Al-Kafi 4604

Translation

Ali, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Umar Bin Azina, from Zurara who said, ‘I saw a son of Abu Abdullah^asws during the lifetime of Abu Ja’far^asws called Abdullah Fateym having had approached, So I said to him, ‘O boy! Who is that one by your side’, to a slave of theirs. So he said, ‘This is my slave’. So the slave said to him, jesting with him, ‘I am not a slave of yours’. So he said, ‘That is worse for you’. So the boy was stabbed in a funeral and he died. So they brought him out in a basket, to Al Baqi’e (a cemetery). So Abu Ja’far^asws came out and upon him^asws was a coat of yellow Khazz (a material), and a turban of yellow Khazz, and a shawl of yellow Khazz. So he^asws went walking to Al Baqi’e and he^asws was leaning upon me and the people were consoling him^asws upon a son of his^asws son^asws. So when he ended up to Al Baqi’e, Abu Ja’far^asws went forward to pray <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span> upon him, and he^asws exclaimed four <span class="iTxt">Takbeer</span>s upon him, then ordered for him, and he was buried. Then he^asws grabbed my hand and isolated with me, then said: ‘The <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span> did not happen to be upon the children, and rather, Amir Al Momineen^asws used to order with them, and they were buried afterwards, and <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span> was not prayed upon them. But rather, I^asws prayed <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span> upon him due to the people of Al Medina, dislking that they should be saying, ‘They are not praying <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span> upon their children’’.

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