Are you still upon the Covenant which (you were upon) when you separated from us...

Are you still upon the Covenant which (you were upon) when you separated from us, from the testimony that there is no God except for Allah -azwj , alone, there being no associates for Him -azwj , and that Muhammad -saww is His -azwj servant and His -azwj Rasool -saww , chief of the Prophets -as , and that Ali -asws Amir Al Momineen -asws , chief of the successors -as , and that whatever Muhammad -saww came with is truth, and that the death is truth, and that the Resurrection is truth, and that Allah -azwj would be Resurrections the one who are in the graves’.

قَالَ فَيَقُولُ مُنْكَرٌ لِنَكِيرٍ انْصَرِفْ بِنَا عَنْ هَذَا فَقَدْ لُقِّنَ حُجَّتَهُ He -asws said: ‘So Munkar would be saying to Nakeer: ‘Let us leave from this one, for he has been dictated his arguments’.

[40] Spreading Soil over the Coffin: عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ عَنِ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ رَزِينٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ كُنْتُ مَعَ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) فِي جِنَازَةِ رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا فَلَمَّا أَنْ دَفَنُوهُ قَامَ ( عليه السلام ) إِلَى قَبْرِهِ فَحَثَا عَلَيْهِ مِمَّا يَلِي رَأْسَهُ ثَلَاثاً بِكَفِّهِ ثُمَّ بَسَطَ كَفَّهُ عَلَى الْقَبْرِ ثُمَّ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ جَافِ الْأَرْضَ عَنْ جَنْبَيْهِ وَ أَصْعِدْ إِلَيْكَ رُوحَهُ وَ لَقِّهِ مِنْكَ رِضْوَاناً وَ أَسْكِنْ قَبْرَهُ مِنْ رَحْمَتِكَ مَا تُغْنِيهِ بِهِ عَنْ رَحْمَةِ مَنْ سِوَاكَ ثُمَّ مَضَى Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, form one of his companions, from Al A’ala Bin Razeyn, from Muhammad Bin Muslim who said, ‘I was with Abu Ja’far -asws in a funeral of a man from our companions.

So when they buried him, he -asws stood at his grave and spread (soil) upon him, from what followed his head, three times with his -asws handful. Then he -asws spread his -asws palm upon the grave, then said, ‘O Allah -azwj ! Expand the ground from both his sides, and Ascend his soul to You -azwj and let him Get Pleasure from You -asws , and Settle Your -azwj Mercy in his grave what would make him to be needless from a mercy besides Yours -azwj ’. Then he -asws went away’.

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