قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) يَا أَبَا صَالِحٍ إِذَا أَنْتَ حَمَلْتَ جَنَازَةً فَكُنْ كَأَنَّكَ أَنْتَ الْمَحْمُولُ وَ كَأَنَّكَ سَأَلْتَ رَبَّكَ الرُّجُوعَ إِلَى الدُّنْيَا فَفَعَلَ فَانْظُرْ مَا ذَا تَسْتَأْنِفُ قَالَ ثُمَّ قَالَ عَجَبٌ لِقَوْمٍ حُبِسَ أَوَّلُهُمْ عَنْ آخِرِهِمْ ثُمَّ نُودِيَ فِيهِمُ الرَّحِيلُ وَ هُمْ يَلْعَبُونَ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Al Husayn Bin Is’haq, from Ali Bin Mahziyar, from Fazalat Bin Ayoub, from Sa’dan, from Ajlan Abu Salih who said, ‘Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> said to me: ‘O Abu Salih! Whenever you carry the coffin so become as if you are the carried one, and as if you are asking your Lord<sup>azwj</sup> for the return to the world and it is done. So look around, what is that which you would (like to) resume’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Then he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘I<sup>asws</sup> wonder at the people whose former ones have been withheld from (returning to) their later ones, then the departure is announced among them and they are playing’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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