Al-Kāfi - Volume 8


Book 1, Chapter 340

The question of Sadir from Abu Ja’far AS
1 Ḥadīth

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَنَانِ بْنِ سَدِيرٍ وَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ عَنْ حَنَانِ بْنِ سَدِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ (عليه السلام) عَنْهُمَا فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا الْفَضْلِ مَا تَسْأَلُنِي عَنْهُمَا فَوَ اللَّهِ مَا مَاتَ مِنَّا مَيِّتٌ قَطُّ إِلَّا سَاخِطاً عَلَيْهِمَا وَ مَا مِنَّا الْيَوْمَ إِلَّا سَاخِطاً عَلَيْهِمَا يُوصِي بِذَلِكَ الْكَبِيرُ مِنَّا الصَّغِيرَ إِنَّهُمَا ظَلَمَانَا حَقَّنَا وَ مَنَعَانَا فَيْئَنَا وَ كَانَا أَوَّلَ مَنْ رَكِبَ أَعْنَاقَنَا وَ بَثَقَا عَلَيْنَا بَثْقاً فِي الْإِسْلَامِ لَا يُسْكَرُ أَبَداً حَتَّى يَقُومَ قَائِمُنَا أَوْ يَتَكَلَّمَ مُتَكَلِّمُنَا ثُمَّ قَالَ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ قَدْ قَامَ قَائِمُنَا أَوْ تَكَلَّمَ مُتَكَلِّمُنَا لَأَبْدَى مِنْ أُمُورِهِمَا مَا كَانَ يُكْتَمُ وَ لَكَتَمَ مِنْ أُمُورِهِمَا مَا كَانَ يُظْهَرُ وَ اللَّهِ مَا أُسِّسَتْ مِنْ بَلِيَّةٍ وَ لَا قَضِيَّةٍ تَجْرِي عَلَيْنَا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ إِلَّا هُمَا أَسَّسَا أَوَّلَهَا فَعَلَيْهِمَا لَعْنَةُ اللَّهِ وَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ وَ النَّاسِ أَجْمَعِينَ.


340. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from hanaan Bin Sudeyr, and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Hanaan Bin Sudeyr, from his father who said: I asked Abu Ja’far (a.s) about the two (Abu Bakr and Umar), so he (a.s) said: ‘O Abu Al-Fazl, don’t ask me about these two, for by Allah (azwj), no one from among us (a.s) passes away at all except being angry against these two, and there is none from us (a.s) today except that he (a.s) is angry at them. The old ones bequeath it to the young ones from us (a.s). These two have been unjust to us (a.s) for our (a.s) rights, and prevented us (a.s) from our (a.s) Fey (Spoils of War – Khums), and first one rode upon our (a.s) necks, and caused damage to us (a.s) with a damage in Al-Islam which can never be repaired ever until our (a.s) Qaim (a.s) makes a stand and speaks our (a.s) speech’. Then he (a.s) said; ‘But, by Allah (azwj), when our (a.s) Qaim (a.s) makes a stand, or speaks our (a.s) speech, he (a.s) will expose the matters of these two of what they had concealed, and conceal from their matters what they used to make apparent. By Allah (azwj), nothing has afflicted us (a.s) from the afflictions, and what has passed of the difficulties against us (a.s), the People (a.s) of the Household, except that these two laid the foundations of it at first place, so against these two are the Curses of Allah (azwj), and the Angels, and the people altogether’.