Hadith 12

From the book ‘Kashf Al Yaqeen’ of the Allama, may Allah-azwj Sanctify his soul, from the book ‘Al Arbaeen An Al Arbaeen’, said, ‘The poet Al-Babbagah went as a delegate to one of the kings, and he used to be a delegate to him during every year. He found him being in the hunting. So, a minister of the king wrote to inform of his arrival and settled him in one of his houses. And upon that house there was a room in which Al-Babbagah used to spend the night in it, every night, and for it was an exit to the footpath. And every night the guard used to come out after midnight and shout at the top of his voice, ‘O heedless ones! Remember Allah-azwj’. Then he would revile Ali-asws, and the poet Al-Babbagah would get upset to his voice. By chance, during one of the nights, the poet saw in his dream that the Prophet-saww had come, him-saww and Ali-asws, to that footpath, and found the guard. The Prophet-saww said to Ali-asws: ‘Smack him! Today it is forty years for him he is reviling you-asws’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws struck him between his shoulders’. The poet woke up upset from the dream. Then he awaited the voice which used to be from the guard every time, but he did not hear it. He was surprised from that. Then he heard shouting and men had come over to the house of Al-Haris. He asked them the news. They said to him, ‘Al-Haris got struck between his shoulders of a measurement of a palm, and it is split, and it prevents him from settling down’. The time of morning had not come except and he had died, and forty people had seen him being with this state. And at the city of Mosul there was a person called Ahmad Bin Hamdoun Bin Al-Haris Al-Adawy. He was severely inimical, a lot of hatred to our Master-asws Amir Al-Momineen-asws. One of the people of Mosul intended to perform the Hajj. He came to him to bid him farewell. He said to him, ‘I have determined upon going out to the Hajj, so if there was a need for you, you can let me know until I can fulfil it for you’. He said, ‘There is an important need for me, and it is easy to you’. He said to him, ‘Instruct me with it until I get it done’. He said, ‘When you have fulfilled the Hajj and arrive at Al-Medina, and have visited the Prophet-saww, address him-saww on my behalf and say, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! How much was your-saww fascination from Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws until you-saww got him-asws married to your-saww daughter-asws, despite his-asws large belly, or his-asws thin legs, or his-asws bald head’, and he made him swear an oath and determined upon him that he would deliver to him-saww this speech. When he returned to Al-Medina and had fulfilled his needs, he forgot that bequest. He saw Amir Al-Momineen-asws in his dream. He-asws said to him: ‘Will