Hadith record

ع َلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ رِئَابٍ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ عَطِيَّةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ بَيْنَا أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ( عليه السلام ) فِي مَلَإٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ إِذْ أَتَاهُ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِنِّي قَدْ أَوْقَبْتُ عَلَى غُلَامٍ فَطَهِّرْنِي فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا هَذَا امْضِ إِلَى مَنْزِلِكَ لَعَلَّ مِرَاراً هَاجَ بِكَ Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Raib, from Maalik Bin Atiyya, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah asws having said: ‘Whilst Amir Al-Momineen asws was among a group of his asws companions, when a man came over and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen asws ! I have gone to a boy, therefore purify me’. So he asws said: ‘O you! Go to your house, perhaps your gall bladder is exciting you’. So when is was the next morning, he returned to him asws and said to him asws , ‘O Amir Al-Momineen asws ! I have gone to a boy, therefore purify me’. So he asws said to him: ‘O you! Go to your house, perhaps your gall bladder is exciting you’. He did it three times after the first. So when it was during the fourth, he asws said to him: ‘O you! Rasool-Allah saww had judged regarding (a case) similar to yours with three judgements, therfore choose which of these you like’. He said, ‘And what are these, O Amir Al-Momineen asws ?’ He asws said: ‘A strike with the sword in your neck, it reaches what it reaches, or throwing you off the mountain with your hands and feet tied up, or burning with the fire’. So he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen asws ! Which of these is the harshest upon me’. He asws said: ‘Burning with the fire’. He said, ‘So I have chosen it, O Amir Al-Momineen asws ! He asws said: ‘Are you prepared to take that, I asws shall call for you’. So he said, ‘Yes’. So he asws said: ‘So he (the sinner) Prayed two cycles, then sat in his Tashahhud , so he said: ‘O Allah azwj ! I had committed from the sins which You azwj Know of, and I feared from that. So I went to the successor asws of Your azwj Rasool saww , and a cousin of Your azwj Prophet saww , so I asked him asws that he asws should purify me. So asws gave me a choice of three types of punishment. O Allah azwj ! So I have chosen the harshest of these. O Allah azwj ! I ask You azwj that You azwj Make that as an expiation of my sin, and that You azwj do not Burn me with Your azwj Fire in my Hereafter!’ Then he stood up and he was crying until he sat in the pit which had been dug out for him by Amir Al-Momineen asws , and he was seeing the fire inflaming around him. So Amir Al-Momineen asws wept and his companions wept altogether. So Amir Al-Momineen asws said to him: ‘Arise, O you, for you have made the Angels of the sky and the Angels of the earth to cry, so Allah azwj has Turned towards you (with Mercy). So arise and do not repeat anything from what you have done’.

Translation: HubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.