His Eminence said: “Ask him also.

His Eminence said: “Ask him also.” I asked him: “Have you not seen Abu Ja’far (as)?” He replied: “Is it not he that stands?” I asked: “How did you know?” He said: “How could I not know it when he is a brilliant effulgence?” Abu Baseer says: I heard His Eminence, Imam Baqir (as) ask a man from Africa: “How is Abu Raashid?” That man replied politely: “I found him alive and in good health.

I will convey your greetings to him.” Imam said: “May Allah have mercy on him.” The man asked: “Is he dead?” “Yes,” said the Imam. “When?” “Two days after you left.” “By Allah, he was neither sick nor had any disease.” I asked: “Who was that man?” Imam said: “He was a man from our followers and Shias.” Then he said: “If you think that we don’t have the seeing eye and the hearing ear for you, you think wrongly. By Allah, nothing from your affairs is concealed from us.

You should always consider us to be present and make a habit of performing good deeds and be from the devout, so that you are identified with that. This is…