Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 34005 — Reports on the virtue of Musa

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Musa and Harun (peace be upon them both) set out, along with Shabbar and Shabbir, and they reached a mountain on which there was a couch. Harun (peace be upon him) slept on it, and his soul was taken. Musa (peace be upon him) returned to his people, and his people said: You killed him; you envied us because of his character; or he said: because of his gentleness; or he used some similar word. The doubt is from Sufyan, the narrator. He said: How could I have killed him when his sons were with me? Then he said: Choose whomever you wish. So they chose ten men from each tribe, and this is the meaning of the saying of Allah: "And Musa chose from his people seventy men." When they reached him, they asked him: O Harun! Who killed you? He said: No one killed me; rather, Allah took my soul. They said: O Musa! After today we will not disobey you. Then an earthquake struck them and they perished, and Musa (peace be upon him) began going back and forth to the right and left in distress, and he supplicated: "Had You willed, You could have destroyed them before, and me as well. Will You destroy us for what the foolish among us have done? It is only Your trial" [Al-A'raf: 155]. After that he supplicated, and Allah brought them back to life and made all of them prophets.