8 بابُ الأَخْبارِ الَّتِي رُوِيَتْ فِي صِحَّةِ وَفاةِ أَبي...

When they regained consciousness, Harun told Abil Hassan (a.s.), “I beg you by the right I have over you to ask the picture to return that man.” Then the Imam (a.s.) said, “If the Cane of Moses (a.s.) returned the canes and the ropes which it swallowed, this picture will also return that man.” The narrator of this tradition added, “This was one of the most important reasons why the Imam (a.s.) was martyred.”[^1] 8-2 (The author of the book narrated) my father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Sa’d ibn Abdullah quoted on the authority of Muhammad ibn Isa al-Yaqteeni, on the authority of Al-Hassan Muhammad ibn Bashshar, “One of the elders of the Qatia al-Rabee’ who is an honest Sunni told me that he has seen one of the Members of the Holy Household whom the people confess to be noble.

He said that he has not seen anyone like him in nobility regarding piety and worshipping.” Hassan ibn Muhammad asked, “Who do you mean? How did you find him?” He replied, “There were eighty of us who gathered around As-Sandi ibn Shahak. Then he brought in Musa ibn Ja’far (a.s.). As-Sandi told us, “Look at this man. Has anything been done to him? The people think that something wrong has been done to him. They say a lot of these things. This is his house. This is his seat where he is comfortable.