[18] Mausoleum of a Prophet -as or an Imam -asws is like his house...
[18] Mausoleum of a Prophet -as or an Imam -asws is like his house, see for example: Prophet -saww and his successors -asws are alive in their graves: عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْبَرْقِيِّ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ الْمُثَنَّى الْخَطِيبِ قَالَ كُنْتُ بِالْمَدِينَةِ وَ سَقْفُ الْمَسْجِدِ الَّذِي يُشْرِفُ عَلَى الْقَبْرِ قَدْ سَقَطَ وَ الْفَعَلَةُ يَصْعَدُونَ وَ يَنْزِلُونَ وَ نَحْنُ جَمَاعَةٌ فَقُلْتُ لِأَصْحَابِنَا مَنْ مِنْكُمْ لَهُ مَوْعِدٌ يَدْخُلُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) اللَّيْلَةَ فَقَالَ مِهْرَانُ بْنُ أَبِي نَصْرٍ أَنَا وَ قَالَ إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ الصَّيْرَفِيُّ أَنَا فَقُلْنَا لَهُمَا سَلَاهُ لَنَا عَنِ الصُّعُودِ لِنُشْرِفَ عَلَى قَبْرِ النَّبِيِّ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Al Barqy, from Ja’far Bin Al Musna Al Khateeb who said, ‘I was in Al-Medina and the ceiling of the Masjid which was upon the grave had fallen, and the workers were ascending and descending, and we were a group.
So I said to our companions, ‘Whom from you all to seek an appointment for him to see Abu Abdullah -asws tonight?’ So Mihran Bin Abu Nasr said, ‘I do’. And Ismail Bin Ammar Al-Sayrafi said, ‘I do’. So we said to them both, ‘You both ask him -asws for us about the ascending to see above the grave of the Prophet -saww ’.
فَلَمَّا كَانَ مِنَ الْغَدِ لَقِينَاهُمَا فَاجْتَمَعْنَا جَمِيعاً فَقَالَ إِسْمَاعِيلُ قَدْ سَأَلْنَاهُ لَكُمْ عَمَّا ذَكَرْتُمْ فَقَالَ مَا أُحِبُّ لِأَحَدٍ مِنْهُمْ أَنْ يَعْلُوَ فَوْقَهُ وَ لَا آمَنُهُ أَنْ يَرَى شَيْئاً يَذْهَبُ مِنْهُ بَصَرُهُ أَوْ يَرَاهُ قَائِماً يُصَلِّي أَوْ يَرَاهُ مَعَ بَعْضِ أَزْوَاجِهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) . So, when it was the morning, we met up with them both, and all of us had gathered.
So, Ismail said, ‘We had asked him -asws for you all about what you had mentioned, so he -asws said: ‘I -asws do not like it for anyone from you that he should be higher above him -saww , and there is no safety for him that he should see something due to which his eyesight would go away, or he may see him -saww standing praying Salat , or he might see him -saww along with one of his -saww wives’.
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