The slave entered in front of me...

The slave entered in front of me, and I entered behind him, and there I was with my Master -asws seated in a courtyard of his -asws house. He -asws said: \u2018O Harsama!\u2019 I said, \u2018Here I am, O my Master -asws !\u2019 He -asws said: \u2018Be seated!\u2019 I sat down. \n He -asws said to me: \u2018Listen and retain, O Harsama!

This is the year of my -asws departure to Allah -azwj the Exalted, and my -asws joining with my -asws grandfather -asws and my -asws forefathers -asws , and the Decree has reached its term, and this tyrant is determined upon poisoning me -asws in grapes and rubbed in a pomegranate. \n As for the grapes, the thread was immersed in the poison, and it was pulled by the thread into the grapes.

And as for the pomegranate, the poison was dropped in a palm of his slave and he rubbed the pomegranate with his hands in order to smear its seeds in that poison, and he will be summoning me -asws in that coming day and draw the pomegranate and the grapes to me -asws , and he will be asking me to eat them. So I -asws shall eat them. \n Then he will enforce the order and the Decree shall present.

So when I -asws am dead, he will be saying, \u2018I shall wash him -asws with my hands!\u2019 When he says that, say to him on my -asws behalf, \u2018Between you and him -asws is that he said that you should neither present for my -asws washing, nor for my -asws shrouding, nor for my -asws burial, for if you were to do that, it would hasten to you from the Punishment what had been delayed from you, and the pain would be released with you what you were being cautious of\u2019, so he would desist\u2019.

\n He (the narrator) said, \u2018I said, \u2018Yes my Master -asws !\u2019 \n He -asws said, \u2018When he vacates between you and my washing, he will go and sit in a higher place of its building, overlooking upon the place of my -asws washing, in order to look. Do not turn away my -asws washing for anything, O Harsama, until you see a white tent having been struck by the side of the house.

When you see that, then carry me in my -asws clothes which I -asws would be in and place me -asws behind the tent and stop from behind it, and there would happen to be someone with you beside you. \n And do not uncover from the tent to see me -asws for you will be destroyed. He (Al-Mamoun) will overlook upon you and say to you, \u2018O Harsama! Didn\u2019t you claim that the Imam -asws , no one can wash him -asws except an Imam -asws like him -asws ?