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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Al Kafi (volume 4)(part 2) Chapter 46 : Would the Imams (a.s.) Like To Know They Would Know H 667, Ch. 46, H 1 Ali ibn Muhammad and others have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ayyub ibn Nuh from Safwan ibn Yahya from ibn Muskan from Badr ibn al-Walid from abu al-Rabi' al-Shami from abu 'Abdallah (a.s.) who has said the following. "Would the Imam (a.s.) like to know he would know." H 668, Ch.
46, h 2 Abu Ali al-Ash'ari has narrated from Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Jabbar from Safwan from ibn Muskan from Badr ibn al-Walid from Abu al-Rabi' from abu 'Abdallah (a.s.) who has said the following. "Would the Imam (a.s.) want to know he would know." H 669, Ch. 46, h 3 Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from 'Umrah ibn Musa from Musa ibn Ja'far from 'Amr ibn Sa'id al-Mada'ini from abu 'Ubayda al-Mada'ini from abu 'Abdallah (a.s.) who has said the following.
"When the Imam (a.s.) would will to know something Allah will grant him such knowledge." Chapter 47 : The Imams (a.s.) know when they will die and they die voluntarily H 670, Ch. 47, h 1 Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Salamah ibn-al-Khattab from ) Sulayman ibn Sama'a and 'Abdallah ibn Muhammad from 'Abdallah ibn al-Qasim al-Batal from abu Basir from abu 'Abdallah (a.s.) who has said the following.
"Whoever of the Imams that would not know what would happen to him and to what events he would proceed such a person is not a possessor of Divine authority over His creature." H 671, Ch. 47, h 2 Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from Muhammad ibn 'Isa ibn al-Hassan ibn Muhammad ibn Bashshar has said that a respectable man from Qati'a al- Rabi' (a quarter in the Karkh part of Baghdad) from the general public (non-Shi'a) of Baghdad, from whom people would narrate hadith has said to me the following.
"I have seen (experienced) from the people of this family of whose virtues people speak, things that I have never seen (experienced) no one else to be like him in his virtue and worship." The narrator has said that he asked the man. "Who is he? And how did you find him?" He then said, "In the days of al-Sindi ibn Shahik (a vazir of Harun al-Rashid) we gathered eighty people of the leading personalities in goodness to meet Musa ibn Ja'far (a.s.) .
Al-Sindi asked us, "Gentlemen, please examine this man. Has anything happened to him?" People think that he is tortured and they make a huge noise about it. This is his dwelling place and his bed which, has enough room and he is not constrained.