Al-Kafi 8123

Translation

A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Musa Bin Ja’far, from Umar Bin Saeed, from Al Hassan Bin Sadaqa, from Ammar Bin Musa who said, ‘Abu Abdullah^asws and I went over to Masjid Al-Fazeekh, so he^asws said: ‘O Ammar! Do you see this lowland?’ I said, ‘Yes’ He^asws said: ‘It was so that the wife of Ja’far^as who was looked after by Amir Al-Momineen^asws used to sit in this place, and with her were her two sons from Ja’far, so she would wail. So, her sons said to her, ‘What makes you weep, O mother?’ She said, ‘I cry for Amir Al-Momineen^asws’. So they both said to her, ‘You are crying for Amir Al-Momineen^asws and you are not crying for our father^as?’ She said, ‘This is not like this, but I remembered a Hadeeth narrated to me by Amir Al-Momineen^asws in this place, so it made me cry’. They said, ‘And what is it?’ She said, ‘I (was in the company of) Amir Al-Momineen^asws in this Masjid, so he^asws said to me: ‘Do you see this lowland?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He^asws said: ‘I^asws and Rasool-Allah^saww were seated therein when he^saww placed his^saww head in my^asws lap. Then he^saww pulsated until he^saww was immersed in sleep, and the time for <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span> presented itself. But I^asws disliked to move his^saww head from my^asws thigh so that I^asws might end up disturbing Rasool-Allah^saww, until the time (of the <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span>) passed and was lost. So Rasool-Allah^saww woke up and said: ‘O Ali^asws! Did you^asws Pray <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span>?’ I^asws said: ‘No’. He^saww said: ‘And why is that so?’ I^asws said: ‘I^asws disliked to disturb you^saww’. So he^saww arose and faced the Qiblah and extended both his^saww hands and said: ‘O Allah^azwj! Return the sun to its time until Ali^asws Prays <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span>’. So the sun returned to the time of the <span class="iTxt">Salaat</span> until I^asws Prayed Al-Asr, then it dived like the diving of the (shooting) stars’.

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