سَمِعْتُ عَلِيَّ بْنَ الْحُسَيْنِ (عليه السلام) يَقُولُ إِنَّ رَجُلًا جَاءَ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (عليه السلام) فَقَالَ أَخْبِرْنِي إِنْ كُنْتَ عَالِماً عَنِ النَّاسِ وَ عَنْ أَشْبَاهِ النَّاسِ وَ عَنِ النَّسْنَاسِ فَقَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (عليه السلام) يَا حُسَيْنُ أَجِبِ الرَّجُلَ فَقَالَ الْحُسَيْنُ (عليه السلام) أَمَّا قَوْلُكَ أَخْبِرْنِي عَنِ النَّاسِ فَنَحْنُ النَّاسُ وَ لِذَلِكَ قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى ذِكْرُهُ فِي كِتَابِهِ ثُمَّ أَفِيضُوا مِنْ حَيْثُ أَفاضَ النَّاسُ فَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ (صلى الله عليه وآله) الَّذِي أَفَاضَ بِالنَّاسِ وَ أَمَّا قَوْلُكَ أَشْبَاهُ النَّاسِ فَهُمْ شِيعَتُنَا وَ هُمْ مَوَالِينَا وَ هُمْ مِنَّا وَ لِذَلِكَ قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ (عليه السلام) فَمَنْ تَبِعَنِي فَإِنَّهُ مِنِّي وَ أَمَّا قَوْلُكَ النَّسْنَاسُ فَهُمُ السَّوَادُ الْأَعْظَمُ وَ أَشَارَ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى جَمَاعَةِ النَّاسِ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا كَالْأَنْعامِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا.
Translation
<a id="_Toc492473468">H 14787</a> – Ibn Mahboub, from Abdullah Bin Ghalib, from his father Saeed Bin Al-Musayyab who said: <span class="first-chapter-phrase"><span class="first-in-chapter character-i">I</span> heard Ali</span><sup>asws</sup> Bin Al-Husayn<sup>asws</sup> saying that: ‘A man went to Amir-ul-Momineen<sup>asws</sup> and said, ‘Inform me, if you<sup>asws</sup> are knowledgeable, about the people, and about those who resemble the people, and about the <span class="iTxt">Nasnaas</span>’. So Amir-ul-Momineen<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘O Husayn<sup>asws</sup>, answer the man’. So Al-Husayn<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘As for your word, ‘Inform me about the people’, so we<sup>asws</sup> are the people, and that is what Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Says in His<sup>azwj</sup> Book: <span class="ibTxt">“<a href="/#/books/quran:2#h199"><a href="/books/quran:2#h199">[2:199]</a></a> Then hasten on from the Place from which the people hasten on”</span>, so it is the Rasool Allah<sup>saww</sup> so he<sup>saww</sup> is the one<sup>saww</sup> about whom people should come forward. And as for your word, ‘Resembling the people’, so they are our<sup>asws</sup> Shites, and they are our<sup>asws</sup> friends, and they are from us<sup>asws</sup>, and that is what Ibrahim<sup>as</sup> said: <span class="ibTxt">“<a href="/#/books/quran:14#h36"><a href="/books/quran:14#h36">[14:36]</a></a> then whoever follows me, he is surely of me, and whoever disobeys me”</span>. And as for your words, ‘The <span class="iTxt">Nasnaas</span>’, so they are the vast majority’ – and he<sup>asws</sup> gestured by his<sup>asws</sup> hand towards a group of the people, then said: <span class="ibTxt">‘<a href="/#/books/quran:25#h44"><a href="/books/quran:25#h44">[25:44]</a></a> They are nothing but as cattle; nay, they are straying farther off from the path”</span>.
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