Then he -asws said: Write!
Then he -asws said: Write!’ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ هَذَا مَا أَوْصَى بِهِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع- ثُمَّ سَاقَ الْحَدِيثَ إِلَى آخِرِ مَا رَوَاهُ الْكُلَيْنِيُ. ‘In the Name of Allah -azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful. This is what Ali -asws Bin Abu Talib -asws is bequeathing’ – Then he continued the Hadeeth up the end of what Kulayni has reported.
وَ اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ شَدِيدُ الْعِقابِ حَفِظَكُمُ اللَّهُ مِنْ أَهْلِ بَيْتٍ وَ حَفِظَ فِيكُمْ نَبِيَّكُمْ أَسْتَوْدِعُكُمُ اللَّهَ وَ أَقْرَأُ عَلَيْكُمُ السَّلَامَ وَ رَحْمَةَ اللَّهِ And fear Allah; surely Allah is severe of the Punishment [5:2] . May Allah -azwj Protect you, from the family, (just as He -azwj ) Protected your Prophet -saww among you. I -asws entrust you all to Allah -azwj , and convey the greetings upon you, and the Mercy of Allah -azwj ’.
ثُمَّ لَمْ يَزَلْ يَقُولُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ حَتَّى قُبِضَ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ وَ رَحْمَتُهُ فِي ثَلَاثِ لَيَالٍ مِنَ الْعَشْرِ الْأَوَاخِرِ لَيْلَةَ ثَلَاثٍ وَ عِشْرِينَ مِنْ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ لَيْلَةَ الْجُمُعَةِ سَنَةَ أَرْبَعِينَ مِنَ الْهِجْرَةِ وَ كَانَ ضُرِبَ لَيْلَةَ إِحْدَى وَ عِشْرِينَ مِنْ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ.
Then he -asws did not stop saying ‘There is no god except for Allah -azwj , there is no god except for Allah -azwj ’, until he -asws passed away, may the Salawaat of Allah -azwj be upon him -asws , and His -azwj Mercy, during the third night from the last ten nights of the twenty third from the Month of Ramazan, the night of Friday, the year forty from the Hijra. And he -asws was struck on the night of the twenty first of the Month of Ramazan’’.
[5] نبه، تنبيه الخاطر لَمَّا احْتُضِرَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع جَمَعَ بَنِيهِ حَسَناً وَ حُسَيْناً وَ مُحَمَّدَ ابْنَ الْحَنَفِيَّةِ وَ الْأَصَاغِرَ مِنْ وُلْدِهِ فَوَصَّاهُمْ وَ كَانَ فِي آخِرِ وَصِيَّتِهِ يَا بَنِيَّ عَاشِرُوا النَّاسَ عِشْرَةً إِنْ غِبْتُمْ حَنُّوا إِلَيْكُمْ وَ إِنْ فُقِدْتُمْ بَكَوْا عَلَيْكُمْ (The book) ‘Tanbeeh Al Khatir’ – ‘When death approached Amir Al-Momineen -asws , he -asws gathered his -asws son, Hassan -asws , and Husayn -asws , and Muhammad Bin Al-Hanafiya, and the young ones form his -asws sons.
He -asws bequeathed to them, and it was in the end of the bequest: ‘O my -asws son! Socialise with the people with a socialising! If you are absent, they would have feeling for you, and if they lose you, they will cry upon you.
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