إِنَّ فِتْيَةً مِنْ أَوْلَادِ مُلُوكِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ كَانُوا مُتَعَبِّدِينَ وَ كَانَتِ الْعِبَادَةُ فِي أَوْلَادِ مُلُوكِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَ إِنَّهُمْ خَرَجُوا يَسِيرُونَ فِي الْبِلَادِ لِيَعْتَبِرُوا فَمَرُّوا بِقَبْرٍ عَلَى ظَهْرِ الطَّرِيقِ قَدْ سَفَى عَلَيْهِ السَّافِي لَيْسَ يُبَيَّنُ مِنْهُ إِلَّا رَسْمُهُ فَقَالُوا لَوْ دَعَوْنَا اللَّهَ السَّاعَةَ فَيَنْشُرُ لَنَا صَاحِبَ هَذَا الْقَبْرِ فَسَاءَلْنَاهُ كَيْفَ وَجَدَ طَعْمَ الْمَوْتِ فَدَعَوُا اللَّهَ وَ كَانَ دُعَاؤُهُمُ الَّذِي دَعَوُا اللَّهَ بِهِ أَنْتَ إِلَهُنَا يَا رَبَّنَا لَيْسَ لَنَا إِلَهٌ غَيْرُكَ وَ الْبَدِيعُ الدَّائِمُ غَيْرُ الْغَافِلِ وَ الْحَيُّ الَّذِي لَا يَمُوتُ لَكَ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ شَأْنٌ تَعْلَمُ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ بِغَيْرِ تَعْلِيمٍ انْشُرْ لَنَا هَذَا الْمَيِّتَ بِقُدْرَتِكَ قَالَ فَخَرَجَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الْقَبْرِ رَجُلٌ أَبْيَضُ الرَّأْسِ وَ اللِّحْيَةِ يَنْفُضُ رَأْسَهُ مِنَ التُّرَابِ فَزِعاً شَاخِصاً بَصَرَهُ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ مَا يُوقِفُكُمْ عَلَى قَبْرِي فَقَالُوا دَعَوْنَاكَ لِنَسْأَلَكَ كَيْفَ وَجَدْتَ طَعْمَ الْمَوْتِ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ لَقَدْ سَكَنْتُ فِي قَبْرِي تِسْعَةً وَ تِسْعِينَ سَنَةً مَا ذَهَبَ عَنِّي أَلَمُ الْمَوْتِ وَ كَرْبُهُ وَ لَا خَرَجَ مَرَارَةُ طَعْمِ الْمَوْتِ مِنْ حَلْقِي فَقَالُوا لَهُ مِتَّ يَوْمَ مِتَّ وَ أَنْتَ عَلَى مَا نَرَى أَبْيَضُ الرَّأْسِ وَ اللِّحْيَةِ قَالَ لَا وَ لَكِنْ لَمَّا سَمِعْتُ الصَّيْحَةَ اخْرُجْ اجْتَمَعَتْ تُرْبَةُ عِظَامِي إِلَى رُوحِي فَبَقِيَتْ فِيهِ فَخَرَجْتُ فَزِعاً شَاخِصاً بَصَرِي مُهْطِعاً إِلَى صَوْتِ الدَّاعِي فَابْيَضَّ لِذَلِكَ رَأْسِي وَ لِحْيَتِي .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from Abu Ayoub, from Yazeed Al Kunasy, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘Youths from the children of the kings from the Children of Israel were (devout) worshippers, and the worshipping used to be prevalent among the children of the kings from the Children of Israel; and they went out travelling in the country in order to learn. So they passed by a grave upon the back of the road nothing being apparent from it except for its markings. So they said, ‘If only we would supplicate to Allah<sup>saww</sup> now to Resurrect for us the inhabitant of this grave, so we can ask him how he found the food of death’. So they supplicated to Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, and their supplication which they supplicated to Allah<sup>azwj</sup> with, was,’Our God! O our Lord<sup>azwj</sup>! There is no god for us apart from You<sup>azwj</sup>, the Permanent, the Eternal, not Oblivious, and the Living Who does not die. For You<sup>azwj</sup>, during every day, is Glory. You<sup>azwj</sup> Know every thing without being taught. Resurrect this deceased for us by Your<sup>azwj</sup> Power’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘So a man came out from that grave, being of white hair on his head and beard, shaking his head from the soil, shuddering, gazing towards the sky, and he said to them, ‘Why are you pausing at my grave?’ So they said, ‘We called you over in order to ask you how you found the food of death’. So he said to them, ‘I had settled in my grave for ninety nine years, but neither the pain of death went away from me, nor its stress, nor has the bitterness of death come out from my throat’. So they said to him, ‘You died on the day you died and you were upon what we see as being of white hair and beard?’ He said, ‘No, but when I heard the shriek: ‘Come out!’ the dust of my bones gathered together to my soul and remained in it. So I came out in a panic, shuddering, gazing with my eyes, obedient to the voice of my caller, so due to that my hair and my beard whitened’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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