Hadith 87

(The book) ‘Rijal’ of Al Kashy – I found in the handwriting of Jibraeel Bin Ahmad, ‘It is narrated to me by Muhammad Bin Abdullah Bin Mihran, from Muhammad Bin Ali, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar, from Ibn Al Batainy, from his father, from Abu Baseer who said, ‘I heard Abu Ja’far-asws saying, ‘Abu Khalid Al-Kabuly had served Muhammad Ibn Al-Hanafiya for a long time, and he had no doubt that he was the (true) Imam-asws until one day he came to him and said to him, ‘May I be sacrificed for you! There is a sanctity for me, and cordiality, and cutting off (from others). I ask you by the sanctity of Rasool-Allah-saww and Amir Al-Momineen-asws, only inform me, are you the Imam-asws who Allah-azwj has Obligated obedience to him-asws upon His-azwj creatures’. He-asws said: ‘He said, ‘O Abu Khalid! You have made an oath to me with the mighty (oath)! The Imam-asws is Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws upon me and upon you and upon every Muslim’. Abu Khalid turned back, when he had heard from Muhammad Bin Al-Hanafiya had said, and came to Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-as. When he sought permission to see him-asws, he-asws was informed, ‘Abu Khalid is at the door’. He-asws permitted for him. When he entered to see him‑asws and went near to him-asws, he-asws said: ‘Welcome, O Kankar! You have not been a visitor to us-asws (before). What changed your mind regarding us-asws? ’
Abu Khalid fell in Sajdah of thanking Allah-azwj the Exalted, from what he had heard from Ali‑asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws. He said, ‘The Praise is for Allah-azwj Who did not Cause me to die until I recognised my (true) Imam-asws’. Ali-asws said to him: ‘And how did you recognise your Imam-asws, O Abu Khalid? ’ He said, ‘You‑asws called me with my name which my mother who gave birth to me had named me with, and I have been in blindness from my affair, and I have served Muhammad Bin Al-Hanafiya for ages from my life, and I had no doubt that he was the Imam-asws, until when a while back, I asked him by the Sanctity of Allah-azwj the Exalted, and sanctity of His-azwj Rasool-saww and sanctity of Amir Al-Momineen-asws. So he guided me to you-asws and said, ‘He-asws is the Imam‑asws upon me, and upon you, and upon entirety of the creatures of Allah-azwj, all of them’. Then he permitted for me, so I came. I came near you-asws, and you-asws named me with my name which my mother had named me with, so I knew that you-asws are the Imam-asws who Allah-azwj has Obligated obedience to him-asws upon me and upon every Muslim’’. [107]
(The book) ‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ –
‘With an unbroken chain, similar to it, and in it, ‘And he said, ‘My mother gave birth to me and named me as ‘Wardan’. My father came over to her and said, ‘Name him as ‘Kankar’. And by Allah-azwj! No one from the people has called me with it up to this day, other than you-asws. So I testify that you-asws are the (true) Imam-asws of the ones in the earth and the ones in the sky’’. [108]