Hadith 6

th the shortness. But he-ajfj was of moderate stature, rounded head, shiny forehead, straight of eyebrows, curved of nose, plain cheeks. There was a mole upon his-ajfj right cheek. It was as if it was a piece of musk upon crushed ambergris. When I saw him-ajfj, I initiated him-ajfj with the greetings. He-ajfj responded unto me better than what I had greeted him-ajfj upon and he-ajfj shook my hand and asked me about the people of Al-Iraq. I said, ‘My Master-ajfj! They have been clothed with a coat of disgrace and they are the most disgraced between the people’. He said to me, ‘O Ibn Al-Maziyar! You will be ruling them just as they have ruled you, and on that day, they would be more humiliated’. I said, ‘My Master-ajfj! The homeland is remote, and the demands are long’. He said, ‘O Ibn Al-Maziyar! My-ajfj father-asws Abu Muhammad-asws had pacted to me-ajfj that I-ajfj should be in the vicinity of a people Allah-azwj has been Wrathful upon them, and for them would be disgrace in the world and the Hereafter, and for them would be a painful Punishment’. And he-ajfj instructed me: ‘Do not live in the mountains except in its ruggedness, and from the cities except in their desolate areas. And Allah-azwj, your Master-azwj is Revealer of the Taqiyya. He-azwj has Allocated it with me-ajfj, so I-ajfj would be in Taqiyya up to the day He-azwj Permits for me-ajfj, and I-ajfj shall emerge’. I said, ‘O my Master-ajfj! When will this matter happen to be? ’ He-ajfj said: ‘When there is a barrier between you and way to the Kabah, and the sun and the moon gather, and the planets and the stars rotate with them’. I said, ‘When, O son-ajfj of Rasool-Allah-saww? ’ He-ajfj said: ‘In the year such and such, the walker of the earth (Ali-asws) would emerge from between Al-Safa and Al-Marwa, and with him-asws would be the staff of Musa-as, and ring of Suleyman-as, ushering the people to the (plains of) Resurrection’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I stayed with him-ajfj for days, and he-ajfj permitted me for the going out after I had inquired for myself, and I went out towards my house. By Allah-azwj! I travelled from Makkah to Al-Kufa, and there was a slave with me. I did not see anything except goodness and may Allah-azwj Send Salawaat upon Muhammad-saww and his-saww Progeny-asws, and abundant greetings’’. [9]
Note: I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘And it is not far-fetched that the (gathering of) the sun and the moon and the stars could be a metaphor about the Rasool-saww, and Amir Al-Momineen-asws, and the Imams-asws, may the Salawaat of Allah-azwj be upon them all, and it is possible that the intended could be the nearness of the matter with establishment of the House during which that would take place, and it is possible to carry it upon its apparent’.