Muhammad b. `Ali b. al-Fadl al-Kufi narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Ja`far al-Ma`ruf b. al-Tibyan narrated to us. He said: Ibrahim b. Khalid al-Muqri’ al-Kisa’i narrated to us. He said: `Abdullah b. Dahir al-Razi narrated to us from his father from Sa`d b. Turayf from al-Asbagh b. Nubata. He said:

One day, we were gathered around Amir al-Mu’minin in the Mosque of Kufa when he said: O people of Kufa! Allah has loved you in a way that He has not loved anyone else, so He uplifted your place of prayer, which is the house of Adam, the house of Nuh, the house of Idris, the place of prayer for Ibrahim the Friend and my brother al-Khidr , and my place of prayer. This mosque of yours is one of the four mosques that Allah has chosen for its people. It is as if I am in it on the Day of Resurrection, wearing two white garments, giving intercession to its people and to whomever prayed in it. Its intercession is not rejected. The days will not pass until the Black Stone will be brought to it. There will come a time where it will be the place of prayer of the Mahdi from my progeny, and the place of prayer of every believer, and there will not be a believer on Earth except that he has been in it or craved it in his heart. So, do not forsake it, and come closer to Allah by praying in it. Desire to come to it to fulfill your needs. If the people were to know its blessing, they would come to it from every region of the Earth, even if they had to crawl on ice.