Zurarah says that Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s) said: A man from Medina went to the spot where Qabil was punished through divine chastisement. He found Qabil tied in ropes and ten persons were placing him before the Sun and lighting fire around him. They punished him by the heat and during winter, poured cold water over him and when anyone from those ten died, the villagers appointed someone else in his place.
That person asked: O man, what is the matter regarding you? For what are you being punished like this?
Son of Adam said: It seems that either you are the most stupid or the wisest man of the world. You ask something that no one ever asked.
Zurarah says that I asked Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s): Would he receive chastisement in the hereafter as well?
Imam (a.s) replied: Almighty Allah would punish him in the world as well as the hereafter.
Sudair Sairafi says that Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s) said: I am acquainted with a native of Medina, who reached the rest of the people of congregation before rising and setting of the Sun, regarding whom Almighty Allah says:
“And of Musa’s people was a party who guided (people) with the truth, and thereby did they do justice.”
That Medinite had gone to them in order to adjudicate a dispute and he made peace between them. After that he came back and on the return journey did not sit anywhere. He passed by your clear water and drank from it and sounded the chain of your door; then returned to his home without waiting anywhere.
Sudair Sairafi says that Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s) said: I know a person from Medina who before the joining of the levels of the earth reached that group regarding which Almighty Allah says:
He had gone to them to adjudicate a matter among them and he made peace between two warring groups. After that he returned and when he passed by your clear water, he drank from it; and that was the water of Euphrates. Afterwards him Abul Fadhl, passed by you and he knocked at your door and after that went to that man who was covered with sack cloth and tied up in ropes. Ten persons were guarding him, who during the day, used to turn him towards the Sun and in order to punish him more they lighted fire around him. And when someone from the ten died they appointed someone else in his place and never allowed the number of guards to decrease.
Those persons were engrossed in punishing him when a man passed by from there, who asked: O man, what is the matter about you? The one being punished said: If you are perceptive you must be aware about my issue.
It is said that the person being punished was Qabil, son of Adam (a.s), who had slain his brother and by this started the practice of killing. Muhammad bin Muslim says that the person from Medina implies Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s).
(Al-Ikhtisaas, Shaykh Mufeed, Pg. 318,Miracles of Ahlulbayt (a.s.) – Vol. 2. by Ayatullah Sayyid Hashim Bahrani.Amali, Tusi, Vol. 2, Pg. 365)
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