Hadith 350

(The book) ‘Al Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashub – Muhammad Bin Al Fazeyl, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws, (he the narrator said), ‘Ja’far Al-Dawaneeq said to Al-Sadiq-asws, ‘Do you-asws know what this is? ’ He-asws said: ‘And what is it? ’ He said, ‘A mountain over there, drops are dropping from it during the year, and they freeze. It is good for the whiteness which happens to be in the eyes. If it is applied in it, it goes away by the Permission of Allah-azwj! ’
He-asws said: ‘Yes, I-asws do know it, and if you so desire, I-asws can inform you with its name, and its state. This mountain, a Prophet-as from the Prophets-as of children of Israel used to be on it. He-as fled his-as people. He-as worshipped Allah-azwj upon it. His people came to know, so they killed him-as, and it (mountain) is crying upon that Prophet-as, and these drops are from its crying for him-as, and from the other side there is a spring flowing from that water, night and day, and one cannot get to that spring’’. [208]
Al Mufazzal Bin Umar who said, ‘Al-Mansour sent a message to Hasan Bin Zayd, and he was his governor upon the two Sanctuaries (Makkah and Al-Medina), ‘Burn down upon Ja’far-asws Bin Muhammad-asws, his-asws door’. He threw the fire in the house of Abu Abdullah-asws. The fire took hold in the door and the corridor. Abu Abdullah-asws came out cleaving through the fire and walking in it and saying: ‘I-asws am a son-asws ‘A’raaq Al-Sary’. I-asws am a son-asws of Ibrahim-as friend of Allah-azwj’’. [209]
Explanation: ‘I saw in one of the books that ‘A’raaq Al-Sary’ is a metaphor about Ismail-as, and perhaps he-as was teknonymed with that because his-as children were scattered in the wilderness’.