Hadith 255

up’. He (the reporter) said, ‘The people clamoured from behind the room with crying and the lamenting, and the tears of Amir Al-Momineen overflowed during that, and he-asws went on to turn his-asws eyes to the People-asws of his-asws Household and his-asws children. Then he-asws called Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws and went on hugging them-asws and kissing them-asws (betweentheir-asws eyes). Then there was unconsciousness upon him-asws for a long time, and he-asws woke up, and like that was Rasool-Allah-saww. There was unconsciousness upon him-saww for a long time, and he-saww was waking up at other time, because he-asws was poisoned. When he-asws woke up, Al-Hassan-asws gave him-asws a cup of milk. He-asws drank a little from it, then moved it away from his-asws mouth and said: ‘Carry it to your prisoner (Ibn Muljim-la)! ’
Then he-asws said to Al-Hassan-asws: ‘By my-asws right upon you-asws, O my-asws son-asws! Make his-la food and drink to be good and be kind with him-la up to the time of my-asws death and feed him-la from what you-asws eat and quench him-la from what you-asws drink, until you-asws become more benevolent than him-la’. During that, they carried the milk to him-la and informed him-la with what Amir Al-Momineen-asws had said regarding his-la right. He-la took the milk and drank it. He (the narrator) said, ‘And when Amir Al-Momineen-asws was carried to his-asws house, they came with the accursed one, bound, to a house from the houses of the government building. They imprisoned him-la in it. Umm Kulsoom-asws said to him-la, and she-asws was crying: ‘O woe be unto you-la! As for my-asws father-asws, there is no problem upon him-asws, and Allah-azwj will Disgrace you-la in the world and the Hereafter, and your-la destination is to the Fire, being eternally in it’. Ibn Muljim-la, may Allah-azwj Curse him-la said to her-asws: ‘Cry if you-asws want to cry! By Allah-azwj! I-la bought this sword of mine-asws for a thousand (Dirhams) and had it poisoned for a thousand (Dirhams), and if this strike of mine-la had been upon entirety of the people of Al-Kufa, no one of them would have been saved! ’
Muhammad Ibn Al-Hanafiya said, ‘And we spent the night of twentieth of the month of Ramazan with my father-asws, and the poison had descended to his-asws feet, and he-asws prayed Salat on that night in a sitting posture, and he-asws did not cease to bequeath to us with his-asws bequest, and preaching us from himself-asws, and informing us of his-asws matter, and its explanation, until the time of emergence of dawn. When it was morning, the people sought permission to see him-asws, so he-asws permitted them for the entry. They entered to see him-asws and went on to greet unto him-asws, and he-asws was responding the greetings to them. Then he-asws said: ‘O you people! Ask me-asws before you lose me-asws and reduce your questioning due to the calamity of your Imam-asws’. He (the narrator) said, ‘The people cried during that with intense crying, and they pitied from asking him-asws, as a lightening from him-asws’. Hujr Bin Aday stood up to him-asws and said (a poem), ‘Oh the regret upon the pious Master-asws, father-asws of the clean ones, the pure Haider-asws. A Kafir killed him-asws, a betrayer, an ignoble, accursed, mischief-maker, corrupt, wretch. May our Lord-azwj Curse the one turning away from you-asws all, and he-la the accursed is disavowed from you-asws and me, because you-asws all are my treasure on the Day of Resurrection, and you-asws are the family-asws, of the guide, the Prophet-saww’. When he-asws sighted him and heard his poem, said to him: ‘How would it be for me-asws with you, when you are called to the disavowing from me-asws? So, what would you be saying? ’
He said, ‘By Allah-azwj! O Amir Al-Momineen-asws!