The Eighty-Seventh Assembly, the Assembly of Friday, the Twenty-Eighth of Rajab, 368 AH.

Al-Amālī|Volume 1|Book 1|Chapter 87

Al-Amālī

Book 1, Chapter 87

The Eighty-Seventh Assembly, the Assembly of Friday, the Twenty-Eighth of Rajab, 368 AH.

Hadith #5

5 - حدثنا محمد بن أحمد السناني (رضي الله عنه)، قال: حدثنا أحمد بن يحيى بن زكريا القطان، قال: حدثنا بكر بن عبد الله بن حبيب، قال: حدثنا تميم بن بهلول، قال: حدثنا علي بن عاصم، عن الحسين بن عبد الرحمن، عن مجاهد، عن ابن عباس، قال: كنت مع أمير المؤمنين (عليه السلام) في خروجه إلى صفين، فلما نزل بنينوى وهو شط الفرات، قال بأعلى صوته: يا بن عباس، أتعرف هذا الموضع؟ فقلت له: ما أعرفه، يا أمير المؤمنين. فقال علي (عليه السلام): لو عرفته كمعرفتي لم تكن تجوزه حتى تبكي كبكائي. قال: فبكى طويلا حتى اخضلت لحيته وسالت الدموع على صدره، وبكينا معا (1)، وهو يقول: أوه أوه، مالي ولآل أبي سفيان، مالي ولآل حرب، حزب الشيطان، وأولياء الكفر، صبرا - يا أبا عبد الله - فقد لقي أبوك مثل الذي تلقى منهم. ثم دعا بماء فتوضأ وضوءه للصلاة وصلى ما شاء الله أن يصلي، ثم ذكر نحو كلامه الاول، إلا أنه نعس عند انقضاء صلاته وكلامه ساعة، ثم انتبه فقال: يا ابن عباس. فقلت: ها أنا ذا. فقال: ألا أحدثك بما رأيت في منامي آنفا عند رقدتي؟ فقلت: نامت عيناك ورأيت خيرا، يا أمير المؤمنين. قال: رأيت كأني برجال قد نزلوا من السماء معهم أعلام بيض، قد تقلدوا سيوفهم، وهي بيض تلمع، وقد خطوا حول هذه الارض خطة، ثم رأيت كأن هذه النخيل قد ضربت بأغصانها الارض تضطرب بدم عبيط، وكأني بالحسين سخلي (2) وفرخي ومضغتي ومخي قد غرق فيه، يستغيث فلا يغاث، وكأن الرجال البيض قد نزلوا من السماء ينادونه ويقولون: صبرا آل الرسول، فإنكم تقتلون على أيدي شرار الناس، وهذه الجنة - يا أبا عبد الله - إليك مشتاقة. ثم يعزونني ويقولون: يا أبا الحسن، أبشر، فقد أقر الله به عينك يوم القيامة، يوم يقوم الناس لرب العالمين، ثم انتبهت هكذا. والذي نفس علي بيده، لقد حدثني الصادق المصدق أبو القاسم (صلى الله عليه وآله) أني سأراها في خروجي إلى أهل البغي علينا، وهذه أرض كرب وبلاء، يدفن فيها الحسين وسبعة عشر رجلا من ولدي وولد فاطمة، وأنها لفي السماوات معروفة، تذكر أرض كرب وبلاء كما تذكر بقعة الحرمين وبقعة بيت المقدس. ثم قال: يا ابن عباس، اطلب لي حولها بعر الظباء، فوالله ما كذبت ولا كذبت، وهي مصفرة، لونها لون الزعفران. قال ابن عباس: فطلبتها فوجدتها مجتمعة، فناديته: يا أمير المؤمنين، قد أصبتها على الصفة التي وصفتها لي. فقال علي (عليه السلام): صدق الله ورسوله. ثم قام (عليه السلام) يهرول إليها، فحملها وشمها، وقال: هي هي بعينها، أتعلم - يا بن عباس - ما هذه الابعار؟ هذه قد شمها عيسى بن مريم (عليه السلام)، وذلك أنه مر بها ومعه الحواريون فرأى ها هنا الضباء مجتمعة وهي تبكي، فجلس عيسى (عليه السلام) وجلس الحواريون معه، فبكى وبكى الحواريون وهم لا يدرون لم جلس ولم بكى. فقالوا: يا روح الله وكلمته، ما يبكيك؟ قال: أتعلمون أي أرض هذه؟ قالوا: لا. قال: هذه أرض يقتل فيها فرخ الرسول أحمد وفرخ الحرة الطاهرة البتول شبيهة أمي، ويلحد فيها، طينة أطيب من المسك لانها طينة الفرخ المستشهد، وهكذا تكون طينة الانبياء وأولاد الانبياء، فهذه الظباء تكلمني وتقول: إنها ترعى في هذه الارض شوقا إلى تربة الفرخ المبارك، وزعمت أنها آمنة في هذه الارض. ثم ضرب بيده إلى هذه الصيران (1) فشمها، وقال: هذه بعر الظباء على هذا الطيب لمكان حشيشها، اللهم فأبقها أبدا حتى يشمها أبوه فتكون له عزاء وسلوة، قال: فبقيت إلى يوم الناس هذا، وقد اصفرت لطول زمنها، وهذه أرض كرب وبلاء. ثم قال بأعلى صوته: يا رب عيسى بن مريم، لا تبارك في قتلته، والمعين عليه، والخاذل له، ثم بكى بكاء طويلا وبكينا معه حتى سقط لوجهه وغشي عليه طويلا، ثم أفاق، فأخذ البعر فصره في ردائه، وأمرني أن أصرها كذلك، ثم قال: يا بن عباس، إذا رأيتها تنفجر دما عبيطا ويسيل منها دم عبيط، فاعلم أن أبا عبد الله قد قتل بها ودفن. قال ابن عباس: فوالله لقد كنت أحفظها أشد من حفظى لبعض ما افترض الله عزوجل علي، وأنا لا أحلها من طرف كمي، فبينما أنا نائم في البيت إذ انتبهت فإذا هي تسيل دما عبيطا، وكان كمي قد امتلا دما عبيطا، فجلست وأنا باك، وقلت: قد قتل والله الحسين، والله ما كذبني علي قط في حديث حدثني، ولا أخبرني بشئ قط أنه يكون إلا كان كذلك، لان رسول الله (صلى الله عليه وآله) كان يخبره بأشياء لا يخبر بها غيره. ففزعت وخرجت، وذلك عند الفجر، فرأيت والله المدينة كأنها ضباب لا يستبين منها أثر عين، ثم طلعت الشمس فرأيت كأنها منكسفة، ورأيت كأن حيطان المدينة عليها دم عبيط، فجلست وأنا باك، فقلت: قد قتل والله الحسين، وسمعت صوتا من ناحية البيت، وهو يقول: اصبروا آل الرسول * * قتل الفرخ النحول نزل الروح الامين * * ببكاء وعويل ثم بكى بأعلى صوته وبكيت، فأثبت عندي، تلك الساعة، وكان شهر المحرم يوم عاشوراء لعشر مضين منه، فوجدته قتل يوم ورد علينا خبره وتاريخه كذلك، فحدثت هذا الحديث أولئك الذين كانوا معه، فقالوا: والله لقد سمعنا ما سمعت ونحن في المعركة، ولا ندري ما هو، فكنا نرى أنه الخضر (عليه السلام) (1).

Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Sinani narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. Yahya b. Zakariyya al-Qattan narrated to us. He said: Bakr b. `Abdullah b. Habib narrated to us. He said: Tamim b. Bahlul narrated to us. He said: `Ali b. `Asim narrated to us from al-Husayn b. `Abd al-Rahman from Mujahid from Ibn `Abbas. He said: I was with Amir al-Mu’minin when he went out to Siffin. When he disembarked in Naynawa, on the coast of the Euphrates, he called out at the top of his lungs: O Ibn `Abbas! Do you recognize this spot? So, I said to him: I do not recognize it, Amir al-Mu’minin. So, `Ali said: Were you to recognize it as I recognize it, you would not be able to cross it without weeping as I weep. He said: Then, he wept for a long time, until his beard was soaked, and the tears dripped onto his chest. We wept with him; while he was saying: Oh, oh! What do I have to do with the Family of Abi Sufyan? What do I have to do with the Family of Harb? The Party of Satan, the Friends of Disbelief! Be patient, O Aba `Abdillah, for they have treated your father similar to how they treat you. Then, he called for water, and he made ablution for prayer. He prayed for as long as Allah willed for him to pray. Then, he repeated his previous words; till he became sleepy at the end of his hour of praying and words. Then, he regained focus and said: O Ibn `Abbas! So, I said: I am here. So, he said: Shall I not tell you about what I saw in my dream when I laid down? So, I said: Your eyes slept, but you saw goodness, Amir al-Mu’minin. He said: [In my dream,] it was as though I saw men descend from heaven with white flags. Their swords were unsheathed, and they were shining brightly. They created a perimeter around this land. Then, I saw as though these palm trees were striking the ground with their branches, striking with vain blood. It was as though I saw al-Husayn – my son, my youngling, my blood, my mind – was drowning in it, seeking help but not finding help. It was as though the shining men that had descended from heaven were calling to him and saying: “Patience, Family of Muhammad, for you are killed by the hands of the evilest of mankind. This is Paradise, Aba `Abdillah, and it longs for you.” Then, they consoled me, saying: “O Aba’l Hasan! Be glad, for Allah will bring joy to your eye through him on the Day of Resurrection – the Day that the people will be stood before the Lord of the Worlds.” Then, I regained focus to this. By Him in whose hand is my soul, the Truthful and Trusted Abu’l Qasim told me that I would see this when I would go out to [fight] the betraying people (ahl al-baghi). This is a land of calamity and affliction (karb wa bala’), where al-Husayn and seventeen men from my descendants and the descendants of Fatima will be buried. It is known in the heavens. The land of calamity and affliction is mentioned just as the land of the Two Sanctuaries and the land of Bayt al-Maqdis is mentioned. Then, he said: O Ibn `Abbas! Look for the manure of gazelles for me, for by Allah, I have not lied, nor have I been lied to. It is yellow, and its colour is like saffron. Ibn `Abbas said: So, I looked for it, and I found it gathered. So, I called for him: O Amir al-Mu’minin! I have found what you have described to me. So, `Ali said: Allah and His The Messenger have spoken the truth. Then, he stood and ran toward it. He picked it up and smelled it. He said: This is precisely it. Do you know, Ibn `Abbas, what this manure is? This is what `Isa b. Maryam smelled. He passed by it with his apostles, and he saw a gazelle here weeping. So, `Isa sat down, and the apostles sat down with him. He wept, and the apostles wept too, not knowing why he sat down and why he was weeping. So, they said: “O Spirit of Allah and His Word! What makes you weep?” He said: “Do you know what land this is?” They said: “No.” He said: “This is the land in which the son of the Messenger, Ahmad, and the son of the Free, the Pure, the Maiden, the one in the likeness of my mother, will be killed and will die in. The clay [here] is sweeter than musk, because it is the clay of the martyred son – such is the clay of the prophets and the children of the prophets. This gazelle speaks to me, and it says that it grazes this land longing for the soil of the blessed son. It believes that it is safe in this land.” Then, he picked up some of the manure with his hand and smelled it. He said: “This manure of the gazelle is fragrant because of the grass of this place. O Allah! Preserve it so that his father may also smell it, so that it may be a source of consolation and relief for him.” He said: So, it remained for the people until this day, and it has been yellowed due to its lengthy time. This is a land of calamity and affliction. Then, he said at the top of his lungs: O Lord of `Isa b. Maryam! Do not bless his murderers, nor those who help them in it, nor those who desert him. Then, he wept for a long time, and we wept with him, until he fainted onto his face for a long time. Then, he awoke, took the manure, and wrapped it in his cloak. He commanded me to do the same. Then, he said: O Ibn `Abbas! If you see it bursting with congealed blood and dripping in blood, then know that Aba `Abdillah has been killed here and buried. Ibn `Abbas said: By Allah, I preserved it better than some of the things that Allah obligated over me. I did not move it from the edge of my sleeve. One day, I was sleeping in the house, when I found it dripping congealed blood. My sleeve was filled with congealed blood, so I sat weeping, and I said: By Allah, al-Husayn has been killed. By Allah, `Ali has never lied to me in what he has said to me. He has never informed me of a thing except that it was as he said, because the Messenger of Allah would inform him of things that he would not inform others. So, I panicked, and I left, and that was at Fajr. By Allah, I saw that Medina was filled with fog that could not be seen through. Then, the Sun rose, and I saw that it was as though it was eclipsed. I saw that it was as though the walls of Medina were covered in congealed blood. So, I sat weeping, and I said: By Allah, al-Husayn has been killed. I heard a voice from the direction of the house, and it was saying: Be patient, O Family of the Messenger, The feeble son has been killed, The Trustworthy Spirit has descended, With weeping and wailing. Then, it wept at the top of its lungs, and I wept. That hour became resolute with me – it was the month of Muharram, the day of `Ashura’, and ten days had passed from it. I found that he was killed on the same day that we had been informed of. So, I told this hadith to those who were with him, and they said: By Allah, we heard the same thing that you heard while we were in battle. We did not know who [said it], so we believed that it was al-Khidr .