Hadith 362

himself more than once but he-asws did not desist. When I insisted upon it, he said, ‘O you! I am a man being Tried, and you are a man been Pardoned. If you could introduce me to your Master-asws, I hope that Allah-azwj would Save me through you! ’
That hit in my heart, so when I came to Abu Abdullah-asws, I mentioned his state to him-asws. He-asws said to me: ‘When you return to Al-Kufa, then he will be coming to you. Say to him, ‘Ja’far-asws Bin Muhammad-asws says to you: ‘Leave what you are upon and I-asws shall guarantee the Paradise for you, based upon Allah-azwj’’. He (the narrator) said, ‘When I returned to Al-Kufa, he came to me among the ones who came. I withheld him until my house was empty (from others). I said, ‘O you! I mentioned you to Abu Abdullah-asws and he-asws said: ‘Convey him the greetings and tell him to leave what he is upon, and I-asws shall guarantee the Paradise for him, based upon Allah-azwj’. He cried, then said: ‘Allah-azwj! Ja’far-asws said this to you? ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘I swore to him, ‘He-asws did say to me what I said to you’. He said to me, ‘It suffices you’, and went away. When it was after some days, he sent a message to me and called me. There he was naked behind the door of his house. He said, ‘O Abu Baseer! There does not remain anything in my house, except and I have come out from it, and I am like what you see’. I walked to my brethren and gathered for him what they could clothe him with. Then only a few days had passed until he sent a message to me, ‘I am sick, so come to me’. I kept coming and going to him and treating him until the death befell him. I was seated in his presence and he was trying to find his last breath, then there was unconsciousness upon him. Then he woke up. He said, ‘O Abu Baseer! Your Master-asws has been loyal to us’. Then he died. I performed Hajj, and I went to Abu Abdullah-asws. I sought permission to see him-asws. When I entered. He-asws said initiating from inside the house, and one of my legs was in the courtyard and the other one was in the corridor of his-asws house: ‘O Abu Baseer! We-asws have fulfilled for your companion’’. [234]