28-16 Ja’far ibn Muhammad ibn Masroor - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Al-Hussein ibn Muhammad ibn Amer quoted Mo’ali ibn Muhammad al-Basry, on the authority of Bastam ibn Marat, on the authority of Ishaq ibn Hisan, on the authority of Al-Haysam ibn Vaqid, on the authority of Ali ibn al-Hassan al-Abdi, on the authority of Sa’ed ibn Tarif, on the authority of Al-Asbaq ibn al-Nobatat,

“The Commander of the Faithful Imam Ali ordered us to emigrate from Kufa to Madaen (in Persia). We left Kufa on Sunday. Amr ibn Harith and seven others stayed behind. They went to a place called Khoranq which is in Hireh. They said, ‘We will amuse ourselves here and move on Wednesday and join the Commander of the Faithful Ali before he says the Friday prayers. While they were eating lunch, they saw a lizard. They hunted the lizard and Amr ibn Harith took it by hand, opened his palm and jokingly said, ‘This is the Commander of the Faithful! Pledge allegiance to him.’ Those seven individuals pledged allegiance to the lizard and Amr ibn Harith himself was the eighth person who pledged allegiance to the lizard. They returned on Wednesday night and arrived at Madaen on Friday. They did not disperse and were all together. The Commander of the Faithful Imam Ali was delivering the Friday prayer sermon at the mosque. Once they came into the mosque, Ali looked at them and said, “O people! God’s Prophet ﷺ disclosed one-thousand narrations to me each of which has one-thousand gates each of which has one-thousand keys. I heard God - may His Majesty be Exalted - say, ‘One day We shall call together all human beings with their (respective) Imams…’ I swear by God that there will be eight people who shall be resurrected with their leader which will be a lizard. I could name them one by one for you if I wish.”Asbaq added, “I saw that Amr ibn Harith had become so sorry and ashamed that he held his head down just like a date palm branch.”