Hadith 12

(The book) ‘Al Majaalis’ of Al Mufeed – Ali Bin Bilal, from Ali Bin Abdullah Al Asfahany, from Al Saqafy, from Ismail Bin Yasaar, from Abdullah Bin Milh, from Abdul Wahhab Bin Ibrahim, from Abu Sadiq, Muzahim Bin Abdul Waris, from Muhammad Bin Zakariya, from Shuayb Bin Waqid, from Muhammad Bin Sahl, from his father, ‘From Qays a slave of Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws – similar to it’. [52]
Tafseer Al Ayyashi – From Abdul Rahman Bin Jundab who said, ‘When the people came back from Siffeen with Amir Al-Momineen-asws, we came back with him-asws. He-asws took a road other than our (normal) road which we would have come back in, until when we had crossed over Al-Nukheyla and saw the houses of Al-Kufa, there was an old man seated in the shade of a house. Upon his face were traces of the disease. Amir Al-Momineen-asws went towards him, and we were with him-asws, he-asws greeted unto him, and he returned a goodly response. We thought than he had recognised him-asws. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said to him: ‘What is the matter I-asws see ruptures, paleness in your face, from what is that, is it from a disease? ’ He said, ‘Yes’. He-asws said: ‘Perhaps you dislike it’. He said, ‘I do not like it to be shown in me, but I am anticipating the good regarding what has afflicted me’. He-asws said: ‘Receive glad tidings with the Mercy of Allah-azwj and Forgiveness of your sins. Who are you, O servant of Allah-azwj’. He said, ‘I am Salih Bin Suleym’. He-asws said: ‘From who? ’ He said, ‘As for the original, from Salaman Bin Tayy, and as for the neighbourhood and the claim, from the clan of Suleym Bin Mansour’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘How good is your name, and name of your father, and name of your grandfather, and names of the ones you are attributed to. Did you attend with us this battle of ours? ’ He said, ‘No, and I had intended it, but what you-asws can see from the illness, my fever made me forsake it’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: There isn’t any blame upon the weak, nor upon the sick, nor upon those who cannot find what they could be spending, [9: 91]’ – up to the end of the Verse from Surah Bara’at. Then he-asws said: ‘Inform me-asws, what is the word of the people regarding what is between us and the people of Syria? ’ He said, ‘From them is the cheerful and the joyful regardin