Hadith No: 1
Allamah Majlisi - Bihār al-Anwār
Volume: (51) - Page Number: (25)
- He said:
Al-Husayn ibn Hamdan, and one of the trustworthy elders narrated to me from a reliable source among the elders, from Hakimah, the daughter of Muhammad ibn Ali al-Ridha (peace be upon him), who said: She would enter upon Abu Muhammad (peace be upon him) and pray for him that Allah grant him a son. She said: I entered upon him and spoke to him as I usually do and prayed as I usually pray. He said: "O aunt, perhaps the one you are asking Allah to grant me will be born this night," and it was the night of Friday, three nights before the end of Sha'ban in the year 257 AH. "So make your iftar with us." I said: "O my master, from whom will this great child be?" He (peace be upon him) replied: "From Narjis, O aunt." She then said to him, "O my master, there is no one in your household more dear to me than her." I stood up and went to her, and whenever I entered, she would treat me as she always did. I knelt at her feet, kissed them, and prevented her from doing what she used to do. She addressed me with the title of superiority, and I responded to her in kind. She said to me: "May I be sacrificed for you." I replied: "I am yours to sacrifice, and may all the worlds be yours." She denied this, so I said to her: "Do not deny what I have done, for Allah will grant you a son this night, a master in this world and the Hereafter, and he is the awaited relief of the believers." She felt shy, and I observed her, but I saw no sign of pregnancy in her. I said to my master Abu Muhammad (peace be upon him): "I do not see any indication of pregnancy in her." He (peace be upon him) smiled and then said:
"We, the progeny of the Prophets, are not carried in wombs, but in sides, and we do not emerge from mothers' bodies; rather, we emerge from the right thigh of our mothers, for we are the light of Allah, which cannot be touched by impurity."....
Reason for the weakness of the narration:
Al-Husayn ibn Hamdan al-Khusaybi.