Hadith 97

‘Tafseer Al Ayyashi’ – From Al Hassan Bin Muhammad Al Jamal, from one of our companions who said, ‘Abdul Malik Ibn Marwan sent a message to an office bearer of Al Medina that he heads to Muhammad-asws Bin Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws and neither irritate him-asws nor frighten him-asws, and fulfil his-asws need for him, and (this is because) there had come to Abdul Malik, a man from the Qadirites (Fatalists), and the entirety of the ones at Syria had gathered and he had defeated them all, so he said, ‘There is no one for this except Muhammad-asws Bin Ali-asws’. He wrote to the governor of Al-Medina that he brings Muhammad-asws Bin Ali-asws to him, so the governor of Al-Medina came to him-asws with his letter. Abu Ja’far-asws said to him: ‘I-asws am an old aged man, not strong upon the going out, and this here is my-asws son-asws Ja’far-asws, standing in my-asws place, take him-asws to him’. When he-asws proceeded to the Umayyad (caliph), he belittled him-asws due to his-asws young age and dislike gathering between him-asws and the Qadirite fearing that he might overcome him-asws. And the people of Syria had heard of the advent of Ja’far-asws Bin Muhammad-asws to debate the Qadirite. When it was the morning, the people gathered for their debate, and the Umayyad (caliph) said to Abu Abdullah-asws, ‘It has defeated us, the matter of this Qadirite, and rather I wrote to him for a gathering between him and you-asws for he does not leave anyone with us except he debates him’. He-asws said: ‘Allah-azwj would Suffice us against him’. He (the narrator) said, ‘When they had gathered, the Qadirite said to Abu Abdullah-asws, ‘Ask about whatever you-asws like to’. He-asws said to him: ‘Recite Surah Al-Hamd’. He recited it, and the Umayyad (caliph) said, ‘And we are with him. There is nothing is Surah Al-Hamd. We are defeated. We are from Allah-azwj and to Him-azwj we are returning’. He (the narrator) said, ‘The Qadirite went on to recite Surah Al-Hamd until he reached the Words of Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted: (It is) You we worship and You do we seek Assistance (from) [1: 5], and Ja’far-asws said to him: ‘Stop! Who Assists you? And what is your need to the Assistance, if the Command is to you? Thus, he who committed Kufr was confounded; and Allah does not Guide the unjust people [2: 258]’’. [98]