سورة يس

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): By Allah, the believer of the family of Pharaoh had congenitally paralysed fingers. He would do like this and stretch out his hands and say: يا قَوْمِ اتَّبِعُوا الْمُرْسَلِینَ [O my people, follow the messengers].

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): Sadir said: I said to Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): "Does Allah test the believer and afflict him with trials?" The Imam (peace be upon him) said: "And is anyone tested and afflicted with trials other than the believer? So much so that the man of Ya-Sin, who said: 'ای کاش قوم من می‌دانستند [Would that my people knew] (Ya-Sin/26), was mukanna'." I said: "What is mukanna'?" He said: "He had been afflicted with leprosy."

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): Najiya said: I said to Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): "Mughira says: Indeed the believer is not afflicted with leprosy, nor with vitiligo, nor with such and such." The Imam (peace be upon him) said: "It is as though he is heedless of the man of Ya-Sin, who was crippled." Then the Imam (peace be upon him) curled his fingers back and said: "It is as if I am now looking at his crippled hand, when he came to his people and warned them, then returned to them the next day and they killed him."

Ibn Abbas: وَ جاءَ مِنْ أَقْصَا الْمَدِینَةِ رَجُلٌ یَسْعی [And from the remote part of the city there came a man running] — and according to Ibn Abbas and a group of exegetes, his name was Habib al-Najjar.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): The truthful ones (siddiqin) are three: Habib the Carpenter, the believer of the family of Yasin, who said: يا قَوْمِ اتَّبِعُوا الْمُرْسَلِينَ [O my people! Follow the messengers,] follow those who do not ask you for any reward, and they are the guided ones; Hizqil, the believer of the family of Pharaoh, [who said:] Do you want to kill a man because he says: My Lord is 'Allah' (Ghafir/28); and Ali ibn Abi Talib (peace be upon him), and he is the most excellent of them all.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): Three were those who did not deny the revelation even for the blink of an eye: the believer of the family of Yasin, Ali ibn Abi Talib (peace be upon him), and Asiya the wife of Pharaoh.

Imam al-Askari (peace be upon him): Our pure Shia are Hizbil the believer, who is the believer of the family of Pharaoh, and the companion of Yasin about whom Allah the Exalted says: وَ جاءَ مِنْ أَقْصَا الْمَدِینَةِ رَجُلٌ یَسْعی [And from the remote part of the city there came a man running]; and likewise Salman (may Allah have mercy on him), Abu Dharr (may Allah have mercy on him), Miqdad (may Allah have mercy on him) and Ammar (may Allah have mercy on him) are among our Shia.

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): "O son of Jundab! Our Shia are known only by certain qualities and traits: generosity, giving to the brethren, performing the fifty rak'ats of prayer in the day and night; our Shia do not howl like a dog, nor are they greedy like a crow, nor do they live as neighbours to our enemies, nor do they ever stretch out the hand of need towards them, even if they should die of hunger; our Shia do not eat eel, do not wipe over their shoes [in wudu], are constant in performing the noon prayer [at its time], and do not drink intoxicating drinks." I asked: "May I be your ransom, where shall I seek them [with these qualities]?" He said: "On the peaks of the mountains and the outskirts of the towns; when you enter a town, ask about those between whom and the people there is no mingling — that is the believer, just as Allah has said: وَ جاءَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَقْصَی الْمَدِینَةِ یَسْعی [And a man came running from the remote part of the city]. By Allah, [that man] was Habib the Carpenter alone, no one else."