Hadith 151

(The book) ‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ – It is reported that Is’haq Bin Ammar said, ‘When (caliph) Haroun imprisoned Abu Al-Hassan Musa-asws, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad Bin Al-Hassan companion of Abu Haneefa entered to see him-asws. One of them said to the other, ‘We are upon one of the two matters. Either we equate him-asws or resemble him-asws’. They sat in front of him-asws. A man who had been allocated from direction of Al-Sindy Bin Shahak came. He said, ‘My shift has ended, and I am about to leave, so if there was any need for you-asws, instruct me until I come to you-asws with it during the time in which the shift is replaced’. He-asws said: ‘There is no need for me-asws (to be fulfilled)’. When he went out, he-asws said to Abu Yusuf: ‘How strange of this one asking me-asws that I-asws should encumber him a need from my-asws needs so he would return, and he is going to be dead during this night! ’
They stood up, and one of them said to the other, ‘We came to ask him-asws about the Obligations, and the Sunnah, and he-asws has now come with another thing! It is as if he-asws has knowledge of the hidden matters’. Then they sent a man with the man. They said, ‘Go, until you stick with him and look what is happening from his matter during this night and come to us with his news in the morning’. The man went. He spent the night in a Masjid by the door of his house. When it was morning, he heard the scream of death, and he saw the people entering his house. He said, ‘What is this? ’ They said, ‘So and so died suddenly during the night from without any illness’. So he left to go to Abu Yusuf and Muhammad, and he informed them the news. They came to Abu Al-Hassan-asws. They said, ‘We have come to know that you-asws have realised the know of the Permissible and the Prohibition, so from where did you realise the affair of this man who had been allocated with you-asws, that he would be dying during this night? ’
He-asws said: ‘From the very door which Rasool-Allah-saww had taught its knowledge to Ali Bin Abu Talib-asws’. When he-asws had responded this answer to them, they remained not responding any answer’’. [166]