Hadith 65

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of sheykh Al Tusi Al Mufeed – ‘From Ali Bin Khalid, from Al Abbas Bin Al Mugheira, from Ahmad Bin Mansour, from Abdul Razzaq, from Ma’mar, from Qatada, from Nasr Bin Aasim Al Laysi, from Khalid Bin Khalid Al Yashkury who said, ‘I went out in the year of the conquest incognito until I arrived at Al-Kufa. I entered the Masjid and there I was with a circle wherein was a man most wrinkled of the men. I said, ‘Who is this one? ’ The group said, ‘But you do not recognise him? ’ I said, ‘No’. They said, ‘This is Huzeyfa Bin Al-Yamani, companion of Rasool-Allah-saww’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I sat to him and the group discussed. He said, ‘The people were asking Rasool-Allah-saww about the good and I was asking him-saww about the evil’. The group dislike that upon him. He said, ‘I shall narrate to you with what you are disliking. The matter of came, so the matter didn’t come like the matter of the pre-Islamic period, I was give understanding from the Quran, and they were coming and asking the Prophet-saww. I said, ‘I, O Rasool-Allah-saww, will this good become evil? ’ He-saww said: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘So what is the protection from it? ’ He-saww said: ’ The sword’. I said, ‘So, what (shelter) remains after the sword? ’ He-saww said: ‘Yes, it will become an emirate upon the throne, and truce upon smoke’. I said, ‘What then? ’ He-saww said: ‘Then the shepherds of (callers to) the straying will spread. So if you were to see a just caliph in those days, then necessitate him or else die patiently at the base of a tree’’. [66]