The Book of Occultation — al-Ṭūsī · Hadith 738 (#Ḥadīth #47)

469- الفضل، عن ابن أبي نجران، عن محمد بن سنان، عن خالد العاقولي، في حديث له عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام أنه قال:فما تمدون أعينكم؟ فما تستعجلون؟ ألستم آمنين؟ أليس الرجل منكم يخرج من بيته فيقضي حوائجه ثم يرجع لم يختطف؟ إن كان من قبلكم [من هو] على ما أنتم عليه ليؤخذ الرجل منهم فتقطع يداه ورجلاه ويصلب على جذوع النخل وينشر بالمنشار، ثم لا يعدو ذنب نفسه. ثم تلا هذه الآية ﴿أَمْ حَسِبْتُمْ أَنْ تَدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ وَلَمَّا يَأْتِكُمْ مَثَلُ الَّذِينَ خَلَوْا مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ مَسَّتْهُمُ الْبَأْسَاءُ وَالضَّرَّاءُ وَزُلْزِلُوا حَتَّى يَقُولَ الرَّسُولُ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَعَهُ مَتَى نَصْرُ اللهِ أَلاَ إِنَّ نَصْرَ اللهِ قَرِيبٌ﴾.

H 469 - It is narrated from Fadhl from Ibn Abi Najran from Muhammad bin Sinan from Khalid Aquli from Imam Ja’far Sadiq that he said: “Why are you waiting so eagerly? Why are you so hasty? Are you not in peace and security? Does not one of you who leaves his house for some need return safely? Whereas in the past whenever one of your co-religionist left his house, he was immediately apprehended and his limbs were amputed and he was impaled on a date palm; he was sawn into half without being told what his fault was.” After that he recited the following verse: “Or do you think that you would enter the garden while yet the state of those who have passed away before you has not come upon you; distress and affliction befell them and they were shaken violently, so that the Apostle and those who believed with him said: When will the help of Allah come? Now surely the help of Allah is nigh!” (2:214)

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