Don’t you go to the grave of Al-Husayn -asws ?
Don’t you go to the grave of Al-Husayn -asws ?’ I said, ‘No. I am a famous man from the people of Al-Basra, and with us there is one who pursues the whims of this caliph, and our enemies are a lot from the people of the tribes, from the Nasibis (Hostile ones) and others, I don’t trust them that they might raise my state against me in the presence of Suleyman, so they would be setting an example (punish) upon me’.
قَالَ لِي أَ فَمَا تَذْكُرُ مَا صُنِعَ بِهِ قُلْتُ بَلَى قَالَ فَتَجْزَعُ قُلْتُ إِي وَ اللَّهِ وَ أَسْتَعْبِرُ لِذَلِكَ حَتَّى يَرَى أَهْلِي أَثَرَ ذَلِكَ عَلَيَّ فَأَمْتَنِعُ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ حَتَّى يَسْتَبِينَ ذَلِكَ فِي وَجْهِي He -asws said: ‘Don’t you mentioned what had happened with him -asws ?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He -asws said: ‘Do you get gloomy?’ I said, ‘Yes, by Allah -azwj , and I shed tears for that until my family sees the impact of that upon me -asws .
I refuse to eat the food until that is manifested (grief is shown) in my face’. قَالَ رَحِمَ اللَّهُ دَمْعَتَكَ أَمَا إِنَّكَ مِنَ الَّذِينَ يُعَدُّونَ فِي أَهْلِ الْجَزَعِ لَنَا وَ الَّذِينَ يَفْرَحُونَ لِفَرَحِنَا وَ يَحْزَنُونَ لِحُزْنِنَا وَ يَخَافُونَ لِخَوْفِنَا وَ يَأْمَنُونَ إِذَا أَمِنَّا He -asws said: ‘May Allah -azwj have Mercy on your tears.
But, you are from those who are being counted as being the people of the sorrow for us -asws , and those who are happy at our -asws happiness and are grieving for our -asws grief, and are fearing for our -asws fear, and are feeling safe when we -asws are safe.
أَمَا إِنَّكَ سَتَرَى عِنْدَ مَوْتِكَ وَ حُضُورِ آبَائِي لَكَ وَ وَصِيَّتِهِمْ مَلَكَ الْمَوْتِ بِكَ وَ مَا يَلْقَوْنَكَ بِهِ مِنَ الْبِشَارَةِ مَا تَقَرُّ بِهِ عَيْنَكَ قَبْلَ الْمَوْتِ فَمَلَكُ الْمَوْتِ أَرَقُّ عَلَيْكَ وَ أَشَدُّ رَحْمَةً لَكَ مِنَ الْأُمِّ الشَّفِيقَةِ عَلَى وَلَدِهَا As for you, you will be seeing during your death, and the presenting of my -asws forefathers -asws to you, and their -asws advising the Angel of death about you, and glad tidings of what you will be facing with and what your eyes will be getting delighted with before the death.
So, the Angel of death will be kinder upon you and more intensely merciful to you than the compassionate (mother) upon her child’. قَالَ ثُمَّ اسْتَعْبَرَ وَ اسْتَعْبَرْتُ مَعَهُ فَقَالَ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي فَضَّلَنَا عَلَى خَلْقِهِ بِالرَّحْمَةِ وَ خَصَّنَا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ بِالرَّحْمَةِ He (the narrator) said, ‘Then he -asws shed tears and I shed tears with him -asws .
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