Hadith 161

(The book) ‘Fat’h Al Abwaab’ – It is mentioned by Muhammad Bin Abu Abdullah from reporters of our companions in his ‘Amaali’, from Isa Bin Ja’far, from Al Abbas Bin Ayoub, from Abu Bakr Al Kufy, from Hammad Bin Habeeb Al Attar Al Kufy who said, ‘We went out as Pilgrims. We departed at night from Zubalah and we faced a stormy dark wind. I was cut off from the convoy. I got lost in that desert and the wilderness and ended up to a desert valley. When the night shielded, I came to a normal tree. When the darkness prevailed, there I was with a youth who had come. Upon him were white clothes, the aroma of musk was effusing from him. I said within myself, ‘This is a friend from the friends of Allah-azwj! ’ When I couldn’t sense any movement, I feared his repulsion and that it might prevent him from a lot of what he intended to do. I hid myself as much as I could. He went near to the place and prepared for the Salat, then leapt up standing and he was saying: ‘O One Who Possesses all things in a kingdom and Subdues all things with a Subduing! My heart is palpitating in happiness of facing You-azwj and Joining the field of the ones obedient to You-azwj’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Then he entered into the Salat. When I saw his limbs to be still and his movements to have calmed, I stood to the place which he had prepared for the Salat, and there was white water bursting forth. So, I prepared for the Salat, then stood behind him. There I was with as if a prayer niche had been resembled during that time. I saw him-asws, every time he-asws passed by A Verse wherein was mention of the Promise and the threat, he-asws would repeat it with a compassion of longing. When the darkness prevailed, he-asws leapt up standing and he-asws was saying: ‘O One Whom the