Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq · The Twenty-First Assembly, the Assembly of Friday, the Last of the Month of Ramadan, 367 AH.
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8 - حدثنا أبي (رحمه الله)، قال: حدثني علي بن إبراهيم بن هاشم، عن أبيه، عن محمد بن أبي عمير، عن هشام بن سالم، عن الصادق جعفر بن محمد (عليهما السلام)، قال: إن داود (عليه السلام) خرج ذات يوم يقرأ الزبور، وكان إذا قرأ الزبور لا يبقى جبل ولا حجر ولا طائر ولا سبع إلا جاوبه، فما زال يمر حتى انتهى إلى جبل، فإذا على ذلك الجبل نبي عابد، يقال له: حزقيل، فلما سمع دوي الجبال وأصوات السباع والطير، علم أنه داود (عليه السلام)، فقال داود: يا حزقيل، أتأذن لي فأصعد إليك. قال: لا. فبكى داود (عليه السلام)، فأوحى الله جل جلاله إليه: يا حزقيل: لا تعير داود، وسلني العافية، فقام حزقيل، فأخذ بيد داود فرفعه إليه، فقال داود: يا حزقيل: هل هممت بخطيئة قط؟ قال: لا. قال: فهل دخلك العجب مما أنت فيه من عبادة الله عزوجل؟ قال: لا. قال: فهل ركنت إلى الدنيا فأحببت أن تأخذ من شهوتها ولذتها؟ قال: بلى، ربما عرض بقلبي. قال: فماذا تصنع إذا كان ذلك؟ قال: ادخل هذا الشعب فأعتبر بما فيه. قال: فدخل داود (عليه السلام) ذلك الشعب، فإذا سرير من حديد، عليه جمجمة بالية وعظام فانية، وإذا لوح من حديد فيه كتابة، فقرأها داود (عليه السلام) فإذا هي: أنا أروى شلم (3)، ملكت ألف سنة، وبنيت ألف مدينة، وافتضضت ألف بكر، فكان آخر أمري أن صار التراب فراشي، والحجارة وسادتي، والديدان والحيات جيراني، فمن رآني فلا يغتر بالدنيا (1).
My father (rh) narrated to us. He said: `Ali b. Ibrahim b. Hashim narrated to me from his father from Muhammad b. Abi `Umayr from Hisham b. Salim from al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad (as). He said: One day, Dawud (as) went to recite the Psalms. Whenever he would recite the Psalms, there would not remain a mountain, a stone, a bird, nor a creature except that it would repeat after him. So, he did not stop walking until he reached a mountain. Upon that mountain was a cloistered prophet called Hizqil. When he heard the sound of the mountains and the voices of the creatures and the birds, he knew that it was Dawud (as). So, Dawud said: O Hizqil! Do you permit me to climb up to you? He said: No. So, Dawud (as) wept. So, Allah revealed to him: "O Hizqil! Do not humiliate Dawud and ask Me for My forgiveness." So, Hizqil stood, took the hand of Dawud, and helped him up to him. So, Dawud said: O Hizqil! Have you ever been tempted to sin? He said: No. He said: Have you ever been alarmed by your state of worshiping Allah? He said: No. He said: Have you went into this world and wanted to take from its lustful and pleasurable things? He said: Of course -- perhaps it came to my heart. He said: What do you do when that happens? He said: I go to this cave and I contemplate over it. He said: So, Dawud (as) went to that cave and came across an iron bed with a decomposed skull and withering bones atop it. He came across an iron tablet with writing on it. Dawud (as) read it and it said: "I am Arwa Shalam. I ruled for one thousand years, I built one thousand cities, and I had sex with one thousand virgins. Yet, in the end, dust became my bed, rocks became my masters, and worms and snakes became my neighbours. To whoever sees me: do not be deceived by this world."
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