Hadith 577

(The book) ‘Kifayat Al Aser’ – Ali Bin Al-Hassan, from Muhammad Bin Al-Husayn Al Kufi, from Muhammad Bin Ali Bin Zakariya, from Abdullah Bin Al Zahhak, from Hisham Bin Muhammad, from Abdul Rahman, from Aasim Bin Amro, from Mahmoud Bin Labeed who said, ‘When Rasool-Allah-saww passed away, (Syeda) Fatima-asws used to come to the graves of the martyrs, and she-asws would come to the grave of Hamza-as and cry over there. When it was during one of the days she-asws had come to the grave of Hamza-as, I found her-as crying over there. I gave her-asws time until she-asws had calmed down, then came to her-asws and greeted unto her-asws, and I said, ‘O chieftess of the women! By Allah-azwj, the veins of my heart have been cut from your-asws crying! ’
She-asws said: ‘O Abu Umar, and the crying is a right for me-asws, for I-asws have been afflicted (with the loss of) best of the fathers, Rasool-Allah-saww. O the desire to Rasool-Allah-azwj! ’
Then she-asws prosed (a couplet) saying: ‘When a person dies one day, his mention is little, and the mention of my father, since he-saww passed away, by Allah-azwj it is more’. I said, ‘O my chieftess-asws! I (want to) ask you-asws about an issue which is bothering me in my chest’. She-asws said: ‘Ask’. I said, ‘Did Rasool-Allah-saww before his-saww passing away give the text upon Ali-asws with the Imamate? ’ She-asws said: ‘O how strange! Are you forgetting the day of Ghadeer Khumm? ’
I said, ‘That had happened, but informed me with what he-saww had indicated to you-asws’. She-asws said: ‘I-asws testify with Allah-azwj the Exalted, I-asws have heard him-saww saying: ‘Ali-asws is best of the ones I-saww leave behind among you all, and he is the Imam-asws, and the caliph after me-saww, and my-saww two grandsons-asws, and nine from the Sulb of Al-Husayn-asws are Imams-