Al-Kafi 3018

Translation

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bi Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Awrama, from Al Nazar Bin Suweyd, from Dorost Bin Abu Mansour, from Ibn Muskan, from one of our companions, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far^asws having said: ‘A Prophet^as from the Prophets^as of the Children of Israel passed by a man, part of him was (crushed) under a wall and part of him was outside from it, the birds having had dishevelled him and the dogs having had ripped him apart. Then he^as continued and came up to a city. So he entered it and there he was with a great one from its great ones (a VIP) having died upon a bed decorated with the brocade and incence was being burnt around him. So he^as said: ‘O Lord^azwj! I testify that You^azwj are a Just Judge, not a tyrant. This servant of Yours^azwj did not associate with You^azwj even for the blink of an eye, (yet) You^azwj Caused him to die with that death (crushed under the wall), and this is Your^azwj servant who did not believe in You^azwj even for the blink of an eye, (yet) You^azwj Caused him to die with this death (on a decorated bed)’. So He^azwj Said: ‘My^azwj servant! I^azwj am like what you^as said, a Just Judge not being tyrannous. That servant of Mine^azwj had (committed) an evil deed in My^azwj Presence, or a sin, (so) I^azwj Caused him to die with that death (crushed under the wall) so that he would meet Me^azwj and there would not remain anything upon him (to be Punished for); and this servant had a good deed for him in My^azwj Presence, so I^azwj Caused him to dies by this death (on a decorated bed) so that he would meet Me^azwj and there would not be a single good deed for him in My^azwj Presence’.

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