Al-Hasan b. Muhammad b. Sa`id al-Hashimi narrated to us. He said: Furat b. Ibrahim b Furat al-Kufi narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Ahmad b. `Ali al-Hamadani narrated to us. He said: Al-Hasan b. `Ali al-Shami narrated to us from his father. He said: Abu Jarir narrated to us. He said: `Ata’ al-Khurasani narrated to us, raising it to `Abd al-Rahman b. Ghanam. He said: Gabriel came to the Messenger of Allah (s) with a beast that was smaller than a mule but bigger than a donkey. Its back legs were taller than its front legs. Its steps were as far as the eye could see. When the Prophet wanted to mount it, it prevented [him from doing so]. So, Gabriel said: This is Muhammad. So, it humbled itself until it dropped to the Earth. He said: So, he mounted it. Whenever it landed, it would raise its front legs and bend its back legs. Whenever it climbed, it would raise its back legs and bend its front legs. In the darkness of the night, it passed by a loaded caravan. The caravan dispersed due to the shine of the Buraq. So, a man at the end of the caravan called to a boy of his at the front of the caravan: O so-and-so! A camel has been lost, and so-and-so has lost her burdens and broken her hand. The caravan belonged to Abi Sufyan. He said: He continued until he reached the middle of Balqa’ (in Jordan). He said: O Gabriel! I have become thirsty. Hand me, Gabriel, a vessel with water in it. So, he handed it to him, and he drank. Then, he passed by a community that was hanging by their tongues on hooks of fire. So, he said: Who are these, O Gabriel? So, he said: These are the ones whom Allah enriched with permitted things, but they sought the forbidden things. He said: Then, he passed by a community whose skin was being sewn by needles of fire. So, he said: Who are these, O Gabriel? So, he said: These are the ones who unlawfully take the virginity of women. Then, he passed by a man who was lifting a bundle of firewood. Every time he tries to lift it, more was added onto it. So, he said: Who is this, Gabriel? He said: This is a debtor who wants to pay his debt, but whenever he cannot, more was added onto him. Then, he passed by the eastern mountain by the Bayt al-Maqdis, and he found a hot gust and heard a sound. He said: What is this gust that I feel and this sound that I hear, Gabriel? He said: This is Hell. So, the Prophet (s) said: I seek refuge in Allah from Hell. Then, he found a pleasant gust to its right and heard a sound. So, he said: What is this gust that I feel and this sound that I hear, Gabriel? He said: This is Paradise. So, he said: I ask Allah for Paradise. He said: Then, he ended up at the gate of the city of Bayt al-Maqdis, in which was Heraclius. The gates of the city would be locked every night, and then they would come to him with the keys and put it at his head. On that night, the gate was prevented from being locked, so they informed him. So, he said: Double the number of guards. He said: So, the Messenger of Allah (s) came and entered Bayt al-Maqdis. Gabriel came to the Rock and raised it. Gabriel took three cups from beneath it: a cup of milk, a cup of honey, and a cup of wine. He gave him the cup of milk and he drank it. Then, he gave him the cup of honey and he drank it. Then, he gave him the cup of wine, and he said: It has been forbidden, Gabriel. He said: Surely, if you would have drunken it, your Nation would have become misguided and would have split away from you. He said: Then, the Messenger of Allah (s) led seventy prophets in Bayt al-Maqdis. He said: With Gabriel , an angel came down that had never stepped on the Earth; and with him were the keys to the treasuries of the Earth. So, he said: O Muhammad! Your Lord recites the salaam to you, and He says: “These are the keys to the treasuries of the Earth. If you wish, you could be a servant-prophet, and if you wish, you could be a kingly prophet.” So, Gabriel gestured to him: Humility, Muhammad. So, he said: Rather, I will be a servant-prophet. Then, he ascended to heaven. When he ended up at the gate of heaven, Gabriel opened it, and they said: Who is this? He said: Muhammad. They said: The best one to come has come. So, he entered, and he did not pass by a single angel except that it greeted him, prayed for him, and came close to him. He passed by an elder sitting under a tree with children around him. So, the Messenger of Allah (s) said: Who is this elder, Gabriel? He said: This is your father Ibrahim. He said: Who are these children around him? He said: These are the children of the believers. They are around him as he feeds them. Then he passed by an elder sitting on a chair: when he looked to his right, he smiled and became happy, but when he looked to his left, he became sorrowful and wept. So, he said: Who is this, Gabriel? He said: This is your father Adam. When he sees his descendants enter Paradise, he smiles and becomes joyful. When he sees his descendants enter the Fire, he becomes sorrowful and weeps. Then, he passed by an angel sitting on a chair, so he greeted him. He did not see the joy in his face that he saw in the other angels, so he said: O Gabriel! I did not pass by an angel but that I saw something that I loved from him, except for this one. So, who is this angel? He said: This is Malik, the keeper of the Fire. He was one of the most beautiful angels in his face, but when he was made the keeper of the Fire, this happened to him. He saw what Allah did to its people and he did not smile after that. Then, he continued until he was given the obligation of fifty prayers. He said: So, he accepted that. Then, he passed by Musa , who said: O Muhammad! How many have been obligated on your Nation? He said: Fifty prayers. He said: Return to your Lord and ask Him to lighten the load on your Nation. He said: So, he went back, then he passed by Musa , who said: How many have been obligated on your Nation? He said: Such and such. He said: Surely, your Nation is the weakest of nations, so return to your Lord and ask him to lighten the load on your Nation, for surely, I was with the Children of Israel, and they were not able to do even less than this. So, he did not stop returning to his Lord until He made it five prayers. He said: Then, he passed by Musa , who said: How many have been obligated on your Nation? He said: Five prayers. He said: Return to your Lord and ask Him to lighten the load on your Nation. He said: I am too embarrassed to return to my Lord again. Then, he passed by Ibrahim the Friend of the Merciful, and he called out to him from behind him, saying: O Muhammad! Recite the salaam to your Nation on my behalf and inform them that the homes of Paradise are pure and its dust is perfume. Its plains are white, and their vegetation is "may Allah be glorified, praise be to Allah, there is no god but Allah, Allah is the greatest, and there is no ability nor power except by Allah (subhanallah, alhamdulillah, la ilaha illallah, Allahu akhbar, and la hawla wala quwwata illa billah)", so pass by your Nation and [tell them to] plant frequently in them. Then, he passed by a caravan that was headed by a grey camel. Then, he went to the people of Mecca and informed them of his journey. In Mecca there were a people who had been to Bayt al-Maqdis, so he informed them. Then, he said: The sign of this is that a caravan will come at the moment of sunrise, headed by a grey mule. He said: So, they looked, and they found that it had risen, and he informed them that it had passed by Abi Sufyan, and that it had lost a camel in part of the night, and that he called for a boy of his at the front of the caravan: "O so-and-so! This camel has been lost, and so-and-so has lost her burdens and broken her hand." So, they asked him about this, and they found that it was just as the Prophet (s) had said.

Muhammad b. al-Qasim al-Astarabadi narrated to us. He said: Ja`far b. Ahmad narrated to us. He said: Abu Yahya Muhammad b. `Abdullah b. Yazid al-Muqri narrated to us. He said: Sufyan b. `Uyayna narrated to us from al-Zuhri. He said: I was with `Ali b. al-Husayn , and a man from his companions had come to him. So, `Ali b. al-Husayn said to him: What news do you bring, man? So, the man said: My news – O son of the Messenger of Allah – is that I have incurred a debt of four hundred gold coins, and I do not have the means to pay it off. I have weighty dependants, and I do not have that which I owe them. He said: So, `Ali b. al-Husayn wept intensely. So, I said to him: What makes you weep, O son of the Messenger of Allah? So, he said: Doesn’t one weep after afflictions and great hardships? They said: Yes, O son of the Messenger of Allah. He said: So, what hardship or affliction is greater for the sanctity of the believer than to see his believing brother in a difficulty that he cannot stop and witness a poverty that he cannot uplift himself from?! He said: So, they left their gathering upon that. He said: So, one of the opponents (mukhalifin) who would insult `Ali b. al-Husayn said: It is astonishing that these, who, in one instance, claim that the heavens and the Earth and all things obey them, and that Allah does not reject their requests, then in another instance, admit to being unable to rectify the situations of the choicest of their brothers. [News of] that came to the man related to the story. So, he went to `Ali b. al-Husayn and said to him: O son of the Messenger of Allah! I was informed that so-and-so said such-and-such, and that was harder on me than my difficult situation. So, `Ali b. al-Husayn said [to his maidservant]: May Allah relieve you, so-and-so, hold up my pre-fasting meal (suhur) and my breakfast (futur). So, she held up two morsels. Then, `Ali b. al-Husayn said to the man: Take this, for we have nothing else but this. Allah will relieve you through this, and He will give you expansive goodness through this. So, the man took them (the two morsels) and went to the market not knowing what to do with them. He was thinking about the weight of his debt and the condition of his dependants. Satan whispered to him: What is the status of these two [meals] in comparison to your need? So, he passed by a fish seller who had a fish with an odour. So, he said to him: This fish of yours is no good for you, and this morsel is no good for me, so would you trade your no-good fish for my no-good morsel? So, he said: Yes. So, he took the fish and had one morsel remaining. Then, he passed by a man who had a small amount of salt. So, he said to him: Would you trade this small amount of salt for this small morsel? He said: Yes. So, the man had fish and salt, and said: I will rectify this [fish] with this [salt]. When he cut the stomach of the fish, he found two luxurious pearls in it. He praised Allah for them. He went back to his house, and there was a knock on his door. He went out to see who was at the door. He found that the fish seller and the salt seller had come, each of whom said: O servant of Allah! We and our dependants tried eating this morsel, but our teeth could not handle it. We know that you are in a bad condition and that you are forbearing misery. So, we return this bread to you, and we want you to keep what you have taken from us. So, he took the two morsels from them. After they left, there was a knock on his door. He found the messenger of `Ali b. al-Husayn , who entered and said: He says to you: “Surely, Allah has given you relief, so return our food to us, for none but us can eat it.” So, the man sold the pearls for great wealth and paid off his debt. After that, his condition improved. So, one of the opponents said: How severe is this disparity! We thought that `Ali b. al-Husayn was unable to rectify his poverty, but he enriched him with great wealth. How can this be? How can he be unable to rectify poverty when he can enrich this person with great wealth? So, `Ali b. al-Husayn said: This is what Quraysh said to the Prophet (s): How can he go from Mecca to Bayt al-Maqdis and witness what is in it of the relics of the prophets; and return to it in one night? It took him twelve days to go from Mecca to Medina. [He said:] That was [said] after he had emigrated from it. Then, `Ali b. al-Husayn said: They are ignorant of the order of Allah and the order of His friends with Him. Surely, the exalted ranks cannot be reached except by submitting to Allah, abandoning proposals [that are contrary] to Him, and being content with what He plans for you. Surely, the friends of Allah are patient with adversity and misfortunes in a way that others are not, so because of that, Allah grants them success in all their requests. However, with that, they only want from Him what He wants for them.