أَخْبَرَنِي مَوْلًى لِعَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ كُنْتُ بِالْكُوفَةِ فَقَدِمَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) الْحِيرَةَ فَأَتَيْتُهُ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ لَوْ كَلَّمْتَ دَاوُدَ بْنَ عَلِيٍّ أَوْ بَعْضَ هَؤُلَاءِ فَأَدْخُلَ فِي بَعْضِ هَذِهِ الْوِلَايَاتِ فَقَالَ مَا كُنْتُ لِأَفْعَلَ قَالَ فَانْصَرَفْتُ إِلَى مَنْزِلِي فَتَفَكَّرْتُ فَقُلْتُ مَا أَحْسَبُهُ مَنَعَنِي إِلَّا مَخَافَةَ أَنْ أَظْلِمَ أَوْ أَجُورَ وَ اللَّهِ لآَتِيَنَّهُ وَ لَأُعْطِيَنَّهُ الطَّلَاقَ وَ الْعَتَاقَ وَ الْأَيْمَانَ الْمُغَلَّظَةَ أَلَّا أَظْلِمَ أَحَداً وَ لَا أَجُورَ وَ لَأَعْدِلَنَّ قَالَ فَأَتَيْتُهُ فَقُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ إِنِّي فَكَّرْتُ فِي إِبَائِكَ عَلَيَّ فَظَنَنْتُ أَنَّكَ إِنَّمَا مَنَعْتَنِي وَ كَرِهْتَ ذَلِكَ مَخَافَةَ أَنْ أَجُورَ أَوْ أَظْلِمَ وَ إِنَّ كُلَّ امْرَأَةٍ لِي طَالِقٌ وَ كُلَّ مَمْلُوكٍ لِي حُرٌّ عَلَيَّ وَ عَلَيَّ إِنْ ظَلَمْتُ أَحَداً أَوْ جُرْتُ عَلَيْهِ وَ إِنْ لَمْ أَعْدِلْ قَالَ كَيْفَ قُلْتَ قَالَ فَأَعَدْتُ عَلَيْهِ الْأَيْمَانَ فَرَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فَقَالَ تَنَاوُلُ السَّمَاءِ أَيْسَرُ عَلَيْكَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, (It has been narrated) from Dawood Bin Zurby a slave of Ali<sup>asws</sup> Bin Al-Husayn<sup>asws</sup> who said, ‘I was at Al-Kufa, so Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> proceded to Al-Hira. So I went over to him<sup>asws</sup> and said to him, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! If you<sup>asws</sup> could speak to Dawood Bin Ali or one of them, so that I could enter in one of these governorships’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘I<sup>asws</sup> will never do it’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So I left to go to my house, and I thought about it. I said (to myself), ‘What I reckon is that he<sup>asws</sup> did not forbid me<sup>asws</sup> except out of fear that I would be unjust, or tyrannical. By Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! I shall go to him<sup>asws</sup>, and I shall (swear) with the divorce and the freeing (of slaves) and the harshest of the oaths that I will not be unjust to anyone nor be tyrannical, and I will do justice’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So I went over to him<sup>asws</sup> and I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! I pondered over your refusal to me, so I thought that you<sup>asws</sup>, rather forbade me and disliked that out of fear that I would be tyrannical, or be unjust, and that I (swear) that every woman of mine be divorced, and every owned slave of mine be freed upon me if I were to be unjust to anyone, or be tyrannical upon him, and if I do not do justice’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘How can you say (that)?’ So I repeated the oath upon him<sup>asws</sup>, so he<sup>asws</sup> raised his<sup>asws</sup> head towards the sky and said: ‘Attaining the sky is easier upon you from (being able to do) that (what you are claiming to do)’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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