WILADAT E HAZRAT MAHDI (ATFS) MUBARAK TO ALL
Narrated to us my father and Muhammad bin Hasan - May Allah be pleased with
them
- they said: Narrated to us Saad bin Abdullah and Abdullah bin Ja’far Himyari,
all of
them
from Abil Hasan Salih bin Abi Hammad and Hasan bin Tareef, all of them from
Bakr
bin
Salih and narrated to us my father and Muhammad bin Musa bin Mutawakkil and
Muhammad
bin Ali Majilaway; and Ahmad bin Ali bin Ibrahim; and Hasan bin Ibrahim bin
Natana;
and Ahmad bin Ziyad Hamadani - May Allah be pleased with them - they said:
Narrated
to us Ali bin Ibrahim from his father Ibrahim bin Hashim from Bakr bin Salih
from
Abdur
Rahman bin Saalim from Abi Baseer from Abi Abdullah (a.s.) that he said:
“My
father (a.s.) said to Jabir Ibn Abdullah Ansari, ‘I have some work with
you.
So, when is it possible for you to give me some time that I may ask you
something?’
Jabir replied, ‘Whenever you wish.’ Thus, when my father (a.s.) met
him
in privacy, he asked him, “O Jabir! Inform me about the Tablet which you
saw
in the hand of my mother, Fatima, the daughter of the Messenger of Allah
(s.a.w.s.)
and what did she tell you as to what was written in it?” Jabir replied, ‘I
hold
Allah as Witness that I went to visit your mother, Fatima (a.s.) during the
lifetime
of the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.s.) to congratulate her for Husain’s
(a.s.)
birth. I saw in her hand a green Tablet, which I thought to be of emerald and
its
writing was as bright as sunlight. I asked her, ‘May my parents be sacrificed
for
you, O daughter of Allah’s Messenger (s.a.w.s.)! What is this Tablet?’ She
(s.a.)
replied, ‘This is the Tablet, which Allah, to whom belong might and
majesty,
has gifted to the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.s.). In it is the name of my
father,
the name of Ali, the name of my two sons and the names of the successors
from
my progeny. In turn, my father gave it to me that I may rejoice through it.’
Jabir
said, ‘Thus, your mother Fatima (a.s.) gave it to me. I read it and copied it.’
My
father (a.s.) asked, ‘O Jabir! Can you show it (the copied manuscript) to me?’
He
replied in the affirmative. My father (a.s.) accompanied Jabir to his house
where
he took out a scroll of parchment and gave it to my father he said, ‘I hold
Allah
as Witness that this is what I saw written in the Tablet: