[7] Walking for Women with Coffin: عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ رِئَابٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ حَضَرَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) جَنَازَةَ رَجُلٍ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَ أَنَا مَعَهُ وَ كَانَ فِيهَا عَطَاءٌ فَصَرَخَتْ صَارِخَةٌ فَقَالَ عَطَاءٌ لَتَسْكُتِنَّ أَوْ لَنَرْجِعَنَّ قَالَ فَلَمْ تَسْكُتْ فَرَجَعَ عَطَاءٌ قَالَ فَقُلْتُ لِأَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّ عَطَاءً قَدْ رَجَعَ قَالَ وَ لِمَ قُلْتُ صَرَخَتْ هَذِهِ الصَّارِخَةُ فَقَالَ لَهَا لَتَسْكُتِنَّ أَوْ لَنَرْجِعَنَّ فَلَمْ تَسْكُتْ فَرَجَعَ فَقَالَ امْضِ بِنَا فَلَوْ أَنَّا إِذَا رَأَيْنَا شَيْئاً مِنَ الْبَاطِلِ مَعَ الْحَقِّ تَرَكْنَا لَهُ الْحَقَّ لَمْ نَقْضِ حَقَّ مُسْلِمٍ Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ali Bin Raib, from Zurara who said, ‘Abu Ja’far -asws attended a funeral of a man from Quraysh and I was with him -asws , and Ata’a (Ibn Rabah) was in it.
So, a woman shrieked, and Ata’a said in order to calm her, ‘you should calm down or I return?’ But she did not calm down, so Ata’a returned. So I said to Abu Ja’far -asws , ‘Ata’a has returned’. He -asws said: ‘And why?’ I said, ‘This woman shrieked, so he said to her, ‘Will you calm down or should I return?’ But she did not calm down, so he returned.
So he -asws said: ‘allow us -asws to continue (walking with the funeral) so if we -asws were to see something from the falsehood along with the Truth, so for that reason returned, we -asws would not be fulfilling a right of a Muslim’.
He (the narrator) said, ‘So when he -asws had prayed Salaat over the deceased, the guardian (of deceased) said to Abu Ja’far -asws , ‘Return, having been Recompensed, may Allah -azwj have Mercy on you -asws , for you -asws are not strong enough upon the walking’. But he -asws refused to return. So, I said to him -asws , ‘He has permitted for you -asws with regards to the returning, and for me there is a need which I want to ask you -asws about it’.