Hadith 23

ve it except by explanation’. So, the emir called for Al-Husayn Bin Ishkeyb and said to him, ‘O Husayn! Debate the man’. He said, ‘The scholars and the jurists are around you, so order them with debating him’. He said to him, ‘Debate him just as I am saying to you and isolate with him and be kind to him’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Al-Husayn isolated with me. I asked him about Muhammad-saww. He said, ‘He-saww is just as they have said to you, apart from that his-saww caliph was the son-asws of his-saww uncle, Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, and he-asws was the husband of his-saww daughter-asws Fatima-asws, and father-asws of his-saww (grand) children Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws’. I said, ‘I testify that there is no god ex except Allah-azwj and that Muhammad-saww is Rasool-Allah-saww! ’ – and I came to the emir and became a Muslim. We went with me to Al-Husayn, to teach me understanding. I said to him, ‘We find in our Books that a caliph would not be dying except from a caliph (replacement), so who was the caliph of Ali-asws? ’ He said, ‘Al-Hassan-asws, then Al-Husayn-asws’ – then he named the Imams-asws until he reached to Al-Hassan (Al Askari-asws). Then he said to me, ‘Are you needy to seek the caliph (replacement) of Al-Hassan-asws) and ask about him-ajfj? ’ I went out in the search. Muhammad Bin Muhammad said, ‘And he arrived at Baghdad with us. He mentioned to us that there was a friend with him who had accompanied him upon this matter. He had disliked some of his manners, so he separated from him. He said, ‘One day while I had walked by the (river) Al-Sarat (in Al-Kafi it is river Al-Abbasiya), and I was thinking regarding what I had come out for, when a comer came to me. He said to me, ‘Answer your Master-ajfj! ’ He did not cease to going to places with me until he entered me into a house and an orchard, and there was my Master-ajfj, seated. When he-ajfj looked at me, he-ajfj spoke to me in Hindi, and greeted unto me, and informed me with my name, and asked me about the forty men with (mentioning) their names, naming man by man. Then he-ajfj said to me, ‘You are intending to perform Hajj with the people of Qum during this year. Do not perform Hajj duri