"Once I went to see abu Ja'far (a.

"Once I went to see abu Ja'far (a.s.) and asked him, "Are you the heirs of the Messenger of Allah?" He said, "Yes, we are his heirs." I then asked, "Was the Messenger of Allah the heir of the prophets and knew all that they knew?" He said to me, "Yes, it is true." I then asked, "Do you have the power to bring the dead back to life and cure the lepers, and the blind?" He said, "Yes, we do have such powers by the permission of Allah." The he said to me, "Come closer to me, O abu Muhammad." I went closer to him and he rubbed my face and my eyes and saw the sun, the skies, the earth, the houses and all things in the town.

Then he said to me, "Do you like to live this way and will have what others have and be responsible for whatever they will be held responsible on the Day of Judgment or like to live as before and will have paradise purely?" I said, "I would like to live as I lived before." He rubbed my eyes and I found myself as before." The narrator has said that he told it to ibn abu 'Umayr who said, "I testify that this is true just as the day is true." H 1269, Ch.

118, h 4 Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Muhammad ibn Ahmad from Muhammad ibn al- Husayn from Muhammad ibn Ali from 'Asim ibn Hamid from Muhammad ibn Muslim who has said the following. "One day I was in the presence of abu Ja'far (a.s.) that a pair of turtledove came and sat on the wall and exchanged voices as they usually do. Abu Ja'far (a.s.) then also exchanged voices with them for a while.

They then flew away and on the other wall the male sounded to the fame for a while and then both of them flew away. I then asked The Imam (a.s.), "May Allah take my soul in service for your cause, "What were these birds?" The Imam (a.s.) said, "O ibn Muslim, all that Allah has created, such as birds, animals or other things that have life they obey us better than people. The male dove was suspicious about the female and she denied it on oath which the male did not accept.

Then she asked if he would abide by the decision of Muhammad ibn Ali? He agreed and told him that he had wronged his pair then he believed her." H 1270, Ch. 118, h 5 Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad has narrated from Mu'alla ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn Asbat from Salih ibn Hamza from his father from abu Bakr al-Hadrami who has said the following. "When abu Ja'far (a.s.) was taken to al-Sham (Damascus) to the court of hisham ibn 'Abd al- Malik.