Hadith 43

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi Al Mufeed, from Ali Bin Khalid, from Al Abbas Bin Al Mugheira, from Ahmad Bin Mansour, from Abduul Razzaq, from Ma’mar, from Qatadah, from Nasr Bin Aasim Al Laysi, from Khalid Bin Khalid Al Yashkuri who said, ‘I went out in the year of the conquest of Tustar (a province of Persia) until I arrived at Al-Kufa. I entered the Masjid and there I was with a circle there I was with a man of weak one from the men. I said, ‘Who is this? ’ The group said, ‘Do you not recognise him? ’ I said, ‘No’. They said, ‘This is Huzeyfa Bin Al-Yaman, companion of Rasool-Allah-saww’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I sat to him, and he narrated to the group. He said, ‘The people used to ask Rasool-Allah-saww about the good, and I used to ask him-saww about the evil’. The group disliked that upon him. He said, ‘I shall narrate to you with what you are disliking. The matter of came, so there came a matter unlike the matter of the pre-Islamic period, and I had been given understanding from the Quran, and men were coming and asking the Prophet-saww. I said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! Can evil happen to be after this goodness? ’ He-saww said: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘So what is the protection from it? ’ He-saww said: ‘The sword’. I said, ‘And what would remain after the sword? ’ He-saww said: ‘Yes, there will happen to be an emirate upon the sins and truce upon the smoke’. I said, ‘Then what? ’ He-saww said: ‘Then the citizens would spread the straying, so if on that day you were to see a just caliph, then necessitate him, or else die biting upon the trunk of a tree’’. And it is reported by Al Husayn Bin Masoud Al Farra in (the book) ‘Shar’h Al Sunnah’, this report form Al Yashkuri, like that –
‘I went out in the time when Tustar (a province of Persia) was conquered until I arrived at Al-Kufa and entered the Masjid, and there I was with a circle wherein was a man blocked from the men, of excellent talk being recognised by it that he was a man from the people of Al-