Hadith 15

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – From the number, from Al Barqy, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Muawiya Bin Wahab, from Zakariya Bin Ibrahim who said, ‘I used to be a Christian. I became a Muslim and performed Hajj. I entered to see Abu Abdullah‑asws. I said, ‘I used to be upon the Christianity, and I have become a Muslim’. He-asws said: ‘And which have you seen in? ’
I said, ‘Words of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic: You (people) did not know what the Book was, nor the Eman, but We Made it a ‘Noor’ (Light) We Guide with one We so Desire from [42: 52]’. He-asws said: ‘Allah-azwj has Guided you! ’ Then he-asws said: ‘O Allah-azwj, Guide him! ’ – three times – ‘Ask about whatever comes to you, O my son! ’
I said, ‘My father and my mother are upon the Christianity, and so are my family members, and my mother is blind of sight. I happen to be with them and eat in their utensils’. He-asws said: ‘Are they eating the flesh of swine? ’
I said, ‘No, nor are they touching it’. He-asws said: ‘There is no problem. Look at your mother and be kind with her. When she dies, do not allocate her to someone else. You be the one who stands with her affairs (funeral etc. ) and do not inform anyone you have come to me-asws until you come to me-asws at Mina if Allah‑azwj so Desires’. He said, ‘I came to him-asws at Mina and the people were around him-asws. It was as if he-asws was a teacher of the children. This one was asking him-asws, and this one was asking him-asws. When I arrived at Al-Kufa I was kind to my mother, and used to feed her, and wash her clothes and her head, and I served her. She said to me, ‘O my son! You have not been doing this with me while you were upon my religion. So what is that which I see with you since you emigrated and entered into the uprightness? ’
I said, ‘A man from the sons-asws of our Prophet-saww had instructed me with this’. She said, ‘This man, is he a Prophet-as? ’
I said, ‘No, but he-asws is a son-asws of a Prophet-saww’. She said, ‘O my son! This one is a Prophet-saww! These are advices of the Prophets-as’. I said, ‘O mother! There isn’t going to be any Prophet-as after our Prophet-saww, but he-asws is his‑saww son-asws’. She said, ‘O my son! Your religion is the best religion. Present it unto me! ’
I presented it to her. She entered into, and I taught her. She prayed Al-Zohr, and Al-Asr, and Al-Maghrib, and Al-Isha the last Salats. Then a presenter presented to her (in a dream) during the night. She said, ‘O my son! Repeat unto me what you have taught me’. I repeated it to her. She acknowledged with it, and she died. When it was morning, the Muslims were the ones who washed her, and I was the one whom prayed Salat upon her and descended into her grave’’. [15]