Hadith 242

arge of my-asws blood. If I-asws so desire, I-asws will pardon, and if I-asws so desire, I-asws retaliate. and if I-asws were to die, then kill him-la’. Then he-asws bequeathed saying: ‘O sons of Abdul Muttalib-as! I anticipate you will be wading in the blood of the Muslims with a wading. You will be saying, ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws has been killed! ’ Indeed! You should not kill due to me-asws except my-asws killer (and no one else)’, and he-asws forbade from the trampling (his-la body)’’. [63]
And he-asws instructed Al-Hassan-asws to pray (leading) the morning Salat with the people. And it is reported that Ja’da pushed in his-asws back and he prayed (leading) Salat with the people’’. Al-Asbagh in a Hadeeth, ‘Ali-asws said: ‘He-asws was struck during the night in which Yoshua Bin Noun had passed away, and he-asws passed away during the night which Isa-as Bin Maryam-as had been raised in’’. [64]
Al-Hassan-asws Bin Ali-asws in a Hadeeth: ‘His-asws soul ascended during the night in which the soul of Yahya Bin Zakariya-as had ascended’’. [65]
I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘It is in (the book) ‘Al-Diwaan’ – ‘He-asws said when he-asws went out to the Masjid: ‘Free the way of the Momin, the fighter for the Sake of Allah-azwj. He-asws does not worship apart from the One and awakens the people (on his-asws way) to the Masjids’. And in it he-asws said after his-asws words: ‘When it is released in your valley’ – ‘So, the armour and helmet (of piety) will suffice you on the day of horror. Just like the time has made you laugh, like that the time would make you cry’’. [66]
Al-Hassan-asws Bin Ali-asws (recited a poem): ‘Where is the one was a door regarding the knowledge of Mustafa-saww? Where is the one who was a cloud when the people were with drought? Where is the one who was (always) answering whenever called to the war? Where is the one whose supplication was Answered and will (always be) Answered? ’’[67]
Anas Bin Malik (a well-known enemy of Ahl Al-Bayt-asws), ‘And I heard the voice of a caller from the Jinn, ‘O one who leads to the city delivering the message untwisted. The evilest of the clan of Umayya has killed a chief, best of Created beings, glorified, with glory, lord of the preferred ones in the sky and its earth, sword of the Prophet-saww and demolisher of the idols. The monuments and the Masjids cried after the people had cried for him-asws in every place’’. [68]
And in (the book) ‘Sharaf Al-Nabuwwah’ – ‘It was heard from them, ‘He-asws has died, best of the people after Muhammad-saww, and their most honourable in merits, and their most loyal of pact, and their most combative with the sword in fighting the enemies, and their most truthful of words, and their most fulfilling of promises’’. [69]
One of his-asws companions, ‘I called you-asws, O Ali-asws, but you-asws did not answer me, and my call was rejected miserably. By your-asws death, my pleasures died, and I was alive when you-asws were alive. Oh the regret upon you and my prolonged desired to see you-asws. If only that could be returned to me! ’’[70]