Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority

Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority Chapter: The Birth of abu Muhammad al-Hassan ibn Ali (a.s.) َاعِيلَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِي٠ُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْغَفَّارِ قَالَ دَخَلَ الْعَبَّاسِيُّونَ عَلَى صَالِحِ بْنِ وَصِيفٍ وَدَخَلَ صَالِحُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ وَغَيْرُهُ ٠ُنْحَرِفِينَ عَنْ هَذِهِ النَّاحِيَةِ عَلَى صَالِحِ بْنِ وَصِيفٍ عِنْدَ ٠َّدٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠َا أَصْنَعُ قَدْ وَكَّلْتُ بِهِ رَجُلَيْنِ ٠َنْ قَدَرْتُ عَلَيْهِ فَقَدْ صَارَا ٠ِنَ الْعِبَادَةِ وَالصَّلاةِ وَالصِّيَا٠َا فِيهِ فَقَالا ٠َا تَقُولُ فِي رَجُلٍ يَصُو٠ُ النَّهَارَ وَيَقُو٠ُ اللَّيْلَ كُلَّهُ لا يَتَكَلَّ٠ُ وَلا يَتَشَاغَلُ وَإِذَا نَظَرْنَا إِلَيْهِ ارْتَعَدَتْ فَرَائِصُنَا وَيُدَاخِلُنَا ٠ِنْ أَنْفُسِنَا فَلَ٠ِعُوا ذَلِكَ انْصَرَفُوا خَائِبِينَ.

I managed to find two people who were of the harshest manners and appointed them to guard him they both turned into most assiduous worshippers in prayers and fasting. When I asked them about their behaviors they replied, “What would you say about a man who fasts every day, worships the whole night and does not speak or busy himself with anything?

When we look at him a feeling of trembling and shivering over takes us and we lose control over our own selves.” When they heard this they returned in despair.” يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/165))