Hadith 94

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Al-Husayn Bin Muhammad Al Ashari who said, ‘It is narrated to me by a Sheykh from our companions called Abdullah Bin Razeyn, ‘And he continued the Hadeeth up to his words, ‘But I shall go to the door of the bathhouse. So when he-asws enters into the bathhouse, I shall take from the dues which he-asws treads upon. I asked about the bathhouse which he-asws used to frequent. It was said to me, ‘He-asws frequents a bathhouse at Al-Baqi’e belonging to a man from the children of Talha’. I found out the day which he-asws tended the bathhouse in, and I came to be at the door of the bathhouse and sat with the ‘Talhy’ (owner), and I awaited his-asws coming. The Talhy said, ‘If you are intending entering the bathhouse, so stand and enter, so that would not be prepared for you after a while’. I said, ‘And why? ’ He said, ‘Because the son-asws of Al-Reza-asws would want to enter the bathhouse’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘And who is the son-asws of Al-Reza-asws? ’ He said, ‘A man from the Progeny-asws of Muhammad-saww who has correctness for him-asws and piety’. I said to him, ‘And why is it not allowed for anyone else to enter the bathhouse along with him-asws? ’ He said, ‘We empty the bathhouse for him-asws when he-asws comes over’. He (the narrator) said, ‘While I was like that when he-asws came over and with him-asws were to servants of his-asws, and in front of him-asws was a boy with who was matting, until he entered the dressing room. He spread it and he-asws arrived. He-asws greeted and entered the chamber upon his-asws donkey and entered the dressing room and descended upon the matting. I said to the Talhy man, ‘This is the one-asws whom you described with what you described from the correctness and the piety? ’ He said, ‘O you! No, by Allah-azwj, he-asws had not done this (before) at all except in this day’. I said within myself, ‘This is from my knowledge which I committed’. Then I said, ‘I shall await him-asws until he-asws comes out, so perhaps I shall attain what I intend when he-asws exits. When he-asws exited and dressed, he-asws called for the donkey. It entered the dressing room and he-asws rode from above the matting, and he-asws exited. I said within myself, ‘By Allah-azwj! I have bothered him-asws and I shall not repeat, nor will I plan what I planned of him-asws, ever! ’ And I corrected my determination upon that’. When it was the time of midday from that day, he-asws came upon his-asws donkey until he-asws descended in the place which he-asws used to descend in, in the courtyard. He-asws entered and greeted upon Rasool-Allah-saww and came to the place which he-asws used to pray Salat in, in the house of (Syeda) Fatima-asws, and took off his-asws slippers, and stood praying Salat’’. [105]