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And among them Husain Ibn Mansur Hallaj:

“I came to Imam Hasan Askari (a.s) at Samarrah and congratulated him for the birth of his son, Qaim (a.s).”

“It is an obligatory pledge. Is it permissible for me not to go? The answer came, “If you must perform, then be in the last caravan.” My father traveled with the last caravan and his life was saved. All the people in other caravans ahead of him were killed.

I heard Abu Ja’far (a.s.) saying: “When the man of this matter (al-Qa’im) appears, he will receive (harm) from people like what the Prophet (sw) received, and more.”

tomb of Abul Qasim Husain Ibn Rauh was in Naubakhti area near which is a gate where the house of Ali Ibn Ahmad Naubakhti stood, which led to another gate and towards the bridge of Shawk. May Allah be pleased with him.

After Shaykh Abul Qasim Husain bin Rauh, Abul Hasan Ali bin Muhammad Saymoori succeeded to the post of the deputyship of Imam Mahdi (a.s) and with his death ended the special deputyship of Imam (a.s). Only these four were channels of contact with the Imam of the Time (a.s).

Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī (as) said to me: "O Bishr, what will be the state of Quraysh when the Qāʾim al-Mahdī comes and brings forward five hundred of them and executes them by beheading? Then he brings forward another five hundred and executes them by beheading. Then he brings forward another five hundred and executes them by beheading." Bishr said: "I said to him: 'May Allah set you right, will their number really reach that amount?' Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī (as) replied: 'Their master (leader) is among them.'" Bishr ibn Ghālib's brother, Bashīr ibn Ghālib, said: "I bear witness that al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī counted six sets for my brother — or he said six exact numbers (the narrations differ on this phrase)."

Abu Nasr said to me that Abul Qasim Husain Ibn Rauh died in Shaban of the year three hundred and twenty six. I have narrated an inordinate number of traditions from him.

Shaykh Husain Ibn Rauh sent the book of Kitabul Tadib to Qom and wrote to a group of jurists about it and asked them to examine the book and see whether there was anything disagreeable in it. They wrote to him, “All of it is correct and there is nothing in it to be differed with, except the assertion with respect to the amount of fitra to be half of a saa (a cubic measure) of food and food before us is the like of barley from every one saa.”

Muhammad bin Ziyad Saymoori wrote in a letter to the Master of the Age (a.s) for a shroud as a blessing. Reply came: You will need it in year eighty-one. Muhammad bin Ziyad passed away in the year the Imam had mentioned and the shroud was delivered to him a month before that.

H 355 - Abu Husain Ibn Thammam says: Abdullah Kufi, the servant of Shaykh Husain Ibn Rauh said: The Shaykh was asked about the books of Ibn Abi Azaqir after he was denounced and the Imam had cursed him. He was asked, “How are we going to act according to his books? Our houses are full of them.” He said: “I will tell you the same thing, which Abu Muhammad Hasan Ibn Ali (a.s) said when he was asked about the books of Aale Fadhdhal. They asked, ‘How should we act on their books? Our houses are full of them.’ The Imam said: Take what they have narrated and discard what they have opined.”

Muhammad Ibn Ali ­Shalmaghani Azaqari challenged Shaykh Husain Ibn Rauh to a Mubahila (imprecation contest), saying, “I am the companion of the Imam and have been ordered to manifest my knowledge, which I have manifested expressly and implicitly; so come to my Mubahila.” The Shaykh replied, “Whoever of us dies first, is the one who bears the anathema.” Azaqari died first, as he was killed, crucified and Ibn Abi Aun was taken with him. This was in the year three hundred and thirteen.

“One who fixes (predicts) the time of the reappearance, has lied. Neither have we fixed a time for it in the past nor would we do so in future.”

“Is the world left without an imam?” He replied: “No, it is not.”

I heard Abu Ibrahim, Imam Kadhim (a.s) say: So and so [Bani Abbas] would arrest and imprison me. Then he said: Although this matter would be much prolonged, but it would end in a nice way.

Give me sometime. I gave him sometimes and after that I visited him again. He showed me a tradition from Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s) that the Imam had said: Whenever Allah, the Mighty and the High decides a matter, it is transferred to the Messenger of Allah (s) and after him it is transferred to Amirul Momineen (a.s) and after him to every Imam one after another till it reaches upto the Master of the age (a.s) and after that it is revealed to the world. And when angels want to take an issue to the presence of Almighty Allah; first they entrust it to the Master of the Age (a.s) and then it is presented to each in succession till it reaches the Messenger of Allah (s) who presents it to Almighty Allah. On the basis of this all that is issued from Almighty Allah is issued through the Holy Imams (a.s) and all the deeds that go upto Almighty Allah go up through the Holy Imams (a.s) and the Messenger of Allah (s) and his Ahle Bayt (a.s) are not at all even for the blink of an eye needless of Allah, the Mighty and the High. [On the contrary, they are mediums of divine grace for the people by the permission of Allah].

H 304 - As for Muhammad bin Sinan: Ali bin Husain bin Dawood says: I heard from Abu Ja’far, the second, Imam Jawad (a.s) that he mentioned Muhammad bin Sinan in a positive way, saying: “Because of the fact that I am pleased with him, Almighty Allah is (also) pleased with him. He did not at all oppose me or my father.” [He was always in the service of Ahle Bayt (a.s)]

“When your faithful brother has a right over another man, and he denies this right, and your brother does not have witnesses against him, but one person and he is a reliable witness, you turn to the witness and ask him about his testimonial. When he testifies to you, you testify along with him to the judge according to his testimony, so the right of a Muslim man is not trespassed.” The word is from Ibn Babawayh. He said: “This is a lie he has made and we don’t know of any such narration.” In another occasion he says, “He has lied.”

I was present in Baghdad in the companionship of scholars of narration, may Allah bless them. Shaykh Abul Hasan Ali Ibn Muhammad Saymoori, may Allah sanctify his soul, said without being questioned with this respect, “May Allah have mercy on Ali Ibn Husain Ibn Babawayh Qummi.” The scholars noted the date of that day. Later, the news came that Ibn Babawayh had passed away on that very day. Abul Hasan Saymoori died after that in the mid-Shaban of the year three hundred and twenty nine.

I heard Ruh Ibn Abul Qasim Ibn Ruh say: When Muhammad Ibn Ali Shalmaghani prepared the book of Kitabul Taklif, Shaykh Abul Qasim said: “Bring it, so that I may see it.” They brought him the book and he read it from beginning to end. He said: “There is nothing therein, but he has narrated from the Imams in two or three instances, in the narration of which he has lied about them. May Allah curse him.”