كُنْتُ قَاعِداً فَمَرَّ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى ( عليه السلام ) وَ مَعَهُ بَهْمَةٌ قَالَ قُلْتُ يَا غُلَامُ مَا تَرَى مَا يَصْنَعُ أَبُوكَ يَأْمُرُنَا بِالشَّيْءِ ثُمَّ يَنْهَانَا عَنْهُ أَمَرَنَا أَنْ نَتَوَلَّى أَبَا الْخَطَّابِ ثُمَّ أَمَرَنَا أَنْ نَلْعَنَهُ وَ نَتَبَرَّأَ مِنْهُ فَقَالَ أَبُو الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ هُوَ غُلَامٌ إِنَّ اللَّهَ خَلَقَ خَلْقاً لِلْإِيمَانِ لَا زَوَالَ لَهُ وَ خَلَقَ خَلْقاً لِلْكُفْرِ لَا زَوَالَ لَهُ وَ خَلَقَ خَلْقاً بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ أَعَارَهُ الْإِيمَانَ يُسَمَّوْنَ الْمُعَارِينَ إِذَا شَاءَ سَلَبَهُمْ وَ كَانَ أَبُو الْخَطَّابِ مِمَّنْ أُعِيرَ الْإِيمَانَ قَالَ فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فَأَخْبَرْتُهُ مَا قُلْتُ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ مَا قَالَ لِي فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّهُ نَبْعَةُ نُبُوَّةٍ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hafs Bin Al Bakhtary and someone else from Isa Shalqan who said, ‘I was seated and Abu Al-Hassan Musa<sup>asws</sup> passed by, and with him was a goat. I said, ‘O boy! What is your<sup>asws</sup> view of what your<sup>asws</sup> father<sup>asws</sup> did, ordering us with something then forbidding us from it. He<sup>asws</sup> ordered us that we befriend Abu Al-Khattab, then he<sup>asws</sup> ordered us that we curse him and we should disavow from him?’ So Abu Al-Hassan<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> said, and he<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> was a boy: ‘Allah<sup style="font-weight: normal">azwj</sup> Created a people for the <span class="iTxt">Emān</span>, there being no decline for it, and Created a people for the <span class="iTxt">Kufr</span> (disbelief) there being no decline for it, and Created a people between that, Lending the <span class="iTxt">Emān</span> to him, named as the ‘temporary ones’. Whenever He<sup style="font-weight: normal">azwj</sup> so Desires, He<sup style="font-weight: normal">azwj</sup> Confiscates it from them, and Abu Al-Khattab was from the ones who was Lent the <span class="iTxt">Emān</span>’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So I went over to Abu Abdullah<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> and informed him<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> of what I had said to Abu Al-Hassan<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> and what he<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> had said to me. So Abu Abdullah<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> said: ‘He<sup style="font-weight: normal">asws</sup> is a spring of the Prophet-hood’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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