دَخَلْتُ أَنَا وَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) فَقَالَ لَهُ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ إِنَّ الزَّيْدِيَّةَ قَوْمٌ قَدْ عُرِفُوا وَ جُرِّبُوا وَ شَهَرَهُمُ النَّاسُ وَ مَا فِي الْأَرْضِ مُحَمَّدِيٌّ أَحَبُّ إِلَيْهِمْ مِنْكَ فَإِنْ رَأَيْتَ أَنْ تُدْنِيَهُمْ وَ تُقَرِّبَهُمْ مِنْكَ فَافْعَلْ فَقَالَ يَا سُلَيْمَانَ بْنَ خَالِدٍ إِنْ كَانَ هَؤُلَاءِ السُّفَهَاءُ يُرِيدُونَ أَنْ يَصُدُّونَا عَنْ عِلْمِنَا إِلَى جَهْلِهِمْ فَلَا مَرْحَباً بِهِمْ وَ لَا أَهْلًا وَ إِنْ كَانُوا يَسْمَعُونَ قَوْلَنَا وَ يَنْتَظِرُونَ أَمْرَنَا فَلَا بَأْسَ.
Translation
<a id="_Toc492473280">H 14606</a> – Ja’far Bin Basheer, from Amro Bin Usmaan, from Abu Shibal who said: <span class="first-chapter-phrase"><span class="first-in-chapter character-i">‘I</span> and Suleyman Bin</span> Khalid came up to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>. Suleyman Bin Khalid said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘The Zaydiites (a sect) are a people who are well known, and tried, and famous among the people, and there is none in the earth who is more praised and more beloved to them than you<sup>asws</sup> are. So I see that if you<sup>asws</sup> can be closer to them and bring them closer to you<sup>asws</sup>, then you<sup>asws</sup> should do so (lead them as an Imam<sup>asws</sup>)’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘O Suleyman Bin Khalid! If those fools are intending that they would prevent us<sup>asws</sup> from our<sup>asws</sup> Knowledge, to go to their ignorance, then they are not welcome. However, if they had heeded our<sup>asws</sup> words, and would have waited for our<sup>asws</sup> Command, then there would be nothing wrong with it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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