٤ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ الْكُوفِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ أَبِي الْخَطَّابِ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْعُصْفُرِيِّ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (ع) قَالَ خَلَقَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى أَرْضَ كَرْبَلَاءَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَخْلُقَ الْكَعْبَةَ بِأَرْبَعَةٍ وَ عِشْرِينَ أَلْفَ عَامٍ وَ قَدَّسَهَا وَ بَارَكَ عَلَيْهَا فَمَا زَالَتْ قَبْلَ خَلْقِ اللَّهِ الْخَلْقَ مُقَدَّسَةً مُبَارَكَةً وَ لَا تَزَالُ كَذَلِكَ حَتَّى يَجْعَلَهَا اللَّهُ أَفْضَلَ أَرْضٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ أَفْضَلَ مَنْزِلٍ وَ مَسْكَنٍ يُسْكِنُ اللَّهُ فِيهِ أَوْلِيَاءَهُ فِي الْجَنَّةِ
4. Muĥammad ibn Ja’far Al-Qurashi Al-Razzāz narrated to me from Muĥammad ibn Ĥusain ibn Abil Khaťťāb, from Abǐ Sa’ǐd, from some of his scholars, from Abil Jārūd, who said: ‘Ali ibn Ĥusain (Imam Sajjād ) said: Allāh chose the land of Karbalā as a safe and blessed Ĥaram twenty-four thousand years before He created the land of the Ka’bah and chose it as a Ĥaram. Verily when Allāh, the Blessed and the Exalted, shall shake the earth and move it (on the Day of Judgment), Karbalā and (all of) its dust will ascend while it will be shining and pure. It will be placed in the best of the gardens and dwellings in Paradise. No one but the prophets and the messengers – or he said the Ulul ‘Azm from among the messengers – shall dwell in it. Verily it will shine among the gardens of Paradise like a shining star shines among the stars for the people of the earth. And its radiating light (will be so powerful that it) will blur the vision of all of the inhabitants of Paradise. The land of Karbalā shall cry out, “I am the sanctified, the blessed, and the purified land of Allāh which held (the body of) the Master of the Martyrs and the Master of the Youth of Paradise.” The above Ĥadǐth has also been narrated to me through the following chain: My father, ‘Ali ibn Ĥusain and all of my scholars, from ‘Ali ibn Ibrāhǐm, from his father, from Muĥammad ibn ‘Ali, from Abǐ Sa’ǐd ‘Abbād Al-‘Ušfuri, from someone, from Abil Jārūd, from ‘Ali ibn Ĥusain .