On Indications of the Divine Leadership of Ar-Ridha عليه السلام
ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā|Volume 2|Book 1|Chapter 17
ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā
Volume 2, Book 1, Chapter 17
On Indications of the Divine Leadership of Ar-Ridha عليه السلام
25 - حَدَّثَنا أَبُو مُحَمَّد جَعْفَرِ بْنِ نُعَيْم بْنِ شاذان رَضِىَاللهُ عَنْهُ قالَ أَخْبَرنا أَحْمَدِ بْنِ إِدْرِيس عَنْ إِبْراهيمِ بْنِ هاشِم عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ حَفْصِ قالَ حَدَّثَني مَوْلى العَبْدِ الصَّالِح أَبي الحَسَن مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَر عَلَيْهِ السَّلامُ قالَ كُنْتُ وَجَمَاعَةً مَعَ الرِّضَا عَلَيْهِ السَّلامُ فِي مَفَازَةٍ فَأَصَابَنَا عَطَشٌ شَدِيدٌ وَدَوَابَّنَا حَتَّى خِفْنَا عَلَى أَنْفُسِنَا فَقَالَ لَنَا الرِّضَا عَلَيْهِ السَّلامُ ائْتُوا مَوْضِعاً وَصَفَهُ لَنَا فَإِنَّكُمْ تُصِيبُونَ الْمَاءَ فِيهِ قَالَ فَأَتَيْنَا الْمَوْضِعَ فَأَصَبْنَا الْمَاءَ وَسَقَيْنَا دَوَابَّنَا حَتَّى رَوِيَتْ وَرَوِينَا وَمَنْ مَعَنَا مِنَ الْقَافِلَةِ ثُمَّ رَحَلْنَا فَأَمَرَنَا عَلَيْهِ السَّلامُ بِطَلَبِ الْعَيْنِ فَطَلَبْنَاهَا فَمَا أَصَبْنَا إِلا بَعْرَ الإِبِلِ وَلَمْ نَجِدْ لِلْعَيْنِ أَثَراً فَذَكَرْتُ ذَلِكَ لِرَجُلٍ مِنْ وُلْدِ قَنْبَرٍ كَانَ يَزْعُمُ أَنَّ لَهُ مِائَةً وَعِشْرِينَ سَنَةً فَأَخْبَرَنِي الْقَنْبَرِيُّ بِمِثْلِ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ سَوَاءً قَالَ كُنْتُ أَنَا أَيْضاً مَعَهُ فِي خِدْمَتِهِ وَأَخْبَرَنِي الْقَنْبَرِيُّ أَنَّهُ كَانَ فِي ذَلِكَ مُصْعِداً إِلَى خُرَاسَانَ.
47-25 Abu Muhammad Ja’far ibn No’aym ibn Shathan - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Ahmad ibn Idris quoted on the authority of Ibrahim ibn Hashem, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Hafs that the servant of the good-doer Abil Hassan Musa ibn Ja’far (al-Kadhim) عليه السلام narrated, “I was traveling with Ar-Ridha’ عليه السلام and a group of people in a dry desert. We and our animals were really thirsty and were about to perish. Ar-Ridha’ عليه السلام told us, ‘You will find water if you go there.’ We went there and found a spring there. We drank water and had our animals drink from that water, too, and returned. When we decided to continue on the Imam عليه السلام told us to look for that spring again. This time we could not find the spring, although we searched a great deal. We could only find the camels’ feces there.” The servant of Ar-Ridha’ عليه السلام narrated this for a man who was from the progeny of Qanbar who was one-hundred and twenty years old. The old man narrated a similar tradition for me and said, “I was at the service of the Imam عليه السلام at that time and the Imam عليه السلام was traveling towards Khorasan (in Iran).”