Al-Husayn Bin Ahmad Bin Hilal, from Yaser Al-Khadam who said: I said to Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza -asws , ‘I saw (a dream) during the sleep, as if there was a cage in which were seventeen bottles. There was an impact upon the cage and the bottles broke’. So he -asws said: ‘If your dream is true, a man from my -asws Household would come out, govern for seventeen days, then die’. So Muhammad Bin Ibrahim came out at Al-Kufa along with Abu Al-Saraaya. So he remained for seventeen days, then died’.
[30] The Ilhaam/Basharat (Inspiration): It is an extremely delicate subject, as Iblis -la is able to conspire (use better word) into people’s hearts and Allah -azwj and His -azwj Guides -asws would help people against him, through, inspiration, or counter what Iblis -la tells us or alternatively, Iblis -la will conspire when we are inspired with ‘Heavenly initiatives’. How do we find out which message is coming from which source?
One needs to be very careful if one is directed in the right direction, if still unclear, should supplicate and ask for further clear signs and/or seek guidance through ‘Istikhara’. تَنَزَّلُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ أَفَّاكٍ أَثِيمٍ )222 & (26: يُلْقُونَ السَّمْعَ وَأَكْثَرُهُمْ كَاذِبُونَ )223(26: They descend upon every lying, sinful one (26:222). They incline their ears, and most of them are liars (26:223) .
قال حدثني جعفر بن محمد الفزاري قال حدثنا محمد [بن] الحسين بن علي بن [محمد بن] الفضيل عن خيثمة الجعفي قال دخلت على أبي جعفر ع فقال لي يا خيثمة إن شيعتنا أهل البيت يقذف في قلوبهم الحب لنا أهل البيت و يلهمون حبنا أهل البيت ألا إن الرجل يحبنا و يحتمل ما يأتيه من فضلنا و لم يرنا و لم يسمع كلامنا لما يريد الله به من الخير و هو قول الله وَ الَّذِينَ اهْتَدَوْا زادَهُمْ هُدىً وَ آتاهُمْ تَقْواهُمْ يعني من لقينا و سمع كلامنا زاده الله هدى على هداه [هداية] يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَطِيعُوا اللَّهَ وَ أَطِيعُوا الرَّسُولَ وَ لا تُبْطِلُوا أَعْمالَكُمْ Al-Hassan ibn Ali ibn Mohammed ibn al-Toufal reports from Khamisa al-Jaffi, who says that once I went to see Imam Abi Jafar -asws , who said to me: Imam Mohammed Baqir -asws said: O Khasmiya !