Hadith 175

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Ali Bin Ibrahim and Ahmad Bin Mihran, altogether from Muhammad Bin Ali, from Al-Hassan Bin Rashid, from Yaqoub Bin Ja’far who said, ‘I was in the presence of Abu Ibrahim-asws, and a man came over to him-asws from the people of Najran of Al-Yemen, from the Monks, and with him was a Nun. Al-Fazl Bin Sawwar sought permission for them, so he-asws said to him: ‘When it is the morning, come with both of them by the well of Umm Khayr’. He (the narrator) said, ‘We kept the appointment the next day, and we found the people to have (also) kept the appointment. He-asws ordered with the mat of palm leaves, then was seated, and they were seated. The nun began with the questions, and she asked a lot of questions. Each of that he-asws answered her. And Abu Ibrahim-asws asked her about things, and there did not happen to be anything with her. Then she became a Muslim. Then the Monk turned to ask him-asws. He-asws answered regarding everything what he asked him-asws. The Monk said, ‘I used to be strong upon my religion and I was not behind anyone from the Christians in the earth who would reach my level in the knowledge, and I had heard of a man in India who, whenever he so desired to, he could go for pilgrimage to Bayt Al-Maqdis in one day and one night, then return to his house, in the land of India. I asked about him, in which land he was, and it was said to me that he was in Subzan. And I asked the one who informed me, so he said, it is the knowledge of the Name which Asif-as, the companions of Suleyman-as was successful with when he-as came with the throne of Saba, and it is which Allah-azwj Mentioned to you all in your Book, and for us our circle of religions in our Books’. Abu Ibrahim-asws said to him: ‘How many Names are there for Allah-azwj which do not get repelled? ’ The Monk said, ‘Many Names, but as for the inevitable from these which its questioner does not get repelled, so (these are) seven’. Abu Al-Hassan-asws said to him: ‘Inform me-asws about what you have preserved from these’. The Monk said, ‘No, by Allah-azwj Who Revealed the Torah upon Musa-as and Made Isa-as as a lesson for the Momineen and a Trial for the gratefulness of the ones of understanding, and Made Muhammad-saww as a Blessing and a Mercy, and Made Ali-asws as a lesson and an insight, and Made the successors-asws to be from his-asws lineage and lineage of Muhammad-saww, I do not know, and had I known, I would not have argue with regards to it to your-asws speech, nor would I have come to you-asws, nor asked you-asws’. Abu Ibrahim-asws said: ‘Return to the discussion of the Indian’. The Monk said to him-asws, ‘I had heard of these Names and I did not know what their esoteric (meanings) were nor of their segments, nor did I know what these were, nor how they were, nor of their supplications. I went until I arrived at Subzan in