Hadith 4

(The book) ‘Al Ghayba’ of the Sheikh Al Tusi – Ahmad Bin Ali Al Razy, from Muhammad Bin Ali, from Muhammad Bin Abd Rabbih Al Ansary Al Hamdany, from Ahmad Bin Abdullah Al Hashimy, from the sons of Al Abbas who said, ‘I was present at the house of Abu Muhammad Al-Hassan-asws Bin Ali-asws at Surmanray on the day he-asws expired, and I brought out his-asws funeral byre and placed it, and we were thirty-nine men, seated, awaiting, until a boy of ten came out to us. He-ajfj had wrapped a cloak upon him concealing with it. When he-ajfj came out, we stood up for him-ajfj in awe from without having recognised him-ajfj. He-ajfj proceeded, and the people stood, and they formed rows behind him-ajfj. He-ajfj prayed Salat upon him-asws and walked and entered a room other than which he-ajfj had come out from’’. [4]
Abu Abdullah Al Hamdany said, ‘At Al-Maragha I met a man from the people of Tabriz known as Ibrahim Bin Muhammad Al-Tabrizi. He narrated to me with a Hadeeth similar to that of Al-Hashimy, not missing out anything from it. He said, ‘I asked Al-Hamdany. I asked him, ‘The boy was of ten in height or ten in years? Because the birth was in the year two hundred and fifty-six, and the absence of Abu Muhammad-asws was in the year two hundred and sixty, four years after the birth! ’
He said, ‘I don’t know. This is what I heard. A Sheikh said to me there was excellent understanding with him-ajfj from the people of his-ajfj city. There is a report and knowledge of being of ten (palms width) in height’’. [5]
Note: But, the correct is that he-ajfj was of ten years, i. e. as if there were ten years for him-ajfj, from where he-ajfj was physically of an Israelite body in height, and as for him-ajfj being of ten in height, for him being ten palm’s width, it is not correct, because when the boy reaches six palm’s width, then he is a man, so how could he-ajfj have been of ten palm’s width? Al-Firozabady said, ‘A boy of five, his length would be of five palm’s width, and it is not said six nor seven, because when he reaches six palm’s width, then he is a man’.