فَقَالَ النَّاسُ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله...

So he -saww stood up straight, then said: ‘O you people! Jibraeel -as came to me -saww with what you all said. You are alleging that I -saww forgot to pray Salāt upon my -saww son -as due to what entered into me -saww from the panic. Indeed!

And it is not as you are thinking it to be, but the Kind, the Informed Necessitated five Salāt s upon you, and Made to be upon your deceased, one Takbeer from each Salāt , and Commanded me -saww that I -saww should not pray Salāt except upon the one who did pray Salāt ’.

Then he -saww said: ‘O Ali -asws ! Descend and (dig the) chasm ( Lahad ) for my -saww son -as ’. So he -as laid Ibrahim -as in his -as chasm ( Lahad ). So the people said, ‘It is not befitting for anyone that he should descend in a grave of his son, when Rasool-Allah -saww did not do so’. So Rasool-Allah -saww said to them: ‘O you people!

It is not Prohibited upon you that you should be descending into the graves of your children, but there is no security if one of you were to loosen the shroud from his son if the Satan -la were to play with him, so the panic would enter upon him what would cause his Recompense to be confiscated’. Then he -saww left’.