Al-Kafi 13355

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr and Muhammad Bin Isa Bin Ubeyd, from Yunus, altogether from Umar Bin Azina, from Zurara who said, ‘I asked Abu Ja’far^asws about the grandfather, so he^asws said: ‘I^asws did not find anyone who spoke with regards to it except by his own opinions except for Amir Al-Momineen^asws’. I said, ‘May Allah^azwj Keep you^asws well! So what did Amir Al-Momineen^asws say with regards to it?’ He^asws said: ‘When it is tomorrow, so meet up with me^asws until I^asws make you to read it in a book’. I said, ‘May Allah^azwj Keep you^asws well! Narrate to me, for your^asws Hadeeth is more beloved to me than you^asws making me to read it in a book’. So he^asws said to me for a second time: ‘Listen to what I^asws am saying to you. When it is tomorrow, so meet up with me^asws, until I^asws make you to read it in a book’. So I went over to him^asws the next day after <span class="iTxt">Al-Zohr</span>, and it was my time which I would be alone with him, in what is between <span class="iTxt">Al-Zohr</span> and <span class="iTxt">Al-Asr</span>, and I disliked that I ask him except when alone with him^asws, out of fear that he^asws would issue a verdict to me with the dissimulation due to the ones who would be present (around him^asws. So when I entered (the room), he^asws faced towards his^asws son^asws Ja’far^asws, so he^asws said to him^asws: ‘Make Zurara read the Parchment of the Obligations (legislated shares of inheritance)’. Then he^asws arose for a nap. So, there remained myself and Ja’far^asws in the room. So he^asws stood up and brought a parchment to me, like the thigh of the camel, so he^asws said: ‘You do not read it until you make (a promise of) Allah^azwj to me that you will not narrate with what you read in it to anyone, ever, until I^asws permit you’ – and he^asws did not say, ‘Until my^asws father^asws permits you’. So I said, ‘May Allah^zwj Keep you ^asws well! And why are you^asws restricting me and your^asws father^asws did not instruct with that?’ So he^asws said to me: ‘You will not look in it except upon what I^asws have said to you’. So I said, ‘So that is for you^asws (to stipulate)’ – and I was a knowledgeable man with the Obligations (legislated shares of inheritance) and the bequests, having insight into it, and of calculating these. I had waited a long time seeking something cast to me from the Obligations (legislated shares of inheritance) and the bequest which I did not know, and I had no ability over it. So when he^asws cast towards me a side of the parchment. It was a thick book, so I recognised it that it is from the books of the former ones. So I looked into it, and there was in it opposite to what was in the hands of the people – from the relationships, and the enjoining of the goodness which there is no differing in it, and that the generality of it was like that. So I read it until I came to the end of it, having a bad self (thoughts) and little memorisation (from it), and a sick opinion, and I said (to myself) that I have read falsehood, until I came to the end of it. Then I layered it and handed it over to him^asws. So when it was the morning, I met up with Abu Ja’far^asws, so he^asws said to me: ‘Did you read the parchment of the Obligations (legislated shares of the inheritance)?’ So I said, ‘Yes’. So he^asws said: ‘How do you view what you read?’ I said, ‘False. It is not with anything except that it is opposite to what the people are upon’. He^asws said: ‘So that which you saw, by Allah^azwj, O Zurara, it is the truth. That which you saw was dictated by Rasool-Allah^saww and written by Ali^asws by his^asws own hand’. So the satan^la came to me and whispered into my chest, so he^la said, ‘And what makes you know that it was dictated by Rasool-Allah^saww and written by Ali^asws by his^asws own hand?’ So he^asws said to me before I spoke: ‘O Zurara! Do not let satan^la make you doubt. By Allah^azwj! You doubt, and how can I^asws not know that it is the dictation of Rasool-Allah^saww and writing of Ali^sws by his^asws own hand, and my^asws father^sws narrated to me^asws, from my^asws grandfather^asws that Amir Al-Momineen^asws narrated that!’ (Zurara) said, ‘I said, ‘No! How (can I doubt)?’ May Allah^azwj Make me to be sacrificed for you^asws! And I regret upon what (I did not read) from what you^asws gave me from the book, and had I read it, and I would have recognised it, and hopefully not a single letter from it would have escaped me’. Umar Bin Azina said, ‘I said to Zarara, ‘The people are narrating to me from him^asws and from his^asws father^asws with things regarding the Obligations (legislated shares of inheritance), so I will present them to you. So whatever was false from it, so say, ‘This is false’, and whatever was true from it, so say, ‘This is true’, and do not report it and remain silent. So I narrated to him with what Muhammad Bin Muslim had narrated to me from Abu Ja’far^asws with regards to the daughter, and the father, and the daughter and the mother, and the daughter and the father. So he (Zarara) said, ‘It is, by Allah^azwj, the truth’.

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