Hadith 166

(The book) ‘Al Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashub –
‘And from what has come regarding his-asws Fasting and his-asws Hajj, Moattib, from Al-Sadiq‑asws having said: ‘Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws was of severe striving in the worship. He-asws was fasting his-asws days and standing his-asws nights (in Salat). That was harmful with his-asws body. I-asws said to him-asws: ‘O father-asws! How much is this exertion! ’ He-asws said to him-asws: ‘I-asws love my-asws Lord-azwj, perhaps He-azwj would Draw me-asws near’. And he-asws performed Hajj walking, so he-asws travelled in twenty days from Al-Medina to Makkah’’. [216]
Zurara Bin Ayn –
‘He-asws had performed Hajj upon a she-camel, twenty Hajj, and he-asws did not even tap her with a whip’’. [217]
Ibrahim Al Rafie said, ‘His-asws she-camel delayed upon him-asws, so he-asws raised the stick and indicated to it and said: ‘Had there been no fear of retaliation, I-asws would have done so (beaten you)! ’ And in a report: ‘Aah from the retaliation! ’ And he-asws returned his-asws hand from it’’. [218]
And Abdullah Bin Mubarak said, ‘I performed Hajj in one of the years to Makkah. While I was travelling in the plains of Hajj, there was a child of seven or eight (years old) and he was travelling in a corner from the pilgrims without any provisions or riding animal. I went to him and greeted unto him and said to him, ‘With whom are you cutting across the wilderness? ’ He said, ‘The Maker’. That was big in my eyes, so I said, ‘O my son! Where are your provisions and your riding animal? ’ He said, ‘My provision is my piety, and my ride are my two legs, and my aim is my Master-azwj’. That was mighty within myself, so I said, ‘O my son! Who are you from? ’ He said, ‘Muttalibi’. I said, ‘Son of? ’ He said: ‘Hashemite’. I said: ‘Son of? ’ Alawite, Fatimide’. I said, ‘O my chief! Have you said anything from the poems? ’ He said: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘Prose something to me from your poem’. He prosed: ‘We shall be pioneers (first) to the Fountain. We shall provide and quench its arrivals. And no one to succeed will succeed except by us, and no one will be disappointed whose provision is love for us. And the one who cheers us will obtain the cheerfulness from us, and the one worsens us, his birth is evil, and the one who had usurped our right, so the Day of Qiyamah is his appointment’. Then he disappeared from my eyes until I came to Makkah. I fulfilled my Hajj and returned. I came to Al-Abtah, and there was a circle (of people) formed. I looked at the one at it, and there it was my companion. I asked about him. It was said, ‘This is Zayn Al-Abideen-asws’’. [219]