The four were Ishaq al-Ahmar, Abu Abbad al-Basri, al-Hasan ibn al-Mundhir, and Habib al-Attar—may Allah the Exalted curse them.
And from him, from Dawud al-Qummi, raising his chain of transmission to Ahmad ibn Idris, to Muhammad ibn al-Mufaddal—peace be upon him—he said:
Abu al-Hasan Musa—mighty is his might—said, while I had entered upon him: “Which day is this?”
I said: “The day of Nowruz.”
He said: “Indeed, whoever fasts on it, his fasting becomes upright 1 . It is the day in which Allah fashioned [creation] 2 and commanded good deeds. And it is the day on which Moses chose seventy men from his people for the intimate discourse with his Lord. So when the tremor seized them, they died. The first to be revived was Moses, so he said: ‘O Lord, the best of my people—I chose them, yet You caused them to die.’ He said: ‘I will replace them for you.’ He said: ‘O Lord, I have known their scent and their spirits, so grant them to me.’ He said: ‘Sprinkle water upon them.’