Al-Kafi 939

Translation

One of our companions, from Muhammad Bin Hassan, from Muhammad Bin Ranjawiya, from Abdullah Bin Al Hakam Al Armany, from Abdullah Bin Ibrahim Bin Muhammad Al Ja’far who said, ‘Wen went over to Khadija daughter of Umar son of Ali^asws Bin Al-Husayn^asws Bin Ali^asws Bin Abu Talib^asws to console her for a son of her daughter. So we found her in the presence of Musa Bin Abdullah son of Al-Hassan^asws, and she was in a corner close to the women. So we consoled them then we turned to face him, and he was saying to a daughter of Abu Yashkur Al-Rasiya, ‘Say (some words)’. So she said, ‘(Of our) number (family) is Rasool-Allah^saww and of our number after him^saww the Lion of God, and thirdly Abbas. And (of our) number is Ali^asws the best, and (of our) number is Ja’far and (of our) number is Aqeel, after him the chiefs’. So he said, ‘Excellent! It moved me. Increase it for me’. So she rushed saying, ‘And from us is the Imam of the Pious ones Muhammad^saww, and Hamza^as is from us^asws, and the polite ones Ja’far^asws, and from us^asws is Ali^asws his^saww son-in-law and his^saww cousin, and his^saww horseman. That is the Purified Imam^asws’. So we stayed in her presence until the night almost came. Then Khadeeja said, ‘I heard my uncle Muhammad Bin Ali^asws and he^asws was saying: ‘But rather you need the woman regarding the mourning for the lamentations in order for the tears to flow, and it is not befitting for her that she should be saying wild exaggerations. So when the night comes, do not hurt the Angels with the lamentations’. Then we went out, and we came back to her the next day, and we mentioned in her presence the isolation of her dwelling from the house of Abu Abdullah Ja’far^asws Bin Muhammad^asws. So he (Musa) said, ‘This is the house which is named as the stolen house’. So she said, ‘This is what was chosen by our Mahdi (Guide)’, meaning Muhammad Bin Abdullah Bin Al-Hassan, to tease him with that. So Musa Bin Abdullah said, ‘By Allah^azwj! I shall inform you all with the strangeness I saw with my father, may Allah^azwj be Pleased with him. When he took with the matter of Muhammad Bin Abdullah and gathered to meet his companions, so he said, ‘I do not find this matter to be straight except if I meet Abu Abdullah Ja’far^asws Bin Muhammad^asws’. So he went, and he was leaning upon me. So I went with him until we came over to Abu Abdullah^asws, and we met him^asws coming out intending to go to the Masjid. So my father paused him^asws and spoke to him^asws. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘This is not the place for this. We shall meet up, if Allah^azwj so Desires it’. So my father returned joyful. Then we stayed until it was the next day or after it by a day, we went until we came over to him^asws. So my father entered to see him^asws and I was with him, and he initiated the speech. Then he said to him^asws, ‘With regards to what you^asws are saying, I know, may I be sacrificed for you^asws, that the age is for me over you^asws, and that among your^asws people there are ones who are older than you^asws are, but Allah^azwj Mighty and Majestic has Preceded merits for you^asws which are not for anyone from your^asws people, and has Made you^asws to be reliable due to what is known from your^asws righteousness, and what is known of your^asws status, if you^asws respond to me, no one from your^asws companions would oppose me, and not two from the Qureysh would oppose me, nor any others’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘You will find others to be more obedient to you than me^asws, and there is no need for you with regards to me^asws. You should know that I^asws intended (to live) in the wilderness or was thinking of it, but I^asws found it too heavy of it, and I^asws intended the Hajj, but I^asws could not realise it except after exertion and exhaustion and difficulties upon myself^asws. Therefore you should seek someone else and ask him of that, and do not let him know that you came over to me^asws’. So he said to him^asws, ‘The people are extending their necks towards you^asws and if you^asws were to respond to me, no one would oppose me, and for you^asws would be that you^asws will neither be encumbered with the fighting nor any abhorrence’. And the people crowded upon us and they came over and cut off our speech. So my father said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! What are you^asws saying?’ So he^asws said: ‘We shall meet up, Allah^azwj Willing’. So he said, ‘Would it be upon what I like?’ So he^asws said: ‘Upon what you like, Allah^azwj Willing, from your correction’. Then he left until he came to his house, and he sent a messenger to Muhammad (living) in a mountain at Juhayna called Al-Ashqar, which was two nights (journey) from Al-Medina. So he gave him glad tidings and let him know that there was success for him with respect to his need and what he sought (help of Abu Abdullah^asws for the uprising against the ruling authorities). Then he returned after three days and paused at the door, and we were not barred from the door when we came, as the messenger was delayed. Then we had permission for us, so we entered to see him^asws. So we were seated in a corner of the room and my father went near to him^asws and kissed his^asws head, then said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! I have returned to you^asws hoping, expecting, and I have unrolled my hopes and my expectation and begging for the realisation of my need’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘O son of my^asws uncle! I^asws seek Refuge with Allah^azwj from the exposure to this matter which you are indulging in, and I^asws am afraid over you that you might amass evil’. So there flowed the speech between them until it led to what he had not wanted from his speech, ‘By which thing was Al-Husayn^asws more rightful with it than Al-Hassan^asws?’ So Abu Abdullah^asws said: ‘May Allah^azwj have Mercy on Al-Hassan^asws and have Mercy on Al-Husayn^asws. And how could you mention this?’ He said, ‘Because Al-Husayn^asws, it was befitting for him^asws when he^asws was just that he^asws should have made it (Imamate) to be in the eldest one from the sons of Al-Hassan^asws’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said: ‘Alllah^azwj Blessed and Hish, when He^azwj Revealed unto Muhammad^saww, Revealed unto him^saww with whatever He^azwj so Desired to and did not Command anyone from His^azwj creatures, and Muhammad^saww instructed Ali^asws with whatever he^saww so desired to, so he^asws did whatever he^asws was instructed with, and we^asws are not saying with regards to it except what Rasool-Allah^saww said from his (Al-Husayn^asws’s) veneration and his^asws ratification. So, had he^saww instructed Al-Husayn^asws that he^asws should make it to be in the eldest one or transfer it to be in their^asws sons, meaning the successorship, he^asws would have done that, and he^asws is not with an accusation in our^asws presence with regards to hoarding it for himself^asws, and he^asws was a Guardian (<span class="iTxt">Wali</span>) and he could have neglected that, but he^asws accomplished whatever he^asws had been instructed with, and he^asws is your grandfather and your uncle. Thus, if you were to speak good then you would be closer with it, and if you were to speak vanities, then may Allah^azwj Forgive you. So if you were to obey me^asws, O son of my^asws uncle, and listen to my speech, by Allah^azwj the One^azwj there is no god except for Him^azwj, I^asws have advised you and ordered you, so how come I^asws do not see you doing what is the Command of Allah^azwj from what is due?’ So my father was joyful during that. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘By Allah^azwj! You know that the squint-eyed one with few hairs would be killed by the door of Ashja’a at the bottom of its (water) flow’. So my father said, ‘It is not like that. By Allah^azwj! He would be battling them with a day for a day, and with an hour for an hour, and with a year for a year, and he would straighten (avenge) for the rest of the clan of Abu Talib^asws altogether’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘What I^asws fear is that this couplet would happen to be attached to our companion, ‘You clothed yourself with straying in private’. No, by Alah^azwj! He will not control any more that the walls of Al-Medina nor would his word reach Al-Taef when he tries, meaning when he strives himself, and what is inevitable to happen will occur. Therefore, fear Allah^azwj and have mercy on yourself and the sons of your father, for by Allah^azwj, I^asws see him as the most ill-fated of the weapons which the loins of men have brought out to the wombs of the women. By Allah^azwj! He would be killed by the doorway of Ashja’a between its houses. By Allah^azwj! It is as if I^asws am (seeing) him in bits, crucified, with a brick in between his legs, and it is not befitting this boy what he is hearing’. Musa Bin Abdullah said, ‘He^asws meant me’. ‘And he would be going out with him, so he would be defeated and his companion would be killed. So he would be going out with another banner, and its commander would be killed and his army would disperse. But, if he were to obey me^asws, so let him seek the security during that from the Clan of Al-Abbas until Allah^azwj Brings him the relief. And you know that this matter would not be completed and you know and we^asws know that your son, the squint-eyed of few hairs will be killed by the doorway of Ashja’a between its houses by the bottom of its (water) flows’. So my father stood up and he was saying, But Allah^azwj would Make us to be needless of you^asws and He^azwj would Return you^asws or Join you^asws up with the others, and you^asws are not intending with this except to prevent others, and that you^asws would become their reason to that (for not helping us)’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said: ‘Allah^azwj Knows what I^asws do not intend except to advise you and guide you, and there isn’t upon me^asws except for the trying’. So my father arose, dragging his clothes in anger. So Abu Abdullah^asws reached out to him And said to him: ‘I^asws am informing you that I^asws heard your uncle and he is your maternal uncle, mentioning that you and the sons of our father would soon be getting killed, so if you were to obey me^asws and if you view that you should defend with that which is better, so do it. By Allah^azwj, Who, there is no god except for Him^azwj, the Knower of the unseen and the seen, the Beneficent, the Merciful, the Greatest, the Exalted over His^azwj creatures, you are beloved and I^asws would ransom you with my^asws children, and by the most beloved ones to me, and by the most beloved ones of my^asws family to me, and nothing equates with you in my^asws presence. Therefore do not view that I^asws have deceived you’. So my father exited from his^asws presence, angry, aggrieved. He (the narrator) said, ‘So we did not stay after that except for a little, maybe twenty nights or so until messengers of (the Caliph) Abu Ja’far (Al-Mansour) came over and seized my father, and my uncles Suleyman Bin Hassan, and Hassan Bin Hassan, and Ibrahim Bin Hassan, and Dawood Bin Hassan, and Ali Bin Hassan, and Suleyman Bin Dawood Bin Hassan, and Ali Bin Ibrahim Bin Hassan, and Hassan Bin Ja’far Bin Hassan, and Tabataba Ibrahim Bin Ismail Bin Hassan, and Abdullah Bin Dawood. He (the narrator) said, ‘So they were shackled in the iron (shackles), then they were carried in bare carriages. There being no covering therein and they were paused at the praying place so that perhaps the people might insult them. But the people refrained from them and were kind to them due to the state which they were in. Then they went with them until they were paused by the door of the Masjid of Rasool-Allah^saww’. Abdullah Bin Ibrahim Al-Ja’fary said, ‘Khadeeja Bint Umar Bin Ali narrated to us that whey they were paused by the door of the Masjid which was called Jibraeel^as door, Abu Abdullah^asws emerged unto them and the generality of his^asws robe was dragging in the ground. Then he^asws emerged from the door of the Masjid and he^asws said: ‘May Allah^azwj Curse you all, O group of the Helpers!’ - three times. (Then said): ‘It was not upon this that Rasool-Allah^saww Covenanted with you nor did you all pledge allegiance to him^saww (upon this). But, by Allah^azwj, I was careful, but it is as if I^asws have been overcome, and there is no repelling the Ordainment’. Then he^asws arose and grabbed one of his^asws slippers and inserted his^asws leg, and the other one was in his^asws hand, and the generality of his^asws robe was flowing in the ground. Then he^asws entered into his^asws house, and was feverish for twenty nights. He^asws did not cease to weep during it day and night until we^asws feared upon him^asws. So this is the Hadeeth of Khadeeja. And Musa Bin Abdullah Bin Al-Hassan narrated to us that when they emerged with the group in the carriages, Abu Abdullah^asws stood up from the Masjid, then went towards the carriage in which was Abdullah Bin Al-Hassan, intending to speak to him^asws, but he^asws was prevented with the most intense of the preventions, and guard pushed him^asws away and said, ‘Stay away from this, may Allah^azwj Stop you^asws and others’. Then they entered them into an alleyway, and Abu Abdullah^asws returned to his^asws house. So he had not reached with them to Al-Baqi’e (the cemetery) until the guard was afflicted with an intense difficulty. His she-camel threw him off and his hip was pulverized and he died during it, and they went with the group. So we stayed after that for a while, then Muhammad Bin Abdullah Bin Hassan came over and informed that his father and his uncles had been killed. Abu Ja’far (Al-Mansour the Caliph) had killed them, except for Hassan Bin Ja’far, and Tabataba, and Ali Bin Ibrahim, and Suleyman Bin Dawood, and Dawood Bin Hassan, and Abdullah Bin Dawood. He (the narrator) said, ‘So Muhammad Bin Abdullah appeared during that and called the people to his allegiance. So we were three who pledged allegiance to him and urged the people to pledge allegiance to him, and neither the Qureysh opposed him, nor the Helpers, nor the Bedouins. And he consulted Isa Bin Zayd, and he was from his trustworthy ones, and he was (a commander) upon his police force. So he consulted him regarding the sending to face his people. So Isa Bin Zayd said to him, ‘If you call them with an easy calling, they will not answer you, or you should be harsh upon them. Therefore leave me and them’. So Muhammad said to him, ‘Go to whoever you intend from them’. So he said, ‘Go to their chiefs and their elders, meaning Abu Abdullah Ja’far^asws Bin Muhammad^asws, for if you are harsh upon him^asws, they would all know that you will make them pass upon the path which you passed Abu Abdullah^asws upon’. So it was not long before they came with Abu Abdullah^asws until they paused him^asws in front of him. So Isa Bin Zayd said to him^asws, ‘Submit, you^asws will be safe’. So he (the narrator) said, ‘So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘Are you initiating a new Prophet-hood after Muhammad^saww?’ So Muhammad said to him^asws, ‘No, but pledge allegiance and be secure upon yourself^asws, and your^asws wealth, and your^asws children and you will not be encumbered with war’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘I^asws am neither indulging in war nor fighting, and I^asws had preceded to your father and cautioned him what he would be caught up with, but a caution cannot benefit from the pre-determination. O son of my^asws brother! Upon you is with the youth, and leave off from the elderly’. So Muhammad said to him^asws, ‘How near it is what is between me and you^asws in age’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘I^asws have not harmed you and did not come to proceed against you with regards to what you are in’. So Muhammad said to him, ‘No, by Allah^azwj! It is inevitable that you^asws must pledge allegiance’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘O son of my^asws brother! I^asws did not come seeking (worldly gains), nor a war, and I^asws wanted to go out to the wilderness, but that was difficult upon me^asws and heavy upon me^asws, to the extent that the family spoke to me^asws regarding that more than once, and nothing prevented me^asws from it except for (physical) weakness. By Allah^azwj and the womb relationship, turn away from us^asws and our^asws misfortune with you’. So he said to him^asws, ‘O Abu Abdullah^asws! Abu Al-Dawaneeq, meaning Abu Ja’far (Al-Mansour the Caliph) has died!’ So Abu Abdullah^asws said: ‘And what are you doing with me^asws and he has died?’ He^asws said: ‘I want the majesty with you^asws’. He^asws said: ‘There is no way to what you are intending. By Allah^azwj! Abu Ja’far (Al Mansour) has not died except if he has happened to have died the death of sleep’. He said, ‘By Allah^azwj! You^asws will either pledge allegiance to me willingly or unwillingly, and there is no praise in your^asws pledging allegiance’. But he^asws refused upon him with intense refusal, and he ordered with him^asws to the prison. So Isa Bin Zayd said to him, ‘But, if you were to throw him^asws in the prison, and the prison has been ruined, and there is no lock upon it today. We fear that he^asws might flee from it’. So Abu Abdullah^asws smiled, then said: ‘There is neither a Might nor Strength except with Allah^azwj, the Exalted, the Magnificent! Or do you think you will be imprisoning me^asws?’ He said, ‘Yes, by the One^azwj Who Honoured Muhammad^saww with the Prophet-hood, I will be imprisoning you^asws and will be intensely harsh upon you^asws’. So Isa Bin Zayd said, ‘Withhold him^asws in the hide-out, and that is the house of Rayta today’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said: ‘But, by Allah^azwj, I^asws shall be saying (something) and I^asws will be ratified’. So Isa Bin Zayd said, ‘If you speak, I shall break your^asws mouth’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘But, by Allah^azwj, O bald one, O blue-eyed one! It is as if I^asws see you looking for a hole for yourself to enter into, and you will not be among the mentioned ones during the meeting (the enemy during battles), and I^asws think that when (someone) claps behind you, you will flee like the fleeing ostrich. So Muhammad rushed upon it with the rebuke, ‘Withhold him^asws, and be severe upon him^asws, and be harsh upon him^asws’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘But, by Allah^azwj, it is as if I^asws am with you (seeing you) coming out from the doorway of Ashja’a to the base of the valley and an informant horseman has attacked you, there being a lance in his hand, half of it white and half of it black, upon a Kumeyt horse (brown with white forehead), so he stabs you, but it does not do anything to you, and you strike the nose of his horse, so it throws him. And another one attacks upon you, outside from the alleyway of the family of Abu Ammar Al-Dowliyayn. Upon him are two braids of hair and they are coming out from his helmet, being of a lot of hair of the moustache. So he, by Allah^azwj, is your companion (who will kill you). May Allah^azwj not have Mercy on his bones’. So Muhammad said to him^asws, ‘O Abu Abdullah^asws! You^asws counted, but erred’, and Al-Surraqy Bin Sulkh Al-Howt stood up to him^asws and pushed him^asws in his^asws back until he^asws entered into the prison, and they chose (plundered) whatever was for him^asws from the wealth and whatever was for his^asws group from the ones who did not come out along with Muhammad. He (the narrator) said, ‘So they emerged with Ismail Bin Abdullah Bin Ja’far^asws Bin Abu Talib^asws, and he was an aged old man, weak, and one of his eyes (sight) had gone, and both his legs had gone, and he was carried by a carrier. So he called him to his allegiance. So he said to him, ‘O son of my brother! I am an aged old man, weak, and I am (at the mercy of) your righteousness, and needy to your forgiveness’. So he said to him, ‘It is inevitable that you pledge allegiance’. So he said to him, ‘And which thing would you benefit by the pledge of my allegiance? By Allah^azwj! I would be restricting upon you the place of the name of (another) man, if you were to write him’. He said, ‘It is inevitable that you do so’, and he was harsh upon him with the words. So Ismail said to him, ‘Call Ja’far^asws Bin Muhammad^asws for me, so we can pledge allegiance together’. So he called Ja’far^asws. So Ismail said to him^asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! If you^asws see it fit, you^asws could clarify to him, then do so, perhaps Allah^azwj would Refrain him from us’. He^asws said: ‘I^asws have decided that I^asws shall not speak to him, so let him view with regards to me^asws by his opinion’. So Ismail said to Abu Abdullah^asws, ‘I adjure you^asws with Allah^azwj! Do You^asws remember the day I came over to your^asws father^asws Muhammad Bin Ali^asws, and upon me were two yellow garments. So he^asws looked at me for long, ane he^asws wept. So I said to him^asws, ‘What makes you^asws weep?’ So he^asws said to me: ‘It makes me weep that you would be killed during old age wastefully, no two goats would butt their heads regarding your blood’. I said, ‘So when would that be?’ He^asws said: ‘When you will be called to the falsehood and you would refuse, and you will look at the squint-eyed one of his people belonging to the progeny of Al-Hassan^asws, being upon the Pulpit of Rasool-Allah^saww, calling (the people) to himself, having being named with other than his name. So renew your oath and write out your will for you would be killed during your day or the next’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘Yes, and this one (Muhammad), by the Lord^azwj of the Kabah, does not Fast from the Month of Ramazan except for a few (days). Therefore trust Allah^azwj, O Abu Al-Hassan, and may Allah^azwj Magnify our^asws Recompense regarding you, and Keep well the ones whom you leave behind, and we are for Allah^azwj and to Him^azwj we are returning’. He (the narrator) said, ‘The Ismail was carried away and Ja’far^asws was returned to the detention. So, by Allah^azwj, we had not even seen the evening before the sons of his brother, the clan of Mauawiya Bin Abdullah Bin Ja’far, so they trampled him (Ismail) until they killed him, and Muhammad Bin Abdullah sent a messenger to Ja’far^asws and freed his^asws way. He (the narrator) said, ‘And we stayed after that until we saw the crescent of the Month of Ramazan, and we came across the rising of Isa Bin Musa, intending Al-Medina. So Muhammad Bin Abdullah proceeded upon the leading (of the army) by Yazeed Bin Muawiya Bin Abdullah Bin Ja’far, and it was so that upon the front of (the army of) Isa Bin Musa were the sons of Al-Hassan Bin Zayd Bin Al-Hassan Bin Al-Hassan, and Qasim, and muhammad Bin Zayd and Ali Bin Ibrahim, sons of Al-Hassan Bin Zayd. So Yazeed Bin Muawiya was defeated and Isa Bin Musa proceeded to Al-Medina, and the fighting was at Al-Medina. So he (Isa) encamped at Zubab, and the blacks (black banners of the Abbasides) came upon us from behind us, and Muhammad went out among his companions until he reached the marketplace. So he arrived to them and went, then pursued them until he ended up to the Masjid Al-Khawameen. So he looked around to what was placed over there. There weren’t any blacks (Abbasides) nor any whites. So he proceeded until he ended up to the cave of Fazarat. Then he entered Huzayl, then went to Ashja’a. So there came out to him the horsemen whom Abu Abdullah^asws had spoken of, from behind him, from the doorway of Huzayl and stabbed him. But it did not waste anything in him, and he attacked upon the horseman and struck the nose of his horse with the sword. So the horseman stabbed him and penetrated his armour and Muhammad retaliated upon him and struck him, and killed him. And there came out upon him, Humeyd Bin Qahtaba, and his back was turned upon the horse, and he struck him from the alleyway of Ammariyeen. So he stabbed him with a stabbing, and the spearhead got stuck and the spear broke during it. And he attacked upon Humeyd, and Humeyd stabbed him with the head of the spear and wounded him. Then he descended unto him, and he struck him until he ripped him and killed him, and took his head and the army entered from every side, and took Al-Medina, and we were exiled fleeing in the land. Musa Bin Abdullah said, ‘So I went until I met up with Ibrahim Bin Abdullah, and I found Isa Bin Zayd hiding with him. So I informed him of the evil of his plan and we went out with him until he died, may Allah^azwj have Mercy on him. Then I went with the son of my brother Al-Ashtar Abdullah Bin Muhammad Bin Abdullah Bin Hassan until he died at Al-Sind. Then I returned, fearfully, a fugitive, the land being constricted upon me. So when the land was constricted upon me and the fear intensified with me, I remembered what Abu Abdullah^asws had said. So I went over to Al-Mahdi (the Abbaside Caliph), and he had performed Hajj and he was addressing the people in the shade of the Kabah. So he was not aware except that I had been standing beneath the pulpit. So I said, ‘(Grant) the security for me, O commander of the faithful, and I shall point you upon an advice for you which is with me’. So he said, ‘Yes, and what is it?’ I said, ‘I shall point you upon Musa Bin Abdullah Bin Hassan’. So he said to me, ‘Yes, for you is the security’. So I said to him, ‘Give me what I can rely with’. So I took an oath from him and a covenant and what I could trust for myself, then I said, ‘I am Musa Bin Abdullah’. So he said to me, ‘Then you shall be honoured and respected’. So I said to him, ‘Cut me off (for support) to someone from your family who would stand with my affairs in your presence’. So he said to me, ‘Look at the one whom you intend’. So I said, ‘Your uncle Al-Abbas Bin Muhammad’. So Al-Abbas said, ‘There is no need for me with regards to you’. So I said, ‘But, there is a need for me regarding you. I ask you by the right of until you accept me’. So accept me willingly or refuse’. And Al-Mahdy said to me, ‘Who recognises you?’ And around him were our companions, or most of them. So I said, ‘This one, Al-Hassan Bin Zayd knows me, and this one Musa^asws Bin Ja’far^asws knows me, and this Al-Hassan Bin Abullah Bin Al-Abbas knows me’. So they said, ‘Yes, O commander of the faithful, it is as if he was never absent from us’. Then I said to Al-Mahdy, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen! He^asws informed me of this place, the father^asws of this man^asws’, and I gestured towards Musa^asws Bin Ja’far^asws. Musa Bin Abdullah said, ‘And I lied upon Ja’far^asws with a lied, so I said to him (the Caliph), ‘And he^asws instructed me that I should convey the greetings to you, and he^asws said that he (the Caliph) is a just leader and generous’. Then he (the narrator) said, ‘So he (the Caliph) ordered for five thousand Dinar to be given to Musa^asws Bin Ja’far^asws, and from it Musa^asws ordered with two thousand Dinars to be given to me, and he^asws helped the generality of his^asws companions and helped me, so excellent was his^asws helping me. So wherever the sons of Muhammad^asws Bin Ali^asws Bin Al-Husayn^asws are mentioned, so you should be saying, ‘May Allah^azwj Send <span class="iTxt">Salawat</span> upon them, (as well as) His^azwj Angels, and the bearers of His^azwj Throne, and the Honourable Recorders, in particular Abu Abdullah^asws with the best of that, and Recompense Musa^asws Bin Ja’far^asws with goodness from me, for I, by Allah^azwj, am their slave, after Allah^azwj’.

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