Hadith 3

(The book) ‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ – It is reported by the sheykh Abu Ja’far Bin Babuway, from Ibn Al Waleed, from Al Saffar, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Al Sijistany who said, ‘I went out to seek the knowledge, so I entered Al-Basra and went to Muhammad Bin Abbas, governor of Abbadan. I said, ‘I am stranger. I have come to you from a far city to attain something from your knowledge’. He said, ‘Who are you? ’ I said, ‘From the people of Sijistan’. He said, ‘From the city of Kharijites? ’ I said, ‘If I was a Kharijite, I would not be seeking your knowledge’. He said, ‘Shall I inform you with an excellent Hadeeth, when you go to your city, you can narrate to the people with it? ’ I said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘There was a neighbour for me from the worshippers. He was in his dream as if he had died, and enshrouded, and buried. He said, ‘I passed by the Fountain of the Prophet-saww, and there he-saww was, seated upon an edge of the Fountain, and Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws were quenching water to the community. I requested them-asws to quench me, but they-asws refused to quench me. I said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! I am from your-saww community! ’ He-saww said: ‘And even if you were to go to Ali-asws, he-asws will not quench you’. I cried and said, ‘I am from the Shias of Ali-asws’. He-saww said: ‘There was a neighbour of yours who used to curse Ali-asws and you did not prevent him’. I said, ‘I was weak. There was not strength for me, and he was from the influential ones of the ruling authority’. He (the narrator) said, ‘The Prophet-saww brought out a knife and said: ‘Go and slaughter him! ’ So, I took the knife and went to his house. I found the door open, so I entered and hit him in the sleep and slaughtered him, and I left to go to the Prophet-saww and I said, ‘I have slaughtered him, and this is the knife stained with his blood’. He-saww said: ‘Give it! ’ Then he-saww said to Al-Hassan-asws: ‘Quench him (with) the water! ’
When the morning illuminated, I heard shrieking. I asked about it. It was said, ‘So and so has been found slaughtered upon his bed’. When it was after some time, the governor of the city seized upon his neighbour. I entered to see him and said, ‘O you governor, fear Allah-azwj! The people are innocent’. And I narrated the story of the dream to him, and he freed them’’. [3]