Hadith 236

incidence he was attending the visitation (Ziyarat) on the day of Al-Ghadeer – and the Hanbalites were mentioned at Al-Kufa – and they had gathered at the mausoleum of Amir Al-Momineen-asws a gathering of a large number of people exceeding the limit of counting. Ibn Aaliya said, ‘Make the sheykh Ismail to ask that man, what happened? What did he see? Did your wealth arrive to you? Does something from it remain with your debtor? ’
And that man answered him, until he said to him, ‘O my master! If you had attended the visitation on the day of Ghadeer, and what had flowed at the grave of Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, from the scandals and the slanderous saying, and reviling the companions openly, from without any surveillance nor fear’. Ismail said to him, ‘Which sin is there for them? By Allah-azwj! Nothing emboldened them upon that, nor opened this door for them except the occupant of that grave’. That man said, ‘And who is the occupant of the grave? ’ He said, ‘Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws’. He said, ‘O my master! He-asws is the one who enacted it for them, and taught it to them and showed them the path to it? ! ’ He said, ‘Yes, by Allah-azwj’. He said, ‘My master! So, if he-asws was rightful, then it is not for us to befriend so and so, and so and so (Abu Bakr and Umar), and if he-asws was false, then it is not for us to befriend him-asws! It is appropriate that either we disavow from him-asws or them two’. Ibn Aaliya said, ‘Ismail stood up hurriedly and wore his slippers and said, ‘May Allah-azwj Curse Ismail, the perpetrator son of the perpetrator. Surely, he had known the answer to this question’, and he entered a house of his sanctuary, and we arose and dispersed’’.