حدثنا الحسين بن سعيد عن النضر بن سويد عن يحيى الحلبي عن هارون بن خارجة عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال إن الله بعث إلى بني إسرائيل نبيا يقال له: إرميا فقال: قل لهم: ما بلد بنفسه من كرام البلدان؟ وغرس فيه من كرام الغروس ونقيته (نفسه) من كل (غرسه) غريبة) عربية) فاخلف فأنبت خرنوبا (خربونا)؟ (فضحكوا منه واستهزؤا به فشكاهم إلى الله فأوحى الله إليه أن قل لهم:) ان البلد البيت المقدس والغرس بنو إسرائيل نقيتهم من كل غريبة ونحيت عنهم كل جبار فاخلفوا فعملوا بمعاصي فلا سلطن عليهم في بلدهم من يسفك دمائهم ويأخذ أموالهم (وان بكوا لم ارحم بكائهم وان دعوا لم استجب دعائهم فشلوا وفشلت أعمالهم و) لأخربنها مأة عام ثم لأعمرنها قال: فلما حدثهم جزعت العلماء فقالوا يا رسول الله: ما ذنبنا نحن ولم نكن نعمل بعملهم فعاود لنا ربك فصام سبعا فلم يوح إليه فاكل اكلة ثم صام سبعا فلما كان اليوم الواحد والعشرون يوما أوحى الله إليه لترجعن عما تصنع أن تراجعني في أمر قد قضيته أولا ردن وجهك على دبرك ثم أوحى إليه أن قل لهم: انكم رأيتم المنكر فلم تنكروه وسلط عليهم بخت نصر ففعل بهم ما قد بلغك
1.Al-Ḥusayn ibn Saʿīd narrated to us from al-Naḍr ibn Suwayd, from Yaḥyā al-Ḥalabī, from Hārūn ibn Khārijah, from Abū ʿAbdillāh  who said, “Verily Allah sent to the Banī Isrāʾīl a Prophet called Irmiyā[1] and said [to him], ‘Ask them: what city considered itself to be among the noblest of cities, having the best of plants grown within it, after I had cleared it of all the weeds [and unwanted plants], yet it went back and started growing karnoub?’ [2] So they laughed at him and mocked him. He complained about them to Allah, so Allah revealed to him, ‘Tell them: verily the city is Jerusalem (al-bayt al-maqdis), the plants are the Banī Isrāʾīl – I cleansed them of every [harmful] foreign element and turned away from them every tyrant, but they went back and committed acts of disobedience [and sin]. Therefore, I will surely give authority over them to one who will spill their blood and seize their wealth! If they cry, I will not be sympathetic to their weeping, and if they supplicate, I will not answer their supplication! They have failed, and their actions have failed. I will surely lay waste to it for a hundred years and then I will rebuild it.’ When he told them this, the scholars [among them] were alarmed and they said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, what was our sin, for we did not act the way they did? Go back to your Lord on our behalf [and ask about our fate].’ So he fasted for seven days but no revelation came to him. He then ate a little and fasted for another seven days [and then repeated this again]. When it was the twenty-first day, Allah revealed to him, ‘Go back [and turn away] from what you are doing, and do not come to Me regarding a matter that I have [already] decreed, otherwise I will certainly turn your face upon your back!’ Then Allah revealed to him that he should tell them, ‘You saw evil [being committed] but you never rejected [or forbade] it.’ He then made Nebuchadnezzar their ruler and he did with them what has reached you [in the chronicles of history].”