Then he took Mflsâ by the hand and said...

Then he took Mflsâ by the hand and said:” He is the truth truth wilt be with him till Allah inherits the earth and whatever on it.[2] Al- Sadiq, peace be on him, was full of sadness when death o Isma’il. Thus, he knelt with his forehead touching the ground for a long 1 Bihar Al- Anwar: 47/254. 2 Ibid: 1/188. time. Then he raised his head and looked at IsmE’i1 for a short time and looked at his face. Again, he knelt with his forehead touching the ground for a longer time.

Then he stood and came into his house and stayed there for an hour. Then he came out of the house with other clothes. His sadness disappeared. After he had washed Isma’It, he ordered one of his companions to bring him the shroud on whose hem they wrote:” Ismâ’il bears witness that there is no god but Allah.”’[1] The companions were astonished to see sadness disappear from his face.

So, one of them asked him: “May I be your ransom, we thought that we would not avail ourselves from you forever when we saw that sadness on your face.” He (al- Sadiq), peace be on him, said:” We, the members of the house, become worried e)ccept when the misfortune comes down. If it comes down, we are patient.” Then al- Sfldiq offered his companions good food and invited them to eat and urged them to have food. His companions did not see any mark of sadness on his face.

So, they asked him about that. He answered:” Of course, I should be as you see me, for I heard the tradition of the most Truthful of the truthful (i.e. the Prophet), (who said): I wilt die with you.” But when the companions carried the liiler of Ismâ’it, al- Sâdiq was in front of them bare- footed to show his great sadness. In the mean time he ordered the companions to put the tiiler on the ground and uncover the face of Isma’Tl to make people sure of his death.

He did that several times till the companions put Ismâ’il into the grave.[2] When the companions had buried IsmS’il, al- Sadiq sat down and his companions sat around him. He bowed his head, then he raised it and said:” 0 men, indeed, this world is the house of parting, and the house of the change not the house of stability. But the parting of the familiar (person) has burning which one can not push and pain which one can not turn away.

However, people are good or bad according to good patience and the good idea. Whoever does not lose his brother, his brother wilt lose him.