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51. From him, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al-Hakam, from Hassaan, from Abu Ali who said: ‘I heard Abu Abdullah (asws) saying: ‘Do not mention our (asws) secrets opposite to what we (asws) say publicly, and do not publicise us (asws) opposite to our (asws) secrets. It suffices for you all that you should say what we (asws) say, and remain silent about what we have observed silence on. You have seen that Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic have never Kept any good for anyone from the people in opposition to us (asws). Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic Says: “[24:63] therefore let those beware who go against his order lest a trial afflict them or there befalls upon them a painful chastisement.”
52. Muhammad, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al-Hakam, from Ziyad Bin Al-Hallaah, the following: Abu Abdullah (asws) having said: ‘(Prophet) Musa (as) said: ‘O Lord (azwj)! Where does illness come from?’ He (azwj) Said: “From Me (azwj)”. He (as) said: ‘And the cure?’ He (azwj) Said: “From Me (azwj)”. He (asws) said: ‘So what do Your (azwj) servants do with the healer?’ He (azwj) Said: “They soothe themselves by him”. These days the healer is called the Doctor’.
53. From him, from Ahmad, from Ibn Fazzaal, from Ibn Bukeyr, from Abu Ayyub, who has said: Abu Abdullah (asws) said: ‘There is none from the illnesses, but it waits, prior to rushing to the body (infecting), until after getting orders to act upon it’. And in another report: ‘Except for the fever, for it starts working as it comes’.
54. From him, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Abdul Aziz Bin Al-Muhtady, from Yunus Bin Abdul Rahmaan, from Dawood Bin Zurby who said: ‘I fell ill in Al-Medina with intense illness, and that (news) reached Abu Abdullah (asws). So he (asws) wrote to me: ‘It has reached me (asws) (news of) your illness. Buy one Sa’a of wheat, then lie down on your back and scatter it upon your chest a scattering and say, ‘Our Allah (azwj)! I hereby ask You (azwj) by Your (azwj) Name which the restless (Al-Muztar i.e. Al-Qaim (asws)) asks You (azwj) to Remove the adversities, and Enable him (asws) in the earth and Make him (asws) as Your (azwj) Caliph upon Your (azwj) creatures, and send greetings upon Muhammad (saww) and upon the People (asws) of his (saww) Household, and Cure me from my illness’. Then sit straight and gather the wheat which is around you and say the like of that (again) and distribute one Mudd by one Mudd to each of the poor and say the like of that (again)’. Dawood said, ‘I did the like of that and I was as if I had been disentangled from a knot, and more than one person did that, so they all benefitted by it’.
55. Muhammad, from Ahmad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Jameel Bin Saleh, from Abaan Bin Taghlud has narrated the following: Abu Abdullah (asws) said, ‘I asked him (asws) about the earth, which thing does it rest upon? He (asws) said: ‘It is upon the whale’. I said, ‘So the whale, which thing does it rest upon?’ He (asws) said: ‘Upon the water’. I said, ‘So the water, upon which thing does is rest upon?’ He (asws) said: ‘Upon a rock’. I said, ‘So upon which thing does the rock rest upon?’ He (asws) said: ‘Upon the horns of a bull’ I said, ‘So upon which thing does the bull rest upon?’ He (asws) said: ‘Upon the mist’. I said, ‘So upon which thing does the mist rest upon?’ He (asws) said: ‘This is how far knowledge of scholars is permitted (to reveal) and beyond this is straying’.
56. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Jameel Bin Darraaj, from Zarara has narrated the following: One of them (asws) (Fifth or Sixth Imam (asws)) having said: ‘Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic Created the earth, then Sent to it the salty water for forty mornings, and the sweet water for forty mornings until they met and got mixed. Then He (azwj) Took by His (azwj) Hand a handful and Stirred it intensely together, then Separated it into two separations. So from each one of these two came out particles like the particles of powder. So He (azwj) Took a (group of) particles to the Paradise, and a (group of) particles to the Fire’.
57. One of our companions, from Ali Bin Al-Abbas, from Al-Hassan Bin Abdul Rahman, who has narrated: Abu Al-Hassan (asws) said: ‘The dreams did not exist in the past in the beginning of the creation, but rather they occurred later on’. I said, ‘And what is the reason with regards to that?’ He (asws) said: ‘Allah (azwj) Sent a Rasool (as) to the people of his (as) era. So he (as) called them to the worship of Allah (azwj) and to His (azwj) obedience’. They said, ‘If we were to do that, so what is in it for us, for by Allah (azwj), you (as) are no more wealthier than we are, nor is your (as) family stronger than ours’. He (as) said: ‘If you were all to obey me (as), Allah (azwj) will Make you to enter the Paradise, and if you were to disobey me (as), Allah (azwj) will Make you to enter the Fire’. So they said, ‘And what is the Paradise and the Fire?’ So he (as) described that for them. So they said, ‘When do we go to that?’ So he (as) said: ‘When you die’. So they said, ‘But we have seen our dead becoming bones and dust’. So they increased in their denial and contempt of it’. So Allah (azwj) Enabled them to experience dreams. So these came to them, and they got informed by what they saw, and what they had denied from that. So he (as) said: ‘Allah (azwj) Intended to Argue against you by this. This is how your spirits are. When you all die, and your bodies decay, your spirits will go toward Punishment until such time that the bodies are resurrected’.
58. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hashaam Bin Saalim, who has narrated: ‘I heard Abu Abdullah (asws) saying: ‘The opinion and the dream of a ‘Momin’ (Believer), and what he sees in the later portion of the time is a seventieth part of the parts of the Prophet-hood’.
59. Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muammar Bin Khallaad, who has narrated the following: Al-Ridha (asws) has said that the Rasool (saww) of Allah (azwj) used to say to his (saww) companions in the morning: ‘Is there anything from the good news?’, meaning by it, the dreams’.
60. From him, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Fazzaal, from Abu Jameela, from Jabir, who has narrated the following: Abu Ja’far (asws) has reported that a man asked the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) about the Statement of Allah (azwj): “[10:64] They shall have good news in this world’s life”, he (saww) said: ‘This is the good dream which the Believer sees, so he receives good news by it in this world’.
61. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Sa’d Bin Abu Khalaf, who has narrated the following: Abu Abdullah (asws) has said that the dreams are of three aspects - Good News from Allah (azwj) for the Believer, and a caution against the Satan (la), and confused dreams’.
62. A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from his father, from Al-Nazar Bin Suweyd, from Dorost Bin Abu Mansour, from Abu Baseer who said: ‘I said to Abu Abdullah (asws), ‘May I be sacrificed for you (asws), the true and the false dreams both come from one place’ He (asws) said: ‘You have spoken the truth, but the false dreams are different for the man sees is in the first (part) of the night during the domination of the sinful rebels, and it is an imaginary thing to the man, and it is false and contradictory. There is nothing good in it. And as for the true (dream) it is if he saw it after the (passing) of the two thirds of the night with the advent of the Angels, and that is before the dawn. So this is the true (dream), it will not be contradicted, Allah (azwj) Willing, except if he was in a state of being in requirement of Major ablution (Junuub), or he has slept without being clean, and he did not Mention Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic with true Remembrance, for then it would vary and be delayed to its dreamer’.
63. Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Al-Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Ali Bin Ra’ab and Hashaam Bin Saalim, from Abu Baseer who said: ‘I asked Abu Ja’far (asws) about the four types of winds – the North, the South, Al-Saba and Al-Dabour, and I said that the people are mentioning that the North (wind) is from the Paradise, and the South (wind) is from the Fire’. So he (asws) said: ‘Allah (azwj) has armies of winds by which He (azwj) Punishes whomsoever that He (azwj) so Wishes to from the ones who disobey Him (azwj), and from every wind from these is an Angel allocated to it. So if Allah (azwj) Intends to Punish a people by some kind of torment, He (azwj) Reveals to the Angel in charge of that particular type of the winds by which He (azwj) Intends to Punish them by. So the Angel orders it and it get excited like a lion gets excited when bothered’. He (asws) said: ‘And for every wind from these is a name. Have you not heard the Words of the High (azwj): “[54:19] For We sent against them a furious wind (Sarsara), on a Day of violent Disaster”, and Said: “[51:41] When We sent upon them the destructive wind (Al-Aqeem)”, and Said: “[46:24] a blast of wind in which is a painful punishment,”, and Said: “[2:266] that it should be caught in a whirlwind, with fire therein, and be burnt up”. And (others) from winds which have not been Mentioned by which Allah (azwj) Punishes the ones who disobey Him (azwj)’. He (asws) said: ‘And Allah (azwj) Mighty is His (azwj) mention has winds of Mercy which occur, and others besides that which He (azwj) Displays His (azwj) Mercy. From these is that which incites clouds for the rain, and from these is a wind which holds up the clouds in between the sky and the earth, and the winds which squeeze the clouds so they make rain by the Permission of Allah (azwj), and from these are winds which Allah (azwj) has Counted in His (azwj) Book. As for the four winds – the North, and the South, and Al-Saba, and Al-Dabour, so these are the names of the Angels who have been allocated to these. So if Allah (azwj) Intends the North wind to blow, He (azwj) Commands the Angel whose name is the North (Al-Shimaal), so he descends upon the Sacred House (Al-Bayt Al-Haram), stands upon the Al-Shamy corner of it and flaps his wings. So the North wind disperses in the land and the sea wherever Allah (azwj) Desires it to. And if Allah (azwj) Intends to Send the South winds, He (azwj) Commands the Angel whose name is the South (Al-Junoub), so he descends upon the Sacred House (Al-Bayt Al-Haram), stands upon the Al-Shamy corner of it and flaps his wings. So the South wind disperses in the land and the sea wherever Allah (azwj) Desires it to. And if Allah (azwj) Intends to Send Al-Saba wind, He (azwj) Commands the Angel whose name is Al-Saba, so he descends upon the Sacred House, stands upon the Al-Shamy corner of it and flaps his wings. So the Al-Saba wind disperses in the land and the sea wherever Allah (azwj) Desires it to. And if Allah (azwj) Intends to Send Daboura, He (azwj) Commands the Angel whose name is Al-Dabour, so he descends upon the Sacred House, stands upon the Al-Shamy corner of it and flaps his wings. So Al-Dabour wind disperses in the land and the sea wherever Allah (azwj) Desires it to’. Then Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘As for your hearing their words – the North wind, and the South wind, and Al-Dabour wind, and Al-Saba wind, but rather these are the Angels who have been entrusted with these.
64. From him, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Abdullah Bin Sinan, from Ma’rouf Bin Kharbouz, who said: Abu Ja’far (asws) said that ‘Allah (azwj) has winds of Mercy as well as winds of Punishment. So if Allah (azwj) Desires that He (azwj) Turns the winds of Punishment into the winds of Mercy, He (azwj) Does it, but He (azwj) never Makes (winds of ) Mercy to be turned into the wind of Punishment’. He (asws) said: ‘And it is never the case that He (azwj) is Merciful to all people who obey Him (azwj) and that their obedience should become an affliction for them, except after theirs having turned from their obedience. He (asws) said: ‘That is how He (azwj) Acted with the people of Yunus (as). When they believed, Allah (azwj) Bestowed mercy upon them after having had Ordained for them the Punishment. He (azwj) had Decided, then Enclosed them with His (azwj) Mercy. So He (azwj) Made the Punishment that was pre-destined for them as a Mercy. He (azwj) Turned it away from them and it had already descended upon them and overwhelmed them, but they pleaded before Him (azwj)’. He (asws) said: ‘And as for the wind of the destruction (Al-Aqeem), so it is a wind of Punishment. Neither, does it inseminate anything from the wombs or anything from the seeds, and it is a wind which comes out from the underneath the seven earths, and not a (single) wind came out from it at all except upon the people of Aad when Allah (azwj) was Wrathful against them. So He (azwj) Commanded the Keepers to take from it a measure of the size of a ring’. He (asws) said: ‘It rebelled against the Keepers, so there came out from it a measure of the nostril of a bull being wrathful against the people of Aad’. He (asws) said: ‘So the Keepers grumbled to Allah (azwj) from that. They said, ‘Our Lord (azwj)! It has rebelled against our orders. We are afraid that it would destroy the ones who have not been disobedient to You (azwj) from Your (azwj) creatures who built Your (azwj) City’. He (asws) said: ‘So Allah (azwj) Sent Jibraeel towards it who faced it with both his wings and returned it back to its place and said to it: ‘Come out of the ones whom you have not been Commanded for’. He (asws) said: ‘So it came out from the ones against whom it had not been Commanded for, and destroyed the people of Aad and those who were present with them (their supporters)’.
65. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al-Nawfaly, from Al-Sakuny, who has narrated the following: Abu Abdullah (asws) has said that the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) said; ‘For whom the Blessings appear should frequently mention ‘الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ’ ‘Praise be to Allah (azwj)’, and the one who has numerous worries so for him is ‘بِالِاسْتِغْفَارِ’ to seek Forgiveness, and the one who is pressed by the poverty should frequently say ‘لَا حَوْلَ وَ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ الْعَلِيِّ الْعَظِيمِ’ ‘There is no Power and no Might except by Allah (azwj) the High the Magnificent, the poverty would be negated from him’. And he (asws) said: ‘The Prophet (saww) missed a man from the Helpers so he (saww) said to him: ‘What is the reason for your absence?’ He said, ‘The poverty, O Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj), and the lengthy illness’. So he (saww) said to him: ‘Shall I (saww) teach you certain words, if you were to recite these, the poverty would go away from you, as well as the illness?’ He said, ‘Yes, O Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj)’. So he (saww) said: ‘When it is the morning and evening, say: ‘There is no Power and no Might except by Allah (azwj), the High, the Magnificent. I hereby rely upon the Alive Who does not die, and Praise be to Allah (azwj) Who never Took for Himself (azwj) a son, and there never was for Him (azwj) an associate in the Kingdom, and will not be for Him (azwj) a guardian from the humiliation, and Great is His (azwj) Greatness’. So the man said, ‘By Allah (azwj), I had not recited it except for three days, and the poverty and the illness went away from me’.
66. Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ali Bin Al-Hakam, from Ismail Bin Abd Al-Khaliq who said: ‘I heard Abu Abdullah (asws) saying to Abu Ja’far Al-Ahwal, and I was listening: ‘Did you go to Al-Basra?’ He said, ‘Yes’. He (asws) said: ‘How did you see the hastening of the people to this matter and their entering in it to be?’ He said, ‘By Allah (azwj), they are few, and they have done it but that is little’. He (asws) said: ‘It is on you to (approach) the juveniles for they are quick to every good’. Then he (asws) said: ‘What are the people of Al-Basra saying regarding this Verse: ‘[42:23] Say: I do not ask of you any reward for it but love for my near relatives”. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you (asws), they are saying that it is for the near relatives of the Rasool (saww) of Allah (azwj)’. He (asws) said: ‘They lie. But rather it Descended with regards to us (asws) especially, regarding the People (asws) of the Household, regarding Ali (asws), and Fatima (asws), and Al-Hassan (asws), and Al-Husayn (asws) the ones of the Cloak (As’haab Al-Kisaa)’.
67. From him, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al-Husayn Bin Saeed, from Muhammad Bin Dawood from Muhammad Bin Atiyya who said: ‘A man from the scholars of the people of Syria (Al-Shaam) came up to Abu Ja’far (asws). He said, ‘O Abu Ja’far (asws), I have come to ask you (asws) a question which has exhausted me in finding one who could explain it to me, and I have asked three kinds of the people about it, so each type from them said something other than what the other one said’. So Abu Ja’far (asws) said to him: ‘What would that be?’ He said, ‘I ask you (asws) about the first thing what Allah (azwj) Created from His (azwj) creatures, for some of the ones I asked said it was the Destiny, and some of them said it was the Pen, and some of them said it was the Spirit’. So Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘They have not said anything. I (asws) hereby inform you that Allah (azwj) Blessed and High Existed and there was nothing other than Him (azwj), and He (azwj) was Mighty and there was no one who was mighty before Him (azwj), and that is His (azwj) Statement: “[37:180] Glory be to your Lord, the Lord of Honour, above what they describe”, and He (azwj) was the Creator before the creation, and had He (azwj) Created, and Had He (azwj) Created something from His (azwj) Creation, something from something, then there would be no cut-off from it (the chain) ever, and it would never cease if Allah (azwj) had something with Him (azwj) and He (azwj) did not precede it, but He (azwj) Existed when there was nothing other than Him (azwj). And He (azwj) Created the thing from which are all things, and it is the water from which He (azwj) Created the things. So He (azwj) Lineage everything to the water and did not Make a lineage for the water to which it can be ascribed. And He (azwj) Created the wind from the water, then Made the wind to overcome the water. So the wind sent down into the body of the water until foam swirled from the water in accordance with what He (azwj) so Desired it to swirl. So He (azwj) Created from that foam, pure white land with no crack in it, nor any holes, neither ascending nor descending, and no tree. Then He (azwj) Folded it, so He (azwj) Placed it on top of the water. Then Allah (azwj) Created the fire from the water, so the fire bust out of the body of the water until smoke arose from the water in accordance with Allah (azwj) so Desired it to rise. So He (azwj) Created from that smoke, clear and pure sky in which there were no cracks nor any holes, and that is His (azwj) Statement: “[79:27] Are you the harder to create or the heaven? He made it. [79:28] He raised high its height, then put it into a right good state. [79:29] And He made dark its night and brought out its light”. He (asws) said: ‘And there was no sun, and no moon, and no stars and no clouds. Then He (azwj) Folded it and Placed it upon the earth, then Established two creations. Then He (azwj) Raised the sky before the earth, so that is His (azwj) Statement, Mighty is His (azwj) Mention: “[79:30] And the earth, He expanded it after that”. He (azwj) Said that He (azwj) Spread it out’. So the Syrian said to him (asws), ‘O Abu Ja’far (asws), the Statement of Allah (azwj) the High: “[21:30] Do not those who disbelieve see that the heavens and the earth were closed up, but We have opened them”. So Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘Perhaps you think that these two used to be stuck together and there were separated from each other?’ He said, ‘Yes’. Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘Seek Forgiveness from your Lord (azwj), for it is the Statement of Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic that they were closed up, meaning that the sky used to be closed up and no rain descended from it, and the earth was closed up and did not grow any seed (vegetation). So when Allah (azwj) Blessed and High Created the creatures, He (azwj) Spread therein all kinds of animals. He (azwj) Opened up the sky by the rain and the earth by the seed’. The Syrian said, ‘I testify that you (asws) are from the children of the Prophets (as) and that your (asws) knowledge is their (as) knowledge’.
68. Muhammad, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Al-A’ala Bin Razeyn, from Muhammad Bin Muslim and Al-Hajjaal, from Al-A’ala, from Muhammad Bin Muslim who said: Abu Ja’far (asws) said to me: ‘Everything used to be water, and His (azwj) Throne used to be on the water. So Allah (azwj) Mighty is His (azwj) Mention Commanded the water, so a fire was ignited. Then He (azwj) Commanded the fire, so it was extinguished and smoke arose from its subsidence. So Allah (azwj) Created the Heavens from that smoke, and Created the earth from the ash. Then the water, and the fire, and the wind quarrelled. So the water said, ‘I am the greatest army of Allah (azwj)’, and the wind said, ‘I am the greatest army of Allah (azwj), and the fire said, ‘I am the greatest army of Allah (azwj). So Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic Revealed unto the wind: “You are My (azwj) greatest army’.
69. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from Muhammad Bin Is’haq Al-Madany, who has narrated the following: Abu Ja’far (asws) having said that: ‘The Rasool (saww) of Allah (azwj) was asked about the Statement of Allah (azwj): “[19:85] The day We shall gather the righteous to (Allah) Most Gracious, like a band presented before a king for honours”, so he (saww) said: ‘O Ali (asws)! Surely the delegation will not come up except on rides. These will be the men who feared Allah (azwj), so Allah (azwj) Loved them and Specialised them and being Pleased with their deeds and therefore they have been named as the pious ones’. Then he (saww) said to him (asws): ‘O Ali (asws)! By the One (azwj) Who Split the seed and Brought life out of it, they will be coming out from their graves and the Angels will be welcoming them by a she-camel from the she-camels of honour on which will be saddles of gold crowned with pearls and sapphire, and it will be covered in brocade and silk, and its braid will be purple, and it will fly with them to the place of Resurrection. Along with every man from them will be a thousand Angels in front of them, and on his right, and on his left escorting them with an (honourable) escort until they will end up with them to the Great Door of the Paradise. And at the Door (Entrance) of the Paradise is a tree, a leaf from it can give shade to a thousand men from the people under it. And on the right of the tree is a fountain pure and clear’. He (saww) said: ‘They will quench themselves with a drink from it, so Allah (azwj) will Purify their hearts by it from the ‘الْحَسَدِ’ (jealousy/envy), and their bodily hair will drop off, and that is the Statement of Allah (azwj): “[76:21] and their Lord shall make them drink a pure drink”. It will be from that pure fountain’. He (saww) said: ‘Then they will leave to go to another Fountain on the right of the Tree. So they will bathe in it, and it is the Fountain of (everlasting) Life, and so they will not be dying ever’. He (saww) said: ‘Then they (the she-camels) will pause by them in front of the Throne, and they would have been made safe from the diseases and the illnesses and the heat and the cold for all eternity’. Rasool Allah (saww) said: ‘Then the ‘الْجَبَّارُ’ (Compeller (azwj)) Majestic, Who cannot be Described (by any means), will Say to the Angels who will be with them: “Usher My (azwj) friends to the Paradise and do not pause them with the creatures from I (azwj) am already Pleased with them and My (azwj) Mercy has been Obligated for them, and how can I (azwj) Want them to be paused, the companions of the good with that of the evil?’ He (saww) said: ‘The Angels will lead them to the Paradise. So when they end up with them at the Great Entrance of the Paradise the Angels will knock hard on the door. Its pleasant sound will reach every Hourie whom Allah (azwj) has Prepared for His (azwj) friends in the Gardens. They (Houries) will give them the good news of it when they hear the pleasant sound of the ring (door bell), so some of them will say to the others, ‘The friends of Allah (azwj) have come to us, so open the Door for them’. They will enter the Paradise and their respective wives from the beautiful Houries and the humans will welcome them by saying, ‘Congratulations to you for we have been intensely eager in our desire to be with you’, and the friends of Allah (azwj) will say to them similarly’. Ali (asws) said: ‘O Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj)! Inform us about the Statement of Allah (azwj); “[39:20] But it is for those who fear their Lord. That lofty mansions, one above another, have been built”, O Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj)’. So he (saww) said: ‘O Ali (asws)! Those are mansions which Allah (azwj) has Built for His (azwj) friends from the pearls, and the sapphire, and the emeralds, and their ceilings are of gold interwoven with silver. For each of the mansions are a thousand doors of gold upon each of which is an Angel allocated to it. In them are raised couches, one on top of the other from the silk, and the brocades of different colours, and their filling is of musk, and the camphor and ambergris, and that is the Statement of Allah (azwj): “[56:34] And raised couches”. When the Believer enters his house in the Paradise, a crown of kingship and prestige would be placed upon his head, and he will be dressed in the clothes of gold, and silver, and the rubies, and the crystals arranged in designs as a wreath under the crown’. Rasool Allah (saww) said: ‘And he will be dressed in seventy garments of silk of different colours, struck with different designs with gold, and the silver, and the pearls, and the red sapphire. So that is the Statement of Allah (azwj): “[22:23] they shall be adorned therein with bracelets of gold and pearls; and their garments there will be of silk”. So when the Believer sits upon his bed, it will vibrate with joy. When the friend of Allah (azwj) settles down in his house in the Paradise, the Angels allocated to his Garden will seek permission from him so as to congratulate him for the honour Bestowed upon him by Allah (azwj), and they will come to him. So the servants of the Believer from the butlers and the maids will say to them, ‘Stay in your place, for the friend of Allah (azwj) is leaning upon his couch, and his Hourie wife is grooming herself for him, therefore wait for the friend of Allah (azwj)’. Rasool Allah (saww) said: ‘So his Hourie wife will come out to him from her tent, walking to welcome him, and around her will be her maids, and upon her would be seventy garments interwoven with the sapphire, and the pearls, and the emeralds, and scented with musk, and ambergris. And upon her head would be a crown of prestige, and she would be wearing shoes of gold laced with sapphire and pearls, and their laces will be of red sapphire. So when she approaches the friend of Allah (azwj), he would understand it and he would get up for her in desire, so she will say to him, ‘O friend of Allah (azwj), this is not a day of tiredness and suffering, so do not get up. I am for you and you are for me’. Rasool Allah (saww) said: ‘So they will hug each other for a duration of five hundred years from the years of the world. Neither will he get weary of her nor will she get weary of him. Rasool Allah (saww) said: ‘So when he calms down without being disheartened from her, he will look at her neck, so he will see on her a necklace embedded with red sapphire. In the midst of it would be a panel of pears on which would be written, “You, O friend of Allah (azwj) is my beloved, and I am the Hourie, beloved to you. My self is devoted to you and your self is devoted to me”. Then Allah (azwj) will Send to him a thousand Angels to congratulate him for being in the Paradise and having been married to the Hourie’. Rasool Allah (saww) said: ‘So they will end up to the first of the doors of his Gardens. They will say to the Angel allocated for that door of his garden, ‘Grant us permission to the friend of Allah (azwj), for Allah (azwj) has Sent us to him to congratulate him’. The Angel will say to them, ‘Wait until I inform the guard to inform him of your places’. Rasool Allah (saww) said: ‘So the Angel would come up to the guard, and in between the guard and him would be three Gardens until he will end up at the first door. So he will say to the guard that, ‘A thousand Angels are awaiting at the door, having been Sent by the Lord (azwj) of the world, Blessed and High, to congratulate the friend of Allah (azwj) and have asked me to grant them permission to see him’. The guard will say to the Angel, ‘This is difficult for me that I should permit anyone to the friend of Allah (azwj) as he is with his Hourie wife’. Rasool Allah (saww) said: ‘And in between the guard and the friend of Allah (azwj) are two Gardens’. He (saww) said: ‘So the guard will come up to the supervisor and say to him that, ‘At the door are a thousand Angels whom the Lord (azwj) of Honour has Sent to congratulate the friend of Allah (azwj), so grant them permission’. The supervisor will proceed to the servants and say to them that, ‘A thousand Angels are at the door whom Allah (azwj) has Sent to congratulate the friend of Allah (azwj), so make their places known to him’. Rasool Allah (saww) said: ‘So they will make it known to him, and he will tell him to grant permission to the Angels. So they will come up to the friend of Allah (azwj), and he would be in a mansion of his, and there will be a thousand doors in it, and at each door of its doors would be an Angel allocated to it. So he will allow the Angels to enter to be with the friend of Allah (azwj) by opening one door for each of the Angels to enter by. The supervisor would then allow each of the Angels from the door of the doors of the Mansion’. He (saww) said: ‘So they would then convey the Message of the Compeller (azwj) Majestic and Mighty to him and that is the Statement of Allah (azwj): “[13:23] and the angels will enter in upon them from every gate”, from the doors of the Mansion, “[13:24] Peace be on you” - up to the end of the Verse’. Rasool Allah (saww) said: ‘And that is the Statement of the Majestic and Mighty: “[76:20] And when you see there, you shall see blessings and a great kingdom”, meaning by that the friend of Allah (azwj) and what he would be in from the Prestige and the Bounties, and the Magnificent and Great Kingdom. The Angels Sent by the Message from Allah (azwj) Mighty is His (azwj) Mention, would seek permission for their entrance to him. So they do not come up to him except by his permission. So that is the Magnificent and Great Kingdom’. Rasool Allah (saww) said: ‘And the rivers would flow from underneath his dwelling and that is the Statement of Allah (azwj): “[18:31] These it is for whom are gardens of perpetuity beneath which rivers flow”. And the fruits would come near to them and it is the Statement of Mighty and Majestic: “[76:14] And close down upon them (shall be) its shadows, and its fruits shall be made near (to them) (as in humility), being easy to reach”. The Believer would eat from the varieties of fruits by its category whilst leaning (relaxed upon the couch), and the varieties of the fruits will say to the friend of Allah (azwj), ‘Eat me before you eat this one’. Rasool Allah (saww) said: ‘And there is none from the Believer in the Paradise except that for him would be numerous Gardens, with a gazebo or without a gazebo, and rivers of pure drinks, and rivers of water, and rivers of milk, and rivers of honey. So if the friend of Allah (azwj) calls to partake a meal, he would be given whatsoever he desires for from the foods without even having named his desire’. Rasool Allah (saww) said: ‘Then he would seclude himself with his wife, and some of them would visit each other, and they would enjoy in their Gardens in extended shade, similar to what is between the break of dawn to the rise of the sun, and better than that. Each of the Believer would have seventy wives from the Houries, and four women from the humans, and the Believer would spend an hour with the Hourie, and an hour with the human (wife), and an hour alone with himself, being relaxed leaning on his couch, some looking at some others’. The Believer would be covered by a shining beam of light and he would be upon his couch, and he would say to his servants, ‘What is this beam of light? Perhaps it is the Brilliance of the Compeller (azwj) Who has Observed me’. His servants would say to him, ‘Holy is He (azwj)! Holy is He (azwj)! Majestic is His (azwj) Majesty! But, this is a Hourie from your women (wives) whom you have never entered into. She just looked out of her tent towards you in her desire for you, and wants to present herself to you, and would love to meet with you. So when she saw you relaxed upon your couch, she smiled in her desire for you. So that was the brilliant beam that you saw and the light which you were covered in, it was from the whiteness of her mouth (teeth), and her cleanliness, and her purity, and her tenderness’. He (saww) said: ‘So the friend of Allah (azwj) would say, ‘Grant her permission’. So a thousand servants and a thousand maids would descend to her to give her the good news of that. So she would then come to him from her tent, and she would have upon her seventy garments interwoven with the gold, and silver, laced with gems and the sapphire, and the emeralds cover with musk and ambergris, of different colours. The marrow of her leg would be seen from underneath the seventy garments of seventy cubits of length, and the (distance) between her shoulders would be of ten cubits. So when she approaches the friend of Allah (azwj), the servants would welcome her by a tray of gold and the silver in which would be gems, and the sapphire, and the emeralds, so they would display these to her. Then he would embrace her and she would embrace him. So neither would he be weary nor would she be weary’. He the (narrator) said, ‘Then Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘But rather the Gardens Mentioned in the Book are the Garden of Eden, and the Garden of Al-Firdows, and Garden of Naeem, and Garden of Al-Ma’wa’. He (asws) said: ‘And Allah (azwj) has Surrounded these Gardens with other Gardens, and that the Believer would be able to have for him from the Gardens whichever one what he loves, and wants and enjoy wherever he so likes to. And if the Believer intends a thing, or covets it, he would call for it by saying, ‘Glory be to You (azwj), our Allah (azwj)!’ So if he says it, the servants would keep coming to him with what he had coveted for even without him having asked them for it or commanded them for it, and that is the Statement of Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic: “[10:10] Their cry in it shall be: Glory to Thee, O Allah! and their greeting in it shall be: ‘سَلامٌ’ Peace”, meaning the servants’. He (asws) said: “[10:10] and the last of their cry shall be: Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.”, meaning by that after their having had their enjoyment from the copulation, and the food, and the drinks, they will be Praising Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic during their being free from that’. And as for His (azwj) Statement: “[37:41] For them is a Sustenance determined”, he (asws) said: ‘The servants know of it, so they bring it to the friend of Allah (azwj) before he even asks them for it’. And as for the Statement of the Mighty and Majestic: “[37:42] Fruits, and they shall be highly honoured”, he (asws) said: ‘They will not desire anything in the Paradise, except that they will be honoured with it’.
70. Al-Husayn Bin Muhammad Al-Ashary, from Moalla Bin Muhammad, from Al-Wahsa’a, from Abaan Bin Usmaan, from Abu Baseer who said: ‘It was said to Abu Ja’far (asws) and I was in his (asws) presence that, ‘Saalim Bin Abu Hafsa and his companions are narrating from you (asws) that you (asws) speak upon seventy perspectives, for you (asws) there is a way out from (each one) of these?’ He (asws) said: ‘What does Saalim want from me (asws)? Does he want that I (asws) should come with the Angels. By Allah (azwj), (even) the Prophets (as) did not come with this. And Ibrahim (as) said: “[37:89] Then said: Lo! I feel sick!”, and he (as) was not sick and he (as) did not lie. And Ibrahim (as) has said: “[21:63] He said: "Nay, this was done by this their biggest one! Ask them, if they can speak!”, and he (their biggest idol) had not done it, and he (as) did not lie’. And Yusuf (as) has said: “[12:70] O camel-riders! Lo! Ye are surely thieves!” by Allah (azwj) they had not stolen, and he (as) had not lied’.
71. Abaan, from Abu Baseer who said: ‘I was seated in the presence of Abu Abdullah (asws) when mother of Khalid who had been cut off by Yusuf Bin Umar came up, seeking permission to see him (asws). Abu Abdullah (asws) said: ‘Would you like to listen to her speech?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He (asws) said: ‘Grant her permission’, and he (asws) made me sit alongside him (asws) upon the seat. Then she came in. She spoke eloquently. So she asked about the two of them. He (asws) said to her: ‘Befriend the two of them’ She said, ‘Shall I say to my Lord (azwj) when I meet Him (azwj) that you (asws) ordered me to befriend them?’ He (asws) said: ‘Yes’. She said, ‘But the one who is seated with you (asws) upon the seat (Abu Baseer) has ordered me to keep away (Tabarra) from those two whilst Kaseer Al-Nawa has ordered me to befriend those two. So, which one is better and more beloved to you (asws)?’ He (asws) said: ‘By Allah (azwj)! This one here is more beloved to me (asws) than Kaseer Al-Nawa and his companions. This one here argues by saying: “[5:44] and whoever did not judge by what Allah revealed, those are they that are the unbelievers”; “[5:45] and whoever did not judge by what Allah revealed, those are they that are the unjust”; “[5:47] And the followers of the Injeel should have judged by what Allah revealed in it; and whoever did not judge by what Allah revealed, those are they that are the transgressors”.
72. Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Al-Hassan Bin Ali Bin Fazzaal, from Ali Bin Uqba, form Umar Bin Abaan, from Abdul Hameed Al-Wabishy, who has narrated the following: Abu Ja’far (asws) said, when I said from him (asws), ‘We have a neighbour who violates all the Prohibitions to the extent that he leaves the Prayer as well among other matters’. He (asws) said: ‘Glory be to Allah (azwj)! And that is a great matter. However, shall I (asws) inform you of the one who is more evil than him?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He (asws) said: ‘The one who is hostile to us (asws) (Nasibi) is more evil than him. But rather, there is none from the servant in whose presence the People (asws) of the Household are mentioned and he sympathises with our (asws) remembrance, except that the Angels wipe his back, and all of his sins are Forgiven unless he commits a sin which takes him out of the ‘Eman’ (faith), and his intercession is Accepted whilst it is not acceptable for the Nasibi (hostile one). And that the Believer will intercede for his neighbour even if there is no good deed to his credit. He will say, ‘O Lord (azwj)! My neighbour used to restrain himself from hurting me’, so he will intercede for him’. So Allah (azwj) Blessed and High will say: “I (azwj) am your Lord (azwj) and more Right to Suffice for you. So He (azwj) will Enter him in the Paradise although there will be no good deeds to his credit. And that the lowest of the ‘Momineen’ (Believers) would intercede for thirty people. When that happens, the inhabitants of the Fire will say, “[26:100] So we have no intercessors, [26:101] Nor a true friend”.
73. Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al-Husayn, from Muhammad Bin Ismail Bin Yazi’e, from Saleh Bin Uqba, from Abu Haroun, who has said: Abu Abdullah (asws) having said to a number (of people) who were in his (asws) presence and I was present: ‘What is the matter with you all that you take us (asws) lightly?’ A man from Khurasan stood up and said, ‘Allah (azwj) Forbid that we should take you (asws) or any of your (asws) commands lightly’. He (asws) said: ‘Yes, you are one of those who take me (asws) lightly’. He said, ‘Allah (azwj) Forbid that I should take you (asws) lightly’. He (asws) said to him: ‘Woe be unto you, or did you not hear so and so, and we were near Al-Juhfa, and he was saying to you, ‘Give me a ride for about a mile, for By Allah (azwj), I have become (very) tired’? By Allah (azwj), you did not even raise your head and took him lightly by it, and the one who takes one who Believes in us (asws) lightly, has taken lightly and wasted the Sanctity of Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic’.
74. Al-Husayn Bin Muhammad Al-Ashary, from Moala Bin Muhammad, from Al-Washa, from Abaan Bin Usmaan, from Abdul Rahmaan Bin Abu Abdullah who said: ‘I said to Abu Abdullah (asws) that, ‘Allah (azwj) Bestowed (Favour) upon us that we recognised His (azwj) Oneness, then Bestowed (Favour) upon us that we accepted the Prophet-hood of Muhammad (saww), then Specialised us with your (asws) love, the People (asws) of the Household that we befriended you, and keep away from your (asws) enemies, and we intend by that to save ourselves from the Fire’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And I sympathised with him and cried’. So Abu Abdullah (asws) said: ‘Ask me (asws), for by Allah (azwj), you will not ask me (asws) about a thing except that I (asws) will inform you of it’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Abdul Malik Bin Ayn, ‘I have not heard him (asws) say that to any creature before you’. I said, ‘Inform me about the two men (Abu Bakr and Umar)’. He (asws) said: ‘They were unjust to us (asws) of our (asws) rights in the Book of Allah (azwj), and with us (asws) Fatima (asws), the inheritance from her (asws) father (saww), and the injustices of these two still flow up to this day’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And he gestured to his (asws) back’, (and said): ‘They threw the Book of Allah (azwj) behind their two backs’.
75. And by this chain, from Abaan, from Uqba Bin Basheer Al-Asady, from Al-Kumeyt Bin Zayd Al-asady who said: ‘I came up to Abu Ja’far (asws), so he (asws) said: ‘By Allah (azwj), O Kumeyt, if we (asws) had in our (asws) possession some wealth, we (asws) would have given you from it, but for you is what the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) said to Hassan Bin Sabit: ‘The Holy Spirit will not cease to be with you so long as you defend us (saww)’. I said, ‘Inform me about the two men (Abu Bakr and Umar)’. He (the narrator) said: ‘He (asws) took the pillow and folded it unto his (asws) chest’ and said: ‘By Allah (azwj), O Kumeyt, there is no blood spilled unlawfully, nor any wealth taken without right, and not stone turned from another stone except that it would be upon their necks’.
76. And by this chain, from Abaan, from Abdul Rahmaan Bin Abu Abdullah, from Abu Al-Abbas Al-Makky who said: ‘I heard Abu Ja’far (asws) saying that: ‘Umar met Ali (asws), so he said to him (asws), ‘You (asws) are the one who is reciting this Verse: “[68:6] Which of you is afflicted with madness” and applying it to me and to my companion’. He (asws) said to him: ‘Shall I not inform you of a Verse which has Descended about the Clan of Umayya: “[47:22] But if you held command, you were sure to make mischief in the land and cut off the ties of kinship”?’ So he said, ‘You (asws) are lying. The Clan of Umayya are better at maintaining relations than you (asws) are, but you (asws) refuse to do anything except be inimical to the Clan of Taym (Abu Bakr’s tribe), and the Clan of Ady (Umar’s tribe), and the Clan of Umayya (Muawiya’s tribe)’.
77. And by this chain, from Abaan Bin Usmaan, from Al-Haris Al-Nasry who said: ‘I asked Abu Ja’far (asws) about the Statement of Allah (azwj): “[14:28] Have you not seen those who have changed Allah’s favour for ungratefulness”, (Imam (asws)) asked: ‘What are you all saying about that?’ I said, ‘We are saying that these are the tyrants from the Qureish, the Clan of Umayya and the Clan of Al-Mugheira’. He (asws) said: ‘By Allah (azwj), this is about the Qureish in its entirety. Allah (azwj) Blessed and High Addressed His (azwj) Prophet (saww), so He (azwj) Said: “I (azwj) Gave preference to the Qureish over the Arabs, and Completed upon them My (azwj) Favours, and Sent to the My (azwj) Rasool (saww), so they changed My (azwj) Favour by denial “[14:28] and made their people to alight into the abode of perdition”.
78. And by this chain, from Abaan, from Abu Baseer, who has said: Abu Ja’far (asws) and Abu Abdullah (asws), that the two of them (asws) said: ‘When the people belied the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj), Allah (azwj) Blessed and High Decided to Destroy the people of the earth except for Ali (asws) and no one else by His (azwj) Statement: “[51:54] Then turn your back upon them for you are not to blame”. Then Changed it for them so He (azwj) was Merciful to the Believers. Then He (azwj) Said to His (azwj) Prophet (saww): “[51:55] And continue to remind, for surely the reminder profits the believers”.
79. A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Al-Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Ali Bin Ra’ib, from Abu Ubeyda Al-Haza’a, from Suweyr Bin Abu Fakhta who said: I heard Ali (asws) Bin Al-Husayn (asws) narrating in the Masjid of the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) saying: ‘Narrated to me (asws) by my (asws) father (asws), and he (asws) heard it from his (asws) father (asws) Ali (asws) Bin Abu Talib (asws) narrating to the people saying: ‘When it will be the Day of Judgement, Allah (azwj) will Resurrect the people from their graves in their isolation, without beards, in one plane, being driven by the light, and Gather them in the darkness until they are paused upon the hurdle on the Place of Resurrection. So, some of them will climb upon the others, becoming over crowded. They will be prevented from passing. Their breathing will be heavy and they will sweat profusely, and their affairs would be constricted, their noises would intensify, and their voices would be raised. He (asws) said: ‘This will be the first sensation from the sensations of the Day of Judgement’. He (asws) said: ‘The Compeller (azwj) Blessed and High will Attend to them from above His (azwj) Throne in the shadow of the Angels, so He (azwj) Command an Angel from the Angels who would call out among them: ‘O group of creatures! Listen, and listen intently to the Caller of the Compeller (azwj)’. He (asws) said: ‘So the last of them would hear it just as the first of them’. He (asws) said: ‘Their voices would break up due to that, and they will anxiously look around and their body parts would become restless, and their hearts would be in a panic, and they will be raising their heads towards the direction of the voice hastening to the Caller’. He (asws) said: ‘So when that happens, the Infidel would say, ‘This is a difficult day’. He (asws) said: ‘So the Compeller (azwj) Mighty and Majestic would Attend to be the Judge over them, so He (azwj) will Say to them: “I (azwj) am Allah (azwj). There is no god except for Me (azwj). I (azwj) am the Equitable Judge Whom will not Let any injustice be done today. I (azwj) Shall Judge between you all with Justice and Equity. No one will be done injustice in My (azwj) Presence today. I (azwj) shall Take the rights for weak ones from the strong ones and for those who have suffered injustices will be retaliation from the good deeds and the sins as compensation and be Rewarded for the gifts. And no one will be Permitted today in My (azwj) Presence, as an unjust one or one to whom injustice has been done except if he waives his right against the other one, and I (azwj) shall Take from him (the unjust one) during the Accounting correlated. O you creatures! And seek what is due to you from the one who was unjust to you for it in the world, and I (azwj) am a Witness for you against them, and I (azwj) am sufficient as a Witness’. He (asws) said: ‘So they will recognise each other and seize the opportunity. So not one would remain for whom there would be anything from the unjust one any right except that he would claim for it’. He (asws) said: ‘So they would do that for as long as Allah (azwj) so Desires. Their condition would become difficult, and they will sweat profusely, and their grief would intensify, and they would be raising their voices by intense noise. So they would wish to be finished from it by letting go of their rights and not bother to claim for it from the unjust ones’. He (asws) said: ‘And Allah (azwj) would Know of their struggles, so a Caller would Call out from the Presence of Allah (azwj) Blessed and High which the last of them would hear as well as the first of them: ‘O group of creatures, listen intently to the Caller of Allah (azwj) Blessed and High, and listen to what Allah (azwj) Blessed and High is Saying to you all: ‘I (azwj) Am the Bestower and would Love it if you would gift (forego) each other and if you do not then I (azwj) will Take it for you from the one who was unjust to you’. He (asws) said: ‘So they would become happy with that due to their difficult struggles, and constriction, and their behaviour and contention’. He (asws) said: ‘So some of them would forego their rights in the hope that it would finish them from the situation that they would be in, and there would remain some of them who would say, ‘O Lord (azwj), our rights are greater than us being able to forego them’. He (asws) said: ‘So a Caller would Call out from beside the Throne: ‘Where is Rizwaan, the keeper of the Gardens of Al-Firdows?’ He (asws) said: ‘So Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic will Command him to display from Al-Firdows a castle of silver with whatever is inside it from the construction and the servants’. He (asws) said: ‘The butlers and the servants would be seen on the grounds of the castle’. He (asws) said: ‘So a Caller would Call out from the Presence of Allah (azwj) Blessed and High: “O group of creatures! Raise your heads and look at this castle’. He (asws) said: ‘So they will be raising their heads, and each one of them would wish for it’. He (asws) said: ‘So a Caller will Call out from the Presence of Allah (azwj): “O group of creatures! This is for every one forgives a Believer’. He (asws) said: ‘So all of them would be forgiving except for a few’. He (asws) said: ‘So Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic will Say: “There is no Permission to My (azwj) Paradise today for the unjust one, and there is no Permission today to the Fire today for the one who was oppressed, or anyone from the Muslims who has in his possession somebody’s rights until it will be Taken from him during the Accounting. O you creatures! Be prepared for the Accounting’. He (asws) said: ‘Then their way would be cleared for them, so they will be moving to the next stage preparing one another until they end up at the Plains, and the Compeller (azwj) Blessed and High would be upon the Throne. The registers (of deeds) would have been published, the scales set, and the Prophets (as), and the witnesses (asws), and these would be the Imams (asws) would be present. Each Imam (asws) testifying over the people of his (asws) era, having stood among them by the Command of Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic, and called them to the Way of Allah (azwj)’. He (asws) said: ‘So a man from Qureish said to him (asws), ‘O son (asws) of the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj), if there is a Believing man who has a claim against an infidel man, which thing would be taken from the infidel, and he is from the inhabitants of the Fire?’ He (asws) said: ‘Ali (asws) Bin Al-Husayn (asws) said to him: ‘The sins of the Muslim would be taken from him in accordance with what is due to him from the infidel, so the infidel would be Punished by it along with his Punishment for his infidelity in accordance with what was for the Muslim before that right’. He (asws) said: ‘So the Qureishi said to him (asws), ‘So if there was a right for a Muslim against a Muslim, how would it be taken from a Muslim?’ He (asws) said: ‘The good deeds would be taken for the oppressed against the oppressor in accordance with the right of the oppressed and it would increase the good deeds of the oppressed one’. He (asws) said: ‘The Qureishi said to him (asws): ‘If the oppressor does not have any good deeds to his credit?’ He (asws) said: ‘If the oppressor does not have any good deeds to his credit, the sins of the oppressed would be taken from him so it would increase the sins of the oppressor’.
80. Abu Ali Al-Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbaar, from Al-Hassan Bin Ali Bin Fazzaal, from Tha’albat Bin Maymoun, from Aby Amiyya Yusuf Bin Sabit Bin Abu Saeeda, who has narrated the following: Abu Abdullah (asws) having said when they came up to him and said, ‘But rather, we love you (asws) due to your (asws) nearness to the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj), and for what Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic has Obligated from your (asws) rights. We do not love you (asws) for the sake of the world for getting a share of it from you (asws). But (we love you (asws)) only for the Sake of Allah (azwj) and the House of the Hereafter and that the man from among us would be able to correct his Religion’. So Abu Abdullah (asws) said: ‘You have spoken the truth, you have spoken the truth’. Then he (asws) said: ‘The one who loves us (asws) is as if he is with us (asws), or will come with us (asws) on the Day of Judgement like this’ – then he (asws) joined the two forefingers, then said – ‘By Allah (azwj)! If the man were to Fast during the day, and stand up (for Prayer) during the night, then meets Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic without our (asws) Wilayah, (the People (asws) of the Household) he then would be facing Him (azwj) (in such that) Allah (azwj) would either be Unhappy with him or Angry against him’. Then he (asws) said: ‘And that is the Statement of Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic: “[9:54] The only reasons why their contributions are not accepted are: that they reject Allah and His Rasool; that they come to prayer without earnestness; and that they offer contributions unwillingly [9:55] Let not then their property and their children excite your admiration; Allah only wishes to chastise them with these in this world’s life and (that) their souls may depart while they are unbelievers” Then he (asws) said: ‘And such is that belief that the (bad) deed neither had affected it adversely nor is that disbelief that the (good) deed had provided any profit to it’. Then he (asws) said; ‘You should become (believers in) Oneness (of Allah (azwj)) for the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) had called the people to the Oneness (of Allah (azwj)) but they did not answer him (saww), and the first one who had came forward to him (saww) was Ali (asws) Bin Abu Talib (asws), and the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) said: ‘You (asws) are from me (saww) of the status which Haroun (as) had from Musa (as) except that there is no Prophet (as) after me (saww)’.
81. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Isa Bin Ubeyd, from Yunus who said: Abu Abdullah (asws) said to Abbaad Bin Kaseer Al-Basry Al-Soufy: ‘Woe be unto you, O Abbaad! You have been deceived yourself by (merely) abstaining from your stomach and your genitals. Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic has Said: “[33:70] O you who believe! be careful of (your duty to) Allah and speak the right word [33:71] He will put your deeds into a right state for you”. You must realise that Allah (azwj) will not Accept from you anything until you speak the truth and just word (do not only rely on the meditation but accept the truth, the Wilayah of Amimah (asws))’.
82. Yunus, from Ali Bin Shajarat, who has said: Abu Abdullah (asws) said: ‘Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic has five sanctimonious (matters) in His (azwj) earth – sanctity of the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj), and the sanctity of the Progeny (asws) of the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj), and the sanctity of the Book of Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic, and the sanctity of the Kaaba of Allah (azwj), and sanctity of the Believer’.
83. A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Abu Najran, from Muhammad Bin Al-Qasim, from Ali Bin Al-Mugheira, who has said the following: Abu Abdullah (asws) said, ‘I heard him (asws) saying: ‘When the ‘Momin’ (believer) reaches forty years, Allah (azwj) Secures him from three illnesses – the leprosy, and the albinism and the madness. So when he reaches fifty, Allah (azwj) Makes his Accounting to be light. When he reaches sixty years, Allah (azwj) Grants him the repentance. So when he reaches seventy, the inhabitants of the sky love him. So when he reaches eighty, Allah (azwj) Commands to Write down his good deeds and Deletes his bad deeds. So when he reaches ninety, Allah (azwj) Forgives him what has preceded from his Religion and what has been delayed and Writes him down as a prisoner of Allah (azwj) in His (azwj) earth’. And in another report – ‘So when he reaches a hundred, so that is the very (feeble) end of life’.
84. Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ali Bin Al-Hakam, from Dawood, from Sayf, from Abu Baseer who said: Abu Abdullah (asws) said that: ‘The servant has the opportunity (to seek forgiveness) until he reaches at the age of forty years. So when he reaches at the age of forty years, Allah (azwj) Reveals to His (azwj) two Angels: “I (azwj) have Let My (azwj) servant to get to this age, so stringent and be more strict with him and write down all from little, big, less, more from his deeds.
85. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hammaad Bin Usmaan, from Al-Halby, who has narrated the following: He said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah (asws) about the epidemic which was spreading in the area around Egypt. Shall the man turn to another area or if he is in Egypt so he should exit from it to somewhere else’. He (asws) said: ‘There is no problem with it. However, the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) Prohibited the residence of the a hill who were facing the enemies, when there was a plague among them, (they started) to flee from it. So the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) said: ‘To flee from it is like fleeing from the march (of the enemy army). He (saww) abhorred that they should empty their positions’.
86. Ali, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Abu Maalik Al-Hazramy, from hamza Bin Humran, who has said: Abu Abdullah (asws) having said: ‘There are three things from which except for a Nabi (as) no one else is safe from – The ‘الْوَسْوَسَةِ’ untrue perception about the creation, and the ‘الطِّيَرَةُ’ pessimism/depression and the ‘الْحَسَدُ’ jealousy , except that believer does not make use of his jealousy’.
87. Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Al-Husayn Bin Saeed, from Al-Qasim Bin Muhammad Al-Jowhary, from Ali Bin Abu Hamza, who has said: Abu Ibrahim (asws) having said to me: ‘I (asws) have had fever for seven months and my (asws) son has had fever for twelve months and it has been increasing for us. I (asws) feel that it does not affect the whole body. Sometimes it affects in the upper part of the body and does not affect in the lower of it, and sometimes it affects in the lower part of it and does not affect in all of the upper body’. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you. If you (asws) allow me, I would narrate to you (asws) a Hadeeth from Abu Baseer from your (asws) grandfather (asws) when he (asws) had fever, he (asws) sought help by the cold water. So he (asws) would take two pieces of cloth, one immerse it in the cold water and one on the body and rotate between them. Then he (asws) would call out until his (asws) voice would be heard at the door of the house; ‘يَا فَاطِمَةُ بِنْتَ مُحَمَّدٍ’ ‘O Fatima (asws) daughter (asws) of the Muhammad (saww)’. He (asws) said: ‘You have spoken the truth’. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you (asws). Have you (asws) not found a cure for the fever?’ So he (asws) said: ‘We (asws) have not found a cure for it except for the supplication and the cold water. I (asws) complained of it, so Muhammad Bin Ibrahim sent a doctor to me for it. So he came to me (asws) with a medicine which made me (asws) vomit, so I refused to drink it, because if I vomit, all of my (asws) joints hurt’.
88. Al-Husayn Bin Muhammad Al-Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Is’haq Al-Ashary, from Bakr Bin Muhammad Al-Azady who said: Abu Abdullah (asws) said: ‘The Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) had fever so Jibraeel (as) gave to him (saww) a charm. So he said: ‘In the Name of Allah (azwj) I perform incantation on you (saww), O Muhammad (saww), and in the Name of Allah (azwj) I heal you (saww), and in the Name of Allah (azwj) from every disease which has exhausted you (saww), and in the Name of Allah (azwj), and Allah (azwj) is your (saww) Healer. So take it and congratulations to you (saww). [56:75] Nay, I swear by the places of the stars for it would free you (saww) from it by the Permission of Allah (azwj)’. Bakr (the narrator) said, ‘And I asked him (asws) about an incantation for the fever, so he (asws) narrated to me with this’.
89. Abu Ali Al-Ashary, from Muhammad Bin saalim, from Ahmad Bin Al-Nazar, from Amro Bin Shimr, from Jabir, who has said: Abu Ja’far (asws) has narrated that Rasool Allah (saww) said: ‘The one who says: ‘بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ لَا حَوْلَ وَ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ الْعَلِيِّ الْعَظِيمِ’ ‘There is no Power and no Mighty except by Allah (azwj) the High, the Magnificent’, three times, Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic would Suffice for him for ninety nine types of affliction, the least of which is choking (suffocation)’.
90. Humeyd Bin Ziyad, from Al-Hassan Bin Muhammad Al-Kindy, from Ahmad Bin Al-Hassan Al-Maysamy, from Abaan Bin usmaan, from Mo’man Al-Razy, who has narrated the following: Abu Abdullah (asws) has said: ‘The people ran away being defeated on the Day of Ohad, from the Rasool (saww) of Allah (azwj). So he (saww) became angry with intense anger’. He (asws) said: ‘Whenever he (saww) became angry, sweat would descend from his (saww) forehead like pearls’. He (asws) said: ‘So he (saww) looked around so there was Ali (asws) by his (saww) side. So he (saww) said to him (asws): Join with the sons of your (asws) father (and go after), the ones who have fled from the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj)’. So he (asws) said: ‘O Rasool (saww) of Allah (azwj), you (saww) are an example for me (asws)’. He (saww) said: ‘So suffice for me (saww) against these (enemies)’. So he (asws) rode and struck the first one he (asws) met from them’. So Jibraeel (as) said: ‘This is the consolation, O Muhammad (saww)!’ He (saww) said: ‘He (asws) is from me (saww) and I (saww) am from him (asws)’. So Jibraeel (as) said: ‘And I am from you (asws) both, O Muhammad (saww)’. Abu Abdullah (asws) said: ‘So the Rasool (saww) of Allah (azwj) looked towards Jibraeel (saww) who was on a seat of gold in between the sky and the earth and he was saying: ‘There is not sword except for Zu Al-Fiqar and no warrior like Ali (asws)’.
91. Humeyd Bin Ziyad, from Ubeydullah Bin Ahmad Al-Dahqaan, from Ali Bin Al-Hassan Al-Tatary, from Muhammad Bin Ziyad Bin Isa Bayya Al-Sabiry, from Aban Biin Usman said: ‘Fuzyl Al-Barjumy narrated to me saying, ‘I was at Mecca and Khalid Bin Abdull Ameer was the governor, and he was in Al-Masjid near Zamzam. He said, ‘Call Qatada for me’. An old man with a red beard came up, and I went near them to listen. Khalid said, ‘O Qatada, inform me of the most prestigious event that has transpired among the Arabs, and the most honourable event that has transpired among the Arabs, and the most disgraceful event that has transpired among the Arabs’. So he said, ‘May Allah (azwj) Keep the Emir well. I hereby inform you that the most honourable event that has transpired among the Arabs, and the most disgraceful event that has transpired among the Arabs, is one’. He said, ‘Woe be unto you, one?’ He said, ‘Yes, may Allah (azwj) Keep the Emir well’. He said, ‘Inform me’. He said, ‘Badr’. He said, ‘And how is that?’ He said, ‘Badr was the most prestigious event that has transpired among the Arabs because Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic Gave prestige to Al-Islam and its people, and it is the most honourable event to have transpired among the Arabs because Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic gave Honour to Al-Islam and its people, and it is the most disgraceful event to have transpired among the Arabs, for Qureysh were killed on that Day and the Arabs were humiliated’. Khalid said to him, ‘You have lied, by the Life of Allah (azwj) for there was no day more honourable for the Arabs than that Day. Woe be unto you, O Qatada, inform me of some of their poems’. He said, ‘Abu Jahl came out on that Day, so that his status may be seen, and upon him was a red turban, and in his hand was a golden shield and he was saying, ‘A detestable war like this cannot take its revenge against me as I am like a two year old camel at the peak of its strength, and it is for the like of this that my mother has borne me’. He said, ‘The enemy of Allah (azwj) has lied, the son of my brother was more of a horse than him, meaning Khalid Bin Waleed, and his mother was Qushayriyya’. Woe be unto you, O Qatada, who is the one who said, ‘I fulfil my promise and defend my status’. He said, ‘May Allah (azwj) Keep the Emir well, this was not on that Day. This was on the Day of Ohad. Talha Bin Abu Talha came out and he was calling out, ‘Who will come out for the duel?’ No one came out against him’. So he said, ‘You all are alleging that you will exit us by way of your swords to the Fire, and we would dispatch you by our swords to the Paradise, so let a man duel with me to exit me by his sword to the Fire and I will dispatch him by my sword to the Paradise’. So Ali (asws) Bin Abu Talib (asws) came out against him and he (asws) was saying: ‘I (asws) am the son (asws) the owner of the two Fountains Abdul Muttalib (as) and Hashim (as) the feeders in the year of the famine. I (asws) fulfil my (asws) promise and defend my (asws) status’. Khalid said, ‘May Allah (azwj) Curse him (asws). He (asws) has lied, by the Life of Allah (azwj). Abu Turab (asws) was not like that’. The old man said, ‘O Emir, allow me to leave’. He (the narrator) said, ‘The old man stood up to leave, opening the way through the crowd of people by his hands and he was saying, ‘An atheist (Zindeeq), by the Lord (azwj) of the Kaaba! An atheist (Zindeeq), by the Lord (azwj) of the Kaaba’. (This is a report and not a hadeeth)
92. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al-Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Muhammad Bin Al-Fuzeyl, from Abu Hamza, who has said: Abu Ja’far (asws) having said that: ‘Allah (azwj) Blessed and High Covenanted to Adam (as) that he (as) would not go near the tree. When the time came which was in the Knowledge of Allah (azwj), he (as) ate from it. He (as) ate from it in forgetfulness and it is the Statement of Allah (azwj): “[20:115] And certainly We gave a commandment to Adam before, but he forgot; and We did not find in him any determination”. So when Adam (as) ate from the tree, he (as) came to the earth. There were born to him (as) Habeel (as) and his (as) sister as twins, and there were born to him (as) Qabeel (la) and his (la) sister as twins’. Adam (as) ordered Habeel (as) and Qabeel (la) that they should make an offering. And Habeel (as) was a shepherd and Qabeel (la) was a farmer. Habeel (as) presented a ram from the best of his (as) sheep, and Qabeel presented from his farm what had not ripened yet. So the offering of Habeel (as) was Accepted and the offering of Qabeel (lar) was not Accepted, and it is the Statement of Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic: “[5:27] And relate to them the story of the two sons of Adam with truth when they both offered an offering, but it was accepted from one of them and was not accepted from the other” up to the end of the Verse. And it was that the offering was consumed by the Fire. So Qabeel (la) resorted to the Fire and built for it a house and it was the first of the houses to be built for the fire. He (la) said, ‘I (la) will worship this fire until my (la) offering is Accepted from me (la)’. Then Iblees (la) came to him (la) and he (la) used to flow in the son of Adam (la) like the flowing of blood in the veins. So he (la) said to him (la), ‘O Qabeel (la)! The offering of Habeel (as) has been Accepted whilst your (la) offering has not been Accepted, and if you (la) were to leave him (as), his (as) descendants would pride themselves over your (la) descendants and they will be saying to them, ‘We are the descendants of the one (as) whose offering was Accepted’. So kill him (as) so that he (as) would not have descendants to be able to gloat over your (la) descendants’. So he (la) killed him (as). When Qabeel (la) returned to Adam (as), he (as) said to him (la): ‘O Qabeel (la), where is Habeel (as)?’ He (la) said, ‘Seek him (as) where we offered the offerings’. So Adam (as) went and found Habeel (la) murdered. Adam (as) said: ‘Curse be upon the land which accepted the blood of Habeel (as). And Adam (as) wept upon Habeel (as) for forty nights. Then Adam (as) asked his (as) Lord (azwj) for a son. So a boy was born to him (as) and he (as) named him (as) as Hibbat Allah (Gift of Allah (azwj)) because Allah (azwj) Gifted him (as) to him (as), and his (as) sister as twins. So when the Prophet-hood of Adam (as) came to an end, and his (as) days were complete, Allah (azwj) Revealed unto him (as): “O Adam (as)! Your (as) Prophet-hood has ended and your (as) days are completed, so make the Knowledge which is in your (as) possession, and the Belief, and the Great Name, and the inheritance of the Knowledge, and the effects of Knowledge of the Prophet-hood to be in your (as) descendants to be in the possession of Hibbat Allah (as), for I (azwj) will never Cut off the Knowledge, and the Belief, and the Great Name, and the effects of the Prophet-hood from your (as) progeny up to the Day of Judgement, and will never Leave the earth except that there will be in it a knowledgeable one by whom My (azwj) Religion would be recognised, and obedience to Me (azwj) would be recognised, and salvation would lie in the ones born between you (as) and between Noah (as)”. And Adam (as) gave him (as) the good news of Noah (as) so he (as) said: ‘Allah (azwj) will be Sending a Prophet (as) whose name is Noah (as) and he (as) would call to Allah (azwj) is His (azwj) Mention, but his (as) people would belie him (as). So Allah (azwj) would Destroy them by the storm’. And in between Adam (as) and Noah (as) were altogether ten generations of Prophets (as) and successors (as). And Adam (as) bequeathed to Hibbat Allah (as) that: ‘The ones among you (as) who would meet him (as) should believe in him (as), and follow him (as), and ratify him (as) for he (as) would save you from drowning (loosing faith)’. Then Adam (as) became ill with an illness in which he (as) passed away, so he (as) sent for Hibbat Allah (as) and said to him (as): ‘If you meet Jibraeel or meet any of the Angels, so covey greetings from me (as) and say to him: ‘O Jibraeel, my (as) father (as) will be guiding you from the fruits of the Paradise’. Jibraeel said to him (as): ‘O Hibbat Allah (as), your (as) father (as) has been Captured (passed away) and we are descending to Pray on him (as), so return’. He (as) returned and found Adam (as) to have passed away. Jibraeel showed him (as) how to wash him (as). So he (as) washed him (as) until when he (as) came to Pray over him (as). Hibbat Allah (as) said: ‘O Jibraeel, go forward and Pray over Adam (as)’. Jibraeel said to him (as): ‘Verily Allah (azwj) has Commanded us that we should prostrate to your (as) father (as) whilst he (as) was in the Paradise, so it is not for us to lead anyone from his (as) sons’. So Hibbat Allah (as) led the Prayed over his (as) father and Jibraeel and the army of the Angels were behind him (as) and Exclaimed Takbeer over him (as) thirty times. So Jibraeel was ordered (to announce) for twenty-five exclamations of Takbeer to be lifted from it and the Sunnah of today is of five Takbeers, whilst the exclamations (Takbeers) over the people of Badr were nine and seven’. Thereafter, when Hibbat Allah (as) had buried his (as) father (as), Qabeel (la) came up to him (as) and said, ‘O Hibbat Allah (as)! I have seen my (la) father (as) that he (as) had specialised you (as) with the Knowledge by what he (as) had not specialised me (la) with, and it was the Knowledge by which your (as) brother (as) Habeel (as) had supplicated by. So his (as) offering was Accepted, therefore I (la) killed him (as) so that his (as) descendants would not be able to gloat over my (la) descendants by saying, ‘We are the sons of the one (as) whose offering was Accepted whilst you are the sons of the one (lar) whose offering was unsuccessful’. So if you (as) were to display anything from the Knowledge which your (as) father (as) has specialised you (as) with, I (la) will kill you (as) just like I (la) killed your (as) brother Habeel (as)’. So Hibbat Allah (as) and the descendants from him (as) continued with what was in their possession, in a fearful (observing Taqeeya) manner, the Knowledge, and the Belief, and the Great Name, and the inheritance of the Prophet-hood, and the effect of Knowledge of the Prophet-hood until Allah (azwj) Sent Noah (as) and the will of Hibbat Allah (as) was displayed. When they (the descendants) look in the bequest of Adam (as) they found Noah (as) as a Prophet (as) the good news which Adam (as) had given them of. So they believed in him (as), and followed him (as) and ratified him (as). And Adam (as) had bequeathed to Hibbat Allah (as) that he (as) should frequently refer to the will during the start of every year and make it to be a day of Eid for them. They did that during the era of Noah (as) and the time of his (as) coming out and that is what has come in the will of every Prophet (as) until Allah (azwj) Sent Muhammad (saww), and they recognised Noah (as) by the Knowledge which was in their possession, and it is the Statement of Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic: “[11:25] And certainly We sent Nuh to his people” up to the end of the Verse. And there were in between Adam (as) and Noah (as), Prophets (as) who were in hiding and it is for that reason their (as) mention is hidden in the Quran. So they (as) have not been named as have been named the proclaimed Prophets (as), greetings be upon all of them (as), and it is the Statement of Allah (azwj); “[4:164] And (We sent) Rasools We have mentioned to you before and Rasools we have not mentioned to you”, meaning the hidden ones from the Prophets (as) have not been named as the proclaimed ones have been named. Noah (as) lived among his (as) people for a thousand years less fifty (950) years. He (as) did not associate anyone in his (as) Prophet-hood for he (as) had come to a people who had rejected the Prophets (as) who were between him (as) and Adam (as) and that is the Statement of Allah (azwj): “[26:105] The people of Nuh rejected the Rasools”, meaning the ones (as) who were in between him (as) and Adam (as) to end in His (azwj) Statement, the Mighty and Majestic: “[26:191] And most surely your Lord is Mighty, the Merciful”. So when the Prophet-hood of Noah (as) came to an end and his (as) days were completed, Allah (azwj) Revealed unto him (as) that: “O Noah (as)! Your (as) Prophet-hood has come to an end and your (as) days are completed, so make the Knowledge which is in your (as) possession, and the Belief, and the Great Name, and the inheritance of the Knowledge, and effects of Knowledge of the Prophet-hood, to be in the descendants from your (as) progeny, for I (azwj) will never Cut it off from the houses of the Prophets (as) which is your (as) house and between Adam (as), and I (azwj) will never Leave the earth except that there will be in it a knowledgeable one by whom My (azwj) Religion would be recognised by, and obedience to Me (azwj) would be recognised by, and salvation would lie in the ones who are born during what is in between the Capture (passing away) of a Prophet (as) up to the coming out of another Prophet (as). And Noah (as) gave the good news of Hud (as) to Saam (as) and there were Prophets (as) in between Noah (as) and Hud (as). And Noah (as) said that Allah (azwj) will Send a Prophet (as) called Hud (as), and he (as) would call his (as) people to Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic. They would belie him (as) and Allah (azwj) will Destroy them by the wind. So the ones among you who meet him (as) should believe in him (as), and follow him (as) for Allah (azwj) would Rescue him from the Punishment of the wind. And Noah (as) ordered his (as) son (as) Sam (as) that he (as) should look at this bequest at the start of every year and make it to be a day of Eid for them. So they observed that which was in their possession from the Knowledge, and the belief, and the Great Name, and the inheritance of the knowledge, and effects of Knowledge of the Prophet-hood. They found Hud (as) as a Prophet (as) and their father Noah (as) had given them the good news of him (as) beforehand. So they believed in him (as), and followed him (as), and ratified him (as), and were therefore Rescued from the Punishment of the wind, and it is the Statement of Allah (azwj): “[7:65] And to Ad (We sent) their brother Hud”, and the Statement of the Mighty and Majestic: “[26:123] (The people of) A’ad denied the Rasools (of Allah). [26:124] When their brother Hud said to them: Will you not guard (against evil)?”, and the Blessed and High Said: “[2:132] And the same did Ibrahim enjoin on his sons and (so did) Yaqoub”, and His (azwj) Statement: “[6:84] And We gave to him Ishaq and Yaqoub and Made it to be in his (as) Household ; each did We guide, and Nuh did We guide before,” and Made it to be in his (as) Household, so the descendants of the Prophets (as) believed in them (as), and those that lived before Ibrahim (as) believed in Ibrahim (as). And there were Prophets (as) in between Ibrahim (as) and Hud (as) and it is the Statement of Allah (azwj); “[11:89], nor are the people of Lut far off from you”, and His (azwj) Statement, Mighty is His (azwj) Mention: “[29:26] And Lut believed in Him, and he said: I am fleeing to my Lord”, and the Statement of the Mighty and Majestic: “[29:16] And (We sent) Ibrahim, when he said to his people: Serve Allah and be careful of (your duty to) Him; this is best for you, if you did but know”. So there came in between every two Prophets (as), ten, or nine, or eight Prophets (as), and all of them were Prophets (as), and there happened for every Prophet (as) what happened for Noah (as), as is what had happened to Adam (as), and Hud (as), and Salih (as), and Shuayb (as), and Ibrahim (as) until it ended up to Yusuf Bin Yaqoub (as). Then, from after Yusuf (as) it went to the grandsons until it ended up to Musa (as). And there were Prophets (as) in between Yusuf (as) and Musa (as). So Allah (azwj) Sent Musa (as) and Haroun (as) to Pharaoh (la), and Hamaan (la), and Qaroun (la). “[23:44] Then We sent Our Rasools one after another; whenever there came to a people their Rasool, they called him a liar, so We made some of them follow others and We made them stories”. And the Children of Israel killed a Prophet (as), and if two were established they killed two, and four would be established, to the extent that sometimes they killed seventy Prophets (as) in one day, and they set up the market and killed them (as) at the end of the day. So when the Torah was Revealed unto Musa (as), it gave the good News of Muhammad (saww), and in between Yusuf (as) and Musa (as) were Prophets (as). And Musa (as) had bequeathed to Yoshua bin Noon (as) and he (as) was the young man whom Allah (azwj) Mentioned in His (azwj) Book. The Prophets (as) never ceased to give the good News of Muhammad (saww) until Allah (azwj) Blessed and High Sent the Messiah Isa Bin Maryam (as). So he (as) gave the good News of Muhammad (saww) and that is the Statement of the High: “[7:157] they find meaning the Jews and the Christians written down with them meaning the description of Muhammad (saww) in the Taurat and the Injeel (who) enjoins them good and forbids them evil,” and it is the Statement of Allah (azwj): “[61:6] And when Isa son of Marium said giving the good news of an Rasool who will come after me, his name being Ahmad,”, and Musa (as) and Isa (as) gave the good news of Muhammad (saww) just as the Prophets (as) had given to one another until it reached Muhammad (saww). So when the Prophet-hood of Muhammad (saww) came to an end, and his (saww) days were completed, Allah (azwj) Blessed and High Revealed unto him (saww): “O Muhammad (saww)! Your (saww) Prophet-hood has come to an end and your (saww) days are completed, so make the Knowledge which is in your (saww) possession, and the Belief, and the Great Name, and inheritance of the Knowledge, and effects of Knowledge of the Prophet-hood to be in the People (asws) of your (saww) Household in the possession of Ali (asws) Bin Abu Talib (asws), for I (azwj) will never Cut off the Knowledge, and the belief, and the Great Name, and inheritance of the Knowledge, and effects of Knowledge of the Prophet-hood from the descendants of your (saww) Progeny (asws) just as I (azwj) never Cut it off from the Houses of the Prophets (as) which were in between you (saww) and your (saww) father Adam (as), and that is the Statement of Allah (azwj) Blessed and High: “[3:33] Surely Allah chose Adam and Nuh and the descendants of Ibrahim and the descendants of Imran above the nations [3:34] Offspring one of the other; and Allah is Hearing, Knowing”. And Allah (azwj) Blessed and High never Makes the Knowledge to be among the ignorant ones, and never Allocates His (azwj) Command to anyone from His (azwj) creatures, not even to an Angel of Proximity, and not to a ‘نَبِيٍّ مُرْسَلٍ’ Mursal Nabi (as), but He (azwj) Sends Rasools from His (azwj) Angels and Said to him: “Say such and such”. So He (azwj) Commanded them with what He (azwj) Loves and Prohibited them from what He (azwj) Abhors. So He (azwj) Related to them the affairs of His (azwj) creatures by the Knowledge. So He (azwj) Taught that Knowledge, and Taught His (azwj) Prophets (as), and His (azwj) and the specials ones from the Prophets (as), and the brothers, and the descendants who were one from another, so that is the Statement of the Majestic and Mighty: “[4:54] But indeed We have given to Ibrahim’s children the Book and the wisdom, and We have given them a grand kingdom”. So, as for the Book, it is the Prophet-hood, and as for the Wisdom, so they (as) are the wise ones from the Prophets (as) from the elite, and as for the Great Kingdom, so they (asws) are the Imams (asws) of the guidance from the elite, and all of these are from the descendants who were one from the other. And the knowledgeable ones are the one whom Allah (azwj) has Made to be among them the remainders, and in them (asws) is the eventual end, and the preservation of the Covenant until the world comes to an end. And the knowledgeable ones and the Guardians of the Command (Wali Ul Amr) are the interpreters of the Knowledge and the guidance. So this is the Glory of the elite and the Rasools (as), and the Prophets (as), and the Wise ones, and the Imams (asws) of guidance, and the Caliphs who are the Guardians of the Command of Allah (azwj), and the interpreters of the Knowledge of Allah (azwj), and the people of the effects of the Knowledge of Allah (azwj) from the descendants who are one from another from the elite after the Prophets (as) from the fathers, and the brothers, and the descendants from the Prophets (as). So the ones who sought protection by the merit ended up with their (as) Knowledge and were rescued by their (as) help, and the ones who placed the Guardians of the Command of Allah (azwj) and the people of the interpretation (Istanbaat) in others than the elites from the Houses of the Prophets (as) have opposed the Command of Allah (azwj), and made the ignorant ones to be as the guardians of the command of Allah (azwj) (wali al-amr), and the pretenders without guidance from Allah (azwj) and they claim that they are the ones who are the people of interpretation (Istanbaat) of the Knowledge of Allah (azwj), so they have belied against Allah (azwj) and His (azwj) Rasool (saww), and disregarded his (saww) successor (asws) and being obedient to him (asws), and did not place the Preference of Allah (azwj) where Allah (azwj) Blessed and High had Placed it. So they went astray and led astray those who followed them, and there will be no argument for them on the Day of Judgement. But rather, the Proof is among the Progeny of Ibrahim (as) as is in the Statement of Allah (azwj): “[4:54] But indeed We have given to Ibrahim’s children the Book and the wisdom, and We have given them a grand kingdom”. So the Proofs are the Prophets (as) and the People of the Household of the Prophets (as) until the Establishment of the Hour (Day of Judgement), because the Book of Allah (azwj) Speaks of that, the Will of Allah (azwj) some of them from the other which has been Placed upon the people, so the Mighty and Majestic Said: “[24:36] In houses which Allah has permitted to be exalted”, and these are the Houses of the Prophets (as), and the Rasools (as), and the Wise ones, and the Imams (asws) of Guidance. So these is the explanation of the firm belief by which gained salvation the ones who were before you, and by it was the Rescued the ones who followed the Imams (asws). And Allah (azwj) Said in His (azwj) Book: “[6:84] And We gave to him Ishaq and Yaqoub; each did We guide, and Nuh did We guide before, and of his descendants, Dawood and Sulaiman and Ayub and Yusuf and Haroun; and thus do We reward those who do good (to others). [6:85] And Zakariya and Yahya and Isa and Ilyas; every one was of the good [6:86] And Ismail and Al-Yasha and Yunus and Lut; and every one We made to excel (in) the worlds [6:87] And from among their fathers and their descendants and their brethren, and We chose them and guided them into the right way”. “[6:89] These are they to whom We gave the book and the wisdom and the prophecy; therefore if these disbelieve in it We have already entrusted with it a people who are not disbelievers in it”, for it has been Entrusted to the People from their (as) Household, and the brothers, and the descendants, and it is the Statement of Allah (azwj) Blessed and High that if your people were to deny it so He (azwj) has Entrusted it to the People (asws) of your (saww) Household with the Belief which He (azwj) Sent you (saww) with. So they will never deny it ever, and will not waste the Belief which you (saww) have been Sent with, the People (asws) of your (saww) Household from after you (saww), the knowledgeable ones (Ulamaa) of your (saww) community, and the Guardians of My (azwj) Command (Wali Al-Amr) after you (saww), and the people of the interpretation (Istinbaat) of the Knowledge in which there is lie, and no sin, and no forgery, and no arrogance, and no showing off. So this is the explanation of what ended up to him (saww) of the matters of the community. Allah (azwj) Purified the People (asws) of the Household of His (azwj) Prophet (saww), and asked them (the people) for the recompense of the cordiality (Muwaddat), and Made the ‘Wilayah’ to flow for them (asws), and Made them (asws) to be the successors (asws), and His (azwj) Beloved ones. He (saww) Established it after him (saww) in his (saww) community: ‘O you people! Learn a lesson from what I (saww) am saying to you. The place where Allah (azwj) has Placed His (azwj) Wilayah, and obedience to Him (azwj), and His (azwj) cordiality, and the interpretation of His (azwj) Knowledge, and His (azwj) Proofs, so these (asws) are the ones. So accept them (asws), and attach yourselves to them (asws) in order to be Rescued by it, and it will become an argument for you on the Day of Judgement, and the Path of your Lord (azwj) Majestic and Mighty. And you cannot arrive to the Wilayah of Allah (azwj) except through them (asws). So the one who does that would have the right for Allah (azwj) to Honour him and not Punish him. And the one who comes to Allah (azwj) without what He (azwj) has Commanded for, would have become deserving for Allah (azwj) to Humiliate him and Punish him’.
93. A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Al-Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Abu Hamza Sabit Bin Dinar Al-Thamaly and Abu Mansour, from Abu Al-Tabi’e who said: ‘We went on Pilgrimage with Abu Ja’far (asws) in the year in which Hisham Abdul Malik was performing the Pilgrimage as well, and along with him was Nafa’u, the retainer of Umar Bin Al-Khattaab. So Nafa’u looked towards Abu Ja’far (asws) in the corner of the House and the people had gathered around him’. Nafa’u said, ‘O Commander of the Faithful, who is this one around whom the people have gathered?’ He said, ‘This is a Prophet of the people of Al-Kufa. This is Muhammad (asws) Bin Ali (asws)’. He said, ‘Be a witness for I shall ask him (asws) about certain matters that nobody can answer with regards to it except for a Prophet (as) or a son (asws) of a Prophet (as), or a successor (asws) of a Prophet (as)’. He said, ‘So go ahead and ask him (asws), perhaps you can embarrass him (asws)’. So Nafa’u came until he leaned upon the people, until he was higher than Abu Ja’far (asws). He said, ‘O Muhammad (asws) Bin Ali (asws)! I have read the Torah, and the Evangel, and the Psalms, and the Furqaan (Quran), and have understood their Permissibles, and their Prohibitions, and I have come to ask you (asws) about certain matters that none can answer with regards to it except for a Prophet (as), or a successor (asws) of a Prophet (as), or son (asws) of a Prophet (as)’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Abu Ja’far (asws) raised his (asws) head and said; ‘Ask, or shall I (asws) begin for you?’ He said, ‘Inform me, how many years were there in between Isa (as) and Muhammad (saww)?’ He (asws) said: ‘Shall I (asws) inform you in accordance to your words or to mine (asws)?’ He said, ‘Inform me in accordance to both together’. He (asws) said: ‘In accordance to my (asws) words, so there were five hundred years, and in accordance to your words there were six hundred years’. He said, ‘So inform me about the Statement of Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic to His (azwj) Prophet (saww): “[43:45] And ask those of Our Rasools whom We sent before you: Did We ever appoint gods to be worshipped besides the Beneficent Allah?” who was the one that Muhammad (saww) asked since there were five hundred years in between him (saww) and Isa (as)?’ Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘This is the Verse: “[17:1] Glory be to Him Who made His servant to go on a night from the Sacred Mosque to the remote mosque of which We have blessed the precincts, so that We may show to him some of Our signs; surely He is the Hearing, the Seeing”, so Allah (azwj) Blessed and High Showed to Muhammad (saww) certain Signs when He (azwj) Made him (saww) to travel to the Bayt Al-Maqdas, was that Allah (azwj) Mighty is His (azwj) Mention, Resurrected from the former ones and the later ones, Prophets (as) and Rasools (as), then Commanded Jibraeel (as) to Call out the Adhaan and the Iqamah. And he said in his Adhaan “Hurry to the Best of the deeds” (Hayya Ala Khayr Al-Amal). Then Muhammad (saww) proceeded and Prayed with the people. When he (saww) had finished, he (saww) asked them: ‘What did you testify to and what did you worship?’ They replied, ‘We testified that there is no god except Allah (azwj), One with no associates to Him (azwj), and that you (saww) are the Rasool (saww) of Allah (azwj), and it is upon that, that He (azwj) Took a Covenant from us and the Confirmation’. So Nafa’u said, ‘You (asws) have spoken the truth, O Abu Ja’far (asws)! So Inform me about the Statement of Allah (azwj): “[21:30] Do not those who disbelieve see that the heavens and the earth were closed up, but We have opened them”. He (asws) said: ‘When Allah (azwj) Blessed and High Sent Adam (as) to the earth, and the skies were closed up and did not rain at all, and the earth was closed up and did not grow any vegetation. So when Allah (azwj) Accepted the repentance of Adam (as), He (azwj) Commanded the sky, so it collected rain in the clouds. Then He (azwj) Commanded it, so it allowed it to fall. Then He (azwj) Commanded the earth, so it produced the trees, and the fruits, and the rivers flowed. So that is (what is meant by) ‘closed up’, and this is (what is meant by) ‘it opened up’’. Nafa’u said, ‘You (asws) had spoken the truth, O son (asws) of the Rasool (saww) of Allah (azwj). So inform me about the Statement of Allah (azwj): “[14:48] On the day when the earth shall be changed into a different earth, and the heavens (as well)”. Which earth would it be replaced by on the Day?’ So Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘It will be the ground which would become edible, from which they will be eating until such time as Allah (azwj) has Completed the Accounting’. Nafa’u said, ‘They would be busy (with the accounting) instead to eating’. So Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘Would they be busy on that Day or would they be in the Fire?’ Nafa’u said, ‘But they would be in the Fire’. He (asws) said: ‘By Allah (azwj), they would not be busy, it’s just that when they call for the food, so they will be fed the Zaqoom (a tree in Hell), and they will call for drink and they will be quenched with Al-Hameem (a river of Hell)’. He said, ‘You (asws) has spoken the truth, O son (asws) of the Rasool (saww) of Allah (azwj), and there remains one question’. He (asws) said: ‘And what is that?’ He said, ‘Inform me about Allah (azwj) Blessed and High, when (did He (azwj) Exist) from?’ He (asws) said: ‘Woe be unto you. When was he (azwj) not from that I (asws) inform you when He (azwj) was from? Glory be to the One Who (azwj) always Was and will never cease to Be, Alone, Eternal, He (azwj) has not Taken any associate nor a son’. Then he (asws) said: ‘O Nafa’u, inform me of what I (asws) ask you about’. He said, ‘And what is it?’ He (asws) said: ‘What do you say about the companions of Nahrwaan (a battle), for if you say that Amir-ul-Momineen (asws) killed them rightfully, therefore they were apostates, and if you were to say then he (asws) killed them wrongly, so you would have blasphemed’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He turned around from those that were with him, and he was saying, ‘By Allah (azwj), you (asws) are truly the most knowledgeable of the people’. So he came to Hisham who asked, ‘What did you do?’ He said, ‘Leave me from your speech. By Allah (azwj), this one (asws) is truly the most knowledgeable of the people, and he (asws) is truly the son (asws) of the Rasool (saww) of Allah (azwj), and his (asws) companions are quite right in taking him (asws) as a Prophet (as)’.
94. From him, from Ismail Bin Abaan, from Umar Bin Abdullah Al-Saqafy who said: ‘Hisham Bin Abdul Malik made Abu Ja’far (asws) to go out from Al-Medina to Al-Shaam. He made him (asws) to stay in his accommodation, and he (asws) used to sit with the people in their gatherings. It so happened that he (asws) was sitting and in his (asws) presence was a group of people asking him, when he (asws) saw Christians entering inside a mountain over there. So he (asws) said: ‘What is with those, is it one of their festivities today?’ They said, ‘No, O son (asws) of the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj), but they are going to one of their scholars who (stays) inside this mountain all year long, and on this day he has come out. So they are asking him questions what they want and what is to happen in their year’. So Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘And he has knowledge?’ They said, ‘He is one of the most knowledgeable of the people. He has met the companions of the disciples of Isa (as)’. He (asws) said: ‘Shall we go to him?’ They said, ‘That is up to you (asws), O son (asws) of the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj)’. He (the narrator) said: ‘Abu Ja’far (asws) covered his (asws) head by his (asws) cloth, and went with his (asws) companions. He (asws) mingled with the Christians until he (asws) came to the mountain. Abu Ja’far (asws) sat down in the middle of the Christians along with his (asws) companions, and the Christians brought out a carpet and placed the pillows. Then they entered and brought him out with his eyes covered. His eyes stirred as if they were the eyes of a snake. Then he inadvertently turned towards Abu Ja’far (asws) and asked, ‘O Sheykh, where are you (asws) from, or are you (asws) from the Mercied community?’ So Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘But, I (asws) am from the Mercied community’. He said, ‘Are you (asws) from their knowledgeable ones or from their ignorant ones?’ He (asws) said: ‘I (asws) am not from the ignorant ones’. The Christian said, ‘Shall I ask you or you will ask me?’ Abu Ja’far said: ‘Ask me (asws)’. So the Christian said, ‘O group of Christians, a man from the community of Muhammad (saww) is saying, ‘Ask me!’. This one is full of answers’. Then he said, ‘O servant of Allah (azwj), inform me about the hour which is neither from the night, nor from the day. Which hour is it?’ Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘That which is in between the dawn and sunrise’. So the Christian said, ‘So if it is neither an hour from the hours of the night, nor from the hours of the day, from which is it?’ Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘From the hours of the Paradise, and in which our patients are relieved (from pain). So the Christian said, ‘Shall I ask you (asws) or will you ask me?’ Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘Ask me (asws)’. The Christian said, ‘O group of Christians, this one here is full of knowledge. Inform me about the inhabitants of the Paradise. How would they be eating but will not be excreting? Give me their example in the world’. So Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘The unborn (baby) which is in the womb of its mother eats from what its mother eats but does not excrete’. So the Christian said, ‘Did you not say, ‘I (asws) am not from the knowledgeable ones?’ Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘But rather, I (asws) said to you that I (asws) am not from the ignorant ones’. So the Christian said, ‘Shall I ask you (asws) or will you (asws) ask me?’ Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘Ask me (asws)’. He said, ‘O group of Christians! By Allah (azwj), I will ask him about a matter which would bog him (asws) down just as the donkey gets bogged down in the mud’. He (asws) said to him: ‘Ask’. He said, ‘Inform me about a man who approached his woman, so she became pregnant with twins in the same one hour, and gave birth to both of them in the same one hour, and they both died in the same one hour, and were buried in the same one grave. One of them lived for one hundred and fifty years whilst the other one lived for fifty years. Who were those two?’ So Abu Ja’far (asws) said: ‘Uzayr and Uzrat. Their mother became pregnant with them both as you have described, and gave birth to both of them as you have described, and both Uzayr and Uzrat lived for such and such a time. Then Allah (azwj) Blessed and High Made Uzayr to die for a hundred years, then Resurrected him, and he lived with Uzrat for fifty years, and both of them died in the same one hour’. So the Christian said, ‘O group of Christians. I have not see with my eyes ever a more knowledgeable one than this man (asws). Do not ask me about a single letter (anything at all) so long as this one is in Al-Shaam. Return me’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So they returned him to his cave, and the Christians returned with Abu Ja’far (asws)’.
95. A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ismail Bin Mahraan, from Muhammad Bin Mansour Al-Khuzai’e, from Ali Bin Suweyd and Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Al-Husayn, from Muhammad Bin Ismail Bin Yazi’e, from his uncle Hamza bin Yazi’e, from Ali Bin Suweyd and Al-Hassan Biin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad Al-Nahdy, from Ismail Bin Mahraan, from Muhammad bin Mansour, from Ali Bin Suweyd who said: ‘I wrote to Abu Al-Hassan Musa (asws) whilst he (asws) was in the solitary confinement. I wrote asking him (asws) about his (asws) condition and about numerous matters. The answer did not come for months, then he (asws) answered me by an answer and this is its copy: - In the Name of Allah (azwj) the Beneficent, the Merciful. Praise be to the High, the Magnificent. It is by His (azwj) Greatness and His (azwj) Light the hearts of the ‘الْمُؤْمِنِينَ’ (believers) achieve vision, and by His (azwj) Greatness and His (azwj) Light, (whereas) the ignorant ones are inimical to Him (azwj), and by His (azwj) Greatness and His (azwj) Light crave the ones in the heavens and in the earth and to Him (azwj) is the Means by the different deeds and the contradictory Religions. So the rightful, and the mistaken, and the stray, and the guided, and the hearing, and the deaf, and the seeing, and the blind ones are perplexed. So the Praise Belongs to Allah (azwj) Whose Religion was recognised and described by Muhammad (saww). Having said that, you are of the people whom Allah (azwj) has Blessed by Sending the Progeny (asws) of Muhammad (saww) (towards you and) and by special status, and Preserved the cordiality which attracted you to His (azwj) Religion, and what He (azwj) has Inspired from your guidance and your vision from the matters of your Religion that you give preference to them (asws) and are referring your matters to them (asws). You wrote to me (asws) asking me (asws) about matters which I (asws) was observing dissimulation in and concealed them for a while. So when the authority of the tyrant passed by, and there came the authority of the One (azwj) with Great Authority, by my (asws) departing from the world which has been condemned by its inhabitants who have hardened themselves against their Creator, I (asws) saw that I (asws) could explain to you what you had asked me (asws) about, fearing that our (asws) weak Shiites may enter into confusion because of the ignorance which is in front of them. So fear Allah (azwj), Mighty is His (azwj) Mention, and single out for these matters, its deserving ones, and be cautious that you should become a reason for the calamities against the successors (asws) or provoking (people) against them (asws) by publicising what I (asws) am entrusting you with and exposing what I (asws) have told you to conceal, and Allah (azwj) Willing, you will not do this. Firstly what I (asws) would like to inform you is that you should mourn for myself (asws) in this very night without remorse and no complaints, for what is to transpire is from what Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic has Ordained and is inevitable. So attach yourself to the Handle of the Progeny (asws) of Muhammad (saww), and the Firmest Handle of the successor (asws) after the successor (asws), and the submission to them (asws) and be pleased with what they (asws) say, and do not seek Religion from the ones who are not from your Shiites, and do not love their Religion, for they are traitors who have betrayed Allah (azwj) and His (azwj) Rasool (saww), and betrayed their trusts. And do you know how they betrayed their trusts? They were entrusted with the Book of Allah (azwj) so they distorted it and changed it, and evidenced it upon the rulers among them. So stay away from them. Allah (azwj) has Made them to Taste the clothing of the hunger, and the fear due to what they had done. And you asked about two men (Abu Bakr and Umar) who usurped the wealth of a man which he used to spend upon the poor and the needy and the traveller in need, and in the Way of Allah (azwj). So when they usurped that, they were not happy until they made him carry it unwillingly upon his ride to their own homes. When they undertook to be in charge of its spending, and so reached infidelity by doing that. By my (asws) life, they had become hypocrites before that and rejected against Allah (azwj) His (azwj) Words, and mocked at His (azwj) Rasool (saww), and they were both infidels. May Allah (azwj) Curse them, and the Angels, and the people altogether. By Allah (azwj), the ‘Eman’ (belief) did not enter into the heart of any one of them since their coming out from their condition (Kufr), and it did not increase them in anything except for doubts. They were deceivers, sceptical, hypocrites until they both died and the Angels of Punishment took them to the place of disgrace in the eternal abode. And you asked about those who were in the presence of that man whilst he was usurping his wealth and placed it upon his ride, and there were among them who knew about it and denied it. So those (Abu Bakr and Umar) are the first apostates from this community, and so may the Curse of Allah (azwj) and the Angels and all the people be upon them. And you asked about extent of our (asws) Knowledge, and it is upon three aspects. The past, and the future, and the newly recurring. So as for the past, it has been explained, and as for the future, it has been written down, and as for that which is newly occurring, so it gets imprinted upon the hearts, and resonated in the ears, and it is the highest of our (asws) Knowledge, and there is no Prophet (as) after our (asws) Prophet (saww). And you asked about the mothers of their children (the followers of those two), and about their marriages, and about their divorces. So, as for the mothers of their children, they are prostitutes up to the Day of Judgement, having married without a guardian (Wali’s consent), and going through divorces without (completing the) waiting periods. And as for the one who enters into our (asws) Invitation (call to Wilayah), so his ‘Eman’ demolishes his misguidance, and so does his ‘Yaqeen’ conviction (demolish) his doubts. And you asked about the Zakaat among them. So, there was nothing from the Zakaat (for them), as you are more deserving of it, because we (asws) have made that to be lawful for you, and those who are from you wherever they may be. And you asked about the weak. So the weak is the one who cannot argue against (the batil) and he does not understand the differences, for if he understands the difference, then he is not with the weakness. You asked about the ‘الشَّهَادَاتِ’ testimonies for them. So establish the testimony for the sake of Allah (azwj), even if it is against your own-self, and the parents and the relatives in what is between you and them. So if you fear injustice against your brother, don’t (be part of it). And call to the Law of Allah (azwj), as He (azwj) has (placed those) in our (asws) recognition (Ma’rifat). The one who hopes would be Answered and do not barricade yourself by the fort of hypocrisy. And befriend the Progeny (asws) of Muhammad (saww) and do not speak of what reaches you from us (asws), and ascribe to us that ‘this is false’, and you may know something from us (asws) which is against it, for you do not know why we (asws) may have said it, and upon which perspective we may have described it. Believe in what I (asws) inform you (asws) and do not publicise what I (asws) have told you to conceal from what I (asws) inform you. It is from the obligatory right of your brother that you do not conceal anything from him which might benefit him in the affairs of the world and the Hereafter. And do not hold a grudge against him and not to hurt him, and answer his call when he calls you and do not leave him alone between him and his enemies from the people even though they may be closer to you than him, and support him in his illness. It is not from etiquettes of the ‘الْمُؤْمِنِينَ’ Believers, the defrauding, and the injuring, and the treachery, and the arrogance, and the vulgarities, and the immoralities, and the commanding for such things. So if you were to see the deformed Bedouin in legions (large armies), so wait for your relief (Al-Qaim (asws)), and for your Shiites, the believers, and when the sun rises, raise your vision to the sky and look at what Allah (azwj) has Done with the criminals. So I (asws) have explained to you all of this in summary. And send greetings upon Muhammad (saww) and his (saww) Progeny (asws), the righteous’.
96. Humeyd Bin Ziyad, from Al-Hassan Bin Muhammad Bin Sama’at, from Muhammad Bin Ayyub and Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father altogether from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abu Nasr, from Abaan Bin Usmaan, from Abu Baseer, who has narrated the following: Abu Abdullah (asws) having said: ‘Abu Dharr (ar) came to the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) and said, ‘O Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj), I (asws) have begun disliking Al-Medina. Will you (saww) permit me (asws), and that I (ar) and the son of my (ar) brother go out to Muzeyna, for we are from it?’ He (saww) said: ‘I (saww) fear that you (ar) might be attacked by Arab horsemen, so they would kill the son of your (ar) brother and you will come to me (saww) beaten up, and stand in front of me (saww) leaning upon your stick and you will say, ‘The son of my (ar) brother has been killed, and the cattle taken away’. He (ar) said, ‘O Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj), but nothing will happen except for the good, Allah (azwj) Willing’. So the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) gave him (ar) permission. So he (ar) and the son of his (ar) brother, and his (ar) wife went out. But, very soon the horsemen of the Clan of Fazaarat, among whom was Uyaynah Bin Hasan attacked them, took away the cattle, and killed the son of his (ar) brother, and took his (ar) wife who as from the Clan of Ghaffaar. And Abu Dharr (ar) came up in an intensely difficult condition and paused in front of the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj), badly wounded and leaning upon his stick and said, ‘Allah (azwj) and His (azwj) Rasool (saww) were right. The cattle were taken, and the son of my (ar) brother being killed, and I (ar) am leaning upon my stick’. So the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) cried out among the Muslims. So they went out in the search, and returned the cattle, and killed a number from the Polytheists’.
97. Abaan, from Abu Baseer has narrated the following: Abu Abdullah (asws) has said that the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) encamped under a tree on the edge of the valley during the (military) expedition of Zaat Al-Raqa’a. A flooding came in between him (saww) and his (saww) companions. A man from the Polytheists saw it, and the Muslims were standing upon the edge of the valley waiting for the flood to be cut-off (subside). So a man from the Polytheists said to his people, ‘I will kill Muhammad (saww)’. So he came and pulled out his sword against the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) then said, ‘Who is going to save you from me, O Muhammad (saww)?’ He (saww) said: ‘My (saww) Lord (azwj), and your Lord (azwj)’. So Jibraeel (as) blew him off his horse and he fell upon his back. The Rasool (saww) stood up and took the sword, and sat upon his chest and said: ‘Who is the one who will rescue you from me (saww), O Gowras?’ He said, ‘Your (saww) benevolence and your (saww) generosity, O Muhammad (saww)’. So he (saww) left him. He stood up and he was saying, ‘By Allah (azwj), you (saww) are better than me and more generous’.
98. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Al-Qasim Bin Muhammad, and Ali Bin Muhammad, from Al-Qasim Bin Muhammad, from Suleyman Bin Dawood Al-Munkary, from Hafs Bin Gayaas, who has said: Abu Abdullah (asws) having said: ‘If you have the ability to make yourselves unknown, you better do it. And it should not matter to you if the people do not praise you, and it should not matter to you either that you are condemned by the people whilst you are being Praised in the Presence of Allah (azwj). Amir-ul-Momineen (asws) used to say: ‘There is no good in the world except for one of the two men – a man who increases in it the good deeds every day and a man who corrects himself, ready to face death by the repentance. But, what is meant by the repentance? By Allah (azwj)! If he were to perform prostrations to the extent that his neck breaks off, Allah (azwj) will not Accept deeds from him except by our (asws) Wilayah, the People (asws) of the Household. Indeed, (Acceptance) is for the ones who recognise our (asws) rights and hope for Reward by us (asws), (they) are pleased with their strength of half a ‘Mudd’ (Unit of measurement) of food every day, not being able to cover their private parts (insufficient clothing), and no covering over their head (roof), but still they are very much fearful of Allah (azwj) and are pleased with the (little) share from the world. And that is how Allah (azwj) has Described them where He (azwj) has Said: “[23:60] And those who dispense their charity with their hearts full of fear”. That’s what they come with? By Allah (azwj)! They come with obedience along with the love, and the Wilayah, and they are with regards to that, (but they are still) fearful that it may not be Accepted from them. By Allah (azwj), they are not fearful with the fear of doubt with regards to what they are in from the difficulties of Religion, but they are fearful that they might have been deficient (Muqassir) in our (asws) love and being (less) obedient to us (asws)’. Then said: ‘If you could afford not to go out of your houses, then do so, as when you go out then it becomes obligatory on you that you would not backbite, and not lie, and not be envious, and not show-off, and not pretend, and not flatter’. Then said: ‘Yes, a silo for the Muslim is his house in which he restrains his vision, and his tongue, and his self, and his genitals. The one, who recognises the Favours of Allah (azwj) by his heart, obligates more for himself from Allah (azwj), before he even expresses his appreciation for it upon his tongue, and the one who goes around considering himself to be better than others, so he is from the arrogant ones’. So I said to him (asws), ‘But what if he sees himself as better due to the (spiritual) health when he sees the one who is indulging in the sins?’ He (asws) said: ‘Far be it! Far be it! It may be that he has been Forgiven for his sins whilst you have been Paused for the Accounting. Have you not recited the story of the magicians (at the time) of Musa (as)?’ Then said: ‘How many are proud with what Allah (azwj) has Favoured them with, and how many have been enticed by the Veil of Allah (azwj) upon them, and how many have been infatuated by the praises of the people upon him’. Then said: ‘I (asws) hope for the salvation for the ones who recognise our (asws) rights, from this community except for one of the three – an unjust ruler, a follower of desires, an openly immoral one’. Then he (asws) recited: “[3:31] Say: If you love Allah, then follow me, Allah will love you”, then said: ‘O Hafs, the love is higher than the fear’. Then said: ‘By Allah (azwj), Allah (azwj) does not Love the one who loves the world, and takes as a friend other than us (asws), whilst the one who recognises our (asws) rights and loves us (asws), so he has loved Allah (azwj)’. A man wept, so he (asws) said: ‘Are you crying? Even if the inhabitants of the heavens and the earth, all of them get together crying to Allah (azwj) to be Rescued from the Fire and to be entered into the Paradise, they would not be able to intercede for you. Then if you had for yourself a living heart you would be the most fearful of the people to Allah (azwj) in that condition’. Then said to him: ‘O Hafs, be a follower and not a leader. O Hafs, the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) said: ‘The one who fears Allah (azwj), would be of little speech’. Then said: ‘Once Musa Bin Imran (as) was advising his (as) companions, when a man stood up, and tore his shirt. So Allah (azwj) Revealed unto him (as): “O Musa (as)! Say to him, ‘Do not tear your shirt, but open for Me (azwj) your heart’”. Then said: ‘Musa (as) Bin Imran (as) passed by a man from his (as) companion, and he was prostrating. So after return back from what he (as) had to do, (Musa (as)) saw him still in prostration. So Musa (as) said to him: ‘If (the fulfilment) of your need was in my (as) hands, I (asws) would have fulfilled it for you’. So Allah (azwj) Revealed unto him (as); “O Musa (as)! Even if he were to prostrate until his neck breaks, I (azwj) will not Accept it until he turns away from what I (azwj) Abhor and towards what I (azwj) Love”.’
99. Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hisham Bin Saalim, and others, the following: Abu Abdullah (asws) having said: ‘There was nothing more beloved to the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) than remaining hungry and fearful for the sake of Allah (azwj)’.
100. A number of our companions, from sahl Bin Ziyad and Abu Ali Al-Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar altogether from Ibn Fazzaal, from Ali Bin Uqba, from Saeed Bin Amro and Al-Ju’fy, from Muhammad Bin Muslim who said: ‘I came up to Abu Ja’far (asws) one day and (I felt that) he (asws) was resting (upon something) whilst eating, and he (asws) had been telling us that it is undesirable. So I looked at him (asws), so he (asws) called me over to eat with him (asws). When he (asws) had finished, he (asws) said: ‘O Muhammad, you had been thinking that no eye had seen the Rasool (saww) Allah (azwj) eating whilst leaning (upon something) from the time Allah (azwj) Sent him (saww) up to his (saww) passing away’. He (the narrator) said, ‘Then he (asws) referred to himself (asws) and said: ‘No! By Allah (azwj), no eye had seen him (saww) eating whilst leaning (upon something) from the time Allah (azwj) Sent him (saww) up to his (saww) passing away. Then said: ‘O Muhammad! Perhaps you think that he (saww) satiated himself (saww) from good bread for three continuous days from the time Allah (azwj) Sent him (saww) up to his (saww) passing away’. Then he (asws) referred to himself (asws), then said: ‘No! By Allah (azwj), he (saww) did not satiate himself (saww) from good bread for three continuous days since Allah (azwj) Sent him (saww) up to his (saww) passing away. But, I (asws) am not saying that he (saww) could not find it, for he (saww) used to gift one man a hundred camels. Had he (saww) intended to eat it he (saww) would have eaten. And Jibraeel had come to him (saww) with the Keys of the treasures of the earth three times giving him (saww) the option without any reduction of anything from Allah (azwj) from what Allah (azwj) had Prepared for him (saww) for the Day of Judgement. He (saww) chose the modesty to his (saww) Lord (azwj). And when asked for anything he (saww) never said, ‘No’, at all. He (saww) would say: ‘If I (saww) had it I (saww) would give it’. And if was not available, he (saww) would say: ‘It would come’, and whenever Allah (azwj) Gave anything at all he (saww) would hand it over to him, to the extent that if the man has been Given the Paradise, which Allah (azwj) would submit to him (saww), then he (saww) would give it to him by his (saww) own hands’. And said: ‘Your Master (Amir-ul-Momineen (asws)) used to sit like the sitting of the slave, and eat like the eating of the slave, and would feed the people good bread and the meat, and would return to his (asws) family to eat bread with oil. And if he (asws) were to buy Al-Sunbulany shirt, then he (asws) would give his (asws) slave the choice of the better one, then would wear the remaining one. So if he (asws) would find a little excess he (asws) would withdraw it, and if his (asws) would feel that his heel (asws) had exceeded he (asws) would have removed it. No two matters would be referred to him (asws) at all for the sake of Allah (azwj) except that he (asws) would opt for the more difficult one upon his (asws) body, and he (asws) was the ruler of the people for five years but did not place a brick upon a brick, and did not build a construction upon a construction, and did not acquire a piece of land, and did not leave a legacy behind him, white or red except for seven hundred Dirhams as a gifts, intending that he (asws) would buy a servant for his (asws) Family. No one could bear any of his works, and Ali (asws) Bin Al-Husayn (asws) used to look into a Book from the Books of Ali (asws), so he (asws) would strike the ground with it and would say: ‘Who can endure this?’
Majhul· al-Majlisi
لم يخرجه· al-Behbudi
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