The Twenty-Ninth Assembly, the Gathering on Friday, the Eighth of Muharram, 368 AH.

What’s the matter with you? She said: My son, al-Husayn (as) has been killed and I haven’t seen the Messenger of Allah (s) since he died save this night. So, I said: May my father and my mother be sacrificed for you! Why…

I had not heard the wailing of the jinn since the Prophet (sw) was taken until this night and I didn’t see it except due to what has afflicted my son. She said: A jinniyyah (female jinn) from among them came saying: ‘O…

The Prophet (s) was in the house of Umm Salama (ra), when he said to her: Do not let anyone enter. Al-Husayn (as) came and was a small child (then). She could not hold anything against him to the point that he visited…

I heard Ka`b al Ahbar say: It is in our book that a man from the offspring of Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah (s) will be killed and the sweat of the riding animals of his companions shall not dry until they have…

Those who have wept [excessively] are five – Adam, Ya`qub, Yusuf, Fatima bt. Muhammad (s) and `Ali b. al-Husayn (as). As to Adam, he wept over Paradise until his cheeks became like valleys (i.e. curved, sunk in). As to…

He said to me: O Abu `Imarah! Recite [an elegy] about al-Husayn b. `Ali (as). He said: So, I recited it and he wept. Then I recited [again] and he wept. He said: By Allah! I had not ceased to recite it and make him weep…

I was near Abu `Abdillah (as) when he sought water. When he had drunk it, I saw that he had been crying and his eyes had been filled to the brim with his tears. Then he said: O Dawud! May Allah curse the murderer of…

I heard Abu `Abdillah say: Allah has entrusted four thousand angels, dishevelled, covered in dust, to the grave of al-Husayn. They will weep over him till the Day of Resurrection. So, whoever visits him, cognizant of his…

Whoever visits the grave of al-Husayn (as), cognizant of his right, Allah will forgive him his past and future sins.

Instruct our Shi`a with the ziyara of al-Husayn, for surely his ziyara repels destruction and drowning and burning and being preyed upon by the predatory beasts. And his ziyara is made incumbent upon the one who…

I said to Abu `Abdillah (as): Sometimes I miss the Hajj, for I am on [the day of] `Arafa (practice of the pilgrims is that they halt at the `Arafa) near the grave of al-Husayn. He said: Well-done, O Bashir! Any believer…

I was present at Ibn `Umar’s and a man came to him. He asked him about the blood of the mosquito. So, he said: Where are you from? He said: From the people of `Iraq. He said: Look at this; he asks me about the blood of…

I asked al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad (as) about the ring of al-Husayn b. `Ali (as) – to whom did it go? And I mentioned to him that I had heard that it was looted from his finger along with what was looted. He (as) said:…

The Prophet (sw) would halt every daybreak at the door of `Ali and Fatima (sa) and say: All praise is for Allah, the Doer of good, Who makes (things) good, the Bestower of favours, the Conferrer of benefits, Who through…

I said to Abu `Abdillah al-Sadiq (as): A believer sees a dream and it is (i.e. happens, takes place) as he had seen it. And sometimes he sees a dream, but it is nothing (i.e. of no consequence)? So, he said: Surely, when…

When the servants sleep, their spirits exit towards the heaven. So, what the spirit sees in the heaven, is true. And what it sees in the atmosphere, it is far from reality. Now surely the spirits are enlisted soldiers…

I asked the Messenger of Allah (s) about the man who sleeps and then dreams. So sometimes it is true and sometimes it is false. The Messenger of Allah (s) said: O `Ali! There is no servant who sleeps but that he is…

I heard him say: Surely, there is a devil for Iblis known as Haz` (هزع) who fills up what is between the East and the West every night. He comes to them in [their] sleep.

I visited Fadl b. Rabih and he was sitting on the roof. He said: Come to me. I went close that I was right next to him. He said: Look to the side of that house. I looked to where he pointed, then he asked me: What do you…

[The Caliph Harun] al-Rashid called for a man to invalidate the authority of Abi’l Hasan Musa b. Ja`far (as), to refute him and to embarrass him in the gathering. So, he appointed a sorcerer. When the banquet was…

] I have never seen anyone as ascetic and as virtuous as him. He said: I said: Who? How did you see him? He said: One day, eighty of us – men of renown and goodness – gathered to al-Sindi b. Shahik, and we visited Musa…

I asked Zayn al-`Abidin `Ali b. al-Husayn b. `Ali b. Abi Talib (as) about Allah – is He described with a place? So, he said: Allah is exalted from that. I said: Then why did He bring His Prophet, Muhammad (s), to heaven?…