The Imam -asws said to me...

The Imam -asws said to me: ‘When you return to Al-Kufa, go to him and say to him, ‘Ja’far -asws Bin Muhammad -asws is saying to you: ‘Leave what you are upon and I -asws (personally) guarantee the Paradise for you, upon (the Guarantee of) Allah -azwj ’.

Abu Abdullah -asws said this to you?’ At that, I swore on oath to him and he -asws had said so. He said to me what I said. He said to me, ‘You have sufficed’, and he went away. So, when it was a few days afterwards, he sent a message to me, and called me over, and there he was, bare, behind his door. He said to me, ‘O Abu Baseer! No, by Allah -azwj ! There does not remain anything in my house but I have thrown it out, and I am just as you see’.

Then, there did not pass upon him a few days until he sent a message to me, ‘I am sick’. I went over to him, and I used to come and go to him and treat him until the death descended with him. When I was seated in his presence and he was struggling with himself, and there was a fainting upon him. He fainted, then woke up, and he said to me, ‘O Abu Baseer! Your Master -asws has fulfilled for us’. Then he passed away, may Allah -azwj have Mercy upon him.