Hadith 83

(The book) ‘Rijal’ Al Kashy – I found in the book of Muhammad Bin Al Hassan Bin Bundar Al Qummi, in his handwriting, ‘It is narrated to me by Al Hassan Bin Ahmad Al Maliky, from Ja’far Bin Fyzeyl who said, ‘I said to Muhammad Bin Furaat, ‘Have you met Al-Asbagh? ’ He said, ‘Yes I have met him with my father. I saw him as an old man, white head (hair) and long beard. My father said to him, ‘Narrate to us with a Hadith you have heard from Amir Al-Momineen-asws’. He said, ‘I heard him-asws saying upon the pulpit: ‘I-asws am chief of the grey-haired ones, and in me-asws there is a resemblance from Ayoub-as, and Allah-azwj will be Gathering my-asws family for me-asws, just as He-azwj had Gathered for Ayoub-as! ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘I heard this Hadith, I and my father, from Al-Asbagh Bin Nubata’. He said, ‘There did not pass after that except a little (time) until he expired. May Allah-azwj have Mercy on him’’. [88]