So will you not please them at least verbally?
So will you not please them at least verbally?” 4- Muntakhabul Basair: Through the same chain of narrators, it is narrated from Hammad from Zurarah that he said: I asked Abu Abdullah Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s.) about some important matters like Rajat; and he said: بَلْ كَذَّبُواْ بِمَا لَمْ يُحِيطُواْ بِعِلْمِهِ وَلَمَّا يَأْتِهِمْ تَأْوِيلُهُ “Nay, they reject that of which they have no comprehensive knowledge, and the final sequel of it has not yet come to them…” (Surah Yunus 10:39) Then Imam (a.s.) said: “Time has not arrived for the matters you are inquiring about.” 5- Muntakhabul Basair: Saad has narrated from Ibne Yazid and Ibne Abil Khattab and Yaqtini and Ibrahim bin Muhammad; they have narrated from Ibne Abi Umair from Ibne Uzuniyya from Muhammad bin Tayyar from His Eminence, Abi Abdullah Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s.) that he said regarding the saying of the Almighty Allah: وَيَوْمَ نَحْشُرُ مِن كُلِّ أُمَّةٍ فَوْجًا “And on the day when We will gather from every nation a party…” (Surah Naml 27:83) “…each of the believers, if he has been slain, he will be sent back to the world and then he will die; or if he has died, he will be returned to the world and slain.” 6- Muntakhabul Basair: Saad has narrated from Ibne Isa from Ahwazi from Hammad bin Isa from Husain bin Mukhtar from Abi Basir that he said: Once Abu Ja’far Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s.) said to me: “Do the Iraqis deny Rajat?” “Yes,” I replied.
He asked: “Have they not read this verse of Quran (above-mentioned)?” 7- Muntakhabul Basair: Saad has narrated from Ibne Isa from Bazanti from Husain bin Umar bin Yazid from Umar bin Aban Ibne Bukair from Abu Abdullah Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s.) that he said: “As if I can see (that during the time of Rajat) Humran bin Ayyan and Maisar bin Abdul Aziz are amazing the people through their sword fight.” 8- Muntakhabul Basair: Saad has narrated from Ibne Abil Khattab from Abdullah bin Mughira from a person from Jabir bin Yazid that he said: “Once His Eminence, Abu Ja’far Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s.) was asked about the following words of the Almighty Allah: وَلَئِن قُتِلْتُمْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللّهِ أَوْ مُتُّمْ “And if you are slain in the way of Allah or you die…” (Surah Aale Imran 3:157) He said: O Jabir, do you know what the ‘way of Allah’ is?
I said: “By Allah, no, we only know that which we have heard from you.” He said: “Slain in the way of Allah is ‘in the way of Ali (a.s.) and his descendants’.
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