Hadith 168

camel and turned towards the wilderness, and he-asws said: ‘Let your companions know and convey the greetings to them from me-asws and say to them that I-asws and the ones from the Imams-asws who flow my-asws flow, there is no escape for us from being present at your funerals in whichever city you may be. So fear Allah-azwj regarding yourselves! ’’[185]
Ali Bin Abu Hamza –
‘We were at Makkah in a year from the years, and in that year the people were hit by a lot of lightning (thunderbolts) until a lot of people died from that. I entered to see Abu Al-Hassan-asws. He-asws said initiating from without me having asked him-asws: ‘O Ali! It is befitting for the drowned one and the one struck by lightning that he be waited with for three (days) until a smell comes out from him evidencing upon his death’. I said to him-asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! It is as if you-asws are informing me that most of the people are (still) alive! ’ He-asws said: ‘Yes, O Ali! A lot of people have been buried alive. They did not die except inside their graves’’. [186]
Ali Bin Abu Hamza who said, ‘Abu Al-Hassan-asws sent me to a man, in front of him were trays he was selling for a Fils, a Fils (monetary unit), and said: ‘Give him these Eighteen Dirhams and say to him, ‘Abu Al-Hassan-asws is saying to you: ‘Benefit with these Dirhams, for these shall suffice you until you die’’. When I gave it to him, he cried, so I said, ‘What makes you cry? ’ He said, ‘And why should I not cry, and you have given me the news of my own death? ’ I said, ‘And what is in the Presence of Allah-azwj is better than what you are (currently) in’. He was silent, and said, ‘Who are you, O servant of Allah-azwj? ’ I said, ‘Ali Bin Abu Hamza’. He said, ‘By Allah-azwj! Like this my Chief and my Master-asws had said to me: ‘I-asws shall be sending my-asws message to you with Ali Bin Abu Hamza’’. Ali said, ‘I waited approximate to twenty nights, then came to him, and he was ill. I said, ‘Bequeath to me with whatever you like to, I shall implement it from my wealth’. He said, ‘When I am dead, then get my daughter married to a religions man, then sell my house and hand over its price to Abu Al-Hassan-asws and attend for me with the washing and the burial and the Salat’. He (the narrator) said, ‘When I had buried him, I got his daughter married to a Momin man, and sold his house and came with its price to Abu Al-Hassan-asws. He purified it and had mercy on him and said: ‘Return these Dirhams and hand these over to his daughter’’. [187]
Ali Bin Abu Hamza who said, ‘Abu Al-Hassan-asws sent me to a man from the clan of Haneefa and said: ‘You will find him in the right-hand side of the Masjid’, and I raised his letter to him-asws. He-asws read it, then said: ‘Come to me on such and such day, until I-asws give you its answer’. I went to him-asws during the day in which he-asws had promised me. He-asws gave me the answer to the letter. Then I waited a month, then came to him to greet unto