Hadith 88

Al Kafi – Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ibn Isa, from Ibn Mahboub, from Malik Bin Atiya, from Abu Hamza Al Sumaly who said, ‘I was in the presence of Abu Ja’far-asws when a man sought permission to see him-asws. He-asws permitted him and he came over to him-asws, and greeted him-asws. Abu Ja’far-asws welcomed him and went near to him and asked about him. So the man said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! I addressed to so and so friend of yours-asws, son of Abu Raf’a about his so and so daughter, but he rejected me and turned away from me, and showed disdain for me due to my physical ugliness, and my destitution, and my poverty, and due to that there has entered into me a derogatory attack upon my heart that I am coveting the death as a result’. Abu Ja’far-asws said: ‘Go, for you are my-asws messenger to him, and say to him, ‘Muhammad-asws Bin Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws Bin Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws is saying to you: ‘Marry your so and so daughter to Munjih Bin Rabah, my-asws friend, and do not reject him’. Abu Hamza said, ‘So the man leapt up in joy, delighted with the message of Abu Ja’far-asws’. When the man went out of sight, Abu Ja’far-asws said: ‘There was a man from the people of Al-Yamama called Juweybir, who came seeking success from. He became a Muslim and his Islam was good, and he was a short ugly man, needy, of scarce clothing, and he was from the ugly ones of Sudan. Rasool-Allah-saww undertook his responsibility due to his poor state, and his nakedness, and would give him food, a Sa’a (four handfuls) of dates with the first Sa’a (of dates available), and clothed him with two garments, and instructed him that he should stay in the Masjid, and lie down there at night. So he remained like that for as long as Allah-azwj so Desired, until the strangers were many, from the ones who entered into from the needy people in Al-Medina, and the Masjid was constrained by them. Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Revealed unto His-azwj Prophet-saww that he-saww should purify the Masjid and exit from the Masjid the ones who were lying there at night, and Commanded with the closure of the doors of the one who had such a door for him in his-saww Masjid except for the door of Ali-asws, and the dwelling of (Syeda) Fatima-asws, and to (ensure that no) one of sexual impurities should neither pass by in it, nor a stranger to lie down in it. He-asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww ordered for the closure of their doors except for the door of Ali-asws, and agreed for the door of the dwelling of (Syeda) Fatima-asws to be upon its state (open). Then Rasool-Allah-saww ordered that a pavilion be set up for the Muslims, so it was set up for them, and it is the platform. Then he-saww ordered for the strangers, and the poor that they should shade themselves therein during their days and their nights. So they lodged in it and gathered therein. Rasool-Allah-saww was gifting them with the wheat, and the dates, and the barley, and the raisins, whenever these were with hi