Al-Kafi 2032

Translation

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Muawiya Bin Wahab, from Zakariyya Bin Ibrahim who said, ‘I was a Christian, then I became a Muslim and performed Hajj. So I went over to Abu Abdullah^asws and I said, ‘I used to be upon the Christianity and I became a Muslim’. So he^asws said: ‘And which thing did you see in Al-Islam?’ I said, ‘The Words of Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:42#h52"><a href="/books/quran:42#h52">[42:52]</a></a> You did not know what the Book was, nor the belief, but We Made it a Light, Guiding thereby whom We Desire to</span>’. So he^asws said: ‘Allah^azwj has Guided you’. Then he^aswssaid: ‘O Allah^azwj! Guide him!’ – three times, ‘Ask whatever you so desire to’. So I said, ‘My father and my mother are upon the Christianity, along with my family members, and my mother is blind of vision. So I happen to be with them, and I eat in their utensils’. So he^asws said: ‘Are they eating the flesh of swine?’ So I said, ‘No, nor are they touching it’. So he^asws said: ‘There is no problem, so look after your mother and be righteous with her. So when she dies, do not allocate her to anyone other than yourself. You, yourself would become the one who would be standing by her funeral, and do not inform anyone that you came to me^asws until you come to me at Mina, if Allah^azwj so Desires it’. He said, ‘So I went over to him^asws at Mina, and the people were around him^asws as if he^asws was a teacher of the children. This one was asking him^asws, and this one was asking him^asws. So when I proceeded to Al-Kufa, I was kind to my mother and I used to feed her and wash her clothes, and her head, and serve her. So she said to me, ‘O my son! You were not doing this with me when you were upon my religion. So what is this which I see from you since you emigrated (changed religion), and you entered upon the uprightness?’ So I said, ‘A man from the children of our Prophet^saww ordered me with this’. So she said, ‘This man is a Prophet^as?’ So I said, ‘No, but a son^asws of the Prophet^saww’. So she said, ‘O my son! This is a Prophet<sup style="font-weight: normal">as</sup>. These are the advices of the Prophets<sup style="font-weight: normal">as</sup>’. So I said, ‘O mother! There is not going to be a Prophet<sup style="font-weight: normal">as</sup> after this Prophet<sup style="font-weight: normal">saww</sup>, but (it is) his<sup style="font-weight: normal">saww</sup> son<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup>’. So she said, ‘O my son! Your Religion is a good Religion. Present it to me’. So I presented it to her’. So she entered into Al-Islam, and I taught her. So she prayed the <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span>s of Al-Zohr, and Al-Asr, and Al-Maghrib, and Al-Isha the last. Then something happened to her at night, so she said, ‘O my son! Repeat upon me what you taught me’. So I repeated it upon her, and she acknowledged with it and she died. So when it was the morning, the Muslims were the one who washed her, and I was the one who prayed <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> over her, and descended into her grave’.

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