Hadith 12

xaltedness of the exalted (Ali-asws, and by the brightness of the Fatimid (Fatima-asws), only to Grace upon Tihama with the Kindness and the Mercy’’. (Rasool-Allah-saww said): ‘By the One-azwj Who Split the seed and Formed the person! The Arabs used to write these phrases and supplicate by these at the calamities during the pre-Islamic period, and they neither knew nor understand their realities. When it was the night in which Amir Al-Momineen-asws was blessed (to his-asws parents-asws), the sky shone with its illumination and the radiance of its stars double, and Quraysh sighted wonders from that. They agitated each other and said, ‘An event has occurred in the sky! ’ And Abu Talib-asws came out and he-asws mingles in the market stalls of Makkah and its markets, and he-asws said: ‘O you people! The Argument of Allah-azwj is completed! ’ And the people came to ask him-asws about the reach of what they had seen, from the brightness of the sky and doubling of the radiance of the stars. He-as said to them: ‘Receive glad tidings, for during this night has appeared a friend from the friends of Allah-azwj. Allah-azwj would Perfect the good characteristics in him-asws and end the successors-as by him-asws, and he-asws is Imam-asws of the pious, and helper of the religion, and suppressor of the Polytheists, and enrager of the hypocrites, and adornment of the worshippers, and successor-asws of Rasool-saww of Lord-azwj of the worlds, Imam-asws of guidance, and the high star, and lamp for the darkness, and annihilator of the Shirk and the suspicions, and he-asws is the soul of conviction, and head of the religion’. He-as did not cease repeating these phrases and words up the morning. When it was morning, he-as disappeared from his-as people for forty mornings’. Jabir said, ‘I said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! Where did he-as disappear to? ’
He-saww said: ‘He-as went searching for Masram, and he had died in the mount Al-Lukam. Conceal, O Jabir, for it is from the hidden Secrets of Allah-azwj and His-azwj Treasured Knowledge. Al-Marsam had described a cave to Abu Talib-asws being in mount Al-Lukam and had said to him-as, ‘You-as will find me there, whether alive or dead’. When Abu Talib-asws went to that cave and entered into it, he-asws found Al-Masram dead, a body wrapped, enshrouded, lying down to his Qiblah. Over there were two snakes, one of them white and the other one black, and they were both repelling the harm from him. When they sighted Abu Talib-asws, they disappeared in the cave, and Abu Talib-asws entered to see him-asws. He-as said: ‘The greetings be unto you, O friend of Allah-azwj, and Mercy of Allah-azwj and His-azwj Blessings’. Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted Revived Al-Masram by