Hadith 338

asws’’. [180]
Abdul Rahman Bin Kaseer in a lengthy Hadeeth –
‘A man entered Al-Medina asking about the Imam-asws. They pointed him to Abdullah Bin Al-Hassan. He asked him for a while, then went out. They pointed him to Ja’far-asws Bin Muhammad-asws. He aimed to him. When Ja’far-asws looked at him, said: ‘O you! You had entered this city of our asking about the Imam-asws. You met a youth from the sons of Al-Hassan-asws. They pointed you to Abdullah Bin Al-Hassan. You asked him for a while, then came out. If you so like, I-asws can inform you what you had asked about and what he responded to you with. Then you met a youth from the sons of Al-Husayn-asws. They said to you, ‘O you! If you view to meet Ja’far Bin Muhammad-asws, then do so’’. He said, ‘You-asws speak the truth. That has happened like what you mentioned’. He-asws said to him: ‘Return to Abdullah Bin Al-Hassan and ask him about the armour of Rasool-Allah-saww, and his-saww turban’. The man went and asked him about the armour of Rasool-Allah-saww and the turban. He took an armour from a box of his and wore it. There, it was too big. He said, ‘That is how Rasool-Allah-saww used to wear the armour’. He returned to Al-Sadiq-asws and informed him-asws. He-asws said: ‘He was not truthful’. Then he-asws brought out a ring and struck the ground with it, and behold, the armour and the turban fell from the inside of the ring. Abu Abdullah-asws wore the armour, and there, it was up to half his-asws thigh. Then he-asws turbaned with the turban, and there, it was too big. So, he-asws removed it and returned both to be in the stone (of the ring). Then he-asws said: ‘That is how Rasool-Allah-saww used to wear it. This isn’t from what is spun (manufactured) in the earth. The treasure of Allah-azwj are in (the Word) ‘Kun’, and treasures of the Imam-asws and in his-asws ring, and Allah-azwj, the world in His-azwj Presence is like a bowl, and in the presence of the Imam-asws it is like a book, and had the matter not been like that, we-asws would not be Imams-asws, and we-asws would have been like rest of the people’’. [181]