Hadith 357

(The book) ‘Al Ghayba’ of Al Numani – Salama Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Umar, well known as Al Haji, from Ibn Al Qasim Al Alawy, from Ja’far Bin Muhammad Al Hasany, from Muhammad Bin Kaseer, from Abu Ahmad Bin Musa, from Dawood Bin Kaseer who said, ‘I entered to see Abu Abdullah-asws at Al-Medina. He-asws said to me: ‘What is that which delayed you from us-asws, O Dawood? ’ I said, ‘A need presented at Al-Kufa’. He-asws said: ‘Whom have you left behind at it? ’
I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! I have left behind your-asws uncle Zayd riding upon a horse, collaring a sword, calling out at the top of his voice, ‘Ask me! Ask me before you lose me! There is immense knowledge between my shoulders. I understand the Abrogating from the Abrogated (Verse), and the doubt, and the Magnificent Quran, and I am the flag between Allah-azwj and you all! ’’
He-asws said: ‘O Dawood! The doctrines have gone away with you’. Then he-asws called out: ‘O Sama’at Bin Mihran! Bring me the basket of dates! ’ He-asws took a date from it and ate it and extracted the kernel from his-asws mouth and planted it in the ground. It split up and grew, and became tall, and bore clusters. He-asws struck his-asws hand to an un-ripened date from a cluster, split it and extracted a whiten note from it, opened it and handed it to me and said: ‘Read it! ’ I read it and there were two lines in it. The first was: “There is no god except Allah-azwj, Muhammad-saww is Rasool-Allah-saww”. And the second: “Surely, the number of months in the Presence of Allah is twelve months in the Book of Allah, the day He Created the skies and the earth – from these four are Sacred. That is the upright Religion, [9: 36]. Amir Al-Momineen Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, Al-Hassan-asws Bin Ali-asws, Al-Husayn-asws Bin Ali-asws, Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws, Muhammad-asws Bin Ali-asws, Ja’far-asws Bin Muhammad-asws, Musa-asws Bin Ja’far-asws, Ali-asws Bin Musa-asws, Muhammad-asws Bin Ali-asws, Ali-asws Bin Muhammad-asws, Al-Hassan-asws Bin Ali-asws, the replacement, the Divine Authority”. Then he-asws said: ‘O Dawood! Do you know when this was written? ’ I said, ‘Allah-azwj is more Knowing, and His-azwj Rasool-saww, and you (Imams-asws)’. He-asws said: ‘Before Allah-azwj Created Adam-as by two thousand years’’. [223]