جَاءَتْ فَخِذٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) فَسَلَّمُوا عَلَيْهِ فَرَدَّ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّلَامَ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَنَا إِلَيْكَ حَاجَةٌ فَقَالَ هَاتُوا حَاجَتَكُمْ قَالُوا إِنَّهَا حَاجَةٌ عَظِيمَةٌ فَقَالَ هَاتُوهَا مَا هِيَ قَالُوا تَضْمَنُ لَنَا عَلَى رَبِّكَ الْجَنَّةَ قَالَ فَنَكَسَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) رَأْسَهُ ثُمَّ نَكَتَ فِي الْأَرْضِ ثُمَّ رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ فَقَالَ أَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ بِكُمْ عَلَى أَنْ لَا تَسْأَلُوا أَحَداً شَيْئاً قَالَ فَكَانَ الرَّجُلُ مِنْهُمْ يَكُونُ فِي السَّفَرِ فَيَسْقُطُ سَوْطُهُ فَيَكْرَهُ أَنْ يَقُولَ لِإِنْسَانٍ نَاوِلْنِيهِ فِرَاراً مِنَ الْمَسْأَلَةِ فَيَنْزِلُ فَيَأْخُذُهُ وَ يَكُونُ عَلَى الْمَائِدَةِ فَيَكُونُ بَعْضُ الْجُلَسَاءِ أَقْرَبَ إِلَى الْمَاءِ مِنْهُ فَلَا يَقُولُ نَاوِلْنِي حَتَّى يَقُومُ فَيَشْرَبُ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hisham Bin Salim, from Abu Baseer, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘A branch of a tribe of the Helpers came over to Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> and they greeted him<sup>saww</sup>. So he<sup>saww</sup> returned (greeting) to them. So they said, ‘O Rasool-Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! For us there is a need to you<sup>saww</sup>’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Come with your need’. So they said, ‘It is a great need’. So he<sup>saww</sup> said: ‘Say it, what is it?’ They said, ‘Guarantee for us the Paradise upon your<sup>saww</sup> Lord<sup>azwj</sup>’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘So Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> lowered his<sup>saww</sup> head, then made marks in the ground, then raised his<sup>saww</sup> head, so he<sup>saww</sup> said: ‘I<sup>saww</sup> will do that with you upon a stipulation that not one of you would ask anyone for anything’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘So it was such that the man from them happened to be in the journey, and his whip would fall down, so he would dislike to ask a person, ‘Can you give it to me’, (so they were) fleeing from the asking. So he would (rather) descend and take it himself; and he would happen to be upon the table, and one of the seated ones would be closer to the water than himself, but he would not say, ‘Can you give me (the water)’, until he would arise himself, so he would drink’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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