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The Birth of abu al-Hassan Musa ibn Ja‘far  عليه السلام — report 7

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7ـ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مِهْرَانَ رَحِمَهُ الله عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ سَيْفِ بْنِ عَمِيرَةَ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الْعَبْدَ الصَّالِحَ يَنْعَى إِلَى رَجُلٍ نَفْسَهُ فَقُلْتُ فِي نَفْسِي وَإِنَّهُ لَيَعْلَمُ مَتَى يَمُوتُ الرَّجُلُ مِنْ شِيعَتِهِ فَالْتَفَتَ إِلَيَّ شِبْهَ الْمُغْضَبِ فَقَالَ يَا إِسْحَاقُ قَدْ كَانَ رُشَيْدٌ الْهَجَرِيُّ يَعْلَمُ عِلْمَ الْمَنَايَا وَالْبَلايَا وَالامَامُ أَوْلَى بِعِلْمِ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا إِسْحَاقُ اصْنَعْ مَا أَنْتَ صَانِعٌ فَإِنَّ عُمُرَكَ قَدْ فَنِيَ وَإِنَّكَ تَمُوتُ إِلَى سَنَتَيْنِ وَإِخْوَتَكَ وَأَهْلَ بَيْتِكَ لا يَلْبَثُونَ بَعْدَكَ إِلا يَسِيراً حَتَّى تَتَفَرَّقَ كَلِمَتُهُمْ وَيَخُونُ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضاً حَتَّى يَشْمَتَ بِهِمْ عَدُوُّهُمْ فَكَانَ هَذَا فِي نَفْسِكَ فَقُلْتُ فَإِنِّي أَسْتَغْفِرُ الله بِمَا عَرَضَ فِي صَدْرِي فَلَمْ يَلْبَثْ إِسْحَاقُ بَعْدَ هَذَا الْمَجْلِسِ إِلا يَسِيراً حَتَّى مَاتَ فَمَا أَتَى عَلَيْهِمْ إِلا قَلِيلٌ حَتَّى قَامَ بَنُو عَمَّارٍ بِأَمْوَالِ النَّاسِ فَأَفْلَسُوا.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

7. Ahmad ibn Mahziyar, may Allah grant him blessings, has narrated from mmmd ibn ali from Sayf ibn ‘Umayra from Ishaq ibn ‘Ammar who has said the following. “Once I heard the pious servant of Allah giving the news of his own death to a man. I thought that he might or might not know when a person from his Shi‘a (followers) would die. He turned to me as if angry and said, “O Ishaq, if Rashid al-Hajri possessed the knowledge of deaths and suffering, the necessity for such knowledge for the Imam is much greater.” Then he said, “O Ishaq, do whatever you may like. Your life is destroyed and you will die within two years. Your brothers and family will very soon after you will scatter in disunity turn as traitors against each other so much so that even their enemies would scold them. Was this in your mind?” I said, “I seek refuge to Allah for what went in my center (heart or chest).” After that meeting Ishaq, did live for very long time.and he died. And very soon after banu (children of) ‘Ammar began to live on loans and they became very poor and destitute.”
Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 120, report 7

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف على المشهور · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/66)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · لم يخرجه · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/120/7. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/120/7. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.

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