أَخْبَرَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ النُّعْمَانِ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الْأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ إِنَّ الْعَرَبَ لَمْ يَزَالُوا عَلَى شَيْءٍ مِنَ الْحَنِيفِيَّةِ يَصِلُونَ الرَّحِمَ وَ يَقْرُونَ الضَّيْفَ وَ يَحُجُّونَ الْبَيْتَ وَ يَقُولُونَ اتَّقُوا مَالَ الْيَتِيمِ فَإِنَّ مَالَ الْيَتِيمِ عِقَالٌ وَ يَكُفُّونَ عَنْ أَشْيَاءَ مِنَ الْمَحَارِمِ مَخَافَةَ الْعُقُوبَةِ وَ كَانُوا لَا يُمْلَى لَهُمْ إِذَا انْتَهَكُوا الْمَحَارِمَ وَ كَانُوا يَأْخُذُونَ مِنْ لِحَاءِ شَجَرِ الْحَرَمِ فَيُعَلِّقُونَهُ فِي أَعْنَاقِ الْإِبِلِ فَلَا يَجْتَرِئُ أَحَدٌ أَنْ يَأْخُذَ مِنْ تِلْكَ الْإِبِلِ حَيْثُمَا ذَهَبَتْ وَ لَا يَجْتَرِئُ أَحَدٌ أَنْ يُعَلِّقَ مِنْ غَيْرِ لِحَاءِ شَجَرِ الْحَرَمِ أَيُّهُمْ فَعَلَ ذَلِكَ عُوقِبَ وَ أَمَّا الْيَوْمَ فَأُمْلِيَ لَهُمْ وَ لَقَدْ جَاءَ أَهْلُ الشَّامِ فَنَصَبُوا الْمَنْجَنِيقَ عَلَى أَبِي قُبَيْسٍ فَبَعَثَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ سَحَابَةً كَجَنَاحِ الطَّيْرِ فَأَمْطَرَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ صَاعِقَةً فَأَحْرَقَتْ سَبْعِينَ رَجُلًا حَوْلَ الْمَنْجَنِيقِ .
Translation
(p.s. – This is a report and not a Hadeeth) Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Ali Bin Al Numan, from Saeed Al A’araj, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘The Arabs did not cease to be upon something from the uprightness (The Religion of Ibrahim<sup>as</sup>). They were maintaining relationships, and were entertaining the guests, and performing Hajj of the House (Kaaba), and they were saying, ‘Fear (of consuming) the wealth of the orphans is a shackle’, and they were refraining from certain things of the Prohibitions fearing the consequential Punishment, and would not find any respite if they violated the Prohibitions, and they were taking from the bark of a tree of the Sanctuary, so they were hanging it in the neck of the camel (gifted to the Kaaba). So no one had the audacity that he would take it from that camel, wherever it may go to, nor was anyone audacious enough that he would hand something other than the bark of a tree of the Sanctuary. Whoever did that, faced punishment. And as for today, so it has been respited for them; and the people of Syria had come, so they had set up the catapult upon (Mount) Abu Qubays. So Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Sent a cloud upon them like the wing of a bird, so it rained thunderbolts upon them. Seventeen men were incinerated around the catapult’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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