Hadith 14

And it is reported by Al-Hassan Bin Muhammad Bin Yahya Bin Al-Hassan Bin Ja’far Bin Ubeydullah son of Al Husayn Bin Ali, ‘Son of Al-Husayn-asws Bin Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws: ‘I went for Hajj during that year and during it Nasr Al-Qashoury, a companion of Al-Muqtadir performed Hajj. I entered the city of the Rasool-saww and came across a caravan in it of people of Basra, and among it was Abu Bakr Muhammad Bin Ali Al-Baghdadi, and with him was a man from the people of Al-Maghrib, mentioning that he had seen companions of Rasool-Allah-saww, and the people crowded unto him and went to touch him and almost killed him. He said, ‘My uncle Abu Al-Qasim Tahir Bin Yahya instructed his youths and his boys that they make way for him. They did not, and they entered with him to a house of Ibn Sahl Al-Lutfy, and Tahir used to dwell in it, and he gave permission for the people, so they entered, and with him were fifty men, mentioning that they were his children and (children of) his children, among them was an old man of more than eighty years. I ask him about him. He said, ‘This is my son’. And among them were two others, for each one of them were sixty years or fifty-years, and another having seventy years for him. He said, ‘This is a son of my son’. And among them was another having sixteen years for him. He said, ‘This is a son, of a son, of a son of mine’. And there did not happen to be any younger than for him, and when I saw him, I said, ‘This is a man of thirty of forty years, black head (hair) and beard, a youth of slender body, brown, quarter stature, and agile display. He was near to being short, and his name was Ali lbin Usman Bin Al-Khattab. So, from what I heard from his narrations which he was narrating to the people with, he said, ‘I went out from my city, I and my father and my uncle. We wanted to be a delegation to Rasool-Allah-saww and we were walking among a caravan. We cut ourselves off from the people and the thirst intensified with us, and we had no water, and the weakness increased with my father and my uncle. I sat them both down to a side of a tree and I continued to seek the water for them. I found a good spring and there was clear water in it, peak of coldness and freshness. I dr