Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq · Refutation of the Claim of the Nawusiyyah and the Waqifah Concerning the Occultation
ما حدثني به محمد بن إبراهيم بن إسحاق - رضي الله عنه - قال: حدثنا أحمد بن - محمد بن عمار، قال: حدثني الحسن بن محمد القطعي، عن الحسن بن علي النخاس العدل عن الحسن بن عبد الواحد الخزاز، عن علي بن جعفر، عن عمر بن واقد قال: أرسل إلي بن شاهك في بعض الليل وأنا ببغداد فاستحضرني فخشيت أن يكون ذلك لسوء يريده بي، فأوصيت عيالي بما احتجت إليه وقلت: إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون، ثم ركبت إليه، فما رآني مقبلا قال: يا أبا حفص لعلنا أرعبناك وأفزعناك، قلت: نعم قال: فليس ههنا إلا خير، قلت: فرسول تبعثه إلى منزلي يخبرهم خبري؟ فقال: نعم ثم قال: يا أبا حفص أتدري لم أرسلت إليك؟ فقلت: لا فقال: أتعرف موسى بن جعفر؟ فقلت: إي والله إني لأعرفه وبيني وبينه صداقة منذ دهر، فقال: من ههنا ببغداد يعرفه ممن يقبل قوله؟ فسميت له أقواما ووقع في نفسي أنه عليه السلام قد مات، قال: فبعث إليهم وجاء بهم كما جاء بي، فقال: هل تعرفون قوما يعرفون موسى بن جعفر؟ فسموا له قوما، فجاء بهم، فأصبحنا ونحن في الدار نيف وخمسون رجلا ممن يعرف موسى وقد صحبه، <br> قال: ثم قام ودخل وصلينا، فخرج كاتبه ومعه طومار فكتب أسماءنا ومنازلنا وأعمالنا وخلانا، ثم دخل إلى ، قال: فخرج فضرب يده إلي فقال: قم يا أبا حفص، فنهضت ونهض أصحابنا ودخلنا وقال لي: يا أبا حفص اكشف الثوب عن وجه موسى بن جعفر، فكشفته فرأيته ميتا فبكيت و استرجعت، ثم قال للقوم: انظروا إليه، فدنا واحد بعد واحد فنظروا إليه ثم قال: تشهدون كلكم أن هذا موسى بن جعفر بن محمد؟ قالوا: نعم نشهد أنه موسى بن - جعفر بن محمد، ثم قال: يا غلام اطرح على عورته منديلا واكشفه، قال: ففعل، فقال: أترون به أثرا تنكرونه؟ فقلنا: لا ما نرى به شيئا ولا نراه إلا ميتا، قال: لا تبرحوا حتى تغسلوه وأكفنه وأدفنه، قال: فلم نبرح حتى غسل وكفن وحمل فصلى عليه بن شاهك، ودفناه ورجعنا، فكان عمر بن - واقد يقول: ما أحد هو أعلم بموسى بن جعفر عليهما السلام مني، كيف تقولون: إنه حي وأنا دفنته.
One of them is narrated from Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Ishaq from Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Ammar from Hasan bin Muhammad Qatii from Hasan bin Ali Nakhkhas Adl from Hasan bin Abdul Wahid Khazzaz from Ali bin Ja’far from Umar bin Waqid that he said: “One night, Sandi bin Shahik called me. I was staying in Baghdad at that time. I feared that he would hurt me. Hence I willed to my relatives and recited: Indeed we belong to Allah and to Him we shall return. Then I started towards him. When he saw me coming towards him, he said: O Abu Hafs! May be I have scared you. I nodded in agreement. He said: O Abu Hafs! Do you know why I called you? I replied in negative. He said: Do you know Musa bin Ja’far? I replied: Yes, by Allah. I have been friends with him for a long time. He said: Do you know any trustworthy people in Baghdad who know him? I told him the names of a few groups of such people and I remembered that the Imam has already passed away. Then he summoned those like me and asked them: Do you know anyone who knows Musa bin Ja’far? Those people named a group of such people who were summoned by him. This process continued till morning and more than fifty persons had gathered in his house. <br> Then Sandi got up and went inside. We offered Salaat by that time. His accountant returned with a long scroll in his hands and noted down our names, addresses and profession on it. Then Sandi came out, pointed his finger at me and said: O Aba Hafs! Get up. I got up from my seat along with my companions and we entered (the prison). He told me: O Aba Hafs! Take the cloth off the (holy) face of Musa ibn Ja’far. I took the cloth off only to find that he had attained martyrdom. I cried and said: Indeed we belong to Allah and to Him we shall return. He told the group of those people: Have a look at him. People came forward one by one to look at him. He ordered each one of us to bear witness that he was Musa bin Ja’far bin Muhammad. All of us said: Yes, we bear witness that he is Musa bin Ja’far bin Muhammad. Then he ordered one of his slaves to take off the Imam’s clothes and cover his private parts. The slave did so. Then he asked us: Do you find any wound on his body? We said: No, we don’t find any wound and he has died of a natural death. He said: You all shall not leave this place till you perform his ghusl and I bury him after shrouding him. We waited there till his ghusl was performed and his funeral procession started. Then Sandi bin Shahik offered his funeral prayer and we buried him and returned to our houses. There is no one who knows about Musa bin Ja’far more than me. How can you people say that he is alive when I have already buried him?
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