Al-Kafi 14146

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hisham Bin Salim, and Ibn Bukeyr and someone else who said, ‘Ali^asws Bin Al-Husayn^asws was in the circumambulation (of the Kaaba), so he^asws looked at a group around the Masjid. So he^asws said: ‘What is this group?’ So they said, ‘This is Muhammad Bin Shihab Al-Zahry. His intellect is muddled up, so he does not speak. So his family have brought him out, perhaps when he sees the people he would speak’. So when Ali^asws Bin Al-Husayn^asws fulfilled his^asws circumambulation, he^asws went out until he^asws approached him. So when Muhammad Bin Shihab saw him^asws, he recognised him^asws. So Ali^asws Bin Al-Husayn^asws said to him: ‘What is the matter with you?’ So he said, ‘I was given the governorship, so I shed blood. I killed a man, so there entered into me what you^asws see’. So Ali^asws Bin Al-Husayn^asws said to me: ‘I^asws have more intense fear of your despair from the Mercy of Allah^azwj from what you have come to’. Then he^asws said: ‘Give them the wergild’. He said, ‘I have done it, but they refused (to accept it)’. So he^asws said: ‘Make it as small packages, then wait for the timings of the Prayers, so throw these in their houses’.

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