Hadith 56

time to ask me about merits of Ali-asws, and perhaps if I were to inform him, he would kill me’. So, I wrote out my will and wore my shroud’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He was reclining, so he sat up straight and said, ‘There is neither any Might nor Strength except with Allah-azwj! I ask you by Allah-azwj, O Suleyman! How many Ahadeeth have you reported regarding merits of Ali-asws? ’ I said, ‘Only a few, O commander of the faithful! ’ He said, ‘How many? ’ I said, ‘Ten thousand Ahadeeth, and what is more’. He said, ‘By Allah-azwj, O Suleyman! If I were to narrate to you a Hadeeth regarding the merits of Ali-asws, you will forget every Hadeeth you have heard’. I said, ‘Narrate to me, O commander of the faithful! ’ He said, ‘Yes. I was fleeing from the clan of Umayya, dithering in the cities, so I used to draw closer to the people by the merits of Ali-asws, and they were feeding me and providing me the supplies until I arrived a city of Syria, and I was in a ragged cloak, there being no other upon me. I heard the Iqaamah and I was hungry, so I entered the Masjid to pray Salat, and in my self was that if I were to speak to the people regarding dinner, they would give me dinner. When the prayer leader greeted, two young boys entered. The prayer leader turned to them and said, ‘Welcome to you both, and welcome to the one who named you both upon their names’. There was a youth to my side. I said, ‘O youth! Who are the two boys from the sheykh? ’ He said, ‘He is their grandfather, and there isn’t anyone in the city who loves Ali-asws apart from this sheykh, so for that reason he has named one of them as ‘Al-Hassan’ and the other ‘Al-Husayn’’. I stood up happy and said to the sheykh, ‘Is if for you if I narrate to you a Hadeeth to delight your eyes with it? ’ He said, ‘If you delight my eyes, I shall delight your eyes’. I said, ‘My father narrated to me from his father, from his grandfather who said, ‘We were seated in the presence of Rasool-Allah-azwj when (Syeda) Fatima-asws came crying. The Prophet-saww said to her-asws: ‘What makes you-asws cry, O Fatima-asws? ’
She-asws said: ‘O father-saww! Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws went out, and I-asws don’t know where they-asws spent the night’. The Prophet-saww said to her-asws: ‘O Fatima-asws! Do not cry, for Allah-azwj is the One-azwj Who Created them-asws. He-azwj is Kinder with them-asws than you-asws are’. And the Prophet-saww raised his-saww hand towards the sky and said: ‘O Allah-azwj! If they-asws have taken to land or sea, Protect them-asws and Keep them-asws safe’. Jibraeel-as descended from the sky and said: ‘O Muhammad-saww! Allah-azwj Conveys the Greetings and He-azwj Says not to grieve for them not be sad for them-asws, for they-asws are both meritorious in the world, meritorious in the Hereafter, an