The Source of Traditions on Imam al-Riḍā (Vol 2) · Hadith 337 (#Ḥadīth #337)

337 - وَبِهذَا الإسناد عَنْ عَلِىِّ بْنِ أَبِي طالِب عَلَيْهِالسَّلامُ قالَ كُنْت جالِساً عِنْدَ الكَعْبَة وَإِذا شَيْخٌ محدودب قَدْ سَقَطَ حاجباه عَلَى عَيْنَيْهِ من شدة الكبر وَفِي يَدِهِ عكازة وَعَلَى رَأسِهِ برنس أحمر وَعَلَيْهِ مدرعة من الشِّعْرَ فدناً إِلى النَّبِي صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَهُوَمسند ظَهَره إِلى الكَعْبَة فَقالَرَسُولَ اللَّهِ اُدْعُ لي بالمغفرة فَقالَ النَّبِي صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ: خاب سعيك يا شَيْخٌ وَضل عَمَلِكَ فَلَمَّا تولى الشَّيْخُ قالابَا الحَسَن أتعرفه قُلْتُ اَللَّهُمَّ لا قالَ ذلِكَ اللعين إبلـيس. قالَ عَلِيٌّ a.sُ: فعدوت خلفه حَتّى لحقته وَصرعـته إِلى الأَرْضوَجَلَسَتْ عَلَى صَدْرِه وَوضعت يَدِيَ فِي حلقه لأخنقه لي لا تَفْعَلَ يا أَبَا الحَسَن فَإِنِّي من المنظرين إِلى يَوْمَ الوَقْت المَعْلُوم وَوَاللَّه يا عَلِيِّ إِنّي لأحبك جدا وَما أبغضك أحد إِلاّ شركت أَباهُ فِي اُمُّهُ فَصارَ وُلْدِ الزناء فضحكت وَخَلَّيْتُ سَبِيلِهِ.

31-337 According to the same documentation, Ali ibn Abi Talib said, “I was sitting near the Kaaba (the House of God) when a bent-over old man - so old that his eyebrows covered up his eyes - with a cane in his hand and wearing a red hat and woolen clothes approached the Prophet (S). The Prophet (S) was standing with his back towards the Kaaba. The old man said, ‘O Prophet of God! Please pray for me to be forgiven.’ The Prophet said, ‘O old man! Your efforts are useless. Your deeds are corrupt.’ Then when the old man turned around God’s Prophet (S) asked me, ‘O Abal Hassan (Imam Ali)! Did you recognize him?’ Ali said, ‘By God! I did not.’ The Prophet (S) said, ‘It was the damned Satan.’ Ali added, “I ran after him quickly and reached him. I captured him,threw him on the ground and sat on his chest. I put my hands on his throat to choke him.’ The old man said, “O Ali! Do not do that since I have been given an opportunity until an appointed time. By God! I like you. No one despises you unless I (a.s.atan) was a partner with his father in making his mother pregnant with him and he was born out of adultery.’ Ali added, “Then I laughed and let him go.”

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