Al-Kāfi - Volume 8


Book 1, Chapter 556

Returned from Ethiopia...
1 Ḥadīth

أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ النَّهْدِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنِ الْفُضَيْلِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عليه السلام) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ (صلى الله عليه وآله) لِجَعْفَرٍ (عليه السلام) حِينَ قَدِمَ مِنَ الْحَبَشَةِ أَيُّ شَيْ‏ءٍ أَعْجَبُ مَا رَأَيْتَ قَالَ رَأَيْتُ حَبَشِيَّةً مَرَّتْ وَ عَلَى رَأْسِهَا مِكْتَلٌ فَمَرَّ رَجُلٌ فَزَحَمَهَا فَطَرَحَهَا وَ وَقَعَ الْمِكْتَلُ عَنْ رَأْسِهَا فَجَلَسَتْ ثُمَّ قَالَتْ وَيْلٌ لَكَ مِنْ دَيَّانِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ إِذَا جَلَسَ عَلَى الْكُرْسِيِّ وَ أَخَذَ لِلْمَظْلُومِ مِنَ الظَّالِمِ فَتَعَجَّبَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ (صلى الله عليه وآله).


557. Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Ahmad, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad Al-Nahdy, from Muhammad Bin Al-Waleed, from Aban Bin Usman, from Al-Fazeyl, who has said the following: Abu Ja’far (a.s) has said: ‘The Rasool Allah ﷺ said to Ja’far (a.s) when he (a.s) came back from Ethiopia; ‘Which was the most astonishing thing from what you (a.s) saw?’ He (a.s) said; ‘I saw an Ethiopian woman pass by and upon her head was a load. So a man passed by her and bumped into her, and the load fell from her head. She sat down, then said, ‘Woe be unto you from the Judge on the Day of Reckoning, when He (azwj) will Sit upon the Chair, and Take for the oppressed, from the oppressors’. So the Rasool Allah ﷺ was (pleased with) astonishing (tale)’.