Hadith 375

(The book) ‘Rijal’ of Al Kashy – Sa’ad Bin Janah Al Kashy who said, ‘I heard Muhammad Bin Ibrahim Al Warraq Al Samarqandy saying, ‘I went out to Hajj and I wanted to pass by a man who was from our companions, well known with the truthfulness, and the righteousness, and the devoutness, and the goodness, called Bowraq of Al-Bushanjany, a town from the town of Herat, and visit him, and renew my pact with him. He (the narrator) said, ‘I came to him and the discussion of Al-Fazl Bin Shazan flowed. Bowraq said, ‘And Al-Fazl Bin Shazan, there was stomach pain with him and severe illness, and he would come and go during the night, one hundred times or one hundred and fifty times. Bowraq said to him, ‘I went out as a pilgrim and came to Muhammad Bin Isa Al-Ubeydi. I saw him being a meritorious Sheykh. There was a curvature in his nose, and he was straight, and there were a number (of persons) with him. I saw them saddened, grieving. I said to them, ‘What is the matter with you all? ’ They said, ‘Abu Muhammad-asws has been imprisoned! ’
Bowraq said, ‘I performed Hajj and returned, then I came to Muhammad Bin Isa, and I found him. It had gone away what I had seen him being with. I said, ‘What is the news? ’ He said, ‘He-asws has been freed from it’. Bowraq said, ‘I went out to Surmanray, and there was a book with me day and night. I entered to see Abu Muhammad-asws and I showed him-asws that book. I said to him-asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! If you-asws see fit, you-asws could look into it’. He-asws looked into it, page by page and said, ‘This is correct. It is befitting that it be acted upon with’. I said to him, ‘Al-Fazl Bin Shazan is with severe illness, and they are saying that it is from your-asws supplication with your-asws feelings against him, due to what they had mentioned from him that he had said, ‘The successor-as of Ibrahim-as is better than the successor-asws of Muhammad-saww’, and he did not say like this. May I be sacrificed for you-asws! They are lying upon him! ’
He-asws said: ‘Yes, they are lying upon him, and may Allah-azwj have Mercy on Al-Fazl! May Allah-azwj have Mercy on Al-Fazl! ’
Bowraq said, ‘I returned and found Al-Fazl to have died during the days in which Abu Muhammad-asws had said: ‘May Allah-azwj have Mercy on Al-Fazl! ’’[104]