Hadith 297

(The book) ‘Basharat Al Mustafa-saww’ – Muhammad Bin Ahmad Bin Shahriyar, from Ja’far Bin Al Dowreysty, from Ahmad Bin Ubdoun, from Abu Al Mufazzal Al Shaybani, from Ahmad Bin Al-Husayn Al Anbary who said, ‘Abu Nuaym Al-Fazl Bin Dukeyn proceeded to Baghdad. He lodged at Al-Rumeyla, and it is a locality at which the companions of the Hadeeth tended to gather, and a chair was set up for him. He ascended to it and took to preaching the people and mentioning to them and reporting the Ahadeeth to them, and those were days which were difficult, regarding the dissimulation (Taqaiyya). A man from the end of the gathering stood up and said to him ‘O Abu Nuaym! Are you a Shia? ’ The Sheykh disliked his talk and turned his face away from it, and he prosed, with these two couplets: –
‘And my love for you-asws has not ceased until it is as if I am mute with responding by an answer to the questioner about you-asws in order to be safe from the words of the whistle-blowers; and I would be submitted (to the tyrants) with a submission, and is there anyone alive from the people (from those) who have been submitted (to the tyrants)? ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘But he was not tempted by his intended meaning, and he returned to the question and said, ‘O Abu Nuaym, are you a Shia? ’ He said, ‘O you! How I am being tried by you, and which wind has blown with you to me? Yes. I heard Al-Hassan Bin Salih saying, ‘I heard Ja’far-asws Bin Muhammad-asws saying: ‘Love of Ali-asws is worship, and the best worship is what is concealed (Taqaiyya)’’. [140]