَ سَعِيدُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ أَمَا إِنَّكَ لَوْ أَشَرْتَ بِرَجُلٍ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ ائْتَمَنَكَ النَّاسُ فَقَالَ عُمَرُ لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ مِنْ أَصْحَابِي حِرْصاً سَيِّئاً وَ أَنَا جَاعِلٌ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ إِلَى النَّفَرِ السِّتَّةِ الَّذِينَ مَاتَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ هُوَ عَنْهُمْ رَاضٍ

Saeed Bin Zayd said, ‘But if you could indicate to a man from the Muslims, the Muslims trust you’. Umar said, ‘I have seen greed and evil from my companions, and I am going to make this matter to six persons, those Rasool-Allahsaww was pleased from when hesaww passed away’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ لَوْ أَدْرَكَنِي أَحَدُ رَجُلَيْنِ لَجَعَلْتُ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ إِلَيْهِ وَ لَوَثِقْتُ بِهِ سَالِمٌ مَوْلَى أَبِي حُذَيْفَةَ وَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ.

Then he said, ‘If only I could come across one of the two men, I would have made this command to him and trust him with it – Saalim Mawla Abu Huzeyfa, and Abu Ubeyda Bin Al Jarrah’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ رَجُلٌ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَأَيْنَ أَنْتَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ فَقَالَ لَهُ قَاتَلَكَ اللَّهُ وَ اللَّهِ مَا أَرَدْتُ اللَّهَ بِهَذَا أَسْتَخْلِفُ رَجُلًا لَمْ يُحْسِنْ أَنْ يُطَلِّقَ امْرَأَتَهُ

A man said to him, ‘O Amir Al Momineen! So where are you from Abdullah Bin Umar?’ He said to him, ‘May Allahazwj Kill you! By Allahazwj! Allahazwj did not Want this. Should I make caliph a man who is not even good at divorcing his wife?’

قَالَ عَفَّانُ يَعْنِي بِالرَّجُلِ الَّذِي أَشَارَ إِلَيْهِ بِعَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ الْمُغِيرَةَ بْنَ شُعْبَةَ.

Affan (the narrator) said, ‘He meant by the man who indicated to Abdullah Bin Umar, (it was) Al Mugheira Bin Shu’ba’. (Non-Shia source)

فَقَدْ رَوَى أَبُو الْحَسَنِ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ جَابِرٍ الْبَلاذُرِيُّ وَ حَالُهُ فِي الثِّقَةِ عِنْدَ الْعَامَّةِ وَ الْبُعْدِ عَنْ مُقَارَبَةِ الشِّيعَةِ وَ الضَّبْطِ لِمَا يَرْوِيهِ مَعْرُوفَةٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي بَكْرُ بْنُ الْهَيْثَمِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّزَّاقِ عَنْ مُعَمَّرٍ عَنِ الْكَلْبِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: بَعَثَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ع حِينَ قَعَدَ عَنْ بَيْعَتِهِ وَ قَالَ ائْتِنِي بِهِ بِأَعْنَفِ الْعُنْفِ

It has been reported by Abu Al Hassan Ahmad Bin Yahya Bin Jabir Al Balazuri, and his situation was in Taqiyya (dissimulation) in the presence of the general Muslims, and he distanced from closeness with the Shias, the exact of what he has reported is well known. He said, ‘It is narrated to me by Bakr Bin Al Haysam, from Abdul Razaq, from Muammar, from Al Kalby, from Abu Salih, from Ibn Abbas who said,

‘Abu Bakr sent Umar Bin Al Khattab to Aliasws when heasws sat back in hisasws house and said, ‘Come to me with himasws with the most violent of violences!’

فَلَمَّا أَتَاهُ جَرَى بَيْنَهُمَا كَلَامٌ فَقَالَ لَهُ احْلِبْ حَلْباً لَكَ شَطْرُهُ وَ اللَّهِ‏ مَا حِرْصُكَ عَلَى إِمَارَتِهِ الْيَوْمَ إِلَّا لِيُؤَمِّرَكَ غَداً وَ مَا نَنْفَسُ عَلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ وَ لَكِنَّا أَنْكَرْنَا تَرْكَكُمْ مُشَاوَرَتَنَا وَ قُلْنَا إِنَّ لَنَا حَقّاً لَا تَجْهَلُونَهُ ثُمَّ أَتَاهُ فَبَايَعَهُ‏.

When heasws came to him, speech flowed between the two. Heasws said to him: ‘Milk the milk for you, part of it has been strengthened for it today, tomorrow it would be returned to you as bitter; and we did not rival unto Abu Bakr of this command, but we disliked your neglecting consulting us, and we said, ‘There is a right for us, you should not be ignoring it’. Then heasws went to him and pledged allegiance to him’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ قَدْ رَوَى الْبَلاذُرِيُّ عَنِ الْمَدَائِنِيِّ عَنْ مَسْلَمَةَ بْنِ مُحَارِبٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ التَّيْمِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ عَوْنٍ‏ أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ أَرْسَلَ عُمَرَ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ع يُرِيدُهُ إِلَى الْبَيْعَةِ فَلَمْ يُبَايِعْ فَجَاءَ عُمَرُ وَ مَعَهُ قَبَسٌ فَتَلَقَّتْهُ فَاطِمَةُ ع عَلَى الْبَابِ فَقَالَتْ يَا ابْنَ الْخَطَّابِ أَ تَرَاكَ مُحْرِقاً عَلَيَّ بَابِي قَالَ نَعَمْ وَ ذَلِكِ أَقْوَى فِيمَا جَاءَ بِهِ أَبُوكِ وَ جَاءَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَبَايَعَ‏.

And Al Balazuri has reported from Al Madainy, from Maslama Bin Muharib, from Suleyman Al Taymi, from Ibn Awn,

‘Abu Bakr sent Umar to Aliasws wanting himasws to pledge the allegiance. But heasws did not pledge. Umar came, and with him was a firebrand, and Fatimaasws faced him at the door. Sheasws said: ‘O Ibn Al Khattab! Are you viewing to incinerate myasws door upon measws?’ He said, ‘Yes, and that is more powerful regarding what yourasws fathersaww came with’. Aliasws came and pledged allegiance’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الثَّقَفِيُّ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَمْرٍو الْبَجَلِيِّ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَبِيبٍ الْعَامِرِيِّ عَنْ حُمْرَانَ بْنِ أَعْيَنَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ ع قَالَ: وَ اللَّهِ مَا بَايَعَ عَلِيٌّ حَتَّى رَأَى الدُّخَانَ قَدْ دَخَلَ بَيْتَهُ‏.

And it is reported by Ibrahim Bin Saeed Al Saqafi, from Ahmad Bin Amro Al Bajaly, from Ahmad Bin Habeeb Al Aamiry, from Humran Bin Ayn,

‘From Abu Abdullah Ja’far Bin Muhammadasws having said: ‘By Allahazwj! Aliasws did not pledge allegiance until heasws saw the smoke to have entered hisasws house’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى الْمَدَائِنِيُّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَوْنٍ قَالَ: لَمَّا ارْتَدَّتِ الْعَرَبُ مَشَى عُثْمَانُ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ع فَقَالَ يَا ابْنَ عَمِّ إِنَّهُ لَا يَخْرُجُ أَحَدٌ إِلَى قِتَالِ هَذَا الْعَدُوِّ وَ أَنْتَ لَمْ تُبَايِعْ وَ لَمْ يَزَلْ بِهِ حَتَّى مَشَى إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ فَسُرَّ الْمُسْلِمُونَ بِذَلِكَ وَ جَدَّ النَّاسُ فِي الْقِتَالِ‏.

And it is reported by Al Madainy, from Abdullah Bin Ja’far, from Abu Awn who said,

‘When the Arabs reneged, Usman walked to Aliasws and said, ‘O sonasws of an Uncleas! No one is coming out to fight this enemy, and youasws have yet to pledge allegiance’. And he did not cease to be with himasws, until heasws walked to Abu Bakr, and the Muslims rejoiced with that, and the people exerted regarding the fighting’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى الْبَلاذُرِيُّ عَنِ الْمَدَائِنِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي جزي عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ‏ لَمْ يُبَايِعْ عَلِيٌّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ حَتَّى مَاتَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع بَعْدَ سِتَّةِ أَشْهُرٍ فَلَمَّا مَاتَتْ ضَرَعَ إِلَى صُلْحِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ أَنْ يَأْتِيَهُ فَقَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ لَا تَأْتِهِ وَحْدَكَ قَالَ فَمَا ذَا يَصْنَعُونَ بِي

And it is reported by Al Balazuri, from Al Madainy, from Abu Jazy, from Ma’mar, from Al Zuhry, from Urwah, from Ayesha (well-known fabricatress), who said,

‘Aliasws did not pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr until (Syeda) Fatimaasws passed away, after six months. When sheasws had passed away, Abu Bakr begged for the reconciliation. He sent himasws a message to pledge allegiance to him. Umar said to him, ‘Don’t go to himasws alone’. He said, ‘What can they do with me’.

فَأَتَاهُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ اللَّهِ مَا نَفِسْنَا عَلَيْكَ مَا سَاقَ اللَّهُ إِلَيْكَ مِنْ فَضْلٍ وَ خَيْرٍ وَ لَكِنَّا كُنَّا نَرَى أَنَّ لَنَا فِي هَذَا الْأَمْرِ نَصِيباً اسْتُبِدَّ بِهِ عَلَيْنَا

Abu Bakr came to himasws, Aliasws said to him: ‘By Allahazwj we did not compete against you of what Allahazwj has Ushered to you, from merit, and goodness. But, we saw that there should be a share for us in this command (but) you domineered with it upon us’.

فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَ اللَّهِ لَقَرَابَةُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ قَرَابَتِي فَلَمْ يَزَلْ عَلِيٌّ يَذْكُرُ حَقَّهُ وَ قَرَابَتَهُ حَتَّى بَكَى أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَقَالَ مِيعَادُكَ الْعَشِيَّةُ

Abu Bakr said, ‘By Allahazwj! The kinship of Rasool-Allahsaww is more beloved to me and my own kindred’. Aliasws did not cease to mention hisasws rights and hisasws kinship until Abu Bakr wept. Heasws said: ‘You appointment is the evening’.

فَلَمَّا صَلَّى أَبُو بَكْرٍ الظُّهْرَ خَطَبَ فَذَكَرَ عَلِيّاً ع وَ بَيْعَتَهُ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع إِنِّي لَمْ يَحْبِسْنِي عَنْ بَيْعَةِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ أَلَّا أَكُونَ عَارِفاً بِحَقِّهِ لَكِنَّا كُنَّا نَرَى أَنَّ لَنَا فِي هَذَا الْأَمْرِ نَصِيباً اسْتُبِدَّ بِهِ عَلَيْنَا ثُمَّ بَايَعَ أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَقَالَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ أَصَبْتَ وَ أَحْسَنْتَ‏.

When Abu Bakr had prayed Al Zohr Salat, he addressed and mentioned Aliasws and hisasws allegiance. Aliasws said: ‘We did not withhold from pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr, but we saw that there should be a share for us in this command, (but) you domineered with it upon us’. Then heasws Pledged allegiance to Abu bakr. The Muslims said, ‘You are correct and have done good’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ الثَّقَفِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي عُمَرَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ أَبِي الْأَسْوَدِ عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ: مَا بَايَعَ عَلِيٌّ ع إِلَّا بَعْدَ سِتَّةِ أَشْهُرٍ وَ مَا اجْتُرِئَ عَلَيْهِ إِلَّا بَعْدَ مَوْتِ فَاطِمَةَ ع.

And it is reported by Ibrahim al Saqafi, from Muhammad Bin Abu Umar, from his father, from Salih Bin Abu Al Aswad, from Uqba Bin Sinan, from Al Zuhry who said,

‘Aliasws did not pledge allegiance except after six months, and heasws would not dare upon it except after the expiry of (Syeda) Fatimaasws’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى الثَّقَفِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ الْبَجَلِيِّ عَنْ نُوحِ بْنِ دَرَّاجٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ فَرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ: جَاءَ بُرَيْدَةُ حَتَّى رَكَزَ رَايَتَهُ فِي وَسَطِ أَسْلَمَ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَا أُبَايِعُ حَتَّى يُبَايِعَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَا بُرَيْدَةُ ادْخُلْ فِيمَا دَخَلَ فِيهِ النَّاسُ فَإِنَّ اجْتِمَاعَهُمْ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنِ اخْتِلَافِهِمُ الْيَوْمَ‏.

And it is reported by al Saqafi, from Muhammad Bin Ali, from Aasim Bin Aamir Al Bajali, from Nuh Bin Darraj, from Muhammad Bin Is’haq, from Sufyan Bin Farwa, from his father who said,

‘Bureyda came until he focussed his view in the midst of (clan of) Aslam, then said, ‘I will not pledge allegiance until Ali Bin Abu Talibasws pledges!’ Aliasws said: ‘O Bureyda! Enter into what the people have entered into, for their unity is more beloved to measws today than their differing’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي عُمَرَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ‏ أَنَّ عَلِيّاً ع قَالَ لَهُمْ بَايِعُوا فَإِنَّ هَؤُلَاءِ خَيَّرُونِي أَنْ يَأْخُذُوا مَا لَيْسَ لَهُمْ أَوْ أُقَاتِلَهُمْ وَ أُفَرِّقَ أَمْرَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ‏.

And it is reported by Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Abu Umar, from Muhammad Bin Is’haq, from Musa Bin Abdullah Bin Al Hassan,

‘Aliasws said to them: ‘Pledge allegiances (to Abu Bakr), for they have given measws a choice, if they were to take what isn’t for them, or Iasws fight them and divide the affairs of the Muslims’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ الْفُرَاتِ عَنْ قَلِيبِ بْنِ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ: أَبَتْ أَسْلَمُ أَنْ تُبَايِعَ فَقَالُوا مَا كُنَّا نُبَايِعُ حَتَّى يُبَايِعَ بُرَيْدَةُ لِقَوْلِ النَّبِيِّ ص لِبُرَيْدَةَ عَلِيٌّ وَلِيُّكُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِي

And it is reported by Ibrahim, from Yahya Bin Al Hassan Bin Al Furat, from Qaleyb Bin Hammad, from Musa Bin Abdullah Bin Al Hassan who said,

‘(The clan of) Aslam refused to pledge allegiance. They said, ‘We will not pledge allegiance until Bureyda pledges, due to the words of the Prophetsaww to Bureyda: ‘Aliasws is your ruler from after mesaww’.

قَالَ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَا هَؤُلَاءِ إِنَّ هَؤُلَاءِ خَيَّرُونَّا أَنْ يَظْلِمُونِي حَقِّي وَ أُبَايِعَهُمْ فَارْتَدَّ النَّاسُ حَتَّى بَلَغَتِ‏ الرِّدَّةُ أَحَداً فَاخْتَرْتُ أَنْ أُظْلَمَ حَقِّي وَ إِنْ فَعَلُوا مَا فَعَلُوا.

He (the narrator) said, ‘Aliasws said: ‘O you all! They have given us a choice. Either they oppress measws of myasws rights and Iasws pledge allegiance to them. The people have turned apostates until the apostasy reach (every) one. So, Iasws chose to be oppressed of myasws rights, and even if they do what they do’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ عَنْ نُوحِ بْنِ دَرَّاجٍ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ الْأَوْدِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَدِيِّ بْنِ حَاتِمٍ قَالَ: مَا رَحِمْتُ أَحَداً رَحْمَتِي عَلِيّاً حِينَ أُتِيَ بِهِ مُلَبَّباً فَقِيلَ لَهُ بَايِعْ قَالَ فَإِنْ لَمْ أَفْعَلْ قَالُوا إِذاً نَقْتُلَكَ قَالَ إِذاً تَقْتُلُونَ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ وَ أَخَا رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ بَايَعَ كَذَا وَ ضَمَّ يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى‏.

And it is reported by Ibrahim, from Yahya Bin Al Hassan, from Aasim Bin Aamir, from Nuh Bin Darraj, from Dawood Bin Yazeed Al Awdy, from his father, from Aday Bin Hatim who said,

‘No one showed mercy like the mercy of Aliasws when they came with himasws tied up. It was said to himasws, ‘Pledge allegiance’. Heasws said: ‘Suppose Iasws don’t do it?’ They said, ‘Then we will kill youasws’. Heasws said: ‘Then you would be killing a servant of Allahazwj and brotherasws of Rasool-Allahsaww!’ Then heasws pledged allegiance like this, and fisted hisasws right hand’’. (Non-Shia source)

وَ رَوَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَخْلَدٍ الْبَجَلِيِّ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ الْأَوْدِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَدِيِّ بْنِ حَاتِمٍ قَالَ: إِنِّي لَجَالِسٌ عِنْدَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ إِذْ جِي‏ءَ بِعَلِيٍّ ع فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ بَايِعْ فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع فَإِنْ أَنَا لَمْ أُبَايِعْ قَالَ أَضْرِبُ الَّذِي فِيهِ عَيْنَاكَ فَرَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ ثُمَّ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ اشْهَدْ ثُمَّ مَدَّ يَدَهُ فَبَايَعَهُ.

And it is reported by Ibrahim, from Usman Bin Abu Shayba, from Khalid Bin Makhlad Al Bahily, from Dawood Bin Yazeed Al Awdy, from his father, from Aday Bin Hatim who said,

‘I was seated in the presence of Abu Bakr when they came with Aliasws. Abu Bakr said to himasws, ‘Pledge allegiance!’ Aliasws said to him: ‘Supposing Iasws do not pledge allegiance?’ He said, ‘I will strike off that in which are yourasws eyes’. Heasws raised hisasws head towards the sky, then said: ‘O Allahazwj, be Witness!’, then extended hisasws hand and pledged allegiance to him’’. (Non-Shia source)

قَدْ تَوَاتَرَ فِي رِوَايَاتِ الْفَرِيقَيْنِ قَوْلُ النَّبِيِّ ص‏ مَنْ آذَى عَلِيّاً فَقَدْ آذَانِي‏.

And it has frequently recurred in the reports of the two sects (Shias and non-Shias), words of the Prophetsaww: ‘One who hurts Aliasws, so he has hurt mesaww’’.

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