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 Sheikh bin qulowiah: peace be upon you
my friends. My name is Jafar bin
Mohamad. I am known as bin Qulowiah. I
was born in Qom in the minor
occultation. I grew up and learnt
Islamic sciences until I became a famous
Islamic scientist. I learnt the
narration science and listened to its
scientists, therefore I became a famous
narrator. I wrote many books which the
most famous one is (Kamel al-Ziarat)
about the wellness of visiting the
prophet (p.b) and Ahlulbayt (p.b). When
I was young, exactly in the age of the
third deputy al-Hosain bin Rouh
al-Nobakty, a dangerous trouble happened
that in the year 317 A.H, the Qaramedah
attacked Mecca in the pilgrimage season
and killed the pilgrims.
And they cut out the black stone from
its place and brought it to their
position in al-Ehsa.
What? You want to know who are the
Qaramedah? And who is their leader? Ok,
I'll tell you.
The Qaramedah is a group which is curved
from the way of Ahlulbayt(p.b). Its
leader is al-Hasan bin Bahram al-Janaby
from Janabah in Iran.
At the beginning, he was selling flour
in his city and he was deviance,
therefore his citizens exiled him. Then
he went to Bahrain, which is placed at
the eastern point of the Arab island. He
started trading until he became a famous
businessman. Then he started calling
people to himself, so little by little,
groups of people started joining to him.
Then, he got a great power and he got
the control of Bahrain. He began
shutting of the way of pilgrims and his
son attacked to Mecca and brought the
black stone from there as I told you.
After this introduction, you want to
know my story and my relationship with
imam al-Mahdi(p.b)? Ok, I'll tell you.
In the year 339 A.H, exactly 22 years
after killing the pilgrims in Mecca, I
aimed to go to pilgrimage, so I gathered
my objects. At first, I moved from Qom
to Baghdad with a caravan. When I
arrived there, an important matter
happened that the Qaramedah accepted to
return the black stone to its place in
Kaaba.
This subject became controversial among
people in everywhere, so my most
important matter became the reaching to
Mecca and to see who will put the black
stone in its place. Do you know why?
Because the person who puts it in its
place, is the imam of the era imam al-Mahdi(p.b),
exactly the same as the prophet and imam
Zein al-Abedin(p.b). Do You want to know
what happened to them? Ok first, I'll
start with the story of the prophet and
his putting the black stone in its
place.
 One year, before the prophet's birth,
Mecca was flooded and Kaba was
destroyed; so Qoraish aimed to destroy
it completely and rebuild it, and they
did. When it was the time of putting the
black stone in its place, they got
quarrel within each other and everyone
wanted to have this honor. They got
disunity for days and it was almost to
be a battle among them. At last, they
agreed to give the judgment to the first
person who enters from the mosque's
door. The God's prophet entered. They
said: This is the truthful, he is
coming, give him the judgment because
there is nobody better than him in
behaviour and judging!
The prophet arrived and the people
greeted him. He stood between them and
they asked him to judge at this trouble.
He looked at the corners of Kaaba, and
then he looked at the sky…After a little
while he said: Bring a cloth for me.
 They brought a cloth. The prophet put
the stone in the cloth by himself and
all of the people there were looking at
him then he told the people: the doyen
of every tribes, catch a corner of this
cloth and lift it. They got surprise
from the judgment. They accepted it and
they did what the prophet ordered them,
then he got up near the place of the
black stone, then got the stone, and put
it in its place; so the prophet finished
the matter.
The story of imam Zain al-Abedin is that
a war happened in his time. The war Abd
Allah bin Zobair who wanted to be the
leader against the Bany Omaiah's army
under the Hajaj bin Yousef al-Thaqafy's
command. Abd Allah bin Zobair was
covered by Kaba and his followers were
fighting the Bany Omaiah's army from
inside the mosque, so Hajaj ordered his
soldiers to throw wild stones to Kaba,
so he destroyed Kaba and killed Abd
Allah bin Zobair inside the God's house.
When the war was finished, Hajaj aimed
to rebuild Kaba and he did. When they
wanted to put the black stone in its
place, Hajaj asked the scientists to do
that. Every Muslem scholars who tried to
put it in its place, he didn’t have the
ability for doing that. After that,
Hajaj
 Gathered his judges and asked them to
put it in its place. They did, but the
stone was shaking and didn’t stand in
its place. Then, Hajaj called the
hermits and asked them to do the same,
but they couldn’t. Then, imam Zain al-Abedin
(p.b) took it from their hands and said:
"In the name of God" and he put it in
its place. People started saying: Allah
is the greatest and there is no God
except Allah.
After my telling you the story of the
prophet and his putting the black stone
and imam Zain al-Abedin(p.b), I continue
telling my story. As I told you, I am
longing for seeing the loader of the
black stone who is imam al-Mahdi(p.b)
himself. However, I got a trouble which
I couldn’t continue my journey to
pilgrimage, because I fell ill in
Baghdad and I lied in the bed, without
having the ability of moving. I was
afraid of dying, so I asked my friend
bin Husham to go to pilgrimage instead
of me and I gave him a letter to imam
al-Mahdi(p.b), asking him about my age
duration and do I die because of this
illness or not? I asked my friend bin
Husham to give the letter to the loader
of the black stone and to get the reply.
So, Come my friends and listen to what
my friend, bin Husham narrate.
 Bin Husham: Peace be upon you my dear
friends. I will narrate what had happen
after my leaving Baghdad.
I went to pilgrimage. When I reached to
Mecca, I saw that people were talking
about the return of the black stone.
When it was the time, I went to the
servants of Kaaba, I gave them a lot of
money to put me in a suitable place to
see the loader of the black stone, and I
chose some of them to push the rush, so
I got that. When it was the time, the
agent of the caliph tried to put it in
its place, but he couldn’t. Another one
tried, but he couldn’t too, and one by
one started trying but they couldn’t. My
eyes were gazing at the black stone and
the person who brings it. At last, a
young brown handsome man took the stone
and put it in its place. People started
shouting and saying: Allah is the
greatest and there is no God except
Allah. The young man got out of that
place, so I got up from seat and started
following and pushing people until some
people thought that I am crazy. They
opened the way for me while I was
walking fast.
 My eyes were gazing at the young man
until he got in a street, so I walk fast
behind him. The young man was walking
slowly but I was walking fast behind him
but I couldn’t arrive him. When we
arrived to a place, which nobody was
there, he stopped, turned around and
looked at me.
Imam al-Mahdi(p.b): Give me the letter
which you brought it.
Bin Husham: I got surprised and told
myself: how did he know that I have the
letter?
So I got the letter out of my packet and
gave it to him. He didn’t see what the
letter contains and said.
Imam al-Mahdi(p.b): Tell the writer of
the letter that don’t be afraid of this
illness. You will die after thirty
years.
Bin Husham: I didn’t believe what I
heard. I started crying because of the
imam's effect. Then he left me and went.
I couldn’t move from my place because of
being shocked. After that, I went back
to Baghdad and told Bin Qolowiah the
story. He cried from that. He got
recovered from his illness. After thirty
years, Bin Qolowiah fell ill, died in
the year 369 A.H, and was buried beside
the shrine of imam al-Kadem and imam al-Jawad
(p.b) in Baghdad and his grave is still
there.
Now, I thank you for listening to me and
don’t forget praying for imam
al-Mahdi(p.b) for his reappearance. |
