If you disregard them you will go astray and be destroyed.
If you disregard them you will go astray and be destroyed. Therefore, follow them and I -asws will assure you of your salvation.’ [27] عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ مَنْصُورِ بْنِ يُونُسَ عَنْ عَبَّادِ بْنِ كَثِيرٍ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع إِنِّي مَرَرْتُ بِقَاصٍّ يَقُصُّ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ هَذَا الْمَجْلِسُ الَّذِي لَا يَشْقَى بِهِ جَلِيسٌ قَالَ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع هَيْهَاتَ هَيْهَاتَ أَخْطَأَتْ أَسْتَاهُهُمُ الْحُفْرَةَ إِنَّ لِلَّهِ مَلَائِكَةً سَيَّاحِينَ سِوَى الْكِرَامِ الْكَاتِبِينَ فَإِذَا مَرُّوا بِقَوْمٍ يَذْكُرُونَ مُحَمَّداً وَ آلَ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالُوا قِفُوا فَقَدْ أَصَبْتُمْ حَاجَتَكُمْ فَيَجْلِسُونَ فَيَتَفَقَّهُونَ مَعَهُمْ فَإِذَا قَامُوا عَادُوا مَرْضَاهُمْ وَ شَهِدُوا جَنَائِزَهُمْ وَ تَعَاهَدُوا غَائِبَهُمْ فَذَلِكَ الْمَجْلِسُ الَّذِي لَا يَشْقَى بِهِ جَلِيسٌ A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from al-Washsha’ from Mansur ibn Younis from ‘Abbad ibn Kathir who has said the following: ‘Once I told abu Abd Allah -asws that I passed by a storyteller who said to his audience, ‘This is a gathering whose attendants do not suffer wickedness.’ The narrator has said that abu Abd Allah -asws then said: ‘How extremely far is it from reality!’ You passed by the wrong gathering.
(Astahahum al-Hufrah) How terribly wrong is their expression! Allah -azwj has certain angels who visit places, and they are other than the honourable scribes. When they pass by a people, who speak of Muhammad -saww and Ale Muhammad -asws , these angels say, ‘Stop here.’ You have found what you needed.’ They will sit down and begin to think and understand with them.
When the gathering disperses they visit their people suffering due to ill health, attend their funerals and look after those of them who are absent.
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