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Jabra`ǐl Shows the Land on Which Ĥusain عليه السلام Will Be Killed to the Messenger of Allāh صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم

Kāmil al-Ziyārāt|Volume 1|Book 2|Chapter 17
Kāmil al-Ziyārāt

Book 2, Chapter 17

Jabra`ǐl Shows the Land on Which Ĥusain عليه السلام Will Be Killed to the Messenger of Allāh صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم

5 حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْقُرَشِيُّ الرَّزَّازُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ هَارُونَ بْنِ خَارِجَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (ع) قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ بَيْنَمَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ (ع) عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ (ص) إِذْ أَتَاهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ (ع) فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَ تُحِبُّهُ فَقَالَ نَعَمْ فَقَالَ أَمَا إِنَّ أُمَّتَكَ سَتَقْتُلُهُ قَالَ فَحَزِنَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ (ص) حُزْناً شَدِيداً فَقَالَ لَهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَ تُرِيدُ [أَ يَسُرُّكَ] أَنْ أُرِيَكَ التُّرْبَةَ الَّتِي يُقْتَلُ فِيهَا فَقَالَ نَعَمْ فَخَسَفَ مَا بَيْنَ مَجْلِسِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ (ص) إِلَى كَرْبَلَاءَ حَتَّى الْتَقَتَا الْقِطْعَتَانِ هَكَذَا ثُمَّ جَمَعَ بَيْنَ السَّبَّابَتَيْنِ ثُمَّ تَنَاوَلَ بِجَنَاحِهِ مِنَ التُّرْبَةِ وَ نَاوَلَهَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ (ص) ثُمَّ رَجَعَتْ أَسْرَعَ مِنْ طَرْفَةِ عَيْنٍ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ (ص) طُوبَى لَكِ مِنْ تُرْبَةٍ وَ طُوبَى لِمَنْ يُقْتَلُ فِيكِ
5. Muḥammad ibn Ja’far Al-Qurashi Al-Razzāz narrated to me from Muḥammad ibn Ḥusain, from Muḥammad ibn Sinān, from Hārūn ibn Khārijah, from Abī Basīr, who said: I heard Abā ‘Abdillāh (Imam Sādiq عليه السلام) say: (One day) while Ḥusain ibn ’Ali عليه السلام was with the Messenger of Allāh صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم, Jabra`īl came to him and asked, “O Muḥammad! Do you love him?” “Yes,” the Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم replied. “Verily your nation will kill him,” Jabra`īl said. So the Messenger of Allāh صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم was extremely grieved. Jabra`īl asked, “O Messenger of Allāh! Would you like me to show you the land on which he will be killed?” “Yes,” the Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم replied. Then the land (between Karbalā and Madīnah) sunk within the ground and the place where the Messenger of Allāh صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم was sitting (in Madīnah) and the land on which Ḥusain عليه السلام was killed attached to one another like this – and Imam عليه السلام put his two index fingers together. Imam عليه السلام added: Jabra`īl then picked up some of the dust (of Karbalā) with his wing and gave it to the Messenger of Allāh صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم. Thereafter, the earth returned to the way it was in less than a blink of an eye. The Messenger of Allāh صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم (while holding the dust of Karbalā in his hand) said to it, “O dust! You are blissful, and blissful is he who will be killed on you!”