Hadith 62

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi Al Mufeed, from Ali Bin Muhammad the scribe, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Al Zafrany, from Ibrahim Bin Muhammad al Saqafy, from Muhammad Bin Ali, from Al Abbas Bin Abdullah Al Anzy, from Abdul Rahman Bin Al Aqwad Al Yashkury, from Awn Bin Ubeydullah, from his father, from his grandfather, from Abu Rafie who said, ‘I went to Rasool-Allah-saww one day and he-saww was sleeping and there was a snake by the side of the House (Kabah) and I disliked killing it and waking up the Prophet-saww. I thought that it would be Revealed unto him-saww, so I lied down between him-saww and the snake. I said (to myself), ‘If there is evil from it, it would be to me, besides him-saww’. I stayed for a while and the Prophet-saww woke up and he-saww recited: But rather, your Guardian is Allah, and His Rasool, and those who are believing, [5: 55], until he-saww came to the end of the Verse. Then he-saww said: ‘The Praise is for Allah-azwj Who Completed His-azwj Favours for Ali-asws, and congratulations to him-asws for the Grace of Allah-azwj which He-azwj has Given him-asws’. Then he-saww said: ‘What is matter you are over here? ’ I informed him-saww with the news of the snake. He-saww said to me: ‘Kill it! ’ I did so. Then he-saww said: ‘O Abu Rafie! How would it be with you and the people fighting against Ali-asws, and he-asws is upon the Truth and they are upon the falsehood. Fighting them is a Right of Allah-azwj, Mighty is His-azwj Name. So the one who is not able, then with his heart. There is nothing after it’. I said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! Supplicate to Allah-azwj for me that I come across them and He-azwj Strengthens me upon fighting them’. The Prophet-saww supplicated and said: ‘For every Prophet-saww there is a believer and my-saww believer is Abu Rafie’. He (the narrator) said, ‘When the people pledged allegiance to Ali-asws after Usman and Talha and Zubeyr went, I remembered the words of the Prophet-saww. So, I sold my house in Al-Medina and my land at Khyber and went out myself and my children with Amir Al-Momineen-asws in order to be martyred in front of him-asws. But I did not come across him-asws until he-asws returned from Al-Basra, and I went out with him-asws to Siffeen. I fought in front of him-asws at it, and at Al-Nahrwan as well, and I did not cease to be with him-asws until he-asws was martyred. I returned to Al-Medina and there wasn’t a house for me at it nor any land, so Al-Hassan-asws Bin Ali-asws gave me land at Yanbu and apportioned for me a section of the house of Amir Al-Momineen-asws, so I and my dependants dwelled in it’’. [63]