Hadith 71

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – Al Mufeed, from Ali Bin Bilal, from Ismail Bin Ali Al Khuzaie, from his father, from isa Bin Humeyr Al Taie, from his father, ‘From Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws Bin Ali-asws from his-asws father-asws having said: ‘I-asws heard Abu Ja’far-asws saying: ‘When Amir Al-Momineen-asws returned from the event of the Kharijites, he-asws passed by the visitors, he-asws said to the people: ‘These are visitors, so travels and stay away from it, so the submergence would be quicker to it than the peg in the bran’. When he-asws came to a place from its land, he-asws said: ‘What is this land? ’ It was said, ‘The land of Najra’. He-asws said: ‘A land of manure, avoid (it) and turn right! ’ When he-asws came to the right of the wilderness, he-asws was by a Monk in his Monastery. He-asws said to him: ‘O Monk! Descend over here’. The Monk said to him-asws, ‘Do not descend (encamp) here with your-asws army’. He-asws said: ‘And why not? ’
He said, ‘None can descend at it with an army except a Prophet-as or a successor-as of a Prophet-as, fighting in the Way of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic. That is how we find in our books’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘I-asws am a successor-asws of the chiefs of the Prophets-as and chief of the successors-as’. The Monk said to him, ‘Then you-asws are the short-haired one of Quraysh, and successor-asws of Muhammad-saww’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said to him: ‘I-asws am that’. The Monk descended to him and said, ‘Take to the Laws of. I have found your-asws description in the Evangel, and you will be descending the land of Barasa, house of Maryam-as and land of Isa-as’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘Pause, and do not inform us with anything’. Then he-asws came to a place and said: ‘Poke this! ’ He-asws (then) poked it with his-asws leg, and a burbling spring burst out. He-asws said: ‘This is the spring of Maryam-as which burst out for her-as’. Then he-asws said: ‘Uncover over here upon seven cubits! ’ It was uncovered and there was a white rock. He-asws said: ‘Upon this Maryam-as had placed her-as shoulder and she-asws prayed over her’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws installed the rock and prayed Salat to it, and stayed over there for four days, completing the Salat, and he-asws made the sanctuary to be in a tent from the place upon the call. Then he-asws said: ‘Land of Barasa, this is a house of Maryam-as. This is the Holy place, the Prophets-as have prayed in it’. Abu Ja’far Muhammad-asws Bin Ali-asws said: ‘And we-asws have found that Ibrahim-as had prayed in it before Isa-as’’. [131]