Hadith 697

(The books) ‘Kunz Jamie Al Fawaid’ and ‘Taweel Al Ayaay Al Zaahira’ – Muhammad Bin Al Abbas, from Ahmad Bin Howzat, from Ibrahim Bin Is’haq, from Abdullah Bin Hammad, from Shareek who said, ‘Al-Amsh sent a message to us and he was severely ill, so we went to him, and the people of Al-Kufa had gathered in his present, and among them was Abu Haneefa and Ibn Qays Al-Maasir. He said to his son, ‘O my son! Sit me up’. So, he sat him up, and he said, ‘O people of Al-Kufa! Abu Haneefa and Qays Al-Maasir both came to me and said, ‘You have narrated a Hadeeth regarding Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, retract from it, for the repentance is Acceptable for as long as the soul is in the body’. I said to them, ‘The likes of you two are saying this to the likes of me? I keep you as witnesses, O people of Al-Kufa, for I am in the last day from the days of the world and the first day from the days of the Hereafter! I heard Ata’a Bin Rabah saying, ‘I asked Rasool-Allah-saww about Words of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic: Both (of you), throw into Hell every stubborn Kafir! [50: 24], so Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘I-saww and Ali-asws, we-asws shall throw into Hell every one who is inimical to us’. Abu Haneefa said to Ibn Qays, ‘Arise with us! He cannot come with what is greater than this’. They both stood up and left’’. [377]