Hadith 29

(The book) ‘Al Fazaail’ of Ibn Shazan –
It is reported by Ammar Bin Yasser-ra, may Allah-azwj be Pleased with him-ra having said, ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws was seated in the seat of judgment when a man called Safwan Al-Ak’hal got up to him-asws, and said to him, ‘I am a man from your-asws Shias and there are sins upon me. I want you-asws to purify me from these in the world, so I can arrive to the Hereafter and there would be no sin with me’. The Imam-asws said: ‘How gruesome are your sins, and what are these? ’ He said, ‘I have sodomised the children’. He-asws said: ‘Which one is more beloved to you, a strike with Zulfiqar (sword) or I-asws overturn a wall upon you (crushing you), or I throw fire upon you, for that is a recompense of the one who indulges in that act of disobedience’. He said, ‘O my Master-asws! Burn me with the fire so I can be rescued from the Fire of the Hereafter’. He-asws said: ‘O Ammar-ra! Gather a thousand stick for us to incinerate him tomorrow morning with the fire’. Then he-asws said to the man: ‘Get up and bequeath with whatever is for you and with whatever is upon you (debts)’. He (Ammar-ra) said, ‘The man got up and bequeathed with whatever was for him and whatever was upon him, and he divided his wealth upon his children, and gave every one with a right, his right. Then he spent the night in a room of Amir Al-Momineen-asws in the house of lamentation in the east of the central Masjid of Al-Kufa. When Amir Al-Momineen-asws had prayed Salat, he-asws said: ‘O Ammar-ra! Call out at Al-Kufa, ‘Come out and look at a judgment of Amir Al-Momineen-asws! ’ A group from them said, ‘How can he burn a man from his-asws Shias and one who loves him-asws, and at the moment he-asws is wanting to burn him with the fire? His-asws Imamate is invalidated’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws heard that. Ammar-ra said, ‘The Imam-asws seized the man and threw a thousand sticks towards him. He-asws gave him an igniter and a matchstick and said: ‘Ignite and burn yourself! If you were from my-asws Shias and one who loves me-asws and my-asws recogniser, you will not be burned by the fire, and if you were from the adversaries, the beliers, then the fire will devour your flesh and break your bones’. The man ignited upon himself and the sticks burned, and there were white clothes upon the man, but the fire did not attach with these and the smoke did not go near him. The Imam-asws had revealed (the truth) and said: ‘The deniers with Allah-azwj have belied and have strayed with a far straying! ’
Then he-asws said: ‘Our-asws Shias would be with us-asws, and I-asws am distributor of the Paradise and the Fire, and Rasool-Allah-saww has testified for me-asws with that in many places’’. [38]