Hadith 12

from the clan of Asad. Ali-asws had bought him-asws and freed him. He-asws said to him: ‘What is your name’. He said, ‘Saalim’. He-asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww had informed me-asws that your name which your father had named you with among the non-Arabs was ‘Meesam’’. He said, ‘Allah-azwj and His-azwj Rasool-saww, and you-asws have spoken the truth. It is my name’. He-asws said: ‘Then return to your (original) name and leave ‘Saalim’, we shall teknonym you with it’. He-asws teknonymed him as Abu Saalim. He (the narrator) said, ‘Ali-asws had notified him upon a lot of knowledge and hidden secrets from the secrets of the successor-ship. Meesam used to narrate with part of that, so a group from the people of Al-Kufa doubted in it and they attributed Ali-asws to the myths, and the delusions and the fraud, to the extent that one day he-asws had said to him in the presence of a lot of people from his-asws companions, and among them were the doubters and the sincere ones: ‘O Meesam! You will be seized after me-asws and crucified. So, when it will be the second day, blood would rush from your nostrils and mouth until it dyes your beard. When it will be the second day, you will be stabbed with a bayonet. It has been Decreed upon you, so await that; and the place which you will be crucified in, is a house of Amro Bin Hureys. You would be the tenth of the ten, you being the shortest of them of the plank of wood, and nearest of them from the purifier, meaning the ground, and I-asws shall show you the palm tree which you will be crucified upon its trunk’. Then he-asws showed it to him two days after that. Meesam used to go to it and he would pray Salat by it, and he would say, ‘You are Blessed from the palm trees. I have been Created for you, and you have grown for me’. He did not cease to undertake it after the killing of Ali-asws, until it was cut. He used to observe its trunk and undertake his pledges, and keep returning to it and seeing it. He was meeting Amro Bin Hureys and saying, ‘I will be your neighbour and you will be my good neighbour’. Amro did not know what when he intended. He said, to him, ‘Do you want that I should buy the house of Ibn Masoud or house of Ibn Hakeem? ’’[56]
Then he said, ‘Ibrahim said, ‘And it is narrated to me by Ibrahim Bin Al Abbas, from Munarak Al Bajaly, from Abu Bakr Bin Ayyash, from Mujalid, from Al Shaie, from Ziyad Bin Al Nazar Al Harisy who said, ‘I was in the presence of Ziyad and they came with Rusheyd Al-Hajary, and he was from the special companions of Ali-asws. Ziyad said to him, ‘What did your friend-asws say to you that I would be doing to you? ’ He said, ‘You will be cutting my hands and my legs and crucify me’. Ziyad said, ‘But, by Allah-azwj, I will belie his-asws narration. Free his way! ’
When he wanted to go out, he said, ‘Return him! We do not find for you anything more correct that what your companion had said. You will never cease to seek evil for us if you were to remain alive. Cut off his hands and his legs! ’ They cut off his hands and his legs, and he was talkin