Hadith 308

(The book) ‘Al Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashub, (and) ‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ – From Abu Baseer who said, ‘Al-Sadiq-asws said: ‘Conceal for me-asws what I-asws am saying to you regarding Al-Moalla Bin Khuneys’. I said, ‘I shall do so’. He-asws said: ‘Surely he could not have achieved his rank except due to what he had faced from Dawood Bin Ali (his killer)’. I said, ‘And what is which would afflict him from Dawood Bin Ali? ’ He-asws said: ‘He will be called with and he struck off his neck and crucified him’. I said, ‘When will that be? ’ He-asws said: ‘Next year’. When it was from the following year, Dawood was the governor of Al-Medina. He aimed to kill Al-Moalla. He called him and asked him about companions of Abu Abdullah-asws and asked him to write them (their details) for him. He said, ‘I do not know any companions of his-asws, and rather I am a man come and go regarding his-asws needs’. He said, ‘You are concealing from me? But you, if you are concealing from me, so I shall kill you! ’ Al-Moalla said to him, ‘Is it with the killing you are threatening me? Even if they were (hiding) beneath my feet, I would not raise my feet (revealing them)! ’ So he killed him and crucified him, like what he-asws had said’’. [144]