٢٤ - حدثنا محمد بن إبراهيم بن أحمد بن يونس الليثي، قال: حدثنا أحمد ابن محمد بن سعيد الهمداني مولى بني هاشم، قال: أخبرني الحارث بن أبي أسامة قراءة، عن المدائني، عن عوانة بن الحكم، وعبد الله بن العباس بن سهل الساعدي، وأبي بكر الخراساني مولى بني هاشم، عن الحارث بن حصيرة، عن عبد الرحمن بن جندب، عن أبيه وغيره أن الناس أتوا الحسن بن علي بعد وفاة علي عليهما السلام، ليبايعوه فقال: الحمد لله على ما قضى من أمر، وخص من فضل، وعم من أمر، وجلل من عافية (١) حمدا يتمم به علينا نعمه ونستوجب به رضوانه، إن الدنيا دار بلاء وفتنة وكل ما فيها إلى زوال، وقد نبأنا الله عنها كيما نعتبر، فقدم إلينا بالوعيد كي لا يكون لنا حجة بعد الانذار، فازهدوا فيما يفنى، وارغبوا فيما يبقى، وخافوا الله في السر والعلانية، إن عليا عليه السلام في المحيا والممات والمبعث عاش بقدر و مات بأجل، وإني أبايعكم على أن تسالموا من سالمت وتحاربوا من حاربت، فبايعوه على ذلك. قال محمد بن علي بن الحسين مصنف هذا الكتاب: أجل موت الإنسان هو وقت موته، وأجل حياته هو وقت حياته وذلك معنى قول الله عز وجل: ﴿فإذا جاء أجلهم لا يستأخرون ساعة ولا يستقدمون﴾  وإن مات الإنسان حتف أنفه على فراشه أو قتل فإن أجل موته هو وقت موته، وقد يجوز أن يكون المقتول لو لم يقتل لمات من ساعته، وقد يجوز أن يكون لو لم يقتل لبقي  وعلم ذلك مغيب عنا وقد قال الله عز وجل: ﴿قل لو كنتم في بيوتكم لبرز الذين كتب عليهم القتل إلى مضاجعهم﴾ (١) وقال عز وجل: ﴿قل لن ينفعكم الفرار إن فررتم من الموت أو القتل﴾  ولو قتل جماعة في وقت لجاز أن يقال: إن جميعهم ماتوا بآجالهم وإنهم لو لم يقتلوا لماتوا من ساعتهم، كما كان يجوز أن يقع الوبا في جميعهم فيميتهم، في ساعة واحدة، وكان لا يجوز أن يقال: إنهم ماتوا بغير آجالهم، وفي الجملة أن أجل الإنسان هو الوقت الذي علم الله عز وجل أنه يموت فيه أو يقتل، وقول الحسن عليه السلام في أبيه عليه السلام (إنه عاش بقدر ومات بأجل) تصديق لما قلناه في هذا الباب والله الموفق للصواب بمنه. 
24. Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Ahmad ibn Yunus al-Laythi said: Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Sa`id al-Hamdani freed slave of the Hashimites said: al-Harith ibn Abu Usamah reported to us in reading, on the authority of al-Mada’ini, on the authority of all three `Uwanah ibn al-Hakm; `Abd Allah ibn al-`Abbas ibn Sahl al-Sa`idi and Abu Bakr al-Khurasani freed slave of the Hashimites, on the authority of al-Harith ibn Hasirah, on the authority of `Abd al-Rahman ibn Jundab, on the authority of his father and others that The people came to al-Hasan ibn `Ali  after the death of `Ali  to pay allegiance to him. So he  said: All praise is for Allah over what He destined in matter, specified in merit, generalized in affair and glorified in well-being, a praise with which He completes over us His bounties and we require His pleasure. Verily, this world is an abode of tribulation and mischief. Everything that is init has a decline. Allah has informed us of that so that we may take a lesson. Therefore He preceded with a threat to us so that there is no evidence for us after warning. So be ascetic in what is to perish and desirous in what is to remain. Fear Allah in privacy and in open. Verily, `Ali  in life, death and the rising lived with a measure and died with the time. Verily, I shall accept your allegiance on that you will make peace with whom I make peace with and fight with whom I fight with.Thus, they all paid allegiance to him on that basis. Muhammad ibn `Ali ibn al-Husayn, the Compiler of this book says: The ajal is the death of a human and the time of his death. And the ajal of his living is the time of his living. That is the meaning of the word of Allah, the Mighty and High: So when their (appointed) time comes they shall not delay it even an hour, nor shall they go before. If a human dies a natural death on his bed or is killed then verily the ajal of his death is the time of his death. It is possible that if a murdered person was not killed, he would have died in that instance anyway. It is also possible that if he was not killed then he would have lived on. The knowledge of that is unseen for us. Allah, the Mighty and High, has said; Say: Had you remained in your houses, those for whom slaughter was ordained would certainly have gone forth to the places where they would be slain. He has also said: Say: Flight shall not do you any good if you fly from death or slaughter. If a group of people are killed at the same time, it is possible to say that all of them died at their time and eve if they wee not killed they would have died in that instance. For, it is possible that a disease would have occurred in all of them and would have killed them all in that instance. It is not possible to say that they all died without the time of their death. As a whole, the ajal of a person is the time of his death that Allah, the Mighty and High, knows that he will die in that hour or will be killed. The word of al-Hasan  concerning his father  that “he lived with a measure and died with the time? Is a confirmation of what we have said about this matter. Allah is the Granter of Direction to the correctness with His Favor.