Al-Kāfi - Volume 8


Book 1, Chapter 593

"Government which is not form him..."
1 Ḥadīth

Ḥadīth #1

:594

وَ بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ عَنْ عَنْبَسَةَ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ خُنَيْسٍ قَالَ كُنْتُ عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) إِذْ أَقْبَلَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ فَسَلَّمَ ثُمَّ ذَهَبَ فَرَقَّ لَهُ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) وَ دَمَعَتْ عَيْنَاهُ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُكَ صَنَعْتَ بِهِ مَا لَمْ تَكُنْ تَصْنَعُ فَقَالَ رَقَقْتُ لَهُ لِأَنَّهُ يُنْسَبُ إِلَى أَمْرٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ لَمْ أَجِدْهُ فِي كِتَابِ عَلِيٍّ (عليه السلام) مِنْ خُلَفَاءِ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ وَ لَا مِنْ مُلُوكِهَا.

594. And by this chain, from Anbasat, from Moalla Bin Khunays who said: ‘I was in the presence of Abu Abdullah (a.s) when Muhammad Bin Abdullah came up and greeted, then went away. Abu Abdullah (a.s) sympathised and tears flowed from his (a.s) eyes. So I said to him (a.s), ‘I saw you (a.s) doing something what you never did for anyone before’. He (a.s) said; ‘I (a.s) sympathised for him because he will be established upon a command which is not for him. I (a.s) did not find him in the Book of Ali (a.s) from the Caliphs of this community, nor from its kings’.