(2) Ali bin al-Husayn al-Mass’oodi narrated from Muhammad...

(2) Ali bin al-Husayn al-Mass’oodi narrated from Muhammad bin Yahya al-Attar from Muhammad bin Hassaan ar-Razi from Muhammad bin Ali al-Kufi from Abdurrahman bin Abu Hammad from Ya'qoob bin Abdullah al-Ash’ari from Otayba bin Sa’dan bin Yazeed that al-Ahnaf bin Qays had said: “Once I went to Imam Ali (as) for some business. Then Ibnul Kawwa’ and Shibth bin Rib’iy came and asked permission to meet him.

Imam Ali (as) said to me: “If you like to permit them, you can do that because you are the first to have your business achieved.” I said: “O Amirul Mo'mineen (as), permit them to come in.” When they came in, he said to them: “What made you secede from me in Haroora’[^3]?” They said: “We wanted to be with the army of anger.” He said: “Woe unto you! Is there any kind of anger in my guardianship? Anger comes after when many kinds of calamities and distresses occur.

فهم أصحاب الألوية منهم من يُفقد من فراشه ليلاً فيصبح بمكة، ومنهم من يُرى يسير في السحاب نهاراً يعرف بأسمه واسم أبيه وحليته ونسبه. قلت: جعلت فداك، أيّهم أعظم إيماناً.

They will gather like the cloudlets of autumn. They will be the bearers of the banners. Some of them will be missed in their beds in the night and in the morning they will find themselves in Mecca. Some of them will be seen walking on the clouds during the day. They will be known by their names, their fathers’ names and their lineages.” I said: “May I die for you!