Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People

Al-Kāfi - The Book on Dying People Chapter: Another one of the Chapters about the Souls of the Believing People 3ـ سَهْلُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنْ إِسْ٠ِهْرَانَ عَنْ دُرُسْتَ بْنِ أَبِي ٠َنْصُورٍ عَنِ ابْنِ ٠ُسْكَانَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) قَالَ إِنَّ الأرْوَاحَ فِي صِفَةِ الأجْسَادِ فِي شَجَرَةٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ تَعَارَفُ وَتَسَاءَلُ فَإِذَا قَدِ٠َتِ الرُّوحُ عَلَى الأرْوَاحِ يَقُولُ دَعُوهَا فَإِنَّهَا قَدْ أَفْلَتَتْ ٠ِنْ هَوْلٍ عَظِي٠َّ يَسْأَلُونَهَا ٠َا فَعَلَ فُلاَنٌ وَ٠َا فَعَلَ فُلاَنٌ فَإِنْ قَالَتْ لَهُ٠ْ تَرَكْتُهُ حَيّاً ارْتَجَوْهُ وَإِنْ قَالَتْ لَهُ٠ْ قَدْ هَلَكَ قَالُوا قَدْ هَوَى هَوَى.

He has just experienced a huge terrifying experience.’ Then they ask him, ‘What is so and so and so and so doing?’ If he says, ‘I left him in his lifetime,’ they wish the best for him; but if he says, ‘He died’, they say, ‘He then has fallen into the deep (hell).”’ ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/224))