We decided to meet in the house of Tahir
Al-Kāfi|Volume 8|Book 1|Chapter 520
عَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ الْحَمَّارِ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ قَالَ اسْتَأْذَنَّا عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (عليه السلام) أَنَا وَ الْحَارِثُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ النَّصْرِيُّ وَ مَنْصُورٌ الصَّيْقَلُ فَوَاعَدْنَا دَارَ طَاهِرٍ مَوْلَاهُ فَصَلَّيْنَا الْعَصْرَ ثُمَّ رُحْنَا إِلَيْهِ فَوَجَدْنَاهُ مُتَّكِئاً عَلَى سَرِيرٍ قَرِيبٍ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ فَجَلَسْنَا حَوْلَهُ ثُمَّ اسْتَوَى جَالِساً ثُمَّ أَرْسَلَ رِجْلَيْهِ حَتَّى وَضَعَ قَدَمَيْهِ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ ثُمَّ قَالَ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي ذَهَبَ النَّاسُ يَمِيناً وَ شِمَالًا فِرْقَةٌ مُرْجِئَةٌ وَ فِرْقَةٌ خَوَارِجُ وَ فِرْقَةٌ قَدَرِيَّةٌ وَ سُمِّيتُمْ أَنْتُمُ التُّرَابِيَّةَ ثُمَّ قَالَ بِيَمِينٍ مِنْهُ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ مَا هُوَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ وَ آلُ رَسُولِهِ (صلى الله عليه وآله) وَ شِيعَتُهُمْ كَرَّمَ اللَّهُ وُجُوهَهُمْ وَ مَا كَانَ سِوَى ذَلِكَ فَلَا كَانَ عَلِيٌّ وَ اللَّهِ أَوْلَى النَّاسِ بِالنَّاسِ بَعْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ (صلى الله عليه وآله) يَقُولُهَا ثَلَاثاً.
520. From him, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al-Hassan Bin Ali, from Dawood Bin Suleyman Al-Hammaar, from Saeed Bin Yasaar who said: We sought permission to see Abu Abdullah عليه الصلاة والسلام, I, and Al-Haris Bin Al-Mugheira Al-Nasry, and Mansour Al-Sayaqal. So we agreed to meet at the house of Tahir, his عليه الصلاة والسلام slave. So we Prayed Al-Asr, then we went to him عليه الصلاة والسلام. We found him عليه الصلاة والسلام leaning against a bed near to the ground. So we seated ourselves around him عليه الصلاة والسلام. Then he عليه الصلاة والسلام sat upright and stretched his عليه الصلاة والسلام legs until he عليه الصلاة والسلام placed his عليه الصلاة والسلام feet upon the ground, then said: ‘The Praise is due to Allah عز وجل Who Made the people to go to the right and left as a Murjiite sect, and a Khwarijite sect, and a Qadiriyya sect, and you have been named as the Turabiyya’. Then said to the one seated on his عليه الصلاة والسلام right: ‘And Allah عز وجل, there is no god except for Him عز وجل, One with no associates to Him عز وجل, and His عز وجل Messenger صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم, and the Progeny عليه الصلاة والسلام of His عز وجل Messenger صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم and their عليه الصلاة والسلام Shites, may Allah عز وجل honour their faces, and he who was not upon that was not upon anything. By Allah عز وجل, Ali عليه الصلاة والسلام was higher to the people than their own selves after the Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم’. He عليه الصلاة والسلام said it thrice’.
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/486)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 3, p. 407