Hadith 130

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Yahya Bin Abu Imran, from Yunus, from Bakkar Bin Bakr, from Musa Bin Asheym who said, ‘I was in the presence of Abu Abdullah-asws, and a man asked him-asws about a Verse from the Book of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic. He-asws informed him about it. Then an entering one entered and asked him-asws about that very Verse. He-asws informed him differently with what he-asws had informed the first one with. There entered into me due to that, whatever Allah-azwj so Desired, until it was as if my heart was being shredded with the knives. I said within myself, ‘I neglected Abu Qatada in Syria who did not even err regarding the (letter) Waaw and the likes of it, and I came over to this one-asws, who errs with all these mistakes? ’ While I was like that when another one entered and asked him-asws about that very Verse. He-asws informed him differently to what he-asws had informed me and informed my companion with. So, my self calmed down, and I knew that, that was from him-asws in dissimulation (Taqiyya). He said, ‘Then he-asws turned towards me, so he-asws said to me: ‘O Ibn Asheym! Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Authorised to Suleyman-as Bin Dawood-as, and He-azwj Said: This is Our Gift, so either confer or withhold, without a Reckoning [38: 39]. And He-azwj Authorised to His-azwj Prophet-saww, so He-azwj Said: And whatever the Rasool gives you, then take it, and whatever he forbids you from, then refrain [59: 7]’. Thus, whatever was Authorised to Rasool-Allah-saww, so it has been Authorised to us-asws’’. [158]