قُلْتُ بِأَبِي أَنْتَ وَ أُمِّي يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَشِيعَتُنَا قَالَ شِيعَتُنَا مَعَنَا وَ قُصُورُهُمْ بِحذَاءِ قُصُورِنَا وَ مَنَازِلُهُمْ مُقَابِلُ مَنَازِلِنَا I -asws said: ‘By my -asws father -as and my -asws mother -as , O Rasool-Allah -saww ! What about our -asws Shias?’ He -saww said: ‘Our -asws Shias would be with us -asws and their castles would be parallel to our -asws castles, and their houses would be facing our -asws houses’.
قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فَمَا لِشِيعَتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا قَالَ الْأَمْنُ وَ الْعَافِيَةُ قُلْتُ فَمَا لَهُمْ عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ قَالَ يُحَكَّمُ الرَّجُلُ فِي نَفْسِهِ وَ يُؤْمَرُ مَلَكُ الْمَوْتِ بِطَاعَتِهِ I -asws said: ‘O Rasool-Allah -saww ! So, what is for our -asws Shias in the world?’ He -saww said: ‘The security and the health’. I -asws said: ‘So, what is for them at the death?’ He said: ‘The man would judge regarding himself and instruct the Angel of death to obey him’.
قُلْتُ فَمَا لِذَلِكَ حَدٌّ يُعْرَفُ قَالَ بَلَى إِنَّ أَشَدَّ شِيعَتِنَا لَنَا حُبّاً يَكُونُ خُرُوجُ نَفْسِهِ كَشَرَابِ أَحَدِكُمْ فِي يَوْمِ الصَّيْفِ الْمَاءَ الْبَارِدَ الَّذِي يَنْتَقِعُ بِهِ الْقُلُوبُ وَ إِنَّ سَائِرَهُمْ لَيَمُوتُ كَمَا يُغْبَطُ أَحَدُكُمْ عَلَى فِرَاشِهِ كَأَقَرِّ مَا كَانَتْ عَيْنُهُ بِمَوْتِهِ. I -asws said: ‘So, what is a recognised limit of that?’ He -saww said: ‘Yes.
Our -asws Shias of the most intense love for us -asws , the exit of his soul would happen like one of you drinking the cold water during a day of summer which the hearts had been cut by it , and the rest of them would be dying like the exultation of one of you upon his bed, as delighted as his eyes could be with his death’’.
[16] قلت يا أبت أراك تمسح جبينك فقال يا بني إني سمعت جدك رسول الله ص يقول إن المؤمن إذا نزل به الموت و دنت وفاته عرق جبينه و صار كاللؤلؤ الرطب و سكن أنينه I (Muhammad Al-Hanafia) said, ‘O father -asws ! I see you -asws wiping your -asws forehead. He -asws said: ‘O my -asws son!
I -asws heard your grandfather -saww Rasool-Allah -saww saying: ‘The Momin, when the death befalls with him, and his expiry draws near, his forehead sweats becomes like the wet pearls (upon it), and his sighing settles’.(An extract) [17] قال و ضجت الكوفة بالبكاء و النحيب و خرجن النساء يتبعنه لاطمات حاسرات فمنعهم الحسن ع و نهاهم عن البكاء و العويل و ردهن إلى أماكنهن و الحسين ع يقول لا حول و لا قوة إلا بالله العلي العظيم إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَ إِنَّا إِلَيْهِ راجِعُونَ يا أباه وا انقطاع ظهراه من أجلك تعلمت البكاء إلى الله المشتكى.