法苑珠林 62.51

62.51

晉夏侯玄。字太初。亦當時才望。為司馬景王所忌而殺之。玄宗族為之設祭。見玄來靈座。脫頭置其傍。悉取果食酒肉以內頸中。既畢還自安。言曰。吾得訴於上帝矣。司馬子元無嗣也。尋而景王薨遂無子。其弟文王封次子為齊。繼景王後。欣薨猶子固嗣立。又被殺。及永嘉之亂。有巫見弟云。家傾覆正由曹爽夏侯玄二人得訴。怨得申故也（出冤魂志）。

Xiahou Xuan of the Jin, whose courtesy name was Taichu, was also a man of talent and renown at that time. King Jing of Sima [Sima Shi] was jealous of him and had him killed. Xuan's kinsmen set out sacrifices for him, and they saw Xuan arrive at the spirit-seat, remove his head and set it beside him, take all the fruit, food, wine, and meat, and place them inside his neck. When finished, he replaced it himself and said, 'I have obtained a hearing before the Lord on High! Sima Ziyuan will have no heir.' Soon thereafter King Jing died, indeed leaving no son. His younger brother King Wen [Sima Zhao] enfeoffed his second son as King of Qi to succeed King Jing. When You died, his nephew Gu succeeded to the throne, but he was also killed. When the turmoil of the Yongjia era came, a spirit-medium saw a younger brother [of the clan] who said, 'The downfall of our house is precisely because the two men, Cao Shuang and Xiahou Xuan, were able to lodge their complaints and their grievances were able to be redressed' (from the Yuanhun zhi).