Al-Kafi 14437

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, form his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from a man from our companions, from Abu Al Sabbah Al Kinany who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah^asws that we have a neighbour from Hamdan called Al-Ja’d Bin Abdullah, and he was sitting with us. So we mentioned Ali^asws Amir Al-Momineen^asws, and his^asws merits, but he falls out with us with regards to it (quarrels with us). Do you^asws permit me with regards to (killing) him?’ So he^asws said to me: ‘O Abu Al-Sabbah! Will you do it?’ So I said, ‘Yes, by Allah^azwj! If you^asws were to permit me with regards to it, I would ambush him. So when the time comes, I would storm upon him with my sword and strike him until I kill him’. He^asws said: ‘O Abu Al Sabbah, this is the assassination, and Rasool-Allah^saww has forbidden from the assassination. O Abu Al-Sabbah! Al-Islam retaliates the assassination. But, leave him, so it would be sufficed by other than you’. Abu Al-Sabbah said, ‘So when I returned from Al-Medina to Al-Kufa, there had not elapsed except for eighteen days, when I went out to the Masjid, so I Prayed Al-Fajr, then optional, so there was a man to stirred me with his left, so he said, ‘O Abu Al-Sabbah! The good news’. So I said, ‘May Allah^azwj Give you good news with the goodness, so what is that’. So he said, ‘Al-Ja’d Bin Abdullah was sleeping last night in his house in al-Jabanah, so (they came) to wake him up was for the Prayer, but there he was all puffed up like the balloon and dead. So they went to carry him, but his flesh kept falling off from his bones. So they gathered him in a leather rug, and there was a black (snake) underneath him. So they buried him’.

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