 Al-Khidr, alaihi salam You might know his name All Muslims know about the al-Khidr alaihi salam. He is famous for his incident with Musa, Kaleemullah, peace be upon him Al-Khidr alaihi salam Has history here in this mosque Al-Khidr alaihi salam In this mosque here He met the commander of the faithful Peace be upon him Al-Khidr It is narrated by sheikh al-Sadoq In his well-renowned book, Adel al-Shara'a In the chapter where sheikh al-Sadoq Speaks about the names and the meanings behind prophets As well as in sheikh al-Sadoq's Ma'an al-Akhbar through different chains of transmission And I think that al-Sadoq agrees with this khabar, this report Sheikh al-Sadoq narrates this hadith from Imam al-Baqir alaihi salam Saying that al-Khidr was a prophet of the prophets of Allah And that he had a message, a da'wah To the Tawheed, to the oneness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And that his name khidr, the koniye, the nickname given to him Was because when al-Khidr used to stand on something that was dry Earth or dry wood, he would give it life It would come back in life and turn green When he walks on dry, yellow grass, he would turn it green As well, there is another report by Imam al-Sadoq alaihi salam That his companion asked him about al-Khidr and al-Qarnayn Are they prophets? What are they? He said, no, we are like the companion of Musa alaihi salam And like the companion of al-Qarnayn, for example That is the nasim of Imam al-Sadoq alaihi salam I'll read you the tradition, exactly The hadith goes Al-Harith ibn al-Mughira asked him He said, so you say he was a prophet? He said, no, he moved his hand like this Then he said, like the companion of Sulaiman Or Moses al-Qarnayn, alaihi salam Basically here we have two reports These two reports, of course they're clashing One says that al-Khidr was a pious, honorable, worshipper of Allah The other says, no, he was a prophet And he had a message and he's still living amongst us today Either or, I narrated to you both reports And there is a difference between the alama And it seems that sheikh al-Sadoq agreed with the khabar That he narrated about Imam al-Baqir, salamullahi alaihi Now I stated that al-Khidr alaihi salam has a story here in this mosque What is his story? It is narrated in the Menaqib of al-Abi Talib by Ibn Shahr Ashub He narrates this incident of al-Khidr alaihi salam He narrates that al-Khidr here in this beautiful mosque Al-Khidr came He was wearing a green jubba He was wearing an imama and he had the cloth wrapped around him Amir al-Mu'mineen used to pray somewhere in this area close to where his muhrab is By the fifth and seventh pillar, as the narrations tell us Amir al-Mu'mineen, the commander of the faithful, was praying While he was praying, he finished praying and this man came up to him as the narration states This man came up to him and when al-Khidr saw this man, he stood by him He stood by Amir al-Mu'mineen, peace be upon him And he awaited until imama alaihi salam finished his prayer When imama alaihi finished his prayer, the hadith says That he went down on his knees and he kissed the forehead of imama alaihi salam, peace be upon him Al-Khidr interacted with Amir al-Mu'mineen in this matter This beautiful matter here in this mosque right here In these holy grounds, Al-Khidr interacted with Amir al-Mu'mineen, peace be upon him Then imama alaihi salam took al-Khidr, exited the masjid His companions followed and he told them Oh my companions, do you not know who that was? They said, we do not know how commander of the faithful He told them that was my brother al-Khidr He came to greet me He came to greet me and I took him outside and greeted him as well and sent him on his way You see, my dear brothers and sisters, this mosque has so much history Al-Khidr and the way he interacted with Amir al-Mu'mineen is very beautiful It shows you how much love al-Khidr had for the commander of the faithful For him to interact him in this way Because al-Khidr has a ma'rifah He has a cognitive understanding of who imama alaihi is and who his maqam was Unfortunately, unlike the people of Iraq, unlike the Muslim in general They did not give imama alaihi salam his due right Instead, they oppressed him and they oppressed his family And until today, his followers, his shia are oppressed This here, in this mosque, we have al-Khidr meeting imama alaihi salam There is more in this mosque This mosque has the maqam of Ibrahim, of Noah, of Imam al-Sajjad, of Imam Zain al-Abideen This mosque has the place where in the water gushed, like I said before This mosque had the place of Bait al-Tasht This mosque has the place of where imama alaihi is justice came true Here, in this mosque, everything happened here, so much history Now insha'Allah, we finish narrating this story We will move on, insha'Allah, and narrate to you another story Another interesting historical piece of this mosque Amir al-Mu'mineen, alaihi salam toddam No They talked for a while The snake, in one hadith, it says that the snake, the ground swallowed it up In another narration, the snake left through the same door