Hadith 1

fj of Progeny-asws of Muhammad-saww! The repentance, the repentance! ’
He-ajfj advise them and caution them, and he-ajfj would appoint (another) caliph from them, upon them, and he-ajfj would travel. They would pounce upon him after it and kill him. He-ajfj will return his-ajfj helpers from the Jinn and the captains and he-ajfj say to them, ‘Return, for there does not remain any mortal from them except for who has already believed. If the Mery of your Lord-azwj had not been Capacious of all things, and I-ajfj am that Mercy, I-ajfj would be returning to them along with you all, for they have cut off the excuses between them and Allah-azwj and between me-ajfj and them! ’
They will return to them. By Allah-azwj! Not even one from a hundred of them would be safe. No, by Allah-azwj! Not even one from a thousand! ’
Al-Mufazzal said, ‘I said, ‘O my chief! Where would be the house of Al-Mahdi-ajfj and gathering (point) of the Momineen? ’
He-asws said: ‘The house of his-ajfj kingdom (capital) would be Al-Kufa, and (it would be the) seat of his-ajfj rule, and his-ajfj public treasury, and distribution (point) of the war booty of the Muslims would be Masjid Al-Sahla, and place of his-ajfj isolation would be Al-Zakwat Al-Bayz from Al-Ghariyeyn’. Al-Mufazzal said, ‘O my Master-asws! All the Momineen would happen to be at Al-Kufa? ’
He-asws said: ‘Yes, by Allah-azwj! There will not remain any Momin except he would be at it, or around it, and the price of an area of horse from it would reach a thousand Dirhams, and most of the people would wish that they could have bought a palm’s width from the land for seven palm’s width of gold, and seven areas from the areas of Hamdan, and Al-Kufa would become of forty-five miles, and its castles would be in the neighbourhood of Karbala. And Allah-azwj will Cause Karbala to become a stronghold and a place for the interchange of Angels and the Momineen, and there would happen to be a glory for it from the glories, and there will happen to be Blessings in it what if a Momin were to pause and supplicate to his Lord-azwj, Allah-azwj would Grant him for his one supplication, like the kingdom of the world, a thousand times over! ’
Then Abu Abdullah-asws took a deep breath and said: ‘O Mufazzal! A spot of the earth would pride. Kabah, the Sacred House will pride over the spot of Karbala, so Allah-azwj would Reveal to it: “Be silent Kabah, the Sacred House, and do not pride upon Karbala, for it is the Blessed spot which Musa-as was called out from it from the tree, and it is the hill which Maryam-as and the Messiah-as had sheltered to, and it is the water-wheel in which the head of Al-Husayn-asws was washed, and in it Maryam-as washed Isa-as and she-as washed from her-as having given birth, and it is the best spot! ”
Rasool-Allah-saww had ascended from it at the time of his-saww absence, and it would become for our-asws Shias the goodness in it up to the appearance of our-asws Qaim-ajfj! ’
Al-Mufazzal said, ‘O my chief! Then Al-Mahdi-ajfj would travel to (but) where? ’
He-asws said: ‘To the city of my-asws grandfather-saww Rasool-Allah-saww. When he-ajfj arrives at it, there would be a strange place for him-ajfj therein. There shall appear in it happiness of the Momineen and disgrace of the Kafirs’. Al-Mufazzal said, ‘O my chief! What would t