Hadith 87

(The book) ‘Basaair Al Darajaat’ – Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Hassan Bin Ali, from Abu Al Sakhr, from Al Hassan Bin Ali who said, ‘I and a man from my companions entered to see Ali Bin Isa Bin Abdullah Abu Tahir Al-Alawy. Abu Al-Sakhr, I think he was from the sons of Umar son of Ali-asws, and Abu Tahir was in the hunting house as a guest. We entered to see him in the afternoon, and in front of him was a pot of water, and he was wiping. We greeted unto him and he returned the greeting to us, then he initiated us saying, ‘Is there anyone (else) with you? ’ We said, ‘No’. Then he turned towards right and left whether anyone was looking, then said, ‘My father informed me from my grandfather that he was with Abu Ja’far Muhammad-asws Bin Ali-asws at Mina, and he was pelting the rocks (a ritual), and Abu Ja’far-asws pelted the rocks. He-asws completed, then there remain in his-asws hand afterwards, five pebbles, so he-asws threw two in a corner and three in a corner. My grandfather said to him-asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! I saw you-asws do something what no one (else) has done at all! I saw you-asws pelt the rocks, then you-asws threw five after that, three in a corner and two in a corner’. He-asws said: ‘Yes, whenever it was every season (of Hajj), the mischief-makers, the usurpers are brought out, then there is a separation between the two over here. None can see the two except a just Imam-asws. So, I-asws pelted the first (Abu Bakr) two (pebbles), and the other (Umar) three (pebbles), because the other one is wickeder than the first one’’. [52]