Hadith 10

Tafseer of the Imam (Hassan Al Askari-asws), may the greetings be upon him-asws, in the story of the repentance from having worshipped the calf – ‘Allah–azwj Commanded twelve thousand that they should go out upon the rest of them, brandishing the swords, killing them. A Caller Called out: ‘Indeed! The Curse of Allah–azwj would be on anyone who defends them by a hand or a leg, and Curse of Allah–azwj would be on the one who hesitates from the one to be killed, perhaps he displays his friendship or a relationship, so he saves him, and he extends to the stranger! ’ So the ones to be killed, submitted. The killing ones said, ‘We are in a great difficulty from them. We have to kill with our hands, our own fathers, and our mothers, and our sons, and our brothers, and our relatives, and we did not worship, and there is equality between us and them regarding the difficulties’. Allah–azwj the Exalted Revealed unto Musa–as: “O Musa–as! I–azwj, rather am Examining them by that, because they did not withdraw from them due to their worshipping the calf, and did not emigrate from them, and inimical to them upon that. He–as said to them: ‘The one who supplicated to Allah–azwj by Muhammad–saww and his–saww goodly Progeny–asws, it would be easy upon him killing the deserving one of the killing due to their sins’. They said it, and that made easier upon them, and they did not find any pain due to their killing them’’. When the killing continued among them, and they were six hundred thousand except for twelve thousand who had not worshipped the calf, and Allah–azwj Inclined one of them, so he said to some of them, and the killing had not yet reached to them, saying, ‘Or hasn’t Allah–azwj Made the beseeching by Muhammad–saww and his