سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ مِنِ احْتِمَالِ أَمْرِنَا التَّصْدِيقُ لَهُ وَ الْقَبُولُ فَقَطْ مِنِ احْتِمَالِ أَمْرِنَا سَتْرُهُ وَ صِيَانَتُهُ مِنْ غَيْرِ أَهْلِهِ فَأَقْرِئْهُمُ السَّلَامَ وَ قُلْ لَهُمْ رَحِمَ اللَّهُ عَبْداً اجْتَرَّ مَوَدَّةَ النَّاسِ إِلَى نَفْسِهِ حَدِّثُوهُمْ بِمَا يَعْرِفُونَ وَ اسْتُرُوا عَنْهُمْ مَا يُنْكِرُونَ ثُمَّ قَالَ وَ اللَّهِ مَا النَّاصِبُ لَنَا حَرْباً بِأَشَدَّ عَلَيْنَا مَئُونَةً مِنَ النَّاطِقِ عَلَيْنَا بِمَا نَكْرَهُ فَإِذَا عَرَفْتُمْ مِنْ عَبْدٍ إِذَاعَةً فَامْشُوا إِلَيْهِ وَ رُدُّوهُ عَنْهَا فَإِنْ قَبِلَ مِنْكُمْ وَ إِلَّا فَتَحَمَّلُوا عَلَيْهِ بِمَنْ يُثَقِّلُ عَلَيْهِ وَ يَسْمَعُ مِنْهُ فَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ مِنْكُمْ يَطْلُبُ الْحَاجَةَ فَيَلْطُفُ فِيهَا حَتَّى تُقْضَى لَهُ فَالْطُفُوا فِي حَاجَتِي كَمَا تَلْطُفُونَ فِي حَوَائِجِكُمْ فَإِنْ هُوَ قَبِلَ مِنْكُمْ وَ إِلَّا فَادْفِنُوا كَلَامَهُ تَحْتَ أَقْدَامِكُمْ وَ لَا تَقُولُوا إِنَّهُ يَقُولُ وَ يَقُولُ فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ يُحْمَلُ عَلَيَّ وَ عَلَيْكُمْ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ كُنْتُمْ تَقُولُونَ مَا أَقُولُ لَأَقْرَرْتُ أَنَّكُمْ أَصْحَابِي هَذَا أَبُو حَنِيفَةَ لَهُ أَصْحَابٌ وَ هَذَا الْحَسَنُ الْبَصْرِيُّ لَهُ أَصْحَابٌ وَ أَنَا امْرُؤٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ قَدْ وَلَدَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وَ عَلِمْتُ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ وَ فِيهِ تِبْيَانُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ بَدْءِ الْخَلْقِ وَ أَمْرِ السَّمَاءِ وَ أَمْرِ الْأَرْضِ وَ أَمْرِ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ أَمْرِ الْآخِرِينَ وَ أَمْرِ مَا كَانَ وَ أَمْرِ مَا يَكُونُ كَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إِلَى ذَلِكَ نُصْبَ عَيْنِي .
Translation
From him, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Sinan, from Abdul A’ala who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> saying: ‘The bearing of our<sup>asws</sup> matter is not the ratification of it and the acceptance only. From the bearing of our<sup>asws</sup> matter is the veiling it and the safeguarding it from other than its deserving ones. So convey the greetings to them and say to them, ‘May Allah<sup>azwj</sup> have Mercy on a servant who attracts the cordiality of the people to himself, narrating to them with what they are recognising, and concealing from them what they are denying’. Then he<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> said: ‘The Hostile ones (<span class="iTxt">Nasibis</span>) who establish war with weapons against us<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> are not more difficult upon us<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> than the speaker upon us<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> with what we<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> dislike. So when you recognise a broadcast from a servant, then walk to him and repel him from it. So if he accepts from you (fine), or else load upon him with the one who is heavy upon him, and he would listen from him. So if the man from you were to seek the need, then let him be moderate during it until it is fulfilled for him, and therefore you should be moderate regarding my<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> needs just as you are being moderate regarding your own needs. So if he were to accept from you (fine), or else repulse his words to be under your feet and do not be saying, ‘He is saying, and he is saying’, for that would be loaded upon me<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> and upon you. But, by Allah<sup style="font-weight: normal">azwj</sup>, if you all were to be saying what I<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> am saying, I<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> would have acknowledge that you are my<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> companions. This is Abu Haneefa for whom there are companions, and this is Al-Hassan Al-Basry for whom there are companions, and I<sup>asws</sup> am a man from Qureysh who has been born unto Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup>, and I<sup>asws</sup> know the Book of Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, and therein is an explanation of everything, the beginning of the creation, and the matters of the sky, and matters of the earth, and matters of the former ones, and matters of the later ones, and matters of what has happened, and matters of what will be happening. It is as if I<sup>asws</sup> am looking at that established in front of my<sup>asws</sup> eyes’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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