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2ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ كَتَبَ أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) إِلَى أَبِي الْقَاسِمِ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ الزُّبَيْرِيِّ قَبْلَ مَوْتِ الْمُعْتَزِّ بِنَحْوِ عِشْرِينَ يَوْماً الْزَمْ بَيْتَكَ حَتَّى يَحْدُثَ الْحَادِثُ فَلَمَّا قُتِلَ بُرَيْحَةُ كَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ قَدْ حَدَثَ الْحَادِثُ فَمَا تَأْمُرُنِي فَكَتَبَ لَيْسَ هَذَا الْحَادِثَ هُوَ الْحَادِثُ الاخَرُ فَكَانَ مِنْ أَمْرِ الْمُعْتَزِّ مَا كَانَ وَعَنْهُ قَالَ كَتَبَ إِلَى رَجُلٍ آخَرَ يُقْتَلُ ابْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ دَاوُدَ عَبْدُ الله قَبْلَ قَتْلِهِ بِعَشَرَةِ أَيَّامٍ فَلَمَّا كَانَ فِي الْيَوْمِ الْعَاشِرِ قُتِلَ.
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
2. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Muhammad ibn ’Isma‘il ibn Ibrahim ibn Musa ibn Ja‘far عليه السلام who has said the following. “Once abu Muhammad عليه السلام wrote to abu al-Qasim Ishaq ibn Ja‘far al-Zubayri before the death of al-Mu‘tazz by about twenty days as herein below. ‘Stay home until what is to happen will happen.’ When Burayha was killed he wrote to him, “A happening has happened. What would you command me to do?” He wrote back, “This is not the happening. It is another happening.” Then there was the case of al-Mu‘tazz the way it was.” It is narrated from the same narrator that the Imam عليه السلام wrote to another person. “Muhammad ibn Dawud ibn ‘Abdallah will be killed.” It was ten days before his murder. On the tenth day he was killed.”
Source & scholarly assessments
Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 124, report 2
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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/124/2. 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/1/4/124/2. 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.
