Hadith 383

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Ali, from his father, from the one who mentioned it, from Yunus Bin Yaqoub who said, ‘I was in the presence of Abu Abdulla, and a man from the people of Syria arrived to him. He looked at his-asws companions until he ended to Hisham Bin Al-Hakam. The Syrian said, ‘O you! One who looks out for the creatures, is it their Lord-azwj, or themselves? ’ Hisham said, ‘Their Lord-azwj looks out for them more than they do for themselves’. The Syrian said, ‘Has He-azwj Nominated for them someone who can gather their words for them and straighten their affairs and informs them of their rights and their wrongs? ’ Hisham said, ‘This one seated, the one to whom the men are being pulled to, and he-asws informs us with news of the sky, being an inheritance from a father-asws from a grandfather-asws’. The Syrian said, ‘So how can it be for me to know that? ’ Hisham said, ‘Ask him-asws about whatever comes to you’. The Syrian said, ‘My excuses are cut off, so upon me is the questioning’. Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘O Syrian! I-asws shall inform you how your journey was, and how your road was, and such and such happened, and such and such happened’. The Syrian turned saying, ‘You-asws speak the truth. I submit to Allah-azwj, now’. Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘But, you believed in Allah-azwj now. The Islam is before the Eman, and upon it they are inheriting each other and inter-marrying, and the Eman, upon it they are affirming’. The Syrian said, ‘You-asws speak the truth. So I am now testifying that there is no god except Allah-azwj, and that Muhammad-saww is Rasool-Allah-saww, and you-asws are a successor-asws of the successors-asws’’. [265]