[4] أبي...

[4] أبي، عن سعد، عن ابن نوح، عن ابن أبي عمير، عن هشام بن الحكم، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: كان رجل في الزمن الأول طلب الدنيا من حلال فلم يقدر عليها، وطلبها من حرام فلم يقدر عليها، فأتاه الشيطان فقال له: يا هذا إنك قد طلبت الدنيا من حلال فلم تقدر عليها، وطلبتها من حرام فلم تقدر عليها، أفلا أدلك على شئ تكثر به دنياك ويكثر به تبعك ؟ قال: بلى.

My father, from Sa’ad, from Ibn Nuh, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hisham Bin Al Hakam, ‘From Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘There was a man during the former times who sought the world from Permissible means, but he was not able upon it, and he sought it from Prohibited means, but he was (still) not able upon it. Then Satan -la came to him and said to him, ‘O you!

You have sought the world from Permissible means, but were not able upon it, and you sought it from Prohibited means, but you were (still) not able upon it. So, shall I -la point you upon something by which your world would be abundance, and your followers would be abundant?’ He said, ‘Yes’. قال: تبتدع دينا وتدعو إليه الناس. ففعل فاستجاب له الناس وأطاعوه وأصاب من الدنيا، ثم إنه فكر فقال: ما صنعت ؟ ابتدعت دينا ودعوت الناس ما أرى لي توبة إلا أن آتي من دعوته إليه فأرده عنه.

He -la said, ‘Begin a religion and call the people to it’. He did so, and the people responded to him, and obeyed him, and he attained from the world. Then he thought, and he said (to himself), ‘What have I done? I began a religion and called the people. I do not see a repentance for me except if I go to the one I called to it, and I return him from it’. فجعل يأتي أصحابه الذين أجابوه فيقول لهم، إن الذي دعوتكم إليه باطل وإنما ابتدعته فجعلوا يقولون له: كذبت وهو الحق ولكنك شككت في دينك فرجعت عنه.

So, he went to his companions, the ones who had responded to him, and he said to them, ‘ That which I called you all to, is false, and rather I innovated it ’. But, they were saying to him, ‘You are lying, and it is the truth. But, you doubted in your religion, so you returned from it’.

فلما رأى ذلك عمد إلى سلسلة فوتد لها وتدا ثم جعلها في عنقه وقال: لا أحلها حتى يتوب الله عز وجل علي فأوحى الله عز وجل إلى نبي من الأنبياء: قل لفلان: وعزتي لو دعوتني حتى تنقطع أوصالك ما استجبت لك حتى ترد من مات على ما دعوته إليه فيرجع عنه. When he saw that, he deliberated to a chain and pegged it (in the ground), and tied it, then made it to be in his neck, and said, ‘I will not release it until Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Turns (Accepts my repentance) to Me -azwj ’.