٣ - أخبرنا أحمد بن محمد بن سعيد بن عقدة الكوفي، قال: حدثنا أحمد بن محمد الدينوري، قال: حدثنا علي بن الحسن الكوفي، عن عميرة بنت أوس قالت: حدثني جدي الحصين بن عبد الرحمن، عن أبيه، عن جده عمرو بن سعد، عن أمير المؤمنين علي بن أبي طالب أنه قال يوماً لحذيفة بن اليمان: يا حذيفة، لا تُحدّث الناس بما لا يعلمون فيطغوا ويكفروا. إنّ من العلم صعباً شديداً محملُه لو حملتْه الجبال عجزت عن حمله. إنّ عِلمنا أهل البيت سينكر ويبطل وتقتل رواتُه ويُساء إلى من يتلوه بغياً وحسداً لما فضّل الله به عترةَ الوصي وصيّ النبي . يا بن اليمان، إن النبي تفلَ في فمي وأمرّ يده على صدري وقال: اللهم أعطِ خليفتي ووصيي وقاضي ديني ومنجز وعدي وأمانتي ووليّي وناصري على عدوك وعدوي ومفرّجَ الكرب عن وجهي ما أعطيتَ آدم من العلم، وما أعطيت نوحاً من الحلم وإبراهيم من العترة الطيبة والسماحة، وما أعطيت أيوب من الصبر عند البلاء، وما أعطيت داود من الشدة عند منازلة الأقران، وما أعطيت سليمان من الفهم. اللّهم لا تُخف عن عليّ شيئاً من الدنيا حتى تجعلها كلّها بين عينيه مثل المائدة الصغيرة بين يديه. اللهم أعطه جلادة موسى، واجعل في نسله شبيهَ عيسى. اللّهم إنك خليفتي عليه وعلى عترته وذرّيته الطيبة المطهّرة التي أذهبتَ عنها الرجس والنجس وصرفتَ عنها ملامسة الشياطين. اللّهم إن بغَت قريش عليه وقدّمت غيرَه عليه فاجعله بمنْزلة هارون من موسى إذ غاب عنه موسى. ثم قال لي: يا عليُّ، كم في ولدك من ولد فاضل يُقتل والناس قيام ينظرون لا يغيّرون! فقُبّحت أمّة ترى أولاد نبيها يُقتلون ظلماً وهم لا يغيرون. إن القاتل والآمر والشاهد الذي لا يغير كلهم في الإثم واللّعان سواء مشتركون. يا ابن اليمان، إن قريشاً لا تنشرح صدورُها ولا ترضى قلوبها ولا تجري ألسنتُها ببيعة عليّ وموالاته إلاّ على الكُره والعمى والصغار. يا ابن اليمان، ستبايع قريشٌ علياً ثم تنكث عليه وتحاربه وتناضله وترميه بالعظائم، وبعد عليّ يلي الحسن وسينكث عليه، ثم يلي الحسينُ فتقتله أمّةُ جده، فلُعنت أمة تقتل ابنَ بنت نبيّها ولا تعز من أمة، ولعن القائد لها والمرتب لفاسقها، فوالذي نفسُ عليّ بيده لا تزال هذه الأمةُ بعد قتل الحسين ابني في ضلال وظلم وعسف وجور واختلافٍ في الدين وتغيير وتبديل لما أنزل الله في كتابه وإظهار البدع وإبطال السنن واختلال وقياسِ مشتبهات وتركِ محكمات حتى تنسلخ من الإسلام و تدخل في العمى والتلدد والتكسع. مالك يا بني أمية! لا هُديت يا بني أمية! ومالك يا بني العباس! لك الأتعاس، فما في بني أميّة إلا ظالم، ولا في بني العباس إلا معتدٍ متمرّد على الله بالمعاصي، قتّال لولدي، هتّاك لستري وحُرمتي، فلا تزال هذه الأمة جبارين يتكالبون على حرام الدنيا منغمسين في بحار الهلكات وفي أوديةِ الدماء، حتى إذا غاب المتغيّب من ولدي عن عيون الناس وماج الناس بفقده أو بقتله أو بموته، أطلعت الفتنة ونزلت البلية والتحمت العصبيةُ وغلا الناس في دينهم وأجمعوا على أن الحجّة ذاهبة والإمامة باطلة. ويحج حجيج الناس في تلك السنة من شيعة عليّ ونواصبه للتحسس والتجسس عن خلف الخلف، فلا يرى له أثر ولا يعرف له خبر ولا خلف، فعند ذلك سبّت شيعة عليٍّ، سبّها أعداؤها وظهرت عليها الأشرار والفساق باحتجاجِها حتى إذا بقيت الأمّة حيارى وتدلَّهت وأكثرت في قولها إن الحجة هالكة والإمامة باطلة، فوربِّ عليّ إن حجتها عليها قائمةٌ ماشيةٌ في طرقها داخلة في دورها وقصورها جوالةٌ في شرق هذه الارض وغربها، تسمع الكلام وتسلّم على الجماعة، ترى ولا ترى إلى الوقت والوعد ونداء المنادي من السماء ألا ذلك يوم فيه سرور ولدُ عليّ وشيعته.
(3) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed bin Oqda al-Kufi narrated from Ahmad bin Muhammad ad-Daynawari from Ali bin al-Hasan al-Kufi from Omayra bint Ouss from her grandfather al-Hussayn bin Abdurrahman from his father from his grandfather Amr bin Sa’d that Amirul Mo’mineen Ali  one day had said to Huthayfa bin al-Yaman: “O Huthayfa, do not tell people of what they do not know (understand) lest they become unbelievers. Some of knowledge is difficult and unbearable. Mountains will fail to bear it. Our knowledge (principles), we Ahlul Bayt, will be denied and annulled, the narrators will be killed and whoever mentions something of it, will be harmed offensively. All that is because of envy at the progeny of the Prophet’s guardian . O bin al-Yaman, the Prophet (S) has spit in my mouth, passed his hand over my chest and prayed Allah to me by saying: “O Allah, give my caliph, my guardian, the payer of my debts, the executor of my promises and deposits, my assistant and supporter against Your enemy and my enemy and the reliever of my distresses the knowledge that You have given to Adam, the discernment that You have given to Noah, the magnanimity and good offspring that You have given to Abraham, the patience before calamities that You have given to Ayyoob (Job), the strength that You have given to David when confronting heroes and the understanding that You have given to Solomon. O Allah, do not hide any thing of this life from Ali until You make it (life) as a small table before him. O Allah, give him the endurance of Moses and make in his progeny a like of Jesus. O Allah, I pray You to be the trustee after me for him and his pure progeny, whom You have kept uncleanness away from and whom You have turned the influence of the Satan away from. O Allah, if Quraysh extorts his right and prefers others to him, then make him as was Aaron to Moses when Moses left him alone.” Then he said to me: “O Ali, many great men of your descendants will be killed before the eyes of people whereas the people will not try to do anything!! Fie on a nation looking at the progeny of its prophet being killed unjustly without trying to change anything. The one, who has ordered of killing, the killer and the one, who sees the killing without trying to change the situation all participate in committing the sin and all are the same in being damned. O ibn al-Yaman, people of Quraysh will not be pleasant nor will their hearts be contented nor will their tongues be able to pay homage to Ali except unwillingly and lowly. O ibn al-Yaman, Quraysh will pay homage to Ali and then will break the homage, will fight him and will fabricate great lies against him. Then after Ali al-Hasan comes and the same will be done to him then comes al-Husayn, who will be killed by the nation of his grandfather. Damned is a nation that kills the son of its prophet’s daughter, damned is the leader and damned is the planner of its offenders. By Him, in Whose hand the soul of Ali is, this umma, after killing my son al-Husayn, will remain in deviation, darkness, tyranny, oppression, disagreement on the religion, changing what Allah has revealed in His Book, spreading heresies, annulling the Sunna, disorder, personal analogies and leaving the clear laws of Allah until this umma becomes detached from Islam and immerses in confusion and loitering. O Umayyads! May you be not guided! O Abbasids! May calamities afflict you! Everyone among the Umayyads is unjust and everyone among the Abbasids is offensive, sinful and mutinous against Allah. They will kill my descendants and trespass my honor. The people of this umma will remain arrogants rushing madly upon the impermissible pleasures of this life and immersing in seas of destruction and in valleys of bloods until my son (Imam al-Mahdi) disappears (by the will of Allah) from the sights of people and the people become so confused whether he is lost, killed or is dead. Then sedition will come upon, calamities befall, party spirit appears, people exaggerate in their religion and agree upon that the authority (al-Hujjah) has been gone and the imamate has been annulled. In that year the pilgrims, whether the followers or the enemies of Ali, will go to hajj just to spy on the existence of the guardian (al-Hujjah) and to seek any information about him but with no use nor will any news be known about him. There will be no guardian and then the Shia of Ali will be abused by their enemies and will be overcome by the evil and bad people with their protest until the umma becomes so confused and begins to say that al-Hujjah has perished and the imamate has been annulled. By the god of Ali, their authority (al-Hujjah) will remain over the umma walking in its roads, entering into its houses and palaces, roving in the east and in the west, hearing the speech, greeting groups of people and seeing without being seen until the promised time and determined appointment come and then comes the call from the heaven: This is the day that brings forth joy to the descendants of Ali and to the Shia of Ali.” This tradition has many evidences confirming the beliefs of the Shia. This saying of Imam Ali : “…until my son (Imam al-Mahdi) disappears (by the will of Allah) from the sights of people” is a sufficient evidence that confirms the disappearance of the last imam and confirms the thought of those, who acknowledge this disappearance and believe in the disappeared imam. Then Imam Ali  says: “…and the people become so confused whether he is lost, killed or is dead… and agree upon that the authority (al-Hujjah) has been gone and the imamate has been annulled.” Does this not comply with the opinion of most of the people now, who think that the belief of the Shia concerning the disappearance is unreal and nonsense? Then he says: “In that year the pilgrims will go to hajj just to spy on…” and they really have done so but without any use. And he says: “…and then the Shia of Ali will be abused by their enemies and will be overcome by the evil and bad people with their protest”. He means that they protest against the Shia by saying: Where is your imam? Can you show him to us? They abuse the Shia by ascribing contradiction, weakness and ignorance to them for they say that their imam is existent but cannot be seen. The saying of Imam Ali  confirms the truthfulness of the Shia and describes their opponents of being ignorant and opponents to the truth. He swears by his god when saying: “By the god of Ali, their authority (al-Hujjah) will remain over the umma walking in its roads, entering into its houses and palaces, roving in the east and in the west, hearing the speech, greeting groups of people and seeing without being seen”. Does this not refute any doubt about the subject? Does it not confirm the matter and confirm the previous tradition saying: “Know well that the world will not be empty of an authority (Hujjah) from Allah but Allah will make His people not see His authority because of their injustice, oppression and excessiveness in disobedience”? Then he gives an example by mentioning Prophet Joseph . Imam al-Mahdi (aj) is existent in substance and person but at his time he sees and he is not seen until-as Amirul Mo’mineen  says: “the promised time and determined appointment” when the call comes from the heaven: “This is the day that brings forth joy to the descendants of Ali and to the Shia of Ali.”