Bihar Al-Anwaar Volume 17 Part 2

بحار الأنوار

BIHAR AL-ANWAAR

الجزء السابع عشر

Volume 17

Part 2 out of 3

بحار الانوار الجامعة لدرر أخبار الائمة الاطهار

Bihar Al-Anwaar – The summary of the pearls of the Ahadeeth of the Pure Imams^-asws

تأليف العلامة فخر الامة المولى الشيخ محمد باقر المجلسيى

Author – The Allama, the pride of the community, the Mullah, the Sheikh Muhammad Baqir Al Majlisi

باب 2 جوامع معجزاته صلى الله عليه و آله و نوادرها

CHAPTER 2 – SUMMARY OF HIS^-saww MIRACLES AND ITS MISCELLANEOUS

1- ب، قرب الإسناد الْحَسَنُ بْنُ ظَرِيفٍ عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ عَنِ الرِّضَا عَنْ أَبِيهِ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: كُنْتُ عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ وَ أَنَا طِفْلٌ خُمَاسِيٌّ إِذْ دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ نَفَرٌ مِنَ الْيَهُودِ فَقَالُوا أَنْتَ ابْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ نَبِيِّ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ وَ الْحُجَّةِ عَلَى أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ قَالَ لَهُمْ نَعَمْ

Al Hassan Bin Zareyf, from Ma’mar,

‘From Al-Reza^-asws, from his^-asws father Musa^-asws Bin Ja’far^-asws having said: ‘I^-asws was in the presence of Abu Abdullah^-asws and I^-asws was a child of five (years old), when a number of Jews came to him^-asws and they said, ‘ Are you^-asws a son^-asws of Muhammad^-saww, the Prophet^-saww of this community, and the Divine Authority upon the earth?’ He^-asws said to them: ‘Yes’.

قَالُوا إِنَّا نَجِدُ فِي التَّوْرَاةِ أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى آتَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَ وُلْدَهُ الْكِتَابَ وَ الْحُكْمَ وَ النُّبُوَّةَ وَ جَعَلَ لَهُمُ الْمُلْكَ وَ الْإِمَامَةَ وَ هَكَذَا وَجَدْنَا ذُرِّيَّةَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ لَا تَتَعَدَّاهُمُ النُّبُوَّةُ وَ الْخِلَافَةُ وَ الْوَصِيَّةُ فَمَا بَالُكُمْ قَدْ تَعَدَّاكُمْ ذَلِكَ وَ ثَبَتَ فِي غَيْرِكُمْ وَ نَلْقَاكُمْ مُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مَقْهُورِينَ لَا يُرْقَبُ فِيكُمْ ذِمَّةُ نَبِيِّكُمْ‏

They said, ‘We find in the Torah that Allah^-azwj Blessed and Exalted Gave Ibrahim^-as and his^-as children the Book and the Wisdom and the Prophet-hood, and Made the kingdom and the Imamate to be for them, and that is how we find the offspring of the Prophets^-as to be prepared for the Prophet-hood and the Caliphate and the successorship. So, what is the matter with you^-asws to have been left out of that, and it has been affirmed in others, and you^-asws are cast as weakened and coerced, the responsibility of your^-asws Prophet^-saww is not seen among you^-asws?’

فَدَمَعَتْ عَيْنَا أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع ثُمَّ قَالَ نَعَمْ لَمْ تَزَلْ أَنْبِيَاءُ اللَّهِ‏ مُضْطَهَدَةً مَقْهُورَةً مَقْتُولَةً بِغَيْرِ حَقٍّ وَ الظَّلَمَةُ غَالِبَةً وَ قَلِيلٌ مِنْ عِبَادِ اللَّهِ الشَّكُورُ

The eyes of Abu Abdullah^-asws overflowed with tears, then he^-asws said: ‘Yes, the Prophets^-as of Allah^-azwj did not cease to be oppressed, coerced, killed, without right, and the injustice overcame, and only a few from the servants of Allah^-azwj are grateful’.

قَالُوا فَإِنَّ الْأَنْبِيَاءَ وَ أَوْلَادَهُمْ عَلِمُوا مِنْ غَيْرِ تَعْلِيمٍ وَ أُوتُوا الْعِلْمَ تَلْقِيناً وَ كَذَلِكَ يَنْبَغِي لِأَئِمَّتِهِمْ وَ خُلَفَائِهِمْ وَ أَوْصِيَائِهِمْ فَهَلْ أُوتِيتُمُ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع ادْنُهْ يَا مُوسَى فَدَنَوْتُ فَمَسَحَ يَدَهُ عَلَى صَدْرِي ثُمَّ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ أَيِّدْهُ بِنَصْرِكَ بِحَقِّ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ

They said, ‘The Prophets^-as and their^-as children tend to be knowledgeable from without education, and are given the knowledge as recipients, and like that is appropriate for their^-as Imams and their^-as Caliphs and their^-as successors^-as. Have you^-asws been given that?’ Abu Abdullah^-asws said: ‘Come closer, O Musa^-asws!’ I^-asws went near him^-asws. He^-asws wiped his^-asws hand upon my^-asws chest, then said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! Aid him^-asws with Your^-azwj Help by the right of Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww Progeny^-asws’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ سَلُوهُ عَمَّا بَدَا لَكُمْ قَالُوا وَ كَيْفَ نَسْأَلُ طِفْلًا لَا يَفْقَهُ قُلْتُ سَلُونِي تَفَقُّهاً وَ دَعُوا الْعَنَتَ‏ قَالُوا أَخْبِرْنَا عَنِ الْآيَاتِ التِّسْعِ الَّتِي أُوتِيَهَا مُوسَى بْنُ عِمْرَانَ قُلْتُ الْعَصَا وَ إِخْرَاجُهُ يَدَهُ مِنْ جَيْبِهِ بَيْضَاءَ وَ الْجَرَادُ وَ الْقُمَّلُ وَ الضَّفَادِعُ وَ الدَّمُ وَ رَفْعُ الطُّورِ وَ الْمَنُّ وَ السَّلْوَى آيَةً وَاحِدَةً وَ فَلْقُ الْبَحْرِ

Then he^-asws said: ‘Ask him^-asws about whatever comes to you’. They said, ‘And how can we ask a child who does not understand?’ I^-asws said: ‘Ask me^-asws, you will understand it, and leave the pride’. They said, ‘Inform us about the nine Signs which were Given to Musa^-as Bin Imran^-as’. I^-asws said: ‘The staff, and his^-as bringing his^-asws hand from his^-as pocket as white, and the locusts, and the lice, and the frogs, and the blood, and raising the (mount) Toor, and the Manna and the Salva as one Sign, and splitting the sea’.

قَالُوا صَدَقْتَ فَمَا أُعْطِيَ نَبِيُّكُمْ مِنَ الْآيَاتِ اللَّاتِي نَفَتِ الشَّكَّ عَنْ قُلُوبِ مَنْ أُرْسِلَ إِلَيْهِ قُلْتُ آيَاتٌ كَثِيرَةٌ أَعُدُّهَا إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ فَاسْمَعُوا وَ عُوا وَ افْقَهُوا

They said, ‘You^-asws speak the truth, so what has your^-asws Prophet^-as been Given from the Signs which negate the doubts from the hearts of the ones it is Sent to?’ I^-asws said: ‘Many Signs. I^-asws shall number these, if Allah^-azwj so Desires, therefore listen and retain and understand.

أَمَّا أَوَّلُ ذَلِكَ فَإِنْ أَنْتُمْ تُقِرُّونَ أَنَّ الْجِنَّ كَانُوا يَسْتَرِقُونَ السَّمْعَ قَبْلَ مَبْعَثِهِ فَمُنِعَتْ فِي أَوَانِ‏ رِسَالَتِهِ بِالرُّجُومِ وَ انْقِضَاضِ النُّجُومِ وَ بُطْلَانِ الْكَهَنَةِ وَ السَّحَرَةِ

As for the first of that, you are reading that the Jinn were stealing the hearing before his^-saww announcing prophethood, and they were prevented in the beginning of his^-saww Message by the pelting (of the meteors), and the diving of the stars, and invalidation of the soothsaying and sorcery.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ كَلَامُ الذِّئْبِ يُخْبِرُ بِنُبُوَّتِهِ وَ اجْتِمَاعُ الْعَدُوِّ وَ الْوَلِيِّ عَلَى صِدْقِ لَهْجَتِهِ وَ صِدْقِ أَمَانَتِهِ وَ عَدَمُ جَهْلِهِ أَيَّامَ طُفُولِيَّتِهِ وَ حِينَ أَيْفَعَ وَ فَتًى‏ وَ كَهْلًا لَا يُعْرَفُ لَهُ شَكْلٌ‏ وَ لَا يُوَازِيهِ مِثْلٌ

And from that is the speech of the old with the news of his^-saww Prophet-hood, and the unison of the enemies and the friends upon the truthfulness of his^-saww tone, and sincerity of his^-saww entrustments, and the non-existence of ignorance during the days of his^-saww childhood, and when adolescent, and youth, and old age. Neither a match was known to be for him^-saww nor any equivalent example.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ سَيْفَ بْنَ ذِي يَزَنَ حِينَ ظَفِرَ بِالْحَبَشَةِ وَفَدَ عَلَيْهِ‏ قُرَيْشٌ فِيهِمْ عَبْدُ الْمُطَّلِبِ فَسَأَلَهُمْ عَنْهُ وَ وَصَفَ لَهُمْ صِفَتَهُ فَأَقَرُّوا جَمِيعاً بِأَنَّ هَذِهِ الصِّفَةَ فِي مُحَمَّدٍ فَقَالَ هَذَا أَوَانُ مَبْعَثِهِ وَ مُسْتَقَرُّهُ أَرْضُ يَثْرِبَ وَ مَوْتُهُ بِهَا

And from that is Sayf Bin Zi Yazan, when he was victorious at Ethiopia, Qureysh sent a delegation to him, among them was Abdul Muttalib^-asws. He asked them about him^-saww, and they described his^-saww description to them and they all acknowledged that this is the description regarding Muhammad^-saww. This is at the beginning of his^-saww announcing Prophethood, and the land of Yasrab stabilised, and his^-saww passing away in it.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ أَبْرَهَةَ بْنَ يَكْسُومَ‏ قَادَ الْفِيَلَةَ إِلَى بَيْتِ اللَّهِ الْحَرَامِ لِيَهْدِمَهُ قَبْلَ مَبْعَثِهِ فَقَالَ عَبْدُ الْمُطَّلِبِ إِنَّ لِهَذَا الْبَيْتِ رَبّاً يَمْنَعُهُ ثُمَّ جَمَعَ أَهْلَ مَكَّةَ فَدَعَا وَ هَذَا بَعْدَ مَا أَخْبَرَهُ سَيْفُ بْنُ ذِي يَزَنَ فَأَرْسَلَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى‏ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْراً أَبابِيلَ‏ وَ دَفَعَهُمْ عَنْ مَكَّةَ وَ أَهْلِهَا

And from that is that Abraha Bin Yaksoum guided the elephants to the Sacred House of Allah^-azwj in order to demolish it before his^-saww announcing Prophethood. Abdul Muttalib^-asws said: ‘For this House there is a Lord^-azwj to prevent him’. Then the people of Makkah gathered and supplicated, after Sayf Bin Zi Yazan informed him. Allah^-azwj Blessed and Exalted Sent flocks of birds upon them and repelled them from Makkah and its people.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ أَبَا جَهْلٍ عَمْرَو بْنَ هِشَامٍ الْمَخْزُومِيَّ أَتَاهُ وَ هُوَ نَائِمٌ خَلْفَ جِدَارٍ وَ مَعَهُ حَجَرٌ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَرْمِيَهُ بِهِ فَالْتَصَقَ بِكَفِّهِ

And from that is that Abu Jahl^-la and Amro Bin Hisham Al-Makhzoumy came to him^-saww while he^-saww was sleeping behind a wall, and with him was a rock intending to pelt him^-saww with it, but his palm froze.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ أَعْرَابِيّاً بَاعَ ذَوْداً لَهُ مِنْ أَبِي جَهْلٍ فَمَطَلَهُ‏ بِحَقِّهِ فَأَتَى قُرَيْشاً فَقَالَ أَعْدُونِي عَلَى أَبِي الْحَكَمِ فَقَدْ لَوَى بِحَقِّي فَأَشَارُوا إِلَى مُحَمَّدٍ ص وَ هُوَ يُصَلِّي فِي الْكَعْبَةِ فَقَالُوا ائْتِ هَذَا الرَّجُلَ فاستعديه [فَاسْتَعْدِ بِهِ‏] عَلَيْهِ وَ هُمْ يَهْزَءُونَ بِالْأَعْرَابِيِّ

And from that is that a Bedouin sold some goods to Abu Jahl^-la and he denied his rights. He came to Qureysh and said, ‘Abu Al-Hakam (Abu Jahl) has promised me but he has turned around from my right’. They indicated to Muhammad^-saww and he^-saww was praying Salat in the Kabah. They said, ‘This man has come to claim upon him, and they were shaking the Bedouin.

فَأَتَاهُ فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ أَعْدِنِي عَلَى عَمْرِو بْنِ هِشَامٍ فَقَدْ مَنَعَنِي حَقِّي قَالَ نَعَمْ فَانْطَلَقَ مَعَهُ فَدَقَّ عَلَى أَبِي جَهْلٍ بَابَهُ فَخَرَجَ إِلَيْهِ مُتَغَيِّراً فَقَالَ لَهُ مَا حَاجَتُكَ قَالَ أَعْطِ الْأَعْرَابِيَّ حَقَّهُ قَالَ نَعَمْ

He came to him^-saww and said, ‘O servant of Allah^-azwj! Assist me against Amro Bin Hisham, for he has prevented me from my right’. He^-saww said: ‘Yes’. He^-saww went with him and knocked the door of Abu Jahl^-la. He came out to him^-saww, changed (of complexion) and said to him^-saww, ‘What is your need?’ He^-saww said: ‘Give the Bedouin his right’. He said, ‘Yes’.

وَ جَاءَ الْأَعْرَابِيُّ إِلَى قُرَيْشٍ فَقَالَ جَزَاكُمُ اللَّهُ خَيْراً انْطَلَقَ مَعِيَ الرَّجُلُ الَّذِي دَلَلْتُمُونِي عَلَيْهِ فَأَخَذَ حَقِّي وَ جَاءَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ فَقَالُوا أَعْطَيْتَ الْأَعْرَابِيَّ حَقَّهُ قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالُوا إِنَّمَا أَرَدْنَا أَنْ نُغْرِيَكَ بِمُحَمَّدٍ وَ نَهْزَأَ بِالْأَعْرَابِيِّ فَقَالَ مَا هُوَ إِلَّا دَقَ‏ بَابِي فَخَرَجْتُ إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَ أَعْطِ الْأَعْرَابِيَّ حَقَّهُ وَ فَوْقَهُ مِثْلُ الْفَحْلِ فَاتِحاً فَاهُ كَأَنَّهُ يُرِيدُنِي فَقَالَ أَعْطِهِ حَقَّهُ فَلَوْ قُلْتُ لَا لَابْتَلَعَ رَأْسِي فَأَعْطَيْتُهُ

And the Bedouin came to Qureysh and said, ‘May Allah^-azwj Recompense you goodly. The man whom you pointed out to me went with me to him and took my rights (for me)’. Abu Jahl^-la came, and they said, ‘You gave the Bedouin his right?’ He said, ‘Yes’. They said, ‘But rather we wanted to deceive Muhammad^-saww and snatch (the rights of) the Bedouin’. He said, ‘It was not except he^-saww mentioned my father’s (name along with mine). I came out to him^-saww and he^-saww said: ‘Give the Bedouin his right’, and above him^-saww was (something) like the stallion opening its mouth as if it wanted (to devour) me. He^-saww said: ‘Give him his right!’ If I had said, ‘No’, my head would have been swallowed, so I gave it to him’.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ قُرَيْشاً أَرْسَلَتِ النَّضْرَ بْنَ الْحَارِثِ وَ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنَ أَبِي مُعَيْطٍ بِيَثْرِبَ إِلَى الْيَهُودِ وَ قَالُوا لَهُمَا إِذَا قَدَّمْتُمَا عَلَيْهِمْ فَسَائِلُوهُمْ عَنْهُ وَ هُمَا قَدْ سَأَلُوهُمْ عَنْهُ فَقَالُوا صِفُوا لَنَا صِفَتَهُ فَوَصَفُوهُ وَ قَالُوا مَنْ تَبِعَهُ مِنْكُمْ قَالُوا سَفِلَتُنَا فَصَاحَ حِبْرٌ مِنْهُمْ فَقَالَ هَذَا النَّبِيُّ الَّذِي نَجِدُ نَعْتَهُ فِي التَّوْرَاةِ وَ نَجِدُ قَوْمَهُ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ عَدَاوَةً لَهُ

And from that is that Qureysh sent Al-Nazar Bin Al-Haris and Alqamah Bin Abu Mueet at Yasrab, to the Jews, and they said to them, ‘When you to arrive to them, and ask them about him^-saww’, and they asked them about him^-saww. They said, ‘Describe his^-asws attributes to us’. They described him^-saww, and they said, ‘Who among you follows him^-saww?’ They said, ‘Our lowly ones’. A Rabbi from them sighed and said, ‘This is the Prophet^-saww who we find his^-saww description in the Torah, and we find his^-saww people to be of the severest enmity towards him^-saww’.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ قُرَيْشاً أَرْسَلَتْ سُرَاقَةَ بْنَ جُعْشُمٍ حَتَّى يَخْرُجَ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ فِي طَلَبِهِ فَلَحِقَ بِهِ فَقَالَ صَاحِبُهُ هَذَا سُرَاقَةُ يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ اللَّهُمَّ اكْفِنِيهِ فَسَاخَتْ قَوَائِمُ ظَهْرِهِ‏ فَنَادَاهُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ خَلِّ عَنِّي بِمَوْثِقٍ أُعْطِيكَهُ أَنْ لَا أُنَاصِحَ غَيْرَكَ وَ كُلَّ مَنْ عَادَاكَ لَا أُصَالِحَ‏

And from that is that Qureysh sent Suraqah Bin Ja’sham (a professional tracker) until he went out to Medina in seeking him^-saww, and caught up with him^-saww. His companion said, ‘This is Suraqah, O Prophet^-saww of Allah^-azwj’. He^-saww said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! Enshroud him’. The legs of his horse submerged and he called out, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Release me; I give you my assurance that I will not advise anyone other than you, and everyone who is inimical to you, I will not guide (them)’.

فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كَانَ صَادِقَ الْمَقَالِ فَأَطْلِقْ فَرَسَهُ فَأُطْلِقَ فَوَفَى وَ مَا انْثَنَى بَعْدُ

The Prophet^-saww said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! If he was truthful in his words, then free his horse’. It was freed, and he honoured (his words), and did not buckle (back down) after that.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ عَامِرَ بْنَ الطُّفَيْلِ وَ أَزْيَدَ بْنَ قَيْسٍ أَتَيَا النَّبِيَّ ص فَقَالَ عَامِرٌ لِأَزْيَدَ إِذَا أَتَيْنَاهُ فَأَنَا أُشَاغِلُهُ عَنْكَ فَاعْلُهُ بِالسَّيْفِ‏ فَلَمَّا دَخَلَا عَلَيْهِ قَالَ عَامِرٌ يَا مُحَمَّدُ حَالَ‏ قَالَ لَا حَتَّى تَقُولَ لَا إِلَهَ‏ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ إِنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ هُوَ يَنْظُرُ إِلَى أَزْيَدَ وَ أَزْيَدُ لَا يَخْبُرُ شَيْئاً

And from that is that Aamir Bin Al-Tafeyl and Azeyd Bin Qays came to the Prophet^-saww. Aamir Al-Azeyd said, ‘When we do get to him^-saww, then I shall preoccupy him^-saww from you, then you strike him^-saww with the sword’. When they were with him^-saww, Aamir said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Shift (your^-saww stance)’. He^-saww said: ‘No, until you say, ‘There is no god except Allah^-azwj and I^-saww am a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj’, and he kept looking at Azeyd, and Azeyd did not know anything.

فَلَمَّا طَالَ ذَلِكَ نَهَضَ وَ خَرَجَ وَ قَالَ لِأَزْيَدَ مَا كَانَ أَحَدٌ عَلَى وَجْهِ الْأَرْضِ أَخْوَفَ مِنْكَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ فَتْكاً مِنْكَ وَ لَعَمْرِي لَا أَخَافُكَ بَعْدَ الْيَوْمَ قَالَ‏ لَهُ أَزْيَدُ لَا تَعْجَلْ فَإِنِّي مَا هَمَمْتُ بِمَا أَمَرْتَنِي بِهِ إِلَّا دَخَلَتِ‏ الرِّجَالُ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَكَ حَتَّى مَا أُبْصِرُ غَيْرَكَ فَأَضْرِبُكَ

When that was prolonged, he began to leave and said to Azeyd, ‘There has not been anyone upon the surface of the earth more fearful upon himself of the destruction than you are. By my life! I will not scare you after today’. Azeyd said to him, ‘Do not be hasty, for I did not think of what you had instructed me with except the men entered to be between me and you until I could not see apart from you and I would have struck you (instead)’.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ أَزْيَدَ بْنَ قَيْسٍ وَ النَّضْرَ بْنَ الْحَارِثِ اجْتَمَعَا عَلَى أَنْ يَسْأَلَاهُ عَنِ الْغُيُوبِ فَدَخَلَا عَلَيْهِ فَأَقْبَلَ النَّبِيُّ ص عَلَى أَزْيَدَ فَقَالَ يَا أَزْيَدُ أَ تَذْكُرُ مَا جِئْتَ لَهُ يَوْمَ كَذَا وَ مَعَكَ عَامِرُ بْنُ الطُّفَيْلِ وَ أَخْبَرَ بِمَا كَانَ مِنْهُمَا

And from that Azeyd Bin Qays and Al-Nazar Bin Haris gathered upon that they would ask him^-saww about the hidden matters. They came to him^-saww, and the Prophet^-saww faced towards Azeyd and said: ‘O Azeyd! Do you remember what you came to him on such and such day and with you was Aamir Bin Al-Tafeyl?’ And he^-saww informed of what had happened from them.

فَقَالَ أَزْيَدُ وَ اللَّهِ مَا حَضَرَنِي وَ عَامِراً أَحَدٌ وَ مَا أَخْبَرَكَ بِهَذَا إِلَّا مَلَكُ السَّمَاءِ وَ أَنَا أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ

Azeyd said: ‘By Allah^-azwj! No one was present with me and Aamir and you^-saww have not been informed of this except by an Angel of the sky, and I testify that there is no god except Allah^-azwj Alone, there being no associate for Him^-azwj, and you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj’.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ نَفَراً مِنَ الْيَهُودِ أَتَوْهُ فَقَالُوا لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ جَدِّي اسْتَأْذِنْ لَنَا عَلَى ابْنِ عَمِّكَ نَسْأَلُهُ فَدَخَلَ‏ عَلِيٌّ ع فَأَعْلَمَهُ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص وَ مَا يُرِيدُونَ مِنِّي فَإِنِّي‏ عَبْدٌ مِنْ عَبِيدِ اللَّهِ لَا أَعْلَمُ إِلَّا مَا عَلَّمَنِي رَبِّي

And from that is that a number of Jews came to him^-saww and they said to my^-asws grandfather^-asws Abu Al-Hassan^-asws, ‘Will you^-asws get us permission upon seeing your^-asws cousin^-saww. We want to ask him^-saww’. Ali^-asws went and let him^-saww know. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘And what do they want from me^-saww? I^-saww am a servant from the servants of Allah^-azwj. I^-saww do not know except what my^-saww Lord^-azwj Teaches me^-saww’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ أَذِنَ لَهُمْ فَدَخَلُوا عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ أَ تَسْأَلُونِّي عَمَّا جِئْتُمْ لَهُ أَمْ أُنَبِّئُكُمْ قَالُوا نَبِّئْنَا قَالَ جِئْتُمْ تَسْأَلُونِّي عَنْ ذِي الْقَرْنَيْنِ قَالُوا نَعَمْ قَالَ كَانَ غُلَاماً مِنْ أَهْلِ الرُّومِ ثُمَّ مَلَكَ وَ أَتَى مَطْلَعَ الشَّمْسِ وَ مَغْرِبَهَا ثُمَّ بَنَى السَّدَّ فِيهَا قَالُوا نَشْهَدُ أَنَّ هَذَا كَذَا

Then he^-saww said: ‘Allow them’. They entered to see him^-saww, and he^-saww said: ‘Will you ask me^-saww about what you have come for, or shall I^-saww inform you?’ They said, ‘Inform us’. He^-saww said: ‘You have come to ask me^-saww about Zul Qarnayn’. They said, ‘Yes’. He^-saww said: ‘He was a boy from the people of Rome, then (became) king, and came to the emergence of the sun and its west, then build the barrier in it’. They said, ‘We testify that this is like that’.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ وَابِصَةَ بْنَ مَعْبَدٍ الْأَسَدِيَّ أَتَاهُ فَقَالَ لَا أَدَعُ مِنَ الْبِرِّ وَ الْإِثْمِ شَيْئاً إِلَّا سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْهُ فَلَمَّا أَتَاهُ قَالَ لَهُ بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِهِ إِلَيْكَ يَا وَابِصَةُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ دَعْهُ ادْنُهْ يَا وَابِصَةُ فَدَنَوْتُ

And from that Wabasah Bin Ma’bad Al-Asady came to him^-saww and said, ‘I will not leave anything from the righteousness and the sins except I shall ask him^-saww about it’. When he did get to him^-asws, one of his companions said, ‘O Wabasah! Away from Rasool-Allah^-saww!’ The Prophet^-saww said: ‘Leave him! Come closer, O Wabasha’. He went closer.

فَقَالَ أَ تَسْأَلُ عَمَّا جِئْتَ لَهُ أَوْ أُخْبِرُكَ قَالَ أَخْبِرْنِي قَالَ جِئْتَ تَسْأَلُ عَنِ الْبِرِّ وَ الْإِثْمِ قَالَ نَعَمْ فَضَرَبَ بِيَدِهِ عَلَى صَدْرِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا وَابِصَةُ الْبِرُّ مَا اطْمَأَنَّتْ بِهِ النَّفْسُ وَ الْبِرُّ مَا اطْمَأَنَّ بِهِ الصَّدْرُ وَ الْإِثْمُ مَا تَرَدَّدَ فِي الصَّدْرِ وَ جَالَ فِي الْقَلْبِ وَ إِنْ أَفْتَاكَ النَّاسُ وَ أَفْتَوْكَ

He^-saww said: ‘Will you ask me^-saww about you have come for, or shall I inform you?’ He^-saww said: ‘You came to ask about the righteousness and the sins’. He said, ‘Yes’. He^-saww struck his^-saww hand upon his chest, then said: ‘O Wabasah! The righteousness is what the soul is reassured with, and the righteousness is what the chest is reassured with, and the sin is what hesitates in the chest and is what is fearful in the heart, and if you advise the people, they will advise you’.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ أَتَاهُ وَفْدُ عَبْدِ الْقَيْسِ فَدَخَلُوا عَلَيْهِ فَلَمَّا أَدْرَكُوا حَاجَتَهُمْ عِنْدَهُ قَالَ ائْتُونِي بِتَمْرِ أَهْلِكُمْ مِمَّا مَعَكُمْ فَأَتَاهُ كُلُّ رَجُلٍ مِنْهُمْ بِنَوْعٍ مِنْهُ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص هَذَا يُسَمَّى كَذَا وَ هَذَا يُسَمَّى كَذَا فَقَالُوا أَنْتَ أَعْلَمُ بِتَمْرِ أَرْضِنَا فَوَصَفَ لَهُمْ أَرْضَهُمْ فَقَالُوا أَ دَخَلْتَهَا قَالَ لَا وَ لَكِنْ فُسِحَ لِي فَنَظَرْتُ إِلَيْهَا

And from that a delegation of Abdul Qays came to him^-saww and entered to see him^-saww. When they had met their needs in his^-saww presence, he^-saww said: ‘Come to me^-saww with dates of your family from what is with you’. Every man from them came with a variety from it. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘This is named as such, and this is named as such’. They said, ‘Are you^-saww more knowing of the dates of our land?’ He^-saww described their land to them. They said, ‘Have you^-saww (ever) entered it?’ He^-saww said: ‘No, but it is clear to me^-as and I^-saww looked at it’.

فَقَامَ رَجُلٌ مِنْهُمْ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ هَذَا خَالِي وَ بِهِ خَبَلٌ‏ فَأَخَذَ بِرِدَائِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ اخْرُجْ عَدُوَّ اللَّهِ ثَلَاثاً ثُمَّ أَرْسَلَهُ فَبَرَأَ وَ أَتَوْهُ بِشَاةٍ هَرِمَةٍ فَأَخَذَ أَحَدَ أُذُنَيْهَا بَيْنَ أَصَابِعِهِ فَصَارَ لَهَا مِيسَماً ثُمَّ قَالَ خُذُوهَا فَإِنَّ هَذِهِ السِّمَةَ فِي آذَانِ مَا تَلِدُ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ فَهِيَ تَوَالَدُ وَ تِلْكَ فِي آذَانِهَا مَعْرُوفَةً غَيْرَ مَجْهُولَةٍ

A man from them stood up and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! This is my uncle and there is insanity with him’. He^-saww grabbed his cloak, then said: ‘Exit, O enemy of Allah^-azwj!’ – three times. Then he^-saww sent him (back) as cured. And they came to him^-saww with a sheep and he^-saww grabbed one of its ears between his^-saww fingers, then it became a mark for it. Then he^-saww said: ‘Take it, for this is the mark in the earth what will be born up to the Day of Qiyamah’. It gave birth and that (marking) was in their ears, well-known without confusion.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ فِي سَفَرٍ فَمَرَّ عَلَى بَعِيرٍ قَدْ أَعْيَا وَ قَامَ مُبَرِّكاً عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فَدَعَا بِمَاءٍ فَتَمَضْمَضَ مِنْهُ فِي إِنَاءٍ وَ تَوَضَّأَ وَ قَالَ افْتَحْ فَاهُ فَصَبَّ فِي فِيهِ فَمَرَّ ذَلِكَ الْمَاءُ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ وَ حَارِكِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ احْمِلْ خَلَّاداً وَ عَامِراً وَ رَفِيقَهُمَا وَ هُمَا صَاحِبَا الْجَمَلِ‏ فَرَكِبُوهُ وَ إِنَّهُ لَيَهْتَزُّ بِهِمْ أَمَامَ الْخَيْلِ

And from that is that he^-saww was on a journey and passed by a camel which had vomited, and he^-saww stood facing his^-saww companions. He^-saww called for water and rinsed from it in a container and performed Wudu’u and said: ‘Open its mouth’, and poured it into its mouth’, and that water passed upon its head and its shoulder blades, then he^-saww said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! (Let it) carry a calf, and a camel, and their companions’, and these two are companions of the camel. He^-saww rode it, and it was shaking with them in front of the horses.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ نَاقَةً لِبَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ ضَلَّتْ فِي سَفَرٍ كَانَتْ فِيهِ فَقَالَ صَاحِبُهَا لَوْ كَانَ نَبِيّاً يَعْلَمُ أَمْرَ النَّاقَةِ فَبَلَغَ ذَاكَ النَّبِيَّ ص فَقَالَ الْغَيْبُ لَا يَعْلَمُهُ إِلَّا اللَّهُ انْطَلِقْ يَا فُلَانُ فَإِنَّ نَاقَتَكَ بِمَوْضِعِ كَذَا وَ كَذَا قَدْ تَعَلَّقَ زِمَامُهَا بِشَجَرَةٍ فَوَجَدَهَا كَمَا قَالَ

And from that is that a she-camel of one of his^-saww companions strayed during a journey he^-saww was in, and its owner said, ‘If he^-saww was a Prophet^-saww, he^-saww would know the matter of the she-camel’. That reached the Prophet^-saww and he^-saww said: ‘None knows it except Allah^-azwj. O so and so! Go, for your she-camel is in such and such place, its reins are stuck by a tree’. He found it just as he^-saww had said.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ مَرَّ عَلَى بَعِيرٍ سَاقِطٍ فَتَبَصْبَصَ لَهُ فَقَالَ إِنَّهُ لَيَشْكُو شَرَّ وِلَايَةِ أَهْلِهِ لَهُ وَ سَأَلَهُ أَنْ يُخْرَجَ عَنْهُمْ فَسَأَلَ عَنْ صَاحِبِهِ فَأَتَاهُ فَقَالَ بِعْهُ وَ أَخْرِجْهُ عَنْكَ فَأَنَاخَ الْبَعِيرُ يَرْغُو ثُمَّ نَهَضَ وَ تَبِعَ النَّبِيَّ ص فَقَالَ يَسْأَلُنِي أَنْ أَتَوَلَّى أَمْرَهُ فَبَاعَهُ مِنْ عَلِيٍّ ع فَلَمْ يَزَلْ عِنْدَهُ إِلَى أَيَّامِ صِفِّينَ

And from that is that he^-saww passed by a silent camel. He^-saww stared at it and said: ‘It made sounds to him^-saww. He^-saww said: ‘It is complaining of the evil governance of its owners to it’, and it asked him^-saww to exit it from them. He^-saww asked about its owner, and he came. He^-saww said: ‘Sell it and take it out from you’. The camel foamed at the mouth, then it got up and followed the Prophet^-saww. He^-saww said: ‘It asked me^-saww to be in charge of its affairs’. He^-saww gave it to Ali^-asws and it did not used to be with him^-asws up to the days of (the battle of) Siffeen.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ فِي مَسْجِدِهِ إِذْ أَقْبَلَ جَمَلٌ نَادٌّ حَتَّى وَضَعَ رَأْسَهُ فِي حِجْرِهِ ثُمَّ خَرْخَرَ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص يَزْعُمُ هَذَا أَنَّ صَاحِبَهُ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَنْحَرَهُ فِي وَلِيمَةٍ عَلَى ابْنِهِ فَجَاءَ يَسْتَغِيثُ فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ هَذَا لِفُلَانٍ وَ قَدْ أَرَادَ بِهِ ذَلِكَ فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهِ وَ سَأَلَهُ أَنْ لَا يَنْحَرَهُ فَفَعَلَ

And from that is that he^-saww was in his^-saww Masjid when a camel came and wandered until it placed it’s head in his^-saww lap, then made noises. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘This one is claiming that its owner wants to slaughter it in a wedding banquet of his son, so it has come to seek help. A man said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww: ‘This one is for (belongs to) so and so, and he has intended that with it’. He^-saww sent for him and asked him not to slaughter it. He agreed.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ دَعَا عَلَى مُضَرَ فَقَالَ اللَّهُمَّ اشْدُدْ وَطْأَتَكَ عَلَى مُضَرَ وَ اجْعَلْهَا عَلَيْهِمْ كَسِنِي يُوسُفَ فَأَصَابَهُمْ سِنُونَ

And from that is that he supplicated against (the tribe of) Muzar and said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! Intensify Your^-azwj Pressure upon Muzar and Make it to be upon them like the years of Yusuf^-as’. So, the years (of drought) hit them.

فَأَتَاهُ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ فَوَ اللَّهِ مَا أَتَيْتُكَ حَتَّى لَا يَخْطِرَ لَنَا فَحْلٌ وَ لَا يَتَرَدَّدَ مِنَّا رَائِحٌ‏ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص اللَّهُمَّ دَعَوْتُكَ فَأَجَبْتَنِي وَ سَأَلْتُكَ فَأَعْطَيْتَنِي اللَّهُمَّ فَاسْقِنَا غَيْثاً مُغِيثاً مَرِيئاً سَرِيعاً طَبَقاً سِجَالًا عَاجِلًا غَيْرَ رَائِثٍ‏ نَافِعاً غَيْرَ ضَارٍّ

A man came to him^-asws and said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! I will not come to you^-saww until a solution is chosen for us and profits are not repelled from us’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! I^-saww supplicate to You^-azwj and You^-azwj Answer me, and I^-saww ask You^-azwj and You^-azwj Give me^-saww. O Allah^-azwj! Quench us from rain, a plentiful rain, quickly, layered, unannounced, instantaneous, without disappointment, beneficial, without harm’.

فَمَا قَامَ حَتَّى مَلَأَ كُلُّ شَيْ‏ءٍ وَ دَامَ عَلَيْهِمْ جُمْعَةً فَأَتَوْهُ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ انْقَطَعَتْ سُبُلُنَا وَ أَسْوَاقُنَا فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص حَوَالَيْنَا وَ لَا عَلَيْنَا فَانْجَابَتِ السَّحَابَةُ عَنِ الْمَدِينَةِ وَ صَارَ فِيمَا حَوْلَهَا وَ أُمْطِرُوا أَشْهُراً

He^-saww had not stood up until all things were filled up and it rained upon them torrents. They came to him^-saww and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Our roads and our markets are cut off’. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘Around us and not upon us’. The clouds moved away from Medina and came to be in its surrounding areas, and it rained for a month.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ تَوَجَّهَ إِلَى الشَّامِ قَبْلَ مَبْعَثِهِ مَعَ نَفَرٍ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ فَلَمَّا كَانَ بِحِيَالِ بَحِيرٍ الرَّاهِبِ نَزَلُوا بِفِنَاءِ دَيْرِهِ وَ كَانَ عَالِماً بِالْكُتُبِ وَ قَدْ كَانَ قَرَأَ فِي التَّوْرَاةِ مُرُورَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ بِهِ وَ عَرَفَ أَوَانَ ذَلِكَ فَأَمَرَ فَدُعِيَ إِلَى طَعَامِهِ فَأَقْبَلَ يَطْلُبُ الصِّفَةَ فِي الْقَوْمِ فَلَمْ يَجِدْهَا فَقَالَ هَلْ بَقِيَ فِي رِحَالِكُمْ أَحَدٌ فَقَالُوا غُلَامٌ يَتِيمٌ

And from that is that he^-saww headed to Syria before his^-saww announcing of Prophethood, along with a number of Qureysh. When he^-saww was by a monastery, the monk descended at the courtyard of his monastery, and he was a knower of the Books, and had read in the Torah of the passing by of the Prophet^-saww from that location and had recognised the time of that. He instructed and invited them to his meal. He came seeking the description among the group, but could not find it (in any of them). He said, ‘Does there remain anyone in your caravan?’ They said, ‘An orphan boy’.

فَقَامَ بَحِيرٌ الرَّاهِبُ فَأَطْلَعَ فَإِذَا هُوَ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص نَائِمٌ وَ قَدْ أَظَلَّتْهُ سَحَابَةٌ فَقَالَ لِلْقَوْمِ ادْعُوا هَذَا الْيَتِيمَ فَفَعَلُوا وَ بَحِيرٌ مُشْرِفٌ عَلَيْهِ وَ هُوَ يَسِيرُ وَ السَّحَابَةُ قَدْ أَظَلَّتْهُ فَأَخْبَرَ الْقَوْمَ بِشَأْنِهِ وَ أَنَّهُ سَيُبْعَثُ فِيهِمْ رَسُولًا وَ مَا يَكُونُ مِنْ حَالِهِ وَ أَمْرِهِ

Baheer the monk stood up and looked around; there was Rasool-Allah^-saww sleeping, and a cloud had shaded him^-saww. He said to the group, ‘Call this orphan’. They did so, and Baheer faced towards him^-saww, and he^-saww walked and the cloud kept shading him^-saww. He informed the group of his^-saww occupation and that he^-saww will be Sent among them as a Rasool^-saww and what would be happening from his^-saww situation and his^-saww matters.

فَكَانَ الْقَوْمُ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ يَهَابُونَهُ وَ يُجِلُّونَهُ فَلَمَّا قَدِمُوا أَخْبَرُوا قُرَيْشاً بِذَلِكَ‏ وَ كَانَ مَعَهُمْ عَبْدُ خَدِيجَةَ بِنْتِ خُوَيْلِدٍ فَرَغِبَتْ فِي تَزْوِيجِهِ وَ هِيَ سَيِّدَةُ نِسَاءِ قُرَيْشٍ وَ قَدْ خَطَبَهَا كُلُّ صِنْدِيدٍ وَ رَئِيسٍ قَدْ أَبَتْهُمْ فَزَوَّجَتْهُ نَفْسَهَا بِالَّذِي بَلَغَهَا مِنْ خَبَرِ بَحِيرٍ

The group used to be awed by him^-saww and were cheering him^-saww. When they arrived, they informed Qureysh of that, and with them was a slave of (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws Bint Khuwaylid^-as. She^-asws desired to marry him^-saww, and she^-asws was the Chieftess of the womenfolk of Qureysh, and every courageous one and chief had proposed to her^-asws, and she^-asws had refused them. She^-asws married herself^-asws to the one from the news of Baheer.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ بِمَكَّةَ قَبْلَ الْهِجْرَةِ أَيَّامَ أَلَبَّتْ عَلَيْهِ قَوْمُهُ وَ عَشَائِرُهُ فَأَمَرَ عَلِيّاً أَنْ يَأْمُرَ خَدِيجَةَ أَنْ تَتَّخِذَ لَهُ طَعَاماً فَفَعَلَتْ ثُمَّ أَمَرَهُ أَنْ يَدْعُوَ لَهُ أَقْرِبَاءَهُ مِنْ بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ فَدَعَا أَرْبَعِينَ رَجُلًا

And from that is that he^-saww was in Makkah before the Emigration, the days his^-saww people and his^-saww clan were against him^-saww. He^-saww instructed Ali^-asws to instruct Khadeeja^-asws to take some food for him^-saww. She^-asws did so. Then he^-saww instructed him^-asws to invite his^-saww near relatives for him^-saww, from the sons of Abdul Muttalib^-asws. He^-asws invited forty people.

فَقَالَ أَحْضِرْ لَهُمْ طَعَاماً يَا عَلِيُّ فَأَتَاهُ بِثَرِيدَةٍ وَ طَعَامٍ يَأْكُلُهُ الثَّلَاثَةُ وَ الْأَرْبَعَةُ فَقَدَّمَهُ إِلَيْهِمْ وَ قَالَ كُلُوا وَ سَمُّوا فَسَمَّى‏ وَ لَمْ يُسَمِّ الْقَوْمُ فَأَكَلُوا وَ صَدَرُوا شَبْعَى‏ فَقَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ جَادَ مَا سَحَرَكُمْ مُحَمَّدٌ يُطْعِمُ مِنْ طَعَامِ ثَلَاثَةِ رِجَالٍ أَرْبَعِينَ رَجُلًا هَذَا وَ اللَّهِ السَّحَرُ الَّذِي لَا بَعْدَهُ

He^-saww said: ‘Present the food to them, O Ali^-asws!’ He^-asws brought porridge and food, for three and four to eat (at a time). He^-saww forwarded it to them and said: ‘Eat and name (Bismillah)’. He^-saww named, and the people did not name. They ate and were satiated. Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘It is generous what Muhammad^-saww has done sorcery on you. He^-azwj fed from the food of three men, forty people. By Allah^-azwj, this is sorcery, which there is (nothing) after it’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع ثُمَّ أَمَرَنِي بَعْدَ أَيَّامٍ فَاتَّخَذْتُ لَهُ مِثْلَهُ وَ دَعَوْتُهُمْ بِأَعْيَانِهِمْ فَطَعِمُوا وَ صَدَرُوا

Ali^-asws said: ‘Then he^-saww instructed me^-asws, after a few days, so I^-asws took for him^-saww something similar to it and invited them along with their dignitaries, and they fed and were satiated.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع قَالَ دَخَلْتُ السُّوقَ فَابْتَعْتُ لَحْماً بِدِرْهَمٍ وَ ذُرَةً بِدِرْهَمٍ وَ أَتَيْتُ‏ فَاطِمَةَ ع حَتَّى إِذَا فَرَغَتْ مِنَ الْخَبْزِ وَ الطَّبْخِ قَالَتْ لَوْ دَعَوْتَ أَبِي فَأَتَيْتُهُ وَ هُوَ مُضْطَجِعٌ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الْجُوعِ ضَجِيعاً فَقُلْتُ لَهُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ عِنْدَنَا طَعَاماً فَقَامَ وَ اتَّكَأَ عَلَيَّ وَ مَضَيْنَا نَحْوَ فَاطِمَةَ ع

And from that is that Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws said: ‘I^-asws entered the market and bought meat for a Dirham and some corn for a Dirham and gave it to (Syeda) Fatima^-asws, until when she^-asws was free from the bread and the cooking, she^-asws said: ‘If you^-asws could invite my^-asws father^-saww’. I^-asws came to him^-saww and he^-saww was lying down and saying: ‘I^-saww seek Refuge with Allah^-azwj from the hunger as a bedfellow’. I^-asws said to him^-saww, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! There is food with us^-asws’. He^-saww stood up and leaned upon me^-asws, and we^-asws went to (the house of Syeda) Fatima^-asws.

فَلَمَّا دَخَلْنَا قَالَ هَلُمَّ طَعَامَكِ يَا فَاطِمَةُ فَقَدَّمَتْ إِلَيْهِ الْبُرْمَةَ وَ الْقُرْصَ فَغَطَّى الْقُرْصَ وَ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ بَارِكْ لَنَا فِي طَعَامِنَا ثُمَّ قَالَ اغْرُفِي لِعَائِشَةَ فَغَرَفَتْ ثُمَّ قَالَ اغْرُفِي لِأُمِّ سَلَمَةَ فَمَا زَالَتْ تَغْرُفُ حَتَّى وَجَّهَتْ إِلَى نِسَائِهِ التِّسْعِ قُرْصَةً قُرْصَةً وَ مَرَقاً ثُمَّ قَالَ اغْرُفِي لِابْنَيْكِ وَ بَعْلِكِ ثُمَّ قَالَ اغْرُفِي وَ كُلِي وَ أَهْدِي لِجَارَاتِكِ فَفَعَلَتْ وَ بَقِيَ عِنْدَهُمْ أَيَّاماً يَأْكُلُونَ

When we entered, he^-saww said: ‘Bring your^-asws food, O (Syeda) Fatima^-asws! She^-asws forwarded to him^-asws the pot and the discs (of bread). He^-saww covered the discs and said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! Bless us^-asws in our meal!’ Then he^-saww said: ‘I^-saww scoop out for Ayesah’, and he^-saww scooped out. Then he^-saww said: ‘I^-saww scoop out for Umm Salma^ar’. He^-saww did not cease scooping out until he^-saww sent for his^-saww wives, one disc each and broth. Then he^-saww said:’ I^-saww scoop out for your^-asws sons^-asws and your^-asws husband^-asws’. Then said: ‘Scoop out for every neighbour of yours^-asws’. She^-asws did so, and (the food) remained with them for days, they^-asws were eating.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ امْرَأَةَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ أَتَتْهُ بِشَاةٍ مَسْمُومَةٍ وَ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ص بِشْرُ بْنُ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ فَتَنَاوَلَ النَّبِيُّ ص الذِّرَاعَ وَ تَنَاوَلَ بِشْرٌ الْكُرَاعَ فَأَمَّا النَّبِيُّ ص فَلَاكَهَا وَ لَفَظَهَا وَ قَالَ إِنَّهَا لَتُخْبِرُنِي أَنَّهَا مَسْمُومَةٌ وَ أَمَّا بِشْرٌ فَلَاكَ الْمُضْغَةَ وَ ابْتَلَعَهَا فَمَاتَ فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَيْهَا فَأَقَرَّتْ فَقَالَ مَا حَمَلَكِ عَلَى مَا فَعَلْتِ

And from that is that a wife of Abdullah Bin Muslim came to him^-saww with a poisoned (meat of a) sheep, and with the Prophet^-saww was Bishr Bin Al-Bara’a Bin Aazib. The Prophet^-saww reached out for the forearm (of the sheep) and Bishr reached out for the leg. As for the Prophet^-saww, he^-saww chewed it and expelled it, and said: ‘It informs me^-saww that it is poisoned’. And as for Bishr, he^-saww chewed the lump and swallowed it and died.

قَالَتْ قَتَلْتَ زَوْجِي وَ أَشْرَافَ قَوْمِي فَقُلْتُ إِنْ كَانَ مَلِكاً قَتَلْتُهُ وَ إِنْ كَانَ نَبِيّاً فَسَيُطْلِعُهُ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى عَلَى ذَلِكَ

He^-saww sent for him, and he acknowledged. He^-saww said: ‘What carried you upon what you did?’ She said, ‘My husband and the noblemen of my people told me to do so’. I said, ‘If he^-saww was a king, it would kill him^-saww, and if he^-saww was a Prophet^-saww, Allah^-azwj Blessed and Exalted would Notify him^-saww upon that’.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْأَنْصَارِيَّ قَالَ رَأَيْتُ النَّاسَ يَوْمَ الْخَنْدَقِ يَحْفِرُونَ وَ هُمْ خِمَاصٌ‏ وَ رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ص يَحْفِرُ وَ بَطْنُهُ خَمِيصٌ فَأَتَيْتُ أَهْلِي فَأَخْبَرْتُهَا فَقَالَتْ مَا عِنْدَنَا إِلَّا هَذِهِ الشَّاةُ وَ مُحْرَزٌ مِنْ ذُرَةٍ قَالَ فَاخْبِزِي وَ ذَبَحَ الشَّاةَ وَ طَبَخُوا شِقَّهَا وَ شَوَوْا الْبَاقِيَ حَتَّى إِذَا أَدْرَكَ أَتَى النَّبِيَّ ص فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ اتَّخَذْتُ طَعَاماً فَأْتِنِي أَنْتَ وَ مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ

And from that is that Jabir Bin Abdullah Al-Nasary said, ‘I saw the people on the day of Khandaq digging (a ditch), and they were hungry, and I saw the Prophet^-saww digging and his^-saww belly was hungry. I came to my wife and told her. She said, ‘There is nothing with us except this sheep, and some corn’. He said, ‘Make some bread and slaughter the sheep, and bake its piece and grill the remainder’, until when it was done, he came to the Prophet^-saww and said: ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Take the food and give it to yourself^-saww and the ones you^-saww love’.

فَشَبَّكَ أَصَابِعَهُ فِي يَدِهِ ثُمَّ نَادَى أَلَا إِنَّ جَابِراً يَدْعُوكُمْ إِلَى طَعَامِهِ فَأَتَى أَهْلَهُ مَذْعُوراً خَجِلًا فَقَالَ لَهَا هِيَ الْفَضِيحَةُ قَدْ جَفَلَ‏ بها [بِهِمْ‏] أَجْمَعِينَ فَقَالَتْ أَنْتَ دَعَوْتَهُمْ أَمْ هُوَ قَالَ هُوَ قَالَتْ فَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِهِمْ

He^-saww intertwined his^-saww fingers in his hand, then called out: ‘Indeed! Jabir is inviting you all to his meal!’ His wife ran over in panic, and he said to her, ‘It will be a scandal which will engulf all of them’. She said, ‘Did you invite them or did he^-saww?’ He said, ‘He^-saww did’. She said, ‘Then he^-saww is more knowing with them’.

فَلَمَّا رَآنَا أَمَرَ بِالْأَنْطَاعِ‏ فَبُسِطَتْ عَلَى الشَّوَارِعِ وَ أَمَرَهُ‏ أَنْ يَجْمَعَ‏ التَّوَارِيَ يَعْنِي قِصَاعاً كَانَتْ مِنْ خَشَبٍ وَ الْجِفَانَ ثُمَّ قَالَ مَا عِنْدَكُمْ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ فَأَعْلَمْتُهُ فَقَالَ غَطُّوا السِّدَانَةَ وَ الْبُرْمَةَ وَ التَّنُّورَ وَ اغْرُفُوا وَ أَخْرِجُوا الْخُبْزَ وَ اللَّحْمَ وَ غَطُّوا فَمَا زَالُوا يَغْرُفُونَ وَ يَنْقُلُونَ وَ لَا يَرَوْنَهُ يَنْقُصُ شَيْئاً حَتَّى شَبِعَ الْقَوْمُ وَ هُمْ ثَلَاثَةُ آلَافٍ ثُمَّ أَكَلَ جَابِرٌ وَ أَهْلُهُ وَ أَهْدُوا وَ بَقِيَ عِنْدَهُمْ أَيَّاماً

We saw him^-saww instruct with a sheep to be spread out upon the street, and instructed that the wooden pots be gathered, then said, ‘What food is there with you?’ He informed him^-saww. He^-saww said: ‘Cover with the veil the pot and the over and keep scooping out and take out the bread and the meat and cover back’. They did not cease scooping out and transferring, and they did not see it being reduced by anything until the people were satiated, and they were three thousand. Then Jabir and his wife ate, and gave thanks, and it remained with them for days.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ سَعْدَ بْنَ عِبَادَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيَّ أَتَاهُ عَشِيَّةً وَ هُوَ صَائِمٌ فَدَعَاهُ إِلَى طَعَامِهِ وَ دَعَا مَعَهُ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَلَمَّا أَكَلُوا قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص نَبِيٌّ وَ وَصِيٌّ أَيَا سَعْدُ أَكَلَ طَعَامَكَ الْأَبْرَارُ وَ أَفْطَرَ عِنْدَكَ الصَّائِمُونَ وَ صَلَّتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ فَحَمَلَهُ سَعْدٌ عَلَى حِمَارٍ قَطُوفٍ وَ أَلْقَى عَلَيْهِ قَطِيفَةً فَرَجَعَ الْحِمَارُ وَ إِنَّهُ لَهِمْلَاجٌ مَا يُسَايَرُ

And from that is that Sa’d Bin Abadah Al-Ansary came to him in the evening and he^-saww was Fasting, and invited him^-saww to his meal, and invited Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws along with him^-saww. When they^-asws had eaten, the Prophet^-saww said: ‘O Sa’ad! The righteous Prophet^-saww and successor^-asws have eaten your meal, and the Fasting ones have broken Fast with you, and the Angels sent Salawat upon you’. Sa’ad carried him^-saww upon a donkey and threw velvet upon him^-saww. The donkey returned and it was shedding tears on what had happened.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ أَقْبَلَ مِنَ الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ وَ فِي الطَّرِيقِ مَاءٌ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ وَشَلٍ بِقَدْرِ مَا يُرْوِي الرَّاكِبَ وَ الرَّاكِبَيْنِ فَقَالَ مَنْ سَبَقَنَا إِلَى الْمَاءِ فَلَا يَسْتَقِيَنَّ مِنْهُ فَلَمَّا انْتَهَى إِلَيْهِ دَعَا بِقَدَحٍ فَتَمَضْمَضَ فِيهِ ثُمَّ صَبَّهُ فِي الْمَاءِ فَفَاضَ الْمَاءُ فَشَرِبُوا وَ مَلَئُوا أَدَاوَاهُمْ وَ مَيَاضِيَهُمْ وَ تَوَضَّئُوا فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص لَئِنْ بَقِيتُمْ وَ بَقِيَ‏ مِنْكُمْ ليسقين‏ [لَيَسْمَعَنَ‏] بِهَذَا الْوَادِي يَسْقِي مَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ مِنْ كَثْرَةِ مَائِهِ فَوَجَدُوا ذَلِكَ كَمَا قَالَ

And from that is that he^-saww came back from Al-Hudaybiyya and in the road there was water coming out from a thin stream in a measurement of what could quench the rider and the two riders. He^-saww said: ‘Whoever precedes us to the water, so he should not take from it’. When he^-saww arrived, he^-saww called for a cup, rinsed it, then poured it into the water. The water overflowed and they drank and filled their containers and performed Qudu’u. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘Because you will remain and some of you who remain will be quenched in this valley, and quench many from its water’. They found that to be just as he^-saww had said’.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ إِخْبَارُهُ عَنِ الْغُيُوبِ وَ مَا كَانَ وَ مَا يَكُونُ فَوَجَدُوا ذَلِكَ مُوَافِقاً لِمَا يَقُولُ

And from that is his^-saww informing about the hidden matters, and what had happened and what will be happening, and they found that to be in accordance with what he^-saww had said.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ أَخْبَرَ صَبِيحَةَ اللَّيْلَةِ الَّتِي أُسْرِيَ بِهِ بِمَا رَأَى فِي سَفَرِهِ فَأَنْكَرَ ذَلِكَ بَعْضٌ وَ صَدَّقَهُ بَعْضٌ فَأَخْبَرَهُمْ بِمَا رَأَى مِنَ الْمَارَّةِ وَ الْمُمْتَارَةِ وَ هَيْئَتِهِمْ وَ مَنَازِلِهِمْ وَ مَا مَعَهُمْ مِنَ الْأَمْتِعَةِ وَ أَنَّهُ رَأَى عِيراً أَمَامَهَا بَعِيرٌ أَوْرَقُ وَ أَنَّهُ يَطْلُعُ يَوْمَ كَذَا مِنَ الْعَقَبَةِ مَعَ طُلُوعِ الشَّمْسِ فَعَدَوْا يَطْلُبُونَ تَكْذِيبَهُ لِلْوَقْتِ الَّذِي وَقَّتَهُ لَهُمْ فَلَمَّا كَانُوا هُنَاكَ طَلَعَتِ الشَّمْسُ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ كَذَبَ السَّاحِرُ وَ بَصُرَ آخَرُونَ بِالْعِيرِ قَدْ أَقْبَلَتْ يَقْدُمُهَا الْأَوْرَقُ فَقَالُوا صَدَقَ هَذِهِ نِعَمٌ قَدْ أَقْبَلَتْ‏

And from that is that he^-saww informed in the morning of the night which he^-saww had been Ascended with (Mi’raj) with what he^-saww had seen during his^-saww journey. Some denied that and some ratified him^-saww. He^-saww informed them with what he^-saww had seen from the passers-by and their lives and their houses and what was with them from the goods, and he^-saww saw a caravan in front of which was Al-Awraq the camel, and that it would be emerging on such and such day from Al-Aqaba along with the emergence of the sun. They prepared seeking belying him^-saww of the timing which he^-saww had timed for them. When they were there, the sun emerged, and some of them said, ‘The sorcerer lied’, while others were with the caravan coming, and in front of it was Al-Awraq. They said, ‘This one is truthful. Yes, it has come’.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ أَقْبَلَ مِنْ تَبُوكَ فَجَهَدُوا عَطَشاً وَ بَادَرَ النَّاسُ إِلَيْهِ يَقُولُونَ الْمَاءَ الْمَاءَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ لِأَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ هَلْ مَعَكَ مِنَ الْمَاءِ شَيْ‏ءٌ قَالَ كَقَدْرِ قَدَحٍ فِي مِيضَاتِي قَالَ هَلُمَّ مِيضَاتَكَ فَصَبَّ مَا فِيهِ فِي قَدَحٍ وَ دَعَا وَ أَوْعَاهُ‏ وَ قَالَ نَادِ مَنْ أَرَادَ الْمَاءَ

And from that is that he returned from Tabuk, and they struggled with thirst and the people rushed towards him^-saww saying, ‘The water, the water, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’ He^-saww said to Abu Hureyra: ‘Is there anything with you from the water?’ He said, ‘Like a measurement of a cup in my container’. He^-saww said: ‘Bring your container’. He^-saww poured whatever was in it into a cup and called for a container and said: ‘Call the ones who want the water’.

فَأَقْبَلُوا يَقُولُونَ الْمَاءَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَمَا زَالَ يَسْكُبُ وَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ يَسْقِي حَتَّى رَوِيَ الْقَوْمُ أَجْمَعُونَ وَ مَلَئُوا مَا مَعَهُمْ ثُمَّ قَالَ لِأَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ اشْرَبْ فَقَالَ بَلْ آخِرُكُمْ شُرْباً فَشَرِبَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ شَرِبَ

They came saying, ‘The water, O Rasool-Allah^-saww! They did not cease to pour, and Abu Hureyra Poured until the people were all quenched, and filled whatever (containers) were with them. Then he^-saww said to Abu Hureyra: ‘Drink’. He said, ‘But the last of you have drunk’. Then Rasool-Allah^-saww drank and (gave others to) drink.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ أُخْتَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ رَوَاحَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ مَرَّتْ بِهِ أَيَّامَ حَفْرِهِمُ الْخَنْدَقَ فَقَالَ لَهَا أَيْنَ تُرِيدِينَ‏ قَالَتْ إِلَى عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بِهَذِهِ التَّمَرَاتِ فَقَالَ هَاتِيهِنَّ فَنَثَرَتْ فِي كَفِّهِ ثُمَّ دَعَا بِالْأَنْطَاعِ وَ فَرَّقَهَا عَلَيْهَا وَ غَطَّاهَا بِالْأُزُرِ وَ قَامَ وَ صَلَّى فَفَاضَ التَّمْرُ عَلَى الْأَنْطَاعِ ثُمَّ نَادَى هَلُمُّوا وَ كُلُوا فَأَكَلُوا وَ شَبِعُوا وَ حَمَلُوا مَعَهُمْ وَ دَفَعَ مَا بَقِيَ إِلَيْهَا

And from that is, a sister of Abdullah Bin Rawaha Al-Ansary passed by him^-saww in the days the ditch was being dug. He^-saww said to her: ‘Where are you intending (to go)?’ She said, ‘To Abdullah with these dates’. He^-saww said: ‘Give these’, and he^-saww held them in his^-as palm, then called for a spread and separated them upon it and covered them with the cloth, and stood to pray Salat. The dates abounded upon the spread. Then he^-saww called out: ‘Come and eat!’ They ate and were satiated and carried (some) with them, and he^-saww handed over the remainder to her.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ فِي سَفَرٍ فَأَجْهَدُوا جُوعاً فَقَالَ مَنْ كَانَ مَعَهُ زَادٌ فَلْيَأْتِنَا بِهِ فَأَتَاهُ نَفَرٌ مِنْهُمْ بِمِقْدَارِ صَاعٍ فَدَعَا بِالْأُزُرِ وَ الْأَنْطَاعِ ثُمَّ صَبَ‏ التَّمْرَ عَلَيْهَا وَ دَعَا رَبَّهُ فَأَكْثَرَ اللَّهُ ذَلِكَ التَّمْرَ حَتَّى كَانَ أَزْوَادَهُمْ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ

And from that is that he^-saww was on a journey and struggled with hunger. He^-saww said: ‘One who has provisions with him, then let him come to us with it’. A number of them came with a measure of one Sa’a (four handfuls). He^-saww called for a cloth and the spread, then poured the dates upon it, and supplicated to his^-saww Lord^-azwj. Allah^-azwj Multiplied those dates to the extent that it became their provision to Medina.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ أَقْبَلَ مِنْ بَعْضِ أَسْفَارِهِ فَأَتَاهُ قَوْمٌ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ لَنَا بِئْراً إِذَا كَانَ الْقَيْظُ اجْتَمَعْنَا عَلَيْهَا وَ إِذَا كَانَ الشِّتَاءُ تَفَرَّقْنَا عَلَى مِيَاهٍ حَوْلَنَا وَ قَدْ صَارَ مَنْ حَوْلَنَا عَدُوّاً لَنَا فَادْعُ اللَّهَ فِي بِئْرِنَا

And from that is, he^-saww returned from one of his^-saww journeys, and a group came to him^-saww and said: ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! There is a caravan for us, whenever it is severe heat, we gather to it, and when it is winter, we separate upon its water around us, and it has become from around us dried up to us; therefore, supplicate to Allah^-azwj regarding our well’.

فَتَفَلَ ص فِي بِئْرِهِمْ فَفَاضَتِ الْمِيَاهُ الْمَغِيبَةُ وَ كَانُوا لَا يَقْدِرُونَ أَنْ يَنْظُرُوا إِلَى قَعْرِهَا بَعْدُ مِنْ كَثْرَةِ مَائِهَا فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ مُسَيْلَمَةَ الْكَذَّابَ فَحَاوَلَ مِثْلَهُ مِنْ قَلِيبٍ قَلِيلٍ مَاؤُهُ فَتَفَلَ الْأَنْكَدُ فِي الْقَلِيبِ فَغَارَ مَاؤُهُ وَ صَارَ كَالْجُبُوبِ ‏

Rasool-Allah^-azwj spat in their well and it overflowed with the hidden water, and they were not able upon looking to its bottom after the water had become abundant. That (news) reached Musaylama the liar. He tried like it from a well of little water and spat (in it), it became muddy in the well and its water sunk and it became like a corpse.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ سُرَاقَةَ بْنَ جُعْشُمٍ حِينَ وَجَّهَهُ قُرَيْشٌ فِي طَلَبِهِ نَاوَلَهُ نَبْلًا مِنْ كِنَانَتِهِ وَ قَالَ لَهُ سَتَمُرُّ بِرُعَاتِي فَإِذَا وَصَلْتَ إِلَيْهِمْ فَهَذَا عَلَامَتِي اطْعَمْ عِنْدَهُمْ وَ اشْرَبْ فَلَمَّا انْتَهَى إِلَيْهِمْ أَتَوْهُ بِعَنْزٍ حَائِلٍ‏ فَمَسَحَ ص ضَرْعَهَا فَصَارَتْ حَامِلًا وَ دَرَّتْ حَتَّى مَلَئُوا الْإِنَاءَ وَ ارْتَوَوْا

And from that is that Saraqah Bin Ja’sham, when Qureysh diverted him in seeking him^-saww, a soothsayer said to him, ‘You will pass by my sheep, and so when you arrive to them, then this is my sign, feed and drink with them’. When he ended up to them, he gave him^-saww a goat. He^-saww wiped his^-saww hand and it became pregnant, and it gave milk until the containers were filled up and they were saturated.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ نَزَلَ بِأُمِّ شَرِيكٍ فَأَتَتْهُ بِعُكَّةٍ فِيهَا سَمْنٌ يَسِيرٌ فَأَكَلَ هُوَ وَ أَصْحَابُهُ ثُمَّ دَعَا لَهَا بِالْبَرَكَةِ فَلَمْ تَزَلِ الْعُكَّةُ تَصُبُّ سَمْناً أَيَّامَ حَيَاتِهَا

And from that is that he^-saww descended with Umm Shareek, and she came to him^-saww with a container wherein was little butter. He^-saww and his^-saww companions ate and supplicated for it with the Blessings, and the container did not cease pouring out butter for the days of lifetime.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ أَمَّ جَمِيلٍ امْرَأَةَ أَبِي لَهَبٍ أَتَتْهُ حِينَ نَزَلَتْ سُورَةُ تَبَّتْ وَ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ص أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي قُحَافَةَ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ هَذِهِ أَمُّ جَمِيلٍ مُحْفَظَةً أَيْ مُغْضَبَةً تُرِيدُكَ وَ مَعَهَا حَجَرٌ تُرِيدُ أَنْ تَرْمِيَكَ بِهِ فَقَالَ إِنَّهَا لَا تَرَانِي

And from that is that Umm Jameel, wife of Abu Lahab^-la came to him^-saww when Surah Lahab was Revealed, and with the Prophet^-saww was Abu Bakr Bin Abu Qohafa. He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! This Umm Jameel is angry, intending (to harm) you^-saww, and with her is a rock intending to pelt you^-saww with it’. He^-saww said: ‘She cannot see me^-saww’.

فَقَالَتْ لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ أَيْنَ صَاحِبُكَ قَالَ حَيْثُ شَاءَ اللَّهُ قَالَتْ لَقَدْ جِئْتُهُ وَ لَوْ أَرَاهُ لَرَمَيْتُهُ فَإِنَّهُ هَجَانِي وَ اللَّاتِ وَ الْعُزَّى إِنِّي لَشَاعِرَةٌ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَمْ تَرَكَ قَالَ لَا ضَرَبَ اللَّهُ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَهَا حِجَاباً

She said to Abu Bakr, ‘Where is your companion?’ He said, ‘Where Allah^-azwj Desires’. She said, ‘I have come to him^-saww and if I see him^-saww, I will pelt him^-saww, for he^-saww has satirised me. (I swear) by Al-Laat and Al-Uzza! I am (also) a poet’. Abu Bakr said,’O Rasool-Allah^-saww! She did not see you^-saww?’ He^-saww said: ‘No. Allah^-azwj Struck a Veil between me^-saww and her’.

وَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ كِتَابُهُ الْمُهَيْمِنُ الْبَاهِرُ لِعُقُولِ النَّاظِرِينَ مَعَ مَا أُعْطِيَ مِنَ الْخِلَالِ‏ الَّتِي إِنْ ذَكَرْنَاهَا لَطَالَتْ

And from that is his^-saww Book, Dominant, the stunning the intellects of the beholders, along with what he^-saww has been Given from the qualities which, if we were to mentioned these, (matters would be) prolonged’.

فَقَالَتِ الْيَهُودُ وَ كَيْفَ لَنَا بِأَنْ‏ نَعْلَمَ أَنَّ هَذَا كَمَا وَصَفْتَ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ مُوسَى ع وَ كَيْفَ لَنَا بِأَنْ‏ نَعْلَمَ أَنَّ مَا تَذْكُرُونَ مِنْ آيَاتِ مُوسَى صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ عَلَى مَا تَصِفُونَ قَالُوا عَلِمْنَا ذَلِكَ بِنَقْلِ الْبَرَرَةِ الصَّادِقِينَ ‏

The Jews said, ‘And how is it for us to know that this is just as you describe?’ Musa^-asws said to them: ‘And how is it for us to know that what you (Jews) are mentioning from the Signs of Musa^-as is upon what you describe?’ They said, ‘We know what by the transmitting of the righteous ones, the truthful’.

قَالَ لَهُمْ فَاعْلَمُوا صِدْقَ مَا أَتَيْنَاكُمْ‏ بِهِ بِخَبَرِ طِفْلٍ‏ لَقَّنَهُ اللَّهُ مِنْ غَيْرِ تَلْقِينٍ وَ لَا مَعْرِفَةٍ عَنِ النَّاقِلِينَ فَقَالُوا نَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ أَنَّكُمُ الْأَئِمَّةُ وَ الْقَادَةُ وَ الْحُجَجُ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ عَلَى خَلْقِهِ

He^-asws said to them, ‘Then know the truthfulness of we^-asws give you with the news of a child Allah^-azwj Taught without teaching, nor any recognition from the transmitters’. They said, ‘We testify that there is no god except Allah^-azwj, and that Muhammad^-saww is a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, and you^-asws are the Imams^-asws and the guides and the Divine Authorities from the Presence of Allah^-azwj upon His^-azwj creatures’.

فَوَثَبَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع فَقَبَّلَ بَيْنَ عَيْنَيَّ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَنْتَ الْقَائِمُ مِنْ بَعْدِي فَلِهَذَا قَالَتِ الْوَاقِفَةُ إِنَّهُ حَيٌّ وَ إِنَّهُ الْقَائِمُ ثُمَّ كَسَاهُمْ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع وَ وَهَبَ لَهُمْ وَ انْصَرَفُوا مُسْلِمِينَ

Abu Abdullah^-asws leapt and kissed between his^-asws eyes, then said: ‘You^-asws are Al-Qaim^-asws (the one standing with the Command) from after me^-asws’ – and for this reason the Waqifiites said, ‘He^-asws is alive and he^-asws is Al-Qaim^-asws. Then Abu Abdullah^-asws clothed them and gifted to them and they left as Muslims’’. [1]

2- م، تفسير الإمام عليه السلام بِالْإِسْنَادِ إِلَى أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ الْعَسْكَرِيِّ ع‏ أَنَّهُ قَالَ قِيلَ لِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع هَلْ لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص آيَةٌ مِثْلُ آيَةِ مُوسَى ع فِي رَفْعِهِ الْجَبَلَ فَوْقَ رُءُوسِ الْمُمْتَنِعِينَ عَنْ قَبُولِ مَا أُمِرُوا بِهِ

‘Tafseer of the Imam Hassan Al-Askari^-asws’ – By the chain to Abu Muhammad Al-Askari^-asws having said: ‘It was said to Amir Al-Momineen^-asws, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen^-asws! So, this is a Sign of Musa^-as in raising of the mountain above the heads of the abstainers from accepting what he^-as had ordered with?’

فَقَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع إِي وَ الَّذِي بَعَثَهُ بِالْحَقِّ نَبِيّاً مَا مِنْ آيَةٍ كَانَتْ لِأَحَدٍ مِنَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ مِنْ لَدُنْ آدَمَ ع إِلَى أَنِ انْتَهَى إِلَى مُحَمَّدٍ ص إِلَّا وَ قَدْ كَانَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص مِثْلُهَا أَوْ أَفْضَلُ مِنْهَا وَ لَقَدْ كَانَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص نَظِيرُ هَذِهِ الْآيَةِ إِلَى آيَاتٍ أُخَرَ ظَهَرَتْ لَهُ

Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said: ‘Yes, by the One^-azwj Who Sent him^-saww with the Truth as a Prophet^-as. There is none from a Sign for anyone from the Prophets^-as – from the time of Adam^-as ending up to Muhammad^-saww, except and there had been similar to it for Muhammad^-saww, and one superior than it, and there has been for Rasool-Allah^-saww a matching one of this Sign to the other Signs Manifested for him^-saww.

وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص لَمَّا أَظْهَرَ بِمَكَّةَ دَعْوَتَهُ وَ أَبَانَ عَنِ اللَّهِ مُرَادَهُ رَمَتْهُ الْعَرَبُ عَنْ قِسِيِّ عَدَاوَتِهَا بِضُرُوبِ إِمْكَانِهِمْ‏ وَ لَقَدْ قَصَدْتُهُ يَوْماً لِأَنِّي‏ كُنْتُ أَوَّلَ النَّاسِ إِسْلَاماً بُعِثَ‏ يَوْمَ الْإِثْنَيْنِ وَ صَلَّيْتُ مَعَهُ يَوْمَ الثَّلَاثَاءِ وَ بَقِيتُ مَعَهُ أُصَلِّي سَبْعَ سِنِينَ حَتَّى دَخَلَ نَفَرٌ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ وَ أَيَّدَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى دِينَهُ مِنْ بَعْدُ

And that, Rasool-Allah^-saww, when his^-saww call appeared at Makkah and his^-saww purpose was clear – on behalf of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic – the hardened Arabs cast their enmity to it – by striking their plots, and they had aimed for him^-saww one day, and I^-asws was the first of the people of Islam. He^-saww was Sent on the day of Monday, and I^-asws prayed Salat with him^-saww on the day of Wednesday, and I^-asws remained with him^-saww, praying Salat for seven years, until there entered a number (of other people) into (the fold of) Al-Islam, and Allah^-azwj the Exalted Aided His^-azwj Religion from afterwards.

فَجَاءَهُ قَوْمٌ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ فَقَالُوا لَهُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ تَزْعُمُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ ثُمَّ أَنَّكَ لَا تَرْضَى بِذَلِكَ حَتَّى تَزْعُمُ أَنَّكَ‏ سَيِّدُهُمْ وَ أَفْضَلُهُمْ

A group of the polytheists came over, and they said to him^-saww, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! You^-saww are claiming that you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of the Lord^-azwj of the worlds. Then, you^-saww are not happy with that, until you are (now) claiming that you^-saww are their^-as chief (of all Prophets^-as) and the most superior of them^-as.

فَإِنْ كُنْتَ نَبِيّاً فَأْتِنَا بِآيَةٍ كَمَا تَذْكُرُهُ عَنِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ قَبْلَكَ مِثَالَ‏ نُوحٍ الَّذِي جَاءَ بِالْغَرَقِ وَ نَجَا فِي سَفِينَتِهِ مَعَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ

And, if you were a Prophet^-saww, then come to us with a Sign just like what you^-saww are mentioning to be about the Prophets^-as before you^-saww – for example Noah^-as, who came with the drowning, and rescued the Momineen in his^-as ship.

وَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الَّذِي ذَكَرْتَ أَنَّ النَّارَ جُعِلَتْ عَلَيْهِ بَرْداً وَ سَلَاماً وَ مُوسَى الَّذِي زَعَمْتَ أَنَّ الْجَبَلَ رُفِعَ فَوْقَ رُءُوسِ أَصْحَابِهِ حَتَّى انْقَادُوا لِمَا دَعَاهُمْ إِلَيْهِ صَاغِرِينَ دَاخِرِينَ‏ وَ عِيسَى الَّذِي كَانَ يُنَبِّئُهُمْ بِمَا يَأْكُلُونَ وَ مَا يَدَّخِرُونَ فِي بُيُوتِهِمْ

And (a Sign like that of) Ibrahim^-as whom you^-saww mentioned – that the fire was Made to be a coolness and a safety upon him^-as. And (a Sign like that of) Musa^-as whom you^-saww claimed that the mountain was raised above the heads of his^-as companions – until they were led to what he^-saww was calling them to, submissively disgraced. And (a Sign like that of) Isa^-as who had informed them with what they had eaten and what they were hoarding in their houses’.

وَ صَارَ هَؤُلَاءِ الْمُشْرِكُونَ فِرَقاً أَرْبَعَ هَذِهِ تَقُولُ أَظْهِرْ لَنَا آيَةَ نُوحٍ وَ هَذِهِ تَقُولُ أَظْهِرْ لَنَا آيَةَ مُوسَى وَ هَذِهِ تَقُولُ أَظْهِرْ لَنَا آيَةَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَ هَذِهِ تَقُولُ أَظْهِرْ لَنَا آيَةَ عِيسَى

And these polytheists had become (divided into) four sections – this one was saying, ‘Display to us a Sign of Noah^-as’. And this one was saying, ‘Display to us a Sign of Musa^-as’. And this one was saying, ‘Display to us a Sign of Ibrahim^-as. And this one was saying, ‘Displaying to us a Sign of Isa^-as’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ إِنَّما أَنَا نَذِيرٌ مُبِينٌ‏ آتَيْتُكُمْ بِآيَةٍ مُبَيِّنَةٍ هَذَا الْقُرْآنِ الَّذِي تَعْجِزُونَ أَنْتُمْ وَ الْأُمَمُ وَ سَائِرُ الْعَرَبِ عَنْ مُعَارَضَتِهِ وَ هُوَ بِلُغَتِكُمْ‏ فَهُوَ حَجَّةُ اللَّهِ وَ حَجَّةُ نَبِيِّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ‏ وَ مَا بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَلَيْسَ لِيَ الِاقْتِرَاحُ عَلَى رَبِّي‏ وَ ما عَلَى الرَّسُولِ إِلَّا الْبَلاغُ الْمُبِينُ‏ إِلَى الْمُقِرِّينَ بِحُجَّةِ صِدْقِهِ وَ آيَةِ حَقِّهِ وَ لَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ أَنْ يَقْتَرِحَ‏ بَعْدَ قِيَامِ الْحُجَّةِ عَلَى رَبِّهِ مَا يَقْتَرِحُهُ عَلَيْهِ الْمُقْتَرِحُونَ الَّذِينَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ هَلِ الصَّلَاحُ أَوِ الْفَسَادُ فِيمَا يَقْتَرِحُونَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘But rather I^-saww am a clear warner. I^-saww have come to you with clear Signs – This Quran which you and the communities and the rest of the Arabs are frustrated from contradicting it, and it has reached you, so it is an Argument of Allah^-azwj and an argument of His^-azwj Prophet^-saww upon you, and whatever is after that, so it isn’t for me^-saww to suggest unto my^-saww Lord^-azwj, and it is not upon the Rasool^-saww except for the clear delivery, to the ones accepting the argument of its truthfulness, and signs of His^-azwj Right, and it isn’t upon him^-saww (me^-saww) to suggest after the establishment of the argument upon his^-saww Lord^-azwj, what can the suggesting ones suggest upon him^-saww, those who do not know whether it is correct or a spoiler in what they are suggesting’.

فَجَاءَ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنَّ الْعَلِيَّ الْأَعْلَى يَقْرَأُ عَلَيْكَ السَّلَامَ وَ يَقُولُ إِنِّي سَأُظْهِرُ لَهُمْ هَذِهِ الْآيَاتِ وَ إِنَّهُمْ يَكْفُرُونَ بِهَا إِلَّا مَنْ أَعْصِمُهُ مِنْهُمْ وَ لَكِنِّي أُرِيهِمْ‏ زِيَادَةً فِي الْإِعْذَارِ وَ الْإِيضَاحِ لِحُجَجِكَ فَقُلْ لِهَؤُلَاءِ الْمُقْتَرِحِينَ لِآيَةِ نُوحٍ ع امْضُوا إِلَى جَبَلِ أَبِي قُبَيْسٍ فَإِذَا بَلَغْتُمْ سَفْحَهُ‏ فَسَتَرَوْنَ آيَةَ نُوحٍ ع فَإِذَا غَشِيَكُمُ الْهَلَاكُ فَاعْتَصِمُوا بِهَذَا وَ بِطِفْلَيْنِ يَكُونَانِ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ

Jibraeel^-as came and said: ‘O Muhammad^-saww! The Most Exalted Conveys the Greetings and Says: “I^-saww shall Manifest these Signs to them, and they would be disbelieving these except for the ones from them I^-azwj Protect, but I^-azwj See them increasing in presenting excuses, and the Clarifying of your^-saww argument. Tell those suggest those suggesting for the Signs of Noah^-as: ‘Go to the mount Abu Qubays, and there you will reach the base of the mountain and you will be seeing the Sign of Noah^-as. When the destruction overcomes you, then hold fast with this one and the two children (Al-Hassan^-asws and Al-Husayn^-asws) who will be in front of him (Ali^-asws)’.

وَ قُلْ لِلْفَرِيقِ الثَّانِي الْمُقْتَرِحِينَ لِآيَةِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ‏ ع امْضُوا إِلَى حَيْثُ تُرِيدُونَ مِنْ ظَاهِرِ مَكَّةَ فَسَتَرَوْنَ آيَةَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ع فِي النَّارِ فَإِذَا غَشِيَكُمُ الْبَلَاءُ فَسَتَرَوْنَ فِي الْهَوَاءِ امْرَأَةً قَدْ أَرْسَلَتْ طَرَفَ‏ خِمَارِهَا فَتَعَلَّقُوا بِهِ لِتُنْجِيَكُمْ مِنَ الْهَلَكَةِ وَ تَرُدَّ عَنْكُمُ النَّارَ

And tell the second group suggesting for the Sign of Ibrahim^-as: ‘Go to wherever you want from the back of Makkah and you will be seeing the Sign of Ibrahim^-as regarding the fire. When the affliction overcomes you, then you will see a woman (Syeda Fatima^-asws) in the air to have let down an end of her^-asws veil, so attach with it and you will be rescued from the destruction and the fire will recede from you’.

وَ قُلْ لِلْفَرِيقِ الثَّالِثِ الْمُقْتَرِحِينَ لِآيَةِ مُوسَى ع امْضُوا إِلَى ظِلِّ الْكَعْبَةِ فَأَنْتُمْ سَتَرَوْنَ آيَةَ مُوسَى ع وَ سَيُنْجِيكُمْ هُنَاكَ عَمِّي حَمْزَةُ

And tell the third group suggesting for the Sign of Musa^-as: ‘Go to the shade of the Kabah and you will see the Sign of Musa^-as, and my^-saww uncle Hamza^-asws will rescue you’.

وَ قُلْ لِلْفَرِيقِ الرَّابِعِ وَ رَئِيسُهُمْ أَبُو جَهْلٍ وَ أَنْتَ يَا أَبَا جَهْلٍ فَاثْبُتْ عِنْدِي لِيَتَّصِلَ بِكَ أَخْبَارُ هَؤُلَاءِ الْفِرَقِ الثَّلَاثَةِ فَإِنَّ الْآيَةَ الَّتِي اقْتَرَحْتَهَا أَنْتَ تَكُونُ بِحَضْرَتِي

And tell the fourth group and their chief Abu Jahl^-la: ‘And you, O Abu Jahl^-la, stay with me^-saww for the news to arrive to you^-la of these three groups, for the Sign which you^-la are suggesting will be happening in my^-saww presence’.

فَقَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ لِلْفِرَقِ الثَّلَاثَةِ قُومُوا فَتَفَرَّقُوا لِيَتَبَيَّنَ‏ لَكُمْ بَاطِلُ قَوْلِ مُحَمَّدٍ فَذَهَبَتِ الْفِرْقَةُ الْأُولَى إِلَى جَبَلِ أَبِي قُبَيْسٍ فَلَمَّا صَارُوا إِلَى جَانِبِ الْجَبَلِ نَبَعَ الْمَاءُ مِنْ تَحْتِهِمْ وَ نَزَلَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ الْمَاءُ مِنْ فَوْقِهِمْ مِنْ غَيْرِ غَمَامَةٍ وَ لَا سَحَابٍ وَ كَثُرَ حَتَّى بَلَغَ أَفْوَاهَهُمْ

Abu Jahl^-la said to the three groups, ‘Arise and disperse in order for the words of Muhammad^-saww to be manifested to you all as false’. The first group went to the mount Abu Qubays. When they came to the side of the mountain, water sprang from under them, and water descended from the sky from above them from without there being a (dark) cloud, nor a (white) cloud, and it became a lot until it reached their mouths.

فَأَلْجَمَهَا وَ أَلْجَأَهُمْ إِلَى صُعُودِ الْجَبَلِ إِذْ لَمْ يَجِدُوا مَنْجًى سِوَاهُ فَجَعَلُوا يَصْعَدُونَ الْجَبَلَ وَ الْمَاءُ يَعْلُو مِنْ تَحْتِهِمْ إِلَى أَنْ بَلَغُوا ذِرْوَتَهُ‏ وَ ارْتَفَعَ الْمَاءُ حَتَّى أَلْجَمَهُمْ وَ هُمْ عَلَى قُلَّةِ الْجَبَلِ وَ أَيْقَنُوا بِالْغَرَقِ إِذْ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُمْ مَفَرٌّ

It compelled them to climb the mountain when they could find no escape but it. They went on climbing the mountain and the water kept following from under them – until they reached its peak, and the water kept rising – until it reached their mouths, and they were at the peak of the mountain, and were convinced of the drowning when there did not happen to be a fleeing for them.

فَرَأَوْا عَلِيّاً ع وَاقِفاً عَلَى مَتْنِ الْمَاءِ فَوْقَ قُلَّةِ الْجَبَلِ وَ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ طِفْلٌ وَ عَنْ يَسَارِهِ طِفْلٌ فَنَادَاهُمْ عَلِيٌّ خُذُوا بِيَدِي أُنْجِكُمْ أَوْ بِيَدِ مَنْ شِئْتُمْ مِنْ هَذَيْنِ الطِّفْلَيْنِ

Then they saw Ali^-asws paused over the surface of the water, above the peak of the mountain, and on his^-asws right was a child, and on his^-asws left was a child. Ali^-asws Called out to them: ‘Grab my^-asws hand, I^-asws shall rescue you, or the hand of the one whom you so desire to from these two children^-asws.

فَلَمْ يَجِدُوا بُدّاً مِنْ ذَلِكَ فَبَعْضُهُمْ أَخَذَ بِيَدِ عَلِيٍّ وَ بَعْضُهُمْ أَخَذَ بِيَدِ أَحَدِ الطِّفْلَيْنِ وَ بَعْضُهُمْ أَخَذَ بِيَدِ الطِّفْلِ الْآخَرِ وَ جَعَلُوا يَنْزِلُونَ بِهِمْ مِنَ الْجَبَلِ وَ الْمَاءُ يَنْزِلُ وَ يَنْحَطُّ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَيْدِيهِمْ حَتَّى أَوْصَلُوهُمْ إِلَى الْقَرَارِ وَ الْمَاءُ يَدْخُلُ بَعْضُهُ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ يَرْتَفِعُ بَعْضُهُ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ حَتَّى عَادُوا كَهَيْئَتِهِمْ إِلَى قَرَارِ الْأَرْضِ

They could not find an escape from that, so some of them grabbed the hand of Ali^-asws, and some of them grabbed the hand of one of the two children^-asws, and some of them grabbed the hand of the other child^-asws, and they went on descending with them^-asws from the mountain – and the water kept descending and receding from in front of them – until they^-asws made them arrive to the base, and the water, some of it entered into the ground, and some of it arose to the sky until they returned to be on the plain ground.

فَجَاءَ عَلِيٌّ ع بِهِمْ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ هُمْ يَبْكُونَ وَ يَقُولُونَ نَشْهَدُ أَنَّكَ سَيِّدُ الْمُرْسَلِينَ وَ خَيْرُ الْخَلْقِ أَجْمَعِينَ رَأَيْنَا مِثْلَ طُوفَانِ نُوحٍ ع‏ وَ خَلَّصَنَا هَذَا وَ طِفْلَانِ كَانَا مَعَهُ لَسْنَا نَرَاهُمَا الْآنَ

Ali^-asws came with them to Rasool-Allah^-saww, and they were crying and saying, ‘We testify that you^-saww are (indeed) the chief of the Mursils^-as, and the best of the creatures in their entirety. We saw the likes of the flood of Noah^-as, and we were finished off from it by this one^-asws and the two children^-asws who were with him^-asws. We cannot see them^-asws now’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَمَا إِنَّهُمَا سَيَكُونَانِ هُمَا الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ سَيُولَدَانِ لِأَخِي هَذَا هُمَا سَيِّدَا شَبَابِ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ وَ أَبُوهُمَا خَيْرٌ مِنْهُمَا

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘As for these two (children), they will be (in the future) – they are Al-Hassan^-asws and Al-Husayn^-asws. They^-asws would be Blessed unto this brother^-asws of mine^-saww, and they^-asws are the chiefs of the inhabitants of Paradise, and their^-asws father^-asws is better than them^-asws.

اعْلَمُوا أَنَّ الدُّنْيَا بَحْرٌ عَمِيقٌ قَدْ غَرِقَ فِيهَا خَلْقٌ كَثِيرٌ وَ أَنَّ سَفِينَةَ نَجَاتِهَا آلُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَلِيٌّ هَذَا وَ وَلَدَاهُ اللَّذَانِ رَأَيْتُمُوهُمَا سَيَكُونَانِ وَ سَائِرُ أَفَاضِلِ أَهْلِي فَمَنْ رَكِبَ هَذِهِ السَّفِينَةَ نَجَا وَ مَنْ تَخَلَّفَ عَنْهَا غَرِقَ

Know, that the world is a deep ocean, and a lot of people have drowned in it, and that the ship of its salvation are the Progeny^-asws of Muhammad^-saww – Ali^-asws, this one, and his^-asws two sons^-asws, those whom you saw will be happening to be – and the rest of the meritorious one of my^-saww family. The one who sails this ship would (attain) salvation, and the one who is left behind from it, would drown’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَكَذَلِكَ‏ الْآخِرَةُ حَمِيمُهَا وَ نَارُهَا كَالْبَحْرِ وَ هَؤُلَاءِ سُفُنُ أُمَّتِي يَعْبُرُونَ‏ بِمُحِبِّيهِمْ وَ أَوْلِيَائِهِمْ إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘And similar to that is the Hereafter. Its Garden and its Fire are like the ocean – and they^-asws are the ships of my^-saww community – they would be departing, due to having their^-asws love and their^-asws friends’ love, to Paradise’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَ مَا سَمِعْتَ هَذَا يَا بَا جَهْلٍ قَالَ بَلَى حَتَّى أَنْظُرَ إِلَى الْفِرْقَةِ الثَّانِيَةِ وَ الثَّالِثَةِ

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Did you hear this, O Abu Jahl^-la?’ He said, ‘But until I look at the second and the third group’.

فَجَاءَتِ الْفِرْقَةُ الثَّانِيَةُ يَبْكُونَ وَ يَقُولُونَ نَشْهَدُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَ سَيِّدُ الْخَلْقِ أَجْمَعِينَ مَضَيْنَا إِلَى صَحْرَاءَ مَلْسَاءَ وَ نَحْنُ نَتَذَاكَرُ بَيْنَنَا قَوْلَكَ فَنَظَرْنَا السَّمَاءَ قَدْ تَشَقَّقَتْ بِجَمْرِ النِّيرَانِ تَتَنَاثَرُ عَنْهَا وَ رَأَيْنَا الْأَرْضَ قَدْ تَصَدَّعَتْ وَ لَهَبُ النِّيرَانِ يَخْرُجُ مِنْهَا

And the second group came over crying and saying, ‘We testify that you^-saww are (indeed) a Rasool^-saww of the Lord^-azwj of the worlds, and chief of the creatures in their entirety. We went to a smooth desert and we were mentioning your^-saww words. Then we looked at the sky to have cleft asunder by streaks of fires streaming out from it, and we saw the ground to have cracked and flames of fires coming out from it.

فَمَا زَالَتْ كَذَلِكَ حَتَّى طَبَّقَتِ الْأَرْضَ وَ مَلَأَتْهَا وَ مَسَّنَا مِنْ شِدَّةِ حَرِّهَا حَتَّى سَمِعْنَا لِجُلُودِنَا نَشِيشاً مِنْ شِدَّةِ حَرِّهَا وَ أَيْقَنَّا بِالاشْتِوَاءِ وَ الِاحْتِرَاقِ بِتِلْكَ النِّيرَانِ

It did not cease to be like that until the ground formed layers and were filled with it, and we were touched by the intensity of its heat – to the extent that we heard the sound of our melting skins from the intensity of its heat, and we were convinced of the melting (out our skins) and the incineration, and we wondered at the obstruction of our visions by those fires.

فَبَيْنَمَا نَحْنُ كَذَلِكَ إِذْ رُفِعَ لَنَا فِي الْهَوَاءِ شَخْصُ‏ امْرَأَةٍ قَدْ أَرْخَتْ خِمَارَهَا فَتَدَلَّى طَرْفُهُ إِلَيْنَا بِحَيْثُ تَنَالُهُ أَيْدِينَا وَ إِذَا مُنَادٍ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ يُنَادِينَا إِنْ أَرَدْتُمُ النَّجَاةَ فَتَمَسَّكُوا بِبَعْضِ أَهْدَابِ هَذَا الْخِمَارِ

While we were like that when a person of a woman was raised for us in the air – her veil to have dangles, and its end floating towards us – with there our hands could grab it. And there was a call from the sky calling us: ‘If you want the liberation, then attach yourselves to part of the fringes of this veil!’

فَتَعَلَّقَ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنَّا بِهُدْبَةٍ مِنْ أَهْدَابِ ذَلِكَ الْخِمَارِ فَرُفِعْنَا فِي الْهَوَاءِ وَ نَحْنُ نَشُقُ‏ جَمْرَ النِّيرَانِ وَ لَهَبَهَا لَا يَمَسُّنَا شَرَرُهَا وَ لَا يُؤْذِينَا حَرُّهَا وَ لَا نَثْقُلُ عَلَى الْهُدْبَةِ الَّتِي تَعَلَّقْنَا بِهَا وَ لَا تَنْقَطِعُ الْأَهْدَابُ فِي أَيْدِينَا عَلَى دِقَّتِهَا

So each one of us attached himself with a fringe from the fringes of that veil, and it raised us in the air, and we pierced through the streaks of the fires and its flames – it’s evil did not touch us nor did its heat, nor were we too heavy upon the fringe, which we had attached with, nor did the fringes (of the veil) tear off in our hands upon its fabric.

فَمَا زَالَتْ كَذَلِكَ حَتَّى جَازَتْ بِنَا تِلْكَ النِّيرَانَ‏ ثُمَّ وُضِعَ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنَّا فِي صَحْنِ دَارِهِ سَالِماً مُعَافًى ثُمَّ خَرَجْنَا فَالْتَقَيْنَا فَجِئنَاكَ عَالِمِينَ بِأَنَّهُ لَا مَحِيصَ عَنْ دِينِكَ وَ لَا مَعْدِلَ عَنْكَ وَ أَنْتَ أَفْضَلُ مَنْ لُجِئَ إِلَيْهِ وَ اعْتُمِدَ بَعْدَ اللَّهِ إِلَيْهِ صَادِقٌ فِي أَقْوَالِكَ حَكِيمٌ فِي أَفْعَالِكَ

It did not cease to be like that until it crossed over those fires with us. Then it placed each one of us in the courtyard of this house safely, with well-being. Then we came out and met up (with each other), so we came over to you^-saww – knowing that there is no avoidance from your^-saww Religion, nor is there a replacement from you^-saww, and you^-saww are the most superior of the ones to resort to, and the one to be most relied upon after Allah^-azwj. You^-saww are truthful in your^-saww word, wise in your deeds’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِأَبِي جَهْلٍ هَذِهِ الْفِرْقَةُ الثَّانِيَةُ قَدْ أَرَاهُمُ اللَّهُ آيَةَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ع‏

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to Abu Jahl^-la: ‘This is the second group. Allah^-azwj has Showed them His^-azwj Signs of Ibrahim^-as’.

قَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ حَتَّى أَنْظُرَ الْفِرْقَةَ الثَّالِثَةَ وَ أَسْمَعَ مَقَالَتَهَا

Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘Until I look at the third group and hear their speech’.

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِهَذِهِ الْفِرْقَةِ الثَّانِيَةِ لَمَّا آمَنُوا يَا عِبَادَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ أَغَاثَكُمْ بِتِلْكَ الْمَرْأَةِ أَ تَدْرُونَ مَنْ هِيَ قَالُوا لَا قَالَ تِلْكَ تَكُونُ ابْنَتِي فَاطِمَةَ وَ هِيَ سَيِّدَةُ النِّسَاءِ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to this second group, when they had believed: ‘O servants of Allah^-azwj! Allah^-azwj Helped you by that (pious) Lady^-asws. Do you know who she is?’ They said, ‘No’. He^-saww said: ‘That happened to be my^-saww daughter^-asws (Syeda) Fatima^-asws, and she^-asws is the chief Tess of the women (of the worlds)’.

إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى إِذَا بَعَثَ الْخَلَائِقَ مِنَ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ الْآخِرِينَ نَادَى مُنَادِي رَبِّنَا مِنْ تَحْتِ عَرْشِهِ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْخَلَائِقِ غُضُّوا أَبْصَارَكُمْ لِتَجُوزَ فَاطِمَةُ بِنْتُ مُحَمَّدٍ سَيِّدَةُ نِسَاءِ الْعَالَمِينَ عَلَى الصِّرَاطِ

Allah^-azwj the Exalted, when He^-azwj Resurrects the creatures, from the former ones and the latter ones – a caller of our Lord^-azwj would call out from beneath His^-azwj Throne: ‘O group of creatures! Close your eyes so that (Syeda) Fatima^-asws, daughter^-asws of Muhammad^-saww, chief of the women of the world crosses over the Bridge!’

فَتَغُضُّ الْخَلَائِقُ كُلُّهُمْ أَبْصَارَهُمْ فَتَجُوزُ فَاطِمَةُ عَلَى الصِّرَاطِ لَا يَبْقَى أَحَدٌ فِي الْقِيَامَةِ إِلَّا غَضَّ بَصَرَهُ عَنْهَا إِلَّا مُحَمَّدٌ وَ عَلِيٌّ وَ الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ وَ الطَّاهِرُونَ مِنْ أَوْلَادِهِمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ مَحَارِمُهَا فَإِذَا دَخَلَتِ الْجَنَّةَ بَقِيَ مِرْطُهَا مَمْدُوداً عَلَى الصِّرَاطِ طَرَفٌ مِنْهُ بِيَدِهَا وَ هِيَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ وَ طَرَفٌ فِي عَرَصَاتِ الْقِيَامَةِ

The creatures, all of them would close their eyes, and (Syed) Fatima^-asws would cross upon the Bridge. There would not remain anyone in the (plains) of the (Day of) Qiyamah except he would have shut his eyes from her^-asws – except for Muhammad^-saww, and Ali^-asws, and Al-Hassan^-asws, and Al-Husayn^-asws, and the clean ones^-asws from their^-asws children, for they^-asws are her^-asws sanctimonious ones. When she^-asws does enter Paradise, there would remain her^-asws strands of clothing extended upon the Bridge, an end from it being in her^-asws hand, and she^-asws would be in Paradise, and an end (of it) in the plains of the (Day of) Qiyamah.

فَيُنَادِي مُنَادِي رَبِّنَا يَا أَيُّهَا الْمُحِبُّونَ لِفَاطِمَةَ تَعَلَّقُوا بِأَهْدَابِ مِرْطِ فَاطِمَةَ سَيِّدَةِ نِسَاءِ الْعَالَمِينَ فَلَا يَبْقَى مُحِبٌّ لِفَاطِمَةَ إِلَّا تَعَلَّقَ بِهُدْبَةٍ مِنْ أَهْدَابِ مِرْطِهَا حَتَّى يَتَعَلَّقَ بِهَا أَكْثَرُ مِنْ أَلْفِ فِئَامٍ وَ أَلْفِ فِئَامٍ‏

Then a caller of our Lord^-azwj would call out: ‘O you the devotees of (Syeda) Fatima^-asws! Attach yourselves with the fringes of a strand (of a cloth) of (Syeda) Fatima^-asws, chief Tess of the women of the worlds!’ There would not remain a single devotee of (Syeda) Fatima^-asws except he would attach himself with a fringe from the fringes of her cloth, to the extent that there would be attaching with it more than a thousand Fa’ims, and a thousand Fa’ims, and a thousand Fa’ims’.

قَالُوا وَ كَمْ فِئَامٌ وَاحِدٌ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ أَلْفُ أَلْفٍ وَ يُنْجَوْنَ بِهَا مِنَ النَّارِ

They said: ‘And how many constitute one Fa’im, O Rasool-Allah^-saww?’ He^-saww said ‘A million from the (people rescued from the) Fire’.

قَالَ ثُمَّ جَاءَتِ الْفِرْقَةُ الثَّالِثَةُ بَاكِينَ يَقُولُونَ نَشْهَدُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَ سَيِّدُ الْخَلْقِ أَجْمَعِينَ وَ أَنَّ عَلِيّاً أَفْضَلُ الْوَصِيِّينَ وَ أَنَّ آلَكَ أَفْضَلُ آلِ النَّبِيِّينَ وَ صَحَابَتَكَ خَيْرُ صَحَابَةِ الْمُرْسَلِينَ وَ أَنَّ أُمَّتَكَ خَيْرُ الْأُمَمِ أَجْمَعِينَ رَأَيْنَا مِنْ آيَاتِكَ مَا لَا مَحِيصَ لَنَا عَنْهَا وَ مِنْ مُعْجِزَاتِكَ مَا لَا مَذْهَبَ لَنَا سِوَاهَا

He^-asws said: ‘Then came the third group crying and saying, ‘We testify, O Muhammad^-saww, that you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of the Lord^-azwj of the worlds, and chief of the creatures in their entirety, and that Ali^-asws is the most superior of the successors^-as, and that your^-saww Progeny^-asws are the most superior of the progenies of the Prophets^-as, and your^-saww companions are the best of the companions of the Mursils^-as, and that your^-saww community is the best of the communities in their entirety. We saw from your^-saww Signs what there is no avoidance for us from it, and from your^-saww miracles what there is not doctrine for us besides it’.

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ مَا الَّذِي رَأَيْتُمْ قَالُوا كُنَّا قُعُوداً فِي ظِلِّ الْكَعْبَةِ نَتَذَاكَرُ أَمْرَكَ وَ نَهْزَأُ بِخَبَرِكَ وَ أَنَّكَ ذَكَرْتَ أَنَّ لَكَ مِثْلَ‏ آيَةِ مُوسَى ع‏ فَبَيْنَا نَحْنُ كَذَلِكَ إِذَا ارْتَفَعَتِ الْكَعْبَةُ عَنْ مَوْضِعِهَا وَ صَارَتْ فَوْقَ رُءُوسِنَا فَرَكَزْنَا فِي مَوَاضِعِنَا وَ لَمْ نَقْدِرْ أَنْ نَرِيمَهَا

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘And what is that which you saw?’ They said, ‘We were seated in the shade of the Kabah mentioning your^-saww matter, and we were mocking your^-saww news, and you^-saww had mentioned that for you^-saww is a Sign similar to (that of) Musa^-as. While we were like that, when the Kabah rose from its place, and came to be above our heads. We became still in our places and were not able to distance ourselves from it.

فَجَاءَ عَمُّكَ حَمْزَةُ وَ قَالَ بِزُجِ‏ رُمْحِهِ هَكَذَا تَحْتَهَا فَتَنَاوَلَهَا وَ احْتَبَسَهَا عَلَى عِظَمِهَا فَوْقَنَا فِي الْهَوَاءِ

Then your^-saww uncle Hamza^-asws came over and he^-asws grabbed the bottom-end of his^-asws spear like this, underneath it, and he^-asws withheld it upon its bottom, above us, in the air.

ثُمَّ قَالَ لَنَا اخْرُجُوا فَخَرَجْنَا مِنْ تَحْتِهَا فَقَالَ ابْعُدُوا فَبَعُدْنَا عَنْهَا ثُمَّ أَخْرَجَ سِنَانَ الرُّمْحِ مِنْ تَحْتِهَا فَنَزَلَتْ إِلَى مَوْضِعِهَا وَ اسْتَقَرَّتْ‏ فَجِئْنَاكَ بِذَلِكَ‏ مُسْلِمِينَ

Then he^-asws said to us, ‘Get out!’ We got out from under it. Then he^-asws said, ‘Go far from it!’ We went far from it. Then he^-asws extracted the spear-head from under it, and it descended (back) to its place and settled. We came over becoming Muslims, due to that’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِأَبِي جَهْلٍ هَذِهِ الْفِرْقَةُ الثَّالِثَةُ قَدْ جَاءَتْكَ وَ أَخْبَرَتْكَ بِمَا شَاهَدَتْ فَقَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ لَا أَدْرِي أَ صَدَقَ‏ هَؤُلَاءِ أَمْ كَذَبُوا أَمْ حُقِّقَ‏ لَهُمْ أَمْ خُيِّلَ إِلَيْهِمْ فَإِنْ رَأَيْتُ مَا أَنَا أَقْتَرِحُهُ عَلَيْكَ مِنْ نَحْوِ آيَاتِ عِيسَى ابْنِ مَرْيَمَ ع فَقَدْ لَزِمَنِي الْإِيمَانُ بِكَ وَ إِلَّا فَلَيْسَ يَلْزَمُنِي تَصْدِيقُ هَؤُلَاءِ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to Abu Jahl^-la: ‘This is the third group which has come to you, and informed you with what it witnessed. Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘I don’t know whether they are speaking the truth or they are lying, or whether it was a reality for them or it appeared so to them. But, if I were to see what I am suggesting to you^-saww, from an approximation of a Sign of Isa^-as Ibn Maryam^-as, then it would necessitate me to believe in you^-saww, or else it doesn’t necessitate upon me to ratify them’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا أَبَا جَهْلٍ فَإِنْ كَانَ لَا يَلْزَمُكَ تَصْدِيقُ هَؤُلَاءِ عَلَى كَثْرَتِهِمْ وَ شِدَّةِ تَحْصِيلِهِمْ فَكَيْفَ تُصَدِّقُ بِمَآثِرِ آبَائِكَ وَ أَجْدَادِكَ وَ مَسَاوِي أَسْلَافِ أَعْدَائِكَ وَ كَيْفَ تُصَدِّقُ عَنِ الصِّينِ وَ الْعِرَاقِ وَ الشَّامِ إِذَا حُدِّثْتَ عَنْهَا هَلِ الْمُخْبِرُونَ عَنْ ذَلِكَ إِلَّا دُونَ هَؤُلَاءِ الْمُخْبِرِينَ لَكَ عَنْ هَذِهِ الْآيَاتِ مَعَ سَائِرِ مَنْ شَاهَدَهَا مِنْهُمْ مِنَ الْجَمْعِ الْكَثِيفِ‏ الَّذِينَ لَا يَجْتَمِعُونَ عَلَى بَاطِلٍ يَتَخَرَّصُونَهُ‏ إِلَّا كَانَ بِإِزَائِهِمْ مَنْ يُكَذِّبُهُمْ وَ يُخْبِرُ بِضِدِّ أَخْبَارِهِمْ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O Abu Jahl^-la! If it was such that it is not necessitated for you to ratify them, despite their numbers and the intensity of their ordeals, then how did you ratify the heroic deeds of your fathers and your grandfathers, and the cons of the ancestors of your enemies? And how do your ratify about China, and Al-Iraq, and Syria, when you are narrated about it? Are the informants about these except less (reliable) than these ones informing you – about these Signs, along with the rest of the ones who witnessed these from them – from the large gatherings not forming a consensus upon a falsehood forging it, except they would have been confronted by the ones who would have belied them, and would have informed with the opposite of their information?

أَلَا وَ كُلُّ فِرْقَةٍ مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ مَحْجُوجُونَ‏ بِمَا شَاهَدُوا وَ أَنْتَ يَا أَبَا جَهْلٍ مَحْجُوجٌ بِمَا سَمِعْتَ مِمَّنْ شَاهَدَ

Indeed! And every group from them was overwhelmed with proofs with what they witnessed, and you, O Abu Jahl^-la, are overwhelmed with what you heard from the ones who witnessed’.

ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَلَى الْفِرْقَةِ الثَّالِثَةِ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ هَذَا حَمْزَةُ عَمُّ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص بَلَّغَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى الْمَنَازِلَ الرَّفِيعَةَ وَ الدَّرَجَاتِ الْعَالِيَةَ وَ أَكْرَمَهُ‏ بِالْفَضَائِلِ لِشِدَّةِ حُبِّهِ لِمُحَمَّدٍ وَ لِعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ أَمَا إِنَّ حَمْزَةَ عَمَّ مُحَمَّدٍ لَيُنَحِّي جَهَنَّمَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عَنْ مُحِبِّيهِ كَمَا نَحَّى عَنْكُمُ الْيَوْمَ الْكَعْبَةَ أَنْ تَقَعَ عَلَيْكُمْ

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww turned facing towards the third group, and said to them: ‘This is Hamza^-asws, uncle^-asws of Rasool-Allah^-saww! Allah^-azwj the Exalted has Caused him^-as to reach the lofty levels and the high ranks, and Honoured him^-as with the merits – due to the intensity of his^-as love for Muhammad^-saww and Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws. But Hamza^-asws, uncle^-asws of Muhammad^-saww would be withholding Hell on the Day of Qiyamah from those that love him^-asws – just as he^-asws withheld the Kabah from you all today, from falling upon you’.

قِيلَ‏ وَ كَيْفَ ذَلِكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّهُ لَيُرَى يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ إِلَى جَانِبِ الصِّرَاطِ عَالَمٌ كَثِيرٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْرِفُ عَدَدَهُمْ إِلَّا اللَّهُ تَعَالَى هُمْ كَانُوا مُحِبِّي حَمْزَةَ وَ كَثِيرٌ مِنْهُمْ أَصْحَابُ الذُّنُوبِ وَ الْآثَامِ فَتَحُولُ‏ حِيطَانٌ بَيْنَهُمْ وَ بَيْنَ سُلُوكِ الصِّرَاطِ وَ الْعُبُورِ إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ فَيَقُولُونَ يَا حَمْزَةُ قَدْ تَرَى مَا نَحْنُ فِيهِ

They said, ‘And how would that be, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’ Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘He^-asws, on the Day of Qiyamah, would see the crowds of multitudes of people – none recognising their number except for Allah^-azwj the Exalted – they would be those that love Hamza^-asws; and most of them would be committers of sins and misdeeds. So the walls of the Fire would be transformed between them and the path of the Bridge – the crossing to Paradise, and they would be saying, ‘O Hamza^-asws! You^-asws can see what (predicament) we are in’.

فَيَقُولُ حَمْزَةُ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ لِعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمَا قَدْ تَرَيَانِ أَوْلِيَائِي كَيْفَ يَسْتَغِيثُونَ بِي فَيَقُولُ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِعَلِيٍّ وَلِيِّ اللَّهِ يَا عَلِيُّ أَعِنْ عَمَّكَ عَلَى إِغَاثَةِ أَوْلِيَائِهِ وَ اسْتِنْقَاذِهِمْ مِنَ النَّارِ

Hamza^-asws would be saying to Rasool-Allah^-saww and to Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws, ‘You^-saww have both seen my^-asws friends how they are seeking help with me^-asws!’ So Muhammad^-saww, Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj would be saying to Ali^-asws, Guardian^-asws of Allah^-azwj: ‘O Ali^-asws! Assist your^-asws uncle^-asws upon the cries of help of his^-asws friends and save them from the Fire’.

فَيَأْتِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ بِالرُّمْحِ‏ الَّذِي كَانَ يُقَاتِلُ بِهِ حَمْزَةُ أَعْدَاءَ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى فِي الدُّنْيَا فَيُنَاوِلُهُ إِيَّاهُ وَ يَقُولُ يَا عَمَّ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَمَ‏ أَخِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ذُدِ الْجَحِيمَ عَنْ أَوْلِيَائِكَ بِرُمْحِكَ هَذَا كَمَا كُنْتَ تَذُودُ بِهِ عَنْ أَوْلِيَاءِ اللَّهِ فِي الدُّنْيَا أَعْدَاءَ اللَّهِ

Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws would come with the spear which Hamza^-asws used to fight the enemies of Allah^-azwj the Exalted with in the world, and he^-asws would give it to him^-asws and would be saying: ‘O uncle of Rasool-Allah^-saww, and uncle of the brother^-asws of Rasool-Allah^-saww! Block the Blazing Fires from your^-asws friends – by this spear of yours^-asws which you^-asws used to defend with – the friends of Allah^-azwj in the world, against the enemies of Allah^-azwj’.

فَيَتَنَاوَلُ حَمْزَةُ الرُّمْحَ بِيَدِهِ فَيَضَعُ زُجَّهُ فِي حِيطَانِ النَّارِ الْحَائِلَةِ بَيْنَ أَوْلِيَائِهِ وَ بَيْنَ الْعُبُورِ إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ عَلَى الصِّرَاطِ وَ يَدْفَعُهَا دَفْعَةً فَيُنَحِّيهَا مَسِيرَةَ خَمْسِمِائَةِ عَامٍ ثُمَّ يَقُولُ لِأَوْلِيَائِهِ وَ الْمُحِبِّينَ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا لَهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا اعْبُرُوا فَيَعْبُرُونَ عَلَى الصِّرَاطِ آمِنِينَ سَالِمِينَ قَدِ انْزَاحَتْ‏ عَنْهُمُ النِّيرَانُ وَ بَعُدَتْ عَنْهُمُ الْأَهْوَالُ وَ يَرِدُونَ الْجَنَّةَ غَانِمِينَ ظَافِرِينَ

Then Hamza^-asws would take the spear in his^-asws hand, and he^-asws would place its end in the walls of the Fire forming a barrier between his^-asws friends and their crossing to Paradise upon the Bridge, and he^-asws would repel it to a distance – a travel distance of five hundred years. Then he^-asws would be saying to his^-asws friends, and those that used to love him^-asws in the world, ‘Cross over!’ So they would be crossing over the Bridge, securely, safely, and the Fires would have been removed from them and its horrors would be distanced from them, and they would be arriving to Paradise, victorious, successful’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِأَبِي جَهْلٍ يَا أَبَا جَهْلٍ هَذِهِ الْفِرْقَةُ الثَّالِثَةُ قَدْ شَاهَدَتْ آيَاتِ اللَّهِ وَ مُعْجِزَاتِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ بَقِيَ الَّذِي لَكَ فَأَيَّ آيَةٍ تُرِيدُ

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said to Abu Jahl^-la: ‘O Abu Jahl^-la! This is the third group which witnessed the Signs of Allah^-azwj and miracles of Rasool-Allah^-saww, and there (still) remain that which is for you. Which Sign do you want?’

قَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ آيَةَ عِيسَى ابْنِ مَرْيَمَ ع كَمَا زَعَمْتَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يُخْبِرُهُمْ بِمَا يَأْكُلُونَ وَ مَا يَدَّخِرُونَ فِي بُيُوتِهِمْ فَأَخْبِرْنِي بِمَا أَكَلْتُ الْيَوْمَ وَ مَا ادَّخَرْتُهُ فِي بَيْتِي وَ زِدْنِي عَلَى ذَلِكَ أَنْ تُحَدِّثَنِي بِمَا صَنَعْتُهُ بَعْدَ أَكْلِي لَمَّا أَكَلْتُ كَمَا زَعَمْتَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ زَادَكَ‏ فِي الْمَرْتَبَةِ فَوْقَ عِيسَى ع

Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘Sign of Isa^-as Ibn Maryam^-as, just as you^-saww claimed that he^-as used to inform them with what they had eaten and what they were hoarding in their houses. Inform me with what I ate today, and what is hoarded in my house, and increase for me upon that – by narrating to me with what I did after my meal what I ate, since you^-saww allege that Allah^-azwj Increased you^-saww in the rank above Isa^-as’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَمَّا مَا أَكَلْتَ وَ مَا ادَّخَرْتَ فَأُخْبِرُكَ بِهِ وَ أُخْبِرُكَ بِمَا فَعَلْتَهُ فِي خِلَالِ أَكْلِكَ وَ مَا فَعَلْتَهُ بَعْدَ أَكْلِكَ وَ هَذَا يَوْمٌ يَفْضَحُكَ اللَّهُ فِيهِ لِاقْتِرَاحِكَ‏ فَإِنْ آمَنْتَ بِاللَّهِ لَمْ تَضُرَّكَ هَذِهِ الْفَضِيحَةُ وَ إِنْ أَصْرَرْتَ عَلَى كُفْرِكَ أُضِيفَ لَكَ إِلَى فَضِيحَةِ الدُّنْيَا وَ خِزْيِهَا خِزْيُ الْآخِرَةِ الَّذِي لَا يَبِيدُ وَ لَا يَنْفَدُ وَ لَا يَتَنَاهَى

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘As for what you ate and what you hoarded with, so I^-saww shall inform you with it, and I^-saww shall (also) inform you with that you did regarding the left-over(s) of your meal, and what you did after your meal. And this is a day in which Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic will Unmask you due to your suggestion. But, if you believe in Allah^-azwj, this unmasking will not harm you, and if you persist upon your Kufr, there would be an addition for you to your unmasking in the world and its disgrace, with the disgrace of the Hereafter which will neither get eradicated, nor interrupted, nor move aside (ever)’.

قَالَ وَ مَا هُوَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص قَعَدْتَ يَا أَبَا جَهْلٍ تَتَنَاوَلُ مِنْ دَجَاجَةٍ مُسَمَّنَةٍ اسْتَطَبْتَهَا فَلَمَّا وَضَعْتَ يَدَكَ عَلَيْهَا اسْتَأْذَنَ عَلَيْكَ أَخُوكَ أَبُو الْبَخْتَرِيِّ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ فَأَشْفَقْتَ‏ عَلَيْهِ أَنْ يَأْكُلَ مِنْهَا وَ بَخِلْتَ فَوَضَعْتَهَا تَحْتَ ذَيْلِكَ وَ أَرْخَيْتَ عَلَيْهَا ذَيْلَكَ حَتَّى انْصَرَفَ عَنْكَ

He said, ‘And what is it?’ Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘You sat down, O Abu Jahl^-la, to partake from a grilled chicken, but when you placed your hand upon it – your brother Abu Al-Bakhtary Bin Hisham sought permission to see you. You were afraid upon it in case he eats from it, and you were stingy, and you placed it under your back cloth and loosened your cloth upon it until he left from you’.

فَقَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ كَذَبْتَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ مَا مِنْ هَذَا قَلِيلٌ وَ لَا كَثِيرٌ وَ لَا أَكَلْتُ مِنْ دَجَاجَةٍ وَ لَا ادَّخَرْتُ مِنْهَا شَيْئاً فَمَا الَّذِي فَعَلْتُهُ بَعْدَ أَكْلِيَ الَّذِي زَعَمْتَ‏

Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘You^-saww lie, O Muhammad^-saww! There is neither little from this nor more, nor did I eat from a chicken, nor did I hoard anything from it. What was that which I did after my meal which you are alleging?’

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص كَانَ عِنْدَكَ‏ ثَلَاثُمِائَةِ دِينَارٍ لَكَ وَ عَشَرَةُ آلَافِ دِينَارٍ وَدَائِعُ النَّاسِ عِنْدَكَ الْمِائَةُ وَ الْمِائَتَانِ وَ الْخَمْسُمِائَةٍ وَ السَّبْعُمِائَةٍ وَ الْأَلْفُ وَ نَحْوُ ذَلِكَ إِلَى تَمَامِ عَشَرَةِ آلَافٍ مَالُ كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ فِي صُرَّةٍ وَ كُنْتَ قَدْ عَزَمْتَ عَلَى أَنْ تَخْتَانَهُمْ وَ قَدْ كُنْتَ جَحَدْتَهُمْ وَ مَنَعْتَهُمْ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘There were three hundred Dinars of yours with you, and ten thousand Dinars as entrustments of the people with you – the hundred, and the two hundred, and the five hundred, and the seven hundred, and the thousand, and approximate to that, up to the complete ten thousand, wealth of each one being in a (different) bag; and you had determined upon that you would be embezzling them (of that), and you had denied them and prevented them.

وَ الْيَوْمَ لَمَّا أَكَلْتَ مِنْ هَذِهِ الدَّجَاجَةِ أَكَلْتَ زَوْرَهَا وَ ادَّخَرْتَ الْبَاقِيَ وَ دَفَنْتَ هَذَا الْمَالَ أَجْمَعَ مَسْرُوراً فَرِحاً بِاخْتِيَانِكَ عِبَادَ اللَّهِ وَ وَاثِقاً بِأَنَّهُ قَدْ حَصَلَ لَكَ وَ تَدْبِيرُ اللَّهِ فِي ذَلِكَ خِلَافُ تَدْبِيرِكَ ‏

And today, when you ate from this chicken, you ate its upper part and hoarded the rest, and you buried this wealth in its entirety – joyful, happy with your embezzling the servants of Allah^-azwj, confident that it has been achieved for you, and (but) the Plan of Allah^-azwj regarding that is different to your plan’.

فَقَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ وَ هَذَا أَيْضاً يَا مُحَمَّدُ فَمَا أَصَبْتَ مِنْهُ قَلِيلًا وَ لَا كَثِيراً وَ مَا دَفَنْتُ شَيْئاً وَ قَدْ سُرِقَتْ تِلْكَ الْعَشَرَةُ آلَافٍ الْوَدَائِعُ الَّتِي كَانَتْ عِنْدِي

Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘And this as well, O Muhammad^-saww, you^-saww did not get it correct, neither a little from it nor more. I did not bury anything, and it has been stolen, that ten thousand Dinars deposit monies which were with me’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا أَبَا جَهْلٍ مَا هَذَا مِنْ تِلْقَائِي فَتُكَذِّبَنِي وَ إِنَّمَا هَذَا جَبْرَئِيلُ الرُّوحُ الْأَمِينُ يُخْبِرُنِي بِهِ عَنْ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَ عَلَيْهِ تَصْحِيحُ شَهَادَتِهِ وَ تَحْقِيقُ مَقَالَتِهِ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O Abu Jahl^-la! This is not from my^-saww own impulse so you can belie me^-saww, and rather, this here is Jibraeel^-as, the Trustworthy Spirit. He^-as is informing me^-saww with it on behalf of the Lord^-azwj of the worlds, and upon him^-as is the correctness of his^-as testimony and the truthfulness of his^-as speech’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص هَلُمَّ يَا جَبْرَئِيلُ بِالدَّجَاجَةِ الَّتِي أَكَلَ مِنْهَا فَإِذَا الدَّجَاجَةُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

Then, Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Come, O Jibraeel^-as, with the chicken which has been eaten from’. And the chicken was in front of Rasool-Allah^-saww.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَ تَعْرِفُهَا يَا أَبَا جَهْلٍ فَقَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ مَا أَعْرِفُهَا وَ مَا أُخْبِرْتُ عَنْ شَيْ‏ءٍ وَ مِثْلُ هَذِهِ الدَّجَاجَةِ الْمَأْكُولِ بَعْضُهَا فِي الدُّنْيَا كَثِيرٌ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Do you recognise it, O Abu Jahl^-la?’ Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘I do not recognise it and you^-saww are not informing about anything, and the likes of this part-eaten chicken are a lot in this world’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا أَيَّتُهَا الدَّجَاجَةُ إِنَّ أَبَا جَهْلٍ قَدْ كَذَّبَ مُحَمَّداً عَلَى جَبْرَئِيلَ وَ كَذَّبَ جَبْرَئِيلَ عَلَى رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ فَاشْهَدِي لِمُحَمَّدٍ بِالتَّصْدِيقِ وَ عَلَى أَبِي جَهْلٍ بِالتَّكْذِيبِ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O you chicken! Abu Jahl^-la has belied Muhammad^-saww upon Jibraeel^-as, and belied Jibraeel^-as upon the Lord^-azwj of the worlds, therefore testify for Muhammad^-saww with the verification, and against Abu Jahl^-la with the lying!’

فَنَطَقَتْ وَ قَالَتْ أَشْهَدُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ‏ وَ سَيِّدُ الْخَلْقِ أَجْمَعِينَ وَ أَنَّ أَبَا جَهْلٍ هَذَا عَدُوُّ اللَّهِ الْمُعَانِدُ الْجَاحِدُ لِلْحَقِّ الَّذِي يَعْلَمُهُ أَكَلَ مِنِّي هَذَا الْجَانِبَ وَ ادَّخَرَ الْبَاقِيَ وَ قَدْ أَخْبَرْتَهُ بِذَلِكَ وَ أَحْضَرْتَنِيهِ فَكَذَّبَ بِهِ

So, it spoke and said, ‘I testify, O Muhammad^-saww, that you^-saww are, chief of the creatures in their entirety, and that this Abu Jahl^-la is an obstinate enemy of Allah^-azwj – the one who rejects the truth but he knows it (that he is lying). He ate from me, this side, and hoarded the rest, and you^-saww have informed him with that and presented me to him, but he belied it.

فَعَلَيْهِ لَعْنَةُ اللَّهِ وَ لَعْنَةُ اللَّاعِنِينَ فَإِنَّهُ مَعَ كُفْرِهِ بِخَيْلٌ اسْتَأْذَنَ عَلَيْهِ أَخُوهُ فَوَضَعَنِي تَحْتَ ذَيْلِهِ إِشْفَاقاً مِنْ أَنْ يُصِيبَ مِنِّي أَخُوهُ فَأَنْتَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَصْدَقُ الصَّادِقِينَ مِنَ الْخَلْقِ أَجْمَعِينَ وَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ الْكَاذِبُ الْمُفْتَرِي اللَّعِينُ

Therefore, upon him is the Curse of Allah^-azwj, and the Curse of the cursing ones – for he, along with his Kufr, is stingy. His brother sought permission to see him, so he placed me under his back clothes – fearing that his brother might attain from me. So you^-saww, O Rasool-Allah^-saww, are the most truthful of the truthful ones, from the creatures in their entirety, and Abu Jahl^-la is the liar, the forger, the accursed’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَ مَا كَفَاكَ مَا شَاهَدْتَ آمِنْ لِتَكُونَ آمِناً مِنْ عَذَابِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ قَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ إِنِّي لَأَظُنُّ أَنَّ هَذَا تَخْيِيلٌ وَ إِيهَامٌ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Does it not suffice you what you witnessed!? Believe, in order to be secure from the Punishment of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic’. Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘I^-la think that this is an imagination and a delusion’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَهَلْ تَفْرُقُ بَيْنَ مُشَاهَدَتِكَ لِهَذَا وَ سَمَاعِكَ لِكَلَامِهَا وَ بَيْنَ مُشَاهَدَتِكَ لِنَفْسِكَ وَ لِسَائِرِ قُرَيْشٍ وَ الْعَرَبِ وَ سَمَاعِكَ لِكَلَامِهِمْ قَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ لَا

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Is there any difference between your witnessing this, and you’re hearing its speech, and between your own witnessing and of the rest of the Qureysh and the Arabs, and you’re hearing to their speech?’ Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘No’.

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَمَا يُدْرِيكَ أَنَّ جَمِيعَ مَا تُشَاهِدُ وَ تُحِسُّ بِحَوَاسِّكَ تَخْيِيلٌ قَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ مَا هُوَ بِتَخْيِيلٍ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘What makes you realise that the entirety of what you witnessed and felt with your faculties is imaginary?’ Abu Jahl^-la said: ‘It is not imaginary’.

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ لَا هَذَا بتَخْيِيلٍ وَ إِلَّا كَيْفَ تُصَحِّحُ‏ أَنَّكَ تَرَى فِي الْعَالَمِ شَيْئاً أَوْثَقَ مِنْهُ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Neither is this imaginary, or else, so how would you rectify your seeing anything in the world as being more reliable than it?’

قَالَ ثُمَّ وَضَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَدَهُ عَلَى الْمَوْضِعِ الْمَأْكُولِ مِنَ الدَّجَاجَةِ فَمَسَحَ يَدَهُ عَلَيْهَا فَعَادَ اللَّحْمُ عَلَيْهِ أَوْفَرَ مَا كَانَ

He^-asws said: ‘Then Rasool-Allah^-saww placed his^-saww hand upon the place – the eaten part from the chicken, and he^-saww wiped his^-saww hand over it, and the flesh returned upon it, better than what is used to be.

ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا بَا جَهْلٍ أَ رَأَيْتَ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ قَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ تَوَهَّمْتُ شَيْئاً وَ لَا أُوقِنُهُ ‏

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O Abu Jahl^-la! What is your view of this Sign?’ He said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! I imagined something, and (but) I am not convinced of it’.

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا جَبْرَئِيلُ فَأْتِنَا بِالْأَمْوَالِ الَّتِي دَفَنَهَا هَذَا الْمُعَانِدُ لِلْحَقِّ لَعَلَّهُ يُؤْمِنُ فَإِذَا هُوَ بِالصُّرَرِ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ كُلِّهَا مَا كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص قَالَهُ إِلَى تَمَامِ عَشَرَةِ آلَافٍ وَ ثَلَاثِمِائَةِ دِينَارٍ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O Jibraeel^-as! Come to us^-saww with that wealth which has been buried by this obstinate one to the truth – perhaps he might believe’. And there was in bags in front of Rasool-Allah^-saww, all of it, in every bag, whatever Rasool-Allah^-saww had said – up to the complete ten thousand Dinars (of the people) and three hundred Dinars (of his own).

فَأَخَذَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ صُرَّةً مِنْهَا فَقَالَ ائْتُونِي بِفُلَانِ بْنِ فُلَانٍ فَأُتِيَ بِهِ وَ هُوَ صَاحِبُهَا فَقَالَ هَاكَهَا يَا فُلَانُ مَا قَدِ اخْتَانَكَ فِيهِ أَبُو جَهْلٍ

Rasool-Allah^-saww took a bag from it, and Abu Jahl^-la was looking at it, and he^-saww said: ‘Come to me^-saww with so and so, son of so and so!’ So they came with him, and he was its owner. He^-saww said: ‘Here it is, O so and so. This is what Abu Jahl^-la had defrauded you with’.

فَرَدَّ عَلَيْهِ مَالَهُ وَ دَعَا بِآخَرَ ثُمَّ بِآخَرَ حَتَّى رَدَّ الْعَشَرَةَ آلَافٍ كُلَّهَا عَلَى أَرْبَابِهَا وَ فُضِحَ عِنْدَهُمْ أَبُو جَهْلٍ وَ بَقِيَتِ الثَّلَاثُمِائَةِ الدِّينَارِ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

Thus, he^-saww returned his wealth, and called for another one, then with another one, until he^-saww returned the ten thousand, all of it, back to its lords (owners), and Abu Jahl^-la was unmasked in their presence, and there remained three hundred Dinars in front of Rasool-Allah^-saww (belonging to Abu Jahl^-la)’.

فَقَالَ الْآنَ آمِنْ لِتَأْخُذَ الثَّلَاثَمِائَةِ دِينَارٍ وَ يُبَارِكَ اللَّهُ لَكَ فِيهَا حَتَّى تَصِيرَ أَيْسَرَ قُرَيْشٍ قَالَ لَا [أُومِنُ‏] آمن وَ لَكِنْ آخُذُهَا فَهِيَ مَالِي فَلَمَّا ذَهَبَ يَأْخُذُهَا صَاحَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِالدَّجَاجَةِ دُونَكِ‏ أَبَا جَهْلٍ وَ كُفِّيهِ عَنِ الدَّنَانِيرِ وَ خُذِيهِ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Now, believe, in order to take the three hundred Dinars, and Allah^-azwj would Bless for you in it until you would become the most affluent of the Qureysh’. But he said, ‘I will not believe, but I will take it as it is my wealth’. So when he went to take it, the Prophet^-saww shouted at the chicken: ‘Attack Abu Jahl^-la and stop him from the Dinars, and seize him!’

فَوَثَبَتِ الدَّجَاجَةُ عَلَى أَبِي جَهْلٍ فَتَنَاوَلَتْهُ بِمَخَالِبِهَا وَ رَفَعَتْهُ فِي الْهَوَاءِ وَ طَارَتْ بِهِ إِلَى سَطْحِ بَيْتِهِ فَوَضَعَتْهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ دَفَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص تِلْكَ الدَّنَانِيرَ إِلَى بَعْضِ فُقَرَاءِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ

So, the chicken leapt upon Abu Jahl^-la, and grabbed him with its sharp claws and lifted him in the air and dropped him up in the air and hovered to the roof of his house, and placed him upon it. And Rasool-Allah^-saww handed over those Dinars to some of the poor Momineen.

ثُمَّ نَظَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ مَعَاشِرَ أَصْحَابِ مُحَمَّدٍ هَذِهِ آيَةٌ أَظْهَرَهَا رَبُّنَا عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لِأَبِي جَهْلٍ فَعَانَدَ وَ هَذَا الطَّيْرُ الَّذِي حَيِيَ يَصِيرُ مِنْ طُيُورِ الْجَنَّةِ الطَّيَّارَةِ عَلَيْكُمْ فِيهَا فَإِنَّ فِيهَا طُيُوراً كَالْبَخَاتِي عَلَيْهَا مِنْ جَمِيعِ أَنْوَاعِ الْمَوَاشِي‏ تَطِيرُ بَيْنَ سَمَاءِ الْجَنَّةِ وَ أَرْضِهَا

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww looked at his^-saww companions and said to them ‘Group of companions of Muhammad^-saww! This is a Sign which our Lord^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Manifested to Abu Jahl^-la. But, he was obstinate. And this bird (chicken) which is (now) alive, would become from the birds of Paradise, the ones flying above you therein. Therein are birds like the ‘Bukhaty’ (Persian camel of contrasting colours). Upon these would be varieties of the colours, flying between the sky of Paradise and its land.

فَإِذَا تَمَنَّى مُؤْمِنٌ مُحِبٌّ لِلنَّبِيِّ وَ آلِهِ الْأَكْلَ مِنْ شَيْ‏ءٍ مِنْهَا وَقَعَ ذَلِكَ بِعَيْنِهِ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ فَتَنَاثَرَ رِيشُهُ وَ انْسَمَطَ وَ انْشَوَى وَ انْطَبَخَ فَأَكَلَ مِنْ جَانِبٍ مِنْهُ قَدِيداً وَ مِنْ جَانِبٍ مِنْهُ مَشْوِيّاً بِلَا نَارٍ

Whenever a Momin, one who loves the Prophet^-saww and his^-saww Progeny^-asws, wishes to eat anything from it, that exactly would fall in front of him, and its feathers would fall off and be bare, and would be grilled and cooked – from one side of it would be dried pieces, and from one side it would be grilled, without a fire.

فَإِذَا قَضَى شَهْوَتَهُ وَ نَهْمَتَهُ‏ وَ قَالَ‏ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعالَمِينَ‏ عَادَتْ كَمَا كَانَتْ فَطَارَتْ فِي الْهَوَاءِ وَ فَخَرَتْ عَلَى سَائِرِ طُيُورِ الْجَنَّةِ تَقُولُ مَنْ مِثْلِي وَ قَدْ أَكَلَ مِنِّي وَلِيُّ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَمْرِ اللَّهِ‏

When his desire and his hunger are fulfilled, and he says, ‘The Praise is for Allah^-azwj, Lord^-azwj of the world’, it would be returned to be what it was. It would fly in the air, and it would pride itself over the rest of the birds of Paradise, saying, ‘Who is like me, and a friend of Allah^-azwj has eaten from me, by the Command of Allah^-azwj?’’.[2]

3- ص، قصص الأنبياء عليهم السلام الصَّدُوقُ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ حَمْزَةَ الْعَلَوِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ دَاوُدَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ الْكُوفِيِّ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ آبَائِهِ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمْ قَالَ: إِنَّ أَصْحَابَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص كَانُوا جُلُوساً يَتَذَاكَرُونَ وَ فِيهِمْ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ إِذْ أَتَاهُمْ يَهُودِيٌّ فَقَالَ يَا أُمَّةَ مُحَمَّدٍ مَا تَرَكْتُمْ لِلْأَنْبِيَاءِ دَرَجَةً إِلَّا نَحَلْتُمُوهَا لِنَبِيِّكُمْ

Al-Sadouq, from Al Hassan Bin Hamza Al Alawy, from Muhammad Bin Dawood, from Abdullah Bin Ahmad Al Kufy, from Sahl Bin Salih, from Ibrahim Bin Abdul Rahman,

‘From Musa^-asws Bin Ja’far^-asws, from his^-asws forefathers^-asws having said: ‘The companions of Rasool-Allah^-saww were seated discussing and among them was Amir Al-Momineen^-asws when a Jew came to them and said, ‘O community of Muhammad^-saww! You do not leave any rank of the Prophets^-as except you load it for your Prophet^-saww’.

فَقَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّ مُوسَى ع‏ كَلَّمَهُ رَبُّهُ عَلَى طُورِ سَيْنَاءَ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ كَلَّمَ مُحَمَّداً فِي السَّمَاءِ السَّابِعَةِ

Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said: ‘You were claiming that Musa^-as, his^-saww Lord^-azwj Spoke to him^-as upon (mount) Toor of Sinai. Allah^-azwj Spoke to Muhammad^-saww in the seventh sky.

وَ إِنْ زَعَمَتِ النَّصَارَى أَنَّ عِيسَى أَبْرَأَ الْأَكْمَهَ وَ أَحْيَا الْمَوْتَى فَإِنَّ مُحَمَّداً ص سَأَلَتْهُ قُرَيْشٌ أَنْ يُحْيِيَ مَيِّتاً فَدَعَانِي وَ بَعَثَنِي مَعَهُمْ إِلَى الْمَقَابِرِ فَدَعَوْتُ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَقَامُوا مِنْ قُبُورِهِمْ يَنْفُضُونَ التُّرَابَ عَنْ رُءُوسِهِمْ بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ

And the Christians claim that Isa^-as cured the blind and revived the dead, Muhammad^-saww, Qureysh asked him^-saww to revive the dead, so he^-saww called me^-asws send me^-asws with them to the graveyard. I^-asws supplicated to Allah^-azwj the Exalted Mighty and Majestic, and they stood up from their graves, shaking the soil from their heads, by the Permission of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic.

وَ إِنَّ أَبَا قَتَادَةَ بْنَ رِبْعِيٍّ الْأَنْصَارِيَّ شَهِدَ وَقْعَةَ أُحُدٍ فَأَصَابَتْهُ طَعْنَةٌ فِي عَيْنِهِ فَبَدَتْ‏ حَدَقَتُهُ فَأَخَذَهَا بِيَدِهِ ثُمَّ أَتَى بِهَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ امْرَأَتِي الْآنَ تُبْغِضُنِي فَأَخَذَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنْ يَدِهِ ثُمَّ وَضَعَهَا مَكَانَهَا فَلَمْ يَكُ يُعْرَفُ إِلَّا بِفَضْلِ حُسْنِهَا وَ ضَوْئِهَا عَلَى الْعَيْنِ الْأُخْرَى وَ لَقَدْ بَارَزَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَتِيكٍ فَأُبِينَ يَدُهُ فَجَاءَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص لَيْلًا وَ مَعَهُ الْيَدُ الْمَقْطُوعَةُ فَمَسَحَ عَلَيْهَا فَاسْتَوَتْ يَدُهُ‏

And Abu Qatadah Bin Rabie Al-Ansary witnessed the event of Ohad and was hit by a stab in his eye and his cheek was exposed. He grabbed it and came with it to Rasool-Allah^-saww and said: ‘My wife hates me now’. Rasool-Allah^-saww took it from his hand, then placed it back in its place. He was not recognised except by the extra beauty over the other eye. And Abdullah Bin Ateek had duelled and his hand was cut off, so he came to Rasool-Allah^-saww and with him was the cut hand. He^-saww wiped over it and restored his hand’’.[3]

4- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح‏ اعْلَمْ أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى كَمَا أَمَرَ آدَمَ ع أَنْ يَخْرُجَ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ وَ أَنْ يُهَاجِرَ إِلَيْهَا أَمَرَ مُحَمَّداً ص أَنْ يَخْرُجَ مِنْ مَكَّةَ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – Know that Allah^-azwj the Exalted, just as He^-azwj had Commanded Adam^-as to get out from Paradise to the earth and to emigrate to it, He^-azwj Commanded Muhammad^-saww to get out from Makkah to Al-Medina.

وَ كَمَا ابْتَلَى آدَمَ ع بِقَتْلِ ابْنِهِ هَابِيلَ ابْتَلَى مُحَمَّداً ص بِقَتْلِ ابْنَيْهِ الْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ ع وَ كَانَ يَعْلَمُهُ لِإِعْلَامِ اللَّهِ إِيَّاهُ ذَلِكَ

And just as He^-azwj Tried Adam^-as with murder of his^-as son Habeel^-as, He^-azwj Tried Muhammad^-saww with his^-saww two son Al Hassan^-asws and Al Husayn^-asws, and Allah^-azwj had informed him^-saww of that.

وَ كَمَا أَمَرَ اللَّهُ آدَمَ ع لَمَّا أَمَرَهُ بِوَضْعِ النَّوَى فِي الْأَرْضِ فَصَارَ فِي الْحَالِ نَخْلًا بَاسِقَةً عَلَيْهَا الرُّطَبُ أَكْرَمَ مُحَمَّداً بِمِثْلِهِ عِنْدَ إِسْلَامِ سَلْمَانَ

And just as Allah^-azwj had Commanded Adam^-as when He^-azwj Commanded him^-as to place (plant) the kernel in the earth so it became a date tree immediately with clusters of dates upon it, He^-azwj Honoured Muhammad^-saww with similar to it at the (professing of) Islam by Salman^-ar.

وَ كَمَا قَالَ فِي وَصْفِ إِدْرِيسَ ع‏ وَ رَفَعْناهُ مَكاناً عَلِيًّا قَالَ فِي وَصْفِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ رَفَعْنا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ‏ يُذْكَرُ مَعَ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ فِي الْأَذَانِ وَ الصَّلَاةِ وَ قَدْ رُفِعَ إِلَى سِدْرَةِ الْمُنْتَهَى فَشَاهَدَ مَا لَمْ يُشَاهِدْهُ بَشَرٌ

And  just as He^-azwj Said in description of Idrees^-as: And We Elevated him to a high place [19:57], He^-azwj Said in description of Muhammad^-saww: And We Raised your Zikr for you? [94:4] with the Zikr (mention) of Allah^-azwj in the Azaan and the Salat, and was raised to Sidrat Al-Muntaha and he^-saww witnessed what no mortal had witnessed.

وَ إِنْ أَطْعَمَ إِدْرِيسَ ع بَعْدَ وَفَاتِهِ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ فَقَدْ أَطْعَمَ مُحَمَّداً وَ آلَهُ مِرَاراً كَثِيرَةً فِي الدُّنْيَا

And He^-azwj Fed Idrees^-as from Paradise after his^-as expiry, He^-azwj Fed Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww Progeny^-asws many times in the world.

وَ قِيلَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص إِنَّكَ تُوَاصِلُ‏ قَالَ إِنِّي لَسْتُ كَأَحَدِكُمْ إِنِّي يُطْعِمُنِي رَبِّي وَ يَسْقِينِي

And it was said, ‘Do you fast connectively (without breaking)?’ He^-saww said: ‘I^-saww am not like one of you. My^-saww Lord^-azwj Feeds me^-saww and Quenches me^-as!’

وَ إِنْ أُوتِيَ نُوحٌ ع إِجَابَةَ الدَّعْوَةِ بِمَا قَالَ‏ لا تَذَرْ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ مِنَ الْكافِرِينَ دَيَّاراً فَلَمْ يَبْقَ‏ مِنْهُمْ بَاقِيَةٌ إِلَّا الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَقَدْ أُوتِيَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص مِثْلَهُ حِينَ أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ مَلَكَ الْجِبَالِ وَ أَمَرَ بِطَاعَتِهِ فِيمَا يَأْمُرُهُ بِهِ مِنْ إِهْلَاكِ قَوْمِهِ فَاخْتَارَ الصَّبْرَ عَلَى أَذَاهُمْ وَ الِابْتِهَالَ فِي الدُّعَاءِ لَهُمْ بِالْهِدَايَةِ

And Noah^-as was Granted Answer to the supplication with what he^-as had said: ‘My Lord! Do not leave upon the earth any dwelling of the Kafirs [71:26]. No remaining one from them remained except the believers. Muhammad^-saww was Granted similar to it when Allah^-azwj Sent down an Angel of the mountains and Commanded with obedience to him^-saww in whatever he^-saww ordered him with of destruction of his^-saww people. He^-saww chose patience over harming them, and beseeching and supplicating for them for guidance.

ثُمَّ رَقَّ نُوحٌ ع عَلَى وَلَدِهِ فَقَالَ‏ رَبِّ إِنَّ ابْنِي مِنْ أَهْلِي‏ رِقَّةَ الْقَرَابَةِ فَالْمُصْطَفَى لَمَّا أَمَرَهُ اللَّهُ بِالْقِتَالِ شَهَرَ عَلَى قَرَابَتِهِ سَيْفَ النَّقِمَةِ وَ لَمْ تُحَرِّكْهُ شَفَقَةُ الْقَرَابَةِ وَ أَخَذَ بِالْفَضْلِ مَعَهُمْ لَمَّا شَكَوُا احْتِبَاسَ الْمَطَرِ فَدَعَا فَمُطِرُوا مِنَ الْجُمُعَةِ إِلَى الْجُمُعَةِ حَتَّى سَأَلُوهُ أَنْ يُقِلَّ

The Noah^-as pitied upon his^-as son. He^-as said: ‘Lord! Surely, my son is from my family [11:45]. Al Musatafa (Muhammad^-saww, when Allah^-azwj Commanded him^-saww with the battle, he^-saww usheathed his^-saww sword against his^-saww relatives the sword of retribution, and the compassion of the relatives did not move him^-saww, and he^-saww took with the graver with them when they had companions of the withholding of the rains. He^-saww supplicated, so it rained from the Friday to the Friday until they asked him^-saww for reduction.

وَ إِنْ قَالَ فِي نُوحٍ ع‏ إِنَّهُ كانَ عَبْداً شَكُوراً فَقَدْ قَالَ فِي مُحَمَّدٍ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ رَؤُفٌ رَحِيمٌ‏ وَ ما أَرْسَلْناكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِلْعالَمِينَ

And He^-azwj Said regarding Noah^-as: Surely, he was a grateful servant [17:3]; He^-azwj had Said regarding Muhammad^-saww: With the Momineen he is kind, merciful [9:128] And We did not Send you except as a mercy to the worlds [21:107].

وَ إِنْ خَصَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ع بِالْخُلَّةِ فَفُضِّلَ بِهَا فَقَالَ‏ وَ اتَّخَذَ اللَّهُ إِبْراهِيمَ خَلِيلًا فَقَدْ جَمَعَ اللَّهُ الْخُلَّةَ وَ الْمَحَبَّةَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص حَتَّى قَالَ ص وَ لَكِنْ صَاحِبُكُمْ خَلِيلُ اللَّهِ وَ حَبِيبُ اللَّهِ‏ وَ فِي الْقُرْآنِ‏ فَاتَّبِعُونِي يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللَّهُ‏

And He^-azwj Specialised Ibrahim^-as with the Friendship so He^-azwj was Merited by it. He^-azwj Said: and Allah Took Ibrahim as a friend [4:126]. Allah^-azwj Gathered the friendship and the love for Muhammad^-saww until he^-saww said: ‘But your master is a Friend of Allah^-azwj and Beloved of Allah^-azwj’. And in the Quran: then follow me. Allah will Love you [3:32]’. (P.s. – This is not a Hadeeth)

وَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي الْحَمْسَاءِ قَالَ: كَانَ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَ مُحَمَّدٍ بَيْعٌ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُبْعَثَ فَبَقِيَتْ لِي بَقِيَّةٌ فَوَعَدْتُهُ أَنْ آتِيَهُ فِي مَكَانِهِ فَنَسِيتُ يَوْمِي وَ الْغَدَ فَأَتَيْتُهُ فِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّالِثِ وَ كَانَ مُحَمَّدٌ فِي مَكَانِهِ يَنْتَظِرُنِي فَقُلْتُ لَهُ فِي ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ أَنَا هَاهُنَا مُذْ وَعَدْتُكَ‏ أَنْتَظِرُكَ

And from Abdullah Bin Abu Al Hamsa’a who said, ‘There was a transaction between Muhammad^-saww and me before he^-saww was commissioned as a Prophet^-saww. A remaining amount was still owed to me, so I promised him^-saww that I would come to him^-saww at his^-saww place. I forgot about it that day and the following day, and I came to him^-saww on the third day. Muhammad^-saww was at his place waiting for me. I apologised to him^-saww for this, and he^-saww said: ‘I^-saww have been here waiting for you ever since you made the promise to me^-saww’.

ضَاهَى جَدَّهُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ع فَإِنَّهُ وَعَدَ رَجُلًا فَبَقِيَ فِي مَكَانِهِ سَنَةً فَشَكَرَ اللَّهُ لَهُ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ‏ وَ اذْكُرْ فِي الْكِتابِ إِسْماعِيلَ إِنَّهُ كانَ صادِقَ الْوَعْدِ

He^-saww resembled his^-saww grandfather Ismail^-as Bin Ibrahim^-as, for he^-as had promised a man something and remained at the place for a year. Allah^-azwj Appreciated this from him^-as and Said: And mention Ismail in the Book. He was truthful of the promise [19:54].

وَ كَانَ مُحَمَّدٌ فِي صَبَاهُ يَخْرُجُ بِغَنَمٍ لَهُمْ إِلَى الصَّحْرَاءِ فَقَالَ لَهُ بَعْضُ الرُّعَاةِ يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنِّي وَجَدْتُ فِي مَوْضِعِ كَذَا مَرْعًى خَصِيباً

When Muhammad^-saww was in his^-saww youth, he^-saww would take their sheep out to the open countryside. One of the shepherds said to him^-saww, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! I have found a fertile pasture in such and such a place’.

فَقَالَ نَخْرُجُ غَداً إِلَيْهِ فَبَكَّرَ مِنْ بَيْتِهِ إِلَى ذَلِكَ الْمَوْضِعِ وَ أَبْطَأَ الرَّجُلُ فِي الْوُصُولِ فَرَأَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَدْ مَنَعَ غَنَمَهُ أَنْ تَرْعَى فِي ذَلِكَ الْمَوْضِعِ حَتَّى يَصِلَ‏ ذَلِكَ الرَّجُلُ فَرَعَيَا

He^-saww said: ‘Let us go there tomorrow’. He^-saww went early in the morning from his^-saww home to that place, but the man was slow in arriving. He saw Rasool-Allah^-saww, having prevented his^-saww sheep from grazing in that place until  that man arrived. Then they both grazed there.

وَ لَا شَكَّ أَنَّ الْأَنْبِيَاءَ كُلَّهُمْ وَ أُمَمَهُمْ تَحْتَ رَايَةِ نَبِيِّنَا وَ إِنْ كَلَّمَ اللَّهُ مُوسَى ع عَلَى طُورِ سَيْنَاءَ فَقَدْ كَلَّمَ مُحَمَّداً فَوْقَ سَبْعِ سَمَاوَاتٍ وَ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ الْإِمَامَةَ بَعْدَ مُحَمَّدٍ ص فِي قَوْمِهِ عِنْدَ انْقِطَاعِ النُّبُوَّةِ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ أَمْرُ اللَّهِ وَ يَنْزِلُ عِيسَى ع فَيُصَلِّي خَلْفَ رَجُلٍ مِنْهُمْ يُقَالُ لَهُ الْمَهْدِيُّ يَمْلَأُ الْأَرْضَ عَدْلًا وَ يَمْحُو كُلَّ جَوْرٍ كَمَا وَصَفَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص

There is no doubt that all the Prophets^-as and their nations are under the banner of our Prophet^-saww. And if Allah^-azwj Spoke to Musa^-as upon Mount Sinai, then He^-azwj Spoke to Muhammad^-saww above the seven skies. And Allah^-azwj Placed the Imamate after Muhammad^-saww among his^-saww people when Prophethood came to an end, until the Command of Allah^-azwj comes and Isa^-as descends. He^-as will pray behind a man from among them called Al Mahdi^-ajfj who will fill the earth with justice and erase every form of oppression, as Rasool-Allah^-saww described.

وَ إِنَّ النَّبِيَّ لَمَّا وَصَفَ عَلِيّاً ع وَ شَبَّهَهُ بِعِيسَى ع قَالَ تَعَالَى‏ وَ لَمَّا ضُرِبَ ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ مَثَلًا إِذا قَوْمُكَ مِنْهُ يَصِدُّونَ‏

And when the Prophet^-saww described Ali^-asws, and likened him to Isa^-as, Allah^-azwj the Exalted Said: And when an example is struck for the son of Maryam, then your people are laughing loudly [43:57].

وَ إِنْ أَخْرَجَ اللَّهُ لِصَالِحٍ ع نَاقَةً مِنَ الْجَبَلِ لَهَا شِرْبٌ وَ لِقَوْمِهِ شِرْبٌ فَقَدْ أَخْرَجَ تَعَالَى لِوَصِيِّ مُحَمَّدٍ خَمْسِينَ نَاقَةً أَوْ أَرْبَعِينَ مَرَّةً وَ مِائَةَ نَاقَةٍ مَرَّةً مِنَ الْجَبَلِ قَضَى بِهَا دَيْنَ مُحَمَّدٍ ص

And if Allah^-azwj Brought forth for Salih^-as, a she-camel from the mountain with one day of drinking assigned to it and one day of drinking assigned to his people, then He^-azwj the Exalted, Brought forth for the successor^-asws of Muhammad^-saww, fifty she-camels at one time, or forty at one time, and one hundred she camels at another time, from the mountain. With them he^-asws settled the debt of Muhammad^-saww and fulfilled his^-saww promise.

وَ وَعْدَهُ وَ قَالَ تَعَالَى‏ وَ إِنْ تَظاهَرا عَلَيْهِ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ مَوْلاهُ وَ جِبْرِيلُ وَ صالِحُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ‏ وَ هُوَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ عَلَى مَا رَوَى الرُّوَاةُ فِي تَفْسِيرِهِمْ

And Allah^-azwj the Exalted Said: and if you back each other against him, then surely Allah, He is his Guardian, and (so are) Jibraeel and the corrector of the Momineen [66:4], and he is Ali Bin Abi Talib^-asws, according to what the narrators have transmitted in their commentaries.

وَ أَنْطَقَ اللَّهُ لِمُحَمَّدٍ الْبَعِيرَ وَ إِنَّ بِئْرَ زَمْزَمَ‏ فِي صَدْرِ الْإِسْلَامِ بِمَكَّةَ كَانَ لِلْمُسْلِمِينَ يَوْماً وَ لِلْكَافِرِينَ يَوْماً فَكَانَ يُسْتَقَى لِلْمُسْلِمِينَ مِنْهُ مَا يَكُونُ لِيَوْمَيْنِ فِي يَوْمٍ وَ لِلْمُشْرِكِينَ عَلَى مَا كَانَ عَلَيْهِ يَوْماً فَيَوْماً

And Allah^-azwj Caused the camel to speak to Muhammad^-saww; and indeed, the well of Zamzam in Makkah, during the early period of Islam, belonged one day to the Muslims and one day to the Kafirs. Water would be drawn from it for the Muslims sufficient for two days in a single day, while the Polytheists would have it, as it had been previously, one day after another.

وَ إِنْ أَعْطَى اللَّهُ يَعْقُوبَ ع الْأَسْبَاطَ مِنْ سُلَالَةِ صُلْبِهِ وَ مَرْيَمَ بِنْتَ عِمْرَانَ مِنْ بَنَاتِهِ فَقَالَ‏ وَ وَهَبْنا لَهُ إِسْحاقَ وَ يَعْقُوبَ وَ جَعَلْنا فِي ذُرِّيَّتِهِ النُّبُوَّةَ وَ الْكِتابَ‏ فَقَدْ أَعْطَى مُحَمَّداً ص فَاطِمَةَ ع مِنْ صُلْبِهِ وَ هِيَ سَيِّدَةُ نِسَاءِ الْعَالَمِينَ وَ جَعَلَ الْوَصِيَّةَ وَ الْإِمَامَةَ فِي أَخِيهِ وَ ابْنِ عَمِّهِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع ثُمَّ فِي الْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ وَ فِي أَوْلَادِ الْحُسَيْنِ ع إِلَى أَنْ تَقُومَ السَّاعَةُ كُلُّهُمْ وُلْدُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص مِنْ فَاطِمَةَ ع‏

And if Allah^-azwj Gave Yaqoub^-as the tribes from the offspring of his^-as loins, and Maryam^-as daughter of Imran^-as was from among his^-as descendants, He^-azwj Said: And We Granted Is’haq and Yaqoub to him and Made the Prophet-hood to be in his offspring and the Book [29:27], He^-azwj Gave to Muhammad^-saww, Fatima^-asws from his^-saww lineage, and she^-asws is chieftess of women of the worlds, and Made the successorship and the Imamate in his^-saww brother and cousing Ali Bin Abu Talib^-asws, then in Al Hassan^-asws and Al Husayn^-asws, and in children of Al Husayn^-asws up to the establishment of the Hour, all of them being from the children of Fatima^-asws.

كَمَا كَانَ عِيسَى ع مِنْ وُلْدِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ قَالَ اللَّهُ‏ وَ مِنْ ذُرِّيَّتِهِ داوُدَ وَ سُلَيْمانَ وَ أَيُّوبَ وَ يُوسُفَ وَ مُوسى‏ وَ هارُونَ وَ كَذلِكَ نَجْزِي الْمُحْسِنِينَ وَ زَكَرِيَّا وَ يَحْيى‏ وَ عِيسى‏

Just as Isa^-as was from the descendants of the Prophets^-as, Allah^-azwj Said: and from his offspring Dawood, and Suleyman, and Ayoub, and Yusuf, and Musa, and Haroun, and like that We Recompense the good doers [6:84] And Zakariyya, and Yahya, and Isa [6:85].

وَ أَعْطَى مُحَمَّداً الْكِتَابَ الْمَجِيدَ وَ الْقُرْآنَ الْعَظِيمَ وَ فَتَحَ عَلَيْهِ وَ عَلَى أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ بَابَ الْحِكْمَةِ وَ أَوْجَبَ الطَّاعَةَ لَهُمْ عَلَى الْإِطْلَاقِ بِقَوْلِهِ‏ أَطِيعُوا اللَّهَ وَ أَطِيعُوا الرَّسُولَ وَ أُولِي الْأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ‏

And Muhammad^-saww was Given the Glorious Book and the Mighty Quran, and the door of wisdom was Opened unto him^-saww and People^-asws of his^-saww Household, and Obligated obedience to them^-asws absolutely by His^-azwj Words: Obey Allah and obey the Rasool and those with (Divine) Authority from you [4:59].

وَ إِنْ صَبَرَ يَعْقُوبُ ع عَلَى فِرَاقِ وَلَدِهِ حَتَّى كَادَ أَنْ يَكُونَ حَرَضاً مِنَ الْحُزْنِ فَقَدْ فُجِعَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص بِابْنٍ كَانَ لَهُ وَحْدَهُ فَصَبَرَ وَ وَجْدُ يَعْقُوبَ ع وَجْدُ فِرَاقٍ وَ حُزْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ص عَلَى قُرَّةِ عَيْنِهِ كَانَ بِوَفَاتِهِ وَ كَانَ يَعْقُوبُ ع فَقَدَ ابْناً وَاحِداً مِنْ بَنِيهِ وَ لَمْ يَتَيَقَّنْ وَفَاتَهُ

And if Yaqoub^-as endured separation from his^-as son (Yusuf^-as) until he^-as almost became consumed by grief, then Muhammad^-saww was struck by the loss of a son who was his^-saww only son, and he^-saww remained patient. The grief of Yaqoub^-as was the grief of separation, whereas the grief of Muhammad^-saww over the delight of his^-saww eye was caused by his^-as son’s death. Yaqoub^-as lost one son from among his^-as sons, although he^-as had not been certain of his^-as death.

وَ إِنْ أُوتِيَ يُوسُفُ شَطْرَ الْحُسْنِ فَقَدْ وُصِفَ جَمَالُ رَسُولِنَا فَقِيلَ إِذَا رَأَيْتَهُ رَأَيْتَهُ كَالشَّمْسِ الطَّالِعَةِ

And if Yusuf^-as was given half of all beauty, then the beauty of our Rasool^-saww was described, and it was said, ‘When you saw him^-saww, you saw him^-saww like the rising sun’.

وَ إِنِ ابْتُلِيَ يُوسُفُ بِالْغُرْبَةِ وَ امْتُحِنَ بِالْفُرْقَةِ فَمُحَمَّدٌ فَارَقَ وَطَنَهُ مِنْ أَذَى الْمُشْرِكِينَ وَ وَقَفَ عَلَى الثَّنِيَّةِ وَ حَوَّلَ وَجْهَهُ إِلَى مَكَّةَ فَقَالَ إِنِّي لَأَعْلَمُ أَنَّكِ أَحَبُّ الْبِقَاعِ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَ لَوْ لَا أَهْلُكِ أَخْرَجُونِي مَا خَرَجْتُ

And if Yusuf^-as was Tested through estrangement and tried through separation, then Muhammad^-saww left his^-saww homeland because of the harm inflicted by the Polytheists. He^-saww stopped at Al Saniyya, turned his^-saww face towards Makkah and said: ‘Indeed! I^-saww know that you are the most beloved of places to Allah^-azwj. Had your people not expelled me^-saww, I^-saww would not have gone out!’

فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ الْجُحْفَةَ أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ‏ إِنَّ الَّذِي فَرَضَ عَلَيْكَ الْقُرْآنَ لَرادُّكَ إِلى‏ مَعادٍ

When he^-saww reached Al Juhfah, Allah^-azwj Revealed to him^-saww: “Surely the One Who Imposed the Quran upon you would Take you back to the Return [28:85].

ثُمَّ آلُ مُحَمَّدٍ ص شُرِّدُوا فِي الْآفَاقِ وَ امْتُحِنُوا بِمَا لَمْ يُمْتَحَنْ بِهِ أَحَدٌ غَيْرُهُمْ وَ قَدْ أُعْلِمَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص جَمِيعَ ذَلِكَ وَ كَانَ يُخْبِرُ بِهِ

Then the family of Muhammad^-saww were scattered throughout the lands and were Tested with what no one else had been Tested with. Muhammad^-saww had been informed of all of this, and ^-saww he used to inform (the people) about it.

وَ إِنْ بَشَّرَ اللَّهُ يُوسُفَ بِرُؤْيَا رَآهَا فَقَدْ بَشَّرَ مُحَمَّداً بِرُؤْيَا فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ لَقَدْ صَدَقَ اللَّهُ رَسُولَهُ الرُّؤْيا بِالْحَقِ‏

And if Allah^-azwj Gave Yusuf^-as glad tidings through a dream that he^-as saw, then He^-azwj Gave Muhammad^-saww glad tidings through a vision, in His^-azwj Words: “Allah has Validated the dream of His Rasool with the Truth [48:27]”.

وَ إِنِ اخْتَارَ يُوسُفُ ع الْحَبْسَ تَوَقِّياً مِنَ الْمَعْصِيَةِ فَقَدْ حُبِسَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فِي الشِّعْبِ ثَلَاثَ سِنِينَ وَ نَيِّفاً حَتَّى‏ أَلْجَأَهُ أَقَارِبُهُ إِلَى أَضْيَقِ الضِّيقِ حَتَّى كَادَهُمُ اللَّهُ بِبَعْثِهِ أَضْعَفَ خَلْقِهِ فِي أَكْلِ عَهْدِهِمُ الَّذِي كَتَبُوهُ‏ فِي قَطِيعَةِ رَحِمِهِ‏

And if Yusuf^-as chose imprisonment to protect himself from sin, then Rasool-Allah^-saww was imprisoned in the valley for three years and more until his^-saww relatives forced him^-saww into the narrowest of circumstances. Allah^-azwj then Overcame them by sending the weakest of His^-azwj creatures to consume the document of their pact which they had written concerning the severing of kinship with him^-saww.

وَ لَئِنْ غَابَ يُوسُفُ ع‏ فَقَدْ غَابَ مَهْدِيُّ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ سَيَظْهَرُ أَمْرُهُ كَمَا ظَهَرَ أَمْرُهُ

And if Yusuf^-as was absent, then the Mahdi^-ajfj of the Progeny^-asws of Muhammad^-saww has also been absent, and his^-ajfj affair will appear, just as his^-as affair had appeared.

وَ أَكْثَرُ مَا ذَكَرْنَاهُ يَجْرِي مَجْرَى الْمُعْجِزَاتِ وَ فِيهَا مَا هُوَ مُعْجِزَةٌ

Most of what we have mentioned follows the pattern of miracles, and among them are matters that are themselves miracles.

وَ إِنْ قَلَّبَ اللَّهُ لِمُوسَى ع الْعَصَا حَيَّةً فَمُحَمَّدٌ ص دَفَعَ إِلَى عُكَّاشَةَ بْنِ مِحْصَنٍ يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ لَمَّا انْقَطَعَ سَيْفُهُ قِطْعَةَ حَطَبٍ فَتَحَوَّلَ سَيْفاً فِي يَدِهِ‏

And if Allah^-azwj Transformed the staff of Musa^-as into a serpent, then Muhammad^-saww Gave Ukashah Bin Mihsan, when his sword broke on the Day of Badr, a piece of wood, and it transformed into a sword in his hand.

وَ دَعَا الشَّجَرَةَ فَأَقْبَلَتْ نَحْوَهُ تَخُدُّ الْأَرْضَ‏

And he^-saww called the tree, and it came towards him^-saww tearing through the ground.

وَ إِنْ كَانَ مُوسَى ع ضَرَبَ الْأَرْضَ بِعَصَاهُ‏ فَانْفَجَرَتْ مِنْهُ اثْنَتا عَشْرَةَ عَيْناً فَمُحَمَّدٌ ص كَانَ يَنْفَجِرُ الْمَاءُ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَصَابِعِهِ وَ انْفِجَارُ الْمَاءِ مِنَ اللَّحْمِ وَ الدَّمِ أَعْجَبُ مِنْ خُرُوجِهِ مِنَ الْحَجَرِ لِأَنَّ ذَلِكَ مُعْتَادٌ

And if Musa^-as struck the earth with his^-as staff and twelve springs burst forth from it, then with Muhammad^-saww water used to spring forth from between his^-saww fingers. The emergence of water from flesh and blood is more astonishing than its emergence from a stone, because the latter is something familiar.

وَ قَدْ أَخْرَجَ أَوْصِيَاؤُهُ مِنَ الْجُبِّ الَّذِي لَا مَاءَ فِيهِ الْمَاءَ إِلَى رَأْسِهِ حَتَّى شَرِبَ النَّاسُ مِنْهُ‏ وَ قَالَ إِنَّ الْمَهْدِيَّ مِنْ وُلْدِهِ يَفْعَلُ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ عِنْدَ خُرُوجِهِ مِنْ مَكَّةَ إِلَى الْكُوفَةِ

And his^-saww successors brought forth water from the well in which there was no water, bringing the water up to its top, until the people drank from it. He^-saww said that the Mahdi^-ajfj from his^-saww descendants will do something similar when he^-ajfj emerges from Makkah towards Al Kufa.

وَ إِنْ ضَرَبَ مُوسَى بِعَصَاهُ‏ الْبَحْرَ فَانْفَلَقَ‏ فَكَانَ آيَةُ مُحَمَّدٍ ص لَمَّا خَرَجَ إِلَى خَيْبَرَ إِذَا هُوَ بِوَادٍ يَشْخُبُ فَقَدَّرُوهُ أَرْبَعَ عَشْرَةَ قَامَةً وَ الْعَدُوُّ مِنْ وَرَائِهِمْ قَالَ النَّاسُ إِنَّا لَمُدْرَكُونَ قَالَ كَلَّا فَدَعَا فَعَبَرَتِ الْإِبِلُ وَ الْخَيْلُ عَلَى الْمَاءِ لَا تَنْدَى‏ حَوَافِرُهَا وَ أَخْفَافُهَا

And if Musa^-as struck the sea with his staff and it split apart, then the sign of Muhammad^-saww when he^-saww went out towards Khaybar was that he^-saww came upon a valley from which water was gushing. They estimated its depth at fourteen arm spans, while the enemy was behind them. The people said, ‘Indeed, we will be overtaken!’ He^-saww said: ‘No, never’. He^-saww supplicated, and the camels and horses crossed over the water without their hooves and hoof pads becoming wet.

وَ لَمَّا عَبَرَ عَمْرُو بْنُ مَعْدِيكَرِبَ بِعَسْكَرِ الْإِسْلَامِ فِي الْبَحْرِ بِالْمَدَائِنِ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ

When Amr Bin Ma’di Karib crossed the sea with the army of Islam at Al Mada’in, the same thing occurred.

وَ إِنْ مُوسَى ع قَدْ أَتَى فِرْعَوْنَ بِأَلْوَانِ الْعَذَابِ مِنَ الْجَرَادِ وَ الْقُمَّلِ وَ الضَّفَادِعِ وَ الدَّمِ فَرَسُولُنَا قَدْ أَتَى بِالدُّخَانِ عَلَى الْمُشْرِكِينَ وَ هُوَ مَا ذَكَرَهُ اللَّهُ فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ يَوْمَ تَأْتِي السَّماءُ بِدُخانٍ مُبِينٍ‏

And if Musa^-as brought Pharaoh^-la various forms of punishment, such as locusts, lice, frogs and blood, then our Rasool^-saww brought the smoke upon the Polytheists. This is what Allah^-azwj Mentioned in His^-azwj Saying: “So watch out for the day the sky would come with evident smoke [44:10]”.

وَ مَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَى الْفَرَاعِنَةِ يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ وَ مَا أَنْزَلَ عَلَى الْمُسْتَهْزِءِينَ بِعُقُوبَاتٍ تَسْتَأْصِلُ فِي يَوْمِ أُحُدٍ

And Allah^-azwj Sent down upon the Pharaohs at the Battle of Badr, and He^-azwj Sent down upon those who mocked [the Prophet^-saww punishments that destroyed them at the Battle of Ohad.

فَأَمَّا تَكْلِيمُ اللَّهِ لِمُوسَى ع فَإِنَّهُ كَانَ عَلَى الطُّورِ وَ رَسُولُنَا دَنا فَتَدَلَّى فَكانَ قابَ‏ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنى‏ وَ قَدْ كَلَّمَهُ اللَّهُ هُنَاكَ

As for Allah^-azwj Speaking to Musa^-as, it was upon the mountain, whereas our Rasool^-saww “drew near and descended, and was at a distance of two bows’ length or nearer.” Allah^-azwj Spoke to him^-saww there.

وَ أَمَّا الْمَنُّ وَ السَّلْوَى وَ الْغَمَامُ وَ اسْتَضَاءَةُ النَّاسِ بِنُورٍ سَطَعَ مِنْ يَدِهِ فَقَدْ أُوتِيَ رَسُولُنَا مَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْهُ أُحِلَّتْ لَهُ الْغَنَائِمُ وَ لَمْ تُحَلَّ لِأَحَدٍ قَبْلَهُ

As for the manna and quails, the cloud, and the people being illuminated by a light that shone from his hand, our Rasool^-saww was Given that which was superior to these. Spoils of war were made lawful for him^-saww, whereas they had not been made lawful for anyone before him^-saww.

وَ أَصَابَ أَصْحَابَهُ مَجَاعَةٌ فِي سُرِّيَّةٍ بِنَاحِيَةِ الْبَحْرِ فَقَذَفَ الْبَحْرُ لَهُمْ حُوتاً فَأَكَلُوا مِنْهُ نِصْفَ شَهْرٍ وَ قَدَّمُوا بِوَدَكِهِ‏ وَ كَانَ الْجَيْشُ خَلْقاً كَثِيراً وَ كَانَ يُطْعِمُ الْأَنْفُسَ الْكَثِيرَةَ مِنْ طَعَامٍ قَلِيلٍ وَ يَسْقِي الْجَمَاعَةَ الْجُمَّةَ مِنْ شَرْبَةٍ مِنْ لَبَنٍ حَتَّى يَرْتَوُوا

His^-saww companions suffered hunger during an expedition in the region of the sea. The sea cast a whale onto the shore for them, and they ate from it for half a month, and they rendered its fat. The army was very large, and he^-saww would feed many people with a small amount of food and give a large group enough to drink from a single drink of milk until they were satisfied’.

وَ رَوَى حَمْزَةُ بْنُ عُمَرَ الْأَسْلَمِيُّ قَالَ: نَفَرْنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فِي لَيْلَةٍ ظَلْمَاءَ فَأَضَاءَتْ أَصَابِعُهُ لَنَا فَانْكَشَفَتِ الظُّلْمَةُ وَ هَذَا أَعْجَبُ مِمَّا كَانَ لِمُوسَى ع وَ أَمَّا الْيَدُ الْبَيْضَاءُ لِمُوسَى ع فَقَدْ أَعْطَى‏ مُحَمَّداً أَفْضَلَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَ هُوَ أَنَّ نُوراً كَانَ يُضِي‏ءُ لَهُ أَبَداً عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَ عَنْ يَسَارِهِ حَيْثُمَا جَلَسَ وَ قَامَ يَرَاهُ‏ النَّاسُ وَ قَدْ بَقِيَ ذَلِكَ النُّورُ إِلَى قِيَامِ السَّاعَةِ يَسْطَعُ مِنْ قَبْرِهِ

Hamza Bin Umar Al Aslami narrated, ‘We set out with Rasool-Allah^-saww on a dark night, and his^-saww fingers illuminated the way for us, causing the darkness to disappear. This is even more remarkable than what was given to Musa^-as. As for the luminous white hand that was given to Musa^-as, Allah^-azwj Gave Muhammad^-saww something superior to that – there was a light that continually shone for him^-saww on his right and on his^-saww left, wherever he^-saww sat or stood, and the people could see it. That light will remain until the Day of Qiyamah, shining from his^-saww grave.

وَ كَذَا كَانَ مَعَ وَصِيِّهِ وَ أَوْلَادِهِ الْمَعْصُومِينَ فِي حَيَاتِهِمْ وَ الْآنَ يَكُونُ يَسْطَعُ مِنْ قُبُورِهِمْ‏ وَ فِي كُلِّ بُقْعَةٍ مَرَّ بِهَا الْمَهْدِيُّ يُرَى نُورٌ سَاطِعٌ

The same was the case with his^-saww successor^-asws and his^-saww infallible sons^-asws during their^-asws lifetimes, and today it shines from their^-asws graves. In every place through which Al Mahdi^-ajfj would pass, a light would be seen.

وَ إِنَّ مُوسَى ع أُرْسِلَ إِلَى فِرْعَوْنَ فَأَرَاهُ الْآيَةَ الْكُبْرَى وَ نَبِيَّنَا أُرْسِلَ إِلَى فَرَاعِنَةٍ شَتَّى كَأَبِي لَهَبٍ وَ أَبِي جَهْلٍ وَ شَيْبَةَ وَ عُتْبَةَ ابْنَيْ أَبِي رَبِيعَةَ وَ أُبَيِّ بْنِ خَلَفٍ وَ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ وَ الْعَاصِ بْنِ وَائِلٍ السَّهْمِيِّ وَ النَّضْرِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ وَ غَيْرِهِمْ فَأَرَاهُمُ الْآيَاتِ‏ فِي الْآفاقِ وَ فِي أَنْفُسِهِمْ حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَهُمْ أَنَّهُ الْحَقُ‏ وَ لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا وَ

Musa^-as was Sent to Pharaoh^-la and Showed him^-as the greatest sign. Our Prophet^-saww was sent to various Pharaohs, such as Abu Lahab^-la, Abu Jahl^-la, Shaybah and Utbah, the two sons of Rabi’ah, Ubayy Bin Khalaf, Al Walid Bin Al Mughirah, Al As Bin Wa’il Al Sahmi, Al Nadr Bin Al Harith, and others. He^-saww showed them the signs in the horizons and within themselves, until it became clear to them that he^-saww was the truth, yet they did not believe.

إِنْ كَانَ اللَّهُ انْتَقَمَ لِمُوسَى ع مِنْ فِرْعَوْنَ فَقَدِ انْتَقَمَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ فَقُتِلُوا بِأَجْمَعِهِمْ وَ أُلْقُوا فِي الْقَلِيبِ وَ انْتَقَمَ لَهُ مِنَ الْمُسْتَهْزِءِينَ فَأَخَذَهُمْ بِأَنْوَاعِ الْبَلَاءِ

And if Allah^-azwj Took vengeance for Musa^-as against Pharaoh^-la then He^-azwj Took vengeance for Muhammad^-saww at the Battle of Badr, where they were all killed and thrown into the well. He^-azwj also Took vengeance for him^-saww against those who mocked him^-saww Afflicting them with various kinds of calamities.

وَ إِنْ كَانَ مُوسَى ع صَارَ عَصَاهُ ثُعْبَاناً فَاسْتَغَاثَ فِرْعَوْنُ مِنْهُ رَهْبَةً فَقَدْ أَعْطَى مُحَمَّداً مِثْلَهُ لَمَّا جَاءَ إِلَى أَبِي جَهْلٍ شَفِيعاً لِصَاحِبِ الدَّيْنِ فَخَافَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ وَ قَضَى دَيْنَ الْغَرِيبِ‏ ثُمَّ إِنَّهُ عُتِبَ عَلَيْهِ‏ فَقَالَ رَأَيْتُ عَنْ يَمِينِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ يَسَارِهِ ثُعْبَانَيْنِ تَصْطَكُّ أَسْنَانُهُمَا وَ تَلْمَعُ النِّيرَانُ مِنْ أَبْصَارِهِمَا لَوِ امْتَنَعْتُ لَمْ آمَنْ أَنْ يَبْتَلِعَنِي الثُّعْبَانُ

And if the staff of Musa^-as became a serpent, causing Pharaoh^-la to cry out for help from fear of it, then Muhammad^-saww was Given something similar. When he^-saww came to Abu Jahl^-la as an intercessor on behalf of the man to whom Abu Jahl^-la owed a debt, Abu Jahl^-la became frightened and paid the debt of the stranger. Later, he^-la was reproached for this and said, ‘I saw two serpents to the right and left of Muhammad^-saww, their teeth clashing and flames flashing from their eyes. Had I refused, I feared that the serpents would swallow me!’

وَ قَالَ تَعَالَى لِمُوسَى ع‏ وَ أَلْقَيْتُ عَلَيْكَ مَحَبَّةً مِنِّي‏ وَ قَالَ فِي وَصِيِّهِ وَ أَوْلَادِهِ‏ سَيَجْعَلُ لَهُمُ الرَّحْمنُ وُدًّا

Allah^-azwj the Exalted Said to Musa^-as and I shall Cast upon you Love from Me, [20:39]; and Said regarding his^-as successor and his^-as children: the Beneficent would Make cordiality to be for them [19:96].

وَ إِنْ كَانَ دَاوُدُ ع سُخِّرَ لَهُ الْجِبَالُ وَ الطَّيْرُ يُسَبِّحْنَ لَهُ‏ وَ سَارَتْ بِأَمْرِهِ فَالْجَبَلُ نَطَقَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص إِذْ جَادَلَهُ الْيَهُودُ وَ شَهِدَ لَهُ بِالنُّبُوَّةِ ثُمَّ سَأَلُوهُ أَنْ يَسِيرَ الْجَبَلُ‏ فَدَعَا فَسَارَ الْجَبَلُ إِلَى فَضَاءٍ كَمَا تَقَدَّمَ

And if Dawood^-as had the mountains and birds subjected to him^-as, glorifying Allah^-azwj with him^-as and moving at his^-as command, then the mountain spoke to Muhammad^-saww when the Jews disputed with him^-saww and it testified to his^-saww Prophethood. Then they asked him^-saww to make the mountain move. He^-saww supplicated, and the mountain moved into an open area, as mentioned previously. The pebbles glorified Allah^-azwj in the hand of Rasool-Allah^-saww and the animals were subjected to him^-as as we have mentioned previously.

وَ سَبَّحَ‏ الْحَصَى فِي يَدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ سُخِّرَتْ لَهُ الْحَيَوَانَاتُ كَمَا ذَكَرْنَا وَ إِنْ لَانَ الْحَدِيدُ لِدَاوُدَ ع فَقَدْ لَيَّنَ لِرَسُولِنَا الْحِجَارَةَ الَّتِي لَا تَلِينُ بِالنَّارِ وَ الْحَدِيدُ تَلِينُ بِالنَّارِ وَ قَدْ لَيَّنَ اللَّهُ الْعَمُودَ الَّذِي جَعَلَهُ وَصِيُّهُ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ فِي عُنُقِ خَالِدِ بْنِ وَلِيدٍ فَلَمَّا اسْتَشْفَعَ إِلَيْهِ أَخَذَهُ مِنْ عُنُقِهِ

And if iron was made soft for Dawod^-as then for our Prophet^-saww, the stones were made soft, even though they do not become soft through fire. Iron becomes soft through fire, but Allah^-azwj Softened the iron rod that his^-saww successor Ali Bin Abu Talib^-asws, placed around the neck of Khalid Bin Walid. When Khalid sought his^-asws intercession, Ali^-asws removed it from his neck.

وَ إِنَّ مُحَمَّداً لَمَّا اسْتَتَرَ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ يَوْمَ أُحُدٍ مَالَ بِرَأْسِهِ نَحْوَ الْجَبَلِ حَتَّى خَرَقَهُ بِمِقْدَارِ رَأْسِهِ وَ هُوَ مَوْضِعٌ مَعْرُوفٌ مَقْصُودٌ فِي شِعْبٍ وَ أَثَّرَ سَاعِدَا مُحَمَّدٍ ص فِي جَبَلٍ أَصَمَّ مِنْ جِبَالِ مَكَّةَ لَمَّا اسْتَرْوَحَ فِي صَلَاتِهِ فَلَانَ لَهُ الْحَجَرُ حَتَّى ظَهَرَ أَثَرُ ذِرَاعَيْهِ فِيهِ كَمَا أَثَّرَ قَدَمَا إِبْرَاهِيمَ ع فِي الْمَقَامِ

And when Muhammad^-saww sought shelter from the Polytheists on the Day of Ohad, he^-saww inclined his^-saww head toward the mountain until he^-saww penetrated it by approximately the measure of his^-saww head. It is a known place that people visit in a ravine. The marks of the forearms of Muhammad^-saww were left upon a solid mountain among the mountains of Mecca when he^-saww relaxed during his^-saww Salat, and the stone became soft for him^-saww until the marks of his two arms appeared upon it, just as the feet of Ibrahim^-as left their marks in the Maqam (by the Kaaba).

وَ لَانَتِ الصَّخْرَةُ تَحْتَ يَدِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص بِبَيْتِ الْمَقْدِسِ حَتَّى صَارَ كَالْعَجِينِ وَ رُئِيَ ذَلِكَ مِنْ مَقَامِ دَابَّتِهِ وَ النَّاسُ يَلْمَسُونَهُ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ إِلَى يَوْمِنَا هَذَا

And the rock beneath the hand of Muhammad^-saww at Bayt Al Muqaddas softened until it was like dough. This was seen at the place where his mount stood, and people continue to touch it with their hands to this day.

وَ إِنَّ الرِّضَا ع مِنْ وُلْدِهِ دَعَا فِي خُرَاسَانَ فَلَيَّنَ اللَّهُ لَهُ جَبَلًا يُؤْخَذُ مِنْهُ الْقُدُورُ وَ غَيْرُهَا وَ احْتَاجَ الرِّضَا ع هُنَاكَ إِلَى الطَّهُورِ فَمَسَّ بِيَدِهِ الْأَرْضَ فَنَبَعَ لَهُ عَيْنٌ وَ كِلَاهُمَا مَعْرُوفٌ‏

And indeed, Al-Reza^-asws, one of his descendants supplicated in Khurasan, and Allah^-azwj Softened for him a mountain from which cooking pots and other things were made. Al-Reza^-asws, needed water for purification there, so he^-asws touched the ground with his^-asws hand, and a spring gushed forth for him. Both of these incidents are well known.

وَ آثَارُ وَصِيِّ مُحَمَّدٍ ص فِي الْأَرْضِ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ أَنْ تُحْصَى مِنْهَا بِئْرُ عَبَّادَانَ فَإِنَ‏ الْمُخَالِفَ وَ الْمُؤَالِفَ يَرْوِي أَنَّ مَنْ قَالَ عِنْدَهَا بِحَقِّ عَلِيٍّ يَفُورُ الْمَاءُ مِنْ قَعْرِهَا إِلَى رَأْسِهَا وَ لَا يَفُورُ بِذِكْرِ غَيْرِهِ وَ بِحَقِّ غَيْرِهِ

And the traces of the successor of Muhammad, peace be upon him, upon the earth are too numerous to be counted. Among these is the well of Abadan. The adversaries and the allies have both narrated that whoever invokes the right of Ali^-asws there, water gushes from its bottom to its top, but it does not gush when anyone other than him is mentioned, nor when the right of anyone other than him^-asws is invoked.

وَ إِنَّ سُورَ حَلَبَ مِنْ أَصْلَبِ الْحِجَارَةِ فَضَرَبَهُ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ بِسَيْفِهِ فَأَثَرُهُ مِنْ فَوْقِهِ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ ظَاهِرٌ

Indeed, the wall of Aleppo was made from some of the hardest stones. Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws struck it with his^-asws sword, and its mark is clearly visible from its top down to the ground.

وَ إِنَّهُ ص لَمَّا خَرَجَ إِلَى صِفِّينَ فَكَانَ‏ بَيْنَهُ وَ بَيْنَ دِمَشْقَ مِائَةُ فَرْسَخٍ وَ أَكْثَرُ وَ قَدْ نَزَلَ بِبَرِّيَّةٍ فَكَانَ يُصَلِّي فِيهَا فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ وَ رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ مِنْ سَجْدَةِ الشُّكْرِ قَالَ أَسْمَعُ صَوْتَ بُوقِ التَّبْرِيزِ لِمُعَاوِيَةَ مِنْ دِمَشْقَ فَكَتَبُوا التَّارِيخَ فَكَانَ كَمَا قَالَ وَ قَدْ بُنِيَ هُنَاكَ مَشْهَدٌ يُقَالُ لَهُ مَشْهَدُ الْبُوقِ

And when he^-asws set out for Siffin, there were one hundred Farsakhs or more between him^-asws and Damascus. He^-asws stopped in a wilderness and prayed there. When he^-asws had finished and raised his^-asws head from the Sajdah of thanksgiving, he^-asws said, ‘I^-asws hear the sound of the trumpet of Tabriz being blown for Muawiya from Damascus!’ They recorded the date, and it occurred exactly as he^-asws had said. A shrine was later built there called Mashhad Al-Buq.

وَ بَكَى دَاوُدُ ع عَلَى خَطِيئَتِهِ حَتَّى سَارَتِ الْجِبَالُ مَعَهُ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص قَامَ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ فَسُمِعَ لِجَوْفِهِ أَزِيزٌ كَأَزِيزِ الْمِرْجَلِ عَلَى الْأَثَافِيِ‏ مِنْ شِدَّةِ الْبُكَاءِ وَ قَدْ آمَنَهُ اللَّهُ مِنْ عِقَابِهِ فَأَرَادَ أَنْ يَتَخَشَّعَ

And Dawood^-as wept over his^-as offence until the mountains moved along with him^-as. Muhammad^-saww stood for Salat, and a rumbling could be heard from within him^-saww like the rumbling of a cooking pot upon the stones supporting it, due to the intensity of his^-saww weeping. Allah^-azwj had already Granted him^-saww security from His^-azwj Punishment, yet he^-saww wished to humble himself (before Allah^-azwj).

وَ قَامَ عَلَى أَطْرَافِ أَصَابِعِ رِجْلَيْهِ عَشْرَ سِنِينَ حَتَّى تَوَرَّمَتْ قَدَمَاهُ وَ اصْفَرَّ وَجْهُهُ مِنْ قِيَامِ اللَّيْلِ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ‏ طه ما أَنْزَلْنا عَلَيْكَ الْقُرْآنَ لِتَشْقى‏ وَ كَانَ يَبْكِي حَتَّى يُغْشَى عَلَيْهِ فَقِيلَ لَهُ أَ لَيْسَ قَدْ غَفَرَ اللَّهُ لَكَ‏ ما تَقَدَّمَ مِنْ ذَنْبِكَ وَ ما تَأَخَّرَ فَقَالَ أَ فَلَا أَكُونُ عَبْداً شَكُوراً وَ كَذَلِكَ كَانَتْ غَشَيَاتُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَصِيِّهِ فِي مَقَامَاتِهِ‏

He^-saww stood upon the tips of his toes for ten years, until his^-saww feet became swollen, and his^-saww face became yellow from standing during the night. Therefore Allah^-azwj Revealed: We have not Revealed the Quran unto you for you to be distressed [20:2]. He^-saww would weep until he^-saww became unconscious. It was said to him^-saww, ‘Has Allah^-azwj not already Forgiven you^-saww for what preceded of your^-saww sin and what are delayed?’ He^-saww replied, ‘Should I not then be a grateful servant?’ Likewise were the states of unconsciousness of Ali Bin Abu Talib^-asws, his^-saww successor^-asws, during his^-asws spiritual stations.

وَ إِنَّ سُلَيْمَانَ ع سَأَلَ اللَّهَ فَأُعْطِيَ مُلْكاً لَا يَنْبَغِي لِأَحَدٍ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص عُرِضَتْ عَلَيْهِ مَفَاتِيحُ خَزَائِنِ كُنُوزِ الْأَرْضِ فَأَبَى اسْتِحْقَاراً لَهَا فَاخْتَارَ التَّقَلُّلَ وَ الْقُرْبَى‏ فَآتَاهُ اللَّهُ الشَّفَاعَةَ وَ الْكَوْثَرَ وَ هِيَ أَعْظَمُ مِنْ مُلْكِ الدُّنْيَا مِنْ أَوَّلِهَا إِلَى آخِرِهَا سَبْعِينَ مَرَّةً

And indeed, Suleyman^-as asked Allah^-azwj, and he^-as was granted a kingdom such as no one after him^-as should possess. Muhammad^-saww was offered the keys to the treasures of the riches of the earth, but he^-saww refused them, considering them insignificant. He^-saww chose having little and being close to Allah^-azwj. Allah^-azwj Granted him intercession and Al-Kawsar, which is seventy times greater than the kingdom of the world, from its beginning to its end.

فَوَعَدَ اللَّهُ لَهُ الْمَقَامَ الْمَحْمُودَ الَّذِي يَغْبِطُهُ بِهِ الْأَوَّلُونَ وَ الْآخِرُونَ وَ سَارَ فِي لَيْلَةٍ إِلَى بَيْتِ الْمَقْدِسِ وَ مِنْهُ إِلَى سِدْرَةِ الْمُنْتَهَى وَ سُخِّرَ لَهُ الرِّيحُ حَتَّى حَمَلَتْ بِسَاطَهُ بِأَصْحَابِهِ إِلَى غَارِ أَصْحَابِ الْكَهْفِ وَ إِنْ كَانَ لِسُلَيْمَانَ ع‏ غُدُوُّها شَهْرٌ وَ رَواحُها شَهْرٌ فَكَذَلِكَ كَانَتْ لِأَوْصِيَاءِ مُحَمَّدٍ

Allah^-azwj Promised him^-saww the Praiseworthy Station, by which the earlier and latter generations will envy him^-saww. He^-saww travelled during one night to Bayt Al Muqaddas and from there to Sidrat Al Muntaha. The wind was subjected to him^-saww until it carried his^-saww carpet, together with his companions, to the cave of the Companions of the Cave. And if the wind of Suleyman^-as, travelled in the morning for a journey of one month and in the evening for a journey of one month, then likewise was it for the successors^-asws of Muhammad^-saww.

وَ سُخِّرَتْ لَهُ الْجِنُّ وَ آمَنَتْ بِهِ مُنْقَادَةً طَائِعَةً فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ وَ إِذْ صَرَفْنا إِلَيْكَ نَفَراً مِنَ‏ الْجِنِ‏ وَ قَبَضَ ص عَلَى حَلْقِ جِنِّيٍّ فَخَنَقَهُ‏ وَ مُحَارَبَةُ وَصِيِّهِ مِنَ الْجِنِّ وَ قَتْلُهُ إِيَّاهُمْ مَعْرُوفَةٌ وَ كَذَلِكَ إِتْيَانُهُمْ إِلَيْهِ وَ إِلَى أَوْلَادِهِ الْمَعْصُومِينَ ع لِأَخْذِ الْعِلْمِ مِنْهُمْ مَشْهُورٌ

The Jinn were also subjected to him^-saww, and they believed in him^-saww, submitting and obeying him^-saww, as Stated in His^-azwj Word: ‘And when We Turned a number of the Jinn towards you [46:29]’. The Prophet^-saww seized a jinn by the throat and strangled him. The fighting of his^-saww successor against the jinn and his killing of them is known, and likewise their coming to him^-saww and to his^-saww infallible sons^-asws to acquire knowledge from them is well-known.

وَ إِنَّ سُلَيْمَانَ ع سَخَّرَهُمْ لِلْأَبْنِيَةِ وَ الصَّنَائِعِ وَ اسْتِنْبَاطِ الْقَنَى‏ مَا عَجَزَ عَنْهُ جَمِيعُ النَّاسِ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ لَمْ يَحْتَجْ إِلَى هَذِهِ الْأَشْيَاءِ فَلَوْ أَرَادَ مِنْهُمْ ذَلِكَ لَفَعَلُوا عَلَى أَنَّ مُؤْمِنِي الْجِنِّ يَخْدُمُونَ الْأَئِمَّةَ ع وَ أَنَّهُمْ ع كَانُوا يَبْعَثُونَهُمْ فِي أَمْرٍ يُرِيدُونَهُ عَلَى الْعَجَلَةِ

And indeed, Suleyman^-as subjected them (Jinn) to building, craftsmanship, and excavating channels through which water flowed, accomplishing things that all other people were incapable of doing. Muhammad^-saww had no need for these things. Had he^-saww wished them to do so, they would have done it. Moreover, the believing Jinn serve the Imams^-asws and they^-aswswould send them to accomplish whatever task they^-asws wanted done quickly.

وَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ سَخَّرَ الْمَلَائِكَةَ الْمُقَرَّبِينَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص وَ أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ وَ ذُرِّيَّتِهِ الطَّاهِرِينَ ع فَقَدْ كَانُوا يَنْصُرُونَ‏ مُحَمَّداً وَ يُقَاتِلُونَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ كِفَاحاً وَ يَمْنَعُونَ مِنْهُ وَ يَدْفَعُونَ وَ كَذَلِكَ كَانُوا مَعَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ يَكُونُونَ مَعَ بَقِيَّةِ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ ع عَلَى مَا رُوِيَ

And Allah^-azwj Subjected the Angels of Proximity to Muhammad^-saww and to People^-asws of his^-saww Houehold. They would support Muhammad^-saww and fight openly before him^-saww, defending him^-saww and repelling attacks from him^-saww. They likewise did so with Ali Bin Abu Talib^-asws, and they will be with the remainder of the Progeny^-asws of Muhammad^-saww, according to what has been narrated.

وَ إِنْ سُلَيْمَانُ ع كَانَ يَفْهَمُ كَلَامَ الطَّيْرِ وَ مَنْطِقَهَا فَكَذَلِكَ نَبِيُّنَا كَانَ يَفْهَمُ مَنْطِقَ الطَّيْرِ فَقَدْ كَانَ فِي بَرِّيَّةٍ وَ رَأَى طَيْراً أَعْمَى عَلَى شَجَرَةٍ فَقَالَ لِلنَّاسِ إِنَّهُ قَالَ يَا رَبِّي‏ إِنَّنِي جَائِعٌ لَا يُمْكِنُنِي أَنْ أَطْلُبَ الرِّزْقَ فَوَقَعَ جَرَادَةٌ عَلَى مِنْقَارِهِ فَأَكَلَهَا وَ كَذَا فَهِمَ مَنْطِقَهَا أَهْلُ بَيْتِهِ

And just as Suleyman^-as understood the speech and language of the birds, so too did our Prophet^-sawwunderstand the language of the birds. He^-saww was once in a wilderness and saw a blind bird upon a tree. He^-saww told the people, ‘It is saying, ‘My Lord^-azwj! I am hungry. I am unable to seek sustenance’. Then a locust fell upon its beak, and it ate it. Thus he^-saww understood its speech, and likewise People^-asws of his^-saww Household understood its language.

وَ إِنَّ عِيسَى ع مَرَّ بِكَرْبَلَاءَ فَرَأَى ظِبَاءً فَدَعَاهَا فَقَالَ هَاهُنَا لَا مَاءَ وَ لَا مَرْعَى فَلِمَ مَقَامُكُنَّ فِيهَا قَالَتْ يَا رُوحَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ أَلْهَمَنَا أَنَّ هَذِهِ الْبُقْعَةَ حَرَمُ الْحُسَيْنِ ع فَأَوَيْنَا إِلَيْهَا فَدَعَا اللَّهَ عِيسَى ع أَنْ يَبْقَى أَثَرٌ يَعْلَمُ بِهِ آلُ مُحَمَّدٍ أَنَّ عِيسَى كَانَ مُسَاعِداً لَهُمْ فِي مُصِيبَتِهِمْ

And indeed, Isa^-as passed by Karbala and saw some gazelles. He^-as called them and said, ‘There is neither water nor pasture here, so why do you remain here?’ They replied, ‘O Spirit of Allah^-azwj! Allah^-azwj Inspired us that this place is the sanctuary of Al Husayn^-asws, so we have taken refuge here’. Isa^-as then supplicated to Allah^-azwj that a trace should remain by which the Progeny^-asws of Muhammad^-saww would know that Isa^-as had supported them in their^-asws calamity.

فَلَمَّا مَرَّ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع بِهَا جَعَلَ يَقُولُ هَاهُنَا مُنَاخُ رِكَابِهِمْ وَ هَاهُنَا مُهَرَاقُ دِمَائِهِمْ فَسَأَلَهُ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ عَنْهُ فَأَخْبَرَهُ بِقَتْلِ الْحُسَيْنِ ع فِيهَا وَ أَنَّ عِيسَى ع كَانَ‏ هَاهُنَا وَ دَعَا وَ مِنْ قِصَّتِهِ كَيْتَ وَ كَيْتَ فَاطْلُبْ بَعَرَاتِ تِلْكَ الظِّبَاءِ فَإِنَّهَا بَاقِيَةٌ فَوَجَدُوا كَثِيراً مِنَ الْبَعَرِ قَدْ صَارَ مِثْلَ الزَّعْفَرَانِ وَ إِنَّ الظِّبَاءَ نَطَقَتْ مَعَ مُحَمَّدٍ ص وَ عِتْرَتِهِ فِي مَوَاضِعَ شَتَّى

When Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws passed by it, he^-asws began saying: ‘Here will be the resting place of their riding animals, and here their blood will be spilled!’ Ibn Abbas asked him^-asws about this, and he^-asws informed him that Al Husayn^-asws would be killed there, and that Isa^-as had been there and had supplicated, and related such and such from his^-asws story. He^-asws then said, ‘Seek the droppings of those gazelles, for they remain!’ They found a great deal of dung which had become like saffron. And indeed, the gazelles spoke with Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww Progeny^-asws in various places.

وَ إِنَّ يَحْيَى بْنَ زَكَرِيَّا أُوتِيَ الْحُكْمَ صَبِيّاً وَ كَانَ يَبْكِي مِنْ غَيْرِ ذَنْبٍ وَ يُوَاصِلُ الصَّوْمَ وَ لَمْ يَتَزَوَّجْ‏ وَ إِنَّمَا اخْتَارَ نَبِيُّنَا التَّزَوُّجَ لِأَنَّهُ كَانَ قُدْوَةً فِي فِعْلِهِ وَ قَوْلِهِ وَ النِّكَاحُ مِمَّا أَمَرَ اللَّهُ بِهِ آدَمَ ع لِلتَّنَاسُلِ وَ كَانَ لِسُلَيْمَانَ ع مِنَ النِّسَاءِ وَ الْجَوَارِي مَا لَا يُحْصَى

And indeed, Yahya Bin Zakariya^-as was Given wisdom while still a child. He^-as would weep despite having no sin, would continually fast, and did not marry. Our Prophet^-saww, however, chose marriage because he^-saww was an example to be followed in his^-saww actions and words. Marriage was among the things that Allah^-azwj Commanded Adam^-as to undertake for procreation. Suleyman^-as had an innumerable number of wives and slave women.

وَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص تَنَاكَحُوا تَكْثُرُوا فَإِنِّي أُبَاهِي بِكُمُ الْأُمَمَ وَ قَالَ مُبَاضَعَتُكَ أَهْلَكَ صَدَقَةٌ فَقِيلَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ نَأْتِي شَهْوَتَنَا وَ نَفْرَحُ أَ فَنُؤْجَرُ فَقَالَ أَ رَأَيْتَ لَوْ جَعَلْتَهَا فِي بَاطِلٍ أَ فَكُنْتَ تَأْثَمُ قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَ أَ فَتُحَاسَبُونَ بِالشَّرِّ وَ لَا تُحَاسَبُونَ بِالْخَيْرِ وَ قَدْ عَلِمَ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَكُونُ لَهُ ذُرِّيَّةٌ طَيِّبَةٌ بَاقِيَةٌ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ

The Prophet^-saww said, ‘Marry one another and increase in number, for I^-saww shall take pride in you before the nations!’ And he^-saww said, ‘Your having marital relations with your wife is (classified as) charity!’ It was said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww, we fulfil our desire and enjoy ourselves. Will we be Rewarded for that?’ He^-saww said, ‘Consider this – if you had placed it in something unlawful, would you have sinned?’ They  said, ‘Yes.’ The Prophet^-saww said, ‘Then you would receive accountability for evil but not for good?’ Allah^-azwj Knew that he^-saww would have a good and enduring progeny that would remain until the Day of Qiyamah.

وَ قَدْ وَصَفَ اللَّهُ عِيسَى ع بِمَا لَمْ يَصِفْ بِهِ أَحَداً مِنْ أَنْبِيَائِهِ فَقَالَ‏ وَجِيهاً فِي الدُّنْيا وَ الْآخِرَةِ وَ مِنَ الْمُقَرَّبِينَ وَ يُكَلِّمُ النَّاسَ فِي الْمَهْدِ وَ كَهْلًا وَ مِنَ الصَّالِحِينَ‏

Allah^-azwj Described Isa^-as with qualities with which He^-azwj did not Describe any of His^-azwj other Prophets^-as Saying: ‘worthy of regard in the world and the Hereafter and from those of Proximity [3:45] And he shall speak to the people when in the cradle and when of old age, and (he shall be) from the righteous ones’ [3:46].

وَ رَسُولُنَا وَ أَهْلُ بَيْتِهِ وَ عِتْرَتُهُ وَسِيلَةُ آدَمَ ع وَ دَعْوَةُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ع وَ بُشْرَى عِيسَى ع وَ إِنْ قَدَّرَ عِيسَى ع مِنَ الطِّينِ كَهَيْئَةِ الطَّيْرِ فَيَجْعَلُهَا اللَّهُ طَيْراً فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ أَحْيَا الْمَوْتَى لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص وَ عِتْرَتِهِ ع

And our Rasool^-saww and People^-asws of his^-saww Household are the means through which Adam^-as was Granted Favour, the supplication of Ibrahim^-as, and the glad tidings of Isa^-as. And if Isa^-as, fashioned from clay something in the form of a bird and Allah^-azwj Made it into a bird, then Allah^-azwj Brought the dead to life for Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww Progeny.

وَ إِنْ كَانَ يُبْرِئُ الْأَكْمَهَ وَ الْأَبْرَصَ بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ فَكَذَا كَانَ مِنْهُمْ ع وَ الْآنَ رُبَّمَا يَدْخُلُ الْعُمْيَانُ وَ مَنْ بِهِ بَرَصٌ مَشَاهِدَهُمْ فَيَهَبُ اللَّهُ لَهُمْ نُورَ أَعْيُنِهِمْ وَ يُذْهِبُ الْبَرَصَ عَنْهُمْ بِبَرَكَةِ تُرْبَتِهِمْ وَ هَذَا مَعْرُوفٌ مَا بَيْنَ خُرَاسَانَ إِلَى بَغْدَادَ إِلَى الْكُوفَةِ إِلَى الْحِجَازِ

And if Isa^-as healed the blind from birth and the vitiligo by Allah^-azwj’s Permission, likewise this occurred through them^-asws. Even today, the blind and those afflicted with vitiligo sometimes enter their^-asws shrines, and Allah^-azwj Grants them the light of their eyes and removes the vitiligo from them through the blessing of their^-aswssoil. This is well known from Khurasan to Baghdad, to Kufa, and to the Hijaz’. [4] (This is not Hadeeth)

5- م، تفسير الإمام عليه السلام‏ قَالَ الْإِمَامُ ع مَا أَظْهَرَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لِنَبِيٍّ تَقَدَّمَ آيَةً إِلَّا وَ قَدْ جَعَلَ‏ لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص وَ عَلِيٍّ ع مِثْلَهَا وَ أَعْظَمَ مِنْهَا

‘Tafseer of the Imam (Hassan Al-Askari^-asws) – The Imam^-asws (Hassan Al-Askari^-asws) said: ‘Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic did not Manifest a Sign for a previous Prophet^-as except and He^-azwj Made it to be for Muhammad^-saww and Ali^-asws similar to it and greater than it.

قِيلَ يَا ابْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ فَأَيَّ شَيْ‏ءٍ جَعَلَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ وَ عَلِيٍّ مَا يَعْدِلُ آيَاتِ عِيسَى إِحْيَاءَ الْمَوْتَى وَ إِبْرَاءَ الْأَكْمَهِ وَ الْأَبْرَصِ وَ الْإِنْبَاءَ بِمَا يَأْكُلُونَ وَ مَا يَدَّخِرُونَ

It was said, ‘O son^-asws of Rasool-Allah^-saww! Which thing did He^-azwj Make it to be for Muhammad^-saww and Ali^-asws what equated to a Sign of Isa^-as – from the reviving of the dead, and curing the blind and the leper, and informing with what they had eaten and what they had been hoarding?’

قَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص كَانَ يَمْشِي بِمَكَّةَ وَ أَخُوهُ عَلِيٌّ ع يَمْشِي مَعَهُ وَ عَمُّهُ أَبُو لَهَبٍ خَلْفَهُ يَرْمِي عَقِبَهُ بِالْأَحْجَارِ وَ قَدْ أَدْمَاهُ يُنَادِي مَعَاشِرَ قُرَيْشٍ هَذَا سَاحِرٌ كَذَّابٌ فَاقْذِفُوهُ‏ وَ اهْجُرُوهُ وَ اجْتَنِبُوهُ

He^-asws said: ‘It was so that Rasool-Allah^-saww was walking in Makkah, and his^-saww brother Ali^-asws was walking along with him^-saww, and his^-saww uncle Abu Lahab^-la was behind him^-saww – throwing stones at him^-saww from behind him^-saww and he^-saww was bleeding. He was calling out, ‘O community of Qureysh! This one is a sorcerer! A liar! Therefore, kill him^-saww, and stone him^-saww, and keep him^-saww away!’

وَ حَرَّشَ عَلَيْهِ أَوْبَاشَ قُرَيْشٍ فَتَبِعُوهُمَا يَرْمُونَهُمَا بِالْأَحْجَارِ فَمَا مِنْهَا حَجَرٌ أَصَابَهُ إِلَّا أَصَابَ عَلِيّاً ع

And he provoked upon it the riffraff of the Qureysh, so they pursued both of them^-asws and pelted them^-asws with the stones, and there was not stone from it which hit him^-saww except it hit Ali^-asws (as well).

فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ يَا عَلِيُّ أَ لَسْتَ الْمُتَعَصِّبَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ وَ الْمُقَاتِلَ عَنْهُ وَ الشُّجَاعَ‏ لَا نَظِيرَ لَكَ مَعَ حَدَاثَةِ سِنِّكَ وَ أَنَّكَ لَمْ تُشَاهِدِ الْحُرُوبَ مَا بَالُكَ لَا تَنْصُرُ مُحَمَّداً وَ لَا تَدْفَعُ عَنْهُ

So one of them said, ‘O Ali^-asws! Aren’t you biased towards Muhammad^-saww and the fighter on his^-saww behalf, and the brave one who, there is no match for you^-asws with your^-asws young age, and you^-asws did not attend the wars? What is the matter with you^-asws not helping Muhammad^-saww, nor defending him^-saww from it?’

فَنَادَاهُمْ عَلِيٌّ ع مَعَاشِرَ أَوْبَاشِ قُرَيْشٍ لَا أُطِيعُ مُحَمَّداً بِمَعْصِيَتِي لَهُ لَوْ أَمَرَنِي لَرَأَيْتُمُ الْعَجَبَ

Ali^-asws called out to them: ‘O group of the ruffians of Qureysh! I am not obedient to Muhammad^-saww with to my^-asws disobedience to him^-saww. If he^-saww were to instruct me^-asws, I^-asws will show you the wonders’.

وَ مَا زَالُوا يَتَّبِعُونَهُ حَتَّى خَرَجَ مِنْ مَكَّةَ فَأَقْبَلَتِ الْأَحْجَارُ عَلَى حَالِهَا تَتَدَحْرَجُ فَقَالُوا الْآنَ تَشْدَخُ‏ هَذِهِ الْأَحْجَارُ مُحَمَّداً وَ عَلِيّاً وَ نَتَخَلَّصُ مِنْهُمَا

And they did not cease pursuing them^-asws until they^-asws exited from Makkah. Then the rocks (on the mountain) started stirring upon their state (about to start an) avalanche. So they said, ‘Now these rocks will crush Muhammad^-saww and Ali^-asws, and we will be finished off from both of them^-asws’.

وَ تَنَحَّتْ قُرَيْشٌ عَنْهُ خَوْفاً عَلَى أَنْفُسِهِمْ مِنْ تِلْكَ الْأَحْجَارِ فَرَأَوْا تِلْكَ الْأَحْجَارَ قَدْ أَقْبَلَتْ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ عَلِيٍّ كُلُّ حَجَرٍ مِنْهَا يُنَادِي السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ بْنِ هَاشِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ مَنَافٍ

And the Qureysh isolated from him^-saww fearing upon themselves from those rocks, but (instead) they saw those rocks to have faced towards Muhammad^-saww and Ali^-asws, each rock from these calling out, ‘The greetings be upon you^-saww, O Muhammad^-saww Bin Abdullah^-asws, Bin Abdul Muttalib^-asws Bin Hashim^-asws Bin Abd Manaf^-asws!’

السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ بْنِ هَاشِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ مَنَافٍ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَ خَيْرَ الْخَلْقِ أَجْمَعِينَ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا سَيِّدَ الْوَصِيِّينَ وَ يَا خَلِيفَةَ رَسُولِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ

The greetings be upon you^-asws, O Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws Bin Abdul Muttalib^-asws Bin Hashim^-asws Bin Abd Manaf^-asws! The greetings be upon you^-saww O Rasool^-saww of the Lord^-azwj of the worlds, and the best of the creatures in their entirety! The greetings be upon you^-asws O chief of the successors^-as, and O caliph of Rasool-Allah^-saww!’

وَ سَمِعَهَا جَمَاعَاتُ قُرَيْشٍ فَوَجَمُوا فَقَالَ عَشَرَةٌ مِنْ مَرَدَتِهِمْ وَ عُتَاتِهِمْ مَا هَذِهِ الْأَحْجَارُ تُكَلِّمُهُمَا وَ لَكِنَّهُمْ رِجَالٌ فِي حُفْرَةٍ بِحَضْرَةِ الْأَحْجَارِ قَدْ خَبَأَهُمْ مُحَمَّدٌ تَحْتَ الْأَرْضِ فَهِيَ تُكَلِّمُهُمَا لِتَغُرَّنَا وَ تَخْدَعَنَا

And a group of Qureysh heard it, and they were stunned. Ten of their renegades and their stubborn ones said, ‘These rock are not speaking to them^-asws, but there are men (hidden) in the hollow places by the rock (who are speaking). Muhammad^-saww has hidden them beneath the ground, so they are speaking to them^-asws both in order to delude us and deceive us’.

فَأَقْبَلَتْ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ أَحْجَارٌ عَشَرَةٌ مِنْ تِلْكَ الصُّخُورِ وَ تَحَلَّقَتْ وَ ارْتَفَعَتْ فَوْقَ الْعَشَرَةِ الْمُتَكَلِّمِينَ بِهَذَا الْكَلَامِ فَمَا زَالَتْ تَقَعُ بِهَامَاتِهِمْ‏ وَ تَرْتَفِعُ وَ تُرَضِّضُهَا حَتَّى مَا بَقِيَ مِنَ الْعَشَرَةِ أَحَدٌ إِلَّا سَالَ دِمَاغُهُ وَ دِمَاؤُهُ‏ مِنْ مَنْخِرَيْهِ وَ قَدْ تَخَلْخَلَ رَأْسُهُ وَ هَامَتُهُ وَ يَافُوخُهُ فَجَاءَ أَهْلُوهُمْ وَ عَشَائِرُهُمْ يَبْكُونَ وَ يَضِجُّونَ يَقُولُونَ أَشَدُّ مِنْ مُصَابِنَا بِهَؤُلَاءِ تَبَجُّحُ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ تَبَذُّخُهُ بِأَنَّهُمْ قُتِلُوا بِهَذِهِ الْأَحْجَارِ آيَةً لَهُ وَ دَلَالَةً وَ مُعْجِزَةً

Ten stones from those rocks came during that and they flew and hovered above the ten speakers with this speech, and they did not continue falling and rising – until there did not remain any one from the ten – except that his blood flowed, and his blood from the nostrils, and his head and his (soft spot of the) skull was broken. Their families and their clan came over crying and making noise, and they were saying, ‘More severe than our difficulty (bereavement) with them, is the bragging of Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww exultation with them being killed by the stones, and that has become a Sign for him^-saww, and a proof, and a miracle’.

فَأَنْطَقَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ جَنَائِزَهُمْ صَدَقَ مُحَمَّدٌ وَ مَا كَذَبَ وَ كَذَبْتُمْ‏ وَ مَا صَدَقْتُمْ وَ اضْطَرَبَتِ الْجَنَائِزُ وَ رَمَتْ مَنْ عَلَيْهَا وَ سَقَطُوا الْأَرْضَ وَ نَادَتْ‏ مَا كُنَّا لِنَنْقَادَ لِيُحْمَلَ عَلَيْنَا أَعْدَاءُ اللَّهِ إِلَى عَذَابِ اللَّهِ

Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Caused their coffins to speak, and they said, ‘Muhammad^-saww speaks the truth and does not lie, and you are lying and not speaking the truth!’ And the coffins trembled and threw off the ones upon it, and they fell upon the ground and called out, ‘We will not be led to carry upon us the enemies of Allah^-azwj to the Punishment of Allah^-azwj!’

فَقَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ لَعَنَهُ اللَّهُ إِنَّمَا سَحَرَ مُحَمَّدٌ هَذِهِ الْجَنَائِزَ كَمَا سَحَرَ تِلْكَ الْأَحْجَارَ وَ الْجَلَامِيدَ وَ الصُّخُورَ حَتَّى وُجِدَ مِنْهَا مِنَ النُّطْقِ مَا وُجِدَ فَإِنْ كَانَتْ قَتْلُ‏ هَذِهِ الْأَحْجَارِ هَؤُلَاءِ لِمُحَمَّدٍ آيَةً لَهُ وَ تَصْدِيقاً لِقَوْلِهِ وَ تَبْيِيناً لِأَمْرِهِ

Abu Jahl^-la, may Allah^-azwj Curse him^-la, said, ‘But rather, Muhammad^-saww has done sorcery with these coffins – just as he did sorcery with those stones, and the boulders, and the rocks, until it was found from these, from the speaking, what was found. So, if it was such that these stones killed them for Muhammad^-saww, it would be a Sign for him^-saww, and a verification of his^-saww words, and an affirmation of his^-saww matter’.

فَقُولُوا لَهُ يَسْأَلُ مَنْ خَلَقَهُمْ أَنْ يُحْيِيَهُمْ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ قَدْ سَمِعْتَ اقْتِرَاحَ الْجَاهِلِينَ وَ هَؤُلَاءِ عَشَرَةُ قَتْلَى كَمْ جُرِحْتَ بِهَذِهِ الْأَحْجَارِ الَّتِي رَمَانَا بِهَا الْقَوْمُ يَا عَلِيُّ

They were saying to him^-saww, ‘Ask the One^-azwj Who Created them that He^-azwj Revives them!’ Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O Abu Al-Hassan^-asws! Did you^-asws hear the suggestion of these ignorant ones, and how much these ten killed ones injured us^-asws with these stones which the group pelted us^-asws with, O Ali^-asws!’

قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع جُرِحْتُ أَرْبَعَ جِرَاحَاتٍ وَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص جُرِحْتُ أَنَا سِتَّ جِرَاحَاتٍ فَلْيَسْأَلْ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنَّا رَبَّهُ أَنْ يُحْيِيَ مِنَ الْعَشَرَةِ بِقَدْرِ جِرَاحَاتِهِ فَدَعَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِسِتَّةٍ مِنْهُمْ فَنُشِرُوا وَ دَعَا عَلِيٌّ ع لِأَرْبَعَةٍ مِنْهُمْ فَنُشِرُوا

Ali^-asws said: ‘I^-asws have been injured with four injuries’. And Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘I^-saww have been injured with six injuries. Let each one of us^-asws ask his^-asws Lord^-azwj that He^-azwj Revives from the ten, in accordance with his^-asws own injuries’. Then Rasool-Allah^-saww supplicated for six of them, and they were revived, and Ali^-asws supplicated for four of them, and they were revived.

ثُمَّ نَادَى الْمُحْيَوْنَ مَعَاشِرَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ إِنَّ لِمُحَمَّدٍ وَ عَلِيٍّ شَأْناً عَظِيماً فِي الْمَمَالِكِ الَّتِي كُنَّا فِيهَا لَقَدْ رَأَيْنَا لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص مِثَالًا عَلَى سَرِيرٍ عِنْدَ الْبَيْتِ الْمَعْمُورِ وَ عِنْدَ الْعَرْشِ وَ لِعَلِيٍّ ع مِثَالًا عِنْدَ الْبَيْتِ الْمَعْمُورِ وَ عِنْدَ الْكُرْسِيِّ وَ أَمْلَاكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْحُجُبِ وَ أَمْلَاكُ الْعَرْشِ يَحُفُّونَ بِهِمَا وَ يُعَظِّمُونَهُمَا وَ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَيْهِمَا وَ يَصْدُرُونَ عَنْ أَوَامِرِهِمَا وَ يُقْسِمُونَ عَلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لِحَوَائِجِهِمْ إِذَا سَأَلُوهُ بِهِمَا

Then the revived ones called out, ‘Community of Muslims! For Muhammad^-saww and Ali^-asws is a great glory in the kingdoms in which we were. We have seen for Muhammad^-saww, a resemblance upon a throne, by the Bayt Al-Mamour (The Oft-frequented House), and by the Throne, and for Ali^-asws a resemblance by the Bayt Al-Mamour and by the Chair; and the Angels of the skies and the Veils, and the Angels of the Thorne are circling with these two (resemblances) and are send Salawat upon them^-asws both, and they are issuing from their^-asws orders and they are vowing by them^-asws to Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic for their needs, whenever they are asking Him^-azwj by them^-asws both’.

فَآمَنَ مِنْهُمْ سَبْعَةُ نَفَرٍ وَ غَلَبَ الشَّقَاءُ عَلَى الْآخَرِينَ

Seven of them expressed belief, and wretchedness overcame the others.

وَ أَمَّا تَأْيِيدُ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لِعِيسَى ع بِرُوحِ الْقُدُسِ فَإِنَّ جَبْرَئِيلَ هُوَ الَّذِي لَمَّا حَضَرَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ هُوَ قَدِ اشْتَمَلَ بِعَبَاءَتِهِ الْقَطَوَانِيَّةِ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ وَ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ وَ فَاطِمَةَ وَ الْحَسَنِ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ ع وَ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ هَؤُلَاءِ أَهْلِي أَنَا حَرْبٌ لِمَنْ حَارَبَهُمْ وَ سِلْمٌ لِمَنْ سَالَمَهُمْ مُحِبٌّ لِمَنْ أَحَبَّهُمْ وَ مُبْغِضٌ لِمَنْ أَبْغَضَهُمْ فَكُنْ لِمَنْ حَارَبَهُمْ حَرْباً وَ لِمَنْ سَالَمَهُمْ سِلْماً وَ لِمَنْ أَحَبَّهُمْ مُحِبّاً وَ لِمَنْ أَبْغَضَهُمْ مُبْغِضاً

And as for the Support of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic to Isa^-as with the Holy Spirit, so it was Jibraeel^-as the one who presented to Rasool-Allah^-saww, and he^-saww had put on his^-saww Al-Qatwaniyya cloak upon himself^-saww – and upon Ali^-asws, and (Syeda) Fatima^-asws, and Al-Hassan^-asws and Al-Husayn^-asws and said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! They^-asws are my^-saww family. I^-saww am at war against the one (who) is at war with them^-asws, and am at peace with the one who is at peace with them^-asws, loving to the one who loves them^-asws, and hateful towards the one who hates them^-asws. Therefore, Be at war with the one who flights against them^-asws, and Peaceful with the one who is at peace with them^-asws, and Loving to the one who loves them^-asws, and Hateful to the one who hates them^-asws!’

فَقَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَقَدْ أَجَبْتُكَ إِلَى ذَلِكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ

Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Said: “I^-azwj have Answered you^-saww to that, O Muhammad^-saww!”

فَرَفَعَتْ أَمُّ سَلَمَةَ جَانِبَ الْعَبَاءِ لِتَدْخُلَ فَجَذَبَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَالَ لَسْتِ هُنَاكِ وَ إِنْ كُنْتِ فِي خَيْرٍ وَ إِلَى خَيْرٍ

Then Umm Salma^-ra raised a side of the cloak in order to enter, but Rasool-Allah^-saww pulled it away and said: ‘Not over here (is your place), although you^-asws are in goodness and towards goodness!’

وَ جَاءَ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع مُدَّثِّراً وَ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ اجْعَلْنِي مِنْكُمْ قَالَ أَنْتَ مِنَّا قَالَ فَأَرْفَعُ الْعَبَاءَ وَ أَدْخُلُ مَعَكُمْ قَالَ بَلَى فَدَخَلَ فِي الْعَبَاءِ ثُمَّ خَرَجَ وَ صَعِدَ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ إِلَى الْمَلَكُوتِ الْأَعْلَى وَ قَدْ تَضَاعَفَ حُسْنُهُ وَ بَهَاؤُهُ

And Jibraeel^-as came over pondering, and said: ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Make me^-as to be from you^-asws all!’ He^-saww said: ‘You^-as are from us^-asws’. He^-as said: ‘Can I raise the cloak and enter (to be) with you^-asws all?’ He^-saww said: ‘Yes’. He^-as entered into the cloak, then exited and ascended to the sky towards the high kingdoms, and there had been a doubling of his^-as beauty and his^-as glory.

وَ قَالَتِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ قَدْ رَجَعْتَ بِجَمَالٍ خِلَافِ مَا ذَهَبْتَ بِهِ مِنْ عِنْدِنَا قَالَ فَكَيْفَ‏ لَا أَكُونُ كَذَلِكَ وَ قَدْ شُرِّفْتُ بِأَنْ جُعِلْتُ مِنْ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ قَالَتِ الْأَمْلَاكُ فِي مَلَكُوتِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْحُجُبِ وَ الْكُرْسِيِّ وَ الْعَرْشِ حَقٌّ لَكَ هَذَا الشَّرَفُ أَنْ تَكُونَ كَمَا قُلْتَ

And the (other) Angels said: ‘You^-as have returned different to what you^-as had gone with from our presence!’ He^-as said: ‘And how can I^-as not happen to the like that and I^-as have been ennobled with being made to be from the Progeny^-asws of Muhammad^-saww and the People^-asws of his^-saww Household?’ The Angels in the kingdoms of the skies, and the Veils, and the Chair said: ‘It is a right for you^-as, this nobility, that you^-as should become as you^-as saying’.

وَ كَانَ عَلِيٌّ ع مَعَهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ فِي الْحُرُوبِ وَ مِيكَائِيلُ عَنْ يَسَارِهِ وَ إِسْرَافِيلُ خَلْفَهُ وَ مَلَكُ الْمَوْتِ أَمَامَهُ

And Ali^-asws was such that Jibraeel^-as was with him^-asws on his^-asws right during the wars, and Mikaeel^-as on his^-asws left, and Israfeel^-as behind him^-asws, and the Angel of death in front of him^-asws.

وَ أَمَّا إِبْرَاءُ الْأَكْمَهِ وَ الْأَبْرَصِ وَ الْإِنْبَاءُ بِمَا يَأْكُلُونَ وَ مَا يَدَّخِرُونَ فِي بُيُوتِهِمْ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص لَمَّا كَانَ بِمَكَّةَ قَالُوا يَا مُحَمَّدُ رَبُّنَا هُبَلُ الَّذِي يَشْفِي مَرْضَانَا وَ يُنْقِذُ هَلْكَانَا وَ يُعَالِجُ جَرْحَانَا

And as for curing the blind and the leper, and the informing with what they had eaten and what they were hoarding in their houses, so when Rasool-Allah^-saww was in Makkah, they said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Our lord is ‘Hobal’ (name of an idol) who heals our sick one, and rescues our destroyed ones, and treats our wounded’.

قَالَ ص كَذَبْتُمْ مَا يَفْعَلُ هُبَلُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ شَيْئاً بَلِ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى يَفْعَلُ بِكُمْ مَا يَشَاءُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ

He^-saww said: ‘You are lying! Hobal didn’t do anything from that. But it is Allah^-azwj the Exalted Who Does with you all whatever He^-azwj so Desires to from that’.

قَالَ ع فَكَبُرَ هَذَا عَلَى مَرَدَتِهِمْ فَقَالُوا لَهُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ مَا أَخْوَفَنَا عَلَيْكَ مِنْ هُبَلَ أَنْ يُضِرَّ بِكَ بِاللَّقْوَةِ وَ الْفَالِجِ وَ الْجُذَامِ وَ الْعَمَى وَ ضُرُوبِ الْعَاهَاتِ لِدُعَائِكَ إِلَى خِلَافِهِ

He^-asws said: ‘This was grievous upon their renegades, and they said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! We fear upon you^-saww from (the wrath of) Hobal that he would hit you with the facial paralysis, and the stroke, and the leprosy, and the blindness, and the hits of disabilities for your^-saww calling to his opposition’.

قَالَ ص لَا يَقْدِرُ عَلَى شَيْ‏ءٍ مِمَّا ذَكَرْتُمُوهُ إِلَّا اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ قَالُوا يَا مُحَمَّدُ فَإِنْ كَانَ لَكَ رَبٌّ تَعْبُدُهُ وَ لَا رَبَّ سِوَاهُ فَاسْأَلْهُ أَنْ يُضِرَّ بِنَا بِهَذِهِ الْآفَاتِ الَّتِي ذَكَرْنَاهَا لَكَ‏ حَتَّى نَسْأَلَ نَحْنُ هُبَلَ أَنْ يُبْرِئَنَا مِنْهَا لِتَعْلَمَ أَنَّ هُبَلَ هُوَ شَرِيكُ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي إِلَيْهِ تُومِئُ وَ تُشِيرُ

He^-saww said: ‘He will never be able upon anything from what you are mentioning – only Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic (can do that)’. They said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! So if there was a Lord^-azwj for you^-saww that you^-saww worship, there being no (other) Lord^-azwj besides Him^-azwj, then ask Him^-azwj that He^-azwj should Strike us with these disabilities – which we are mentioning to you, until we ask Hobal that he cures us from these, in order for you^-saww to know that Hobal, he is an associate of your^-saww Lord^-azwj whom you^-saww are indicating and gesturing towards’.

فَجَاءَ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع فَقَالَ ادْعُ أَنْتَ عَلَى بَعْضِهِمْ وَ لْيَدْعُ عَلِيٌّ عَلَى بَعْضٍ فَدَعَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَلَى عِشْرِينَ مِنْهُمْ وَ دَعَا عَلِيٌّ عَلَى عَشَرَةٍ

Jibraeel^-as came and he^-as said: ‘You^-saww should supplicate against some of them and let Ali^-asws supplicate against some’. Rasool-Allah^-saww supplicated against twenty of them, and Ali^-asws supplicated against ten.

فَلَمْ يَرِيمُوا مَوَاضِعَهُمْ حَتَّى بَرِصُوا وَ جُذِمُوا وَ فَلِجُوا وَ لُقُوا وَ عَمُوا وَ انْفَصَلَتْ عَنْهُمُ الْأَيْدِي وَ الْأَرْجُلُ وَ لَمْ يَبْقَ فِي شَيْ‏ءٍ مِنْ أَبْدَانِهِمْ عُضْوٌ صَحِيحٌ إِلَّا أَلْسِنَتُهُمْ وَ آذَانُهُمْ فَلَمَّا أَصَابَهُمْ ذَلِكَ صِيرَ بِهِمْ إِلَى هُبَلَ وَ دَعَوْهُ لِيَشْفِيَهُمْ وَ قَالُوا دَعَا عَلَى هَؤُلَاءِ مُحَمَّدٌ وَ عَلِيٌّ فَفُعِلَ بِهِمْ مَا تَرَى فَاشْفِهِمْ

They had not budged from their places – until they (were struck by) vitiligo, and leprosy, and stroke, and facial paralysis, and blindness, and the joints of their hands and legs disjointed from them, and there did not remain any healthy part from their bodies – except for their tongues and their ears. When that hit them, they (their relatives) came with them to Hobal and supplicated to him to heal them, and they said, ‘Muhammad^-saww and Ali^-asws supplicated against them, and did with them what you can see, therefore heal them’.

فَنَادَاهُمْ هُبَلُ يَا أَعْدَاءَ اللَّهِ وَ أَيُّ قُدْرَةٍ لِي عَلَى شَيْ‏ءٍ مِنَ الْأَشْيَاءِ وَ الَّذِي بَعَثَهُ إِلَى الْخَلْقِ أَجْمَعِينَ وَ جَعَلَهُ أَفْضَلَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ لَوْ دَعَا عَلَيَّ لَتَهَافَتَتْ‏ أَعْضَائِي وَ تَفَاصَلَتْ أَجْزَائِي وَ احْتَمَلَتْنِي الرِّيَاحُ تَذْرُونِي حَتَّى لَا يُرَى لِشَيْ‏ءٍ مِنِّي عَيْنٌ وَ لَا أَثَرٌ يَفْعَلُ اللَّهُ ذَلِكَ بِي حَتَّى يَكُونَ أَكْبَرُ جُزْءٍ مِنِّي دُونَ عُشْرِ عَشِيرِ خَرْدَلَةٍ

Hobal called out to them, ‘O enemies of Allah^-azwj! And which power is there for me upon anything from the things? By the One^-azwj Who Sent him^-saww to the creatures altogether, and Made him^-saww as the most superior of the Prophets^-as and the Mursils^-as! Had they^-asws supplicated against me, my organs would become incoherent and my limbs disjointed, and the winds would carry me off scatter me as particles – until nothing from me would be seen by an eye, nor any traces. Allah^-azwj would Do that with me to the extent that a large part of me would be less than a tenth of a tenth of a mustard seed’.

فَلَمَّا سَمِعُوا ذَلِكَ مِنْ هُبَلَ ضَجُّوا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالُوا انْقَطَعَ الرَّجَاءُ عَمَّنْ سِوَاكَ فَأَغِثْنَا وَ ادْعُ اللَّهَ لِأَصْحَابِنَا فَإِنَّهُمْ لَا يَعُودُونَ إِلَى أَذَاكَ

When they (their relatives) heard that from Hobal, they raised a clamour to Rasool-Allah^-saww, and they said, ‘The hopes have been cut off from the ones besides you^-saww, therefore help us and supplicate to Allah^-azwj for our companions, for they would not be returning to hurt you^-saww’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص شِفَاؤُهُمْ يَأْتِيهِمْ مِنْ حَيْثُ أَتَاهُمْ‏ دَاؤُهُمْ عِشْرُونَ عَلَيَّ وَ عَشَرَةٌ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ فَجَاءُوا بِعِشْرِينَ أَقَامُوهُمْ‏ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ وَ بِعَشَرَةٍ أَقَامُوهُمْ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ عَلِيٍّ ع

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Their healing would come from where their diseases have come, twenty upon me^-saww and ten upon Ali^-asws’. They came with twenty and placed them in front of him^-saww, and with ten, and placed them in front of Ali^-asws.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِلْعِشْرِينَ غُضُّوا أَعْيُنَكُمْ وَ قُولُوا اللَّهُمَّ بِجَاهِ مَنْ بِجَاهِهِ ابْتَلَيْتَنَا فَعَافِنَا بِمُحَمَّدٍ وَ عَلِيٍّ وَ الطَّيِّبِينَ مِنْ آلِهِمَا وَ كَذَلِكَ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع لِلْعَشَرَةِ الَّذِينَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to the twenty: ‘Shut your eyes and say, ‘O Allah^-azwj! By the virtue of the one^-saww by whose virtue You^-azwj Afflicted us, so Restore our health by Muhammad^-saww and Ali^-asws and the goodly from their^-asws Progeny^-asws’. And Ali^-asws said similar to that to the ten who were in front of him^-asws.

فَقَالُوهَا فَقَامُوا كَأَنَّمَا نَشِطُوا مِنْ عِقَالٍ مَا بِأَحَدٍ مِنْهُمْ نَكْبَةٌ وَ هُوَ أَصَحُّ مِمَّا كَانَ قَبْلَ أَنْ أُصِيبَ بِمَا أُصِيبَ فَآمَنَ الثَّلَاثُونَ وَ بَعْضُ أَهْلِيهِمْ وَ غَلَبَ الشَّقَاءُ عَلَى أَكْثَرِ الْبَاقِينَ

They said it, and they stood up as if they had been refreshed from hobbling. There wasn’t with any one of them any catastrophe and he was healthier than what he had been before he was hit with what he had been hit with. Thirty of them expressed belief along with some of their families, and the wretchedness overcame upon most of the remaining ones.

وَ أَمَّا الْإِنْبَاءُ بِمَا يَأْكُلُونَ‏ وَ مَا يَدَّخِرُونَ فِي بُيُوتِهِمْ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص لَمَّا بَرَءُوا قَالَ‏ لَهُمْ آمِنُوا فَقَالُوا آمَنَّا فَقَالَ أَ لَا أَزِيدُكُمْ بَصِيرَةً قَالُوا بَلَى

And as for the informing with that they had eaten and what they had been hoarding in their houses, so Rasool-Allah^-azwj, when he^-saww had cured them, said to them: ‘Believe!’ They said, ‘We believe’. He^-saww said: ‘Shall I^-saww increase you all with insight?’ They said, ‘Yes’.

قَالَ أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِمَا تَغَدَّى‏ بِهِ هَؤُلَاءِ وَ تَدَاوَوْا تَغَدَّى فُلَانٌ بِكَذَا وَ تَدَاوَى فُلَانٌ بِكَذَا وَ بَقِيَ عِنْدَهُ كَذَا حَتَّى ذَكَرَهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا مَلَائِكَةَ رَبِّي أَحْضِرُونِي بَقَايَا غَدَائِهِمْ وَ دَوَائِهِمْ عَلَى أَطْبَاقِهِمْ وَ سُفَرِهِمْ‏

He^-saww said: ‘I^-saww shall inform you of what food they have partaken of and what medication.’ They said, ‘Say (it), O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’ He^-saww said: ‘So and so ate such and such, and took such and such medication, and there remains in his presence such and such’ – until he^-saww had mentioned them in their entirety. Then he^-saww said: ‘O Angels of my^-saww Lord^-azwj! – present to me with the remainder of their meals and their medications, upon their dishes and their table-spreads!’

فَأَحْضَرَتِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ ذَلِكَ وَ أَنْزَلَتْ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ بَقَايَا طَعَامِ أُولَئِكَ وَ دَوَائِهِمْ فَقَالُوا هَذِهِ الْبَقَايَا مِنَ الْمَأْكُولِ كَذَا وَ الْمُدَاوَى بِهِ كَذَا

The Angels presented that, and descended from the sky (with) the remainder of their meals and their medications, and they said, ‘These are the leftovers from the meals of such and such, and so and so medicated with such and such’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا أَيُّهَا الطَّعَامُ أَخْبِرْنَا كَمْ أُكِلَ مِنْكَ فَقَالَ الطَّعَامُ أُكِلَ مِنِّي كَذَا وَ تُرِكَ مِنِّي كَذَا وَ هُوَ مَا تَرَوْنَ وَ قَالَ بَعْضُ ذَلِكَ الطَّعَامِ أَكَلَ صَاحِبِي هَذَا مِنِّي كَذَا وَ بَقِيَ مِنِّي كَذَا وَ جَاءَ بِهِ الْخَادِمُ فَأَكَلَ مِنِّي كَذَا وَ أَنَا الْبَاقِي

Then he^-saww said: ‘O the foodstuff! Inform us, how much has been eaten from you!’ So the (partaken) meals said, ‘Such and such was eaten from me, and such and such was left from me, and it is what you are seeing (at present)’. And some of that meal said, ‘This owner of mine ate such from me and there remains such from me, and the servant came with him and ate such from me, and I am the leftover’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَمَنْ أَنَا قَالَ الطَّعَامُ وَ الدَّوَاءُ أَنْتَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Who am I^-saww?’ The meal and the medication said, ‘You^-saww are Rasool-Allah^-saww!’.

فَمَنْ هَذَا يُشِيرُ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ ع فَقَالَ الطَّعَامُ وَ الدَّوَاءُ هَذَا أَخُوكَ سَيِّدُ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ الْآخِرِينَ وَ وَزِيرُكَ أَفْضَلُ الْوُزَرَاءِ وَ خَلِيفَتُكَ سَيِّدُ الْخُلَفَاءِ

He^-asws (Imam Hassan Al-Askari^-asws said) said: ‘Who is this? He^-saww indicated towards Ali^-asws, and the meal and the medication said, ‘This one is your^-saww brother^-asws, chief of the former ones and the latter ones, and your^-saww Vizier is the most superior of the Viziers, and your^-saww Caliph is the chief of the caliphs’’.[5]

6- م، تفسير الإمام عليه السلام قَالَ أَبُو يَعْقُوبَ‏ قُلْتُ لِلْإِمَامِ ع هَلْ كَانَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ لِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع آيَاتٌ تُضَاهِي آيَاتِ مُوسَى ع

Tafseer of the Imam (Hassan Al-Askari^-asws) – Abu Yaqoub (i.e. Yusuf Bin Muhammad, the one who reported this Tafseer along with Ibn Sayyar) said, ‘I said to the Imam (Hassan Al-Askari^-asws), ‘Were there Signs for Rasool-Allah^-saww and for Amir Al-Momineen^-asws – resembling the Signs of Musa^-as?’

فَقَالَ ع عَلِيٌّ نَفْسُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ آيَاتُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ آيَاتُ عَلِيٍّ ع وَ آيَاتُ عَلِيٍّ آيَاتُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ مَا آيَةٌ أَعْطَاهَا اللَّهُ مُوسَى ع وَ لَا غَيْرَهُ مِنَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ إِلَّا وَ قَدْ أَعْطَى اللَّهُ مُحَمَّداً مِثْلَهَا أَوْ أَعْظَمَ مِنْهَا

The Imam^-asws said: ‘Ali^-asws is the self of Rasool-Allah^-saww, and the Signs of Rasool-Allah^-saww are the Signs of Ali^-asws, and the Signs of Ali^-asws are the Signs of Rasool-Allah^-saww. And there is none from a Sign which Allah^-azwj the Exalted Granted to Musa^-as nor to others from the Prophets^-as – except that Allah^-azwj Granted to Muhammad^-saww similar to it but greater than it.

أَمَّا الْعَصَا الَّتِي كَانَتْ لِمُوسَى ع فَانْقَلَبَتْ ثُعْبَاناً فَتَلَقَّفَتْ مَا أَلْقَتْهُ‏ السَّحَرَةُ مِنْ عِصِيِّهِمْ وَ حِبَالِهِمْ فَلَقَدْ كَانَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص أَفْضَلُ مِنْهَا وَ هُوَ أَنَّ قَوْماً مِنَ الْيَهُودِ أَتَوْا مُحَمَّداً ص فَسَأَلُوهُ وَ جَادَلُوهُ فَمَا أَتَوْهُ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ إِلَّا أَتَاهُمْ فِي جَوَابِهِ بِمَا بَهَرَهُمْ

And as for the staff which was for Musa^-as (which) turned into a serpent and it grabbed what the magician had come with, from their sticks and ropes – so, there was for Muhammad^-saww superior than that, and it is that a group from the Jews came to Muhammad^-saww, and they asked him^-saww and contended with him^-saww. They did not come with anything except that he^-saww gave them in its response with what dazzled them.

فَقَالُوا لَهُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنْ كُنْتَ نَبِيّاً فَأْتِنَا بِمِثْلِ عَصَا مُوسَى فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّ الَّذِي أَتَيْتُكُمْ بِهِ أَفْضَلُ‏ مِنْ عَصَا مُوسَى ع لِأَنَّهُ بَاقٍ بَعْدِي إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ مُتَعَرِّضٌ‏ لِجَمِيعِ الْأَعْدَاءِ الْمُخَالِفِينَ‏ لَا يَقْدِرُ أَحَدٌ عَلَى مُعَارَضَةِ سُورَةٍ مِنْهُ وَ إِنَّ عَصَا مُوسَى زَالَتْ وَ لَمْ تَبْقَ بَعْدَهُ فَتُمْتَحَنَ كَمَا يَبْقَى الْقُرْآنُ فَيُمْتَحَنُ

They said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! If you^-saww were a Prophet^-saww, you^-saww would have come to us with the like of the staff of Musa^-as’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘That which I^-saww come to you with, is greater than the staff of Musa^-as, because it would remain after me^-saww up to the Day of Qiyamah, exhibited to the entirety of the enemies and the adversaries. Not one of them would be able to ever oppose a Chapter from it, and that the staff of Musa^-as has gone and did not remain after him^-as so it could be tested just as the Quran will remain, so it can be tested’.

ثُمَّ إِنِّي سَآتِيكُمْ بِمَا هُوَ أَعْظَمُ مِنْ عَصَا مُوسَى وَ أَعْجَبُ فَقَالُوا فَأْتِنَا

Then I^-saww shall be coming to you all with what is greater than the staff of Musa^-as and more wondrous’. They said, ‘Bring it to us’.

فَقَالَ إِنَّ مُوسَى ع كَانَتْ عَصَاهُ بِيَدِهِ يُلْقِيهَا وَ كَانَتِ الْقِبْطُ يَقُولُ كَافِرُهُمْ هَذَا يَحْتَالُ فِي الْعَصَا بِحِيلَةٍ وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ سَوْفَ يُقَلِّبُ خَشَباً لِمُحَمَّدٍ ثَعَابِينَ بِحَيْثُ لَا يَمَسُّهَا يَدُ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ لَا يَحْضُرُهَا

He^-asws said: ‘Musa^-as was such that he^-as kept his^-as staff in his^-as hand, to cast it, and the Coptic’s have been saying to their Kafirs, ‘This Musa^-as is defrauding regarding the staff by trickery’; and Allah^-azwj would soon be Transforming wood into serpents, for Muhammad^-saww – by where neither the hand of Muhammad^-saww would have touched it nor would it be in his^-saww presence.

إِذَا رَجَعْتُمْ إِلَى بُيُوتِكُمْ وَ اجْتَمَعْتُمْ اللَّيْلَةَ فِي مَجْمَعِكُمْ فِي ذَلِكَ الْبَيْتِ قَلَّبَ اللَّهُ جُذُوعَ سُقُوفِكُمْ كُلَّهَا أَفَاعِيَ وَ هِيَ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ مِائَةِ جِذْعٍ فَتَتَصَدَّعُ مَرَارَاتُ‏ أَرْبَعَةٍ مِنْكُمْ فَيَمُوتُونَ وَ يُغْشَى عَلَى الْبَاقِينَ مِنْكُمْ إِلَى غَدَاةِ غَدٍ

When you return to your houses – and gather in your gathering at night – in that house, Allah^-azwj the Exalted would Convert the rafters of your ceilings, all of them into snakes, and these are more than one hundred rafters. Four of you would be breaking (their bones) and would be dying, and there would be unconsciousness upon the remaining ones of you up to the next morning.

فَيَأْتِيكُمْ يَهُودُ فَتُخْبِرُونَهُمْ بِمَا رَأَيْتُمْ فَلَا يُصَدِّقُونَكُمْ فَتَعُودُ بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَ يَمْلَأُ أَعْيُنَهُمْ ثَعَابِينُ كَمَا كَانَتْ فِي بَارِحَتِكُمْ فَيَمُوتُ مِنْهُمْ جَمَاعَةٌ وَ تُخْبَلُ جَمَاعَةٌ وَ يَغُشَى عَلَى أَكْثَرِهِمْ

The Jews would come to you and you would be informing them with what you had seen. But they would not ratify you. They would repeat (converted again into snakes), and their eyes would be filled with serpents – just as they were in the day before, and a group of them would be dying, and a group would become insane, and there would be unconsciousness upon most of them’.

قَالَ فَوَ الَّذِي بَعَثَهُ بِالْحَقِّ نَبِيّاً لَقَدْ ضَحِكَ الْقَوْمُ كُلُّهُمْ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص لَا يَحْتَشِمُونَهُ وَ لَا يَهَابُونَهُ وَ يَقُولُ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ انْظُرُوا مَا ادَّعَى وَ كَيْفَ عَدَا طَوْرَهُ‏

The (Imam Hassan Al-Askari^-asws) said: ‘By the One^-azwj Whom Sent him^-saww with the Truth as a Prophet^-saww – the people had laughed, all of them, in front of Rasool-Allah^-saww, neither respecting him^-saww nor afraid of him^-saww. They were saying to each other, ‘Look at what he^-saww is claiming and how he^-saww has exceeded his^-saww limits!’

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنْ كُنْتُمْ الْآنَ تَضْحَكُونَ فَسَوْفَ تَبْكُونَ وَ تَتَحَيَّرُونَ إِذَا شَاهَدْتُمْ مَا عَنْهُ تُخْبَرُونَ أَلَا فَمَنْ هَالَهُ ذَلِكَ مِنْكُمْ وَ خَشِيَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ أَنْ يَمُوتَ أَوْ يُخْبَلَ فَلْيَقُلْ اللَّهُمَّ بِجَاهِ مُحَمَّدٍ الَّذِي اصْطَفَيْتَهُ وَ عَلِيٍّ الَّذِي ارْتَضَيْتَهُ وَ أَوْلِيَائِهِمَا الَّذِينَ مَنْ سَلَّمَ لَهُمْ أَمْرَهُمْ اجْتَبَيْتَهُ لَمَّا قَوَّيْتَنِي عَلَى مَا أَرَى

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘If you are all laughing now, then soon you would all be crying, and be confused, when you witness what I^-saww am informing about. Indeed! The one from you whom that appals, and he fears upon himself that he might be dying or he would become insane, so let him say, ‘O Allah^-azwj! By the virtue of Muhammad^-saww whom You^-azwj Chose, and Ali^-asws whom You^-azwj are Pleased with, and their^-asws friends, those who submitted to their affairs to them^-asws to be in charge of, Strengthen me upon what I see!’

وَ إِنْ كَانَ مَنْ يَمُوتُ هُنَاكَ مِمَّنْ يُحِبُّهُ‏ وَ يُرِيدُ حَيَاتَهُ فَلْيَدْعُ لَهُ بِهَذَا الدُّعَاءِ يَنْشُرُهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى وَ يُقَوِّيهِ

And if it was such that the one who dies from over there, from the ones who are living, and you want to be revived, so let him supplicate with this supplication, (and) Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic would Resurrect him and Strengthen him’.

قَالَ ع فَانْصَرَفُوا وَ اجْتَمَعُوا فِي ذَلِكَ الْمَوْضِعِ وَ جَعَلُوا يَهْزَءُونَ بِمُحَمَّدٍ ص وَ قَوْلِهِ إِنَّ تِلْكَ الْجُذُوعَ تَنْقَلِبُ أَفَاعِيَ

He^-asws said: ‘They left, and they gathered in that place, and went on mocking Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww words that those rafters would be transformed into serpents.

فَسَمِعُوا حَرَكَةً مِنَ السَّقْفِ فَإِذَا بِتِلْكَ الْجُذُوعِ انْقَلَبَتْ‏ أَفَاعِيَ وَ قَدْ لَوَّتْ‏ رُءُوسَهَا عَنِ الْحَائِطِ وَ قَصَدَتْ نَحْوَهُمْ تَلْتَقِمُهُمْ‏ فَلَمَّا وَصَلَتْ إِلَيْهِمْ كَفَّتْ عَنْهُمْ وَ عَدَلَتْ إِلَى مَا فِي الدَّارِ مِنْ حُبَابٍ وَ جِرَارٍ وَ كِيزَانٍ‏ وَ صَلَايَاتٍ وَ كَرَاسِيَّ وَ خَشَبٍ وَ سَلَالِيمَ‏ وَ أَبْوَابٍ فَالْتَقَمَتْهَا وَ أَكَلَتْهَا

They heard movement from the ceiling, and those rafters had converted into serpent, and their heads were sliding from the walls and aiming towards them to devour them. When they arrived at them, they paused from them and (instead) diverted towards whatever was in the house, from the jars, and the pots, and the pans, and (other) chattels, and chairs, and wood, and their rungs of the ladders, and the doors – so they (started) biting these and devouring these.

فَأَصَابَهُمْ مَا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ع إِنَّهُ يُصِيبُهُمْ فَمَاتَ‏ مِنْهُمْ أَرْبَعَةٌ وَ خَبِلَ جَمَاعَةٌ وَ جَمَاعَةٌ خَافُوا عَلَى أَنْفُسِهِمْ فَدَعَوْا بِمَا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَقَوِيَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ

And it hit them what Rasool-Allah^-saww had said would be hitting them, and four of them died, and a group went mad, and a group feared upon themselves and they supplicated with what Rasool-Allah^-saww said (they should), and their hearts were strengthened.

وَ كَانَتِ الْأَرْبَعَةُ أَتَى بَعْضُهُمْ فَدَعَا لَهُمْ بِهَذَا الدُّعَاءِ فَنُشِرُوا فَلَمَّا رَأَوْا ذَلِكَ قَالُوا إِنَّ هَذَا الدُّعَاءَ مُجَابٌ بِهِ وَ إِنَّ مُحَمَّداً صَادِقٌ وَ إِنْ كَانَ يَثْقُلُ عَلَيْنَا تَصْدِيقُهُ‏ أَ فَلَا نَدْعُو بِهِ لِتَلِينَ لِلْإِيمَانِ بِهِ وَ التَّصْدِيقِ لَهُ وَ الطَّاعَةِ لِأَوَامِرِهِ وَ زَوَاجِرِهِ قُلُوبُنَا

And the four (who had died), one of them came and supplicated for them with this supplication, and they were Resurrected. When they saw that, they said, ‘This is a supplication which gets Answered with, and that Muhammad^-saww is truthful, and it was heavy upon us to ratify him^-saww and follow him^-saww. Why don’t we supplicate with it to soften our hearts for the Eman with him^-saww, and the ratification for him^-saww, and the obedience to his^-saww orders and his^-saww prohibitions?’

فَدَعَوْا بِذَلِكَ الدُّعَاءِ فَحَبَّبَ اللَّهُ‏ تَعَالَى إِلَيْهِمُ الْإِيمَانَ وَ طَيَّبَهُ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ وَ كَرَّهَ إِلَيْهِمُ الْكُفْرَ فَآمَنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ

They supplication with that supplication. Allah^-azwj the Exalted Caused the Eman to be endeared to them and Make it to be good in their hearts and the Kufr was abhorrent to them. They believed in Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww.

فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحُوا مِنْ غَدٍ جَاءَتِ الْيَهُودُ وَ قَدْ عَادَتِ الْجُذُوعُ ثَعَابِينَ كَمَا كَانَتْ فَشَاهَدُوهَا وَ تَحَيَّرُوا وَ مَاتَ مِنْهُمْ جَمَاعَةٌ وَ غَلَبَ الشَّقَاءُ عَلَى الْآخَرِينَ‏

When it was the next morning, the Jews came, and the serpents had returned to just as they had been (rafters). They saw it and were dumbfounded, and a group from them died and the wretchedness overcame upon the others.

وَ قَالَ وَ أَمَّا الْيَدُ فَلَقَدْ كَانَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص مِثْلُهَا وَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْهَا وَ أَكْثَرُ مِنْهَا أَلْفَ مَرَّةٍ كَانَ ص يُحِبُّ أَنْ يَأْتِيَهُ الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ ع وَ كَانَا يَكُونَانِ عِنْدَ أَهْلِهِمَا أَوْ مَوَالِيهِمَا أَوْ دَايَتِهِمَا وَ كَانَ يَكُونُ فِي ظُلْمَةِ اللَّيْلِ فَيُنَادِيهِمَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا بَا مُحَمَّدٍ يَا بَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ هَلُمَّا إِلَيَّ

He^-asws said: ‘And as for the hand (of Musa^-as shining brightly), so there has been for Muhammad^-saww, the like of it – and superior than it, and a thousand more times than it. It was so that he^-saww used to love it that Al-Hassan^-asws and Al-Husayn^-asws should come to him^-saww, and they^-asws both would happen to be with their^-asws family, or their^-asws friends, or their^-asws feeders, and it used to be the darkness of the night. So Rasool-Allah^-saww would call them^-asws: ‘O Abu Muhammad^-asws! O Abu Abdullah^-asws! Come to me^-saww!’

فَيُقْبِلَانِ نَحْوَهُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الْبُعْدِ قَدْ بَلَغَهُمَا صَوْتُهُ فَيَقُولُ‏ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِسَبَّابَتِهِ هَكَذَا يُخْرِجُهَا مِنَ الْبَابِ فَتُضِي‏ءُ لَهُمَا أَحْسَنَ مِنْ ضَوْءِ الْقَمَرِ وَ الشَّمْسِ فَيَأْتِيَانِ فَتَعُودُ الْإِصْبَعُ كَمَا كَانَتْ فَإِذَا قَضَى وَطَرَهُ‏ مِنْ لِقَائِهِمَا وَ حَدِيثِهِمَا قَالَ ارْجِعَا إِلَى مَوْضِعِكُمَا

They^-asws would both face towards him^-saww from that distance and his^-saww voice would reach them^-asws. Rasool-Allah^-saww would be saying (gesturing) with his^-saww index finger – like this – ‘They^-asws would be coming out from the door’. And there would be illuminated for them^-asws better than the illumination of the moon and the sun, and they^-asws would both come. Then he^-saww would return his^-saww finger to what it had been. When he^-saww would finish his^-saww purpose from meeting them^-asws and discussing with them^-asws, he^-saww would say: ‘Return to your^-asws places’.

فَقَالَ‏ بَعْدُ بِسَبَّابَتِهِ هَكَذَا فَأَضَاءَتْ أَحْسَنَ مِنْ ضِيَاءِ الْقَمَرِ وَ الشَّمْسِ قَدْ أَحَاطَ بِهِمَا إِلَى أَنْ يَرْجِعَا إِلَى مَوْضِعِهِمَا ثُمَّ تَعُودُ إِصْبَعُهُ ص كَمَا كَانَتْ مِنْ لَوْنِهَا فِي سَائِرِ الْأَوْقَاتِ

And he^-saww would say (gesture) afterwards with his^-saww index finger like this, and there would be illumination better than the illumination of the moon and the sun, which would surround them^-asws until they^-asws would return to their^-asws places. Then his^-saww finger would return to what it had been, from its colour during the rest of the times.

وَ أَمَّا الطُّوفَانُ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَلَى الْقِبْطِ فَقَدْ أَرْسَلَ اللَّهُ مِثْلَهُ عَلَى قَوْمٍ مُشْرِكِينَ آيَةً لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص

He^-asws said: ‘And as for the flood Allah^-azwj the Exalted Sent upon the Coptics, Allah^-azwj the Exalted has Sent the like of it upon a group of polytheists, as a Sign for Muhammad^-saww.

فَقَالَ إِنَّ رَجُلًا مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص يُقَالُ لَهُ ثَابِتُ بْنُ الْأَفْلَحِ‏ قَتَلَ رَجُلًا مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ فِي بَعْضِ الْمَغَازِي فَنَذَرَتْ امْرَأَةُ ذَلِكَ الْمُشْرِكِ الْمَقْتُولِ لَتَشْرَبَنَّ فِي قِحْفِ رَأْسِ ذَلِكَ الْقَاتِلِ الْخَمْرَ

He^-asws said: ‘A man from the companions of Rasool-Allah^-saww called Sabit Bin Al-Aflaj killed a man from the polytheists during one of the military expeditions. The wife of the killed polytheist vowed, ‘I shall drink wine in the skull of the head of that killer’.

فَلَمَّا وَقَعَ بِالْمُسْلِمِينَ يَوْمَ أُحُدٍ مَا وَقَعَ قُتِلَ ثَابِتٌ هَذَا عَلَى رَبْوَةٍ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ فَانْصَرَفَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ وَ اشْتَغَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَصْحَابُهُ‏

When it transpired with the Muslims on the Day of (battle of) Ohad what transpired – Sabit was killed upon a hillock from the ground. The polytheists left and Rasool-Allah^-saww and his^-saww companions were busy burying his^-saww (killed) companions.

بِدَفْنِ أَصْحَابِهِ فَجَاءَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ إِلَى أَبِي سُفْيَانَ تَسْأَلُهُ أَنْ يَبْعَثَ رَجُلًا مَعَ عَبْدٍ لَهَا إِلَى مَكَانِ ذَلِكَ الْمَقْتُولِ لِيَجْتَزَّ رَأْسَهُ فَيُؤْتَى بِهِ لِتَفِيَ بِنَذْرِهَا فَتَشْرَبَ فِي قِحْفِهِ خَمْراً وَ قَدْ كَانَتِ الْبِشَارَةُ أَتَتْهَا بِقَتْلِهِ أَتَاهَا بِهَا عَبْدٌ لَهَا فَأَعْتَقَتْهُ وَ أَعْطَتْهُ جَارِيَةً لَهَا

The wife (of the killed polytheist) came over to Abu Sufyan asking him to send a man with a servant of hers to that place of the killed one (Sabit), so he could cut off his head and shave it and come with it in order for her to fulfil her vow, and she can drink wine from his skull. And the good news of his killing had come to her by a slave of hers, so she freed him and gave him a maid of hers.

ثُمَّ سَأَلَتْ أَبَا سُفْيَانَ فَبَعَثَ إِلَى ذَلِكَ الْمَقْتُولِ مِائَتَيْنِ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ‏ الْجَلْدِ فِي جَوْفِ اللَّيْلِ لِيَجْتَزُّوا رَأْسَهُ فَيَأْتُوهَا بِهِ فَذَهَبُوا فَجَاءَتْ رِيحٌ فَدَحْرَجَتِ الرَّجُلَ إِلَى حَدُورٍ فَتَبِعُوهُ لِيَقْطَعُوا رَأْسَهُ

Then she asked Abu Sufyan to send to that killed one (Sabit), two hundred from his strong companions in the middle of the night in order to cut off his head and come with it. They went and there came a wind, and the (body of the) man (Sabit) rolled over to below, and they pursued it to cut off his head.

فَجَاءَ مِنَ الْمَطَرِ وَابِلٌ عَظِيمٌ فَغَرَّقَ الْمِائَتَيْنِ وَ لَمْ يُوقَفْ لِذَلِكَ الْمَقْتُولِ وَ لَا لِوَاحِدٍ مِنَ الْمِائَتَيْنِ عَلَى عَيْنٍ وَ لَا أَثَرٍ وَ مَنَعَ اللَّهُ الْكَافِرَةَ مِمَّا أَرَادَتْ

There came from the rains a mighty torrent and two hundred were drowned, and neither the killed one nor any one of the two hundred could withstand that, neither a sign nor trace, and Allah^-azwj Prevented the Kafir woman from what she had intended.

فَهَذَا أَعْظَمُ مِنَ الطُّوفَانِ آيَةً لَهُ ص

Thus, this is greater than the flood, as a sign for Muhammad^-saww.

وَ أَمَّا الْجَرَادُ الْمُرْسَلُ عَلَى بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فَقَدْ فَعَلَ اللَّهُ أَعْظَمَ وَ أَعْجَبَ مِنْهُ بِأَعْدَاءِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص فَإِنَّهُ أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ جَرَاداً أَكَلَهُمْ وَ لَمْ يَأْكُلْ جَرَادُ مُوسَى ع رِجَالَ الْقِبْطِ وَ لَكِنَّهُ أَكَلَ زُرُوعَهُمْ

And as for the locusts Sent upon the Children of Israel, so Allah^-azwj has Done a greater and more wondrous than it with the enemies of Muhammad^-saww, for He^-azwj Sent upon them locusts which ate them, and the locusts (at the time of) Musa^-as did not eat the Coptic men, but they ate their plantations.

وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص كَانَ فِي بَعْضِ أَسْفَارِهِ إِلَى الشَّامِ وَ قَدْ تَبِعَهُ مِائَتَانِ مِنْ يَهُودِهَا فِي خُرُوجِهِ عَنْهَا وَ إِقْبَالِهِ نَحْوَ مَكَّةَ يُرِيدُونَ قَتْلَهُ مَخَافَةَ أَنْ يُزِيلَ اللَّهُ دَوْلَةَ الْيَهُودِ عَلَى يَدِهِ فَرَامُوا قَتْلَهُ وَ كَانَ فِي الْقَافِلَةِ فَلَمْ يَجْسُرُوا عَلَيْهِ

And that is, that Rasool-Allah^-azwj was in one of his^-saww journeys to Syria, and there had pursued him^-as, two hundred from the Jews during his^-saww exit from it, and faced him^-saww around Makkah intending to kill him^-saww, fearing that Allah^-azwj might Cause the decline government of the Jews at his^-saww hands. They wished to kill him^-saww, and he^-saww was among a caravan, so they could not be audacious enough upon (killing) him^-saww.

وَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِذَا أَرَادَ حَاجَةً أَبْعَدَ وَ اسْتَتَرَ بِأَشْجَارٍ تَكْنِفُهُ‏ أَوْ بَرِّيَّةٍ بَعِيدَةٍ فَخَرَجَ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ لِحَاجَتِهِ فَأَبْعَدَ وَ تَبِعُوهُ وَ أَحَاطُوا بِهِ وَ سَلُّوا سُيُوفَهُمْ عَلَيْهِ فَأَثَارَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ وَ عَلَا مِنْ تَحْتِ رِجْلِ مُحَمَّدٍ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الرَّمْلِ جَرَاداً فَاحْتَوَشَتْهُمْ وَ جَعَلَتْ تَأْكُلُهُمْ فَاشْتَغَلُوا بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ عَنْهُ

And it was so that whenever Rasool-Allah^-saww wanted a need, he^-saww would go afar – and would veil by the fold of the trees, or by ruins far off. One day he^-saww out for his^-saww need, and went afar, and they pursued him^-saww and surrounded him^-saww, and they unsheathed their swords upon him^-saww. But, Allah^-azwj the Exalted Triggered locusts (to emerge) from that sand, so they swarmed them and went on to eat them, and they became too preoccupied with it.

فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنْ حَاجَتِهِ وَ هُمْ يَأْكُلُهُمُ الْجَرَادُ وَ رَجَعَ إِلَى أَهْلِ الْقَافِلَةِ فَقَالُوا لَهُ مَا بَالُ الْجَمَاعَةِ خَرَجُوا خَلْفَكَ لَمْ يَرْجِعْ مِنْهُمْ أَحَدٌ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص جَاءُوا يَقْتُلُونَنِي فَسَلَّطَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمُ الْجَرَادَ فَجَاءُوا وَ نَظَرُوا إِلَيْهِمْ فَبَعْضُهُمْ قَدْ مَاتَ وَ بَعْضُهُمْ قَدْ كَادَ يَمُوتُ وَ الْجَرَادُ يَأْكُلُهُمْ فَمَا زَالُوا يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَيْهِمْ حَتَّى أَتَى الْجَرَادُ عَلَى أَعْيَانِهِمْ فَلَمْ تُبْقِ مِنْهُمْ شَيْئاً

When Rasool-Allah^-saww was free from his^-saww need, and they were being eaten by the locusts, he^-saww returned to the people of the caravan. They said to him^-saww, ‘What happened to the group which went out behind you^-saww and not one of them has returned?’ Rasool-Allah^-saww said ‘They came to kill me^-saww, but Allah^-azwj Caused the locusts to overcome them’. They came to look at them, and some of them had died, and some of them were almost dead and the locusts were still eating them. They did not cease to look at them until the locusts came upon their eyes, and there did not remain anything from them.

وَ أَمَّا الْقَمْلُ فَأَظْهَرَ اللَّهُ قُدْرَتَهُ عَلَى أَعْدَاءِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص بِالْقَمْلِ وَ قِصَّةُ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ‏ ص لَمَّا ظَهَرَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ أَمْرُهُ وَ عَلَا بِهَا شَأْنُهُ حَدَّثَ يَوْماً أَصْحَابَهُ عَنِ امْتِحَانِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لِلْأَنْبِيَاءِ وَ عَنْ صَبْرِهِمْ عَلَى الْأَذَى فِي طَاعَةِ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ فِي حَدِيثِهِ إِنَّ بَيْنَ الرُّكْنِ وَ الْمَقَامِ قُبُورَ سَبْعِينَ نَبِيّاً مَا مَاتُوا إِلَّا بِضُرِّ الْجُوعِ وَ الْقَمْلِ‏

And as for the lice – Rasool-Allah^-saww, when his^-saww matter appeared in Al-Medina, and his^-saww glory was lofty (widespread fame) due to it, one day his^-saww companions discussed about the Trials of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic of His^-azwj Prophets^-as, and about their^-as patience upon the harm in the obedience of Allah^-azwj. He^-saww said in his^-saww Hadeeth ‘In between Al-Rukn (corner of the Kabah) and Al-Maqam (standing place of Ibrahim^-as), there are graves of seventy Prophets^-as, who did not die except from the harm of hunger and lice.

فَسَمِعَ بِذَلِكَ بَعْضُ الْمُنَافِقِينَ مِنَ الْيَهُودِ وَ بَعْضُ مَرَدَةِ قُرَيْشٍ فَتَآمَرُوا بَيْنَهُمْ لَيُلْحِقُنَّ مُحَمَّداً بِهِمْ فَيَقْتُلُوهُ‏ بِسُيُوفِهِمْ حَتَّى لَا يَكْذِبَ فَتَآمَرُوا بَيْنَهُمْ وَ هُمْ مِائَتَانِ عَلَى الْإِحَاطَةِ بِهِ يَوْماً يَجِدُونَهُ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ خَارِجاً

Some of that was heard by some of the hypocrites and some of the renegade Qureysh, and they colluded between them and agreed that they would gang up on Muhammad^-saww and kill him^-saww with their swords until he^-saww would not lie (any more). They colluded between them, and they were two hundred who had surrounded him^-saww – on a day they found him^-saww to be going out (alone) from Al-Medina.

فَخَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَوْماً خَالِياً فَتَبِعَهُ الْقَوْمُ وَ نَظَرَ أَحَدُهُمْ إِلَى ثِيَابِ نَفْسِهِ وَ فِيهَا قَمْلٌ ثُمَّ جَعَلَ بَدَنَهُ وَ ظَهْرَهُ يَحُكُّهُ مِنَ الْقَمْلِ فَأَنِفَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ وَ اسْتَحْيَا فَانْسَلَّ عَنْهُمْ‏ وَ أَبْصَرَ آخَرُ ذَلِكَ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ وَ فِيهَا قَمْلٌ مِثْلُ ذَلِكَ فَانْسَلَّ فَمَا زَالَ كَذَلِكَ حَتَّى وَجَدَ ذَلِكَ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ فَرَجَعُوا

Rasool-Allah^-saww went out alone one day, and the group pursued him^-saww. But, one of them looked inside his own clothes and therein were lice (bugs). Then he went on scratching his body and his back from the lice, and his companions turned away from him, and he was embarrassed, so he slowly moved away from them, Then another one saw that from himself, and he moved away, and it did not cease to be like that until each one of them found that within himself, and they (all returned).

ثُمَّ زَادَ ذَلِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَتَّى اسْتَوْلَى عَلَيْهِمُ الْقَمْلُ وَ انْطَبَقَتْ حُلُوقُهُمْ‏ فَلَمْ يَدْخُلْ فِيهَا طَعَامٌ وَ لَا شَرَابٌ فَمَاتُوا كُلُّهُمْ فِي شَهْرَيْنِ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ مَاتَ فِي خَمْسَةِ أَيَّامٍ وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ مَاتَ فِي عَشَرَةِ أَيَّامٍ وَ أَقَلَّ وَ أَكْثَرَ فَلَمْ يَزِدْ عَلَى شَهْرَيْنِ حَتَّى مَاتُوا بِأَجْمَعِهِمْ بِذَلِكَ الْقَمْلِ وَ الْجُوعِ وَ الْعَطَشِ

Then, that increased upon them until the lice were possessive upon them, and went into their throats, so neither could food enter it nor any drink. So they died, all of them, within two months – from them was one who died in five days, and from them was one who died in ten days, and less, and more, and it did not increased upon two months until they died in their entirety – due to those lice, and the hunger and the thirst.

فَهَذَا الْقَمْلُ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَلَى أَعْدَاءِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص آيَةً لَهُ

These lice which Allah^-azwj Sent upon the enemies of Muhammad^-saww, is a Sign for him^-saww.

وَ أَمَّا الضَّفَادِعُ فَقَدْ أَرْسَلَ اللَّهُ مِثْلَهَا عَلَى أَعْدَاءِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص حِينَ قَصَدُوا قَتْلَهُ فَأَهْلَكَهُمْ بِالْجُرَذِ وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ مِائَتَيْنِ بَعْضُهُمْ كُفَّارُ الْعَرَبِ وَ بَعْضُهُمْ يَهُودُ وَ بَعْضُهُمْ أَخْلَاطٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ اجْتَمَعُوا بِمَكَّةَ فِي أَيَّامِ الْمَوْسِمِ وَ هَمُّوا فِيمَا بَيْنَهُمْ لَنَقْتُلَنَّ مُحَمَّداً

And as for the frogs, so Allah^-azwj had Send the like of it upon the enemies of Muhammad^-saww due to their having aimed at killing him^-saww. Allah^-azwj Destroyed them with the rats, and that is when two hundred – some of them being the Arab Kafirs, and some of them being Jews, and some of them a mixture of the people – gathered at Makkah during the days of the season (Hajj), and they planned themselves upon killing Muhammad^-saww.

فَخَرَجُوا نَحْوَ الْمَدِينَةِ فَبَلَغُوا بَعْضَ تِلْكَ الْمَنَازِلِ وَ إِذَا هُنَاكَ مَاءٌ فِي بِرْكَةٍ أَطْيَبُ مِنْ مَائِهِمُ الَّذِي كَانَ مَعَهُمْ فَصَبُّوا مَا كَانَ مَعَهُمْ مِنْهُ وَ مَلَئُوا رَوَايَاهُمْ وَ مَزَاوِدَهُمْ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الْمَاءِ وَ ارْتَحَلُوا فَبَلَغُوا أَرْضاً ذَاتَ جُرَذٍ كَثِيرٍ فَحَطُّوا رَوَاحِلَهُمْ عِنْدَهَا فَسُلِّطَتْ عَلَى مَزَاوِدِهِمْ وَ رَوَايَاهُمْ وَ سَطَائِحِهِمُ الْجُرَذُ وَ خَرَقَتْهَا وَ نَقَبَتْهَا وَ سَالَ مِيَاهُهَا فِي تِلْكَ الْحَرَّةِ فَلَمْ يَشْعُرُوا إِلَّا وَ قَدْ عَطِشُوا وَ لَا مَاءَ مَعَهُمْ ‏

They went out around Al-Medina, and they reach those dwellings and over there was some water in a pond or a basin better than the water which was with them. They poured out whatever was with them and they filled their water-skins and the container from that water, and they departed, and they reached a land which had a lot of rats. These (rats) surrounded their rides at it and the rats overcame upon their containers and their water skins and their bags and scratched them and pierced them, and that its waters flowed out freely. But they remained unaware, until they were thirsty, and (found that) there was no water with them.

فَرَجَعُوا الْقَهْقَرَى إِلَى تِلْكَ الْبِرْكَةِ الَّتِي كَانُوا تَزَوَّدُوا مِنْهَا تِلْكَ الْمِيَاهَ وَ إِذَا الْجُرَذُ قَدْ سَبَقَهُمْ إِلَيْهَا فَنَقَبَتْ أَفْوَاهَهَا وَ سَالَتْ‏ فِي الْحَرَّةِ مِيَاهُهَا

They returned to those water basins – which they had provided water from, and (they found that) the rats had preceded them to these, and they had pierced its bases and the water had flowed into the desert.

فَوَقَفُوا آيِسِينَ مِنَ الْمَاءِ وَ تَمَاوَتُوا وَ لَمْ يُفْلِتْ مِنْهُمْ أَحَدٌ إِلَّا وَاحِدٌ كَانَ لَا يَزَالُ يَكْتُبُ عَلَى لِسَانِهِ مُحَمَّداً وَ عَلَى بَطْنِهِ مُحَمَّداً وَ يَقُولُ يَا رَبَّ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ قَدْ تُبْتُ مِنْ أَذَى مُحَمَّدٍ فَفَرِّجْ عَنِّي بِجَاهِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ

They paused in despair from the water and they died, and none could return except for one – it was so that he had not ceased writing (speaking) ‘Muhammad^-saww’ upon his tongue, and had written ‘Muhammad’ upon his belly, and he was saying, ‘O Lord^-azwj of Muhammad^-saww and the Progeny^-asws of Muhammad^-saww! I have repented from hurting Muhammad^-saww, therefore Relieve from me, by the virtue of Muhammad^-saww and the Progeny^-asws of Muhammad^-saww!’

فَسَلِمَ وَ كَفَ‏ عَنْهُ الْعَطَشُ فَوَرَدَتْ عَلَيْهِ قَافِلَةٌ فَسَقَوْهُ وَ حَمَلُوهُ وَ أَمْتِعَةَ الْقَوْمِ وَ جِمَالَهُمْ وَ كَانَتْ أَصْبَرَ عَلَى الْعَطَشِ مِنْ رِجَالِهَا فَآمَنَ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ جَعَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص تِلْكَ الْجِمَالَ وَ الْأَمْوَالَ لَهُ

They paused in despair from the water and they died, and none could return except for one – it was so that he had not ceased writing (speaking) ‘Muhammad^-saww’ upon his tongue, and had written ‘Muhammad’ upon his belly, and he was saying, ‘O Lord^-azwj of Muhammad^-saww and the Progeny^-asws of Muhammad^-saww! I have repented from hurting Muhammad^-saww, therefore, Relieve from me, by the virtue of Muhammad^-saww and the Progeny^-asws of Muhammad^-saww!’

قَالَ وَ أَمَّا الدَّمُ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص احْتَجَمَ مَرَّةً فَدَفَعَ الدَّمَ الْخَارِجَ مِنْهُ إِلَى أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ وَ قَالَ لَهُ غَيِّبْهُ فَذَهَبَ فَشَرِبَهُ

He^-asws said ‘And as for the blood –Rasool-Allah^-saww got cupping done, and he^-saww handed over the blood which had come out from him^-saww, to Abu Saeed al-Khudry and said to him: ‘Hide it (i.e., bury it)’. But, he went and drank it.

فَقَالَ لَهُ ص مَا صَنَعْتَ‏ بِهِ قَالَ شَرِبْتُهُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ أَ وَ لَمْ أَقُلْ لَكَ غَيِّبْهُ فَقَالَ غَيَّبْتُهُ‏ فِي وِعَاءٍ حَرِيزٍ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِيَّاكَ وَ أَنْ تَعُودَ لِمِثْلِ هَذَا ثُمَّ اعْلَمْ أَنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ حَرَّمَ عَلَى النَّارِ لَحْمَكَ وَ دَمَكَ لِمَا اخْتَلَطَ بِدَمِي وَ لَحْمِي

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to him ‘What is that which you did with it?’ He said, ‘I drank it, O Rasool-Allah^-saww’. He^-saww said: ‘Or did I^-saww not say to you to hide it?’ He said, ‘I have hidden it in a safe container’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Beware of repeating the likes of this! Then know, that Allah^-azwj has Prohibited your flesh and your blood upon the Fire – due to it having been mixed with my^-saww flesh and my^-saww blood’.

فَجَعَلَ أَرْبَعُونَ مِنَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ يَهْزَءُونَ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ يَقُولُونَ زَعَمَ أَنَّهُ قَدْ أَعْتَقَ الْخُدْرِيَّ مِنَ النَّارِ لِاخْتِلَاطِ دَمِهِ بِدَمِهِ وَ مَا هُوَ إِلَّا كَذَّابٌ مُفْتَرٍ وَ أَمَّا نَحْنُ فَنَسْتَقْذِرُ دَمَهُ

Forty of the hypocrites went one mocking Rasool-Allah^-saww, and they were saying, ‘He^-saww alleges that he^-saww has liberated Al-Khudry from the Fire due to mixing of his^-saww blood with his blood, and he^-saww is not except for a liar, a forger! But we, so we will dirty his blood’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَمَا إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُعَذِّبُهُمْ بِالدَّمِ وَ يُمِيتُهُمْ بِهِ وَ إِنْ كَانَ لَمْ يُمِتِ الْقِبْطَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘But, Allah^-azwj will Punish them with the blood and they would be dying due to it, and even though the Coptics (at the time of Musa^-as) had not died (due to it)’.

فَلَمْ يَلْبَثُوا إِلَّا يَسِيراً حَتَّى لَحِقَهُمُ الرُّعَافُ الدَّائِمُ وَ سَيَلَانُ الدِّمَاءِ مِنْ أَضْرَاسِهِمْ فَكَانَ طَعَامُهُمْ وَ شَرَابُهُمْ يَخْتَلِطُ بِالدَّمِ فَيَأْكُلُونَهُ فَبَقُوا كَذَلِكَ أَرْبَعِينَ صَبَاحاً مُعَذَّبِينَ ثُمَّ هَلَكُوا

They did not remain except for a little while until they faced nosebleeds, and the blood flowed from their teeth, and it became such that their food used to get mixed with the blood while they were eating it. They remained like that for forty mornings in Punishment, then they perished (died).

وَ أَمَّا السِّنِينُ وَ نَقْصٌ مِنَ الثَّمَرَاتِ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص دَعَا عَلَى مُضَرَ فَقَالَ اللَّهُمَّ اشْدُدْ وَطْأَتَكَ عَلَى مُضَرَ وَ اجْعَلْهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سِنِينَ كَسِنِي يُوسُفَ

And as for the years and the lack of fruits (harvest) – so Rasool-Allah^-saww supplicated against (the clan of) Muzar, and he^-saww said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! Intensify Your^-azwj Trampling upon (the clan of) Muzar and Make it to be upon them the years like the years of Yusuf^-as.

فَابْتَلَاهُمُ اللَّهُ بِالْقَحْطِ وَ الْجُوعِ فَكَانَ الطَّعَامُ يُجْلَبُ إِلَيْهِمْ مِنْ كُلِّ نَاحِيَةٍ فَإِذَا اشْتَرَوْهُ وَ قَبَضُوهُ لَمْ يَصِلُوا بِهِ إِلَى بُيُوتِهِمْ حَتَّى يُسَوَّسَ‏ وَ يُنْتِنَ وَ يَفْسُدَ

Allah^-azwj Afflicted them with the drought and the hunger, and it became such that the foodstuff would be brought to them from every area, and when they bought it and would take possession of it, they could not arrive with it to their houses – until it would rot, and stink, and spoil.

فَتَذْهَبُ أَمْوَالُهُمْ وَ لَا يَحْصُلُ لَهُمْ فِي الطَّعَامِ نَفْعٌ حَتَّى أَضَرَّ بِهِمُ الْأَزْمُ وَ الْجُوعُ الشَّدِيدُ الْعَظِيمُ حَتَّى أَكَلُوا الْكِلَابَ الْمَيْتَةَ وَ أَحْرَقُوا عِظَامَ الْمَوْتَى فَأَكَلُوهَا وَ حَتَّى نَبَشُوا عَنْ قُبُورِ الْمَوْتَى فَأَكَلُوهُمْ وَ حَتَّى رُبَّمَا أَكَلَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ طِفْلَهَا

So, their wealth was gone, and there did not happen to be any benefit for them in the foodstuff until they were harmed in the crisis, and the hunger became severe, great, to the extent that they were eating the dead dogs, and they would burn the bones of the deceased and eat them, and to the extent that they would exhume the dead ones from their graves and eat them, and to the extent that sometimes the woman ate her child.

إِلَى أَنْ مَشَى جَمَاعَةٌ مِنْ رُؤَسَاءِ قُرَيْشٍ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالُوا يَا مُحَمَّدُ هَبْكَ‏ عَادَيْتَ الرِّجَالَ فَمَا بَالُ النِّسَاءِ وَ الصِّبْيَانِ وَ الْبَهَائِمِ

(It went on like this) until a group of the chiefs of Qureysh walked over to Rasool-Allah^-saww and they said, ‘We concur that the men are your^-saww enemies, but what is the case (fault) of the women, and the children, and the animals?’

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنْتُمْ بِهَذَا مُعَاقَبُونَ وَ أَطْفَالُكُمْ وَ حَيَوَانَاتُكُمْ بِهَذَا غَيْرُ مُعَاقَبَةٍ بَلْ هِيَ مُعَوَّضَةٌ لِجَمِيعِ الْمَنَافِعِ حَيْثُ‏ يَشَاءُ رَبُّنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ فَسَوْفَ يُعَوِّضُهَا اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَمَّا أَصَابَهَا

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘You (men) are being Punished with this, and your children and your animals are not being Punished with this, but it is instead (offset) with the entirety of the benefits – wherever our Lord^-azwj so Desires, in the world and the Hereafter, and soon Allah^-azwj the Exalted would Offset it from what has hit them’.

ثُمَّ عَفَا عَنْ مُضَرَ وَ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ افرِجْ عَنْهُمْ فَعَادَ إِلَيْهِمُ الْخِصْبُ وَ الدَّعَةُ وَ الرَّفَاهِيَةُ

Then he^-saww pardoned (the clan of) Muzar and said ‘O Allah^-azwj! Relieve them!’ There returned unto them, the fertility (productivity of the land), and the well-being, and the prosperity.

فَذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فِيهِمْ يُعَدِّدُ عَلَيْهِمْ نِعَمَهُ‏ فَلْيَعْبُدُوا رَبَّ هذَا الْبَيْتِ الَّذِي أَطْعَمَهُمْ مِنْ جُوعٍ وَ آمَنَهُمْ مِنْ خَوْفٍ‏

And that is in the Words of the Mighty and Majestic, Recounting His^-azwj Bounties upon them: So let them worship the Lord of this House (Kabah) [106:3] Who Feeds them from the hunger and Secures them from the fear [106:4]’.

قَالَ الْإِمَامُ‏ ع وَ أَمَّا الطَّمْسُ لِأَمْوَالِ قَوْمِ فِرْعَوْنَ فَقَدْ كَانَ مِثْلُهُ آيَةً لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص وَ عَلِيٍّ ع وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ شَيْخاً كَبِيراً جَاءَ بِابْنِهِ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ الشَّيْخُ يَبْكِي وَ يَقُولُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ابْنِي هَذَا غَذَوْتُهُ صَغِيراً وَ مُنْتُهُ‏ طِفْلًا عَزِيزاً وَ أَعَنْتُهُ‏ بِمَالِي كَثِيراً حَتَّى اشْتَدَّ أَزْرُهُ‏ وَ قَوِيَ ظَهْرُهُ وَ كَثُرَ مَالُهُ وَ فَنِيَتْ قُوَّتِي وَ ذَهَبَ مَالِي عَلَيْهِ وَ صِرْتُ مِنَ الضَّعْفِ إِلَى مَا تَرَى‏ فَلَا يُوَاسِينِي بِالْقُوتِ الْمُمْسِكِ لِرَمَقِي

The Imam^-asws said: ‘And Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said: ‘And as for the effacement of the wealth of the people of Pharaoh^-la, so there has been like it a Sign for Muhammad^-saww and Ali^-asws, and that is that an elderly man came with his son to Rasool-Allah^-saww, and the old man was crying and saying, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! This son of mine, I provided for him when he was small and dealt with him like a dear child, and I gave to him a lot of my wealth, to the extent that when his bones hardened, and his back strengthened, and his wealth became a lot, while my strength has declined and my wealth has gone upon him, and I have become from the weak ones to what you^-saww can see sitting with me. But he does not console me with the sustenance so I can breathe’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِلشَّابِّ مَا ذَا تَقُولُ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَا فَضْلَ مَعِي عَنْ قُوتِي وَ قُوتِ عِيَالِي

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to the youth: ‘What is that which you are saying?’ He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! There is no excess from my own subsistence and the subsistence of my dependants’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِلْوَالِدِ مَا تَقُولُ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ لَهُ أَنَابِيرَ حِنْطَةٍ وَ شَعِيرٍ وَ تَمْرٍ وَ زَبِيبٍ وَ بِدَرَ الدَّرَاهِمِ وَ الدَّنَانِيرِ وَ هُوَ غَنِيٌّ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to the father: ‘What is that which you are saying?’ He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! For him there are stockpiles of wheat, and barley, and dates, and raisins, and (as well as) bags of Dirhams and Dinars, and he is rich’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِلِابْنِ مَا تَقُولُ قَالَ الِابْنُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا لِي شَيْ‏ءٌ مِمَّا

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to the son: ‘What are you saying?’ He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! There is nothing for me, from what he is saying’.

قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص اتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَا فَتَى وَ أَحْسِنْ إِلَى وَالِدِكَ الْمُحْسِنِ إِلَيْكَ يُحْسِنِ اللَّهُ إِلَيْكَ قَالَ لَا شَيْ‏ءَ لِي

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Fear Allah^-azwj, O youth, and be good to your father, the one who was good to you, (and) Allah^-azwj will be Good to you’. He said, ‘There is nothing for me’.

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَنَحْنُ نُعْطِيهِ عَنْكَ فِي هَذَا الشَّهْرِ فَأَعْطِهِ أَنْتَ فِيمَا بَعْدَهُ وَ قَالَ لِأُسَامَةَ أَعْطِ الشَّيْخَ مِائَةَ دِرْهَمٍ نَفَقَةً لِشَهْرِهِ لِنَفْسِهِ وَ عِيَالِهِ فَفَعَلَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘We^-saww shall give him, on your behalf, (expense monies) regarding this month, and you give him regarding what is after it’. And he^-saww said to Asama: ‘Give the old man one hundred Dirhams, as expense money for a month – for himself and his dependants’. So he did,

فَلَمَّا كَانَ رَأْسُ الشَّهْرِ جَاءَ الشَّيْخُ وَ الْغُلَامُ وَ قَالَ الْغُلَامُ لَا شَيْ‏ءَ لِي فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَكَ مَالٌ كَثِيرٌ وَ لَكِنَّكَ الْيَوْمَ تُمْسِي وَ أَنْتَ فَقِيرٌ وَقِيرٌ أَفْقَرُ مِنْ أَبِيكَ هَذَا لَا شَيْ‏ءَ لَكَ

When it was the beginning of the (next) month, the old man and the boy came over, and the boy said, ‘There is nothing for me (to give to my father)’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘For you there is a lot of wealth, but you will come to the evening of today and you would be poor, destitute, poorer that this father of yours. There would be nothing for you’.

فَانْصَرَفَ الشَّابُّ فَإِذَا جِيرَانُ أَنَابِيرِهِ قَدِ اجْتَمَعُوا عَلَيْهِ يَقُولُونَ حَوِّلْ هَذِهِ الْأَنَابِيرَ عَنَّا فَجَاءَ إِلَى أَنَابِيرَ وَ إِذَا الْحِنْطَةُ وَ الشَّعِيرُ وَ التَّمْرُ وَ الزَّبِيبُ قَدْ نَتُنَ جَمِيعُهُ وَ فَسَدَ وَ هَلَكَ وَ أَخَذُوهُ بِتَحْوِيلِ ذَلِكَ عَنْ جِوَارِهِمْ فَاكْتَرَى أُجَرَاءَ بِأَمْوَالٍ كَثِيرَةٍ فَحَوَّلُوهُ وَ أَخْرَجُوهُ بَعِيداً عَنِ الْمَدِينَةِ

The youth left, and in the vicinity of his granaries (people) had gathered and they were saying, ‘Transfer these stockpiles away from us!’ He went to his granaries, and the wheat, and the barley, and the dates, and the raisins had rotted in their entirety, and spoilt, and destroyed. He transferred that from their vicinity and hired employees with a lot of money, and they transferred these and took them out far from Al-Medina.

ثُمَّ ذَهَبَ يُخْرِجُ إِلَيْهِمُ الكرى [الْكِرَاءَ] مِنْ أَكْيَاسِهِ الَّتِي فِيهَا دَرَاهِمُهُ وَ دَنَانِيرُهُ فَإِذَا هِيَ قَدْ طُمِسَتْ وَ مُسِخَتْ حِجَارَةً وَ أَخَذَهُ الْحَمَّالُونَ بِالْأُجْرَةِ فَبَاعَ مَا كَانَ لَهُ مِنْ كِسْوَةٍ وَ فُرُشٍ وَ دَارٍ وَ أَعْطَاهُمْ فِي الْكِرَاءِ وَ خَرَجَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ كُلِّهِ صِفْراً ثُمَّ بَقِيَ فَقِيراً وَقِيراً لَا يَهْتَدِي إِلَى قُوتِ يَوْمِهِ فَسَقُمَ لِذَلِكَ جَسَدُهُ وَ ضَنِيَ

Then he went to extract (money) to (pay) the hired movers from his bags in which were his Dirhams and his Dinars – and these had been wiped out and transformed into stones, and the carriers seized him for the hire charges. He sold whatever there was for him, from the clothes, and the carpets, and house, and gave it to them regarding the hire charges, and he came out from that, all of it, with zero. Then he remained as poor, destitute, there being no subsistence for his day. His body became sick and wasted due to that.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا أَيُّهَا الْعَاقُّونَ لِلْآبَاءِ وَ الْأُمَّهَاتِ اعْتَبِرُوا وَ اعْلَمُوا أَنَّهُ كَمَا طُمِسَ فِي الدُّنْيَا عَلَى أَمْوَالِهِ فَكَذَلِكَ جُعِلَ بَدَلُ مَا كَانَ أُعِدَّ لَهُ فِي الْجَنَّةِ مِنَ الدَّرَجَاتِ مُعَدّاً لَهُ فِي النَّارِ مِنَ الدَّرَكَاتِ ‏

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O you disloyal ones to the fathers and the mothers, learn a lesson, and know that just as there has been effacement upon his wealth in the world – similar to that it would be changed what was prepared for him in the levels of Paradise, to the levels prepared for him in the Fire!’

ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّ اللَّهَ ذَمَّ الْيَهُودَ بِعِبَادَةِ الْعِجْلِ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ بَعْدَ رَؤْيَتِهِمْ لِتِلْكَ الْآيَاتِ فَإِيَّاكُمْ وَ أَنْ تُضَاهُوهُمْ فِي ذَلِكَ قَالُوا وَ كَيْفَ نُضَاهِيهِمْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ بِأَنْ تُطِيعُوا مَخْلُوقاً فِي مَعْصِيَةِ اللَّهِ وَ تَتَوَكَّلُوا عَلَيْهِ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ تَكُونُوا قَدْ ضَاهَيْتُمُوهُمْ

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj the Exalted Condemned the Jews for worshipping the calf besides Allah^-azwj after having Shown them those Signs, therefore beware of copying them regarding that’. And they said, ‘And how would be copy them, O Rasool-Allah^-saww?’ He^-saww said: ‘By obeying a person in the disobedience of Allah^-azwj and relying upon him besides Allah^-azwj, so you would happen to be copying them’’.[6]

7- ج، الإحتجاج رُوِيَ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ ع عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ آبَائِهِ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ ع‏ أَنَّ يَهُودِيّاً مِنْ يَهُودِ الشَّامِ وَ أَحْبَارِهِمْ كَانَ قَدْ قَرَأَ التَّوْرَاةَ وَ الْإِنْجِيلَ وَ الزَّبُورَ وَ صُحُفَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ ع وَ عَرَفَ دَلَائِلَهُمْ جَاءَ إِلَى مَجْلِسٍ فِيهِ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ فِيهِمْ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع وَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ وَ أَبُو مَعْبَدٍ الْجُهَنِيُ‏

It is reported from Musa^-asws Bin Ja’far^-asws, from his^-asws father^-asws, from his^-asws forefathers^-asws, from Al-Husayn Bin Ali^-asws: ‘A Jew from the Jews of Syria and their Rabbis who had read the Torah and the Evangel and the Psalms and Parchments of the Prophet^-saww and recognised their evidence, came to a gathering wherein were companions of Rasool-Allah^-saww, and among them was Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws and Ibn Abbas and Abu Ma’bad Al-Jahny.

فَقَالَ يَا أُمَّةَ مُحَمَّدٍ مَا تَرَكْتُمْ لِنَبِيٍّ دَرَجَةً وَ لَا لِمُرْسَلٍ فَضِيلَةً إِلَّا نَحَلْتُمُوهَا نَبِيَّكُمْ فَهَلْ تُجِيبُونِي عَمَّا أَسْأَلُكُمْ عَنْهُ فَكَاعَ‏ الْقَوْمُ عَنْهُ فَقَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع نَعَمْ مَا أَعْطَى اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ نَبِيّاً دَرَجَةً وَ لَا مُرْسَلًا فَضِيلَةً إِلَّا وَ قَدْ جَمَعَهَا لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص وَ زَادَ مُحَمَّداً ص عَلَى الْأَنْبِيَاءِ أَضْعَافاً مُضَاعَفَةً

He said, ‘O community of Muhammad^-saww! You do not leave any rank of a Prophet^-saww nor any Messenger^-as you load it on your Prophet^-saww. Will you be answering me about what I ask about?’ The people cringed from him. Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws said: ‘Yes. Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic did not Give any Prophet^-as nor a Messenger^-as any merit except and He^-azwj has Gathered it for Muhammad^-saww, and increased Muhammad^-saww upon the Prophets^-as with an additional multiple’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَهَلْ أَنْتَ مُجِيبِي قَالَ لَهُ نَعَمْ سَأَذْكُرُ لَكَ الْيَوْمَ مِنْ فَضَائِلِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص مَا يُقِرُّ اللَّهُ بِهِ أَعْيُنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ يَكُونُ فِيهِ إِزَالَةٌ لِشَكِّ الشَّاكِّينَ فِي فَضَائِلِهِ إِنَّهُ ص كَانَ إِذَا ذَكَرَ لِنَفْسِهِ فَضِيلَةً

The Jew said, ‘Will you be answering me’. He^-asws said to him: ‘Yes, I^-asws shall mention to you today, from the merits of Rasool-Allah^-saww what Allah^-azwj will be Delighting the eyes of the Momineen, and will happen to be in it a removal of the doubts of the doubters regarding his^-saww merits.

قَالَ وَ لَا فَخْرَ وَ أَنَا أَذْكُرُ لَكَ فَضَائِلَهُ غَيْرَ مُزْرٍ بِالْأَنْبِيَاءِ وَ لَا مُتَنَقِّصٍ لَهُمْ وَ لَكِنْ شُكْراً لِلَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَلَى مَا أَعْطَى مُحَمَّداً ص مِثْلَ مَا أَعْطَاهُمْ وَ مَا زَادَهُ اللَّهُ وَ مَا فَضَّلَهُ عَلَيْهِمْ

He^-saww, whenever he^-saww mentioned his^-saww own merits, said: ‘And no pride’, and I^-asws shall mention his^-saww merits to you without faulting any of the Prophets^-as nor reducing them^-as, but thanks is for Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic upon what He^-azwj Gave Muhammad^-saww similar to what He^-saww Gave them, and whatever He^-azwj Increased of his^-saww merits over them^-as’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ فَأَعِدَّ لَهُ جَوَاباً قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع هَاتِ قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ هَذَا آدَمُ ع أَسْجَدَ اللَّهُ لَهُ مَلَائِكَتَهُ فَهَلْ فَعَلَ بِمُحَمَّدٍ شَيْئاً مِنْ هَذَا

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘I ask you^-asws so prepare an answer for it’. Ali^-asws said to him: ‘Give!’. The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Adam^-as, Allah^-azwj Made His^-azwj Angels do Sajdah to him^-as, so, did He^-azwj Do anything from this with Muhammad^-saww?’

فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ ذَلِكَ وَ لَئِنْ أَسْجَدَ اللَّهُ لآِدَمَ مَلَائِكَتَهُ فَإِنَّ سُجُودَهُمْ لَمْ يَكُنْ سُجُودَ طَاعَةٍ أَنَّهُمْ عَبَدُوا آدَمَ‏ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ لَكِنِ اعْتِرَافاً لآِدَمَ بِالْفَضِيلَةِ وَ رَحْمَةً مِنَ اللَّهِ لَهُ

Ali^-asws said: ‘Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and while Allah^-azwj Got His^-azwj Angels to do Sajdah to Adam^-as, their Sajdahs did not happen to be Sajdahs of obedience. They did not worshipped Adam^-as from besides Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic but as an acknowledgment with the merit for Adam^-as, and a mercy from Allah^-azwj for him^-as.

وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أُعْطِيَ أَفْضَلَ مِنْ هَذَا إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ فِي جَبَرُوتِهِ‏ وَ الْمَلَائِكَةَ بِأَجْمَعِهَا وَ تَعَبَّدَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ بِالصَّلَاةِ عَلَيْهِ فَهَذِهِ زِيَادَةٌ لَهُ يَا يَهُودِيُّ

And Muhammad^-saww was Given superior than this. Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic in His^-azwj Authority, and the Angels in their entirety, and the Momineen worship with the Salawat upon him^-saww. Thus, this is an increase for him^-saww, O Jew’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ آدَمَ ع تَابَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ بَعْدِ خَطِيئَتِهِ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Allah^-azwj Turned to Adam^-as after his^-as mistake’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص نَزَلَ فِيهِ مَا هُوَ أَكْبَرُ مِنْ هَذَا مِنْ غَيْرِ ذَنْبٍ أَتَى قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ لِيَغْفِرَ لَكَ اللَّهُ ما تَقَدَّمَ مِنْ ذَنْبِكَ وَ ما تَأَخَّرَ إِنَّ مُحَمَّداً غَيْرُ مُوَافٍ الْقِيَامَةَ بِوِزْرٍ وَ لَا مَطْلُوبٍ فِيهَا بِذَنْبٍ

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww, there was Revealed regarding him^-saww what is greater than this from without him^-saww having not committed any sin. Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Said: For Allah to Forgive you what has preceded from your sins and what is delayed, [48:2]. Muhammad^-saww will be brought with without any burden on the Day of Qiyamah nor be sought for a sin during it’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ هَذَا إِدْرِيسُ ع رَفَعَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مَكَاناً عَلِيّاً وَ أَطْعَمَهُ مِنْ تُحَفِ الْجَنَّةِ بَعْدَ وَفَاتِهِ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Idrees^-as, Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Raised him^-as to a high place, and Fed him^-as from the gifts of Paradise after his^-as expiry’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أُعْطِيَ مَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ هَذَا إِنَّ اللَّهَ جَلَّ ثَنَاؤُهُ قَالَ فِيهِ‏ وَ رَفَعْنا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ‏ فَكَفَى بِهَذَا مِنَ اللَّهِ رِفْعَةً وَ لَئِنْ أُطْعِمَ إِدْرِيسُ مِنْ تُحَفِ الْجَنَّةِ بَعْدَ وَفَاتِهِ فَإِنَّ مُحَمَّداً ص أُطْعِمَ فِي الدُّنْيَا فِي حَيَاتِهِ بَيْنَمَا يَتَضَوَّرُ جُوعاً فَأَتَاهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع بِجَامٍ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ فِيهِ تُحْفَةٌ فَهَلَّلَ الْجَامُ وَ هَلَّلَتِ التُّحْفَةُ فِي يَدِهِ وَ سَبَّحَا وَ كَبَّرَا وَ حَمَّدَا

Ali^-asws said: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was Given what is superior than this. Allah^-azwj, Majestic is His^-azwj Praise Said regarding him^-saww: And We Raised your Zikr for you? [94:4]. Thus, this suffices as a Raising from Allah^-azwj. And while Idrees^-as was Fed from gifts of Paradise after his^-as expiry, then Muhammad^-saww was Fed in the world during his^-saww lifetime while he^-saww was dizzy from hunger, Jibraeel^-as came to him^-saww with a cup from Paradise wherein was a gift. He^-saww took the cup and took the gift in his^-saww hand and Glorified, and exclaimed Takbeer, and praised.

فَنَاوَلَهَا أَهْلَ بَيْتِهِ فَفَعَلَ الْجَامُ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ فَهَمَّ أَنْ يُنَاوِلَهَا بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِهِ فَتَنَاوَلَهَا جَبْرَئِيلُ ع فَقَالَ لَهُ كُلْهَا فَإِنَّهَا تُحْفَةٌ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ أَتْحَفَكَ اللَّهُ بِهَا وَ إِنَّهَا لَا تَصْلُحُ إِلَّا لِنَبِيٍّ أَوْ وَصِيِّ نَبِيٍّ فَأَكَلَ ص وَ أَكَلْنَا مَعَهُ وَ إِنِّي لَأَجِدُ حَلَاوَتَهَا سَاعَتِي هَذِهِ

The People^-asws of his^-saww Household were Given it and the cup did similar to that. (But when) he^-saww thought of giving it to one of his^-saww companions, but Jibraeel^-as took it and said to him^-saww: ‘It is a gift from Paradise Allah^-azwj has Gifted you^-saww with it, and it is not correct except for a Prophet^-as or a successor^-as of a Prophet^-as. He^-saww ate and we^-asws ate with him^-saww, and I^-asws find its sweetness in this time’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَهَذَا نُوحٌ ع صَبَرَ فِي ذَاتِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ أَعْذَرَ قَوْمَهُ إِذْ كُذِّبَ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Noah^-as was patient regarding the Self of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic, and excused his^-as people when belied’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص صَبَرَ فِي ذَاتِ اللَّهِ وَ أَعْذَرَ قَوْمَهُ إِذْ كُذِّبَ وَ شُرِّدَ وَ حُصِبَ بِالْحَصَى وَ عَلَاهُ أَبُو لَهَبٍ بِسَلَا شَاةٍ فَأَوْحَى اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى إِلَى جَابِيلَ‏ مَلَكِ الْجِبَالِ أَنْ شُقَّ الْجِبَالَ وَ انْتَهِ إِلَى أَمْرِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص

He^-asws said: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was patient regarding the Self of Allah^-azwj and excused his^-saww people when belied and displaced and pelted with stones, and Abu Lahab^-la threw on him^-saww the intestines of a sheep. Allah^-azwj Blessed and Exalted Revealed to Jabeel, Angel of the mountains, to split the mountains, and be obedient to the orders of Muhammad^-saww.

فَأَتَاهُ فَقَالَ لَهُ إِنِّي قَدْ أُمِرْتُ لَكَ بِالطَّاعَةِ فَإِنْ أَمَرْتَ أَطْبَقْتُ‏ عَلَيْهِمُ الْجِبَالَ فَأَهْلَكْتُهُمْ بِهَا

He came to him^-saww and said to him^-saww, ‘I have been commanded to be obedient to you^-saww, so if you^-saww order, I shall layer the mountains upon them and destroy them with it’.

قَالَ ص‏ إِنَّمَا بُعِثْتُ رَحْمَةً رَبِّ اهْدِ أُمَّتِي فَإِنَّهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ وَيْحَكَ يَا يَهُودِيُّ إِنَّ نُوحاً لَمَّا شَاهَدَ غَرَقَ قَوْمِهِ رَقَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رِقَّةَ الْقَرَابَةِ وَ أَظْهَرَ عَلَيْهِمْ شَفَقَةً فَقَالَ‏ رَبِّ إِنَّ ابْنِي مِنْ أَهْلِي‏ فَقَالَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ اسْمُهُ‏ إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ مِنْ أَهْلِكَ إِنَّهُ عَمَلٌ غَيْرُ صالِحٍ‏ أَرَادَ جَلَّ ذِكْرُهُ أَنْ يُسَلِّيَهُ بِذَلِكَ

He^-saww said: ‘But rather I^-saww have been Sent as a Mercy of the Lord^-azwj as a Gift to my^-saww community, but they do not know. Woe be unto you, O Jew! When Noah^-as witnessed the drowning of his^-as people, was kind upon them with the kindness of the relatives, and manifested compassion upon them. He^-as said: ‘Lord! Surely, my son is from my family, [11:45]. Allah^-azwj Blessed is His^-azwj Name Said: He is not from your family; he is (the doer of) other than righteous deed, [11:46]. He^-azwj, Majestic is His^-azwj Mention Wanted him^-as to ask Him^-azwj that.

وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص لَمَّا عَلَنَتْ مِنْ قَوْمِهِ الْمُعَانَدَةُ شَهَرَ عَلَيْهِمْ سَيْفَ النَّقِمَةِ وَ لَمْ تُدْرِكْهُ فِيهِمْ رِقَّةُ الْقَرَابَةِ وَ لَمْ يَنْظُرْ إِلَيْهِمْ بِعَيْنِ مَقْتٍ

And when Muhammad^-saww was proclaimed to by the enmity of his^-saww people, raised the sword of nemesis against them, and he^-saww did not feel the kindness of the relatives regarding them, and he^-saww did not look at them with the eye of love’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ نُوحاً دَعَا رَبَّهُ فَهَطَلَتْ لَهُ السَّمَاءُ بِمَاءٍ مُنْهَمِرٍ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Noah^-as supplicated to his^-as Lord^-azwj, and the sky fell down for him^-as with a downpour of water’.

قَالَ لَهُ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ كَانَتْ دَعْوَتُهُ دَعْوَةَ غَضَبٍ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص هَطَلَتْ لَهُ السَّمَاءُ بِمَاءٍ مُنْهَمِرٍ رَحْمَةً إِنَّهُ ص‏ لَمَّا هَاجَرَ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ أَتَاهُ أَهْلُهَا فِي يَوْمِ جُمُعَةٍ فَقَالُوا لَهُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ احْتَبَسَ الْقَطْرُ وَ اصْفَرَّ الْعُودُ وَ تَهَافَتَ الْوَرَقُ‏

He^-asws said: ‘It has been like that, and his^-as supplication was a supplication of anger, and Muhammad^-saww, the sky fell down for him^-saww with a downpour of water as a Mercy. When he^-saww emigrated to Al-Medina, its inhabitants came to him^-saww during a day of Friday and they said to him^-saww, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! The raindrops are withheld and wood has turned yellow, and leaves are dried up’.

فَرَفَعَ يَدَهُ الْمُبَارَكَةَ حَتَّى رُئِيَ بَيَاضُ إِبْطَيْهِ وَ مَا تُرَى فِي السَّمَاءِ سَحَابَةٌ فَمَا بَرِحَ حَتَّى سَقَاهُمُ اللَّهُ حَتَّى إِنَّ الشَّابَّ الْمُعْجَبَ بِشَبَابِهِ لَتَهُمُّهُ نَفْسُهُ فِي الرُّجُوعِ إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ فَمَا يَقْدِرُ مِنْ شِدَّةِ السَّيْلِ فَدَامَ أُسْبُوعاً فَأَتَوْهُ فِي الْجُمُعَةِ الثَّانِيَةِ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ تَهَدَّمَتِ الْجُدُرُ وَ احْتَبَسَ الرَّكْبُ وَ السَّفْرُ

He^-saww raised his^-saww Blessed hands to the extent that the whiteness of his^-saww armpits were seen, and no cloud was seen in the sky. He^-saww had not departed until Allah^-azwj Quenched them to the extent that the young man, fascinated with his own youth, blamed himself regarding the return to his house, but he was not able due to the intensity of the flood. It was consistent for a week, and they came to him^-saww during the second Friday and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! The walls are demolished, and the riders and the journeys are withheld’.

فَضَحِكَ ص وَ قَالَ هَذِهِ سُرْعَةُ مَلَالَةِ ابْنِ آدَمَ ثُمَّ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ حَوَالَيْنَا وَ لَا عَلَيْنَا اللَّهُمَّ فِي أُصُولِ الشِّيحِ وَ مَرَاتِعِ الْبُقَعِ فَرُئِيَ حَوَالَيِ الْمَدِينَةِ الْمَطَرُ يَقْطُرُ قَطْراً وَ مَا يَقَعُ فِي الْمَدِينَةِ قَطْرَةٌ لِكَرَامَتِهِ عَلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ

He^-saww laughed and said: ‘This is the quickness of the decisions of the children of Adam^-as’. Then he^-saww said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! Around us and not upon us. O Allah^-azwj! In the roots of the plants and patches of the spots’. It rained around Al-Medina, drops and drops, and not a single drop fell in Medina due to his^-as prestige unto Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ هَذَا هُودٌ قَدِ انْتَصَرَ اللَّهُ لَهُ مِنْ أَعْدَائِهِ بِالرِّيحِ فَهَلْ فَعَلَ بِمُحَمَّدٍ ص شَيْئاً مِنْ هَذَا

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Hud^-as, Allah^-azwj had Sent Help to him^-as against his^-as enemies, with the wind. Did Allah^-azwj Do anything from this with Muhammad^-saww?’

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أُعْطِيَ‏ مَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ هَذَا إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ ذِكْرُهُ انْتَصَرَ لَهُ مِنْ أَعْدَائِهِ بِالرِّيحِ يَوْمَ الْخَنْدَقِ إِذْ أَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحاً تَذْرُو الْحَصَى وَ جُنُوداً لَمْ يَرَوْهَا

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was Given what is superior to this. Allah^-azwj, Mighty and Majestic is His^-azwj Mention Sent Help to him^-saww against his^-saww enemies, with the wind on the day of (the battle of) Khandaq, when He^-azwj Sent a wind against them of sand and gravel, and armies which they did not see.

فَزَادَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى مُحَمَّداً ص عَلَى هُودٍ بِثَمَانِيَةِ آلَافِ مَلَكٍ وَ فَضَّلَهُ عَلَى هُودٍ بِأَنَّ رِيحَ عَادٍ رِيحُ سَخَطٍ وَ رِيحَ مُحَمَّدٍ ص رِيحُ رَحْمَةٍ قَالَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى‏ يا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ جاءَتْكُمْ جُنُودٌ فَأَرْسَلْنا عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحاً وَ جُنُوداً لَمْ تَرَوْها

Allah^-azwj Blessed and Exalted Increased for Muhammad^-saww upon Hud^-as by eight thousand Angels, and Merited him^-saww over Hud^-as by the wind of Aad was a wind of Wrath, and the wind of Muhammad^-saww was a wind of Mercy. Allah^-azwj Blessed and Exalted Said: O you those who believe! Recall the Favour of Allah upon you when the armies came towards you, so We Sent a wind against them and armies you could not see, [33:9].

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ هَذَا صَالِحاً أَخْرَجَ اللَّهُ لَهُ نَاقَةً جَعَلَهَا لِقَوْمِهِ عِبْرَةً

The Jew said, ‘This Salih^-as, Allah^-azwj Brought out a she-camel for him^-saww and Made it to be a lesson for his^-as people’.

قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أُعْطِيَ مَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ إِنَّ نَاقَةَ صَالِحٍ لَمْ تُكَلِّمْ صَالِحاً وَ لَمْ تُنَاطِقْهُ وَ لَمْ تَشْهَدْ لَهُ بِالنُّبُوَّةِ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص بَيْنَمَا نَحْنُ مَعَهُ فِي بَعْضِ غَزَوَاتِهِ إِذَا هُوَ بِبَعِيرٍ قَدْ دَنَا ثُمَّ رَغَا فَأَنْطَقَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ فُلَاناً اسْتَعْمَلَنِي حَتَّى كَبِرْتُ وَ يُرِيدُ نَحْرِي فَأَنَا أَسْتَعِيذُ بِكَ مِنْهُ فَأَرْسَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى صَاحِبِهِ فَاسْتَوْهَبَهُ مِنْهُ فَوَهَبَهُ لَهُ وَ خَلَّاهُ

Ali^-asws said: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was Given what is superior than that. The she-came of Salih^-as did not speak to Salih^-as, and he^-as did not speak to it, and did not testify for him^-as with the Prophet-hood, and Muhammad^-saww, while we were with him^-saww in one of his^-saww military expeditions when he^-saww was by a camel making sounds. Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Made it speak and it said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! So, and so used me until I am now old and he intends to slaughter me, so I seek refuge with you from him’. Rasool-Allah^-saww send for its owner, and asked him to gift it to him^-saww, so he gifted it to him^-saww and he^-saww freed it.

وَ لَقَدْ كُنَّا مَعَهُ فَإِذَا نَحْنُ بِأَعْرَابِيٍّ مَعَهُ نَاقَةٌ لَهُ يَسُوقُهَا وَ قَدِ اسْتَسْلَمَ لِلْقَطْعِ لِمَا زُوِّرَ عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الشُّهُودِ فَنَطَقَتْ لَهُ النَّاقَةُ فَقَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ فُلَاناً مِنِّي بَرِي‏ءٌ وَ إِنَّ الشُّهُودَ يَشْهَدُونَ عَلَيْهِ بِالزُّورِ وَ إِنَّ سَارِقِي فُلَانٌ الْيَهُودِيُّ

And we were with him^-saww and there was a Bedouin having with him a she-camel of his, ushering it, and he had yielded for the pieces (of land) when they had testified falsely upon it. The she-camel spoke to him^-saww saying, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! So and so is disavowed from me, and that the witnesses are testifying falsely against him, and that so and so Jew had stolen me’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ هَذَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ قَدْ تَيَقَّظَ بِالاعْتِبَارِ عَلَى مَعْرِفَةِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَ أَحَاطَتْ دَلَالَتُهُ‏ بِعِلْمِ الْإِيمَانِ بِهِ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Ibrahim^-as, he^-as had awoken with the considering upon the recognition of Allah^-azwj the Exalted, and his^-as significant evidence with knowledge of the belief in Him^-azwj’.

قَالَ لَهُ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ أُعْطِيَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أَفْضَلَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ قَدْ تَيَقَّظَ بِالاعْتِبَارِ عَلَى مَعْرِفَةِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَ أَحَاطَتْ دَلَالَتُهُ‏ بِعِلْمِ الْإِيمَانِ بِهِ وَ تَيَقَّظَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ ع وَ هُوَ ابْنُ خَمْسَ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص كَانَ ابْنَ سَبْعِ سِنِينَ

He^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was Given superior than that. He^-saww had awoken with the consideration upon recognition of Allah^-azwj the Exalted, and his^-saww significant evidence with knowledge and the belief in Him^-azwj. And Ibrahim^-as had awoken when he^-as was fifteen years old, and Muhammad^-saww was seven years old.

قَدِمَ تُجَّارٌ مِنَ النَّصَارَى فَنَزَلُوا بِتِجَارَتِهِمْ بَيْنَ الصَّفَا وَ الْمَرْوَةِ فَنَظَرَ إِلَيْهِ بَعْضُهُمْ فَعَرَفَهُ بِصِفَتِهِ وَ نَعْتِهِ وَ خَبَرِ مَبْعَثِهِ وَ آيَاتِهِ ص فَقَالُوا لَهُ يَا غُلَامُ مَا اسْمُكَ قَالَ مُحَمَّدٌ قَالُوا مَا اسْمُ أَبِيكَ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ

Traders from the Christians came, and they descended with their merchandise between Al-Safa and Al-Marwa. One of them looked at him^-as and recognised him^-saww with his^-saww description and his^-saww attributes, and news of his^-saww Prophethood, and his^-saww Signs. They said to him^-saww, ‘O boy! What is your^-saww name?’ He^-saww said: ‘Muhammad^-saww’. They said, ‘What is the name of your^-saww father^-asws?’ He^-saww said: ‘Abdullah^-asws’.

قَالُوا مَا اسْمُ هَذِهِ وَ أَشَارُوا بِأَيْدِيهِمْ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ قَالَ الْأَرْضُ قَالُوا فَمَا اسْمُ هَذِهِ وَ أَشَارُوا بِأَيْدِيهِمْ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ قَالَ السَّمَاءُ قَالُوا فَمَنْ رَبُّهُمَا قَالَ اللَّهُ ثُمَّ انْتَهَرَهُمْ وَ قَالَ أَ تُشَكِّكُونَنِي فِي اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ

They said, ‘What is the name of this?’ And they gestured with their hands to the ground. He^-saww said: ‘The earth’. They said, ‘What is the name of this?’ And they gestured with their hands towards the sky. He^-saww said: ‘The sky’. They said, ‘So, who is their Lord^-azwj?’ He^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj’. Then he^-saww defeated them and said: ‘Are you all doubting me^-saww regarding Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic?’

وَيْحَكَ يَا يَهُودِيُّ لَقَدْ تَيَقَّظَ بِالاعْتِبَارِ عَلَى مَعْرِفَةِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مَعَ كُفْرِ قَوْمِهِ إِذْ هُوَ بَيْنَهُمْ يَسْتَقْسِمُونَ بِالْأَزْلَامِ وَ يَعْبُدُونَ الْأَوْثَانَ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ

Woe be unto you, O Jew! He^-saww had awoken with the consideration upon recognition of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic from Kufr of his^-saww people, when he^-saww was between them, they were apportioning with the arrows, and were worshipping the idols, and he^-saww was saying: ‘There is no god except Allah^-azwj’.

قَالَ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ع حُجِبَ عَنْ نُمْرُودَ بِحُجُبٍ ثَلَاثَةٍ

The Jew said, ‘Ibrahim^-as was Veiled from Nimrod^-la with three Veils’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص حُجِبَ عَمَّنْ أَرَادَ قَتْلَهُ بِحُجُبٍ خَمْسَةٍ فَثَلَاثَةٌ بِثَلَاثَةٍ وَ اثْنَانِ فَضْلٌ قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ هُوَ يَصِفُ أَمْرَ مُحَمَّدٍ ص فَقَالَ‏ وَ جَعَلْنا مِنْ بَيْنِ أَيْدِيهِمْ سَدًّا فَهَذَا الْحِجَابُ الْأَوَّلُ‏ وَ مِنْ خَلْفِهِمْ سَدًّا فَهَذَا الْحِجَابُ الثَّانِي‏ فَأَغْشَيْناهُمْ فَهُمْ لا يُبْصِرُونَ‏ فَهَذَا الْحِجَابُ الثَّالِثُ

He^-asws said: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was Veiled from the ones who wanted to kill him^-saww with five Veils. It was three by three, and two extra. Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Said, and He^-azwj Described the matter of Muhammad^-saww: And We Made a barrier to be from their front – so this is the first veil, and a barrier from their back [36:9] – so this is the second, and We Covered them, so they are not seeing [36:9] – so this is the third veil.

ثُمَّ قَالَ‏ وَ إِذا قَرَأْتَ الْقُرْآنَ جَعَلْنا بَيْنَكَ وَ بَيْنَ الَّذِينَ لا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ حِجاباً مَسْتُوراً فَهَذَا الْحِجَابُ الرَّابِعُ ثُمَّ قَالَ‏ فَهِيَ إِلَى الْأَذْقانِ فَهُمْ مُقْمَحُونَ‏ فَهَذِهِ حُجُبٌ خَمْسَةٌ

Then He^-azwj Said: And whenever you recite the Quran, We Make a hidden veil to be between you and those who are no believing in the Hereafter [17:45] – so this is the fourth veil. Then He^-azwj Said: so these are up to their chins, so their heads are raised [36:8] – and this is the fifth veil’.

قَالَ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ع قَدْ بَهَتَ الَّذِي كَفَرَ بِبُرْهَانِ نُبُوَّتِهِ

The Jew said, ‘Ibrahim^-as, he^-as had dazzled those who disbelieved with the proofs of his^-as Prophet-hood’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أَتَاهُ مُكَذِّبٌ بِالْبَعْثِ بَعْدَ الْمَوْتِ وَ هُوَ أُبَيُّ بْنُ خَلَفٍ الْجُمَحِيُّ مَعَهُ عَظْمٌ نَخِرٌ فَفَرَكَهُ‏ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ مَنْ يُحْيِ الْعِظامَ وَ هِيَ رَمِيمٌ‏ فَأَنْطَقَ اللَّهُ مُحَمَّداً بِمُحْكَمِ آيَاتِهِ وَ بَهَتَهُ بِبُرْهَانِ نُبُوَّتِهِ فَقَالَ‏ يُحْيِيهَا الَّذِي أَنْشَأَها أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَ هُوَ بِكُلِّ خَلْقٍ عَلِيمٌ‏ فَانْصَرَفَ مَبْهُوتاً

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and (in case of Prophet) Muhammad^-saww, a belier of the Resurrection after the death, came to him^-saww, and he was Abayy Bin Khalaf Al-Jamhy and with him was a decayed bone, and he crushed it, then said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! ‘Who will revive the bones and these have rotted away?’ [36:78]. Allah^-azwj Made Muhammad^-saww speak by a Decisive Verse, and Demonstrated his^-saww Prophet-hood, Said: Say: ‘He Who Revived these the first time, and He is Knowing with all creation [36:79]’. He left having been silenced’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ هَذَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ‏ جَذَّ أَصْنَامَ قَوْمِهِ غَضَباً لِلَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Ibrahim^-as, fragmented the idols of his^-as people in anger for Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص قَدْ نَكَسَ عَنِ الْكَعْبَةِ ثَلَاثَمِائَةٍ وَ سِتِّينَ صَنَماً وَ نَفَاهَا مِنْ جَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِ وَ أَذَلَّ مَنْ عَبَدَهَا بِالسَّيْفِ

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww had broken three hundred and sixty idols from the Kabah, and negated these from the Arabian peninsula, and humiliated the ones who worshipped these, with the sword’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَدْ أَضْجَعَ وَلَدَهُ وَ تَلَّهُ لِلْجَبِينِ‏

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Ibrahim^-as had made his^-as son^-as to lay down (on the ground) and knocked him^-as on the forehead’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ لَقَدْ أُعْطِيَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ بَعْدَ الْإِضْجَاعِ الْفِدَاءَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أُصِيبَ بِأَفْجَعَ مِنْهُ فَجِيعَةً إِنَّهُ وَقَفَ ص عَلَى عَمِّهِ حَمْزَةَ أَسَدِ اللَّهِ وَ أَسَدِ رَسُولِهِ وَ نَاصِرِ دِينِهِ

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Ibrahim^-as had been Given the ransom after the lying down, and Muhammad^-saww was hit by a bereavement more disastrous than it. He^-saww stood to pray Salat upon his^-saww uncle^-asws Hamza^-asws, lion of Allah^-azwj and lion of His^-azwj Rasool^-saww, and helper of his^-saww Religion.

وَ قَدْ فُرِّقَ بَيْنَ رُوحِهِ وَ جَسَدِهِ فَلَمْ يُبَيِّنْ عَلَيْهِ حُرْقَةً وَ لَمْ يُفِضْ عَلَيْهِ عِبْرَةً وَ لَمْ يَنْظُرْ إِلَى مَوْضِعِهِ مِنْ قَلْبِهِ وَ قُلُوبِ أَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ لِيُرْضِيَ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِصَبْرِهِ وَ يَسْتَسْلِمَ لِأَمْرِهِ فِي جَمِيعِ الْفِعَالِ وَ قَالَ ص لَوْ لَا أَنْ تَحْزَنَ صَفِيَّةُ لَتَرَكْتُهُ حَتَّى يُحْشَرَ مِنْ بُطُونِ السِّبَاعِ وَ حَوَاصِلِ الطَّيْرِ وَ لَوْ لَا أَنْ يَكُونَ سُنَّةً بَعْدِي لَفَعَلْتُ ذَلِكَ

And there had already been a separation between his^-asws soul and his^-asws body, and no movement was detected upon him^-saww, and he^-saww did not break up in tears over him^-asws, and he^-saww did not look at his^-asws (dying) place from his^-saww heart and the hearts of the People^-asws of his^-saww Household, in order to Please Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic by his^-saww patience, and submitted to His^-azwj Commands in the entirety of his^-saww deeds, and he^-saww said: ‘Had it not been for the portrayal of grief, I^-saww would have left him^-asws until he^-asws was gathered in the bellies of the wild animals and the beaks of the birds, and had it not been for it to become a Sunnah after me^-saww, I^-saww would have done that’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ع قَدْ أَسْلَمَهُ قَوْمُهُ إِلَى الْحَرِيقِ فَصَبَرَ فَجَعَلَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ النَّارَ عَلَيْهِ بَرْداً وَ سَلَاماً فَهَلْ فَعَلَ بِمُحَمَّدٍ شَيْئاً مِنْ ذَلِكَ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Ibrahim^-as, his^-as people had submitted him^-as to the burning, and he^-as was patient, so Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Made the fire to be cool and safe unto him^-as. Did He^-azwj Do anything from that with Muhammad^-saww?’

قَالَ لَهُ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص لَمَّا نَزَلَ بِخَيْبَرَ سَمَّتْهُ الْخَيْبَرِيَّةُ فَصَيَّرَ اللَّهُ السَّمَّ فِي جَوْفِهِ بَرْداً وَ سَلَاماً إِلَى مُنْتَهَى أَجَلِهِ فَالسَّمُّ يُحْرِقُ إِذَا اسْتَقَرَّ فِي الْجَوْفِ كَمَا أَنَّ النَّارَ تُحْرِقُ فَهَذَا مِنْ قُدْرَتِهِ لَا تُنْكِرْهُ

He^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and when Muhammad^-saww descended at Khyber, the woman of Khyber poisoned him^-saww, but Allah^-azwj Caused the poison inside him^-saww cool and safe up the end of his^-saww term. The poison burns when it settles in the interior, just as the fire burns, so this is from His^-azwj Power, and you cannot deny it’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ هَذَا يَعْقُوبُ ع أُعْظِمَ فِي الْخَيْرِ نَصِيبُهُ إِذْ جُعِلَ الْأَسْبَاطُ مِنْ سُلَالَةِ صُلْبِهِ وَ مَرْيَمُ ابْنَةُ عِمْرَانَ مِنْ بَنَاتِهِ

The Jew said so him^-asws, ‘This Yaqoub^-as is greater in the goodness of his^-as lineage when the tribes were Made to be from his^-as lineage, and Maryam^-as Bint Imran^-as is from his^-as daughters’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أَعْظَمُ فِي الْخَيْرِ نَصِيباً مِنْهُ إِذْ جُعِلَ فَاطِمَةُ سَيِّدَةُ نِسَاءِ الْعَالَمِينَ مِنْ بَنَاتِهِ وَ الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ مِنْ حَفَدَتِهِ

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww is greater in the goodness of lineage than him^-as, when (Syeda) Fatima^-asws, Chieftess of the women of the worlds was Made to be from his^-saww daughters, and Al-Hassan^-asws and Al-Husayn^-asws to be from his^-saww grandsons^-asws’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ يَعْقُوبَ قَدْ صَبَرَ عَلَى فِرَاقِ وَلَدِهِ حَتَّى كَادَ يَحْرُضُ مِنَ‏ الْحُزْنِ‏

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Yaqoub^-as was patient upon the separation of his^-as son^-as until he^-as almost broke down from the grief’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ كَانَ حُزْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ع حُزْناً بَعْدَهُ تَلَاقٍ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص قُبِضَ وَلَدُهُ إِبْرَاهِيمُ قُرَّةُ عَيْنِهِ فِي حَيَاةٍ مِنْهُ وَ خَصَّهُ بِالاخْتِبَارِ لِيُعَظِّمَ لَهُ الِادِّخَارَ فَقَالَ ص تَحْزَنُ النَّفْسُ وَ يَجْزَعُ الْقَلْبُ وَ إِنَّا عَلَيْكَ يَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ لَمَحْزُونُونَ وَ لَا نَقُولُ مَا يُسْخِطُ الرَّبَّ فِي كُلِّ ذَلِكَ يُؤْثِرُ الرِّضَا عَنِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ ذِكْرُهُ وَ الِاسْتِسْلَامَ لَهُ فِي جَمِيعِ الْفِعَالِ

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and the grief of Yaqoub^-as was grief after separation, and Muhammad^-saww, his^-as son^-asws Ibrahim^-asws, delight of his^-saww eyes, passed away from him^-saww during his^-saww lifetime and the Trial was particularised for him^-saww in order to Maximise the Hoard (Rewards of the Hereafter) for him^-saww. He^-saww said: ‘The soul grieves and the heart is alarmed, and I^-saww am upon you^-as, O Ibrahim^-as, from the grieving ones, and we^-saww do not say what Angers the Lord^-azwj’. In all that, he^-saww preferred the Pleasure of Allah^-azwj, Mighty is His^-azwj Mention, the submitting to Him^-azwj in the entirety of his^-saww deeds’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ هَذَا يُوسُفُ قَاسَى مَرَارَةَ الْفُرْقَةِ وَ حُبِسَ فِي السِّجْنِ تَوَقِّياً لِلْمَعْصِيَةِ فَأُلْقِيَ فِي الْجُبِّ وَحِيداً

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Yusuf^-as, endured the separation repeatedly, and he^-as was withheld in the prison to save (himself) from the disobedience, and he^-as was thrown in the well alone’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص قَاسَى مَرَارَةَ الْغُرْبَةِ وَ فَارَقَ الْأَهْلَ‏ وَ الْأَوْلَادَ وَ الْمَالَ مُهَاجِراً مِنْ حَرَمِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَ أَمْنِهِ فَلَمَّا رَأَى اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ كَآبَتَهُ وَ اسْتِشْعَارَهُ‏ الْحُزْنَ أَرَاهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى اسْمُهُ رُؤْيَا تُوَازِي رُؤْيَا يُوسُفَ ع فِي تَأْوِيلِهَا وَ أَبَانَ لِلْعَالَمِينَ صِدْقَ تَحْقِيقِهَا

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww suffered repeatedly the estrangement and separation of the wife and the children and the wealth, emigration from the Sanctuary of Allah^-azwj the Exalted and His^-azwj Safety. When Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Saw his^-saww state and his^-saww breaking down from grief, (Allah^-azwj), Blessed and Exalted is His^-azwj Name Showed him^-saww a dream corresponding to the dream of Yusuf^-as in its interpretation, and Clarified to the worlds the truthfulness of its reality.

فَقَالَ‏ لَقَدْ صَدَقَ اللَّهُ رَسُولَهُ الرُّؤْيا بِالْحَقِّ لَتَدْخُلُنَّ الْمَسْجِدَ الْحَرامَ إِنْ شاءَ اللَّهُ آمِنِينَ مُحَلِّقِينَ رُؤُسَكُمْ وَ مُقَصِّرِينَ لا تَخافُونَ‏ وَ لَئِنْ كَانَ يُوسُفُ ع حُبِسَ فِي السِّجْنِ فَلَقَدْ حَبَسَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص نَفْسَهُ فِي الشِّعْبِ ثَلَاثَ سِنِينَ وَ قَطَعَ مِنْهُ أَقَارِبُهُ وَ ذَوُو الرَّحِمِ وَ أَلْجَئُوهُ إِلَى أَضْيَقِ الْمَضِيقِ

He^-azwj Said: ‘Allah has Validated the dream of His Rasool with the Truth – You will be entering the Sacred Masjid in safety if Allah so Desires, your heads being shaven and (others) with hair-cut, not fearing. [48:27]. And while Yusuf^-as was withheld in the prison, so Rasool-Allah^-saww had to withhold himself^-saww in the cave for three years, and his^-saww relatives and those with relationships were cut off from him^-saww, and he^-saww sheltered in narrowest of the narrowness.

فَلَقَدْ كَادَهُمُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ ذِكْرُهُ لَهُ كَيْداً مُسْتَبِيناً إِذْ بَعَثَ أَضْعَفَ خَلْقِهِ فَأَكَلَ عَهْدَهُمُ الَّذِي كَتَبُوهُ بَيْنَهُمْ فِي قَطِيعَةِ رَحِمِهِ وَ لَئِنْ كَانَ يُوسُفُ ع أُلْقِيَ فِي الْجُبِّ فَلَقَدْ حَبَسَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص نَفْسَهُ مَخَافَةَ عَدُوِّهِ فِي الْغَارِ حَتَّى قَالَ لِصَاحِبِهِ‏ لا تَحْزَنْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَنا وَ مَدَحَهُ اللَّهُ بِذَلِكَ فِي كِتَابِهِ

Allah^-azwj, Mighty is His^-azwj Mention had Planned for him^-saww a strong place when He^-azwj Sent the weakest of His^-azwj creatures (woodworm) and it ate up their agreement which they had written between them regarding cutting off his^-saww relationships. And while Yusuf^-as was thrown in the well, so Muhammad^-saww had to withhold himself^-saww, fearing his^-saww enemies, in the cave until he^-saww said to his^-saww companion: ‘Do not grieve, surely Allah is with us!’ [9:40], and Allah^-azwj Praised him^-saww with that in His^-azwj Book’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَهَذَا مُوسَى بْنُ عِمْرَانَ ع آتَاهُ اللَّهُ التَّوْرَاةَ الَّتِي فِيهَا حُكْمُهُ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Musa^-as Bin Imran^-as, Allah^-azwj Gave him^-as the Torah in which was His^-azwj Wisdom’.

قَالَ لَهُ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أُعْطِيَ مَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْهُ أُعْطِيَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص سُورَةَ الْبَقَرَةِ وَ الْمَائِدَةِ بِالْإِنْجِيلِ وَ طَوَاسِينَ وَ طَهَ وَ نِصْفَ الْمُفَصَّلِ وَ الْحَوَامِيمَ بِالتَّوْرَاةِ وَ أُعْطِيَ نِصْفَ الْمُفَصَّلِ وَ التَّسَابِيحَ بِالزَّبُورِ وَ أُعْطِيَ سُورَةَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَ بَرَاءَةَ بِصُحُفِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ع وَ صُحُفِ مُوسَى ع

He^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was Given what is superior than it. Muhammad^-saww was Given Surah Al-Baqarah and Al-Maidah (corresponding) with the Evangel, and ‘Tawaseen’ (Chapers 26, 27 & 28), and Ta Ha (20), and half of ‘Mufassal’ (Chapter 47, & 50 & 110), and ‘Hawameem’ (Chapters 40 to 46) (corresponding) with the Torah, and was Given half of ‘Mufassal’ (Chapter 47, & 50 & 110), and ‘Al Tasabeeh’ (Chapters in which Glorification is Revealed) (corresponding) with the Psalms, and was Given Surah Bnu Israeel (17) and Bara’at (9) (corresponding) with the Parchment of Ibrahim^-as and Parchment of Musa^-as.

وَ زَادَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ ذِكْرُهُ مُحَمَّداً ص السَّبْعَ‏ الطِّوَالَ وَ فَاتِحَةَ الْكِتَابِ وَ هِيَ السَّبْعُ الْمَثَانِي وَ الْقُرْآنُ الْعَظِيمُ وَ أُعْطِيَ الْكِتَابَ وَ الْحِكْمَةَ

And Allah^-azwj, Mighty is His^-azwj Mention, Increased the seven long ones (Chapters 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 & 10), and Opening of the Book (1), and it is the seven doubles and the Magnificent Quran, and Given the Book and the Wisdom’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ مُوسَى ع نَاجَاهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَلَى طُورِ سَيْنَاءَ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Musa^-as, Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Whispered to him^-as on (mount) Toor of Sinai’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ لَقَدْ أَوْحَى اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ إِلَى مُحَمَّدٍ ص عِنْدَ سِدْرَةِ الْمُنْتَهَى فَمَقَامُهُ فِي السَّمَاءِ مَحْمُودٌ وَ عِنْدَ مُنْتَهَى الْعَرْشِ مَذْكُورٌ

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘I has been like that, and Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic had Revealed to Muhammad^-saww at the Lotus Tree (Sidrat al Muntaha), and his^-saww position in the sky is praised, and by the end-point is the mentioned Throne’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَلَقَدْ أَلْقَى اللَّهُ عَلَى مُوسَى ع مَحَبَّةً مِنْهُ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Allah^-azwj has Cast unto Musa^-as, Love from Him^-azwj’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ لَقَدْ أَعْطَى اللَّهُ مُحَمَّداً ص مَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْهُ لَقَدْ أَلْقَى اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَلَيْهِ مَحَبَّةً مِنْهُ فَمَنْ هَذَا الَّذِي يَشْرَكُهُ فِي هَذَا الِاسْمِ إِذْ تَمَّ مِنَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِهِ الشَّهَادَةُ فَلَا تَتِمُّ الشَّهَادَةُ إِلَّا أَنْ يُقَالَ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً رَسُولُ اللَّهِ يُنَادَى بِهِ عَلَى الْمَنَابِرِ فَلَا يُرْفَعُ صَوْتٌ بِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ إِلَّا رُفِعَ بِذِكْرِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص مَعَهُ

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Allah^-azwj Gave Muhammad^-saww what is superior than it. Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Cast unto him^-saww Love from Him^-azwj. From this is which participates him^-saww in this Name when the testimony was completed from Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic by it, thus the testimony is not complete except if one says, ‘I testify that there is no god except Allah^-azwj and Muhammad^-saww is Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, called out with upon the pulpits. A voice will not be raised with the Mention of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic except it is raised with the mention of Muhammad^-saww along with it’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَلَقَدْ أَوْحَى اللَّهُ إِلَى أُمِّ مُوسَى لِفَضْلِ مَنْزِلَةِ مُوسَى ع عِنْدَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Allah^-azwj had Revealed to mother of Musa^-as of the merit of the status of Musa^-as in the Presence of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ لَقَدْ لَطَفَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ ثَنَاؤُهُ لِأُمِّ مُحَمَّدٍ ص بِأَنْ أَوْصَلَ إِلَيْهَا اسْمَهُ حَتَّى قَالَتْ أَشْهَدُ وَ الْعَالَمُونَ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً رَسُولُ اللَّهِ مُنْتَظَرٌ وَ شَهِدَ الْمَلَائِكَةُ عَلَى الْأَنْبِيَاءِ أَنَّهُمْ أَثْبَتُوهُ فِي الْأَسْفَارِ

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Allah^-azwj, Majestic is His^-azwj Praise had been Kind to the mother^-asws of Muhammad^-saww by Bringing to her^-asws his^-saww name until she^-asws said, ‘I^-asws testify and (so do) those with knowledge that Muhammad^-saww is a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, awaited, and the Angels testify upon the Prophets^-as that they^-asws had affirmed him^-saww the previous Books.

وَ بِلُطْفٍ مِنَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ سَاقَهُ إِلَيْهَا وَ وَصَلَ‏ إِلَيْهَا اسْمَهُ لِفَضْلِ مَنْزِلَتِهِ عِنْدَهُ حَتَّى رَأَتْ فِي الْمَنَامِ أَنَّهُ قِيلَ لَهَا إِنَّ مَا فِي بَطْنِكِ سَيِّدٌ فَإِذَا وَلَدْتِهِ فَسَمِّيهِ مُحَمَّداً فَاشْتَقَّ اللَّهُ لَهُ اسْماً مِنْ أَسْمَائِهِ فَاللَّهُ مَحْمُودٌ وَ هَذَا مُحَمَّدٌ

And by the Kindness from Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic He^-azwj Ushered him^-saww to her^-asws, and his^-saww name arrived to her^-asws due to the merit of his^-saww status in His^-azwj Presence until she^-asws saw in the dream that He^-azwj Said to her^-asws: “What is in your^-asws belly is a Chief, so when you^-asws are Blessed him^-saww, then name him^-saww as ‘Muhammad’”. Allah^-azwj Derived for him^-saww a name from His^-azwj Names, because Allah^-azwj is ‘Mahmoud’ (the most praised One) and this one is ‘Muhammad’ (the praised one)’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ هَذَا مُوسَى بْنُ عِمْرَانَ ع قَدْ أَرْسَلَهُ اللَّهُ إِلَى فِرْعَوْنَ وَ أَرَاهُ الْآيَةَ الْكُبْرَى

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Musa^-as Bin Imran^-as, Allah^-azwj had Sent him^-as to Pharaoh^-la and Showed him^-as the Great Sign’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ أَرْسَلَهُ إِلَى فَرَاعِنَةٍ شَتَّى مِثْلَ أَبِي جَهْلِ بْنِ هِشَامٍ وَ عُتْبَةَ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ وَ شَيْبَةَ وَ أَبِي الْبَخْتَرِيِّ وَ النَّضْرِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ وَ أُبَيِّ بْنِ خَلَفٍ وَ مُنَبِّهٍ وَ نُبَيْهٍ ابْنَيِ الْحَجَّاجِ وَ إِلَى الْخَمْسَةِ الْمُسْتَهْزِءِينَ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ الْمَخْزُومِيِّ وَ الْعَاصِ بْنِ وَائِلٍ السَّهْمِيِّ وَ الْأَسْوَدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ يَغُوثَ الزُّهْرِيِّ وَ الْأَسْوَدِ بْنِ الْمُطَّلِبِ وَ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ الطَّلَاطِلَةِ فَأَرَاهُمُ الْآيَاتِ فِي الْآفَاقِ وَ فِي أَنْفُسِهِمْ حَتَّى تَبَيَّنَ لَهُمْ أَنَّهُ الْحَقُّ

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww had been Sent to various Pharaohs, like Abu Jahl Bin Hisham, and Utba Bin Rabie, and Shayba, and Abu Al Bakhtary, and Al Nazar Bin Haris, and Abayy Bin Khalaf, and Manbah and Nabeeh two sons of Al Hajaj, and to five scoffers – Al-Waleed Bin Al-Mugheira Al-Makhzoumy, and Al-Aas Bin Al-Wail Al-Sahmy, and Al-Aswad Bin Abd Yagous Al-Zuhry, and Al-Aswad Bin Al-Muttalib, and Al-Haris Ibn Al-Talatalah, and Showed them the Signs in the horizons and within themselves until it was clear to them that it is the Truth’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ لَقَدِ انْتَقَمَ اللَّهُ لِمُوسَى ع مِنْ فِرْعَوْنَ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Allah^-azwj had Avenged for Musa^-as from Pharaoh^-la.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ لَقَدِ انْتَقَمَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ اسْمُهُ لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص مِنَ الْفَرَاعِنَةِ فَأَمَّا الْمُسْتَهْزِءُونَ فَقَدْ قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ إِنَّا كَفَيْناكَ الْمُسْتَهْزِئِينَ‏ فَقَتَلَ اللَّهُ خَمْسَتَهُمْ كُلَّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ بِغَيْرِ قِتْلَةِ صَاحِبِهِ فِي يَوْمٍ وَاحِدٍ فَأَمَّا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ فَمَرَّ بِنَبْلٍ لِرَجُلٍ مِنْ خُزَاعَةَ قَدْ رَاشَهُ وَ وَضَعَهُ فِي الطَّرِيقِ فَأَصَابَهُ شَظِيَّةٌ مِنْهُ فَانْقَطَعَ أَكْحَلُهُ حَتَّى أَدْمَاهُ فَمَاتَ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ قَتَلَنِي رَبُّ مُحَمَّدٍ

He^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Allah^-azwj, Majestic is His^-azwj Name had Avenged for Muhammad^-saww from the Pharaohs. And as for the scoffers, so Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Said: We will Suffice you against the scoffers [15:95]. Allah^-azwj killed five of them. Each one of them was killed without having killed his attacker, in one day. As for Al-Waleed Bin Al-Mugheira, he passed proudly by a man from the Clan of Khaza’at on the road, and he was hit by him with a fragment from the middle of the armour until he bled. He died, and he was saying, ‘It was the Lord^-azwj of Muhammad^-saww Who killed me!

وَ أَمَّا الْعَاصُ بْنُ وَائِلٍ فَإِنَّهُ خَرَجَ فِي حَاجَةٍ لَهُ إِلَى مَوْضِعٍ فَتَدَهْدَهَ‏ تَحْتَهُ حَجَرٌ فَسَقَطَ فَتَقَطَّعَ قِطْعَةً قِطْعَةً فَمَاتَ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ قَتَلَنِي رَبُّ مُحَمَّدٍ

And as for Al-Aas Al-Wa’ily Bin Wa’il Al-Sahmy, so he went out for a need of his to a mountain. He was crushed under a rock, and he was cut down into pieces and pieces. He died, and he was saying: ‘It was the Lord^-azwj of Muhammad^-saww who killed me!’

وَ أَمَّا الْأَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ يَغُوثَ فَإِنَّهُ خَرَجَ يَسْتَقْبِلُ ابْنَهُ زَمْعَةَ فَاسْتَظَلَّ بِشَجَرَةٍ فَأَتَاهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع فَأَخَذَ رَأْسَهُ فَنَطَحَ بِهِ الشَّجَرَةَ فَقَالَ لِغُلَامِهِ امْنَعْ عَنِّي هَذَا فَقَالَ مَا أَرَى أَحَداً يَصْنَعُ بِكَ شَيْئاً إِلَّا نَفْسَكَ فَقَتَلَهُ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ قَتَلَنِي رَبُّ مُحَمَّدٍ

And as for Al-Sawad Bin Abd Yagous, so he was received by his son Zam’at, and with him was a young boy of his, and he took to a shade of a tree under a mountain. Jibraeel^-as came to him, seized his head and butted it against the tree. He said to his boy, ‘Prevent this from me!’ He said, ‘I have not seen anyone do anything with you, except that it was yourself’. He was killed, and he was saying, ‘It was the Lord^-azwj of Muhammad^-saww Who killed me’.

وَ أَمَّا الْأَسْوَدُ بْنُ الْمُطَّلِبِ فَإِنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص دَعَا عَلَيْهِ أَنْ يُعْمِيَ اللَّهُ بَصَرَهُ وَ أَنْ يُثْكِلَهُ وُلْدَهُ فَلَمَّا كَانَ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ خَرَجَ حَتَّى صَارَ إِلَى مَوْضِعٍ فَأَتَاهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع بِوَرَقَةٍ خَضْرَاءَ فَضَرَبَ بِهَا وَجْهَهُ فَعَمِيَ وَ بَقِيَ حَتَّى أَثْكَلَهُ اللَّهُ وُلْدَهُ

As for Al-Aswad Bin Al-Muttalab, the Prophet^-saww supplicated against him that Allah^-azwj should Blind his sight, and that he be bereaved of his son. When it was during that day, he went out until he came to a place, and Jibraeel^-as came to him with a green leaf and struck his face with it and he was blinded, and he remained until Allah^-azwj Bereaved him of his son.

وَ أَمَّا الْحَارِثُ بْنُ الطَّلَاطِلَةِ فَإِنَّهُ خَرَجَ مِنْ بَيْتِهِ فِي السَّمُومِ‏ فَتَحَوَّلَ حَبَشِيّاً فَرَجَعَ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ فَقَالَ أَنَا الْحَارِثُ فَغَضِبُوا عَلَيْهِ فَقَتَلُوهُ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ قَتَلَنِي رَبُّ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ رُوِيَ أَنَّ الْأَسْوَدَ بْنَ الْحَارِثِ أَكَلَ حُوتاً مَالِحاً فَأَصَابَهُ الْعَطَشُ فَلَمْ يَزَلْ يَشْرَبُ الْمَاءَ حَتَّى انْشَقَّ بَطْنُهُ فَمَاتَ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ قَتَلَنِي رَبُّ مُحَمَّدٍ

And as for Al-Haaris Bin Al-Talaatalat, so he went out from his house during the season (of Hajj), so he changed into (to look like) an Ethiopian. He returned back to his family and said, ‘I am Haaris!’ They were angered against him and killed him, and he was saying, ‘It was the Lord^-azwj of Muhammad^-saww Who killed me’.

كُلُّ ذَلِكَ فِي سَاعَةٍ وَاحِدَةٍ وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا بَيْنَ يَدَيْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالُوا لَهُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ نَنْتَظِرُ بِكَ إِلَى الظُّهْرِ فَإِنْ رَجَعْتَ عَنْ قَوْلِكَ وَ إِلَّا قَتَلْنَاكَ

And all that was at one time, and that was when they were in front of Rasool-Allah^-saww, so they said to him^-saww, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! We will respite you^-saww until midday, so if you^-saww were to retract from your^-saww words, fine, otherwise we will kill you^-saww’.

فَدَخَلَ النَّبِيُّ ص مَنْزِلَهُ فَأَغْلَقَ عَلَيْهِ بَابَهُ مُغْتَمّاً لِقَوْلِهِمْ فَأَتَاهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ عَنِ اللَّهِ سَاعَتَهُ‏ فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ السَّلَامُ يَقْرَأُ عَلَيْكَ السَّلَامَ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ‏ فَاصْدَعْ بِما تُؤْمَرُ وَ أَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ‏ يَعْنِي أَظْهِرْ أَمْرَكَ لِأَهْلِ مَكَّةَ وَ ادْعُهُمْ إِلَى الْإِيمَانِ

The Prophet^-saww entered his^-saww house, and locked his^-saww door against them, saddened by their words, and Jibraeel^-as came up to him^-saww in that moment and said to him^-saww: ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Allah^-azwj Conveys His^-azwj Greetings to you^-saww, and He^-azwj is Saying: So proclaim what you are Commanded with [15:94] – Meaning manifest your^-saww matter to the people of Makkah and Invite, and turn away from the polytheists [15:94], meaning ‘I^-azwj shall Manifest your^-saww matter to the people of Makkah and Called them to the Eman.

قَالَ يَا جَبْرَئِيلُ كَيْفَ أَصْنَعُ بِالْمُسْتَهْزِءِينَ وَ مَا أَوْعَدُونِي قَالَ لَهُ‏ إِنَّا كَفَيْناكَ الْمُسْتَهْزِئِينَ‏ قَالَ يَا جَبْرَئِيلُ كَانُوا السَّاعَةَ بَيْنَ يَدَيَّ قَالَ قَدْ كُفِيتَهُمْ فَأَظْهَرَ أَمْرَهُ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ

He^-saww said: ‘O Jibraeel^-as! How shall I^-saww react to the scoffers, and what if they are inimical to me^-saww?’ He^-azwj said: We will Suffice you against the scoffers [15:95]’. He^-saww said: ‘O Jibraeel^-as! They were in front of me^-saww this very hour’. So he^-as said: ‘You^-saww have been Sufficed from them, therefore manifest your^-saww matter in that (situation)’

وَ أَمَّا بَقِيَّتُهُمْ مِنَ الْفَرَاعِنَةِ فَقُتِلُوا يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ بِالسَّيْفِ وَ هَزَمَ اللَّهُ الْجَمْعَ وَ وَلَّوُا الدُّبُرَ

And as for the rest of them from the Pharaohs, they were killed on the day (battle of) Badr by the sword, and Allah^-azwj Defeated the army and they turned back’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ هَذَا مُوسَى بْنُ عِمْرَانَ ع قَدْ أُعْطِيَ الْعَصَا فَكَانَتْ تَتَحَوَّلُ ثُعْبَاناً

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Musa^-as Bin Imran^-as was Given the staff, and it transformed into a serpent’.

قَالَ لَهُ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أُعْطِيَ مَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ هَذَا إِنَّ رَجُلًا كَانَ يُطَالِبُ أَبَا جَهْلِ بْنَ هِشَامٍ بِدَيْنِ ثَمَنِ جَزُورٍ قَدِ اشْتَرَاهُ فَاشْتَغَلَ عَنْهُ وَ جَلَسَ يَشْرَبُ فَطَلَبَهُ الرَّجُلُ فَلَمْ يَقْدِرْ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ بَعْضُ الْمُسْتَهْزِءِينَ مَنْ تَطْلُبُ قَالَ عَمْرَو بْنَ هِشَامٍ يَعْنِي أَبَا جَهْلٍ لِي عَلَيْهِ دَيْنٌ

He^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was Given what is superior than this. A man was seeking Abu Jahl Bin Hisham^-la for a debt of a camel which he had bought, and he was pre-occupied about it and sat and drank. The man sought him but could not find him. One of the scoffers said to him, ‘Who are you seeking?’ He said, ‘Amro Bin Hisham’ – meaning Abu Jahl^-la. There is a debt for me upon him’.

قَالَ فَأَدُلُّكَ عَلَى مَنْ يَسْتَخْرِجُ الْحُقُوقَ قَالَ نَعَمْ فَدَلَّهُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ص وَ كَانَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ يَقُولُ لَيْتَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ إِلَيَّ حَاجَةً فَأَسْخَرَ بِهِ وَ أَرُدَّهُ فَأَتَى الرَّجُلُ النَّبِيَّ ص فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ بَيْنَكَ وَ بَيْنَ عَمْرِو بْنِ هِشَامٍ حَسَنٌ‏ وَ أَنَا أَسْتَشْفِعُ بِكَ إِلَيْهِ

He said, ‘Shall I point you to someone who tends to extract the rights?’ He said, ‘Yes’. He pointed him to Muhammad^-saww, and Abu Jahl^-la had said, ‘If only there was a need for Muhammad^-saww to me, so I can mock him^-saww and return him^-saww’. The man came to the Prophet^-saww and said to him^-saww, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! It has reached me that there is goodness between you^-saww and Amro Bin Hisham, and I see intercession with you^-saww to him’.

فَقَامَ مَعَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَأَتَى بَابَهُ فَقَالَ لَهُ قُمْ يَا أَبَا جَهْلٍ فَأَدِّ إِلَى الرَّجُلِ حَقَّهُ وَ إِنَّمَا كَنَّاهُ أَبَا جَهْلٍ‏ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمَ فَقَامَ مُسْرِعاً حَتَّى أَدَّى إِلَيْهِ حَقَّهُ فَلَمَّا رَجَعَ إِلَى مَجْلِسِهِ قَالَ لَهُ بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِهِ فَعَلْتَ ذَلِكَ فَرَقاً مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ

Rasool-Allah^-saww stood up with him and came to his door and said to him: ‘Arise, O Abu Jahl^-la, and return to the man his right!’ And rather he^-saww teknonymed him as ‘Abu Jahl’ (father of ignorance) on that day. He arose hurriedly until he gave him his right. When he returned to his seat, one of his companions said to him, ‘You did that from fear of Muhammad^-saww’.

قَالَ وَيْحَكُمْ أَعْذِرُونِي إِنَّهُ لَمَّا أَقْبَلَ رَأَيْتُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ رِجَالًا بِأَيْدِيهِمْ حِرَابٌ تَتَلَأْلَأُ وَ عَنْ يَسَارِهِ ثُعْبَانَانِ‏ تَصْطَكُّ أَسْنَانُهُمَا وَ تَلْمَعُ النِّيرَانُ مِنْ أَبْصَارِهِمَا لَوِ امْتَنَعْتُ لَمْ آمَنْ أَنْ يَبْعَجُوا بِالْحِرَابِ بَطْنِي وَ يَقْضَمَنِي الثُّعْبَانَانِ

He said, ‘Woe be unto you! Excuse me, when I saw him^-saww (there were) men on his^-saww right having flaming bayonets in their hands, and on his^-saww left were two serpents grinding their fangs, and flames were shining from their eyes. If I had refused, I would not have been safe from my belly being slit with the bayonet and the serpents to suffocate me’.

هَذَا أَكْبَرُ مِمَّا أُعْطِيَ مُوسَى ع ثُعْبَانٌ بِثُعْبَانِ مُوسَى ع وَ زَادَ اللَّهُ مُحَمَّداً ص ثُعْبَاناً وَ ثَمَانِيَةَ أَمْلَاكٍ مَعَهُمُ الْحِرَابُ وَ لَقَدْ كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ص يُؤْذِي قُرَيْشاً بِالدُّعَاءِ فَقَامَ يَوْماً فَسَفَّهَ أَحْلَامَهُمْ‏ وَ عَابَ دِينَهُمْ وَ شَتَمَ أَصْنَامَهُمْ وَ ضَلَّلَ آبَاءَهُمْ فَاغْتَمُّوا مِنْ ذَلِكَ غَمّاً شَدِيداً

This is greater than what Musa^-as was Given, serpent by serpent of Musa^-as, and Allah^-azwj Increased Musa^-as by one (more) serpent and eight Angels having bayonets with them, and the Prophet^-saww had hurt Qureysh with the supplication. One day he^-saww stood up and interpreted their dreams, and faulted their Religion and accused their idols and the straying of their forefathers. They were gloomy from that with a severe gloom.

فَقَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ وَ اللَّهِ لَلْمَوْتُ خَيْرٌ لَنَا مِنَ الْحَيَاةِ فَلَيْسَ فِيكُمْ مَعَاشِرَ قُرَيْشٍ أَحَدٌ يَقْتُلُ مُحَمَّداً ص فَيُقْتَلَ بِهِ فَقَالُوا لَهُ لَا قَالَ فَأَنَا أَقْتُلُهُ فَإِنْ شَاءَتْ بَنُو عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ قَتَلُونِي بِهِ وَ إِلَّا تَرَكُونِي قَالُوا إِنَّكَ‏ إِنْ فَعَلْتَ ذَلِكَ اصْطَنَعْتَ إِلَى أَهْلِ الْوَادِي مَعْرُوفاً لَا تَزَالُ تُذْكَرُ بِهِ

Abu Jahl^-la said: ‘By Allah^-azwj! The death is better for us than the life. Isn’t there anyone among you – the community of Qureysh who can kill Muhammad^-saww, and be killed (in retaliation) due to it?’ They said to him, ‘No’. He said, ‘Then I^-la will kill him^-saww, so if the Clan of Abdul Muttalib^-asws so desire, they can kill me^-la due to it, or else you leave me’. They said, ‘If you were to do that, you will become famous among the people of the valleys. You will not cease to be mentioned with it’.

قَالَ إِنَّهُ كَثِيرُ السُّجُودِ حَوْلَ الْكَعْبَةِ فَإِذَا جَاءَ وَ سَجَدَ أَخَذْتُ حَجَراً فَشَدَخْتُهُ بِهِ فَجَاءَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَطَافَ بِالْبَيْتِ أُسْبُوعاً ثُمَّ صَلَّى وَ أَطَالَ السُّجُودَ فَأَخَذَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ حَجَراً فَأَتَاهُ مِنْ قِبَلِ رَأْسِهِ فَلَمَّا أَنْ قَرُبَ مِنْهُ أَقْبَلَ فَحْلٌ مِنْ قِبَلِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَاغِراً فَاهُ‏ نَحْوَهُ فَلَمَّا أَنْ رَآهُ أَبُو جَهْلٍ فَزِعَ مِنْهُ وَ ارْتَعَدَتْ يَدُهُ وَ طَرَحَ الْحَجَرَ فَشَدَخَ رِجْلَهُ

He said, ‘He^-saww is frequent of performing Sajdahs around the Kabah. When he^-saww comes and does Sajdah, you^-la take a rock and hit him^-saww with it’. Rasool-Allah^-saww came and performed Tawaaf of the House (Kabah), seven circuits, then prayed Salat and prolong the Sajdahs. Abu Jahl^-la grabbed a rock and came to him^-saww from the direction of his^-saww head. When he^-la was near him^-saww, a bull came from the direction of Rasool-Allah^-saww and opened its mouth around him^-la. When Abu Jahl^-la saw it, panicked from it, and his^-la hand hesitated, and the rock fell and injured his^-la leg (foot).

فَرَجَعَ مُدْمًى مُتَغَيِّرَ اللَّوْنِ يُفِيضُ عَرَقاً فَقَالَ لَهُ أَصْحَابُهُ مَا رَأَيْنَا كَالْيَوْمِ‏ قَالَ وَيْحَكُمْ أَعْذِرُونِي فَإِنَّهُ أَقْبَلَ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ فَحْلٌ فَاغِراً فَاهُ فَكَادَ يَبْلَعُنِي‏ فَرَمَيْتُ بِالْحَجَرِ فَشَدَخْتُ رِجْلِي

He^-la returned tearful, changed of colour, sweating profusely. His^-la companions said to him^-la, ‘We have not seen you^-la like today’. He^-la said, ‘Woe be unto you! Excuse me^-la, for a bull came from him^-saww and opened its mouth it almost swallowed me. I^-la threw the rock and injured my own leg’’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ مُوسَى ع قَدْ أُعْطِيَ الْيَدَ الْبَيْضَاءَ فَهَلْ فُعِلَ بِمُحَمَّدٍ شَيْ‏ءٌ مِنْ هَذَا

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Musa^-as had been Given the white hand, so has something from this been done with Muhammad^-saww?’

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أُعْطِيَ مَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ هَذَا إِنَّ نُوراً كَانَ يُضِي‏ءُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ حَيْثُمَا جَلَسَ وَ عَنْ يَسَارِهِ أَيْنَمَا جَلَسَ وَ كَانَ يَرَاهُ النَّاسُ كُلُّهُمْ

He^-asws said: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was Given what is superior to this. A Noor would illuminate from his^-saww right wherever he^-saww sat, and from his^-saww left wherever he^-saww sat, and all the people could see him^-saww’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ مُوسَى ع قَدْ ضُرِبَ لَهُ فِي الْبَحْرِ طَرِيقٌ فَهَلْ فُعِلَ بِمُحَمَّدٍ شَيْ‏ءٌ مِنْ هَذَا

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Musa^-as, a path was struck for him^-as in the sea, so was anything from this done with Muhammad^-saww?’

فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أُعْطِيَ مَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ هَذَا خَرَجْنَا مَعَهُ إِلَى حُنَيْنٍ فَإِذَا نَحْنُ بِوَادٍ يَشْخُبُ‏ فَقَدَّرْنَاهُ فَإِذَا هُوَ أَرْبَعَ عَشْرَةَ قَامَةً فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ الْعَدُوُّ مِنْ وَرَائِنَا وَ الْوَادِي أَمَامَنَا كَمَا قالَ أَصْحابُ مُوسى‏ إِنَّا لَمُدْرَكُونَ‏

He^-asws said: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was Given what is superior than this. We went out with him^-saww to (battle of) Hunayn, and there we were by a valley flowing (with water), and we measured it and it was of fourteen statures. They said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! The enemies are behind us and the valley is in front of us’, just as the companions of Musa said, ‘We are being overtaken’ [26:61].

فَنَزَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ثُمَّ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّكَ جَعَلْتَ لِكُلِّ مُرْسَلٍ دَلَالَةً فَأَرِنِي قُدْرَتَكَ وَ رَكِبَ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ فَعَبَرَتِ الْخَيْلُ لَا تَنْدَى‏ حَوَافِرُهَا وَ الْإِبِلُ لَا تَنْدَى أَخْفَافُهَا فَرَجَعْنَا فَكَانَ فَتْحُنَا

Rasool-Allah^-saww descended, then said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! You^-azwj Made evidence to be for every Messenger^-as. Show me^-saww Your^-azwj Power!’ and he^-saww rode and the horses crossed over without even wetting their hooves, and the camels did not wet their knees. We returned being victorious’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ مُوسَى ع قَدْ أُعْطِيَ الْحَجَرَ فَانْبَجَسَتْ مِنْهُ اثْنَتا عَشْرَةَ عَيْناً

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Musa^-as was Given the rock So there gushed out twelve springs from it [7:160]’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص لَمَّا نَزَلَ الْحُدَيْبِيَةَ وَ حَاصَرَهُ أَهْلُ مَكَّةَ قَدْ أُعْطِيَ أَفْضَلَ مِنْ‏ ذَلِكَ وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ أَصْحَابَهُ شَكَوْا إِلَيْهِ الظَّمَاءَ وَ أَصَابَهُمْ ذَلِكَ حَتَّى الْتَقَتْ خَوَاصِرُ الْخَيْلِ فَذَكَرُوا لَهُ ذَلِكَ فَدَعَا بِرَكْوَةٍ يَمَانِيَّةٍ ثُمَّ نَصَبَ يَدَهُ الْمُبَارَكَةَ فِيهَا فَتَفَرَّجَتْ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَصَابِعِهِ عُيُونُ الْمَاءِ فَصَدَرْنَا وَ صَدَرَتِ الْخَيْلُ رِوَاءً وَ مَلَأْنَا كُلَّ مَزَادَةٍ وَ سِقَاءٍ وَ لَقَدْ كُنَّا مَعَهُ بِالْحُدَيْبِيَةِ

Ali^-asws said: ‘It has been like that, and when Muhammad^-saww descended at Hudaybiyya and the people of Makkah besieged him^-saww, was Given superior than that, and that is that his^-saww companions complained to him^-saww of the thirst to the extent that the sides of the horses were stuck (out of thrust), and they mentioned that to him^-saww. He^-saww called for a Yemei hot-pot, then inserted his^-saww Blessed hand in it and a spring of water burst forth from between his^-saww fingers. We quenched and quenched our horses and every one filled up a container, and we were with him^-saww at Hudaybiyya.

وَ إِذَا ثَمَّ قَلِيبٌ‏ جَافَّةٌ فَأَخْرَجَ ص سَهْماً مِنْ كِنَانَتِهِ فَنَاوَلَهُ الْبَرَاءَ بْنَ عَازِبٍ فَقَالَ لَهُ اذْهَبْ بِهَذَا السَّهْمِ إِلَى تِلْكَ الْقَلِيبِ الْجَافَّةِ فَاغْرِسْهُ فِيهَا فَفَعَلَ ذَلِكَ فَتَفَجَّرَتْ مِنْهُ اثْنَتَا عَشْرَةَ عَيْناً مِنْ تَحْتِ السَّهْمِ وَ لَقَدْ كَانَ يَوْمُ الْمِيضَاةِ عِبْرَةً وَ عَلَامَةً لِلْمُنْكِرِينَ لِنُبُوَّتِهِ كَحَجَرِ مُوسَى ع حَيْثُ دَعَا بِالْمِيضَاةِ فَنَصَبَ يَدَهُ فِيهَا فَفَاضَتْ بِالْمَاءِ وَ ارْتَفَعَ حَتَّى تَوَضَّأَ مِنْهُ ثَمَانِيَةُ آلَافِ رَجُلٍ وَ شَرِبُوا حَاجَتَهُمْ وَ سَقَوْا دَوَابَّهُمْ وَ حَمَلُوا مَا أَرَادُوا

And when the old well dried, Rasool-Allah^-saww brought out an arrow from his^-saww quiver and gave it to Al Bara’a Bin Aazib and said to him: ‘Go with this arrow to that dried-up well and install it therein. He did that, and twelve springs burst forth from beneath the arrow, and it was the day of performing ablutions as a lesson and a sign for the deniers of his^-saww Prophet-hood, like the rock of Musa^-as where he called for an ablution tray and inserted his^-as hand in it, and it filled up with the water at it rose until eight thousand men had performed ablution in it? And drank their need and watered their animals? And they carried whatever they wanted’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ مُوسَى ع قَدْ أُعْطِيَ الْمَنَّ وَ السَّلْوَى فَهَلْ فُعِلَ بِمُحَمَّدٍ نَظِيرُ هَذَا

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Musa^-as was Given the Manna and the Quails, so was a match of this done with Muhammad^-saww?’

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أُعْطِيَ مَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ هَذَا إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَحَلَّ لَهُ الْغَنَائِمَ وَ لِأُمَّتِهِ وَ لَمْ تَحِلَّ لِأَحَدٍ قَبْلَهُ فَهَذَا أَفْضَلُ مِنَ الْمَنِّ وَ السَّلْوَى ثُمَّ زَادَهُ أَنْ جَعَلَ النِّيَّةَ لَهُ وَ لِأُمَّتِهِ عَمَلًا صَالِحاً وَ لَمْ يَجْعَلْ لِأَحَدٍ مِنَ الْأُمَمِ‏ ذَلِكَ قَبْلَهُ فَإِذَا هَمَّ أَحَدُهُمْ بِحَسَنَةٍ وَ لَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا كُتِبَتْ لَهُ حَسَنَةٌ وَ إِنْ عَمِلَهَا كُتِبَتْ لَهُ عَشْرٌ

He^-asws said: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was Given what is superior than this. Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Legalised the war booty for him^-saww and for his^-saww community, and did not Legalise it for anyone before him^-saww. This is superior than the Manna and the Quails, then Increased him^-saww by Making Paradise to be for him^-saww and for his^-saww community (who even think of) doing righteous deeds, and did not Make that to be for anyone from the communities before him^-saww. When one of them thinks of doing a good deed and does not actually do it, a good deed is still written for him, and if he does do it, ten are written for him’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ مُوسَى ع قَدْ ظُلِّلَ عَلَيْهِ الْغَمَامُ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Musa^-as, the clouds had shaded him^-as’.

قَالَ لَهُ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ قَدْ فُعِلَ ذَلِكَ لِمُوسَى ع فِي التِّيهِ وَ أُعْطِيَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أَفْضَلَ مِنْ هَذَا إِنَّ الْغَمَامَةَ كَانَتْ تُظَلِّلُهُ مِنْ يَوْمَ وُلِدَ إِلَى يَوْمَ قُبِضَ فِي حَضَرِهِ وَ أَسْفَارِهِ فَهَذَا أَفْضَلُ مِمَّا أُعْطِيَ مُوسَى ع

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and that was done for Musa^-as in the wilderness, and Muhammad^-saww was Given superior to this. The cloud used to shade him^-saww from the day he^-saww was Sent down up to the day he^-saww passed away, during his^-saww staying and his^-saww journeying. This is superior to what Musa^-as was given.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَهَذَا دَاوُدُ ع قَدْ أَلَانَ اللَّهُ‏ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَهُ الْحَدِيدَ فَعَمِلَ مِنْهُ الدُّرُوعَ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Dawood^-as, Allah^-azwj had Softened the iron for him^-as, and he^-as made the coats of mail (armour) from it’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ أُعْطِيَ مَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْهُ إِنَّهُ لَيَّنَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَهُ الصُّمَّ الصُّخُورَ الصِّلَابَ وَ جَعَلَهَا غَاراً وَ لَقَدْ غَارَتِ الصَّخْرَةُ تَحْتَ يَدِهِ بِبَيْتِ الْمَقْدِسِ لِينَةً حَتَّى صَارَتْ كَهَيْئَةِ الْعَجِينِ قَدْ رَأَيْنَا ذَلِكَ وَ الْتَمَسْنَاهُ تَحْتَ رَايَتِهِ

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was Given what is superior than it. Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Softened for him^-saww the solid rock, the slab, and Made it a cave, and the rock had subsided beneath his^-saww hand at Bayt Al-Maqdas until it became as if it was the dough. We had seen that and we had asked him^-saww beneath his^-saww flag’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ هَذَا دَاوُدُ ع بَكَى عَلَى خَطِيئَتِهِ حَتَّى سَارَتِ الْجِبَالُ مَعَهُ لِخَوْفِهِ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Dawood^-as cried upon his^-as mistake until the mountains were crying with him^-as out of his^-as fear’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ أُعْطِيَ مَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ هَذَا إِنَّهُ كَانَ إِذَا قَامَ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ سُمِعَ لِصَدْرِهِ وَ جَوْفِهِ أَزِيزٌ كَأَزِيزِ الْمِرْجَلِ عَلَى الْأَثَافِيِّ مِنْ شِدَّةِ الْبُكَاءِ وَ قَدْ آمَنَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مِنْ عِقَابِهِ فَأَرَادَ أَنْ يَتَخَشَّعَ لِرَبِّهِ بِبُكَائِهِ وَ يَكُونَ إِمَاماً لِمَنِ اقْتَدَى بِهِ

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was Given what is superior than this. When he^-saww stood to the Salat, there was heard for his^-saww chest and his^-saww interior, humming like the humming of the cauldron upon the fire from the severity of the crying, and although Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic had Secured him^-saww from His^-azwj Punishment. He^-saww wanted to be fearful to his^-saww Lord^-azwj with his^-saww crying and become an Imam for the ones who believe in him^-saww.

وَ لَقَدْ قَامَ ص عَشْرَ سِنِينَ عَلَى أَطْرَافِ أَصَابِعِهِ حَتَّى تَوَرَّمَتْ قَدَمَاهُ وَ اصْفَرَّ وَجْهُهُ يَقُومُ اللَّيْلَ أَجْمَعَ حَتَّى عُوتِبَ فِي ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ طه ما أَنْزَلْنا عَلَيْكَ الْقُرْآنَ لِتَشْقى‏ بَلْ لِتَسْعَدَ بِهِ

And he^-saww had stood upon the ends of his toes for twenty years until his feet were swollen and his toes were pale, standing the entire night until he^-saww was Advised regarding that, so Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Said: Ta Ha [20:1] We have not Revealed the Quran unto you for you to be distressed [20:2], but in order for you^-saww to be happy with it.

وَ لَقَدْ كَانَ يَبْكِي حَتَّى يُغْشَى عَلَيْهِ فَقِيلَ لَهُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَ لَيْسَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ قَدْ غَفَرَ لَكَ‏ ما تَقَدَّمَ مِنْ ذَنْبِكَ وَ ما تَأَخَّرَ قَالَ بَلَى أَ فَلَا أَكُونُ عَبْداً شَكُوراً وَ لَئِنْ سَارَتِ الْجِبَالُ وَ سَبَّحَتْ مَعَهُ لَقَدْ عَمِلَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص مَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ هَذَا إِذْ كُنَّا مَعَهُ عَلَى جَبَلِ‏ حِرَاءَ إِذْ تَحَرَّكَ الْجَبَلُ فَقَالَ لَهُ قِرَّ فَلَيْسَ عَلَيْكَ‏ إِلَّا نَبِيٌّ وَ صِدِّيقٌ شَهِيدٌ

And he^-saww had cried until there was unconsciousness upon him^-saww. It was said to him^-saww, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Hasn’t Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Forgiven for you^-saww what has preceded from your^-saww sins and what is delayed?’ He^-saww said: ‘Yes, should I^-saww not become a grateful servant?’, and even if the mountains had cried and glorified with him^-as, Muhammad^-saww had done what is superior than this. When we were with him^-saww upon mount Hira when the mountain trembled. He^-saww said to it: ‘Calm down, for there isn’t upon you except a Prophet^-as and a truthful witness’.

فَقَرَّ الْجَبَلُ مُجِيباً لِأَمْرِهِ وَ مُنْتَهِياً إِلَى طَاعَتِهِ وَ لَقَدْ مَرَرْنَا مَعَهُ بِجَبَلٍ وَ إِذَا الدُّمُوعُ تَخْرُجُ مِنْ بَعْضِهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ‏ مَا يُبْكِيكَ يَا جَبَلُ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَانَ الْمَسِيحُ مَرَّ بِي وَ هُوَ يُخَوِّفُ النَّاسَ بِنَارٍ وَقُودُهَا النَّاسُ وَ الْحِجارَةُ فَأَنَا أَخَافُ أَنْ أَكُونَ مِنْ تِلْكَ الْحِجَارَةِ قَالَ لَهُ لَا تَخَفْ تِلْكَ حِجَارَةُ الْكِبْرِيتِ فَقَرَّ الْجَبَلُ وَ سَكَنَ وَ هَدَأَ وَ أَجَابَ لِقَوْلِهِ

The mountain calmed down in answer to his^-saww orders, and ended up to his^-saww obedience. And we had passed by with him^-saww by a mountain and a trickle was coming out from part of it. He^-saww said to it: ‘What makes you cry, O mountain?’ It said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! The Messiah^-as has passed by me and he^-as was scaring the people of the Fire and its fuel being the people and the stones, so I feared that I might become from those stones’. He^-saww said to it: ‘Do not fear! Those stones are the sulphuric ones’. The mountain calmed down and settled and abated and answered to his^-saww words’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ هَذَا سُلَيْمَانُ ع أُعْطِيَ مُلْكاً لَا يَنْبَغِي لِأَحَدٍ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Suleyman^-as was Given a great kingdom not befitting for anyone from after him^-as’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أُعْطِيَ مَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ هَذَا إِنَّهُ هَبَطَ إِلَيْهِ مَلَكٌ لَمْ يَهْبِطْ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ قَبْلَهُ وَ هُوَ مِيكَائِيلُ فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ عِشْ مَلِكاً مُنْعَماً وَ هَذِهِ مَفَاتِيحُ خَزَائِنِ الْأَرْضِ مَعَكَ وَ تَسِيرُ مَعَكَ جِبَالُهَا ذَهَباً وَ فِضَّةً وَ لَا يَنْقُصُ لَكَ فِيمَا ادُّخِرَ لَكَ فِي الْآخِرَةِ شَيْ‏ءٌ

Ali^-asws said: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was Given what is superior than this. An Angel descended to him^-saww, one who had not descended to the earth before it, and it was Mikaeel^-as. He^-as said to him^-saww: ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Live a (life of a) bountiful king, and these are the keys of the treasures of the earth with you^-saww, and its mountain would become gold and silver for you^-saww. It will not reduce for you^-saww regarding what is Hoarded for you^-saww in the Hereafter by anything’.

فَأَوْمَأَ إِلَى جَبْرَئِيلَ ع وَ كَانَ خَلِيلَهُ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ فَأَشَارَ إِلَيْهِ أَنْ تَوَاضَعْ فَقَالَ بَلْ أَعِيشُ نَبِيّاً عَبْداً آكُلُ يَوْماً وَ لَا آكُلُ يَوْمَيْنِ وَ أَلْحَقُ بِإِخْوَانِي مِنَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ مِنْ قَبْلِي

He^-as gestured towards Jibraeel^-as – and he^-as was his^-saww friend from the Angels – and gestured to him^-as that he^-saww will be humble and said: ‘But, I^-saww shall live like a slave Prophet^-saww, eating one day and not eating two days, and meet up with my^-saww brothers from the Prophets^-as from before me^-saww’.

فَزَادَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى الْكَوْثَرَ وَ أَعْطَاهُ الشَّفَاعَةَ وَ ذَلِكَ أَعْظَمُ مِنْ مُلْكِ الدُّنْيَا مِنْ أَوَّلِهَا إِلَى آخِرِهَا سَبْعِينَ مَرَّةً وَ وَعَدَهُ الْمَقَامَ الْمَحْمُودَ فَإِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ أَقْعَدَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَلَى الْعَرْشِ فَهَذَا أَفْضَلُ مِمَّا أُعْطِيَ سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ ع

Allah^-azwj the Exalted Increased him^-saww with Al-Kawser, and Gave him^-saww the (right of) intercession, and that is greater than the kingdom of the world, from its beginning to its end seventy times, and Promised him^-saww the Praiseworthy Position (Al Maqam Al Mahmoud). So, when it will be the Day of Qiyamah, Allah^-azwj the Exalted will Make him^-saww to be seated upon the Throne. Thus, this is superior than what Suleyman^-as Bin Dawood^-as was Given’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ هَذَا سُلَيْمَانُ ع قَدْ سُخِّرَتْ لَهُ الرِّيَاحُ فَسَارَتْ بِهِ فِي بِلَادِهِ‏ غُدُوُّها شَهْرٌ وَ رَواحُها شَهْرٌ ‏

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Suleyman^-as, the winds were subdued to him^-as and he^-as travelled by it in his^-as country, going for a month and coming back a month’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أُعْطِيَ مَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ هَذَا إِنَّهُ أُسْرِيَ بِهِ‏ مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرامِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الْأَقْصَى‏ مَسِيرَةَ شَهْرٍ وَ عُرِجَ بِهِ فِي مَلَكُوتِ السَّمَاوَاتِ مَسِيرَةَ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ عَامٍ فِي أَقَلَّ مِنْ ثُلُثِ لَيْلَةٍ حَتَّى انْتَهَى إِلَى سَاقِ الْعَرْشِ فَ دَنا بِالْعِلْمِ‏ فَتَدَلَّى‏ فَدُلِّيَ لَهُ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ رَفْرَفٌ أَخْضَرُ وَ غَشِيَ النُّورُ بَصَرَهُ فَرَأَى عَظَمَةَ رَبِّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِفُؤَادِهِ وَ لَمْ يَرَهَا بِعَيْنِهِ‏

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was Given what is superior than this. He^-saww was Ascended with from the Sacred Masjid to Al-Aqsa Masjid, a travel distance of a month, and there was an Ascension with him^-saww in the kingdoms of the skies, a travel distance of fifty thousand years, in less than a third of the night until he^-saww ended up to the Base of the Throne. He^-saww approached with the knowledge and bowed, and there came down for him^-saww a green carpet from Paradise, and the Noor overwhelmed his^-saww sight, and he^-saww saw the Magnificence of his^-saww Lord^-azwj Mighty and Majestic by his^-saww heart, and did not see Him^-azwj with his^-saww eyes.

فَكانَ قابَ قَوْسَيْنِ‏ بَيْنَهَا وَ بَيْنَهُ‏ أَوْ أَدْنى‏ فَأَوْحى‏ إِلى‏ عَبْدِهِ ما أَوْحى‏ فَكَانَ فِيمَا أَوْحَى إِلَيْهِ الْآيَةُ الَّتِي فِي سُورَةِ الْبَقَرَةِ قَوْلُهُ‏ لِلَّهِ ما فِي السَّماواتِ وَ ما فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ إِنْ تُبْدُوا ما فِي أَنْفُسِكُمْ أَوْ تُخْفُوهُ يُحاسِبْكُمْ بِهِ اللَّهُ فَيَغْفِرُ لِمَنْ يَشاءُ وَ يُعَذِّبُ مَنْ يَشاءُ وَ اللَّهُ عَلى‏ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ قَدِيرٌ

There was between him^-saww and Him^-azwj two bows or even closer, and He^-azwj Revealed to His^-azwj servant what He^-azwj Revealed, the Verse which is in Surah Al Bawarah, His^-azwj Words: For Allah is whatever is in the skies and whatever is in the earth; and if you are revealing what is within yourselves or you are hiding it, Allah will Reckon you with it. Then He will Forgive the one He so Desires to and He will Punish the one He so Desires to; and Allah Is Able upon all things [2:284].

وَ كَانَتِ الْآيَةُ قَدْ عُرِضَتْ عَلَى الْأَنْبِيَاءِ مِنْ لَدُنْ آدَمَ ع إِلَى أَنْ بَعَثَ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ اسْمُهُ مُحَمَّداً وَ عُرِضَتْ عَلَى الْأُمَمِ فَأَبَوْا أَنْ يَقْبَلُوهَا مِنْ ثِقْلِهَا وَ قَبِلَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَرَضَهَا عَلَى أُمَّتِهِ فَقَبِلُوهَا فَلَمَّا رَأَى اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى مِنْهُمُ الْقَبُولَ عَلِمَ أَنَّهُمْ لَا يُطِيقُونَهَا

And the Verse had been Presented unto the Prophets^-as from Adam^-as until Allah^-azwj, Blessed is His^-azwj Name, Sent Muhammad^-saww, and it was Presented unto the communities, but they refused to accept it due to its heaviness, and Rasool-Allah^-saww accepted it and presented it unto his^-saww community, and they accepted it. When Allah^-azwj Blessed and Exalted Saw the acceptance from them, Knew that they would not be able to tolerate it.

فَلَمَّا أَنْ صَارَ إِلَى سَاقِ الْعَرْشِ كَرَّرَ عَلَيْهِ الْكَلَامَ لِيُفْهِمَهُ فَقَالَ‏ آمَنَ الرَّسُولُ بِما أُنْزِلَ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ رَبِّهِ‏ فَأَجَابَ ص مُجِيباً عَنْهُ وَ عَنْ أُمَّتِهِ فَقَالَ‏ وَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ كُلٌّ آمَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَ مَلائِكَتِهِ وَ كُتُبِهِ وَ رُسُلِهِ لا نُفَرِّقُ بَيْنَ أَحَدٍ مِنْ رُسُلِهِ‏

When he^-saww came to the Base of the Throne, He^-azwj Repeated the Speech unto him^-saww to Make him^-saww understand it. He^-azwj Said: ‘(Allah Said): “The Rasool believes in what is Revealed unto him from his Lord”. [2:285]. He^-saww answered on his^-saww behalf and on behalf of his^-saww community saying: ‘And (so do) the Momineen. They all believe in Allah, and His Angels, and His Books. They do not differentiate between any one of His Rasools’. [2:285].

فَقَالَ جَلَّ ذِكْرُهُ لَهُمُ الْجَنَّةُ وَ الْمَغْفِرَةُ عَلَى أَنْ فَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص أَمَّا إِذْ فَعَلْتَ‏ بِنَا ذَلِكَ فَ غُفْرانَكَ رَبَّنا وَ إِلَيْكَ الْمَصِيرُ يَعْنِي الْمَرْجِعَ فِي الْآخِرَةِ قَالَ فَأَجَابَهُ اللَّهُ جَلَّ ثَنَاؤُهُ وَ قَدْ فَعَلْتُ ذَلِكَ بِكَ وَ بِأُمَّتِكَ

He^-azwj, Majestic is His^-azwj Mention Said: “For them is Paradise, and the Forgiveness is upon Me^-azwj if they were to do that”. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘But when You^-azwj Do that with us, ‘Yours is the Forgiveness, our Lord, and to You is the Destination’. [2:285], i.e., the return in the Hereafter. Allah^-azwj, Majestic is His^-azwj Praise, Said: “And I^-azwj had Done that with you^-saww and with your^-saww community”.

ثُمَّ قَالَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَمَّا إِذْ قَبِلْتَ الْآيَةَ بِتَشْدِيدِهَا وَ عِظَمِ مَا فِيهَا وَ قَدْ عَرَضْتُهَا عَلَى الْأُمَمِ فَأَبَوْا أَنْ يَقْبَلُوهَا وَ قَبِلَتْهَا أُمَّتُكَ فَحَقَّ عَلَيَّ أَنْ أَرْفَعَهَا عَنْ أُمَّتِكَ فَقَالَ‏ لا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْساً إِلَّا وُسْعَها لَها ما كَسَبَتْ‏ مِنْ خَيْرٍ وَ عَلَيْها مَا اكْتَسَبَتْ‏ مِنْ شَرٍّ

Then the Mighty and Majestic Said: “But, when you^-saww accepted the Verse with its difficulties and revered what is therein, and I^-azwj had Presented it unto the communities, but they refused to accept it, but your^-saww community accepted it, so there is a right upon Me^-azwj that I^-azwj Raise it from your^-saww community. He^-azwj Said: “Allah does not Encumber a soul except to its capacity. For it would be what it earned  – from good, and against it would be what it earned”. [2:286] – from evil.

فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص لَمَّا سَمِعَ ذَلِكَ أَمَّا إِذْ فَعَلْتَ ذَلِكَ بِي وَ بِأُمَّتِي فَزِدْنِي قَالَ سَلْ قَالَ‏ رَبَّنا لا تُؤاخِذْنا إِنْ نَسِينا أَوْ أَخْطَأْنا

The Prophet^-saww said when he^-saww heard that: ‘But when You^-azwj had Done that with Me^-azwj and with my^-saww community, then Increase it for me^-saww’. He^-azwj Said: “Ask!” He^-saww said ‘Our Lord! Do not Seize us if we forget or we make a mistake’.

قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَسْتُ أُؤَاخِذُ أُمَّتَكَ بِالنِّسْيَانِ وَ الْخَطَإِ لِكَرَامَتِكَ عَلَيَّ وَ كَانَتِ الْأُمَمُ السَّالِفَةُ إِذَا نَسُوا مَا ذُكِّرُوا بِهِ فَتَحْتُ عَلَيْهِمْ أَبْوَابَ الْعَذَابِ وَ قَدْ رَفَعْتُ ذَلِكَ عَنْ أُمَّتِكَ وَ كَانَتِ الْأُمَمُ السَّالِفَةُ إِذَا أَخْطَئُوا أُخِذُوا بِالْخَطَإِ وَ عُوقِبُوا عَلَيْهِ وَ قَدْ رَفَعْتُ ذَلِكَ عَنْ أُمَّتِكَ لِكَرَامَتِكَ عَلَيَ‏

Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Said: “I^-azwj will not Seize your^-saww community for the forgetfulness and the errors due to your^-saww Prestige with Me^-azwj. And the past communities, when they forgot what I^-azwj had Reminded them of, I^-azwj Opened the Gates of Punishment upon them, and I^-azwj have Lifted that from your^-saww community. And when the past communities used to sin, I^-azwj Seized them due to their sins and Punished them, and I^-azwj have Lifted that from your^-saww community due to your^-saww Prestige with Me^-azwj”.

فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص اللَّهُمَّ إِذْ أَعْطَيْتَنِي ذَلِكَ فَزِدْنِي فَقَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى لَهُ سَلْ قَالَ‏ رَبَّنا وَ لا تَحْمِلْ عَلَيْنا إِصْراً كَما حَمَلْتَهُ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِنا يَعْنِي بِالْإِصْرِ الشَّدَائِدَ الَّتِي كَانَتْ عَلَى مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَنَا

The Prophet^-saww said: ‘Our Allah^-azwj! Since You^-azwj have Granted me^-saww that, therefore Increase it for me^-saww’. So Allah^-azwj the High Said to him^-saww: “Ask”. He^-saww said: ‘Our Lord! And do not Load upon us a burden like what You Loaded upon those from before us [2:286] – meaning by the burden, the difficulties which were upon the ones who were before us’.

فَأَجَابَهُ اللَّهُ إِلَى ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ تَبَارَكَ اسْمُهُ قَدْ رَفَعْتُ عَنْ أُمَّتِكَ الْآصَارَ الَّتِي كَانَتْ عَلَى الْأُمَمِ السَّالِفَةِ كُنْتُ لَا أَقْبَلُ صَلَاتَهُمْ إِلَّا فِي بِقَاعٍ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ مَعْلُومَةٍ اخْتَرْتُهَا لَهُمْ وَ إِنْ بَعُدَتْ وَ قَدْ جَعَلْتُ الْأَرْضَ كُلَّهَا لِأُمَّتِكَ مَسْجِداً وَ طَهُوراً فَهَذِهِ مِنَ الْآصَارِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ عَلَى الْأُمَمِ قَبْلَكَ فَرَفَعْتُهَا عَنْ أُمَّتِكَ

Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Answered him^-saww to that, so Blessed is His^-azwj Name Said: “I^-azwj have Lifted the burden from your^-saww community which was upon the communities of the past. I^-azwj did not Accept their Salat except in a known place on the earth even if it was remote, and Made the whole of the earth a Masjid for your^-saww community, and its sand pure. So this is from the difficulties upon the communities before you^-saww. I^-azwj have thus Lifted it from your^-saww community (due to your^-saww prestige).

وَ كَانَتِ الْأُمَمُ السَّالِفَةُ إِذَا أَصَابَهُمْ أَذًى مِنْ نَجَاسَةٍ قَرَضُوهَا مِنْ أَجْسَادِهِمْ وَ قَدْ جَعَلْتُ الْمَاءَ لِأُمَّتِكَ طَهُوراً فَهَذِهِ مِنَ الْآصَارِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ فَرَفَعْتُهَا عَنْ أُمَّتِكَ

And the past communities, whenever they were harmed by the impurities upon their bodies, they had to bite it off, and I^-azwj have Made the water for your^-saww communities for purification. So, this is from the difficulties which were upon them. I^-azwj have Lifted it from your^-saww community.

وَ كَانَتِ الْأُمَمُ السَّالِفَةُ تَحْمِلُ قَرَابِينَهَا عَلَى أَعْنَاقِهَا إِلَى بَيْتِ الْمَقْدِسِ فَمَنْ قَبِلْتُ ذَلِكَ مِنْهُ أَرْسَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ نَاراً فَأَكَلَتْهُ فَرَجَعَ مَسْرُوراً وَ مَنْ لَمْ أَقْبَلْ ذَلِكَ مِنْهُ رَجَعَ مَثْبُوراً وَ قَدْ جَعَلْتُ قُرْبَانَ أُمَّتِكَ فِي بُطُونِ فُقَرَائِهَا وَ مَسَاكِينِهَا فَمَنْ قَبِلْتُ ذَلِكَ مِنْهُ أَضْعَفْتُ ذَلِكَ لَهُ أَضْعَافاً مُضَاعَفَةً وَ مَنْ لَمْ أَقْبَلْ ذَلِكَ مِنْهُ رَفَعْتُ عَنْهُ عُقُوبَاتِ الدُّنْيَا وَ قَدْ رَفَعْتُ ذَلِكَ عَنْ أُمَّتِكَ وَ هِيَ مِنَ الْآصَارِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ عَلَى مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكَ

And the previous communities had to carry their sacrifices upon their necks to Bayt Al-Maqdas. So from whoever that was Accepted, a fire was sent to it which consumed it, so he returned happy, and the one from whom it was not Accepted, returned miserable. And I^-azwj have Made the sacrificial offerings of your^-saww community to go into the stomachs of its poor and the needy ones. So the ones from it who accept that I^-azwj shall Multiply for him with a multiplication, and the ones from it who do not accept that, I^-azwj shall Lift from him the Punishment of the world, and I^-azwj have Lifted that from your^-saww community, and it is from the difficulties which were upon the communities from before you^-saww.

وَ كَانَتِ الْأُمَمُ السَّالِفَةُ صَلَوَاتُهَا مَفْرُوضَةٌ عَلَيْهَا فِي ظُلَمِ اللَّيْلِ وَ أَنْصَافِ النَّهَارِ وَ هِيَ مِنَ الشَّدَائِدِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ فَرَفَعْتُهَا عَنْ أُمَّتِكَ وَ فَرَضْتُ عَلَيْهِمْ صَلَاتَهُمْ فِي أَطْرَافِ اللَّيْلِ وَ النَّهَارِ فِي‏ أَوْقَاتِ نَشَاطِهِمْ

And the communities before you^-saww, its Salat were Obligatory upon it in the darkness of the night and midday, and it was from the difficulties which were upon them, so I^-azwj Lifted it from your^-saww communities, and Obligated their Salat to be in the points (the end and the beginning) of the night and the day, and during the times of their activities.

وَ كَانَتِ الْأُمَمُ السَّالِفَةُ قَدْ فَرَضْتُ عَلَيْهِمْ خَمْسِينَ صَلَاةً فِي خَمْسِينَ وَقْتاً وَ هِيَ مِنَ الْآصَارِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ فَرَفَعْتُهَا عَنْ أُمَّتِكَ وَ جَعَلْتُهَا خَمْساً فِي خَمْسَةِ أَوْقَاتٍ وَ هِيَ إِحْدَى وَ خَمْسُونَ رَكْعَةً وَ جَعَلْتُ لَهُمْ أَجْرَ خَمْسِينَ صَلَاةً

And the past communities, fifty Salat were Obligated upon them during fifty times, and this is from the difficulties which were upon them, so I^-azwj Lifted it from your^-saww communities and Made it a five (Salat) during five times, and these are fifty-one (51) Units (Rakats), and Made the Recompense for them to be of fifty Salat.

وَ كَانَتِ الْأُمَمُ السَّالِفَةُ حَسَنَتُهُمْ بِحَسَنَةٍ وَ سَيِّئَتُهُمْ بِسَيِّئَةٍ وَ هِيَ مِنَ الْآصَارِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ فَرَفَعْتُهَا عَنْ أُمَّتِكَ وَ جَعَلْتُ الْحَسَنَةَ بِعَشَرَةٍ وَ السَّيِّئَةَ بِوَاحِدَةٍ

And the past communities had one Reward for each of their good deeds and one sin to be counted as one, and this is from the difficulties which were upon them, so I^-azwj Lifted it from your^-saww community, and Made one good deeds to be Counted as ten, and the sin to be Counted as one.

وَ كَانَتِ الْأُمَمُ السَّالِفَةُ إِذَا نَوَى أَحَدُهُمْ حَسَنَةً ثُمَّ لَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا لَمْ تُكْتَبْ لَهُ وَ إِنْ عَمِلَهَا كُتِبَتْ لَهُ حَسَنَةٌ وَ إِنَّ أُمَّتَكَ إِذَا هَمَّ أَحَدُهُمْ بِحَسَنَةٍ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا كُتِبَتْ لَهُ حَسَنَةٌ وَ إِنْ عَمِلَهَا كُتِبَتْ لَهُ عَشْراً وَ هِيَ مِنَ الْآصَارِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ فَرَفَعْتُهَا عَنْ أُمَّتِكَ ‏

And the past communities, when one of them intended a good deed, then did not do it, it was not Written down for him, and if he did do it, one Reward was Written down for him, whereas when one of your^-saww community intends a good deed, then does not do it, a good deed is Written down for him even if he has not done it, and if he were to do it, ten are Written down for him. And this is from the difficulties which were upon them, so I^-azwj Lifted it from your^-saww community.

وَ كَانَتِ الْأُمَمُ السَّالِفَةُ إِذَا هَمَّ أَحَدُهُمْ بِسَيِّئَةٍ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا لَمْ تُكْتَبْ عَلَيْهِ وَ إِنْ عَمِلَهَا كُتِبَتْ عَلَيْهِ سَيِّئَةٌ وَ إِنَّ أُمَّتَكَ إِذَا هَمَّ أَحَدُهُمْ بِسَيِّئَةٍ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا كُتِبَتْ لَهُ حَسَنَةٌ وَ هَذِهِ مِنَ الْآصَارِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ فَرَفَعْتُ ذَلِكَ عَنْ أُمَّتِكَ

And the past communities, when one of them thought of sinning then did not do it, it was not Written down for him, and if he did do it, one sin was Written down for him. And if one of your^-saww community thinks of sinning, then does not do it, a good deed is Written down for him, and this is from the difficulties which were upon them, so I^-azwj Lifted it from your^-saww community.

وَ كَانَتِ الْأُمَمُ السَّالِفَةُ إِذَا أَذْنَبُوا كَتَبْتُ ذُنُوبَهُمْ عَلَى أَبْوَابِهِمْ وَ جَعَلْتُ تَوْبَتَهُمْ مِنَ الذُّنُوبِ أَنْ حَرَّمْتُ عَلَيْهِمْ بَعْدَ التَّوْبَةِ أَحَبَّ الطَّعَامِ إِلَيْهِمْ وَ قَدْ رَفَعْتُ ذَلِكَ عَنْ أُمَّتِكَ وَ جَعَلْتُ ذُنُوبَهُمْ فِيمَا بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَ جَعَلْتُ عَلَيْهِمْ سُتُوراً كَثِيفَةً وَ قَبِلْتُ تَوْبَتَهُمْ بِلَا عُقُوبَةٍ وَ لَا أُعَاقِبُهُمْ بِأَنْ أُحَرِّمَ عَلَيْهِمْ أَحَبَّ الطَّعَامِ إِلَيْهِمْ

And the past communities, when they sinned, their sins were written upon their doors, and Made a repentance for them that a seed of food was Prohibited upon them (as a penance if they sinned again), and I^-azwj have Lifted that from your^-saww community, and Made their sins to be between Myself^-azwj and them, and Made a dense Veil to them, and Accepted their repentance without a Punishment, and do not Punish them by Forbidding a seed of food upon them.

وَ كَانَتِ الْأُمَمُ السَّالِفَةُ يَتُوبُ أَحَدُهُمْ مِنَ الذَّنْبِ الْوَاحِدِ مِائَةَ سَنَةٍ أَوْ ثَمَانِينَ سَنَةً أَوْ خَمْسِينَ سَنَةً ثُمَّ لَا أَقْبَلُ تَوْبَتَهُ دُونَ أَنْ أُعَاقِبَهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا بِعُقُوبَةٍ وَ هِيَ مِنَ الْآصَارِ الَّتِي كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ فَرَفَعْتُهَا عَنْ أُمَّتِكَ وَ إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ مِنْ أُمَّتِكَ لَيُذْنِبُ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً أَوْ ثَلَاثِينَ سَنَةً أَوْ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً أَوْ مِائَةَ سَنَةٍ ثُمَّ يَتُوبُ وَ يَنْدَمُ طَرْفَةَ عَيْنٍ فَأَغْفِرُ لَهُ ذَلِكَ كُلَّهُ

And the past communities, one of them used to repent for his sins for a hundred years, or eighty years, or fifty years, then their repentance was not Accepted from them without Punishment in the world, and this is from the difficulties which were upon them, so I^-azwj Lifted it from your^-saww community. And a man from your^-saww community sins for twenty years, or thirty years, or forty years, or a hundred years, then repents and regrets for the blink of an eye, so I^-azwj Forgive that for him, all of it.

فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص اللَّهُمَّ إِذْ أَعْطَيْتَنِي‏ ذَلِكَ كُلَّهُ فَزِدْنِي قَالَ سَلْ قَالَ‏ رَبَّنا وَ لا تُحَمِّلْنا ما لا طاقَةَ لَنا بِهِ‏ قَالَ تَبَارَكَ اسْمُهُ قَدْ فَعَلْتُ ذَلِكَ بِأُمَّتِكَ وَ قَدْ رَفَعْتُ عَنْهُمْ عِظَمَ‏ بَلَايَا الْأُمَمِ وَ ذَلِكَ حُكْمِي فِي جَمِيعِ الْأُمَمِ أَنْ لَا أُكَلِّفَ خَلْقاً فَوْقَ طَاقَتِهِمْ

The Prophet^-saww said: ‘Our Allah^-azwj! Since You^-azwj have Given all of that to me^-saww, so Increase it for me^-saww’. He^-azwj Said: “Ask”. He^-saww said: ‘Our Lord! And do not Load upon us what we have no strength for us with it’. Blessed is His^-azwj Name, Said: “I^-azwj have Done that with your^-saww community, and have Lifted from them all of the afflictions of the (past) communities, and that is My^-azwj Judgement in all of the communities, that I^-azwj do not Impose upon a creature above its strength (of toleration)’.

فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص‏ وَ اعْفُ عَنَّا وَ اغْفِرْ لَنا وَ ارْحَمْنا أَنْتَ مَوْلانا قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ قَدْ فَعَلْتُ ذَلِكَ بِتَائِبِي أُمَّتِكَ ثُمَّ قَالَ ص‏ فَانْصُرْنا عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْكافِرِينَ‏

He^-saww said: ‘and Pardon (our sins) for us and have Mercy on us. You are our Master’. Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Said: “I^-azwj have Done that with the penitent ones of your^-saww community”. Then he^-saww said: ‘therefore Help us against the Kafir people’.

قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ اسْمُهُ إِنَّ أُمَّتَكَ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَالشَّامَةِ الْبَيْضَاءِ فِي الثَّوْرِ الْأَسْوَدِ هُمُ الْقَادِرُونَ وَ هُمُ الْقَاهِرُونَ يَسْتَخْدِمُونَ وَ لَا يُسْتَخْدَمُونَ لِكَرَامَتِكَ عَلَيَّ وَ حَقٌّ عَلَيَّ أَنْ أُظْهِرَ دِينَكَ عَلَى الْأَدْيَانِ حَتَّى لَا يَبْقَى فِي شَرْقِ الْأَرْضِ وَ غَرْبِهَا دِينٌ إِلَّا دِينُكَ أَوْ يُؤَدُّونَ إِلَى أَهْلِ دِينِكَ الْجِزْيَةَ

Allah^-azwj, Mighty is His^-azwj Name Said: “Your^-saww community upon the earth is like a white spot upon the black bull, they are the capable ones, and they are the oppressors who would not be serving you^-saww nor your^-saww prestige to Me^-azwj, and it is a right upon Me^-azwj that I^-azwj should Make your^-saww Religion to overcome all the other religions, until there does not remain in the East of the earth, or in the West of it except a religion except for your^-saww Religion, and they would be paying taxation to the people of your^-saww Religion.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ هَذَا سُلَيْمَانُ ع سُخِّرَتْ لَهُ الشَّيَاطِينُ‏ يَعْمَلُونَ لَهُ ما يَشاءُ مِنْ مَحارِيبَ وَ تَماثِيلَ‏

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Suleyman^-as, the Satans^-la were subdued to him^-as. They were working for him^-as whatever he^-as so desired, from the prayer niches and the statues’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ لَقَدْ أُعْطِيَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أَفْضَلَ مِنْ هَذَا إِنَّ الشَّيَاطِينَ سُخِّرَتْ لِسُلَيْمَانَ ع وَ هِيَ مُقِيمَةٌ عَلَى كُفْرِهَا وَ قَدْ سُخِّرَتْ لِنُبُوَّةِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص الشَّيَاطِينُ بِالْإِيمَانِ فَأَقْبَلَ إِلَيْهِ الْجِنُّ التِّسْعَةُ مِنْ أَشْرَافِهِمْ مِنْ جِنِّ نَصِيبِينَ وَ الْيَمَنِ مِنْ بَنِي عَمْرِو بْنِ عَامِرٍ مِنَ الْأَحِجَّةِ مِنْهُمْ شضاه وَ مضاه‏ وَ الهملكان وَ الْمَرْزُبَانُ وَ المازمان وَ نضاه وَ هَاصِبٌ وَ هَاضِبٌ‏ وَ عَمْرٌو

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was Given superior than this. The Satans^-la were subdues to Suleyman^-as and they were upon their Kufr, and the Satans^-la were subdued to the Prophet-hood of Muhammad^-saww with the Eman. The Jinn came to him^-saww, nine from their noble ones, (one being) from the ‘Junn Nasibeyn’ and (eight from) Al-Yemen, from the clan of Amro Bin Aamir. From them were Shazah, and mazah, and Hamalkan, and Marzban, and Al Mazman, and Nazah, and Hasib, and Hazib, and Amro.

وَ هُمُ الَّذِينَ يَقُولُ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ اسْمُهُ فِيهِمْ‏ وَ إِذْ صَرَفْنا إِلَيْكَ نَفَراً مِنَ الْجِنِ‏ وَ هُمُ التِّسْعَةُ يَسْتَمِعُونَ الْقُرْآنَ‏ فَأَقْبَلَ إِلَيْهِ الْجِنُّ وَ النَّبِيُّ ص بِبَطْنِ النَّخْلِ فَاعْتَذَرُوا بِ أَنَّهُمْ ظَنُّوا كَما ظَنَنْتُمْ أَنْ لَنْ يَبْعَثَ اللَّهُ أَحَداً وَ لَقَدْ أَقْبَلَ إِلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ وَ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفاً مِنْهُمْ فَبَايَعُوهُ عَلَى الصَّوْمِ وَ الصَّلَاةِ وَ الزَّكَاةِ وَ الْحَجِّ وَ الْجِهَادِ وَ نُصْحِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ

And they are those Allah^-azwj, Blessed is His^-azwj Name Says regarding them: And when We Turned a number of the Jinn towards you – and they were nine – listening to the Quran, [46:29]. The Jinn came to him^-saww and the Prophet^-saww was at the base of the palm tree. They presented excuses that they thought just as you thought that Allah^-azwj will never Send anyone, and seventy-one thousand from them had come and pledged allegiance to him^-saww upon the Fasting, and the Salat, and the Zakat and the Hajj, and the Jihad, and advising the Muslims.

فَاعْتَذَرُوا بِأَنَّهُمْ قَالُوا عَلَى اللَّهِ شَطَطاً وَ هَذَا أَفْضَلُ مِمَّا أُعْطِيَ سُلَيْمَانُ ع سُبْحَانَ مَنْ سَخَّرَهَا لِنُبُوَّةِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص بَعْدَ أَنْ كَانَتْ تَتَمَرَّدُ وَ تَزْعُمُ أَنَّ لِلَّهِ وَلَداً فَلَقَدْ شَمِلَ مَبْعَثُهُ‏ مِنَ الْجِنِّ وَ الْإِنْسِ مَا لَا يُحْصَى

They presented excuses that they had said a grievous word upon Allah^-azwj. And this is superior than what Suleyman^-as was Given. Glorious is the One^-azwj Who Subdued them to the Prophethood of Muhammad^-saww after they had reneged and claimed that there is a son for Allah^-azwj. There were included in his^-saww announcing Prophethood, from the Jinn and the humans what cannot be counted’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَهَذَا يَحْيَى بْنُ زَكَرِيَّا ع يُقَالُ إِنَّهُ أُوتِيَ الْحُكْمَ صَبِيّاً وَ الْحِلْمَ وَ الْفَهْمَ‏ وَ إِنَّهُ كَانَ يَبْكِي مِنْ غَيْرِ ذَنْبٍ وَ كَانَ يُوَاصِلُ الصَّوْمَ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Yahya Bin Zakariyya^-as, it is said he^-as was Given the Wisdom as a child, and the forbearance and the understanding, and he^-as cried without having sinned, and kept on Fasting’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أُعْطِيَ مَا هُوَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ هَذَا إِنَّ يَحْيَى بْنَ زَكَرِيَّا كَانَ فِي عَصْرٍ لَا أَوْثَانَ فِيهِ وَ لَا جَاهِلِيَّةَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أُوتِيَ الْحُكْمَ وَ الْفَهْمَ صَبِيّاً بَيْنَ عَبَدَةِ الْأَوْثَانِ وَ حِزْبِ الشَّيْطَانِ وَ لَمْ يَرْغَبْ لَهُمْ فِي صَنَمٍ قَطُّ وَ لَمْ يَنْشَطْ لِأَعْيَادِهِمْ وَ لَمْ يُرَ مِنْهُ كَذِبٌ قَطُّ ص‏

Ali^-asws said: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was Given superior than this. Yahya Bin Zakariyya^-as was in an era when there were neither any idols nor ignorance, and Muhammad^-saww was Given the Wisdom and the understanding as a child between the idol worshippers, and parties of Satans^-la, and he^-saww did not desire regarding an idol at all, and did not participate in their festivals and no lie was seen from him^-saww at all.

وَ كَانَ أَمِيناً صَدُوقاً حَلِيماً وَ كَانَ يُوَاصِلُ صَوْمَ الْأُسْبُوعِ وَ الْأَقَلِّ وَ الْأَكْثَرِ فَيُقَالُ لَهُ فِي ذَلِكَ فَيَقُولُ إِنِّي لَسْتُ كَأَحَدِكُمْ إِنِّي أَظَلُّ عِنْدَ رَبِّي فَيُطْعِمُنِي وَ يَسْقِينِي وَ كَانَ يَبْكِي ص حَتَّى يَبْتَلَّ مُصَلَّاهُ خَشْيَةً مِنَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مِنْ غَيْرِ جُرْمٍ

And he^-saww was trustworthy, truthful, forbearing, and he^-saww continued Fasting for the week, and less and more. It was said to him^-saww regarding that, and he^-saww said: ‘I^-saww am not like one of you. I^-saww take shade with my^-saww Lord^-azwj, and He^-azwj Feeds me^-saww and Quenches me^-saww’; and he^-saww would cry to the extent that his^-saww prayer mat would be wet, out of fear from Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic, without having committed any crime’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ هَذَا عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ ع يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّهُ تَكَلَّمَ‏ فِي الْمَهْدِ صَبِيًّا

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘This Isa^-as, they are claiming that he^-as spoke in the cradle as a child’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص سَقَطَ مِنْ بَطْنِ أُمِّهِ وَاضِعاً يَدَهُ الْيُسْرَى عَلَى الْأَرْضِ وَ رَافِعاً يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى إِلَى السَّمَاءِ يُحَرِّكُ شَفَتَيْهِ بِالتَّوْحِيدِ وَ بَدَا مِنْ فِيهِ نُورٌ رَأَى أَهْلُ مَكَّةَ مِنْهُ قُصُورَ بُصْرَى‏ مِنَ الشَّامِ وَ مَا يَلِيهَا وَ الْقُصُورَ الْحُمْرَ مِنْ أَرْضِ الْيَمَنِ وَ مَا يَلِيهَا وَ الْقُصُورَ الْبِيضَ مِنْ إِصْطَخْرَ وَ مَا يَلِيهَا

Ali^-asws said: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was Sent (as a baby) to his^-saww mother and placed his^-saww left hand upon the ground and raised his^-saww right hand towards the sky, moved his^-saww lips with the Tawheed, and there appeared a Noor from his^-saww mouth, the people of Makkah could see the castles of Basrah from it, and (houses) of Syria and what follows it, and the red castles from the land of Yemen and what follows it, and the white castles from Istikhar and what follows it.

وَ لَقَدْ أَضَاءَتِ الدُّنْيَا لَيْلَةَ وُلِدَ النَّبِيُّ ص حَتَّى فَزِعَتِ الْجِنُّ وَ الْإِنْسُ وَ الشَّيَاطِينُ وَ قَالُوا حَدَثَ فِي الْأَرْضِ حَدَثٌ وَ لَقَدْ رُئِيَتِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ لَيْلَةَ وُلِدَ تَصْعَدُ وَ تَنْزِلُ وَ تُسَبِّحُ وَ تُقَدِّسُ وَ تَضْطَرِبُ النُّجُومُ وَ تَتَسَاقَطُ عَلَامَةً لِمِيلَادِهِ وَ لَقَدْ هَمَّ إِبْلِيسُ بِالظَّعْنِ فِي السَّمَاءِ لِمَا رَأَى مِنَ الْأَعَاجِيبِ فِي تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةِ وَ كَانَ لَهُ مَقْعَدٌ فِي السَّمَاءِ الثَّالِثَةِ وَ الشَّيَاطِينُ يَسْتَرِقُونَ السَّمْعَ

And the world had been illuminated on the night of the coming of the Prophet^-saww until the Jinn and the humans and the Satans^-la were alarmed and they said, ‘A new event has occurred in the earth’, and the Angels were seen on the night of the his^-saww arrival, ascending and descending and glorifying and extolling the Holiness, and the stars trembles and fell (shooting stars) as a sign of his^-saww Zahoor; and Iblees^-la had thought with ascending into the sky when he^-la saw from the wonders during that night, and there used to be a seat for him^-la in the third sky, and the Satans^-la were stealing a hearing.

فَلَمَّا رَأَوُا الْأَعَاجِيبَ أَرَادُوا أَنْ يَسْتَرِقُوا السَّمْعَ فَإِذَا هُمْ قَدْ حُجِبُوا مِنَ السَّمَاوَاتِ كُلِّهَا وَ رُمُوا بِالشُّهُبِ دَلَالَةً لِنُبُوَّتِهِ ص

When they saw the wonders, they wanted to steal the hearing, but when they were barred from the skies, all of them, and they were pelted by the meteors as evidence of his^-saww Prophet-hood’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ عِيسَى يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّهُ قَدْ أَبْرَأَ الْأَكْمَهَ وَ الْأَبْرَصَ بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Isa^-as, they are claiming that he^-as had cured the blind and the leper by the Permission of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ أَبْرَأَ ذَا الْعَاهَةِ مِنْ عَاهَتِهِ فَبَيْنَمَا هُوَ جَالِسٌ ص إِذْ سَأَلَ عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّهُ قَدْ صَارَ مِنَ الْبَلَاءِ كَهَيْئَةِ الْفَرْخِ لَا رِيشَ عَلَيْهِ‏ فَأَتَاهُ ص فَإِذَا هُوَ كَهَيْئَةِ الْفَرْخِ مِنْ شِدَّةِ الْبَلَاءِ فَقَالَ قَدْ كُنْتَ تَدْعُو فِي صِحَّتِكَ دُعَاءً قَالَ نَعَمْ كُنْتُ أَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ أَيُّمَا عُقُوبَةٍ أَنْتَ مُعَاقِبِي‏ بِهَا فِي الْآخِرَةِ فَعَجِّلْهَا لِي فِي الدُّنْيَا

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww cured the ones with disabilities. While he^-saww was seated, when he^-saww asked about a man from his^-saww companions. They said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! He has become such from the afflictions as if like the body of the chick not having any feathers upon it’. He^-saww came to him, and there he was like the chick from the severity of the affliction. He^-saww said: ‘Did you supplicate a supplication during the well-being?’ He said, ‘Yes, I did. I said, ‘O Lord^-azwj! Whichever Punishment You^-azwj Punish me with in the Hereafter, so Hasten it to me in the world’’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ النَّبِيُّ ص أَلَا قُلْتَ اللَّهُمَ‏ آتِنا فِي الدُّنْيا حَسَنَةً وَ فِي الْآخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً وَ قِنا عَذابَ النَّارِ فَقَالَهَا فَكَأَنَّمَا نَشِطَ مِنْ عِقَالٍ وَ قَامَ صَحِيحاً وَ خَرَجَ مَعَنَا

The Prophet^-saww said: ‘You should say, ‘And among them is one who is saying, ‘Our Lord! Grant us good in the world and good in the Hereafter, and Save us from the Punishment of the Fire [2:201]’. He said it and it was as if he active from the cramp, and stood up healthy and came out with us.

وَ لَقَدْ أَتَاهُ رَجُلٌ مِنْ جُهَيْنَةَ أَجْذَمُ يَتَقَطَّعُ مِنَ الْجُذَامِ فَشَكَا إِلَيْهِ ص فَأَخَذَ قَدَحاً مِنْ مَاءٍ فَتَفَلَ فِيهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ امْسَحْ بِهِ جَسَدَكَ فَفَعَلَ فَبَرَأَ حَتَّى لَمْ يُوجَدْ فِيهِ شَيْ‏ءٌ وَ لَقَدْ أَتَى الْعَرَبِيُ‏ أَبْرَصَ فَتَفَلَ مِنْ فِيهِ عَلَيْهِ فَمَا قَامَ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ إِلَّا صَحِيحاً

And a leprous man from Juheyna had come to him^-saww cut from the leprosy. He complained to him^-saww, so he^-saww took a cup of water and spat into it, then said: ‘Wipe your body with it’. He did so and was cured to the extent that nothing (from the leprosy) was found in him. And a Bedouin has come to him^-saww, and he^-saww spat in it, and he did not stand from his^-saww presence except as healthy.

وَ لَئِنْ زَعَمْتَ أَنَّ عِيسَى ع أَبْرَأَ ذَوِي الْعَاهَاتِ مِنْ عَاهَاتِهِمْ فَإِنَّ مُحَمَّداً ص بَيْنَمَا هُوَ فِي بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِهِ إِذَا هُوَ بِامْرَأَةٍ فَقَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ ابْنِي قَدْ أَشْرَفَ عَلَى حِيَاضِ الْمَوْتِ كُلَّمَا أَتَيْتُهُ بِطَعَامٍ وَقَعَ عَلَيْهِ التَّثَاؤُبُ فَقَامَ النَّبِيُّ ص وَ قُمْنَا مَعَهُ فَلَمَّا أَتَيْنَاهُ قَالَ لَهُ جَانِبْ‏ يَا عَدُوَّ اللَّهِ وَلِيَّ اللَّهِ فَأَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ فَجَانَبَهُ الشَّيْطَانُ فَقَامَ صَحِيحاً وَ هُوَ مَعَنَا فِي عَسْكَرِنَا

And if you are claiming that Isa^-as cured the ones with disabilities from their disabilities, then Muhammad^-saww, while he^-saww was among some of his^-saww companions, a woman came and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! My son has come to the verge of death. Every time I come to him with food, the yawning comes upon him’. The Prophet^-saww stood up and we stood up along with him^-saww. When we came to him, he^-saww said: ‘Step aside, O enemy of Allah^-azwj, from the friend of Allah^-azwj, for I^-saww am a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj’. The Satan^-la stepped aside and he stood up healthy and he is with us among our soldiers.

وَ لَئِنْ زَعَمْتَ أَنَّ عِيسَى ع أَبْرَأَ الْعُمْيَانَ فَإِنَّ مُحَمَّداً ص قَدْ فَعَلَ مَا هُوَ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ‏ إِنَّ قَتَادَةَ بْنَ رِبْعِيٍّ كَانَ رَجُلًا صَبِيحاً فَلَمَّا أَنْ كَانَ يَوْمُ أُحُدٍ أَصَابَتْهُ طَعْنَةٌ فِي عَيْنِهِ فَبَدَرَتْ‏ حَدَقَتُهُ فَأَخَذَهَا بِيَدِهِ ثُمَّ أَتَى بِهَا النَّبِيَّ ص فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ امْرَأَتِي الْآنَ تُبْغِضُنِي فَأَخَذَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنْ يَدِهِ ثُمَّ وَضَعَهَا مَكَانَهَا فَلَمْ تَكُنْ تُعْرَفُ إِلَّا بِفَضْلِ حُسْنِهَا وَ فَضْلِ ضَوْئِهَا عَلَى الْعَيْنِ الْأُخْرَى

And if you are claiming that Isa^-as cured the blind, then Muhammad^-saww had done what is more than that. Qatadah Bin Rabie was a handsome man. When it was the day of (battle of) Ohad, he was stabbed in his eye, and his cheek came off. He grabbed it in his hand them came with it to the Prophet^-saww and said: ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! My wife hates me now’. So Rasool-Allah^-saww took it from his hand, then placed it in its place. He did not happen to be recognised except by the extra beauty of it, and extra light upon the other eye.

وَ لَقَدْ جُرِحَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَتِيكٍ وَ بَانَتْ يَدُهُ يَوْمَ ابْنِ أَبِي الْحُقَيْقِ فَجَاءَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص لَيْلًا فَمَسَحَ عَلَيْهِ‏ يَدَهُ فَلَمْ تَكُنْ تُعْرَفُ مِنَ الْيَدِ الْأُخْرَى‏

And Abdullah Ibn Ateek was injured and his hand was cut on the day of Ibn Abu Al Haqeeq. He came to the Prophet^-saww at night, and he^-saww wiped his^-saww hand upon it, and he could not be recognised from the other hand (any difference).

وَ لَقَدْ أَصَابَ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ مَسْلَمَةَ يَوْمَ كَعْبِ بْنِ الْأَشْرَفِ مِثْلُ ذَلِكَ فِي عَيْنِهِ وَ يَدِهِ فَمَسَحَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَلَمْ تَسْتَبِينَا وَ لَقَدْ أَصَابَ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ أُنَيْسٍ مِثْلُ ذَلِكَ فِي عَيْنِهِ فَمَسَحَهَا فَمَا عُرِفَتْ مِنَ الْأُخْرَى فَهَذِهِ كُلُّهَا دَلَالَةٌ لِنُبُوَّتِهِ ص

Muhammad Bin Muslim had been hit on the day of Ka’ab Bin Al Ashra similar to that, in his eye and his hand. Rasool-Allah^-saww wiped it and it was not seen. And Abdullah Bin Aneys was hit similar to that in his eye, and he^-saww wiped it, and it could not be recognised from the other. All these are evidence of his^-saww Prophethood’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ عِيسَى يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّهُ قَدْ أَحْيَا الْمَوْتَى بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Isa^-as, they are claiming that he^-as had revived the dead by the Permission of Allah^-azwj’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ ذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص سَبَّحَتْ فِي يَدِهِ تِسْعُ حَصَيَاتٍ تُسْمَعُ نَغَمَاتُهَا فِي جُمُودِهَا وَ لَا رُوحَ فِيهَا لِتَمَامِ حُجَّةِ نُبُوَّتِهِ وَ لَقَدْ كَلَّمَتْهُ الْمَوْتَى مِنْ بَعْدِ مَوْتِهِمْ وَ اسْتَغَاثُوهُ مِمَّا خَافُوا مِنْ تَبِعَتِهِ‏ وَ لَقَدْ صَلَّى بِأَصْحَابِهِ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ فَقَالَ مَا هَاهُنَا مِنْ بَنِي النَّجَّارِ أَحَدٌ وَ صَاحِبُهُمْ مُحْتَبَسٌ عَلَى بَابِ الْجَنَّةِ بِثَلَاثَةِ دَرَاهِمَ لِفُلَانٍ الْيَهُودِيِّ وَ كَانَ شَهِيداً

Ali^-asws said: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww, nine pebbles glorified (Allah^-azwj) in his^-saww hand, their song was heard in their solid state, there being no souls in them, to complete the argument of his^-saww Prophet-hood; and the dead had spoken to him^-saww from after their death, and sought his^-saww help from what they feared from its consequences; and he^-saww had prayed Salat with his^-saww companions one day, and said: ‘Isn’t there anyone from the clan of Najjar, and their companions is withheld at the Door of Paradise, due to three Dirhams due to so and so Jew?’ And he^-saww had seen him.

وَ لَئِنْ زَعَمْتَ أَنَّ عِيسَى ع كَلَّمَ الْمَوْتَى فَلَقَدْ كَانَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص مَا هُوَ أَعْجَبُ مِنْ هَذَا إِنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص لَمَّا نَزَلَ بِالطَّائِفِ وَ حَاصَرَ أَهْلَهَا بَعَثُوا إِلَيْهِ بِشَاةٍ مَسْلُوخَةٍ مَطْلِيَّةٍ بِسَمٍ‏ فَنَطَقَ الذِّرَاعُ مِنْهَا فَقَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَا تَأْكُلْنِي فَإِنِّي مَسْمُومَةٌ

And if you claim that Isa^-as spoke to the death, so there has happened for Muhammad^-saww what is more wonderous than this. When the Prophet^-saww descended at Al-Taif and besieged its people, they sent to him^-saww a grilled sheep coated with poison. The forearm from it spoke and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Do not eat me, for I am poisoned’.

فَلَوْ كَلَّمَتْهُ الْبَهِيمَةُ وَ هِيَ حَيَّةٌ لَكَانَتْ مِنْ أَعْظَمِ حُجَجِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ ذِكْرُهُ عَلَى الْمُنْكِرِينَ لِنُبُوَّتِهِ فَكَيْفَ وَ قَدْ كَلَّمَتْهُ مِنْ بَعْدِ ذَبْحٍ وَ سَلْخٍ وَ شَيٍ‏ وَ لَقَدْ كَانَ ص يَدْعُو بِالشَّجَرَةِ فَتُجِيبُهُ وَ تُكَلِّمُهُ الْبَهِيمَةُ وَ تُكَلِّمُهُ السِّبَاعُ وَ تَشْهَدُ لَهُ بِالنُّبُوَّةِ وَ تُحَذِّرُهُمْ عِصْيَانَهُ فَهَذَا أَكْثَرُ مِمَّا أُعْطِيَ عِيسَى ع ‏

And if the animal had spoken to him^-saww while it was alive, it would have been from the great Arguments of Allah^-azwj, Mighty is His^-azwj Mention, against the deniers of his^-saww Prophet-hood. How it is and it had spoken to him^-saww after being slaughtered and grilled and coated with poison. And he^-saww had called a tree and it answered him^-saww, and the animals spoke to him, and the lions spoke to him^-saww and testified to him^-saww with the Prophet-hood, and were cautious of disobeying him^-saww. This is more than what Isa^-as had been Given’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ إِنَّ عِيسَى يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّهُ أَنْبَأَ قَوْمَهُ بِمَا يَأْكُلُونَ وَ مَا يَدَّخِرُونَ فِي بُيُوتِهِمْ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Isa^-as, they are claiming that he^-as informed his^-as people with what they had eaten and what they had hoarded in their houses’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص فَعَلَ مَا هُوَ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ هَذَا إِنَ عِيسَى ع أَنْبَأَ قَوْمَهُ بِمَا كَانَ مِنْ وَرَاءِ حَائِطٍ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ أَنْبَأَ عَنْ مُؤْتَةَ وَ هُوَ عَنْهَا غَائِبٌ وَ وَصَفَ حَرْبَهُمْ وَ مَنِ اسْتُشْهِدَ مِنْهُمْ وَ بَيْنَهُ وَ بَيْنَهُمْ مَسِيرَةُ شَهْرٍ

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww did what is more than this. Isa^-as informed his^-as people with what was from behind a wall, and Muhammad^-saww informed of his (Ja’far^-as)’s martyrdom and he^-saww was absent from it, and described their battle and the ones from them who had been martyred, and between him^-saww and them was a travel distance of a month.

وَ كَانَ يَأْتِيهِ الرَّجُلُ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَسْأَلَهُ عَنْ شَيْ‏ءٍ فَيَقُولُ ص تَقُولُ أَوْ أَقُولُ فَيَقُولُ بَلْ قُلْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَيَقُولُ جِئْتَنِي فِي كَذَا وَ كَذَا حَتَّى يَفْرُغَ مِنْ حَاجَتِهِ

And the man would come to him^-saww to ask him^-saww about something, and he^-saww would say: ‘Will you say or shall I^-saww say it?’ He would say, ‘But, say it, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’ He^-saww would say: ‘You have come to me^-saww regarding such and such matter’, until he was free from his need.

وَ لَقَدْ كَانَ ص يُخْبِرُ أَهْلَ مَكَّةَ بِأَسْرَارِهِمْ بِمَكَّةَ حَتَّى لَا يَتْرُكَ مِنْ أَسْرَارِهِمْ‏شَيْئاً مِنْهَا مَا كَانَ بَيْنَ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ أُمَيَّةَ وَ بَيْنَ عُمَيْرِ بْنِ وَهْبٍ إِذْ أَتَاهُ عُمَيْرٌ فَقَالَ جِئْتُ فِي فَكَاكِ ابْنِي فَقَالَ لَهُ كَذِبْتَ بَلْ قُلْتَ لِصَفْوَانَ وَ قَدِ اجْتَمَعْتُمْ فِي الْحَطِيمِ وَ ذَكَرْتُمْ قَتْلَى بَدْرٍ وَ اللَّهِ لَلْمَوْتُ خَيْرٌ لَنَا مِنَ الْبَقَاءِ مَعَ مَا صَنَعَ مُحَمَّدٌ بِنَا وَ هَلْ حَيَاةٌ بَعْدَ أَهْلِ الْقَلِيبِ

And he^-saww informed the people of Makkah of their secrets at Makkah until he^-saww did not leave anything from their secrets. From these is what had happened between Safwan Bin Umayya and Umeyr Bin Wahab, when Umeyr came to him and said, ‘I have come to you^-saww regarding the loss of my son’. He^-saww said: ‘You are lying! But, you said to Safwan, and you had gathered in Al Hateym, and you mentioned killing me^-saww at Badr, ‘By Allah^-azwj! The death is better for us than remaining with what Muhammad^-saww is doing with us, and is there any life after the people of al Qaleyb?’

فَقُلْتَ أَنْتَ لَوْ لَا عِيَالِي وَ دَيْنٌ عَلَيَّ لَأَرَحْتُكَ مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ فَقَالَ صَفْوَانُ عَلَيَّ أَنْ أَقْضِيَ دَيْنَكَ وَ أَنْ أَجْعَلَ بَنَاتِكَ مَعَ بَنَاتِي يُصِيبُهُنَّ مَا يُصِيبُهُنَّ مِنْ خَيْرٍ أَوْ شَرٍّ فَقُلْتَ أَنْتَ فَاكْتُمْهَا عَلَيَّ وَ جَهِّزْنِي حَتَّى أَذْهَبَ فَأَقْتُلَهُ فَجِئْتَ لِتَقْتُلَنِي فَقَالَ صَدَقْتَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَأَنَا أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ أَشْبَاهُ هَذَا مِمَّا لَا يُحْصَى

You said, ‘Had it not been for my dependants and debts upon me, I would not have rested from Muhammad^-saww’. Safwan said, ‘It is upon me to pay back your debts, and make your daughters to be with my daughters; it will hit them whatever hits them, from good or evil’. You said, ‘Conceal it upon me and equip me until I go and kill him^-saww’. You have come to kill me^-saww’. He said, ‘You^-saww speak the truth, O Rasool-Allah^-saww! I hereby testify that there is no god except Allah^-azwj and you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj’. And (events) resembling this are from what cannot be counted’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ عِيسَى يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّهُ خُلِقَ‏ مِنَ الطِّينِ كَهَيْئَةِ الطَّيْرِ فَيَنْفُخُ فِيهِ‏ فَيَكُونُ طَيْراً بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ‏ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Isa^-as, they are claiming that he^-as created from the clay, like the body of the bird, and blew into it, and it became a bird by the Permission of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic’.

فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص قَدْ فَعَلَ مَا هُوَ شَبِيهٌ بِهَذَا إِذْ أَخَذَ يَوْمَ حُنَيْنٍ حَجَراً فَسَمِعْنَا لِلْحَجَرِ تَسْبِيحاً وَ تَقْدِيساً ثُمَّ قَالَ لِلْحَجَرِ انْفَلِقْ فَانْفَلَقَ ثَلَاثَ فِلَقٍ نَسْمَعُ لِكُلِّ فِلْقَةٍ مِنْهَا تَسْبِيحاً لَا يُسْمَعُ لِلْأُخْرَى

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww had done what resembles with this, when on the day of (battle of) Hunayn he^-as grabbed a rock and we heard for the rock glorification and extollations of Holiness (of Allah^-azwj). Then he^-saww said to the rock: ‘Split apart!’ So, it split apart into three pieces. We heard such glorification from each piece we did not hear from the other.

وَ لَقَدْ بَعَثَ إِلَى شَجَرَةٍ يَوْمَ الْبَطْحَاءِ فَأَجَابَتْهُ وَ لِكُلِّ غُصْنٍ مِنْهَا تَسْبِيحٌ وَ تَهْلِيلٌ وَ تَقْدِيسٌ‏ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهَا انْشَقِّي فَانْشَقَّتْ نِصْفَيْنِ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهَا الْتَزِقِي فَالْتَزَقَتْ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهَا اشْهَدِي لِي بِالنُّبُوَّةِ فَشَهِدَتْ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهَا ارْجِعِي إِلَى مَكَانِكِ بِالتَّسْبِيحِ وَ التَّهْلِيلِ وَ التَّقْدِيسِ فَفَعَلَتْ وَ كَانَ مَوْضِعُهَا بِجَنْبِ‏ الْجَزَّارِينَ بِمَكَّةَ

And he^-saww had Sent for a tree on the day of Al-Bat’ha, and it answered him^-saww, and for every branch from it was glorification and extollations of Oneness and Holiness. Then he^-saww said to it: ‘Split apart!’ It split into two halves. Then he^-saww said to it: ‘Attach!’ It attached together. Then he^-saww said to it: ‘Testify to me^-saww with the Prophet-hood’. It testified. Then he^-saww said to it: ‘Return to your place with the glorifications, and the extollations of the Oneness and the Holiness’. It did so, and its place was by sides of the butchers of Makkah’.

قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ عِيسَى ع يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ سَيَّاحاً

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Isa^-as, they are claiming that he^-as was a globe-trotter’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص كَانَتْ سِيَاحَتُهُ فِي الْجِهَادِ وَ اسْتَنْفَرَ فِي عَشْرِ سِنِينَ مَا لَا يُحْصَى مِنْ حَاضِرٍ وَ بَادٍ وَ أَفْنَى فِئَاماً مِنَ الْعَرَبِ مِنْ مَنْعُوتٍ بِالسَّيْفِ لَا يُدَارِي بِالْكَلَامِ وَ لَا يَنَامُ إِلَّا عَنْ دَمٍ وَ لَا يُسَافِرُ إِلَّا وَ هُوَ مُتَجَهِّزٌ لِقِتَالِ عَدُوِّهِ

Ali^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was a traveller during the Jihad and mobilised during ten years what cannot be counted, from near and far, and killed thousands from the Arab tribes with the sword. He^-azwj neither circled with the speech, nor sleep except from blood, nor travelling except and he^-saww prepared for battling his^-saww enemies’.

وَ قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنَّ عِيسَى ع يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ زَاهِداً

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘Isa^-as, they are claiming that he^-saww was an ascetic’.

قَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَلِكَ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص أَزْهَدُ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ ع كَانَ لَهُ ثَلَاثَ عَشْرَةَ زَوْجَةً سِوَى مَنْ يُطِيفُ بِهِ مِنَ الْإِمَاءِ مَا رُفِعَتْ لَهُ مَائِدَةٌ قَطُّ وَ عَلَيْهَا طَعَامٌ وَ مَا أَكَلَ خُبْزَ بُرٍّ قَطُّ وَ لَا شَبِعَ مِنْ خُبْزِ شَعِيرٍ ثَلَاثَ لَيَالٍ مُتَوَالِيَاتٍ قَطُّ

He^-asws said to him: ‘It has been like that, and Muhammad^-saww was the most ascetic of the Prophets^-as. There were thirteen wives for him^-saww besides the ones he^-saww circles with from the maids. No table spread was raised for him^-saww at all and there was food upon it, and he^-saww did not eat the wheat bread at all, nor did he^-saww satiate from barley bread for three nights consecutively at all.

تُوُفِّيَ ص وَ دِرْعُهُ مَرْهُونَةٌ عِنْدَ يَهُودِيٍّ بِأَرْبَعَةِ دَرَاهِمَ مَا تَرَكَ صَفْرَاءَ وَ لَا بَيْضَاءَ مَعَ مَا وُطِّئَ لَهُ مِنَ الْبِلَادِ وَ مُكِّنَ لَهُ مِنْ غَنَائِمِ الْعِبَادِ وَ لَقَدْ كَانَ يَقْسِمُ فِي الْيَوْمِ الْوَاحِدِ ثَلَاثَمِائَةِ أَلْفٍ وَ أَرْبَعَمِائَةِ أَلْفٍ وَ يَأْتِيهِ السَّائِلُ بِالْعَشِيِّ فَيَقُولُ وَ الَّذِي بَعَثَ مُحَمَّداً بِالْحَقِّ مَا أَمْسَى فِي آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ صَاعٌ مِنْ شَعِيرٍ وَ لَا صَاعٌ مِنْ بُرٍّ وَ لَا دِرْهَمٌ وَ لَا دِينَارٌ

He^-saww passed away, and his^-saww shield was mortgaged with a Jew for four Dirhams. He^-azwj neither left any yellow (gold) nor white (silver), with what was folded for him^-saww from the country, and there was enabled for him^-saww from the war booty of the servants, and he^-saww had distributed three hundred thousand in one day, and four hundred thousand, and the beggar would come in the evening and he^-saww would say: ‘By the One^-azwj Who Sent Muhammad^-saww with the Truth! There is no evening and among the Progeny^-asws of Muhammad^-saww there is one Sa’af of barley, nor one Sa’a of wheat, nor any Dirhams nor Dinars’’.

وَ قَالَ لَهُ الْيَهُودِيُّ فَإِنِّي أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّهُ مَا أَعْطَى نَبِيّاً دَرَجَةً وَ لَا مُرْسَلًا فَضِيلَةً إِلَّا وَ قَدْ جَمَعَهَا لِمُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ زَادَ مُحَمَّداً ص عَلَى الْأَنْبِيَاءِ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمْ أَضْعَافَ دَرَجَاتٍ

The Jew said to him^-asws, ‘I hereby testify that there is no god except Allah^-azwj, and I testify that Muhammad^-saww is a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, and I testify that Allah^-azwj did not Given any Prophet^-as nor to any Messenger^-as any rank or merit except and He^-azwj had Gathered it for Muhammad^-saww Rasool-Allah^-saww, and Increase for Muhammad^-saww over the Prophets^-as, additional ranks’.

فَقَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ لِعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع أَشْهَدُ يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ أَنَّكَ مِنَ الرَّاسِخِينَ فِي الْعِلْمِ فَقَالَ وَيْحَكَ وَ مَا لِي لَا أَقُولُ مَا قُلْتُ فِي نَفْسِ مَنِ اسْتَعْظَمَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فِي عَظَمَتِهِ جَلَّتْ‏ فَقَالَ‏ وَ إِنَّكَ‏ لَعَلى‏ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ‏

Ibn Abbas said to Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws, ‘I testify, O Abu Al-Hassan^-asws, that you^-asws are from the ones immersed in the knowledge’. He^-asws said: ‘Woe be unto you! And why should I^-asws not be saying what I^-asws said regarding the soul of one whom Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Magnified regarding his^-saww majestic greatness and Said: And you are upon magnificent morals [68:4]’’.[7]

8- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ‏ أَنَّ جَارِيَةً يُقَالُ لَهَا زَائِدَةُ كَانَتْ تَأْتِي رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص كَثِيراً فَأَتَتْهُ لَيْلَةً وَ قَالَتْ عَجَنْتُ عَجِيناً لِأَهْلِي فَخَرَجْتُ أَحْتَطِبُ فَرَأَيْتُ فَارِساً لَمْ أَرَ أَحْسَنَ مِنْهُ فَقَالَ لِي كَيْفَ مُحَمَّدٌ قُلْتُ بِخَيْرٍ يُنْذِرُ النَّاسَ بِأَيَّامِ اللَّهِ‏

It is reported that a slave girl called Zaidah used to come to Rasool-Allah^-saww a lot. One night she came and said, ‘I wanted to knead some dough for my family and I went out to get some firewood, and saw a horse rider I had not seen anyone more handsome than him. He said to me, ‘How is Muhammad^-saww?’ I said, ‘Good. He^-saww warns the people with the Days of Allah^-azwj’.

فَقَالَ إِذَا أَتَيْتِ مُحَمَّداً فَأَقْرِئِيهِ السَّلَامَ وَ قُولِي لَهُ رِضْوَانُ خَازِنُ الْجَنَّةِ يَقُولُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَسَمَ الْجَنَّةَ لِأُمَّتِكَ أَثْلَاثاً فَثُلُثٌ‏ يَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ … بِغَيْرِ حِسابٍ‏ وَ ثُلُثٌ يُحَاسَبُونَ‏ حِساباً يَسِيراً وَ ثُلُثٌ تَشْفَعُ لَهُمْ فَتُشَفَّعُ‏ فِيهِمْ

He said, ‘When you go to Muhammad^-saww, then convey the greetings and say to him^-saww, ‘Rizwaan, keeper of Paradise is saying, ‘Allah^-azwj has Apportioned Paradise for your^-saww community into three. A third would be entering Paradise without Reckoning, and a third would be Reckoned with an easy Reckoning, and a third, they will seek your^-saww intercession and you^-saww will intercede for them’.

قَالَتْ فَمَضَى‏ فَأَخَذْتُ الْحَطَبَ أَحْمِلُهُ فَثَقُلَ عَلَيَّ فَالْتَفَتَ وَ نَظَرَ إِلَيَّ وَ قَالَ ثَقُلَ عَلَيْكِ حَطَبُكِ فَقُلْتُ نَعَمْ فَأَخَذَ قَضِيباً أَحْمَرَ كَانَ فِي يَدِهِ فَغَمَزَ الْحَطَبَ ثُمَّ نَظَرَ فَإِذَا هُوَ بِصَخْرَةٍ ثَابِتَةٍ فَقَالَ أَيَّتُهَا الصَّخْرَةُ احْمِلِ الْحَطَبَ مَعَهَا

She said, ‘He went away, and I grabbed the firewood and carried it, and it was heavy upon me. He^-saww turned towards me and looked at me and said, ‘Your firewood is heavy upon you?’ I said, ‘Yes’. He^-saww grabbed a red stick which was in his^-saww hands and touched the firewood, then looked at a protruding rock and said: ‘O you rock! Carry the firewood with her!’

فَقَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ خَفَ‏ عَنِّي وِقْرِي‏ فَإِنِّي‏ رَأَيْتُهَا تَذْكُرُكَ حَتَّى رَجَعْتُ فَأَلْقَتِ الْحَطَبَ وَ انْصَرَفَتْ‏

It said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Lighten from me and carry (my load), for I saw her mention you^-saww until she returned’. She threw down the firewood and left’’.[8]

9- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ‏ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص انْتَهَى إِلَى رَجُلٍ قَدْ فَوَّقَ سَهْماً لِيَرْمِيَ بَعْضَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ فَوَضَعَ ص يَدَهُ فَوْقَ السَّهْمِ‏ وَ قَالَ ارْمِهِ فَرَمَى ذَلِكَ الْمُشْرِكَ بِهِ فَهَرَبَ الْمُشْرِكُ مِنَ السَّهْمِ وَ جَعَلَ يَرُوغُ مِنَ السَّهْمِ يَمْنَةً وَ يَسْرَةً وَ السَّهْمُ يَتْبَعُهُ حَيْثُمَا رَاغَ حَتَّى‏ سَقَطَ السَّهْمُ فِي رَأْسِهِ فَسَقَطَ الْمُشْرِكُ مَيِّتاً

It is reported that Rasool-Allah^-saww ended up to a man who had hesitated with his arrow to shoot it at one of the Polytheists, but Rasool-Allah^-saww placed his^-saww hand above the arrow and said: ‘Shoot it!’ He shot that Polytheist with it. The Polytheist ran from the arrow and went on to elude it right and left, and the arrow pursued him wherever he headed until the arrow fell in his head, and the Polytheist fell down dead.

فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ‏ فَلَمْ تَقْتُلُوهُمْ وَ لكِنَّ اللَّهَ قَتَلَهُمْ وَ ما رَمَيْتَ إِذْ رَمَيْتَ وَ لكِنَّ اللَّهَ رَمى

Allah^-azwj Revealed: So you did not kill them but Allah Killed them, and you did not threw when you threw, but Allah Threw [8:17]’’.[9]

10- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح‏ كَانَ لِكُلِّ عُضْوٍ مِنْ أَعْضَاءِ النَّبِيِّ ص مُعْجِزَةٌ فَمُعْجِزَةُ رَأْسِهِ أَنَّ الْغَمَامَةَ ظَلَّتْ‏ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ وَ مُعْجِزَةُ عَيْنَيْهِ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَرَى مِنْ خَلْفِهِ كَمَا يَرَى مِنْ أَمَامِهِ وَ مُعْجِزَةُ أُذُنَيْهِ هِيَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَسْمَعُ الْأَصْوَاتَ فِي النَّوْمِ كَمَا يَسْمَعُ فِي الْيَقَظَةِ وَ مُعْجِزَةُ لِسَانِهِ أَنَّهُ قَالَ لِلظَّبْيِ مَنْ أَنَا قَالَ أَنْتَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ

There was a miracle for every limb from the limbs of the Prophet^-saww. The miracle of his^-saww head was that the cloud shaded upon his^-saww head, and a miracle of his^-saww eyes was that he^-saww could see behind him^-saww just as he^-saww saw from his^-saww front, and a miracle of his^-saww ears was that these could hear the sounds during the sleep just as he^-saww could hear during the wakefulness, and a miracle of his^-saww tongue was that he^-saww said to the antelope: ‘Who am I^-saww?’ It said, ‘You^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj’.

وَ مُعْجِزَةُ يَدِهِ أَنَّهُ أَخْرَجَ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَصَابِعِهِ الْمَاءَ وَ مُعْجِزَةُ رِجْلَيْهِ أَنَّهُ كَانَ لِجَابِرٍ بِئْرٌ مَاؤُهَا زُعَاقٌ‏ فَشَكَا إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص فَغَسَلَ رِجْلَيْهِ فِي طَشْتٍ وَ أَمَرَ بِإِهْرَاقِ ذَلِكَ الْمَاءِ فِيهَا فَصَارَ مَاؤُهَا عَذْباً وَ مُعْجِزَةُ عَوْرَتِهِ أَنَّهُ وُلِدَ مَخْتُوناً وَ مُعْجِزَةُ بَدَنِهِ أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَقَعْ ظِلُّهُ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ لِأَنَّهُ كَانَ نُوراً وَ لَا يَكُونُ مِنَ النُّورِ الظِّلُّ كَالسِّرَاجِ وَ مُعْجِزَةُ ظَهْرِهِ خَتْمُ النُّبُوَّةِ كَانَ عَلَى كَتِفِهِ مَكْتُوباً لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ‏

And a miracle of his^-saww hand was that the water burst forth from between his^-saww fingers, and a miracle of his^-saww legs was that there was a well for Jabir whose water was bitter, so he complained to the Prophet^-saww. He^-saww washed his^-saww legs in a tray and instructed with spilling of that water in it, and its water became sweet; and a miracle was that he^-saww was born circumcised; and a miracle of his^-saww body was that his^-saww shadow did not fall upon the ground, because he^-saww was Noor, and the shadow cannot happen to be from the Noor, like the lamp (light); and miracle of his^-saww back was the seal of Prophet-hood. It was written upon his^-saww shoulder: ‘There is no god except Allah^-azwj, Muhammad^-saww is a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj.[10]

11- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب‏ مِنْ أَوْضَحِ الدَّلَالاتِ عَلَى نُبُوَّتِهِ ص اسْتِيقَانُ كَافَّتِهِمْ بِحُدُودِهِ وَ تَمَكُّنُ مُوجِبَاتِهَا فِي غَوَامِضِ صُدُورِهِمْ حَتَّى إِنَّهُمْ يَشْتِمُونَ بِالْفُسُوقِ مَنْ خَرَجَ عَنْ حَدٍّ مِنْ حُدُودِهِ وَ بِالْجَهْلِ مَنْ لَمْ يَعْرِفْهُ وَ بِالْكُفْرِ مَنْ أَعْرَضَ عَنْهُ

‘Al-Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashoub – Among the clearest indications of his^-saww Prophethood is the certainty of all of them regarding its boundaries and the firm establishment of its requirements in the innermost recesses of their hearts. So much so that they call with the term ‘sinfulness’ the one who departs from any of its boundaries, with ‘ignorance” the one who does not know it, and with ‘disbelief’ the one who turns away from it.

وَ يُقِيمُونَ الْحُدُودَ وَ يَحْكُمُونَ بِالْقَتْلِ وَ الضَّرْبِ وَ الْأَسْرِ لِمَنْ خَرَجَ عَنْ شَرِيعَتِهِ وَ يَتَبَرَّأُ الْأَقَارِبُ بَعْضُهُمْ مِنْ بَعْضٍ فِي مَحَبَّتِهِ وَ إِنَّهُ ص بَقِيَ فِي نُبُوَّتَهُ نَيِّفاً وَ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً بَيْنَ ظَهْرَانَيْ قَوْمٍ مَا يَمْلِكُ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا جَزِيرَةَ الْعَرَبِ

They enforce the prescribed punishments and rule that those who depart from his^-saww Shariah (Law) should be killed, beaten, or taken captive. Relatives even disassociate themselves from one another for the sake of their love for him^-saww. He^-saww remained in his^-saww Prophethood for more than twenty years among a people who possessed nothing of the earth except the Arabian Peninsula.

فَاتَّسَقَتْ‏ دَعْوَتُهُ بَرّاً وَ بَحْراً مُنْذُ خَمْسِمِائَةٍ وَ سَبْعِينَ سَنَةً مَقْرُوناً بِاسْمِ‏ رَبِّهِ يُنَادَى بِأَقْصَى الصِّينِ وَ الْهِنْدِ وَ التُّرْكِ وَ الْخَزَرِ وَ الصَّقَالِبَةِ وَ الشَّرْقِ وَ الْغَرْبِ وَ الْجَنُوبِ وَ الشِّمَالِ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ خَمْسَ مَرَّاتٍ بِالشَّهَادَتَيْنِ بِأَعْلَى صَوْتٍ بِلَا أُجْرَةٍ وَ خَضَعَتِ الْجَبَابِرَةُ لَهَا وَ لَا تَبْقَى لِمَلَكٍ نَوْبَتُهُ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهِ‏

Yet his^-saww call has spread across land and sea for five hundred and seventy years, accompanied by the name of his^-saww Lord^-azwj. He^-saww is called out in the farthest reaches of China, India, the lands of the Turks, the Khazars, the Slavs, and throughout the east and west, south and north, five times every day through the two testimonies, in the loudest voice, without payment. The mighty rulers have submitted to it, and no ruler retains his authority after his death.

وَ عَلَى ذَلِكَ فَسَّرَ الْحَسَنُ وَ مُجَاهِدٌ قَوْلَهُ تَعَالَى‏ وَ رَفَعْنا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ‏ مَا يَقُولُ الْمُؤَذِّنُونَ عَلَى الْمَنَائِرِ وَ الْخُطَبَاءُ عَلَى الْمَنَابِرِ

Based upon that, Al Hasan and Mujahid interpreted the saying of Allah, the Exalted: And We Raised your Zikr for you? [94:4]. This refers to what the callers to Salat proclaim from the minarets and what the preachers proclaim from the pulpits’.

قَالَ الشَّاعِرُ

وَ ضَمَّ الْإِلَهُ اسْمَ النَّبِيِّ إِلَى اسْمِهِ‏

إِذَا قَالَ فِي الْخَمْسِ الْمُؤَذِّنُ أَشْهَدُ

The poet said, ‘Allah^-azwj Joined the name of the Prophet^-saww to His^-azwj own Name, when the Muezzin says during the five prayers: ‘I bear witness…’’.

وَ مِنْ تَمَامِ قُوَّتِهِ أَنَّهَا تَجْذِبُ الْعَالَمَ مِنْ أَدْنَى الْأَرْضِ وَ أَقْصَى أَطْرَافِهَا فِي كُلِّ عَامٍ إِلَى الْحَجِّ حَتَّى تُخْرِجُ الْعَذْرَاءَ مِنْ خِدْرِهَا وَ الْعَجُوزَ فِي ضَعْفِهَا وَ مَنْ حَضَرَتْهُ وَفَاتُهُ يُوصِي بِأَدَائِهَا

And among the manifestations of the completeness of his^-saww power is that it draws the entire world, from the lowest regions of the earth and its farthest reaches, toward the Hajj every year, to the extent that it brings the young unmarried woman out of her private chamber, the elderly woman despite her weakness, and even the person whose death has approached makes a bequest that it be performed.

وَ قَدْ نَرَى الصَّائِمَ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ يَتَلَهَّبُ عَطَشاً حَتَّى يَخُوضُ الْمَاءَ إِلَى حَلْقِهِ وَ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ يَجْرَعَ مِنْهُ جُرْعَةً وَ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ خَمْسَ مَرَّاتٍ يَسْجُدُونَ خَوْفاً وَ تَضَرُّعاً وَ كَذَلِكَ أَكْثَرُ الشَّرَائِعِ

We may even see a fasting person in the month of Ramazan burning with thirst, to the point that he enters the water up to his throat, yet he is unable to swallow even a single mouthful of it, and every day, five times, they prostrate themselves in fear and supplication, and like that are most of the Laws.

وَ قَدْ تَحَزَّبَ النَّاسُ فِي مَحَبَّتِهِ حَتَّى يَقُولُ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ أَنَا عَلَى الْحَقِّ وَ أَنْتَ لَسْتَ عَلَى دِينِهِ‏

People have even formed factions over their love for him^-saww, to the point that each one says to the other: ‘I am upon the truth, and you are not upon his^-saww religion!’’ (P.s. – This is not a Hadeeth)[11]

12- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب‏ صِيدَ سَمَكَةٌ فَوُجِدَ عَلَى إِحْدَى أُذُنَيْهَا لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ عَلَى الْأُخْرَى مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ

‘Al-Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashoub – ‘A fish was caught and it was found (written) upon one of its ears: ‘There is no god except Allah^-azwj’, and upon its other: ‘Muhammad^-saww is Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj’’. (Not a Hadeeth)

كِتَابُ شَرَفِ الْمُصْطَفَى‏ أَنَّهُ أُتِيَ بِسَخْلَةٍ مُنَقَّشَةٍ فَنَظَرْتُ إِلَى بَيَاضِ شَحْمَةِ أُذُنَيْهَا فَإِذَا فِي إِحْدَاهُمَا لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ

The book ‘Sharah Al Mustafa^-saww’ – It is reported that a young animal was brought to him^-saww, marked with distinctive markings. I looked at the whiteness of the lobes of its ears, and in one of them was written: ‘There is no god except Allah^-azwj, Muhammad^-saww is Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj’.

وَ قَالَ أَعْرَابِيٌّ لِلنَّبِيِّ ص يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنَّنِي كُنْتُ وَ أَخٌ لِي خَلْفَ هَذَا الْجَبَلِ نَحْتَطِبُ حَطَباً فَرَأَيْنَا الْجُمُوعَ قَدْ زَحَفَ بَعْضُهَا إِلَى بَعْضٍ فَقُلْتُ لِأَخِي اقْعُدْ حَتَّى نَنْظُرَ لِمَنْ تَكُونُ الْغَلَبَةُ وَ عَلَى مَنْ تَدُورُ الدَّائِرَةُ

An Arab said to the Prophet^-saww, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! My brother and I were behind this mountain gathering firewood. We saw groups of people advancing toward one another. I said to my brother, ‘Let us sit and see who will gain victory and upon whom the turn of defeat will fall!’

فَإِذَا قَدْ كَشَفَ اللَّهُ عَنْ أَبْصَارِنَا فَرَأَيْنَا خُيُولًا قَدْ نَزَلَتْ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ أَرْجُلُهَا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ أَعْنَاقُهَا فِي السَّمَاءِ وَ عَلَيْهَا قَوْمٌ‏ جَبَّارُونَ وَ مَعَهُمْ أَلْوِيَةٌ قَدْ سَدَّتْ مَا بَيْنَ الْخَافِقَيْنِ‏

Then Allah uncovered our eyes, and we saw horses that had descended from the skies to the earth. Their feet were on the earth while their necks reached into the skies, and upon them were mighty men. They carried banners that filled the space between the two horizons.

فَأَمَّا أَخِي فَإِنَّهُ انْشَقَّتْ مَرَارَتُهُ فَمَاتَ مِنْ وَقْتِهِ وَ سَاعَتِهِ وَ أَمَّا أَنَا فَقَدْ جِئْتُكَ ثُمَّ أَسْلَمَ وَ مِثْلُ الْمَلَائِكَةِ الَّذِينَ ظَهَرُوا عَلَى الْخَيْلِ الْبُلْقِ بِالثِّيَابِ الْبِيضِ يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ تَقَدَّمَهُمْ جَبْرَئِيلُ عَلَى فَرَسٍ يُقَالُ لَهَا حَيْزُومُ

As for my brother, his gall bladder burst and he died immediately, at that very moment. As for me, I came to you and then embraced Islam. It was like the Angels who appeared upon piebald horses wearing white garments on the Day of Badr. At their head was Jabraeel^-as, riding a horse called Hayzum’. (Not a Hadeeth)

أَنَسٌ‏ إِنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص سَمِعَ صَوْتاً مِنْ قُلَّةِ جَبَلٍ اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْنِي مِنَ الْأُمَّةِ الْمَرْحُومَةِ الْمَغْفُورَةِ فَأَتَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَإِذَا بِشَيْخٍ أَشْيَبَ قَامَتُهُ ثَلَاثُمِائَةِ ذِرَاعٍ فَلَمَّا رَأَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص عَانَقَهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّنِي آكُلُ فِي كُلِّ سَنَةٍ مَرَّةً وَاحِدَةً وَ هَذَا أَوَانُهُ فَإِذَا هُوَ بِمَائِدَةٍ أُنْزِلَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَأَكَلَا وَ كَانَ إِلْيَاسَ ع‏

Anas (a well-known fabricator) said, ‘The Prophet^-saww heard a voice from the summit of a mountain, ‘O Allah^-azwj! Make me from the Mercied community, the Forgiven!’ Rasool-Allah^-saww went there and there was an old grey-haired man whose height was of three hundred cubits. When he saw Rasool-Allah^-saww, he hugged him^-saww, then said, ‘I only eat once during every year, and this is its time!’ Behold, there was a table meal from the sky. They both ate, and he was Ilyas^-as’.[12]

13- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب‏ كَانَ لِلنَّبِيِّ ص مِنَ الْمُعْجِزَاتِ مَا لَمْ يَكُنْ لِغَيْرِهِ مِنَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ وَ ذَكَرَ أَنَّ لَهُ أَرْبَعَةَ آلَافٍ وَ أَرْبَعَمِائَةٍ وَ أربعون‏ [أَرْبَعِينَ‏] مُعْجِزَةً ذُكِرَتْ مِنْهَا ثَلَاثَةُ آلَافٍ تَتَنَوَّعُ أَرْبَعَةَ أَنْوَاعٍ مَا كَانَ قَبْلَهُ وَ بَعْدَ مِيلَادِهِ وَ بَعْدَ بَعْثِهِ وَ بَعْدَ وَفَاتِهِ وَ أَقْوَاهَا وَ أَبْقَاهَا الْقُرْآنُ لِوُجُوهٍ

‘Al-Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashoub – ‘For the Prophet^-saww there were such miracles what did not happen to be for other Prophets^-as, and it is mentioned that there were four thousand and four hundred and forty miracles, from these three thousand have been mentioned (recorded). These were of four different types – what happened before him^-saww, and after his^-saww birth, and after his^-saww declaration of Prophethood, and after his^-saww expiry, and their strongest and their most lasting is the Quran, due to (various) aspects.

أَحَدُهَا أَنَّ مُعْجِزَةَ كُلِّ رَسُولٍ مُوَافِقٌ لِلْأَغْلَبِ مِنْ أَحْوَالِ عَصْرِهِ كَمَا بَعَثَ اللَّهُ مُوسَى ع فِي عَصْرِ السَّحَرَةِ بِالْعَصَا فَإِذَا هِيَ تَلْقَفُ وَ فَلَقَ الْبَحْرَ يَبَساً وَ قَلَّبَ الْعَصَا حَيَّةً فَأَبْهَرَ كُلَّ سَاحِرٍ وَ أَذَلَّ كُلَّ كَافِرٍ

First, the miracle of every Messenger^-as corresponded to what predominated among the circumstances of his^-as era. Thus, Allah^-azwj Sent Musa^-as in an age of sorcerers with the staff. It swallowed up what they had produced, split the sea and made it dry, and the staff was transformed into a serpent. In this way, it overwhelmed every sorcerer and humbled every unbeliever.

وَ قَوْمُ عِيسَى ع أَطِبَّاءُ فَبَعَثَهُ اللَّهُ بِإِبْرَاءِ الزَّمْنَى وَ إِحْيَاءِ الْمَوْتَى بِمَا دَهَشَ كُلَّ طَبِيبٍ وَ أَذْهَلَ كُلَّ لَبِيبٍ

The people of Isa^-as were physicians, so Allah^-azwj Sent him^-as with the ability to cure the sick and bring the dead to life, in ways that astonished every physician and bewildered every intelligent person.

وَ قَوْمُ مُحَمَّدٍ ص فُصَحَاءُ فَبَعَثَهُ اللَّهُ بِالْقُرْآنِ فِي إِيجَازِهِ وَ إِعْجَازِهِ بِمَا عَجَزَ عَنْهُ الْفُصَحَاءُ وَ أَذْعَنَ لَهُ الْبُلَغَاءُ وَ تَبَلَّدَ فِيهِ الشُّعَرَاءُ لِيَكُونَ الْعَجْزُ عَنْهُ أَقْهَرَ وَ التَّقْصِيرُ فِيهِ أَظْهَرَ

The people of Muhammad^-saww were eloquent speakers, so Allah^-azwj Sent him with the Qur’an, with its concise expression and miraculous nature, through which the eloquent were rendered incapable, the masters of rhetoric submitted to it, and the poets became dull and helpless before it. Thus, their inability to produce anything like it would be more overwhelming and their failure to match it would be more evident.

وَ الثَّانِي أَنَّ الْمُعْجِزَ فِي كُلِّ قَوْمٍ بِحَسَبِ أَفْهَامِهِمْ عَلَى قَدْرِ عُقُولِهِمْ وَ أَذْهَانِهِمْ وَ كَانَ فِي بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ قَوْمِ مُوسَى ع وَ عِيسَى ع بَلَادَةٌ وَ غَبَاوَةٌ لِأَنَّهُ لَمْ يُنْقَلْ عَنْهُمْ مِنْ‏ كَلَامٍ جَزْلٍ أَوْ مَعْنًى بِكْرٍ وَ قَالُوا لِنَبِيِّهِمْ حِينَ مَرُّوا عَلى‏ قَوْمٍ يَعْكُفُونَ عَلى‏ أَصْنامٍ لَهُمْ‏ …

Second, the miracle given to every people was according to their understanding and in proportion to their intellects and minds. Among the Children of Israel, from the people of Musa^-as and Isa^-as there was dullness and lack of understanding, for nothing has been transmitted from them consisting of powerful speech or original meaning, and they said to their Prophet^-as when they passed by a people devoting themselves to their idols. They said, ‘O Musa! Make a god for us just as there is a god for [7:138].

اجْعَلْ لَنا إِلهاً وَ الْعَرَبُ أَصَحُّ النَّاسِ أَفْهَاماً وَ أَحَدُّهُمْ أَذْهَاناً فَخُصُّوا بِالْقُرْآنِ بِمَا يُدْرِكُونَهُ بِالْفِطْنَةِ دُونَ الْبَدِيهَةِ لِتُخَصَّ كُلُّ أُمَّةٍ بِمَا يُشَاكِلُ طَبْعَهَا

The Arabs, however, were the people with the soundest understanding and the sharpest minds. Therefore, they were given the Qur’an, containing matters that could be grasped through intelligence and insight rather than merely through immediate perception, so that every nation would be given something suited to its natural disposition.

وَ الثَّالِثُ أَنَّ مُعْجِزَ الْقُرْآنِ أَبْقَى عَلَى الْأَعْصَارِ وَ أَنْشَرُ فِي الْأَقْطَارِ وَ مَا دَامَ إِعْجَازُهُ فَهُوَ أَحَجُّ وَ بِالاخْتِصَاصِ أَحَقُّ فَانْتَشَرَ ذَلِكَ بَعْدَهُ فِي أَقْطَارِ الْعَالَمِ شَرْقاً وَ غَرْباً قَرْناً بَعْدَ قَرْنٍ وَ عَصْراً بَعْدَ عَصْرٍ وَ قَدِ انْقَرَضَ الْقَوْمُ وَ هَذِهِ سَنَةُ سَبْعِينَ وَ خَمْسِمِائَةٍ مِنْ مَبْعَثِهِ فَلَمْ يَقْدِرْ أَحَدٌ عَلَى مُعَارَضَتِهِ‏

Third, the miracle of the Qur’an endures through the ages and has spread more widely throughout the regions of the world. As long as its miraculous nature remains, it is the strongest proof and most deserving of being singled out as the miracle. After him^-saww, it spread throughout the regions of the world, east and west, century after century and age after age. The people of that era have passed away, while this is now the year five hundred and seventy after his^-saww mission began, and no one has been able to produce anything to rival it’. (P.s. – This is not a Hadeeth)[13]

14- م، تفسير الإمام عليه السلام قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْبَاقِرُ ع‏ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص لَمَّا قَدِمَ الْمَدِينَةَ وَ ظَهَرَتْ آثَارُ صِدْقِهِ وَ آيَاتُ حَقِّهِ وَ بَيِّنَاتُ نُبُوَّتِهِ كَادَتْهُ الْيَهُودُ أَشَدَّ كَيْدٍ وَ قَصَدُوهُ أَقْبَحَ قَصْدٍ يَقْصِدُونَ أَنْوَارَهُ لِيَطْمِسُوهَا وَ حُجَجَهُ لِيُبْطِلُوهَا

Muhammad^-asws Bin Ali Al-Baqir^-asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww, when he^-saww proceeded to Al-Medina and the effects of his^-saww truthfulness were apparent, and the signs of his^-saww realities, and the clarification of his^-saww Prophet-hood, the Jews plotted against him^-asws with severe plots, and aimed at him^-saww with the ugliest of aims – in order to obliterate his^-saww light and invalidate his^-saww arguments.

وَ كَانَ مِمَّنْ قَصَدَهُ لِلرَّدِّ عَلَيْهِ وَ تَكْذِيبِهِ مَالِكُ بْنُ الصَّيْفِ وَ كَعْبُ بْنُ الْأَشْرَفِ وَ حُيَيُّ بْنُ أَخْطَبَ وَ جُدَيُّ بْنُ أَخْطَبَ وَ أَبُو يَاسِرِ بْنُ أَخْطَبَ وَ أَبُو لُبَابَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمُنْذِرِ وَ شُعْبَةُ

There were from the ones who aimed at him^-saww for the responding against him^-saww and belying him^-saww – Malik Bin Al-Sayf, and Ka’ab Bin Al-Ashraf, and Huyayy Bin Akhtab, and Judayy Bin Akhtab, and Abu Yasser Bin Akhtab, and Abu Lubaba Bin Abdul Munzir and Shu’ba.

فَقَالَ مَالِكٌ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص يَا مُحَمَّدُ تَزْعُمُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص كَذَلِكَ قَالَ اللَّهُ خَالِقُ الْخَلْقِ أَجْمَعِينَ

Malik said to Rasool-Allah^-saww, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Are you^-saww claiming that you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj?’ Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Like that is what Allah^-azwj Said, the Creator of the creatures in their entirety’.

قَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ لَنْ نُؤْمِنَ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ‏ حَتَّى يُؤْمِنَ لَكَ هَذَا الْبِسَاطُ الَّذِي تَحْتَنَا وَ لَنْ نَشْهَدَ أَنَّكَ عَنِ اللَّهِ‏ جِئْتَنَا حَتَّى يَشْهَدَ لَكَ هَذَا الْبِسَاطُ

He said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! We will not express belief in you^-saww that you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj until this carpet believes in you^-saww, which is underneath us, and we will never testify that you^-saww are (Sent) from Allah^-azwj coming to us until this carpet testifies to you^-saww’.

وَ قَالَ أَبُو لُبَابَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمُنْذِرِ لَنْ نُؤْمِنَ لَكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُهُ وَ لَا نَشْهَدُ لَكَ بِهِ حَتَّى يُؤْمِنَ‏ وَ يَشْهَدَ لَكَ هَذَا السَّوْطُ الَّذِي فِي يَدِي

And Abu Lubaba Bin Abdul Munzir said, ‘We will never express belief to you^-saww, O Muhammad^-saww, that you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, nor will we testify to you^-saww with it, until it believes and testifies to you^-asws, this whip which is in my hand’.

وَ قَالَ كَعْبُ بْنُ الْأَشْرَفِ لَنْ نُؤْمِنَ لَكَ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ لَنْ نُصَدِّقَكَ‏ حَتَّى يُؤْمِنَ لَكَ هَذَا الْحِمَارُ وَ أَشَارَ لِحِمَارِهِ الَّذِي كَانَ رَاكِبَهُ‏

And Ka’ab Bin Al-Ashraf said, ‘We will never express belief in you^-saww that you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj and will never ratify you^-saww with it until it expresses belief to you^-asws, this donkey which I rode’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ لِلْعِبَادِ الِاقْتِرَاحُ عَلَى اللَّهِ بَلْ عَلَيْهِمُ التَّسْلِيمُ لِلَّهِ وَ الِانْقِيَادُ لِأَمْرِهِ وَ الِاكْتِفَاءُ بِمَا جَعَلَهُ كَافِياً

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘It isn’t for the servants, the suggesting upon Allah^-azwj the Exalted, but it is upon them the submission to Allah^-azwj and the subjugation to His^-azwj Commands and the satisfaction with whatever He^-azwj Made to be, as being sufficient.

أَ مَا كَفَاكُمْ أَنْ أَنْطَقَ التَّوْرَاةَ وَ الْإِنْجِيلَ وَ الزَّبُورَ وَ صُحُفَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بِنُبُوَّتِي وَ دَلَّ عَلَى صِدْقِي وَ تَبَيَّنَ لَكُمْ فِيهَا ذِكْرَ أَخِي وَ وَصِيِّي وَ خَلِيفَتِي فِي أُمَّتِي وَ خَيْرِ مَنْ أَتْرُكُهُ عَلَى الْخَلَائِقِ بَعْدِي عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَأَنْزَلَ‏ عَلَيَّ هَذَا الْقُرْآنَ الْبَاهِرَ لِلْخَلْقِ أَجْمَعِينَ الْمُعْجِزَ لَهُمْ عَنْ أَنْ يَأْتُوا بِمِثْلِهِ وَ أَنْ يَتَكَلَّفُوا شِبْهَهُ ‏

But, is it not sufficient for you that the Torah, and the Evangel, and the Psalms, and the Parchments of Ibrahim^-as speak of my^-saww Prophet-hood and point upon my^-saww truthfulness, and there is clarified for you all therein the mention of my^-saww brother, and my^-saww successor, and my^-saww Caliph, and the best one I^-saww leave to be among the people from after me^-saww, Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws, and this Quran is Revealed unto me^-saww dazzling the people in their entirety, the frustration to them from bringing the like of it, and from faking its resemblance?

فَأَمَّا هَذَا الَّذِي اقْتَرَحْتُمُوهُ فَلَسْتُ أَقْتَرِحُهُ عَلَى رَبِّي عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بَلْ أَقُولُ إِنَّ مَا أَعْطَانِيهِ رَبِّي مِنْ دَلَالَةٍ هُوَ حَسْبِي وَ حَسْبُكُمْ فَإِنْ فَعَلَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مَا اقْتَرَحْتُمُوهُ فَذَاكَ زَائِدٌ فِي تَطَوُّلِهِ‏ عَلَيْنَا وَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَ إِنْ مَنَعَنَا ذَلِكَ فَلِعِلْمِهِ بِأَنَّ الَّذِي فَعَلَهُ كَافٍ فِيمَا أَرَادَهُ مِنَّا

And as for this which you are suggesting, so I^-saww wouldn’t be suggesting it upon my^-saww Lord^-azwj. But, I^-saww am saying, rather my^-saww Lord^-azwj the Exalted Gave me^-saww from the evidence which suffices me^-saww and suffices you all. If the Mighty and the Majestic were to Do what you are suggesting, then that would be an increase in His^-azwj Forbearance upon us and upon you all; and if He^-azwj were to Refuse us that, then it is in His^-azwj Knowledge that which He^-azwj has Done is sufficient regarding what He^-azwj Wants from us’.

فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنْ كَلَامِهِ هَذَا أَنْطَقَ اللَّهُ الْبِسَاطَ فَقَالَ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ إِلَهاً وَاحِداً أَحَداً صَمَداً قَيُّوماً أَبَداً لَمْ يَتَّخِذْ صَاحِبَةً وَ لَا وَلَداً وَ لَمْ يُشْرِكْ فِي حُكْمِهِ أَحَداً وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ أَرْسَلَكَ بِالْهُدَى وَ دِينِ الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَكَ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ‏ وَ لَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ‏

He^-asws said: ‘When Rasool-Allah^-saww was free from this speech of his^-saww – the carpet spoke and it said, ‘I testify that there is no god except Allah^-azwj Alone, there being no associates for Him^-azwj– One God, First, Powerful, Living eternally forever – neither having taken a female companions nor a son, and did not Participate anyone in His^-azwj Rule. And I testify that you^-saww, O Muhammad^-saww, are His^-azwj servant and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww. He^-azwj Sent you^-saww with the Guidance and the Religion of the Truth in order to Cause you^-saww (it) to prevail upon the (other) Religions, all of them, and even if the Polytheists dislike it’.

وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ بْنِ هَاشِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ مَنَافٍ أَخُوكَ وَ وَصِيُّكَ وَ خَلِيفَتُكَ فِي أُمَّتِكَ وَ خَيْرُ مَنْ تَتْرُكُهُ عَلَى الْخَلَائِقِ بَعْدَكَ وَ أَنَّ مَنْ وَالاهُ فَقَدْ وَالاكَ وَ مَنْ عَادَاهُ فَقَدْ عَادَاكَ وَ مَنْ أَطَاعَهُ فَقَدْ أَطَاعَكَ وَ مَنْ عَصَاهُ فَقَدْ عَصَاكَ

And I testify that Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws Bin Hashim^-asws Bin Abd Manaf^-asws, is your^-asws brother and your^-saww successor^-asws, and your^-saww Caliph in your^-saww community, and the best legacy upon the upon the creatures after you^-saww, and that the one who befriends him^-asws so he has befriended you^-saww, and the one who is inimical to him^-asws has been inimical to you^-saww, and the one who obeys him^-asws so he has obeyed you^-saww, and the one who disobeys him^-asws so he has disobeyed you^-saww.

وَ أَنَّ مَنْ أَطَاعَكَ فَقَدْ أَطَاعَ اللَّهَ وَ اسْتَحَقَّ السَّعَادَةَ بِرِضْوَانِهِ وَ أَنَّ مَنْ عَصَاكَ فَقَدْ عَصَى اللَّهَ وَ اسْتَحَقَّ أَلِيمَ الْعَذَابِ بِنِيرَانِهِ

And the one who has obeyed you^-saww, so he has obeyed Allah^-azwj, and is deserving of the happiness by His^-azwj Pleasure, and the one who disobeys you^-saww so he has disobeyed Allah^-azwj and is deserving of the painful Punishment by His^-azwj Fires.

قَالَ فَعَجِبَ الْقَوْمُ فَقَالَ‏ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ مَا هَذَا إِلَّا سِحْرٌ مُبِينٌ

He^-asws said: ‘The group was astonished and some of them said to the others, ‘This is nothing except clear sorcery’.

فَاضْطَرَبَ‏ الْبِسَاطُ وَ ارْتَفَعَ وَ نَكَسَ مَالِكَ بْنَ الصَّيْفِ وَ أَصْحَابَهُ‏ حَتَّى وَقَعُوا عَلَى رُءُوسِهِمْ وَ وُجُوهِهِمْ

The carpet stirred and lifted, and inverted Malik Bin Al-Sayf and his companions from it until they fell upon their heads and their faces.

ثُمَّ أَنْطَقَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى الْبِسَاطَ ثَانِياً فَقَالَ أَنَا بِسَاطٌ أَنْطَقَنِيَ اللَّهُ‏ وَ أَكْرَمَنِي بِالنُّطْقِ بِتَوْحِيدِهِ وَ تَمْجِيدِهِ وَ الشَّهَادَةِ لِمُحَمَّدٍ نَبِيِّهِ وَ أَنَّهُ سَيِّدُ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ وَ رَسُولُهُ إِلَى خَلْقِهِ وَ الْقَائِمُ بَيْنَ عِبَادِ اللَّهِ بِحَقِّهِ وَ إِمَامَةِ أَخِيهِ وَ وَصِيِّهِ وَ وَزِيرِهِ وَ شَقِيقِهِ‏ وَ خَلِيلِهِ وَ قَاضِي دُيُونِهِ وَ مُنْجِزِ عِدَاتِهِ وَ نَاصِرِ أَوْلِيَائِهِ وَ قَامِعِ أَعْدَائِهِ وَ الِانْقِيَادِ لِمَنْ نَصَبَهُ إِمَاماً وَ وَلِيّاً وَ الْبَرَاءَةِ مِمَّنِ اتَّخَذَهُ مُنَابِذاً وَ عَدُوّاً

Then Allah^-azwj Cause the carpet to speak for a second time, so it said, ‘I am a speaking carpet of Allah^-azwj, and He^-azwj Honoured me with the speaking with His^-azwj Tawheed, and His^-azwj Glory, and the testimony for Muhammad^-saww His^-azwj Prophet^-saww that he^-saww is the Chief of His^-azwj Prophets^-as and His^-azwj Rasools^-as to His^-azwj creatures, and the establisher among the servants of Allah^-azwj with his^-saww right and the Imamate of his^-saww brother, and his^-saww successor, and his^-saww Vizier, and his^-saww counterpart, and his^-saww friend, and the fulfiller of his^-saww debts, and the accomplisher of his^-saww promises made, and helper of his^-saww friends, and repressor of his^-saww enemies, and the one compliant to the one^-saww who appointed him^-asws as an Imam^-asws and a Guardian^-asws, and the disavowing from the one who takes him^-asws as an adversary and an enemy’.

فَمَا يَنْبَغِي لِكَافِرٍ أَنْ يَطَأَنِي وَ لَا يَجْلِسَ‏ عَلَيَّ إِنَّمَا يَجْلِسُ عَلَيَّ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ

Therefore, it is not befitting for a Kafir that he treads upon me, nor that he sits upon me. But rather, the Momineen should sit upon me’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِسَلْمَانَ وَ الْمِقْدَادِ وَ أَبِي ذَرٍّ وَ عَمَّارٍ قُومُوا فَاجْلِسُوا عَلَيْهِ فَإِنَّكُمْ بِجَمِيعِ مَا شَهِدَ بِهِ هَذَا الْبِسَاطُ لَمُؤْمِنُونَ‏ فَجَلَسُوا

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to Salman^-ra, and Al-Miqdad^-ra, and Abu Zarr^-ra, and Ammar^-ra: ‘Arise, and sit upon it, for you^-ra are believers in the entirety of whatever this carpet has testified with’. They sat.

ثُمَّ أَنْطَقَ اللَّهُ سَوْطَ أَبِي لُبَابَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمُنْذِرِ فَقَالَ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ خَالِقُ الْخَلْقِ وَ بَاسِطُ الرِّزْقِ وَ مُدَبِّرُ الْأُمُورِ وَ الْقَادِرُ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ

Then Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Caused the whip of Abu Lubaba Bin Abdul Munzir to speak, so it said, ‘I testify that there is no god except Allah^-azwj, Creator of the creatures, and Extender of the sustenance, and Administrator of the affairs, and the Able upon all things.

وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ وَ صَفِيُّهُ وَ خَلِيلُهُ وَ حَبِيبُهُ وَ وَلِيُّهُ وَ نَجِيُّهُ‏ جَعَلَكَ السَّفِيرَ بَيْنَهُ وَ بَيْنَ عِبَادِهِ لِيُنْجِيَ بِكَ السُّعَدَاءَ وَ يُهْلِكَ بِكَ الْأَشْقِيَاءَ

And I testify that you^-saww, O Muhammad^-saww, are His^-azwj servant, and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww, and His^-azwj Elite, and His^-azwj Fiend, and His^-azwj Beloved, and His^-azwj Guardian, and His^-azwj Rescuer. He^-azwj Made you^-saww the ambassador between Him^-azwj and His^-azwj servants in order to Rescue the fortunate ones by you^-saww, and destroy the wretched ones by you^-saww.

وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ الْمَذْكُورُ فِي الْمَلَإِ الْأَعْلَى بِأَنَّهُ سَيِّدُ الْخَلْقِ بَعْدَكَ وَ أَنَّهُ الْمُقَاتِلُ عَلَى تَنْزِيلِ كِتَابِكَ لِيَسُوقَ مُخَالِفِيهِ إِلَى قَبُولِهِ طَائِعِينَ وَ كَارِهِينَ

And I testify that Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws is the one mentioned in the lofty assemblies that he^-asws is the Chief of the creatures after you^-saww, and he^-asws would be the one fought upon the Revelation of your^-saww Book to usher his^-asws adversaries to its acceptance, willingly or unwillingly.

ثُمَّ الْمُقَاتِلُ بَعْدَهُ عَلَى تَأْوِيلِهِ الْمُنْحَرِفِينَ‏ الَّذِينَ غَلَبَتْ أَهْوَاؤُهُمْ عُقُولَهُمْ فَحَرَّفُوا تَأْوِيلَ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَ غَيَّرُوهُ وَ السَّابِقُ إِلَى رِضْوَانِ اللَّهِ أَوْلِيَاءَ اللَّهِ بِفَضْلِ عَطِيَّتِهِ وَ الْقَاذِفُ فِي نِيرَانِ اللَّهِ أَعْدَاءَ اللَّهِ بِسَيْفِ نَقِمَتِهِ وَ الْمُؤْثِرِينَ لِمَعْصِيَتِهِ وَ مُخَالَفَتِهِ

Then the one fought upon its explanation by the distorters, those overcome by their desires and their intellects. They would alter the explanation of the Book of Allah^-azwj the Exalted and Change it, and (he^-asws would be) the one preceding (ushering) his^-asws friends to the Pleasure of Allah^-azwj by the grace of his^-asws gifting, and the flinger into the Fires of Allah^-azwj, the enemies of Allah^-azwj, by his^-asws sword of his^-asws retribution, and the one giving preference to his^-asws disobedience and his^-asws opposition’.

قَالَ ثُمَّ انْجَذَبَ السَّوْطُ مِنْ يَدِ أَبِي لُبَابَةَ وَ جَذَبَ أَبَا لُبَابَةَ فَخَرَّ لِوَجْهِهِ‏ ثُمَّ قَامَ بَعْدُ فَجَذَبَهُ السَّوْطُ فَخَرَّ لِوَجْهِهِ‏ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَزَلْ كَذَلِكَ مِرَاراً حَتَّى قَالَ أَبُو لُبَابَةَ وَيْلِي مَا لِي

He^-asws said: ‘Then the whip inclined from the hand of Abu Lubaba and struck him, so he fell on his face (struck himself). Then he stood up afterwards, so the whip struck him (again) and he fell upon his face. Then it did not cease to be like that time and again until Abu Lubaba said, ‘Woe is me! What is the matter with me?’

فَأَنْطَقَ‏ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ السَّوْطَ فَقَالَ يَا بَا لُبَابَةَ إِنِّي سَوْطٌ قَدْ أَنْطَقَنِيَ اللَّهُ بِتَوْحِيدِهِ وَ أَكْرَمَنِي بِتَحْمِيدِهِ وَ شَرَّفَنِي بِتَصْدِيقِ نُبُوَّةِ مُحَمَّدٍ سَيِّدِ عَبِيدِهِ وَ جَعَلَنِي مِمَّنْ يُوَالِي خَيْرَ خَلْقِ اللَّهِ بَعْدَهُ وَ أَفْضَلَ أَوْلِيَاءِ اللَّهِ مِنَ الْخَلْقِ حَاشَاهُ‏ وَ الْمَخْصُوصَ بِابْنَتِهِ سَيِّدَةِ النِّسْوَانِ

Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Caused the whip to speak, so it said, ‘O Abu Lubaba! I am a whip whom Allah^-azwj Caused to speak with His^-azwj Tawheed, and Honoured me with Glorifying Him^-azwj, and Ennobled me with the ratification of the Prophet-hood of Muhammad^-saww, Chief of His^-azwj servants, and Made me to be from the one who befriend the best of the creatures of Allah^-azwj after him^-saww, and the most superior of the friends of Allah^-azwj from the creatures He^-saww Perfected, and the one particularised with his^-saww daughter^-asws the Chieftess of the women.

الْمُشَرَّفَ‏ بِبِيْتُوتَتِهِ عَلَى فِرَاشِهِ أَفْضَلَ الْجِهَادِ وَ الْمُذِلَّ لِأَعْدَائِهِ بِسَيْفِ الِانْتِقَامِ وَ الْبَائِنَ فِي أُمَّتِهِ بِعُلُومِ الْحَلَالِ وَ الْحَرَامِ وَ الشَّرَائِعِ وَ الْأَحْكَامِ

And he^-asws was the one ennobled with spending the night sleeping upon his^-saww bed, as being the most superior Jihad, and the humiliator of his^-saww enemies by the sword of revenge, and the one unmistakably among his^-saww community with the knowledge of the Permissible and the Prohibition, and the Laws, and the Ordinances.

لَا يَنْبَغِي‏ لِكَافِرٍ مُجَاهِرٍ بِالْخِلَافِ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ أَنْ يَبْتَذِلَنِي وَ يَسْتَعْمِلَنِي لَا أَزَالُ أَجْذِبُكَ حَتَّى أُثْخِنَكَ ثُمَّ أَقْتُلُكَ وَ أَزُولُ عَنْ يَدِكَ أَوْ تُظْهِرَ الْإِيمَانَ بِمُحَمَّدٍ ص

It is not befitting for a Kafir outspoken with the opposition against Muhammad^-saww that he humiliates me and utilises me. I will not cease to strike you until I weaken you, then I shall kill you, and I will decline from your hand, or (unless) you manifest the Eman upon Muhammad^-saww’.

فَقَالَ أَبُو لُبَابَةَ فَأَشْهَدُ بِجَمِيعِ مَا شَهِدْتَ بِهِ أَيُّهَا السَّوْطُ وَ أَعْتَقِدُهُ وَ أُومِنُ بِهِ

Abu Lubaba said, ‘I hereby testify with the entirety of what you testified with, o you whip, and I believe in it’.

فَنَطَقَ السَّوْطُ هَا لذا [أَنَا ذَا] قَدْ تَقَرَّرْتُ فِي يَدِكَ لِإِظْهَارِكَ الْإِيمَانَ وَ اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِسَرِيرَتِكَ وَ هُوَ الْحَاكِمُ لَكَ أَوْ عَلَيْكَ فِي يَوْمِ الْوَقْتِ الْمَعْلُومِ

The whip spoke, ‘Here, I have calmed down in your hand, due to your manifesting the Eman, and Allah^-azwj is Closer with your secrets and He^-azwj would be the judge for you or against you on a Day of the known time’.

قَالَ ع وَ لَمْ يَحْسُنْ إِسْلَامُهُ وَ كَانَتْ‏ مِنْهُ هَنَاتٌ وَ هَنَاتٌ

He^-asws said: ‘And his Islam was not good, and from him there were flaws and flaws’.

فَقَامَ الْقَوْمُ‏ مِنْ عِنْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَجَعَلَتِ‏ الْيَهُودُ يُسِرُّ بَعْضُهَا إِلَى بَعْضٍ بِأَنَّ مُحَمَّداً لَمُؤْتَى لَهُ‏ وَ مَبْخُوتٌ فِي أَمْرِهِ وَ لَيْسَ بِنَبِيٍّ صَادِقٍ

When the people arose from the presence of Rasool-Allah^-saww, the Jews went on to secretly whisper to each other that, ‘Muhammad^-saww has two hundred followers for him^-saww and is fortunate in his affairs, he^-saww isn’t a true Prophet^-saww’.

وَ جَاءَ كَعْبُ بْنُ الْأَشْرَفِ يَرْكَبُ حِمَارَهُ فَشَبَّ بِهِ‏ الْحِمَارُ وَ صَرَعَهُ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ فَأَوْجَعَهُ ثُمَّ عَادَ لِيَرْكَبَهُ‏ فَعَادَ إِلَيْهِ‏ الْحِمَارُ بِمِثْلِ صَنِيعِهِ ثُمَّ عَادَ لِيَرْكَبَهُ فَعَادَ عَلَيْهِ الْحِمَارُ بِمِثْلِ صَنِيعِهِ

And Ka’ab Bin al-Ashraf came over riding his donkey, and the donkey kicked and knocked him down upon his head and pained him. Then he repeated riding it, and the donkey repeated with the like of what it had done. Then he repeated riding it, and the donkey repeated with the like of what it had done.

فَلَمَّا كَانَ فِي السَّابِعَةِ أَوْ الثَّامِنَةِ أَنْطَقَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى الْحِمَارَ فَقَالَ يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بِئْسَ الْعَبْدُ أَنْتَ شَاهَدْتَ آيَاتِ اللَّهِ وَ كَفَرْتَ بِهَا أَنَا حِمَارٌ قَدْ أَكْرَمَنِيَ اللَّهُ بِتَوْحِيدِهِ فَأَنَا أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ خَالِقُ الْأَنَامِ ذُو الْجَلالِ وَ الْإِكْرامِ

When it was during the seventh or the eighth (attempt), Allah^-azwj the Exalted Caused the donkey to speak, and it said, ‘O servant of Allah^-azwj! You are an evil servant. You witnessed the Signs of Allah^-azwj and disbelieved in these, and I am a donkey. Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic has Honoured me with His^-azwj Tawheed, therefore I am testifying that there is no god except Allah^-azwj, Alone, there being no associates for Him^-azwj, Creator of the creatures, One^-azwj with the Majesty and the Honour.

وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ سَيِّدُ أَهْلِ دَارِ السَّلَامِ مَبْعُوثٌ لِإِسْعَادِ مَنْ سَبَقَ عِلْمُ‏ اللَّهِ لَهُ بِالسَّعَادَةِ وَ إِشْقَاءِ مَنْ سَبَقَ الْكِتَابُ عَلَيْهِ بِالشَّقَاوَةِ

And I testify that Muhammad^-saww is His^-azwj servant and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww, Chief of the House of the Peace (Paradise), Sent to make fortunate the one whose being fortunate has preceded in the Knowledge of Allah^-azwj, and to make wretched, the one for whom the Book (Ordainment) has preceded upon him with the wretchedness (for him).

وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ بِعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَلِيِّهِ وَ وَصِيِّ رَسُولِهِ يُسْعِدُ اللَّهُ مَنْ يُسْعِدُ إِذَا وَفَّقَهُ لِقَبُولِ مَوْعِظَتِهِ وَ التَّأَدُّبِ بِأَدَبِهِ وَ الِايتِمَارِ بِأَوَامِرِهِ وَ الِانْزِجَارِ بِزَوَاجِرِهِ

And I testify that Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws is His^-azwj Guardian^-asws and a successor of His^-azwj Rasool^-saww. Allah^-azwj Makes happy the one who makes him^-asws happy when He^-azwj harmonises him to the acceptance of his^-asws advice, and to be educated by his^-asws education, and to comply with his^-asws orders, and to stay away from his^-asws prohibitions.

وَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى بِسُيُوفِ سَطْوَتِهِ وَ صَوْلَاتِ نَقِمَتِهِ يَكْبِتُ وَ يُخْزِي أَعْدَاءَ مُحَمَّدٍ حَتَّى يَسُوقَهُمْ بِسَيْفِهِ الْبَاتِرِ وَ دَلِيلِهِ الْوَاضِحِ الْبَاهِرِ إِلَى الْإِيمَانِ بِهِ أَوْ يَقْذِفَهُ‏ فِي الْهَاوِيَةِ إِذَا أَبَى إِلَّا تَمَادِياً فِي غَيِّهِ وَ امْتِدَاداً فِي طُغْيَانِهِ وَ عَمَهِهِ‏

And that Allah^-azwj the Exalted, by the swords of his^-asws prevalence, and the arrival of his^-asws retribution, represses the enemies of Muhammad^-saww until he^-asws ushers them by his^-asws sword to the Fire, and his^-asws clear compelling evidence to the Eman with him^-saww, or else Allah^-azwj would Fling him into the blazing Fire when he refuses but to deliberate in his straying and increase in his rebellion and his blindness.

مَا يَنْبَغِي لِكَافِرٍ أَنْ يَرْكَبَنِي بَلْ لَا يَرْكَبُنِي إِلَّا مُؤْمِنٌ بِاللَّهِ مُصَدِّقٌ بِمُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ فِي أَقْوَالِهِ‏ مُتَصَوِّبٌ‏ لَهُ فِي جَمِيعِ أَفْعَالِهِ وَ فِي فِعْلِ أَشْرَفِ الطَّاعَاتِ فِي نَصْبِهِ أَخَاهُ عَلِيّاً وَصِيّاً وَ وَلِيّاً وَ لِعِلْمِهِ وَارِثاً وَ بِدِينِهِ قَيِّماً وَ عَلَى أُمَّتِهِ مُهَيْمِناً وَ لِدُيُونِهِ قَاضِياً وَ لِعِدَاتِهِ مُنْجِزاً وَ لِأَوْلِيَائِهِ مُوَالِياً وَ لِأَعْدَائِهِ مُعَادِياً

It does no befit for a Kafir that he rides me, but none shall ride me except for a Momin with Allah^-azwj, ratifying with Muhammad^-saww as being Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, in the entirety of his^-saww words, as being correct in the entirety of his^-saww deeds – the deeds being the noblest of the acts of obedience – in his^-saww appointing his^-saww brother Ali^-asws as a successor, and a Guardian, and an inheritor of his^-saww knowledge, and a caretaker of his^-saww Religion, and a controller upon his^-saww community, and a fulfiller of his^-saww debts, and a fulfiller of his^-saww promises made, and a friend to his^-saww friends and an enemy to his^-saww enemies’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا كَعْبَ بْنَ أشرف [الْأَشْرَفِ‏] حِمَارُكَ أَعْقَلُ مِنْكَ‏ قَدْ أَبَى أَنْ تَرْكَبَهُ فَلَنْ تَرْكَبَهُ أَبَداً فَبِعْهُ مِنْ بَعْضِ إِخْوَانِنَا الْمُؤْمِنِينَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O Ka’ab Bin Al-Ashraf! Your donkey is better than you. He has refused to be ridden by you, so you will never (be able to) ride him, ever! Therefore, sell him to one of our Momineen brothers’.

فَقَالَ كَعْبٌ فَلَا حَاجَةَ لِي فِيهِ بَعْدَ أَنْ ضُرِبَ‏ بِسِحْرِكَ

Ka’ab said, ‘There is no need for me with regards to it after having been struck with your^-saww sorcery’.

فَنَادَاهُ حِمَارُهُ يَا عَدُوَّ اللَّهِ كُفَّ عَنْ تَجَهُّمِ مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ لَا كَرَاهِيَةُ مُخَالَفَتِهِ‏ لَقَتَلْتُكَ وَ وَطِيتُكَ بِحَوَافِرِي وَ لَقَطَعْتُ رَأْسَكَ بِأَسْنَانِي

His donkey called out, ‘O enemy of Allah^-azwj! Refrain from scowling at Muhammad^-saww Rasool-Allah^-saww. By Allah^-azwj! If I had not disliked opposing Rasool-Allah^-saww, I would have killed you, and trodden you with my hooves, and would have cut your head with my teeth’.

فَخَزِيَ وَ سَكَتَ وَ اشْتَدَّ جَزَعُهُ مِمَّا سَمِعَ مِنَ الْحِمَارِ وَ مَعَ ذَلِكَ غَلَبَ عَلَيْهِ الشَّقَاءُ وَ اشْتَرَى الْحِمَارَ مِنْهُ ثَابِتُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ بِمِائَةِ دِرْهَمٍ‏ وَ كَانَ يَرْكَبُهُ وَ يَجِي‏ءُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ هُوَ تَحْتَهُ هَيِّنٌ لَيِّنٌ ذَلِيلٌ كَرِيمٌ يَقِيهِ الْمَتَالِفَ وَ يَرْفُقُ بِهِ فِي الْمَسَالِكِ

He was disgraced and was silent, and his panic intensified from what he heard from the donkey, and along with that, misery overcame upon him and the donkey was bought from him by Sabit Bin Qays for one hundred Dinars (Dirhams), and he used to ride it and come over to Rasool-Allah and it was easy-going, soft, humble, honourable, protective, composed, and accompanied him during the journeys.

فَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَقُولُ لَهُ يَا ثَابِتُ هَذَا لَكَ وَ أَنْتَ مُؤْمِنٌ مُرْتَفِقٌ بِمُرْتَفِقِينَ‏

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O Sabit! This is for you and you are a Momin being accompanied by two escorts’.

فَلَمَّا انْصَرَفَ‏ الْقَوْمُ مِنْ عِنْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا سَواءٌ عَلَيْهِمْ‏ فِي الْعِظَةِ أَ أَنْذَرْتَهُمْ‏ فَوَعَظْتَهُمْ وَ خَوَّفْتَهُمْ‏ أَمْ لَمْ تُنْذِرْهُمْ لا يُؤْمِنُونَ‏ لَا يُصَدِّقُونَ بِنُبُوَّتِكَ وَ هُمْ قَدْ شَاهَدُوا هَذِهِ الْآيَاتِ وَ كَفَرُوا فَكَيْفَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِكَ عِنْدَ قَوْلِكَ وَ دُعَائِكَ‏

He^-asws said: ‘When the group left from the presence of Rasool-Allah^-saww and did not believe, Allah^-azwj Revealed: Surely those who are disbelieving, it is the same to them, (regarding the advice) whether you warn them – and advise them and scare them – or you do not warn them [2:6], they will not be ratifying with your^-saww Prophet-hood, and they had witnessed these Signs and disbelieved, so how would they be believing in you^-saww in your^-saww words and your^-saww call?’’[14]

15- م، تفسير الإمام عليه السلام قَالَ الْإِمَامُ الْحَسَنُ ع‏ قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ ع كَيْفَ كَانَتِ‏ الْأَخْبَارُ فِي هَذِهِ الْآيَاتِ الَّتِي ظَهَرَتْ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص بِمَكَّةَ وَ الْمَدِينَةِ فَقَالَ يَا بُنَيَّ اسْتَأْنِفْ لَهَا النَّهَارَ ‏

Al-Hassan^-asws Bin Ali^-asws (Al-Askari^-asws) said, ‘I^-asws said to my^-asws father^-asws (Ali^-asws Bin Muhammad^-asws): ‘How were these Ahadeeth – regarding these signs which appeared upon Rasool-Allah^-saww at Makkah and Al-Medina?’. He^-asws said: ‘O my^-asws son^-asws! I^-asws shall continue it at daytime’.

فَلَمَّا كَانَ مِنْ غَدٍ قَالَ يَا بُنَيَّ أَمَّا الْغَمَامَةُ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص كَانَ يُسَافِرُ إِلَى الشَّامِ مُضَارِباً لِخَدِيجَةَ بِنْتِ خُوَيْلِدٍ وَ كَانَ مِنْ مَكَّةَ إِلَى بَيْتِ الْمَقْدِسِ مَسِيرَةَ شَهْرٍ فَكَانُوا فِي حَمَارَّةِ الْقَيْظِ يُصِيبُهُمْ حَرُّ تِلْكَ الْبَوَادِي وَ رُبَّمَا عَصَفَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ فِيهَا الرِّيَاحُ وَ سَفَتْ‏ عَلَيْهِمُ الرِّمَالَ وَ التُّرَابَ

When it was during the morning, he^-asws said: ‘O my^-asws son^-asws! As for the clouds – Rasool-Allah^-saww was travelling to Syrian trading for (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws daughter of Khuwaylid, and it was so that (the journey) from Makkah to Bayt Al-Maqdas was a travel distance of a month. They suffered from extreme heat, being hit by the heat of that valley, and sometimes they would be hit by the winds blowing upon them the sand and the dust.

وَ كَانَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى فِي تِلْكَ الْأَحْوَالِ يَبْعَثُ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص غَمَامَةً تُظِلُّهُ فَوْقَ رَأْسِهِ تَقِفُ بِوُقُوفِهِ وَ تَزُولُ بِزَوَالِهِ إِنْ تَقَدَّمَ تَقَدَّمَتْ وَ إِنْ تَأَخَّرَ تَأَخَّرَتْ وَ إِنْ تَيَامَنَ تَيَامَنَتْ وَ إِنْ تَيَاسَرَ تَيَاسَرَتْ

Allah^-azwj the Exalted, in those states, would Send a cloud for Rasool-Allah^-saww – shading above his^-saww head, pausing at his^-saww pausing, and moving at his^-saww moving. If he^-saww proceeded, it would proceed, and if he^-saww delayed, it would delay, and if he^-saww went right, it would go right, and if he^-saww went left, it would go left.

فَكَانَتْ تَكُفُّ عَنْهُ حَرَّ الشَّمْسِ مِنْ فَوْقِهِ وَ كَانَتْ تِلْكَ الرِّيَاحُ الْمُثِيرَةُ لِتِلْكَ الرِّمَالِ وَ التُّرَابِ تَسْفِيهَا فِي وُجُوهِ قُرَيْشٍ وَ رَوَاحِلِهَا حَتَّى إِذَا دَنَتْ مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ ص هَدَأَتْ وَ سَكَنَتْ وَ لَمْ تَحْمِلْ شَيْئاً مِنْ رَمْلٍ وَ لَا تُرَابٍ وَ هَبَّتْ عَلَيْهِ رِيحٌ بَارِدَةٌ لَيِّنَةٌ حَتَّى كَانَتْ قَوَافِلُ قُرَيْشٍ يَقُولُ قَائِلُهَا جِوَارُ مُحَمَّدٍ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ خَيْمَةٍ

Thus, it was stopping from him^-saww, the heat of the sun from above him^-saww, and it was so, that wind which was stirring that sand and the dust blasting in the faces of Qureysh and the faces of their rides, until when they went near to Muhammad^-saww, it would subside and settle, and would not carry anything from sand nor dust, and blow a soft cool breeze upon him^-saww, until it was such that the speaker of the caravan of Qureysh was saying, ‘Vicinity of Muhammad^-saww is better than a tent’.

فَكَانُوا يَلُوذُونَ بِهِ وَ يَتَقَرَّبُونَ إِلَيْهِ فَكَانَ الرَّوْحُ يُصِيبُهُمْ بِقُرْبِهِ وَ إِنْ كَانَتِ الْغَمَامَةُ مَقْصُورَةً عَلَيْهِ وَ كَانَ إِذَا اخْتَلَطَ بِتِلْكَ الْقَوَافِلِ غُرَبَاءُ فَإِذَا الْغَمَامَةُ تَسِيرُ بَعِيداً مِنْهُمْ‏

They used to hide by (being near) him^-saww and used to come closer to him^-saww, and the wind breeze would waft them due to being in his^-saww nearness, and even if the cloud was restricted upon him^-saww only. And it was so that when strangers mingled with the caravan, the cloud would go to a place remote from them.

قَالُوا إِلَى مَنْ قُرِنَتْ هَذِهِ الْغَمَامَةُ فَقَدْ شُرِّفَ وَ كُرِّمَ فَتُخَاطِبُهُمْ أَهْلُ الْقَافِلَةِ انْظُرُوا إِلَى الْغَمَامَةِ تَجِدُوا عَلَيْهَا اسْمَ صَاحِبِهَا وَ اسْمَ صَاحِبِهِ‏ وَ صَفِيِّهِ وَ شَقِيقِهِ

They said, ‘To whom has this cloud been paired with, so he has been ennobled and honoured’. The people of the caravan addressed them, ‘Look at the cloud, you would find upon it the name of its owner, and the name of his^-saww companion and his^-saww elite and his^-saww brother^-asws’.

فَيَنْظُرُونَ فَيَجِدُونَ مَكْتُوباً عَلَيْهَا لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ أَيَّدْتُهُ بِعَلِيٍّ سَيِّدِ الْوَصِيِّينَ وَ شَرَّفْتُهُ بِآلِهِ‏ الْمُوَالِينَ لَهُ وَ لِعَلِيٍّ وَ أَوْلِيَائِهِمَا وَ الْمُعَادِينَ لِأَعْدَائِهِمَا فَيَقْرَأُ ذَلِكَ وَ يَفْهَمُهُ مَنْ يُحْسِنُ أَنْ يَكْتُبَ وَ يَقْرَأَ مَنْ لَا يُحْسِنُ ذَلِكَ

They were looking and they were finding written upon it: ‘There is no god except Allah^-azwj. Muhammad^-saww is Rasool-Allah^-saww. I^-azwj Aided him^-saww with Ali^-asws, Chief of the successors^-as, and ennobled him^-asws by his^-asws Progeny^-asws (and) the friends to him^-saww and to Ali^-asws and to their^-asws friends, and inimical to their^-asws enemies’. He read that and understood it, the one who was good at writing, and he read (as well), the one who was not good at that’.

قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ع وَ أَمَّا تَسْلِيمُ الْجِبَالِ وَ الصُّخُورِ وَ الْأَحْجَارِ عَلَيْهِ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص لَمَّا تَرَكَ التِّجَارَةَ إِلَى الشَّامِ وَ تَصَدَّقَ بِكُلِّ مَا رَزَقَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى مِنْ تِلْكَ التِّجَارَاتِ كَانَ يَغْدُو كُلَّ يَوْمٍ إِلَى حرا [حِرَاءَ] يَصْعَدُهُ وَ يَنْظُرُ مِنْ قُلَلِهِ إِلَى آثَارِ رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ وَ أَنْوَاعِ‏ عَجَائِبِ رَحْمَتِهِ وَ بَدَائِعِ حِكْمَتِهِ وَ يَنْظُرُ إِلَى أَكْنَافِ السَّمَاءِ وَ أَقْطَارِ الْأَرْضِ وَ الْبِحَارِ وَ الْمَفَاوِزِ وَ الْفَيَافِي فَيَعْتَبِرُ بِتِلْكَ الْآثَارِ وَ يَتَذَكَّرُ بِتِلْكَ الْآيَاتِ وَ يَعْبُدُ اللَّهَ حَقَّ عِبَادَتِهِ

Ali^-asws Bin Muhammad^-asws said: ‘And as for the greetings of the mountain, and the rocks and the stones upon him^-asws – so when Rasool-Allah^-saww left the trading to Syria and gave in charity with everything what Allah^-azwj the Exalted had Graced from that business, he^-saww would go every day to (mount) Hira, ascending it, and he^-saww would look from its peak at the effects of the Mercy of Allah^-azwj and various wonders of His^-azwj Mercy, and the beauty of His^-azwj Wisdom, and he^-saww would look at the fringes of the sky and the regions (horizons) of the earth, and the sea, and the forests, and the deserts. So he^-saww would take a lesson with those effects and he^-saww would remember by those signs and worship Allah^-azwj as is the right of His^-azwj worship.

فَلَمَّا اسْتَكْمَلَ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً وَ نَظَرَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ إِلَى قَلْبِهِ فَوَجَدَهُ أَفْضَلَ الْقُلُوبِ وَ أَجَلَّهَا وَ أَطْوَعَهَا وَ أَخْشَعَهَا وَ أَخْضَعَهَا أَذِنَ لِأَبْوَابِ السَّمَاءِ فَفُتِحَتْ وَ مُحَمَّدٌ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا

When he^-saww was of complete forty years, and Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Looked at his^-saww heart, He^-azwj Found it to be the most superior of the hearts, and its most sublime, and its most obedient, and its most humble, and its most submissive. He^-azwj Permitted the gateways of the sky, so they opened up, and Muhammad^-saww looked at them. And He^-azwj Permitted the Angels, so they descended and Muhammad^-saww looked at them.

وَ أَذِنَ لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ فَنَزَلُوا وَ مُحَمَّدٌ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِمْ وَ أَمَرَ بِالرَّحْمَةِ فَأُنْزِلَتْ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ لَدُنْ سَاقِ الْعَرْشِ إِلَى رَأْسِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ غَمَرَتْهُ وَ نَظَرَ إِلَى جَبْرَئِيلَ الرُّوحِ الْأَمِينِ الْمُطَوَّقِ بِالنُّورِ طَاوُسِ الْمَلَائِكَةِ هَبَطَ إِلَيْهِ وَ أَخَذَ بِضَبْعِهِ وَ هَزَّهُ‏ وَ قَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ اقْرَأْ قَالَ وَ مَا أَقْرَأُ

And He^-azwj Commanded with the Mercy, so it descended from the base of the Throne unto the head of Muhammad^-saww and deluged him^-saww. And he^-saww looked at Jibraeel^-as the Trustworthy Spirit encircled with the light, peacock of the Angels descending unto him^-saww, and he^-as grabbed his^-saww forearms and shook (them) and said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Read!’ He^-saww said: ‘And what shall I^-saww read?’

قَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ خَلَقَ الْإِنْسانَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ اقْرَأْ وَ رَبُّكَ الْأَكْرَمُ الَّذِي عَلَّمَ بِالْقَلَمِ عَلَّمَ الْإِنْسانَ ما لَمْ يَعْلَمْ‏ ثُمَّ أَوْحَى إِلَيْهِ مَا أَوْحَى إِلَيْهِ رَبُّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ ثُمَّ صَعِدَ إِلَى عُلْوٍ وَ نَزَلَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص مِنَ الْجَبَلِ وَ قَدْ غَشِيَهُ مِنْ تَعْظِيمِ جَلَالِ اللَّهِ وَ وَرَدَ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ كَبِيرِ شَأْنِهِ مَا رَكِبَهُ الْحُمَّى‏ وَ النَّافِضُ

He^-as said: ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Read in the name of your Lord Who Created [96:1] He created the human being from a clot [96:2] – up to His^-azwj Words – what he did not know [96:5]. Then he^-as revealed unto him^-saww what his^-saww Lord^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Revealed, then he^-as ascended to the heights, and Muhammad^-saww descended from the mountain – and he^-saww had been overwhelmed from revering the Majesty of Allah^-azwj, then there came upon him^-saww from the importance of his^-saww occupation, he^-saww was affected by the fever and the chills.

وَ قَدِ اشْتَدَّ عَلَيْهِ مَا يَخَافُهُ مِنْ تَكْذِيبِ قُرَيْشٍ فِي خَبَرِهِ وَ نَسَبِهِمْ إِيَّاهُ إِلَى الْجُنُونِ وَ أَنَّهُ يَعْتَرِيهِ شَيَاطِينُ وَ كَانَ مِنْ أَوَّلِ أَمْرِهِ أَعْقَلَ خَلْقِ اللَّهِ‏ وَ أَكْرَمَ بَرَايَاهُ وَ أَبْغَضُ الْأَشْيَاءِ إِلَيْهِ الشَّيْطَانَ وَ أَفْعَالَ الْمَجَانِينِ وَ أَقْوَالَهُمْ

And it had intensified upon him^-saww what he^-saww feared upon from the belying of the Qureysh regarding his^-saww news, and their linking him^-saww to insanity and that he^-saww was influenced by Satan^-la, and he^-saww was from the first time (beginning), an intellectual creature of Allah^-azwj, and most honourable of their righteous ones, and the most hated of the things to him^-saww was the Satan^-la, and the deeds of the insane and their speeches.

فَأَرَادَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَنْ يَشْرَحَ‏ صَدْرَهُ وَ يُشَجِّعَ قَلْبَهُ فَأَنْطَقَ‏ الْجِبَالَ وَ الصُّخُورَ وَ الْمَدَرَ وَ كُلَّمَا وَصَلَ إِلَى شَيْ‏ءٍ مِنْهَا نَادَاهُ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا وَلِيَّ اللَّهِ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Wanted to Expand his^-saww chest and Encourage his^-saww heart. The mountain, and the rocks, and the clods of mud, and everything that he^-saww arrived at, called out to him^-saww, ‘The greetings be upon you^-saww, O Muhammad^-saww! The greetings be upon you^-saww, O Guardian of Allah^-azwj! The greetings be upon you^-saww, O Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj!

أَبْشِرْ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ قَدْ فَضَّلَكَ وَ جَمَّلَكَ وَ زَيَّنَكَ وَ أَكْرَمَكَ فَوْقَ الْخَلَائِقِ أَجْمَعِينَ مِنَ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ الْآخِرِينَ لَا يَحْزُنْكَ أَنْ تَقُولَ‏ قُرَيْشٌ إِنَّكَ مَجْنُونٌ وَ عَنِ الدِّينِ مَفْتُونٌ فَإِنَّ الْفَاضِلَ مَنْ فَضَّلَهُ رَبُّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَ الْكَرِيمَ مَنْ كَرَّمَهُ خَالِقُ الْخَلْقِ أَجْمَعِينَ

Receive glad tidings, for Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic has Graced you^-saww and Beautified you^-saww and Adorned you^-saww, and Honoured you^-saww above the creatures altogether, from the former ones and the latter ones. It should not grieve you^-saww, the words of the Qureysh that you^-saww are insane, and about the Religion, you^-saww are enchanted, for he^-saww is the meritorious one, the one whom Allah^-azwj the Lord^-azwj of the worlds has Graced, and the benevolent is the one whom He^-azwj has Honoured, the Creator of the creatures altogether.

فَلَا يَضِيقَنَّ صَدْرُكَ مِنْ تَكْذِيبِ قُرَيْشٍ وَ عُتَاةِ الْعَرَبِ لَكَ فَسَوْفَ يُبَلِّغُكَ رَبُّكَ أَقْصَى مُنْتَهَى الْكَرَامَاتِ وَ يَرْفَعُكَ إِلَى أَرْفَعِ الدَّرَجَاتِ

Therefore, do not constrict your^-saww chest from the belying of the Quraysh and the hardening of the Arabs towards you^-saww, for soon your^-saww Lord^-azwj would Make you^-saww reach the ultimate of the prestige and Raise you^-saww to the loftiest of the levels.

وَ سَوْفَ يُنَعِّمُ وَ يُفَرِّحُ أَوْلِيَاءَكَ بِوَصِيِّكَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ سَوْفَ يَبُثُّ عُلُومَكَ فِي الْعِبَادِ وَ الْبِلَادِ بِمِفْتَاحِكَ‏ وَ بَابِ مَدِينَةِ حِكْمَتِكَ‏ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ سَوْفَ يُقِرُّ عَيْنَكَ بِبِنْتِكَ فَاطِمَةَ وَ سَوْفَ يُخْرِجُ مِنْهَا وَ مِنْ عَلِيٍّ الْحَسَنَ وَ الْحُسَيْنَ سَيِّدَيْ شَبَابِ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ

And very soon your^-saww friends would be Favoured and Made happy by your^-saww successor^-asws Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws. And soon your^-saww knowledge would be sent (propagated) among the servants and the countries, by your^-saww key and gate of the city of your^-saww knowledge Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws. And soon your^-saww eyes would be delighted by your^-saww daughter (Syeda) Fatima^-asws. And soon there would be coming forth from her^-asws and from Ali^-asws – Al-Hassan^-asws and Al-Husayn^-asws, Chiefs of the youths of the inhabitants of Paradise.

وَ سَوْفَ يَنْشُرُ فِي الْبِلَادِ دِينَكَ وَ سَوْفَ يُعَظِّمُ أَجْوَدَ الْمُحِبِّينَ لَكَ وَ لِأَخِيكَ وَ سَوْفَ يَضَعُ‏ فِي يَدِكَ لِوَاءَ الْحَمْدِ فَتَضَعُهُ فِي يَدِ أَخِيكَ عَلِيٍّ فَيَكُونُ تَحْتَهُ كُلُّ نَبِيٍّ وَ صِدِّيقٍ وَ شَهِيدٍ يَكُونُ قَائِدَهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ إِلَى جَنَّاتِ النَّعِيمِ

And soon your^-saww Religion would be publicised in the countries. And soon they would be greatly Recompensed, the ones that love you^-saww and your^-saww brother^-asws. And soon the Flag of Praise would be placed in your^-saww hands, so you^-saww would place it in the hand of your^-saww brother^-asws Ali^-asws, and there would happen to be beneath it, every Prophet^-as, and truthful, and martyr. He^-asws would become their guide, of all of them, to the Gardens of Bliss’.

فَقُلْتُ فِي سِرِّي يَا رَبِّ مَنْ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ الَّذِي وَعَدْتَنِي بِهِ وَ ذَلِكَ بَعْدَ مَا وُلِدَ عَلِيٌّ وَ هُوَ طِفْلٌ أَ وَ هُوَ وَلَدُ عَمِّي وَ قَالَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ لَمَّا تَحَرَّكَ عَلِيٌّ قَلِيلًا وَ هُوَ مَعَهُ أَ هُوَ هَذَا

I^-saww said in my^-saww privacy: ‘O Lord^-azwj! Who is Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws whom You^-saww are Promising me^-saww with?’ – and that was after Ali^-asws had been sent down (to the world), and he^-asws was a child – ‘Or, is he^-asws the son^-asws of my^-saww uncle^-asws?’ – and he^-saww said after that due to Ali^-asws had moved a little, and he^-asws was with him^-saww: ‘Is he^-asws this one?

فَفِي كُلِّ مَرَّةٍ مِنْ ذَلِكَ أُنْزِلَ عَلَيْهِ مِيزَانُ الْجَلَالِ فَجُعِلَ مُحَمَّدٌ فِي كَفَّةٍ مِنْهُ وَ مُثِّلَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ سَائِرُ الْخَلْقِ مِنْ أُمَّتِهِ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ فِي كَفَّةٍ فَوُزِنَ بِهِمْ فَرَجَحَ

During every time from that, Allah^-azwj Sent down unto him^-saww, a scale of the Majesty, and He^-azwj Made Muhammad^-saww in one hand of it, and resembled for him^-saww Ali^-asws and the rest of the creatures from his^-saww community up to the Day of Qiyamah in one hand, and Weighed with them, and it outweighed (in his^-saww favour).

ثُمَّ أُخْرِجَ مُحَمَّدٌ مِنَ الْكَفَّةِ وَ تُرِكَ عَلِيٌّ فِي كَفَّةِ مُحَمَّدٍ الَّتِي كَانَ فِيهَا فَوُزِنَ بِسَائِرِ أُمَّتِهِ فَرَجَحَ بِهِمْ فَعَرَفَهُ‏ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ بِعَيْنِهِ وَ صِفَتِهِ

Then He^-azwj Took out Muhammad^-saww from the hand and left Ali^-asws in the hand (of the scale) of Muhammad^-saww in which he^-saww was in, and he^-asws was weighed with the rest of his^-saww community, and he^-asws outweighed them. Thus, Rasool-Allah^-saww recognised by his^-saww own eyes, his^-asws qualities.

وَ نُودِيَ فِي سِرِّهِ يَا مُحَمَّدُ هَذَا عَلِيُ‏ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ صَفِيِّيَ الَّذِي أُؤَيِّدُ بِهِ هَذَا الدِّينَ يَرْجَحُ عَلَى جَمِيعِ أُمَّتِكَ بَعْدَكَ فَذَلِكَ حِينَ شَرَحَ اللَّهُ صَدْرِي بِأَدَاءِ الرِّسَالَةِ وَ خَفَّفَ عَنِّي‏ مُكَافَحَةَ الْأُمَّةِ وَ سَهَّلَ عَلَيَّ مُبَارَزَةَ الْعُتَاةِ وَ الْجَبَابِرَةِ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ

And He^-azwj Called out in his^-saww secrecy: “O Muhammad^-saww! This is Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws, My^-azwj Elite whom I^-azwj am Assisting this Religion with. He^-asws outweighs upon the entirety of your^-saww community”. That is where Allah^-azwj Expanded my^-saww chest by Giving the Message, and Lightened from me^-saww the combats of the community, and Eased upon me^-saww the duels of the staunch tyrants of Qureysh’.

قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ع وَ أَمَّا دِفَاعُ اللَّهِ الْقَاصِدِينَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص إِلَى قَتْلِهِ وَ إِهْلَاكِهِ إِيَّاهُمْ كَرَامَةً لِنَبِيِّهِ وَ تَصْدِيقُهُ إِيَّاهُ فِيهِ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص كَانَ وَ هُوَ ابْنُ سَبْعِ سِنِينَ‏ بِمَكَّةَ قَدْ نَشَأَ فِي الْخَيْرِ نَشْواً لَا نَظِيرَ لَهُ فِي سَائِرِ صِبْيَانِ قُرَيْشٍ حَتَّى وَرَدَ مَكَّةَ قَوْمٌ مِنْ يَهُودِ الشَّامِ فَنَظَرُوا إِلَى مُحَمَّدٍ ص وَ شَاهَدُوا نَعْتَهُ وَ صِفَتَهُ

Ali^-asws Bin Muhammad^-asws said: ‘And as for Allah^-azwj Repelling the aimers at Muhammad^-saww to murdering him^-saww and his^-saww destroying them (instead), is a prestige of His Prophet^-saww and His^-azwj Ratifying him^-saww during it. It was so that Rasool-Allah^-saww was a boy of seven years in Makkah, and his^-saww good (qualities) had been publicised widespread that there is no match for him among the rest of the children of Qureysh, until there came to Makkah a group of Jews of Syria. They looked at Muhammad^-saww and they witnessed his^-saww attributes and his^-saww characteristics.

فَأَسَرَّ بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَى بَعْضٍ هَذَا وَ اللَّهِ مُحَمَّدٌ الْخَارِجُ فِي آخِرِ الزَّمَانِ الْمُدَالُ‏ عَلَى الْيَهُودِ وَ سَائِرِ أَهْلِ الْأَدْيَانِ يُزِيلُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بِهِ دَوْلَةَ الْيَهُودِ وَ يُذِلُّهُمْ وَ يَقْمَعُهُمْ‏ وَ قَدْ كَانُوا وَجَدُوهُ فِي كُتُبِهِمُ النَّبِيَّ الْأُمِّيَّ الْفَاضِلَ الصَّادِقَ فَحَمَلَهُمُ الْحَسَدُ عَلَى أَنْ كَتَمُوا ذَلِكَ وَ تَفَاوَضُوا فِي أَنَّهُ مُلْكٌ يُزَالُ

They secretly whispered to each other, and they said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! This is Muhammad^-saww who would be coming out at the end of times, the overcomer upon the Jews and the rest of the people of (other) religions. By him^-saww, Allah^-azwj the Exalted would be Declining the government of the Jews and Humiliating them and Subdue them’. And they had found in the Books, the Prophet^-saww, the Ummy (resident of Makkah), the meritorious, the truthful. But the envy carried them upon concealing that and they deliberated regarding that it is a declining kingdom.

ثُمَّ قَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ تَعَالَوْا نحتال‏ [نَحْتَلْ‏] عَلَيْهِ فَنَقْتُلْهُ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يَمْحُو مَا يَشَاءُ وَ يُثْبِتُ لَعَلَّنَا نُصَادِفُهُ مِمَّنْ يَمْحُو فَهَمُّوا بِذَلِكَ ثُمَّ قَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ لَا تَعْجَلُوا حَتَّى نَمْتَحِنَهُ وَ نُجَرِّبَهُ بِأَفْعَالِهِ فَإِنَّ الْحِلْيَةَ قَدْ تُوَافِقُ الْحِلْيَةَ وَ الصُّورَةَ قَدْ تُشَاكِلُ الصُّورَةَ إِنَّ مَا وَجَدْنَاهُ فِي كُتُبِنَا أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً يُجَنِّبُهُ رَبُّهُ مِنَ الْحَرَامِ وَ الشُّبُهَاتِ

Then, some of them said to the others, ‘Come, we will conspire upon him^-saww and kill him^-saww, for Allah^-azwj Deletes whatever He^-azwj so Desires to and Affirms, perhaps we would happen to be the ones who erase him^-saww’. So they thought with that, then some of them said to the others, ‘Do not be hasty until we test him^-saww and try him^-saww with his^-saww deeds, for the appearances (features) can be similar to the appearances (of others), and the face can be uniform with the face (of others). What we found to be in our Books is that Muhammad^-saww would be such that his^-saww Lord^-azwj would Keep him^-saww aside from the Prohibition and the doubtful.

فَصَادِفُوهُ وَ الْقَوْهُ وَ ادْعُوهُ إِلَى دَعْوَةٍ وَ قَدِّمُوا إِلَيْهِ الْحَرَامَ وَ الشُّبْهَةَ فَإِنِ انْبَسَطَ فِيهِمَا أَوْ فِي أَحَدِهِمَا فَأَكَلَهُ فَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّهُ غَيْرُ مَنْ تَظُنُّونَ وَ إِنَّمَا الْحِلْيَةُ وَافَقَتِ الْحِلْيَةَ وَ الصُّورَةُ سَاوَتِ الصُّورَةَ وَ إِنْ لَمْ يَكُنِ الْأَمْرُ كَذَلِكَ وَ لَمْ يَأْكُلْ مِنْهُمَا فَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّهُ هُوَ فَاحْتَالُوا لَهُ فِي تَطْهِيرِ الْأَرْضِ مِنْهُ لِتَسْلَمَ لِلْيَهُودِ دَوْلَتُهُمْ‏

Collude against him^-saww and invite him^-saww to a meal – and place forward towards him^-saww the Prohibited and the doubtful (foods), and if he^-saww were to extend his^-saww hand in these two or in one of the two and eats it, then you would know that he^-saww is other than the one you are thinking of. And rather, the features can be similar to the features and the face can be the same as the face, and that the matter does not happen to be like that. And if he^-saww does not eat anything from that, then know that he^-saww is him, therefore trick him^-saww in cleansing the earth from him^-saww in order to secure for the Jews, their government.

قَالَ فَجَاءُوا إِلَى أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَصَادَفُوهُ وَ دَعَوْهُ إِلَى دَعْوَةٍ لَهُمْ فَلَمَّا حَضَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص قَدَّمُوا إِلَيْهِ وَ إِلَى أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ الْمَلَإِ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ دَجَاجَةً مُسَمَّنَةً كَانُوا قَدْ وَقَذُوهَا وَ شَوَوْهَا

He^-asws said: ‘They came to Abu Talib^-asws and met him^-saww and invited him^-as to an initiation of theirs. When Rasool-Allah^-saww was present, they placed forward to him^-saww, and to Abu Talib^-asws and the assembly of Qureysh, grilled chicken which they had beaten to death (rather than slaughter), and had grilled it.

فَجَعَلَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ وَ سَائِرُ قُرَيْشٍ يَأْكُلُونَ مِنْهَا وَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَمُدُّ يَدَهُ نَحْوَهَا فَيُعْدَلُ بِهَا يَمْنَةً ثُمَ‏ يَسْرَةً ثُمَّ أَمَاماً ثُمَّ خَلْفاً ثُمَّ فَوْقاً ثُمَّ تَحْتاً لَا تُصِيبُهَا يَدُهُ

Abu Talib^-asws and the rest of the Qureysh intended to eat from it, and Rasool-Allah^-saww extended his^-saww hand towards it – be he^-saww was diverted with it to the right and left, then in front, then behind, then above, then under it, his^-saww hand not attaining it.

فَقَالُوا مَا لَكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ لَا تَأْكُلُ مِنْهَا فَقَالَ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْيَهُودِ قَدْ جَهَدْتُ أَنْ أَتَنَاوَلَ مِنْهَا وَ هَذِهِ يَدِي يُعْدَلُ‏ بِهَا عَنْهَا وَ مَا أَرَاهَا إِلَّا حَرَاماً يَصُونُنِي رَبِّي عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَنْهَا

They said, ‘What is the matter with you^-saww, O Muhammad^-saww, not eating from it?’ He^-saww said: ‘O group of Jews! I^-saww have struggled to take from it, and this hand of mine is being diverted away from it, and I^-saww do not see it except as a Prohibited (meal) which My^-azwj Lord^-azwj Mighty and Majestic is Saving me^-saww from it’.

فَقَالُوا مَا هِيَ إِلَّا حَلَالٌ فَدَعْنَا نُلْقِمْكَ

They said, ‘It is not, except for Permissible, therefore leaves us to (break) morsels from it for you^-saww’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَافْعَلُوا إِنْ قَدَرْتُمْ فَذَهَبُوا لِيَأْخُذُوا مِنْهَا وَ يُطْعِمُوهُ فَكَانَتْ أَيْدِيهِمْ يُعْدَلُ بِهَا إِلَى الْجِهَاتِ كَمَا كَانَتْ يَدُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص تَعْدِلُ عَنْهَا

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Then do so if you are able to’. They went to take from it, but their hands were being diverted with it sideways, just as the hand of Rasool-Allah^-saww was being diverted away from it.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَهَذِهِ قَدْ مُنِعْتُ مِنْهَا فَأْتُونِي بِغَيْرِهَا إِنْ كَانَتْ لَكُمْ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘This is what I^-azwj have been Forbidden from, therefore bring to me^-saww with other than it, if there was (available) for you’.

فَجَاءُوهُ بِدَجَاجَةٍ أُخْرَى مُسَمَّنَةٍ مَشْوِيَّةٍ قَدْ أَخَذُوهَا لِجَارٍ لَهُمْ غَائِبٍ لَمْ يَكُونُوا اشْتَرَوْهَا وَ عَمِلُوهَا عَلَى أَنْ يَرُدُّوا عَلَيْهِ ثَمَنَهَا إِذَا حَضَرَ فَتَنَاوَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لُقْمَةً فَلَمَّا ذَهَبَ‏ يَرْفَعُهَا ثَقُلَتْ عَلَيْهِ وَ نَصَلَتْ‏ حَتَّى سَقَطَتْ مِنْ يَدِهِ وَ كُلَّمَا ذَهَبَ يَرْفَعُ مَا قَدْ تَنَاوَلَهُ بَعْدَهَا ثَقُلَتْ وَ سَقَطَتْ

They came with another grilled chicken, poisoned, which they had seized (stolen) from an absent neighbour of theirs – they did not happen to have bought it – and they deliberated to returning upon him its price when he would be present. Rasool-Allah^-saww cut a morsel from it. But when he^-saww went to raise it, it became heavy upon him^-saww, and it separated until it fell off from his^-saww hand. And every time he^-saww went to raise what he^-saww had taken after it, it became heavy and fell off.

فَقَالُوا يَا مُحَمَّدُ فَمَا بَالُ هَذِهِ لَا تَأْكُلُ مِنْهَا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ هَذِهِ أَيْضاً قَدْ مُنِعْتُ مِنْهَا وَ مَا أَرَاهَا إِلَّا مِنْ شُبْهَةٍ يَصُونُنِي رَبِّي عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَنْهَا

They said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! What is the matter with this, you^-saww are not eating from it?’ Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘And this, as well, I^-saww have been Forbidden from it, and I^-saww do not see it except from the doubtful which my^-saww Lord^-azwj Mighty and Majestic has Saved me^-saww from it’.

قَالُوا مَا هِيَ شُبْهَةً فَدَعْنَا نُلْقِمْكَ مِنْهَا فَقَالَ افْعَلُوا إِنْ قَدَرْتُمْ عَلَيْهِ فَكُلَّمَا تَنَاوَلُوا لُقْمَةً لِيُلْقِمُوهُ ثَقُلَتْ كَذَلِكَ فِي أَيْدِيهِمْ ثُمَ‏ سَقَطَتْ وَ لَمْ يَقْدِرُوا أَنْ يُلْقِمُوهَا

They said, ‘It is not from doubtful (things), therefore leave us to break morsels from it for you^-saww’. He^-saww said: ‘Then do so if you are able upon it’. But when they grabbed a morsel in order to feed him^-saww, it became heave similarly in their hands, then fell off, and they were not able to feed it to him^-saww

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص هُوَ مَا قُلْتُ لَكُمْ شُبْهَةٌ يَصُونُنِي رَبِّي عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَنْهَا

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘It is what I^-saww said to you all: ‘This is from the doubtful which my^-saww Lord^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Protected me^-saww from it’.

فَتَعَجَّبَتْ قُرَيْشٌ مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَ كَانَ ذَلِكَ مِمَّا يُقِيمُهُمْ عَلَى اعْتِقَادِ عَدَاوَتِهِ إِلَى أَنْ أَظْهَرُوهَا لَمَّا أَنْ أَظْهَرَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِالنُّبُوَّةِ وَ أَغَرَّتْهُمُ الْيَهُودُ أَيْضاً فَقَالَتْ لَهُمُ الْيَهُودُ أَيُّ شَيْ‏ءٍ يُرَدُّ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ هَذَا الطِّفْلِ مَا نَرَاهُ إِلَّا يُسَالِبُكُمْ‏ نِعَمَكُمْ وَ أَرْوَاحَكُمْ‏ سَوْفَ يَكُونُ لِهَذَا شَأْنٌ عَظِيمٌ

The Qureysh were astounded from that, and that was from what made them stand upon their feelings of animosity towards him^-saww – until it became manifested when Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Manifested it by the (declaration of the) Prophet-hood. And the Jews tried to lure them as well, and the Jews said to them, ‘Which thing is intended upon you from this child? We do not see him^-saww except he^-saww would be confiscating your bounties and your souls (killing you), and soon there would be happening for this one, a great glory’.

وَ قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَتَوَاطَأَتِ الْيَهُودُ عَلَى قَتْلِهِ فِي طَرِيقِهِ عَلَى جَبَلِ حرا [حِرَاءَ] وَ هُمْ سَبْعُونَ‏ فَعَمَدُوا إِلَى سُيُوفِهِمْ فَسَمُّوهَا ثُمَّ قَعَدُوا لَهُ ذَاتَ غَلَسٍ فِي طَرِيقِهِ عَلَى جَبَلِ حرا [حِرَاءَ]

And Emir of the Momineen, Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws said: ‘So the Jews colluded upon murdering him^-saww in his^-saww way upon mount Hira – and they were seventy men. So they deliberated to their swords and poisoned these, then they sat (waiting to ambush) him^-saww on a day of darkness in his^-saww way, upon mount Hira.

فَلَمَّا صَعِدَهُ صَعِدُوا إِلَيْهِ وَ سَلُّوا سُيُوفَهُمْ وَ هُمْ سَبْعُونَ رَجُلًا مِنْ أَشَدِّ الْيَهُودِ وَ أَجْلَدِهِمْ وَ ذَوِي النَّجْدَةِ مِنْهُمْ

When he^-saww ascended it, they ascended to him^-saww, and they unsheathed their swords, and they were seventy men from the most hardened of the Jews, and their most rigid ones, and the ones with the bravery.

فَلَمَّا أَهْوَوْا بِهَا إِلَيْهِ لِيَضْرِبُوهُ بِهَا الْتَقَى طَرَفَا الْجَبَلِ بَيْنَهُمْ وَ بَيْنَهُ فَانْضَمَّا وَ صَارَ ذَلِكَ حَائِلًا بَيْنَهُمْ وَ بَيْنَ مُحَمَّدٍ ص وَ انْقَطَعَ طَمَعُهُمْ عَنِ الْوُصُولِ إِلَيْهِ بِسُيُوفِهِمْ فَغَمَدُوهَا فَانْفَرَجَ الطَّرَفَانِ بَعْدَ مَا كَانَا انْضَمَّا فَسَلُّوا بَعْدُ سُيُوفَهُمْ وَ قَصَدُوهُ

But, when they unsheathed these (swords) towards him^-saww in order to strike him^-saww with these – two parts of the mountain joined up between them and him^-saww and that became a barrier between them and Muhammad^-saww, and their longing to arrive at him^-saww with their swords, was cut off. They sheathed them and the two parts separated after having been joined up. They unsheathed their swords and aimed for him^-saww (once again).

فَلَمَّا هَمُّوا بِإِرْسَالِهَا عَلَيْهِ انْضَمَّ طَرَفَا الْجَبَلِ وَ حِيلَ‏ بَيْنَهُمْ وَ بَيْنَهُ فَيَغْمِدُونَهَا ثُمَّ يَنْفَرِجَانِ فَيَسُلُّونَهَا إِلَى أَنْ بَلَغَ ذِرْوَةَ الْجَبَلِ فَكَانَ‏ ذَلِكَ سَبْعاً وَ أَرْبَعِينَ مَرَّةً

When they thought with swinging these upon him^-saww, the two sides of the mountain joined up (again) and formed a barrier between them and him^-saww. They sheathed them, then these (two sides) separated. Then they unsheathed them (again) until they reached to the peak of the mountain – and it was like that forty-seven times.

فَصَعِدُوا الْجَبَلَ وَ دَارُوا خَلْفَهُ‏ لِيَقْصِدُوهُ بِالْقَتْلِ فَطَالَ عَلَيْهِمُ الطَّرِيقُ وَ مَدَّ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ الْجَبَلَ فَأَبْطَئُوا عَنْهُ حَتَّى فَرَغَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنْ ذِكْرِهِ وَ ثَنَائِهِ عَلَى رَبِّهِ وَ اعْتِبَارِهِ بِعِبَرِهِ

They climbed the mountain and circled behind him^-saww in order to aim for him^-saww with the murder, but the way prolonged upon them, and Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Extended the mountain and Spread from it until Rasool-Allah^-saww was free from his Zikr (remembrance) and his^-saww Praise upon his^-saww Lord^-azwj, and taking lessons from His^-azwj Teachings.

ثُمَّ انْحَدَرَ عَنِ الْجَبَلِ فَانْحَدَرُوا خَلْفَهُ وَ لَحِقُوهُ وَ سَلُّوا سُيُوفَهُمْ عَلَيْهِ لِيَضْرِبُوهُ بِهَا فَانْضَمَّ طَرَفَا الْجَبَلِ وَ حَالَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَ بَيْنَهُ فَغَمَدُوهَا ثُمَّ انْفَرَجَ فَسَلُّوهَا ثُمَّ انْضَمَّ فَغَمَدُوهَا وَ كَانَ ذَلِكَ سَبْعاً وَ أَرْبَعِينَ مَرَّةً كُلَّمَا انْفَرَجَ سَلُّوهَا فَإِذَا انْضَمَّ غَمَدُوهَا

Then he^-saww came down from the mountain, and they came down behind him^-saww and met him^-saww, and they unsheathed their swords upon him^-saww in order to strike him^-saww with these. But the two sides of the mountain joined up and formed a barrier between them and him^-saww.

فَلَمَّا كَانَ فِي آخِرِ مَرَّةٍ وَ قَدْ قَارَبَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْقَرَارَ سَلُّوا سُيُوفَهُمْ عَلَيْهِ فَانْضَمَّ طَرَفَا الْجَبَلِ وَ ضَغَطَهُمُ الْجَبَلُ وَ رَضَّضَهُمْ‏ وَ مَا زَالَ يَضْغَطُهُمْ حَتَّى مَاتُوا أَجْمَعِينَ

When it was during the last time, and serenity had come upon Rasool-Allah^-saww, they unsheathed their swords upon him^-saww, and the two sides of the mountain joined up and (the mountain) squeezed them and crushed them, and did not cease to squeeze them until they died altogether.

ثُمَّ نُودِيَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ انْظُرْ خَلْفَكَ إِلَى بُغَاتِكَ السَّوْءِ مَا ذَا صَنَعَ بِهِمْ رَبُّهُمْ فَنَظَرَ فَإِذَا طَرَفَا الْجَبَلِ مِمَّا يَلِيهِ مُنْضَمَّانِ فَلَمَّا نَظَرَ انْفَرَجَ الطَّرَفَانِ وَ سَقَطَ أُولَئِكَ الْقَوْمُ وَ سُيُوفُهُمْ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ وَ قَدْ هُشِمَتْ‏ وُجُوهُهُمْ وَ ظُهُورُهُمْ وَ جُنُوبُهُمْ وَ أَفْخَاذُهُمْ وَ سُوقُهُمْ وَ أَرْجُلُهُمْ وَ خَرُّوا مَوْتَى تَشْخُبُ أَوْدَاجُهُمْ دَماً

Then He^-azwj Called out: “O Muhammad^-saww! Look behind you^-saww at those seekers of evil with you^-saww, what their Lord^-azwj has Done with them!” He^-saww look at the two sides of the mountain from what had done the squeezing, and when he^-saww looked, the two sides opened up and those people fell down and their swords were in their hands – and their faces, and their backs, and their sides had been smashed – and (so had) their cheeks, and their thighs, and their legs, and they had fallen down dead, and their blood had flowed around them.

وَ خَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنْ ذَلِكَ‏ الْمَوْضِعِ سَالِماً مَكْفِيّاً مَصُوناً مَحْفُوظاً تُنَادِيهِ الْجِبَالُ وَ مَا عَلَيْهَا مِنَ الْأَحْجَارِ هَنِيئاً لَكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ نُصْرَةُ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لَكَ عَلَى أَعْدَائِكَ بِنَا وَ سَيَنْصُرُكَ‏ إِذَا ظَهَرَ أَمْرُكَ عَلَى جَبَابِرَةِ أُمَّتِكَ وَ عُتَاتِهِمْ بِعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ يَشُدُّ يَدَهُ‏ لِإِظْهَارِ دِينِكَ وَ إِعْزَازِهِ وَ إِكْرَامِ أَوْلِيَائِكَ وَ قَمْعِ أَعْدَائِكَ

And Rasool-Allah^-saww came out from that place safely, unhurt, preserved, intact. The mountain and whatever was upon it from the rocks and trees called out, ‘Congratulations to you^-saww, O Muhammad^-saww! The Help of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic for you^-saww was by us, and Allah^-azwj would be Helping you^-saww, when you^-saww manifest your^-saww matter (Message) upon the tyrants of your^-saww community and their hardened ones with Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws, and Strengthen him^-asws for the victory of your^-saww Religion, and Strengthen him^-asws to honour your^-saww friends and suppress your^-saww enemies.

وَ سَيَجْعَلُهُ تَالِيَكَ وَ ثَانِيَكَ وَ نَفْسَكَ الَّتِي بَيْنَ جَنْبَيْكَ وَ سَمْعَكَ الَّذِي بِهِ تَسْمَعُ وَ بَصَرَكَ الَّذِي بِهِ تُبْصِرُ وَ يَدَكَ الَّتِي بِهَا تَبْطِشُ وَ رِجْلَكَ الَّتِي عَلَيْهَا تَعْتَمِدُ وَ سَيَقْضِي عَنْكَ دُيُونَكَ وَ يَفِي عَنْكَ بِعِدَاتِكَ وَ سَيَكُونُ جَمَالَ أُمَّتِكَ وَ زَيْنَ أَهْلِ مِلَّتِكَ

And He^-azwj would be Making him^-saww as your^-saww follower (in your^-saww footsteps, and as your^-saww second, and your^-saww self which is between your^-saww two sides, and your^-saww hearing which you^-saww would hear with, and your^-saww sigh which you^-saww would see with, and your^-saww hand by which you^-saww would be strong, and your^-saww legs upon which you^-saww would rely, and he^-asws would be fulfilling your^-saww debts on your^-saww behalf, and accomplish your^-saww promises made on your^-saww behalf, and he^-asws would become a cameleer of your^-saww community, and an adornment of the people of your^-saww nation.

وَ سَيُسْعِدُ رَبُّكَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِهِ مُحِبِّيهِ وَ يُهْلِكُ بِهِ شَانِئِيهِ

And your^-saww Lord^-azwj would be Aiding those that love you^-saww, by him^-asws, and destroy your^-saww adversaries by him^-asws’’.

قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ع وَ أَمَّا الشَّجَرَتَانِ اللَّتَانِ تَلَاصَقَتَا فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص‏ كَانَ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ فِي طَرِيقٍ لَهُ بَيْنَ مَكَّةَ وَ الْمَدِينَةِ وَ فِي عَسْكَرِهِ مُنَافِقُونَ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ وَ كَافِرُونَ مِنْ مَكَّةَ وَ مُنَافِقُونَ لَهَا وَ كَانُوا يَتَحَدَّثُونَ فِيمَا بَيْنَهُمْ بِمُحَمَّدٍ ص‏ وَ آلِهِ الطَّيِّبِينَ وَ أَصْحَابِهِ الْخَيِّرِينَ

Ali^-asws Bin Muhammad^-asws said: ‘And as for the two trees which joined up – so one day Rasool-Allah^-saww was in a way of his^-saww in what is between Makkah and Al-Medina, and among his^-saww soldiers were Munafiqeen (hypocrites) from Al-Medina, and the Kafirs (infidels) from Makkah. And the Munafiqeen from it; and they were discussing regarding what is between them about Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww goodly Progeny^-asws, and his^-saww good companions.

فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ يَأْكُلُ كَمَا نَأْكُلُ وَ يَنْفُضُ كَرِشَهُ مِنَ الْغَائِطِ وَ الْبَوْلِ كَمَا نَنْفُضُ وَ يَدَّعِي أَنَّهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ بَعْضُ مَرَدَةِ الْمُنَافِقِينَ هَذِهِ صَحْرَاءُ مَلْسَاءُ لَأَتَعَمَّدَنَّ النَّظَرَ إِلَى اسْتِهِ إِذَا قَعَدَ لِحَاجَتِهِ حَتَّى أَنْظُرَ هَلِ الَّذِي يَخْرُجُ مِنْهُ كَمَا يَخْرُجُ مِنَّا أَمْ لَا

Some of them said to the others, ‘He^-saww eats just as we do, and his^-saww stomach functions, from the faeces and the urine just as ours do, and (yet) he^-saww is claiming that he^-saww is Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj!’ One of the renegade Munafiqs said, ‘This is a desert plain. Let me deliberate to looking at his^-saww back when he^-saww sits for his^-saww need – until I look whether that which comes out from him^-saww is just as what comes out from us, or not’.

فَقَالَ آخَرُ لَكِنَّكَ إِنْ ذَهَبْتَ تَنْظُرُ مَعَهُ مَنَعَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَقْعُدَ لِأَنَّهُ‏ أَشَدُّ حَيَاءً مِنَ الْجَارِيَةِ الْعَذْرَاءِ الْمُحْرِمَةِ

Another one said, ‘But you, when you go to look, his^-saww bashfulness would prevent him^-saww from sitting, for he^-saww is intense of bashfulness than the virgin girl, the prevented, the abstaining’.

قَالَ فَعَرَّفَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ ذَلِكَ‏ نَبِيَّهُ ص فَقَالَ لِزَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ اذْهَبْ إِلَى تَيْنِكَ الشَّجَرَتَيْنِ الْمُتَبَاعِدَتَيْنِ يُومِئُ إِلَى شَجَرَتَيْنِ بَعِيدَتَيْنِ قَدْ أَوْغَلَتَا فِي الْمَفَازَةِ وَ بَعُدَتَا عَنِ الطَّرِيقِ قَدْرَ مِيلٍ فَقِفْ بَيْنَهُمَا وَ نَادِ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَأْمُرُكُمَا أَنْ تَلْتَصِقَا وَ تَنْضَمَّا لِيَقْضِيَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص خَلْفَكُمَا حَاجَتَهُ

He^-asws said: ‘Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Let His^-azwj Prophet^-saww know of that. So he^-saww said to Zayd Bin Sabit: ‘Go to those two remote trees’ – gesturing towards two distant trees which were deeper into the wasteland and their distance from the road was a measurement of a mile – ‘and pause between them and call out, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww is ordering both of you that you should uproot yourselves and join up in order for Rasool-Allah^-saww to fulfil his^-saww need behind you two’.

فَفَعَلَ ذَلِكَ زَيْدٌ وَ قَالَهُ‏ فَوَ الَّذِي بَعَثَ مُحَمَّداً بِالْحَقِّ نَبِيّاً إِنَّ الشَّجَرَتَيْنِ انْقَلَعَتَا بِأُصُولِهِمَا مِنْ مَوَاضِعِهِمَا وَ سَعَتْ كُلُّ وَاحِدَةٍ مِنْهُمَا إِلَى الْأُخْرَى سَعْيَ الْمُتَحَابَّيْنِ كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا إِلَى الْآخَرِ الْتَقَيَا بَعْدَ طُولِ غَيْبَةٍ وَ شِدَّةِ اشْتِيَاقٍ ثُمَّ تَلَاصَقَتَا وَ انْضَمَّتَا انْضِمَامَ مُتَحَابَّيْنِ فِي فِرَاشٍ فِي صَمِيمِ‏ الشِّتَاءِ

Zayd did that, and he said, ‘By the One^-azwj Who Sent Muhammad^-saww with the Truth as a Prophet^-saww – the two trees uprooted themselves from their places and each one of them went towards the other, the going of the two lovers, each one to the other, meeting after a long absence, and intense of desire. Then they embraced and joined up like the embracing of two lovers in a bed in the middle of winter.

وَ قَعَدَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص خَلْفَهُمَا فَقَالَ أُولَئِكَ الْمُنَافِقُونَ قَدِ اسْتَتَرَ عَنَّا فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ فَدُورُوا خَلْفَهُ لِتَنْظُرُوا إِلَيْهِ

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww sat behind the two (trees) so those Munafiqeen said, ‘He^-azwj is veiled from us’, and some of them said to the others, ‘Let us circle around behind him^-saww in order to look at him^-saww’.

فَذَهَبُوا يَدُورُونَ خَلْفَهُ فَدَارَتِ الشَّجَرَتَانِ كُلَّمَا دَارُوا وَ مَنَعَتَاهُمْ مِنَ النَّظَرِ إِلَى عَوْرَتِهِ

They went circling around behind him^-saww, and the two trees circled every time their circled, and prevented them from the looking at him^-saww.

فَقَالُوا تَعَالَوْا نَتَحَلَّقْ حَوْلَهُ لِتَرَاهُ طَائِفَةٌ مِنَّا فَلَمَّا ذَهَبُوا يَتَحَلَّقُونَ تَحَلَّقَتِ الشَّجَرَتَانِ فَأَحَاطَتَا بِهِ كَالْأُنْبُوبَةِ حَتَّى فَرَغَ وَ تَوَضَّأَ وَ خَرَجَ مِنْ هُنَاكَ وَ عَادَ إِلَى الْعَسْكَرِ

They said, ‘Come, let us form a circle so that (at least) a group from us can see him^-saww’. But when they went forming a circle, the two trees formed a circle and encompassed him^-saww like a tube, until he^-saww was free and had washed, and he^-saww came out from over there and returned to his^-saww army.

وَ قَالَ لِزَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ عُدْ إِلَى الشَّجَرَتَيْنِ وَ قُلْ لَهُمَا إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يَأْمُرُكُمَا أَنْ تَعُودَا إِلَى أَمَاكِنِكُمَا فَقَالَ لَهُمَا وَ سَعَتْ‏ كُلُّ وَاحِدَةٍ مِنْهُمَا إِلَى مَوْضِعِهِمَا وَ الَّذِي بَعَثَهُ بِالْحَقِّ نَبِيّاً سَعْيَ الْهَارِبِ النَّاجِي بِنَفْسِهِ مِنْ رَاكِضٍ شَاهِرٍ سَيْفَهُ خَلْفَهُ حَتَّى عَادَتْ كُلُّ شَجَرَةٍ إِلَى مَوْضِعِهَا

And he^-saww said to Zayd Bin Sabit: ‘Return to the two trees and say to them, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww is ordering you both to return to your (previous) places’. He said to them and each one of them hurried to go back to its place, by the One^-azwj Who Sent him^-saww with the Truth as a Prophet^-saww – a pace of the fleer rescuing himself by running from a runner brandishing his sword behind him, until they both returned, each tree to its own place.

فَقَالَ الْمُنَافِقُونَ قَدِ امْتَنَعَ مُحَمَّدٌ مِنْ أَنْ يُبْدِيَ لَنَا عَوْرَتَهُ وَ أَنْ نَنْظُرَ إِلَى اسْتِهِ فَتَعَالَوُا نَنْظُرْ إِلَى مَا خَرَجَ مِنْهُ لِنَعْلَمَ أَنَّهُ وَ نَحْنُ سِيَّانِ فَجَاءُوا إِلَى الْمَوْضِعِ فَلَمْ يَرَوْا شَيْئاً الْبَتَّةَ لَا عَيْناً وَ لَا أَثَراً قَالَ

The hypocrites said, ‘Muhammad^-saww has been prevented from his^-saww private parts being exposed to us, and for us to look at his^-saww back. Come, we shall go and look at what came out from him^-saww in order for us to know that he^-asws and we are both alike’. They came to the place, but they did not see anything at all, neither by eyes nor any traces.

وَ عَجِبَ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص مِنْ ذَلِكَ فَنُودُوا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ أَ وَ عَجِبْتُمْ لِسَعْيِ الشَّجَرَتَيْنِ إِحْدَاهُمَا إِلَى الْأُخْرَى إِنَّ سَعْيَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ بِكَرَامَاتِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ إِلَى مُحِبِّي مُحَمَّدٍ وَ مُحِبِّي عَلِيٍّ أَشَدُّ مِنْ سَعْيِ هَاتَيْنِ الشَّجَرَتَيْنِ إِحْدَاهُمَا إِلَى الْأُخْرَى وَ إِنَّ تَنَكُّبَ نَفَحَاتِ النَّارِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عَنْ مُحِبِّي عَلِيٍ‏ وَ الْمُتَبَرِّءِينَ مِنْ أَعْدَائِهِ أَشَدُّ مِنْ تَنَكُّبِ هَاتَيْنِ الشَّجَرَتَيْنِ إِحْدَاهُمَا عَنِ الْأُخْرَى

He^-asws said: ‘And the companions of Rasool-Allah^-saww were astounded by that, and there was a call from the sky: ‘Are you astounded at the running of the two trees, one of them to the other? The running of the Angels of Proximity with the Prestige of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic, to the one who loves Muhammad^-saww and loves Ali^-asws is more intense (faster) than the running of these two trees, one of them to the other, and that the flames of the Fire, on the Day of Qiyamah, would flee away from the one who loves Muhammad^-saww, Ali^-asws and the disavowers from his^-asws enemies, faster than the fleeing of these two trees, one of them from the other (during their return)’.

قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمَا وَ أَمَّا دُعَاؤُهُ ص الشَّجَرَةَ فَإِنَّ رَجُلًا مِنْ ثَقِيفٍ كَانَ أَطَبَّ النَّاسِ يُقَالُ لَهُ الْحَارِثُ بْنُ كَلَدَةَ الثَّقَفِيُّ جَاءَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ جِئْتُ أُدَاوِيكَ مِنْ جُنُونِكَ فَقَدْ دَاوَيْتُ مَجَانِينَ كَثِيرَةً فَشُفُوا عَلَى يَدِي

And Ali^-asws Bin Muhammad^-asws said: ‘And as for his^-saww calling over the tree – so there was a man from Saqeef called Al-Haris Bin Kalada Al-Saqafy, who was a physician of the people. He came to Rasool-Allah^-saww and he said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! I have come to you^-saww in order to cure you^-saww (God Forbid) from your^-saww insanity, for I have cured a lot of insane ones, and they were healed upon my hands’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ‏ ص أَنْتَ تَفْعَلُ أَفْعَالَ الْمَجَانِينِ وَ تَنْسُبُنِي إِلَى الْجُنُونِ قَالَ الْحَارِثُ وَ مَا ذَا فَعَلْتُهُ مِنْ أَفْعَالِ الْمَجَانِينِ قَالَ نِسْبَتُكَ إِيَّايَ إِلَى الْجُنُونِ مِنْ غَيْرِ مِحْنَةٍ مِنْكَ وَ لَا تَجْرِبَةٍ وَ لَا نَظَرٍ فِي صِدْقِي أَوْ كَذِبِي

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O Haris! You (yourself) are doing the deeds of the insane ones and you are linking me^-saww to the insanity!’ Al-Haris said, ‘And what is that which I have done from the deeds of the insane ones?’ He^-asws said: ‘Your linking me^-saww to the insanity from without a test from you, nor an experience, nor a consideration regarding my^-saww truthfulness or (establishing) my^-saww falsehood’.

فَقَالَ الْحَارِثُ أَ وَ لَيْسَ قَدْ عَرَفْتُ كَذِبَكَ وَ جُنُونَكَ بِدَعْوَاكَ النُّبُوَّةَ الَّتِي لَا تَقْدِرُ لَهَا فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَوْلُكَ لَا تَقْدِرُ لَهَا فِعْلُ الْمَجَانِينِ‏ لِأَنَّكَ لَمْ‏ تَقُلْ لِمَ قُلْتَ كَذَا وَ لَا طَالَبْتَنِي بِحُجَّةٍ فَعَجَزْتُ عَنْهَا

Al-Haris said, ‘Or aren’t your^-saww lies and your^-saww insanity recognised by your^-saww claim of the Prophet-hood which you^-saww are not able for it?’ Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘And your words, ‘Not able for it’, is the deed of the insane, because you did not say, ‘Why did you^-saww say (claim) such’, nor did you seek any proof from me^-saww, for you would have been frustrated from it’.

فَقَالَ الْحَارِثُ صَدَقْتَ أَنَا أَمْتَحِنُ أَمْرَكَ بِآيَةٍ أُطَالِبُكَ بِهَا إِنْ كُنْتَ نَبِيّاً فَادْعُ تِلْكَ الشَّجَرَةَ يُشِيرُ بِشَجَرَةٍ عَظِيمَةٍ بَعِيدٍ عُمْقُهَا فَإِنْ أَتَتْكَ عَلِمْتُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ شَهِدْتُ لَكَ بِذَلِكَ وَ إِلَّا فَأَنْتَ ذَلِكَ الْمَجْنُونُ الَّذِي قِيلَ لِي

Al-Haris said, ‘You^-saww speak the truth. I shall examine your^-saww matter by a sign I shall seek with it. If you^-saww are a Prophet^-saww then call that tree, – and he gestured towards a large tree whose depth (of its roots) was far – ‘so if it comes to you^-saww, I will know that you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, and I will testify for you^-saww with that, or else, so you^-saww are that, the insane one, which has been said to me’.

فَرَفَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ يَدَهُ إِلَى تِلْكَ الشَّجَرَةِ وَ أَشَارَ إِلَيْهَا أَنْ تَعَالَيْ فَانْقَلَعَتْ تِلْكَ الشَّجَرَةُ بِأُصُولِهَا وَ عُرُوقِهَا وَ جَعَلَتْ تَخُدُّ فِي الْأَرْضِ أُخْدُوداً عَظِيماً كَالنَّهْرِ حَتَّى دَنَتْ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَوَقَفَتْ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ وَ نَادَتْ بِصَوْتٍ فَصِيحٍ هَا أَنَا ذَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا تَأْمُرُنِي

Rasool-Allah^-saww raised his^-saww hand to that tree and gestured at it to come, and the tree uprooted itself along with its roots and its branches, and went on grooving in the ground a large groove like the river – until it approached Rasool-Allah^-saww and paused in front of him^-saww, and called out in an eloquent voice, ‘Here I am, O Rasool-Allah^-saww! What are you^-saww ordering me with?’

فَقَالَ لَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص دَعَوْتُكِ لِتَشْهَدَ لِي بِالنُّبُوَّةِ بَعْدَ شَهَادَتِكِ لِلَّهِ بِالتَّوْحِيدِ ثُمَّ تَشْهَدِي بَعْدَ شَهَادَتِكِ لِي لِعَلِيٍّ هَذَا بِالْإِمَامَةِ وَ أَنَّهُ سَنَدِي وَ ظَهْرِي وَ عَضُدِي وَ فَخْرِي وَ عِزِّي‏ وَ لَوْلَاهُ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ‏ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ شَيْئاً مِمَّا خَلَقَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to it: ‘I^-saww invite you to testify for me with the Prophet-hood, after your testimony for Allah^-azwj with the Tawheed (Oneness). Then testify for Ali^-asws with the Imamate, after your testimony for me^-saww, and that he^-asws is my^-saww support, and my^-saww strength, and my^-saww helper, and my^-saww pride, and my^-saww consoler, and had it not been for him^-asws, Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic would not have Created anything from what He^-azwj did Create’.

فَنَادَتْ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ أَرْسَلَكَ‏ بِالْحَقِّ بَشِيراً وَ نَذِيراً وَ داعِياً إِلَى اللَّهِ بِإِذْنِهِ وَ سِراجاً مُنِيراً

It called out, ‘I testify that there is no god except Allah^-azwj, Alone, there being no associates for Him^-azwj, and I testify that you^-saww, O Muhammad^-saww are His^-azwj servant and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww. He^-azwj Sent you^-saww with the Truth, as a bearer of glad tidings and as a warner [33:45] And as one inviting to Allah by His Permission, and as an illuminating lamp [33:46].

وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ عَلِيّاً ابْنَ عَمِّكَ هُوَ أَخُوكَ فِي دِينِكَ أَوْفَرُ خَلْقِ اللَّهِ مِنَ الدِّينِ حَظّاً وَ أَجْزَلُهُمْ مِنَ الْإِسْلَامِ نَصِيباً وَ أَنَّهُ سَنَدُكَ وَ ظَهْرُكَ قَامِعُ أَعْدَائِكَ نَاصِرُ أَوْلِيَائِكَ بَابُ عُلُومِكَ فِي أُمَّتِكَ

And I testify that Ali^-asws, your^-saww cousin, he^-asws is your^-saww brother^-asws in your^-saww Religion and the foremost of the creatures of Allah^-azwj from the Religion for advantages, and the greatest of them in share from Al-Islam, and that he^-asws is your^-saww support, and your^-saww support, and repressor of your^-saww enemies, and helper of your^-saww friends, and the root of your^-saww knowledge in your^-saww community.

وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ أَوْلِيَاءَكَ الَّذِينَ يُوَالُونَهُ وَ يُعَادُونَ أَعْدَاءَهُ حَشْوُ الْجَنَّةِ وَ أَنَّ أَعْدَاءَهُ الَّذِينَ يُوَالُونَ أَعْدَاءَهُ وَ يُعَادُونَ أَوْلِيَاءَهُ‏ حَشْوُ النَّارِ

And I testify that your^-saww friends are those who befriend him^-asws and are inimical to his^-asws enemies, would be entering Paradise, and that your^-saww enemies are those who are befriending his^-asws enemies, and are being inimical to his^-asws friends, would be entering the Fire’.

فَنَظَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى الْحَارِثِ بْنِ كَلَدَةَ فَقَالَ يَا حَارِثُ أَ وَ مَجْنُوناً يُعَدُّ مَنْ هَذِهِ آيَاتُهُ فَقَالَ الْحَارِثُ بْنُ كَلَدَةَ لَا وَ اللَّهِ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ لَكِنِّي أَشْهَدُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ‏ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَ سَيِّدُ الْخَلْقِ أَجْمَعِينَ وَ حَسُنَ إِسْلَامُهُ

Rasool-Allah^-saww looked at Al-Haris Bin Kalada and he said, ‘O Haris! And is he insane, the one who performs these Signs?’ Al-Haris Bin Kalada said, ‘By Allah^-azwj, O Rasool-Allah^-saww! But I hereby testify that you^-saww are the Rasool^-saww of the Lord^-azwj of the worlds, and Chief of the creatures in their entirety. And his Islam was good’.

وَ أَمَّا كَلَامُ الذِّرَاعِ الْمَسْمُومَةِ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص لَمَّا رَجَعَ مِنْ خَيْبَرَ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ وَ قَدْ فَتَحَ اللَّهُ لَهُ جَاءَتْهُ امْرَأَةٌ مِنَ الْيَهُودِ قَدْ أَظْهَرَتِ‏ الْإِيمَانَ وَ مَعَهَا ذِرَاعٌ مَسْمُومَةٌ مَشْوِيَّةٌ وَضَعَتْهَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ

And as for the speaking of the poisoned arm (of a goat) – When Rasool-Allah^-saww returned from Khyber to Al-Medina, and Allah^-azwj had Conquered it for him^-saww, a woman from the Jews came, and she had displayed the Eman, and with her was a grilled poisoned forearm (of a goat), and she placed it in front of him^-saww.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَا هَذِهِ قَالَتْ لَهُ بِأَبِي أَنْتَ وَ أُمِّي يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ هَمَّنِي أَمْرُكَ فِي خُرُوجِكَ إِلَى خَيْبَرَ فَإِنِّي عَلِمْتُهُمْ رِجَالًا جَلْداً وَ هَذَا حَمَلٌ كَانَ لِي ربيبة [رَبَّيْتُهُ‏] أَعُدُّهُ كَالْوَلَدِ لِي وَ عَلِمْتُ أَنَّ أَحَبَّ الطَّعَامِ إِلَيْكَ الشِّوَاءُ وَ أَحَبَّ الشِّوَاءِ إِلَيْكَ الذِّرَاعُ وَ نَذَرْتُ لِلَّهِ لَئِنْ سَلَّمَكَ اللَّهُ مِنْهُمْ لَأَذْبَحَنَّهُ وَ لَأُطْعِمَنَّكَ مِنْ شِوَاءَةِ ذِرَاعَيْهِ وَ الْآنَ فَقَدْ سَلَّمَكَ اللَّهُ مِنْهُمْ وَ أَظْفَرَكَ عَلَيْهِمْ‏ وَ قَدْ جِئْتُكَ بِنَذْرِي‏

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘What is this?’ She said to him^-saww, ‘By my father and my mother (being sacrificed) for you^-saww, O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Your^-saww matter of going out to Khyber concerned me, for I know them (Jews) as being rigid men and this baby goat which was for me, I had raised him like a child of mine, and I (also) knew that the most beloved of the meals to you^-saww is the grilled, and the most beloved of the grilled (meals) to you is the forearm. I vowed to Allah^-azwj, if Allah^-azwj Keeps you^-saww safe from them, I would slaughter it and feed you^-saww from its grilled forearm. And now, Allah^-azwj has Secured you^-saww from them and Made you victorious over them. Thus, I came with this in order to fulfil my vow’.

وَ كَانَ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص الْبَرَاءُ بْنُ مَعْرُورٍ وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ايتُونِي‏ بِالْخُبْزِ فَأُتِيَ بِهِ فَمَدَّ الْبَرَاءُ بْنُ الْمَعْرُورِ يَدَهُ وَ أَخَذَ مِنْهُ لُقْمَةً فَوَضَعَهَا فِي فِيهِ

And there were with Rasool-Allah^-saww, Al-Bara’a Bin Marour and Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Bring the bread!’ They came with it, and Al-Bara’a Bin Mamour extended his hand – and took a morsel from it, and placed it in his mouth.

فَقَالَ‏ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع يَا بَرَاءُ لَا تَتَقَدَّمْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ الْبَرَاءُ وَ كَانَ أَعْرَابِيّاً يَا عَلِيُّ كَأَنَّكَ تُبَخِّلُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع مَا أُبَخِّلُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ لَكِنِّي أُبَجِّلُهُ وَ أُوَقِّرُهُ لَيْسَ لِي وَ لَا لَكَ وَ لَا لِأَحَدٍ مِنْ خَلْقِ اللَّهِ أَنْ يَتَقَدَّمَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص بِقَوْلٍ وَ لَا فِعْلٍ وَ لَا أَكْلٍ وَ لَا شُرْبٍ

Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws said to him: ‘O Bara’a! Do not precede over Rasool-Allah^-saww!’ Al-Bara’a said to him^-asws – and he was a Bedouin, ‘O Ali^-asws! It is as if you^-asws are considering Rasool-Allah^-saww a miser’. Ali^-asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww is not a miser, but I^-asws am venerating him^-saww and revering him^-saww. It isn’t for me nor for you, nor for anyone from the creatures of Allah^-azwj that he preceded Rasool-Allah^-saww – neither by words, nor by deeds, nor eat, nor drink’.

فَقَالَ الْبَرَاءُ مَا أُبَخِّلُ‏ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع مَا لِذَلِكَ قُلْتُ وَ لَكِنْ هَذَا جَاءَتْ بِهِ هَذِهِ وَ كَانَتْ يَهُودِيَّةً وَ لَسْنَا نَعْرِفُ حَالَهَا فَإِذَا أَكَلْتَهُ بِأَمْرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَهُوَ الضَّامِنُ لِسَلَامَتِكَ مِنْهُ وَ إِذَا أَكَلْتَهُ بِغَيْرِ إِذْنِهِ وُكِلْتَ‏ إِلَى نَفْسِكَ

Al-Bara’a said, ‘How miserly is Rasool-Allah^-saww!’ Ali^-asws said: ‘I^-asws did not say it for that, but this (woman) has come with this (meal), and she used to be a Jewess, and we do not recognise her state. When you eat with the instructions of Rasool-Allah^-saww, then he^-saww would be the guarantor of your safety, and when you eat without his^-saww permission, you are allocated to yourself (for your safety)’.

يَقُولُ عَلِيٌّ هَذَا وَ الْبَرَاءُ يَلُوكُ‏ اللُّقْمَةَ إِذْ أَنْطَقَ اللَّهُ الذِّرَاعَ فَقَالَتْ‏ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ‏ لَا تَأْكُلْنِي فَإِنِّي مَسْمُومَةٌ وَ سَقَطَ الْبَرَاءُ فِي سَكَرَاتِ الْمَوْتِ وَ لَمْ يُرْفَعْ إِلَّا مَيِّتاً

Ali^-asws was saying this, and Al-Bara’a ate the morsel – when Allah^-azwj Caused the forearm to speak, and it said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Do not eat me, for I am poisoned!’ – and Al-Bara’a fell down in the pangs of death, and did not rise except as dead.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ايتُونِي بِالْمَرْأَةِ فَأُتِيَ بِهَا فَقَالَ مَا حَمَلَكِ عَلَى مَا صَنَعْتِ فَقَالَتْ وَتَرْتَنِي وَتْراً عَظِيماً قَتَلْتَ أَبِي وَ عَمِّي وَ زَوْجِي وَ أَخِي وَ ابْنِي فَفَعَلْتُ هَذَا وَ قُلْتُ إِنْ كَانَ مَلِكاً فَسَأَنْتَقِمُ مِنْهُ وَ إِنْ كَانَ نَبِيّاً كَمَا يَقُولُ وَ قَدْ وُعِدَ فَتْحَ مَكَّةَ وَ النَّصْرَ وَ الظَّفَرَ فَيَمْنَعُهُ اللَّهُ‏ مِنْهُ وَ يَحْفَظُهُ وَ لَنْ يَضُرَّهُ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Come to me with the woman!’ They came with her, and he^-saww said to her: ‘What carried you upon what you did?’ She said, ‘You^-saww have wronged me with a great wrong. You^-saww killed my father, and my uncle, and my brother, and my husband, and my son – thus I did this, and I said, ‘If he^-saww was a king, then I shall take revenge from him^-saww, and if he^-saww was a Prophet^-saww just as he^-saww is saying, and has been Promised the conquest of Makkah, and the Help and the victory, then Allah^-azwj would Prevent it and he^-saww would be protected from me and it will never harm him^-saww’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَيَّتُهَا الْمَرْأَةُ لَقَدْ صَدَقْتِ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَا يَغُرَّكِ مَوْتُ الْبَرَاءِ فَإِنَّمَا امْتَحَنَهُ اللَّهُ لِتَقَدُّمِهِ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ لَوْ كَانَ بِأَمْرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أَكَلَ مِنْهُ لَكُفِيَ شَرَّهُ وَ سَمَّهُ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O you woman! You have spoken the truth’. Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said to her: ‘The death of Al Bara’a would not harm you, for rather, Allah^-azwj Tested him to his preceding in front of Rasool-Allah^-saww, and had he eaten from it by the instructions of Rasool-Allah^-saww, its evil and its poison would have been refrained’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ادْعُ لِي فُلَاناً وَ فُلَاناً وَ ذَكَرَ قَوْماً مِنْ خِيَارِ أَصْحَابِهِ فِيهِمْ سَلْمَانُ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ عَمَّارٌ وَ صُهَيْبٌ وَ بِلَالٌ وَ قَوْمٌ مِنْ سَائِرِ الصَّحَابَةِ تَمَامُ عَشَرَةٍ وَ عَلِيٌّ ع حَاضِرٌ مَعَهُمْ

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Call so and so for me!’, and he^-saww mentioned a group from the best of his^-saww companions – from them being Salman^-as, and Al-Miqdad^-as, and Ammar^-as, and Suheyb^-ra, and Abu Zarr^-as, and Bilal^-ra, and a group from the rest of the companions, completing ten, and Ali^-asws was present with them.

فَقَالَ اقْعُدُوا وَ تَحَلَّقُوا عَلَيْهِ وَ وَضَعَ‏ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَدَهُ عَلَى الذِّرَاعِ الْمَسْمُومَةِ وَ نَفَثَ عَلَيْهِ وَ قَالَ‏ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الشَّافِي بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الْكَافِي بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الْمُعَافِي بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الَّذِي لَا يَضُرُّ مَعَ اسْمِهِ شَيْ‏ءٌ وَ لَا دَاءٌ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ لَا فِي السَّمَاءِ وَ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ‏

He^-saww said: ‘Be seated and form a circle upon it (the meal)’. Then Rasool-Allah^-saww placed his^-saww hand upon the poisoned forearm and blew upon it, and said: ‘In the Name of Allah^-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful. In the Name of Allah^-azwj the Healer. In the Name of Allah^-azwj the Sufficient. In the Name of Allah^-azwj the Giver of health. In the Name of Allah^-azwj Who, nothing harms along with His^-azwj Name, nor an illness in the earth nor in the sky, and He^-azwj is the Hearing, the Knowing’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ كُلُوا عَلَى اسْمِ اللَّهِ فَأَكَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَكَلُوا حَتَّى شَبِعُوا ثُمَّ شَرِبُوا عَلَيْهِ الْمَاءَ ثُمَّ أَمَرَ بِهَا فَحُبِسَتْ

Then he^-saww said: ‘Eat upon the Name of Allah^-azwj’. Rasool-Allah^-saww ate, and they ate until they were satiated. Then they drank the water upon it. Then he^-saww ordered with her to be withheld in custody.

فَلَمَّا كَانَ الْيَوْمُ الثَّانِي جَاءَ بِهَا فَقَالَ أَ لَيْسَ هَؤُلَاءِ أَكَلُوا ذَلِكِ السَّمَّ بِحَضْرَتِكِ فَكَيْفَ رَأَيْتِ دَفْعَ اللَّهِ عَنْ نَبِيِّهِ وَ صَحَابَتِهِ فَقَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كُنْتُ إِلَى الْآنَ فِي نُبُوَّتِكَ شَاكَّةً وَ الْآنَ قَدْ أَيْقَنْتُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ حَقّاً فَأَنَا أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ وَ أَنَّكَ عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ وَ حَسُنَ إِسْلَامُهَا

When it was during the second day, they came with her, and he^-saww said: ‘Aren’t they those who are the poison in your presence? How do you see the Defence of Allah^-azwj of His^-azwj Prophet^-saww and His^-azwj companions?’ She said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! I was until now doubtful regarding your^-saww Prophet-hood, and now I am convinced you^-saww are a Rasool of Allah^-saww truly. Therefore, I hereby testify that there is no god except Allah^-azwj, Alone, there being no associates for Him^-azwj, and you^-saww are His^-azwj servant and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww truly’. And excellent was her Islam.

فَقَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ ع وَ لَقَدْ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ جَدِّي‏ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص‏ لَمَّا حُمِلَتْ إِلَيْهِ جِنَازَةُ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ مَعْرُورٍ لِيُصَلِّيَ عَلَيْهِ قَالَ أَيْنَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّهُ ذَهَبَ فِي حَاجَةِ رَجُلٍ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ إِلَى قُبَاءَ

Ali^-asws Bin Al-Husayn^-asws said: ‘And my^-asws father^-asws has narrated to me^-asws, from my^-asws grandfather^-asws that Rasool-Allah^-azwj, when the body of Al-Bara’a Bin Marour was carried over to him^-saww for him^-saww to pray Salat over him, he^-saww said: ‘Where is Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws?’ They said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! He^-asws has gone to Quba regarding a need of a man from the Muslims’.

فَجَلَسَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ لَمْ يُصَلِّ عَلَيْهِ قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا لَكَ لَا تُصَلِّي عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَمَرَنِي أَنْ أُؤَخِّرَ الصَّلَاةَ عَلَيْهِ إِلَى أَنْ يَحْضُرَهُ عَلِيٌ‏ فَيَجْعَلَهُ فِي حِلٍّ مِمَّا كَلَّمَهُ بِهِ بِحَضْرَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص لِيَجْعَلَ اللَّهُ مَوْتَهُ بِهَذَا السَّمِّ كَفَّارَةً لَهُ

Rasool-Allah^-saww sat down and did not pray Salat upon him. They said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! What is the matter with you^-saww not praying Salat upon him?’ Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Commanded me^-saww that Ali^-asws should attend, so He^-azwj would Make him to be free from what he spoke with in the presence of Rasool-Allah^-saww, in order for Allah^-azwj to Make his death due to this poison to be an expiation for him’.

فَقَالَ بَعْضُ‏ مَنْ حَضَرَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ شَاهَدَ الْكَلَامَ الَّذِي تَكَلَّمَ بِهِ الْبَرَاءُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّمَا كَانَ مَزْحاً مَازَحَ بِهِ عَلِيّاً لَمْ يَكُنْ مِنْهُ جِدّاً فَيُؤَاخِذَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِذَلِكَ

One of the ones who were present with Rasool-Allah^-saww and had witnessed the speech which Al-Bara’a had spoken with, said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! But rather, he was joking with Ali^-asws by it. There did not happen to be any seriousness from him, so Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic would Seize him with that’.

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَوْ كَانَ ذَلِكَ مِنْهُ جِدّاً لَأَحْبَطَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى أَعْمَالَهُ كُلَّهَا وَ لَوْ كَانَ تَصَدَّقَ بِمِثْلِ‏ مَا بَيْنَ الثَّرَى إِلَى الْعَرْشِ ذَهَباً وَ فِضَّةً وَ لَكِنَّهُ كَانَ مَزْحاً وَ هُوَ فِي حِلٍّ مِنْ ذَلِكَ إِلَّا أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص يُرِيدُ أَنْ لَا يَعْتَقِدَ أَحَدٌ مِنْكُمْ أَنَّ عَلِيّاً ع وَاجِدٌ عَلَيْهِ فَيُجَدِّدَ بِحَضْرَتِكُمْ إِحْلَالًا وَ يَسْتَغْفِرَ لَهُ لِيَزِيدَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِذَلِكَ قُرْبَةً وَ رِفْعَةً فِي جِنَانِهِ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Had that been seriously from him – Allah^-azwj the Exalted would have Confiscated his deeds, all of them, and (even) if he had given in charity by filling what is between the soil to the Throne in gold and silver. But it was in jest, and he is in leeway from that, except that Rasool-Allah^-saww intends that none of you should believe that Ali^-asws is angry upon him. Therefore, he would renew his permissibility in your presence and seek Forgiveness for him – in order for Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic to Increase for him, due to that, nearness, and loftiness in His^-azwj Gardens’.

فَلَمْ يَلْبَثْ أَنْ حَضَرَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَوَقَفَ قُبَالَةَ الْجِنَازَةِ وَ قَالَ رَحِمَكَ اللَّهُ يَا بَرَاءُ فَلَقَدْ كُنْتَ صَوَّاماً قَوَّاماً وَ لَقَدْ مِتَّ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ

It was not long before Ali^-asws attended, and he^-asws paused in front of the deceased and said: ‘May Allah^-azwj have Mercy on you, O Bara’a, for you were a Fasting one, standing (for Salat), and you have died in the Way of Allah^-azwj’.

وَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ لَوْ كَانَ أَحَدٌ مِنَ الْمَوْتَى يَسْتَغْنِي عَنْ صَلَاةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ لَاسْتَغْنَى صَاحِبُكُمْ هَذَا بِدُعَاءِ عَلِيٍّ ع لَهُ ثُمَّ قَامَ فَصَلَّى عَلَيْهِ وَ دُفِنَ

And Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘If there was anyone from the deceased who was needless from the Salat of Rasool-Allah^-saww, this companion of yours is needless due to the supplication of Ali^-asws for him’. Then he^-saww stood and prayed Salat over him and buried him’.

فَلَمَّا انْصَرَفَ وَ قَعَدَ فِي الْعَزَاءِ قَالَ أَنْتُمْ يَا أَوْلِيَاءَ الْبَرَاءِ بِالتَّهْنِيَةِ أَوْلَى مِنْكُمْ بِالتَّعْزِيَةِ لِأَنَّ صَاحِبَكُمْ عُقِدَ لَهُ فِي الْحُجُبِ قِبَابٌ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا إِلَى السَّمَاءِ السَّابِعَةِ وَ بِالْحُجُبِ كُلِّهَا إِلَى الْكُرْسِيِّ إِلَى سَاقِ الْعَرْشِ‏ لِرُوحِهِ الَّتِي عُرِجَ بِهَا فِيهَا ثُمَّ ذُهِبَ بِهَا إِلَى رَبَضِ الْجِنَانِ‏ وَ تَلَقَّاهَا كُلُّ مَنْ كَانَ فِيهَا مِنْ خُزَّانِهَا وَ اطَّلَعَ إِلَيْهِ كُلُّ مَنْ كَانَ فِيهَا مِنْ حُورِ حِسَانِهَا

When he^-saww, he^-saww sat in mourning (and) said: ‘You, O friends of Al Bara’a! You are more appropriate with the congratulations rather than the condolences, because your companion is such that domes have been set up for him among the Veils from the sky of the world up to the seventh sky, and the Veils, all of them up to the Chair, to the base of the Throne, for his soul which was ascended with to the sky. Then they went with it to the flowering meadows of the Gardens, it was met by each one who was therein from its keepers, and everyone who was therein from the beautiful Houries was notified upon it.

فَقَالُوا بِأَجْمَعِهِمْ لَهُ‏ طُوبَاكَ طُوبَاكَ يَا رُوحَ الْبَرَاءِ انْتَظَرَ عَلَيْكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ عَلِيّاً صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ وَ سَلَامُهُ عَلَيْهِمَا وَ آلِهِمَا الْكِرَامِ حَتَّى تَرَحَّمَ عَلَيْكَ عَلِيٌّ وَ اسْتَغْفَرَ لَكَ أَمَا إِنَّ حَمَلَةَ عَرْشِ رَبِّنَا حَدَّثُونَا عَنْ رَبِّنَا أَنَّهُ قَالَ يَا عَبْدِيَ الْمَيِّتَ فِي سَبِيلِي لَوْ كَانَ‏ عَلَيْكَ مِنَ الذُّنُوبِ بِعَدَدِ الْحَصَى وَ الثَّرَى وَ قَطْرِ الْمَطَرِ وَ وَرَقِ الشَّجَرِ وَ عَدَدِ شُعُورِ الْحَيَوَانَاتِ وَ لَحَظَاتِهِمْ وَ أَنْفَاسِهِمْ وَ حَرَكَاتِهِمْ وَ سَكَنَاتِهِمْ لَكَانَتْ مَغْفُورَةً بِدُعَاءِ عَلِيٍّ ع لَكَ

And the entirety of them said to him, ‘Beatitude for you, O soul of Al-Bara’a! Rasool-Allah^-saww waited for Ali^-asws upon you until Ali^-asws sought Mercy to be upon you and Forgiveness for you. As for the bearers of the Throne of our Lord^-azwj, narrated to us from our Lord^-azwj that He^-azwj Said: “O My^-azwj servant, the deceased in My^-azwj Way, and even if there were upon you from the sins, of the number of the pebbles and the soil, and drops of the rain, and leaves of the trees, and number of hairs of the animals – and the blinks of their eyes, and their breaths, and their movements, and their stillness, they would have (all) been Forgiven due to the supplication of Ali^-asws for you.

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَتَعَرَّضُوا عِبَادَ اللَّهِ‏ لِدُعَاءِ عَلِيٍّ لَكُمْ وَ لَا تَتَعَرَّضُوا لِدُعَاءِ عَلِيٍّ عَلَيْكُمْ فَإِنَّ مَنْ دَعَا عَلَيْهِ أَهْلَكَهُ اللَّهُ وَ لَوْ كَانَتْ حَسَنَاتُهُ عَدَدَ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ كَمَا أَنَّ مَنْ دَعَا لَهُ أَسْعَدَهُ اللَّهُ وَ لَوْ كَانَتْ سَيِّئَاتُهُ بِعَدَدِ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Therefore, O servants of Allah^-azwj! Be requesting for a supplication of Ali^-asws for you, and do not expose yourselves to a supplication of Ali^-asws against you, for the one he^-asws supplicates against, Allah^-azwj would Destroy him, and even though his good deeds may be of the number of whatever Allah^-azwj has Created, just as if the one whom he^-asws supplicates for, Allah^-azwj Assist him, and even though his evil deeds be of the number of whatever Allah^-azwj Created’.

وَ أَمَّا كَلَامُ الذِّئْبِ لَهُ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص كَانَ جَالِساً ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ إِذْ جَاءَهُ رَاعٍ تَرْتَعِدُ فَرَائِصُهُ قَدِ اسْتَفْزَعَهُ‏ الْعَجَبُ فَلَمَّا رَآهُ‏ مِنْ بَعِيدٍ قَالَ لِأَصْحَابِهِ إِنَّ لِصَاحِبِكُمْ هَذَا شَأْناً عَجِيباً فَلَمَّا وَقَفَ قَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص حَدِّثْنَا بِمَا أَزْعَجَكَ

And as for the speech of the wolf to him^-saww – One day Rasool-Allah^-saww was seated when a shepherd came to him^-saww, his limbs trembling, the strange (phenomenon) having panicked him. When Rasool-Allah^-saww saw him from afar, he^-saww said to him^-saww companions: ‘For this companion of yours, there is a strange affair’. When he paused, Rasool-Allah^-saww said to him: ‘Narrate to us with what bothers you’.

قَالَ الرَّاعِي يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَمْرٌ عَجِيبٌ كُنْتُ فِي غَنَمِي إِذْ جَاءَ ذِئْبٌ فَحَمَلَ حَمَلًا فَرَمَيْتُهُ بِمِقْلَاعَتِي‏ فَانْتَزَعْتُهُ مِنْهُ ثُمَّ جَاءَ إِلَى الْجَانِبِ الْأَيْمَنِ فَتَنَاوَلَ‏ حَمَلًا فَرَمَيْتُهُ بِمِقْلَاعَتِي فَانْتَزَعْتُهُ‏ مِنْهُ ثُمَّ جَاءَ إِلَى الْجَانِبِ الْأَيْسَرِ فَتَنَاوَلَ حَمَلًا فَرَمَيْتُهُ بِمِقْلَاعَتِي فَانْتَزَعْتُهُ ثُمَّ جَاءَ إِلَى الْجَانِبِ الْآخَرِ فَتَنَاوَلَ حَمَلًا فَرَمَيْتُهُ بِمِقْلَاعَتِي فَانْتَزَعْتُهُ مِنْهُ

The shepherd said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww, a strange matter! I was among my sheep when a wolf came. So, it carried off a lamb, and I hit it with my catapult and snatched it from him. Then it came to the right side and grabbed a lamb from it, and I hit it with my catapult and snatched it from it. Then it came to the left and grabbed a lamb, and I hit him with my catapult and snatched it (back). Then it came to another side and grabbed a lamb, and I hit him with my catapult and snatched it from him.

ثُمَّ جَاءَ الْخَامِسَةَ هُوَ وَ أُنْثَاهُ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَتَنَاوَلَ‏ حَمَلًا فَأَرَدْتُ أَنْ أَرْمِيَهُ فَأَقْعَى‏ عَلَى ذَنَبِهِ وَ قَالَ أَ مَا تَسْتَحْيِي تَحُولُ‏ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَ رِزْقٍ قَدْ قَسَمَهُ اللَّهُ لِي أَ فَمَا أَحْتَاجُ أَنَا إِلَى غَدَاءٍ أَتَغَدَّى بِهِ فَقُلْتُ مَا أَعْجَبَ هَذَا ذِئْبٌ أَعْجَمُ يُكَلِّمُنِي كَلَامَ الْآدَمِيِّينَ

Then it came for the fifth time, he and his female, intending to grab a lamb, and I wanted to hit him, but it sat on its tail and said, ‘Are you not ashamed of being a barrier between me and my sustenance (which) Allah^-azwj has Apportioned for me? Am I (also) not needy to be fed with?’ I said, ‘How strange is this! A stranger wolf is speaking to me with the speech of the humans’.

فَقَالَ لِيَ الذِّئْبُ أَ لَا أُنَبِّئُكَ بِمَا هُوَ أَعْجَبُ مِنْ كَلَامِي لَكَ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ بَيْنَ الْحَرَّتَيْنِ يُحَدِّثُ النَّاسَ بِأَنْبَاءِ مَا قَدْ سَبَقَ مِنَ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ مَا لَمْ يَأْتِ مِنَ الْآخِرِينَ

The wolf said to me, ‘Shall I inform you of what is even stranger than my speech to you? Muhammad^-saww is Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, a Rasool^-saww of the Lord^-azwj of the worlds between the two rocky places. He^-saww narrates to the people the news of what has preceded from the former ones and what has yet to come from the latter ones.

ثُمَّ الْيَهُودُ مَعَ عِلْمِهِمْ بِصِدْقِهِ وَ وُجُودِهِمْ‏ لَهُ فِي كُتُبِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ بِأَنَّهُ أَصْدَقُ الصَّادِقِينَ وَ أَفْضَلُ الْفَاضِلِينَ يُكَذِّبُونَهُ وَ يَجْحَدُونَهُ وَ هُوَ بَيْنَ الْحَرَّتَيْنِ وَ هُوَ الشِّفَاءُ النَّافِعُ وَيْحَكَ يَا رَاعِي آمِنْ بِهِ تَأْمَنْ مِنْ عَذَابِ اللَّهِ وَ أَسْلِمْ لَهُ تَسْلَمْ مِنْ سُوءِ الْعَذَابِ الْأَلِيمِ

Then the Jews, along with their knowledge of his truthfulness, and their finding for him^-saww in the Books of the Lord^-azwj of the worlds – that he^-saww is the most truthful of the truthful ones, and the most superior of the meritorious ones – are belying him^-saww and rejecting him^-saww, and he^-saww is between the two rocky places, and he^-saww is the beneficial healer. Woe be unto you, O shepherd! Believe in him^-saww, you will be secure from the Punishment of Allah^-azwj, and submit to him^-asws, you will be safe from the painful Punishment’.

فَقُلْتُ لَهُ وَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ عَجِبْتُ مِنْ كَلَامِكَ وَ اسْتَحْيَيْتُ مِنْ مَنْعِي لَكَ مَا تَعَاطَيْتَ أَكْلَهُ فَدُونَكَ غَنَمِي فَكُلْ مِنْهَا مَا شِئْتَ لَا أُدَافِعُكَ وَ لَا أُمَانِعُكَ

I said to him, ‘By Allah^-azwj! I have been astounded from your speech and am embarrassed from preventing to you what you have come to eat, therefore below you are my sheep. Eat from these whatever you so desire to. I will neither repel you nor prevent you’.

فَقَالَ لِيَ الذِّئْبُ يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ احْمَدِ اللَّهَ‏ إِذْ كُنْتَ مِمَّنْ يَعْتَبِرُ بِآيَاتِ اللَّهِ وَ يَنْقَادُ لِأَمْرِهِ لَكِنَ‏ الشَّقِيَّ كُلَّ الشَّقِيِّ مَنْ يُشَاهِدُ آيَاتِ مُحَمَّدٍ فِي أَخِيهِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع وَ مَا يُؤَدِّيهِ عَنِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مِنْ فَضَائِلِهِ وَ مَا يَرَاهُ مِنْ وُفُورِ حَظِّهِ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ‏ الَّذِي لَا نَظِيرَ لَهُ فِيهِ وَ الزُّهْدِ الَّذِي لَا يُحَاذِيهِ أَحَدٌ فِيهِ وَ الشَّجَاعَةِ الَّتِي لَا عِدْلَ لَهُ فِيهَا وَ نُصْرَتِهِ لِلْإِسْلَامِ الَّتِي لَا حَظَّ لِأَحَدٍ فِيهَا مِثْلَ حَظِّهِ

So the wolf said to me, ‘O servant of Allah^-azwj! Praise Allah^-azwj, if you are from the ones who take a lesson from the Signs of Allah^-azwj, and submit to His^-azwj Command. But the most wretched of the wretched ones is the one who witnessed the Signs of Muhammad^-saww regarding his^-saww brother Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws, and what he^-saww entrusts him^-asws on behalf of Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic from his^-asws merits, and what he^-asws shows you^-asws from his^-asws current share from the knowledge which there is not equal to him with regards to it, and the abstention which no one is parallel to him^-asws with regards to it, and the bravery which there is no match for him^-asws with regards to it, and his^-asws helping Al-Islam which there is no share for anyone in it like his^-asws share’.

ثُمَّ يَرَى مَعَ ذَلِكَ كُلِّهِ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ يَأْمُرُ بِمُوَالاتِهِ وَ مُوَالاةِ أَوْلِيَائِهِ وَ التَّبَرِّي مِنْ أَعْدَائِهِ وَ يُخْبِرُ أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى لَا يَقْبَلُ مِنْ أَحَدٍ عَمَلًا وَ إِنْ جَلَّ وَ عَظُمَ مِمَّنْ يُخَالِفُهُ‏ ثُمَّ هُوَ مَعَ‏ ذَلِكَ يُخَالِفُهُ وَ يَدْفَعُهُ عَنْ حَقِّهِ وَ يَظْلِمُهُ وَ يُوَالِي أَعْدَاءَهُ وَ يُعَادِي أَوْلِيَاءَهُ إِنَّ هَذَا لَأَعْجَبُ مِنْ مَنْعِكَ إِيَّايَ

Then he sees, along with all of that, Rasool-Allah^-saww ordering with his^-asws friendship and friendship with his^-asws friends and the disavowment from his^-asws enemies, and informing that Allah^-azwj the Exalted does not Accept a deed from anyone – and even if it is majestic and great – from the ones who oppose him. Then he, along with that, opposes him, and he repels his^-asws from his^-asws right and oppresses him^-asws, and befriends his^-asws enemies, and is inimical to his^-asws friends

قَالَ الرَّاعِي فَقُلْتُ أَيُّهَا الذِّئْبُ أَ وَ كَائِنٌ هَذَا قَالَ بَلَى وَ مَا هُوَ أَعْظَمُ مِنْهُ سَوْفَ يَقْتُلُونَهُ بَاطِلًا وَ يَقْتُلُونَ وُلْدَهُ وَ يَسْبُونَ حَرِيمَهُمْ‏ وَ هُمْ مَعَ ذَلِكَ يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّهُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ فَدَعْوَاهُمْ أَنَّهُمْ عَلَى دِينِ الْإِسْلَامِ مَعَ صَنِيعِهِمْ هَذَا بِسَادَةِ أَهْلِ الْإِسْلَامِ أَعْجَبُ مِنْ مَنْعِكَ لِي

The shepherd said, ‘I said to him, ‘O you wolf, and this would be happening?’ He said, ‘Yes. And what is greater than it, soon he^-asws would be killed falsely (unjustly), and his^-asws children would be killed, and their sanctity (womenfolk) would be made captives, and they (the killers), along with that, would be claiming that they are Muslims. Thus, their claim that they are upon the Religion of Al-Islam, along with these deeds of theirs with the Chiefs of the people of Al-Islam, is stranger than your preventing me.

لَا جَرَمَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ جَعَلَنَا مَعَاشِرَ الذِّئَابِ أَنَا وَ نُظَرَائِي مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ نَمْزِقُهُمْ فِي النِّيرَانِ يَوْمَ فَصْلِ الْقَضَاءِ وَ جَعَلَ فِي تَعْذِيبِهِمْ شَهَوَاتِنَا وَ فِي شَدَائِدِ آلَامِهِمْ لَذَّاتِنَا

There is no doubt that Allah^-azwj the Exalted has made us, a community of wolves – I and my peers to be from the Momineen who would be tearing them apart in the Fires on the Day of the Decisive Judgments, and Made our desires to be in punishing them, and our pleasures to be in intensely paining them’.

قَالَ الرَّاعِي فَقُلْتُ وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ لَا هَذِهِ الْغَنَمُ بَعْضُهَا لِي وَ بَعْضُهَا أَمَانَةٌ فِي رَقَبَتِي لَقَصَدْتُ مُحَمَّداً حَتَّى أَرَاهُ فَقَالَ لِيَ الذِّئْبُ يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ فَامْضِ إِلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ اتْرُكْ عَلَيَّ غَنَمَكَ لِأَرْعَاهَا لَكَ

The shepherd said, ‘I said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! Had it not been for the sheep, some of them being for me, and some of them being an entrustment upon my neck, I would have aimed (to go to) Muhammad^-saww until I see him^-saww’. The wolf said to me, ‘O servant of Allah^-azwj! Go to Muhammad^-saww and leave your sheep upon me. I shall graze them for you’.

فَقُلْتُ كَيْفَ أَثِقُ بِأَمَانَتِكَ فَقَالَ لِي يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ الَّذِي أَنْطَقَنِي بِمَا سَمِعْتَ هُوَ الَّذِي يَجْعَلُنِي قَوِيّاً أَمِيناً عَلَيْهَا أَ وَ لَسْتُ مُؤْمِناً بِمُحَمَّدٍ مُسَلِّماً لَهُ مَا أَخْبَرَ بِهِ عَنِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى فِي أَخِيهِ عَلِيٍّ ع فَامْضِ لِشَأْنِكَ فَإِنِّي رَاعِيكَ وَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ ثُمَّ مَلَائِكَتُهُ الْمُقَرَّبُونَ رُعَاةٌ لِي إِذْ كُنْتُ خَادِماً لِوَلِيِ‏ عَلِيٍّ

I said, ‘How can I trust in your trustworthiness?’ He said to me, ‘O servant of Allah^-azwj! The One^-azwj Whom Caused me to speak with what you heard, He^-azwj is the One^-azwj Who would Make me a trustworthy caretaker upon them. Am I not a Momin with Muhammad^-saww, a submitter to him^-saww to whatever he^-saww informs with on behalf of Allah^-azwj the Exalted regarding his^-saww brother Ali^-asws? Therefore, go to your affair for I will be your shepherd, and Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic, then His^-azwj Angels of Proximity would Graze (the sheep) for me, when I was a servant to a friend of Ali^-asws’.

فَتَرَكْتُ غَنَمِي عَلَى الذِّئْبِ وَ الذِّئْبَةِ وَ جِئْتُكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

Thus, I left my sheep upon the wolf and the she-wolf, and came to you^-saww, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’

فَنَظَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فِي وُجُوهِ الْقَوْمِ وَ فِيهَا مَا يَتَهَلَّلُ سُرُوراً بِهِ وَ تَصْدِيقاً وَ فِيهَا مَنْ يَعْبِسُ‏ شَكّاً فِيهِ وَ تَكْذِيباً وَ يُسِرُّ مُنَافِقُونَ إِلَى أَمْثَالِهِمْ هَذَا قَدْ وَاطَأَهُ مُحَمَّدٌ عَلَى هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ لِيَخْتَدِعَ‏ بِهِ الضُّعَفَاءَ الْجُهَّالَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww looked at the faces of the people, and among them were ones who were expressing cheerfulness with it, and ratification, and among them were ones who were frowning, being doubtful in it and belying. The Munafiqeen were joyful to their likes ones (saying), ‘This is what Muhammad^-saww has concocted with him (the shepherd) upon this narration in order to deceive the weak and the ignorant with’.

فَتَبَسَّمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَالَ لَئِنْ شَكَكْتُمْ أَنْتُمْ فِيهِ فَقَدْ تَيَقَّنْتُهُ أَنَا وَ صَاحِبِيَ الْكَائِنُ مَعِي فِي أَشْرَفِ الْمَحَالِّ مِنْ عَرْشِ الْمَلِكِ الْجَبَّارِ وَ الْمَطُوفُ بِهِ مَعِي فِي أَنْهَارِ الْحَيَوَانِ مِنْ دَارِ الْقَرَارِ وَ الَّذِي هُوَ تَلْوِي‏ فِي قِيَادَةِ الْأَخْيَارِ وَ الْمُتَرَدِّدُ مَعِي فِي الْأَصْلَابِ الزَّاكِيَاتِ الْمُتَقَلِّبُ مَعِي فِي الْأَرْحَامِ الطَّاهِرَاتِ

Rasool-Allah^-saww smiled and said: ‘While you are doubting in it, you can be certain that I^-saww and my^-saww companion, then one^-asws with me^-saww, would be in the noblest of the places from the Throne of the King, the Compeller, and he^-asws would be circling along with me^-saww in the Rivers of Al-Haywaan from the House of tranquillity, which he^-asws has been destined to be the guide of the good ones, and the one alternating along with me^-saww in the pure backs, and the one transferred along with me^-saww in the purified wombs.

الرَّاكِضُ مَعِي فِي مَسَالِكِ الْفَضْلِ وَ الَّذِي كُسِيَ مَا كُسِيتُهُ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ وَ الْحِلْمِ وَ الْعَقْلِ وَ شَقِيقِيَ الَّذِي انْفَصَلَ مِنِّي عِنْدَ الْخُرُوجِ إِلَى صُلْبِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ‏ وَ صُلْبِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ عَدِيلِي فِي اقْتِنَاءِ الْمَحَامِدِ وَ الْمَنَاقِبِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ

And the one galloping along with me^-saww in the path of merits, and the one wearing what I^-saww clothed him^-asws from the knowledge, and the forbearance, and the intellect, and my^-saww brother^-asws who separated from me^-saww during the exiting – to the back of Abdullah^-asws and the back of Abu Talib^-asws. And he^-asws is my^-saww equal in the acquisition of the praises and the virtues, Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws.

آمَنْتُ بِهِ أَنَا وَ الصِّدِّيقُ الْأَكْبَرُ وَ سَاقِي أَوْلِيَائِي مِنْ نَهَرِ الْكَوْثَرِ آمَنْتُ بِهِ أَنَا وَ الْفَارُوقُ الْأَعْظَمُ وَ نَاصِرُ أَوْلِيَائِي السَّيِّدُ الْأَكْرَمُ

I^-saww believe in him (the shepherd), and (so does) the Great Truthful (Ali^-asws, and he^-asws is my^-saww quencher of my^-saww friends from the river Al-Kawsar. I^-saww believe in him and (so does) the Great Differentiator (Ali^-asws), and the helpers of my^-saww friends, the chief of the benevolent ones.

آمَنْتُ بِهِ أَنَا وَ مَنْ جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ مِحْنَةً لِأَوْلَادِ الْغَيِّ وَ الرِّشْدَةِ وَ جَعَلَهُ لِلْمُوَالِينَ لَهُ أَفْضَلَ الْعُدَّةِ

I^-saww believe in him (the shepherd), and (so does) the one whom Allah^-azwj Made to be a test for the children of error (bastards) and a mercy for the rightful children (legitimate), and Made him^-asws for the friends of his^-asws, the most superior of the tools.

آمَنْتُ بِهِ أَنَا وَ مَنْ جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ لِدِينِي قِوَاماً وَ لِعُلُومِي عَلَّاماً وَ فِي الْحُرُوبِ مِقْدَاماً وَ عَلَى أَعْدَائِي ضِرْغَاماً أَسَداً قَمْقَاماً

I believe in him (the shepherd), and (so does) the one whom Allah^-azwj Made as a custodian for my^-saww Religion, and a flag for my^-saww knowledge, and a preceding one in the wards, and a large ferocious lion against my^-saww enemies.

آمَنْتُ بِهِ أَنَا وَ مَنْ سَبَقَ النَّاسَ إِلَى الْإِيمَانِ فَتَقَدَّمَهُمْ إِلَى رِضَا الرَّحْمَنِ وَ تَفَرَّدَ دُونَهُمْ بِقَمْعِ أَهْلِ الطُّغْيَانِ وَ قَطَعَ بِحُجَجِهِ وَ وَاضِحِ بَيَانِهِ‏ مَعَاذِيرَ أَهْلِ الْبُهْتَانِ

I^-saww believe in him (the shepherd), and (so does) the one who preceded the people to the Eman, thus preceding them to the Pleasure of the Beneficent. And he^-asws was singularly besides them in repressing the tyrants, and by his^-asws arguments and clear explanations, cut-off the excuses of the slanderous people.

آمَنْتُ بِهِ أَنَا وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ الَّذِي جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ لِي سَمْعاً وَ بَصَراً وَ يَداً وَ مُؤَيِّداً وَ سَنَداً وَ عَضُداً لَا أُبَالِي مَنْ‏ خَالَفَنِي إِذَا وَافَقَنِي وَ لَا أَحْفِلُ بِمَنْ خَذَلَنِي إِذَا وَازَرَنِي وَ لَا أَكْتَرِثُ‏ بِمَنِ ازْوَرَّ عَنِّي إِذَا سَاعَدَنِي

I^-saww believe in him (the shepherd), and (so does) Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws, whom Allah^-azwj has Made for me^-saww as a hearing and sight, and a hand, and a bond, and a support. I^-saww don’t care about the ones who oppose me^-saww when he^-asws is concordant with me^-saww, nor am I^-saww let down by the ones who abandon me^-saww when he^-saww is supporting me^-saww, nor do I^-saww care of the ones who turn back from me^-saww when he^-asws is helping me^-saww.

آمَنْتُ بِهِ أَنَا وَ مَنْ زَيَّنَ اللَّهُ بِهِ الْجِنَانَ وَ بِمُحِبِيهِ وَ مَلَأَ طَبَقَاتِ النِّيرَانِ بِشَانِئِيهِ‏ وَ لَمْ يَجْعَلْ أَحَداً مِنْ أُمَّتِي يُكَافِيهِ وَ لَا يُدَانِيهِ لَمْ يَضُرَّنِي عُبُوسُ الْمُعَبِّسِ‏ مِنْكُمْ إِذَا تَهَلَّلَ وَجْهُهُ وَ لَا إِعْرَاضُ الْمُعْرِضِ‏ مِنْكُمْ إِذَا خَلَصَ لِي وُدُّهُ

I believe in him (the shepherd) and (so does) the one whom Allah^-azwj would be Adorning the Gardens with those who love him^-asws, and Fills up the layers of the Fires with those that hate him^-asws and his^-asws adversaries, and did not Make anyone from my^-saww community who can be a match for him nor near him^-asws. It will never harm me^-saww, the frowning of the frowners from you all when his^-asws face is exhilarating, nor the turning away of the turners from you all when his^-asws cordiality is pure for me^-saww.

ذَاكَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ الَّذِي لَوْ كَفَرَ الْخَلْقُ كُلُّهُمْ مِنْ أَهْلِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْأَرَضِينَ‏ لَنَصَرَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ بِهِ وَحْدَهُ هَذَا الدِّينَ وَ الَّذِي لَوْ عَادَاهُ الْخَلْقُ كُلُّهُمْ لَبَرَزَ إِلَيْهِمْ أَجْمَعِينَ بَاذِلًا رُوحَهُ فِي نُصْرَةِ كَلِمَةِ اللَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَ تَسْفِيلِ كَلِمَاتِ إِبْلِيسَ اللَّعِينِ

That is Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws, who, if the creatures were to commit Kufr, all of them, from the people of the skies and the earths, Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic would Help this Religion by him^-asws alone, and the one who, if the creatures were to be His^-azwj enemies, all of them, he^-asws go for duelling against them altogether, willingly (sacrificing) his^-asws soul in helping the Word of Allah^-azwj, Lord^-azwj of the worlds, and degrading the words of Iblees^-la, the accursed’.

قَالَ ص هَذَا الرَّاعِي‏ لَمْ يَبْعُدْ شَاهِدُهُ فَهَلُمُّوا بِنَا إِلَى قَطِيعِهِ نَنْظُرْ إِلَى الذِّئْبَينِ‏ فَإِنْ كَلَّمَانَا وَ وَجَدْنَاهُمَا يَرْعَيَانِ غَنَمَهُ وَ إِلَّا كُنَّا عَلَى رَأْسِ أَمْرِنَا

Then he^-saww said: ‘This shepherd, his witnessing is not far; therefore come with us to his flock to look at the two wolves. If both of them are to be found pasturing his sheep, or else we^-asws would still be on top of our^-asws matter’.

فَقَامَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ مَعَهُ جَمَاعَةٌ كَثِيرَةٌ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ فَلَمَّا رَأَوُا الْقَطِيعَ مِنْ بَعِيدٍ قَالَ الرَّاعِي ذَاكَ قَطِيعِي فَقَالَ الْمُنَافِقُونَ فَأَيْنَ الذِّئْبَانِ فَلَمَّا قَرُبُوا رَأَوُا الذِّئْبَيْنِ يَطُوفَانِ حَوْلَ الْغَنَمِ يَرُدَّانِ عَنْهَا كُلَّ شَيْ‏ءٍ يُفْسِدُهَا

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww stood up, and with him^-saww was a large group from the Emigrants and the Helpers. When they saw the flock from afar, the shepherd said, ‘That is my flock!’ The Munafiqeen said, ‘Where are the two wolves?’ When they went nearer, they saw the two wolves circling around the sheep, repelling from them everything that might be a danger to them.

فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَ تُحِبُّونَ أَنْ تَعْلَمُوا أَنَّ الذِّئْبَ مَا عَنَى غَيْرِي بِكَلَامِهِ قَالُوا بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ أَحِيطُوا بِي حَتَّى لَا يَرَانِيَ الذِّئْبَانِ فَأَحَاطُوا بِهِ فَقَالَ لِلرَّاعِي يَا رَاعِي قُلْ لِلذِّئْبِ مَنْ مُحَمَّدٌ الَّذِي ذَكَرْتَهُ مِنْ بَيْنِ‏ هَؤُلَاءِ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to them: ‘Would you like to know that the wolf did not mean anyone other than me^-saww with his speech?’ They said, ‘Yes, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’ He^-saww said: ‘Surround me^-saww until the two wolves do not see me^-saww’. They surrounded him^-saww, and he^-saww said to the shepherd: ‘O shepherd! Say to the wolf, ‘Who is Muhammad^-saww from between these ones, whom you mentioned?’

قَالَ فَجَاءَ الذِّئْبُ إِلَى وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ وَ تَنَحَّى عَنْهُ ثُمَّ جَاءَ إِلَى آخَرَ وَ تَنَحَّى عَنْهُ فَمَا زَالَ‏ حَتَّى دَخَلَ وَسْطَهُمْ فَوَصَلَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص هُوَ وَ أُنْثَاهُ وَ قَالا السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ‏ وَ سَيِّدَ الْخَلْقِ أَجْمَعِينَ وَ وَضَعَا خُدُودَهُمَا عَلَى التُّرَابِ وَ مَرَّغَاهَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ وَ قَالا نَحْنُ كُنَّا دُعَاةً إِلَيْكَ بَعَثْنَا إِلَيْكَ هَذَا الرَّاعِيَ وَ أَخْبَرْنَاهُ بِخَبَرِكَ

He^-asws said: ‘The wolf went to each one of them and isolated from him. Then he came over to the last and isolated from him. He did not stop doing like that until he entered in the middle of them, and he arrived to Rasool-Allah^-saww, him and his female (she-wolf), and they both said, ‘The greetings be upon you^-saww, O Rasool^-saww of the Lord^-azwj of the worlds, and Chief of the creatures in their entirety!’, and they placed their cheeks upon the dust and rubbed them in front of him^-saww, and they said, ‘We were advocates to you^-saww. We sent this shepherd to you^-saww and informed him with your^-saww news’.

فَنَظَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى الْمُنَافِقِينَ مَعَهُ فَقَالَ مَا لِلْكَافِرِينَ عَنْ هَذَا مَحِيصٌ وَ لَا لِلْمُنَافِقِينَ عَنْ هَذَا مَوْئِلٌ وَ لَا مَعْدِلٌ

Rasool-Allah^-saww looked at the Munafiqeen with him^-saww, and he^-saww said: ‘There is no avoidance for the Kafirs from this, nor for the Munafiqeen would there be an escape from this or an excuse’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص هَذِهِ وَاحِدَةٌ قَدْ عَلِمْتُمْ صِدْقَ الرَّاعِي فِيهَا أَ فَتُحِبُّونَ أَنْ تَعْلَمُوا صِدْقَهُ فِي الثَّانِيَةِ قَالُوا بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘This is one. You have (now) known the truthfulness of the shepherd regarding it, so would you like to know his truthfulness in the second?’ They said, ‘Yes, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’.

قَالَ أَحِيطُوا بِعَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَفَعَلُوا ثُمَّ نَادَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ أَيُّهَا الذِّئْبَانِ إِنَّ هَذَا مُحَمَّدٌ قَدْ أَشَرْتُمَا لِلْقَوْمِ إِلَيْهِ وَ عَيَّنْتُمَا عَلَيْهِ فَأَشِيرَا وَ عَيِّنَا عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ الَّذِي ذَكَرْتُمَاهُ بِمَا ذَكَرْتُمَاهُ

He^-saww said: ‘Surround Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws!’ They did so. Then Rasool-Allah^-saww called out: ‘O you two wolves! This is Muhammad^-saww! You have indicated to the people to him^-saww, and specified upon him^-saww, so (now) indicate and specify upon Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws who you mentioned with what you mentioned’.

قَالَ فَجَاءَ الذِّئْبَانِ وَ تَخَلَّلَا الْقَوْمَ وَ جَعَلَا يَتَأَمَّلَانِ الْوُجُوهَ وَ الْأَقْدَامَ وَ كُلُّ مَنْ تَأَمَّلَاهُ أَعْرَضَا عَنْهُ حَتَّى بَلَغَا عَلِيّاً فَلَمَّا تَأَمَّلَاهُ مَرَّغَا فِي‏ التُّرَابِ أَبْدَانَهُمَا وَ وَضَعَا عَلَى الْأَرْضِ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ خُدُودَهُمَا وَ قَالا السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا حَلِيفَ النَّدَى وَ مَعْدِنَ النُّهَى وَ مَحَلَّ الْحِجَى وَ عَالِماً بِمَا فِي الصُّحُفِ الْأُولَى وَ وَصِيَّ الْمُصْطَفَى

He^-asws said: ‘The two wolves came and mingled among the people and went on inclining towards the faces and the feet. Each one they inclined towards, they turned away from him until they reached Ali^-asws. When they inclined to him^-asws – they rolled in the dust with their bodies and placed their cheeks upon the ground in front of him^-asws, and they both said, ‘The greetings be upon you^-asws, O ally of the Caller, and mine of the intellect, and place for the acumen, and a knower of what is in the former Parchments, and successor of Al-Mustafa^-saww.

السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا مَنْ أَسْعَدَ اللَّهُ بِهِ مُحِبِّيهِ وَ أَشْقَى بِعَدَاوَتِهِ شَانِئِيهِ وَ جَعَلَهُ‏ سَيِّدَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ ذَوِيهِ

The greetings be upon you^-asws, O one who Allah^-azwj Assisted His^-azwj beloved with, and Made his^-asws adversaries to be wretched due to their enmity to him^-asws, and Made him^-asws the Chief of the Progeny^-asws of Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww family.

السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا مَنْ لَوْ أَحَبَّهُ أَهْلُ الْأَرْضِ كَمَا يُحِبُّهُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ لَصَارُوا خِيَارَ الْأَصْفِيَاءِ وَ يَا مَنْ لَوْ أَحَسَّ بِأَقَلِّ قَلِيلٍ مِنْ بُغْضِهِ مَنْ أَنْفَقَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ مَا بَيْنَ الْعَرْشِ إِلَى الثَّرَى لَانْقَلَبَ بِأَعْظَمِ الْخِزْيِ وَ الْمَقْتِ مِنَ الْعَلِيِّ الْأَعْلَى

The greetings be upon you^-asws, O one who, if the people of the earth were to love him^-asws – just as the inhabitants of the skies do – they would (all) become the best of the elites. And O one who, if one were to feel with the least of the least from hatred for him^-asws, and spends in the Way of Allah^-azwj whatever is between the Throne (down) to the soil, he would be turned in the greatest of the humiliations and disgusts, from the most Exalted’.

قَالَ فَعَجِبَ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا مَعَهُ وَ قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا ظَنَنَّا أَنَّ لِعَلِيٍّ هَذَا الْمَحَلَّ مِنَ السِّبَاعِ مَعَ مَحَلِّهِ مِنْكَ

He^-asws said: ‘The companions of Rasool-Allah^-saww were astounded, those that were with him^-saww, and they said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! We did not think that for Ali^-asws is this position from the predators, along with his^-asws position from you^-saww’.

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَكَيْفَ لَوْ رَأَيْتُمْ مَحَلَّهُ مِنْ سَائِرِ الْحَيَوَانَاتِ الْمَبْثُوثَاتِ فِي الْبَرِّ وَ الْبَحْرِ وَ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ وَ الْحُجُبِ وَ الْعَرْشِ وَ الْكُرْسِيِّ وَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ مِنْ تَوَاضُعِ أَمْلَاكِ سِدْرَةِ الْمُنْتَهَى لِمِثَالِ عَلِيٍّ الْمَنْصُوبِ بِحَضْرَتِهِمْ لِيَشْبَعُوا بِالنَّظَرِ إِلَيْهِ بَدَلًا مِنَ النَّظَرِ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ كُلَّمَا اشْتَاقُوا إِلَيْهِ مَا يَصْغَرُ فِي جَنْبِهِ تَوَاضُعُ هَذَيْنِ الذِّئْبَيْنِ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘How would it be if you were to see his^-asws position – from the rest of the animals, the ones Sent in the land and the sea, and in the skies and the earth, and the Veils and the Throne and the Chair? By Allah^-azwj! If you were to see, from the humility (shown by the) Angels at Sidrat Al-Muntaha, a resemblance of Ali^-asws established in their presence – in order for them to look at it – instead from looking at Ali^-asws (in the earth), every time they desire to (look) at him^-asws, you would not be belittling the humbleness of these two wolves to him^-asws.

وَ كَيْفَ لَا يَتَوَاضَعُ الْأَمْلَاكُ وَ غَيْرُهُمْ مِنَ الْعُقَلَاءِ لِعَلِيٍّ وَ هَذَا رَبُّ الْعِزَّةِ قَدْ آلَى عَلَى نَفْسِهِ قَسَماً لَا يَتَوَاضَعُ أَحَدٌ لِعَلِيٍّ قِيسَ‏ شَعْرَةٍ إِلَّا رَفَعَهُ اللَّهُ فِي عُلْوِ الْجِنَانِ مَسِيرَةَ مِائَةِ أَلْفِ سَنَةٍ وَ إِنَّ التَّوَاضُعَ الَّذِي تُشَاهِدُونَهُ يَسِيرٌ قَلِيلٌ فِي جَنْبِ هَذِهِ الْجَلَالَةِ وَ الرِّفْعَةِ اللَّتَيْنِ عَنْهُمَا

And how can the Angels and other from the intellectuals not be humble to Ali^-asws, and this is the Lord^-azwj of the Mighty who has Sworn upon Himself^-azwj a true swear: “No one would humble himself to Ali^-asws by a measurement of a hair, except Allah^-azwj would Raise him in the Lofty Gardens, (to) a travel distance of one hundred thousand years. And the humbleness which you are witnessing (from the two wolves), is small, less, in the side of these majesties and loftiness which you are being informed of’.

تُخْبِرُونَ وَ أَمَّا حَنِينُ الْعُودِ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص كَانَ يَخْطُبُ بِالْمَدِينَةِ إِلَى جِذْعِ‏ نَخْلَةٍ فِي صَحْنِ مَسْجِدِهَا فَقَالَ لَهُ بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِهِ‏ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ النَّاسَ قَدْ كَثُرُوا وَ إِنَّهُمْ يُحِبُّونَ النَّظَرَ إِلَيْكَ إِذَا خَطَبْتَ فَلَوْ أَذِنْتَ أَنْ نَعْمَلَ لَكَ مِنْبَراً لَهُ مَرَاقِي‏ تَرْقَاهَا فَيَرَاكَ النَّاسُ إِذَا خَطَبْتَ فَأَذِنَ فِي ذَلِكَ

As for the wailing of the trunk to Rasool-Allah^-saww – Rasool-Allah^-saww used to address (the people upon) a trunk of a palm tree in the courtyard of its Masjid. So one of his^-saww companions said to him^-saww, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! The people have become more and they would love to look at you^-saww when you^-saww address, so if you^-saww were to permit us to make a pulpit for you^-saww to eliminate (viewing) obstructions so the people would (be able to) see you^-saww whenever you^-saww address’. He^-saww permitted regarding that.

فَلَمَّا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْجُمُعَةِ مَرَّ بِالْجِذْعِ فَتَجَاوَزَهُ إِلَى الْمِنْبَرِ فَصَعِدَهُ فَلَمَّا اسْتَوَى عَلَيْهِ حَنَّ ذَلِكَ الْجِذْعُ حَنِيْنَ الثَّكْلَى وَ أَنَّ أَنِينَ الْحُبْلَى‏ فَارْتَفَعَ بُكَاءُ النَّاسِ وَ حَنِينُهُمْ وَ أَنِينُهُمْ وَ ارْتَفَعَ حَنِينُ الْجِذْعِ وَ أَنِينُهُ فِي حَنِينِ النَّاسِ وَ أَنِينِهِمْ ارْتِفَاعاً بَيِّناً

When it was the day of Friday, he^-saww passed by the trunk and exceeded it to (go) to the pulpit. When he^-saww sat upon it, that trunk wailed to him with the wailing of a bereaved one, and the moaning of the pregnant woman. The wailing of the people rose, and their moaning, and their groaning, and the moaning and the groaning of the trunk rose (even more) among the wailing of the people and their groaning, both rising louder.

فَلَمَّا رَأَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ذَلِكَ نَزَلَ عَنِ الْمِنْبَرِ وَ أَتَى الْجِذْعَ فَاحْتَضَنَهُ وَ مَسَحَ عَلَيْهِ يَدَهُ وَ قَالَ اسْكُنْ فَمَا تَجَاوَزَكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ تَهَاوُناً بِكَ وَ لَا اسْتِخْفَافاً بِحُرْمَتِكَ وَ لَكِنْ لِيَتِمَّ لِعِبَادِ اللَّهِ مَصْلَحَتُهُمْ وَ لَكَ جَلَالُكَ وَ فَضْلُكَ إِذْ كُنْتَ مُسْتَنَدَ مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ

When Rasool-Allah^-saww saw that, he^-saww descended from the pulpit and came over to the trunk, and he^-saww embraced it and wiped his^-saww hand over it, and said, ‘Calm down, for Rasool-Allah^-saww did not overlook you being careless with you, nor take your sanctity lightly. But (it was) for completing for the servants of Allah^-azwj for their betterment, and for you is your majesty and your merit – when you were a foot-rest of Muhammad^-saww, Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj’.

فَهَدَأَ حَنِينُهُ وَ أَنِينُهُ وَ عَادَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى مِنْبَرِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ مَعَاشِرَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ هَذَا الْجِذْعُ يَحِنُّ إِلَى رَسُولِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَ يَحْزَنُ لِبُعْدِهِ عَنْهُ فَفِي‏ عِبَادِ اللَّهِ الظَّالِمِينَ أَنْفُسَهُمْ مَنْ لَا يُبَالِي قَرُبَ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أَمْ بَعُدَ وَ لَوْ لَا أَنِّي احْتَضَنْتُ هَذَا الْجِذْعَ وَ مَسَحْتُ يَدِي‏ عَلَيْهِ مَا هَدَأَ حَنِينُهُ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ

Thus, he^-saww calmed its moaning and groaning, and Rasool-Allah^-saww returned to his^-saww pulpit, then said: ‘Community of Muslims! This trunk yearns to Rasool^-saww of the Lord^-azwj of the worlds, and grieved at being distant from him^-saww, and among the servants of Allah^-azwj – there are ones unjust to themselves – one who does not care whether they are near to Rasool-Allah^-saww from far, and if I^-saww had not embraced this trunk and wiped my^-saww hand upon it – its moaning and its groaning would not have calmed down up to the Day of Qiyamah.

وَ إِنَّ مِنْ عِبَادِ اللَّهِ وَ إِمَائِهِ لَمَنْ يَحِنُّ إِلَى مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ وَلِيِّ اللَّهِ كَحَنِينِ هَذَا الْجِذْعِ وَ حَسْبُ الْمُؤْمِنِ أَنْ يَكُونَ قَلْبُهُ عَلَى مُوَالاةِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ عَلِيٍّ وَ آلِهِمَا الطَّيِّبِينَ مُنْطَوِياً أَ رَأَيْتُمْ شِدَّةَ حَنِينِ هَذَا الْجِذْعِ إِلَى مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ كَيْفَ هَدَأَ لَمَّا احْتَضَنَهُ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ مَسَحَ يَدَهُ‏ عَلَيْهِ قَالُوا بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

And from the servants of Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj maids are ones who yearn for Muhammad^-saww, Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, and for Ali^-asws Guardian^-asws of Allah^-azwj, like the yearning of this trunk, and it is enough for the Momin that his heart happens to be content upon the Wilayah of Muhammad^-saww and Ali^-asws and their^-asws goodly Progeny^-asws, the clean. Did you see the intensity of the yearning of this trunk to Muhammad^-saww Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, how it calmed down due to Muhammad^-saww Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj wiping his^-saww hand upon it?’ They said, ‘Yes, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ الَّذِي بَعَثَنِي بِالْحَقِّ نَبِيّاً إِنَّ حَنِينَ خُزَّانِ جِنَانٍ وَ حُورِ عِينِهَا وَ سَائِرِ قُصُورِهَا وَ مَنَازِلِهَا إِلَى مَنْ يُوَالِي‏ مُحَمَّداً وَ عَلِيّاً وَ آلَهُمَا الطَّيِّبِينَ وَ يَبْرَأُ مِنْ أَعْدَائِهِمَا لَأَشَدُّ مِنْ حَنِينِ هَذَا الْجِذْعِ الَّذِي رَأَيْتُمُوهُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘By the One^-azwj Who Sent me^-saww with the Truth as a Prophet^-saww, the yearning of the Gardens, and the maiden Houries, and the rest of its castles and its houses, to the one who befriends Muhammad^-saww, and Ali^-asws, and their^-asws goodly Progeny^-asws, and disavow from their^-asws enemies, is more intense than the yearning of this trunk which you saw (yearning) to Rasool-Allah^-saww.

وَ إِنَّ الَّذِي يُسَكِّنُ حَنِينَهُمْ وَ أَنِينَهُمْ مَا يَرِدُ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ صَلَاةِ أَحَدِكُمْ مَعَاشِرَ شِيعَتِنَا عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ الطَّيِّبِينَ أَوْ صَلَاةِ نَافِلَةٍ أَوْ صَوْمٍ أَوْ صَدَقَةٍ

And that which settles down their moaning and groaning is what returns upon them from the Salawat one of you – community of our^-asws Shias – upon Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww goodly Progeny^-asws, or his Salat for the Sake of Allah^-azwj, an optional one, or a Fast, or a charity.

وَ إِنَّ مِنْ عَظِيمِ مَا يُسَكِّنُ حَنِينَهُمْ إِلَى شِيعَةِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ عَلِيٍّ مَا يَتَّصِلُ بِهِمْ مِنْ إِحْسَانِهِمْ إِلَى إِخْوَانِهِمُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ مَعُونَتِهِمْ لَهُمْ عَلَى دَهْرِهِمْ يَقُولُ أَهْلُ الْجِنَانِ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ لَا تَسْتَعْجِلُوا صَاحِبَكُمْ فَمَا يُبْطِئُ عَنْكُمْ إِلَّا لِلزِّيَادَةِ فِي الدَّرَجَاتِ الْعَالِيَاتِ فِي هَذِهِ الْجِنَانِ بِإِسْدَاءِ الْمَعْرُوفِ إِلَى إِخْوَانِهِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ

And that, from the greatest of what settles down their moaning to a Shia of Muhammad^-saww and Ali^-asws is what arrives with them from their good deeds to their Momineen brothers, and his assisting them in their lives. The inhabitants of the Gardens are saying to each other, ‘Do not be hasty for your companion, for he has not been delayed from you except for the increase in the lofty ranks in these Gardens by providing to his Momineen brothers.

وَ أَعْظَمُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ مِمَّا يُسَكِّنُ حَنِيْنَ سُكَّانِ الْجِنَانِ وَ حُورِهَا إِلَى شِيعَتِنَا مَا يُعَرِّفُهُمُ اللَّهُ مِنْ صَبْرِ شِيعَتِنَا عَلَى التَّقِيَّةِ وَ اسْتِعْمَالِهِمُ التَّوْرِيَةَ لِيَسْلَمُوا مِنْ كَفَرَةِ عِبَادِ اللَّهِ وَ فَسَقَتِهِمْ

And greater than that from what settles the groaning of the dwellers of the Gardens and its Houries, to our^-asws Shias is what Allah^-azwj Introduces them from the patience of our^-asws Shias upon the Taqiyya (dissimulation) – and their utilisation of the ambiguities in order to be safe with it from the Kufr of the servants of Allah^-azwj and their mischief.

فَحِينَئِذٍ تَقُولُ خُزَّانُ الْجِنَانِ وَ حُورُهَا لَنَصْبِرَنَّ عَلَى شَوْقِنَا إِلَيْهِمْ‏ كَمَا يَصْبِرُونَ عَلَى سَمَاعِ الْمَكْرُوهِ فِي سَادَاتِهِمْ وَ أَئِمَّتِهِمْ وَ كَمَا يَتَجَرَّعُونَ الْغَيْظَ وَ يَسْكُتُونَ عَنْ إِظْهَارِ الْحَقِّ لِمَا يُشَاهِدُونَ مِنْ ظُلْمِ مَنْ لَا يَقْدِرُونَ عَلَى دَفْعِ مَضَرَّتِهِ

So this is where the keepers of the Gardens and their Houries observe patience upon our desire for them and our yearning, just as they (Shias) are being patient upon hearing the abhorrence(s) regarding their chiefs and their Imams^-asws, and just as they are swallowing the anger and are remaining silent from manifesting the Truth – due to what they are witnessing from the injustices of the ones who they are not able upon repelling his harm.

فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ يُنَادِيهِمْ رَبُّنَا عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَا سُكَّانَ جَنَّاتِي وَ يَا خُزَّانَ رَحْمَتِي مَا لِبُخْلٍ أَخَّرْتُ عَنْكُمْ أَزْوَاجَكُمْ وَ سَادَاتِكُمْ وَ لَكِنْ لِيَسْتَكْمِلُوا نَصِيبَهُمْ مِنْ كَرَامَتِي بِمُوَاسَاتِهِمْ إِخْوَانَهُمُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ الْأَخْذِ بِأَيْدِي الْمَلْهُوفِينَ وَ التَّنْفِيسِ عَنِ الْمَكْرُوبِينَ وَ بِالصَّبْرِ عَلَى التَّقِيَّةِ مِنَ الْفَاسِقِينَ الْكَافِرِينَ حَتَّى إِذَا اسْتَكْمَلُوا أَجْزَلَ كَرَامَاتِي نَقَلْتُهُمْ إِلَيْكُمْ عَلَى أَسَرِّ الْأَحْوَالِ وَ أَغْيَظِهَا فَأَبْشِرُوا

During that, our Lord^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Calls out to them: “O dwellers of My^-azwj Gardens, and O Keepers of My^-azwj Mercy! It is not due to miserliness that I^-azwj am delaying from you all (the arrival of) your spouses and your chiefs, but (it is) in order to complete their shares from My^-azwj Prestige – by their being consoling to their Momineen brothers, and holding the hands of the distraught ones, and venting their distresses, and with being patient upon the Taqiyya (dissimulation) from the mischievous ones and the Kafirs, until when My^-azwj Prestige(s) are complete, I^-saww shall Transfer them to you upon a joyful state and its most enchanting”.

فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ يَسْكُنُ حَنِينُهُمْ وَ أَنِينُهُمْ

Thus, during that, their moaning and their groaning settled down.

وَ أَمَّا قَلْبُ اللَّهِ السَّمَّ عَلَى الْيَهُودِ الَّذِينَ قَصَدُوهُ بِهِ وَ أَهْلَكَهُمْ‏ بِهِ فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص لَمَّا ظَهَرَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ اشْتَدَّ حَسَدُ ابْنِ أُبَيٍّ لَهُ فَدَبَّرَ عَلَيْهِ أَنْ يَحْفِرَ لَهُ حَفِيرَةً فِي مَجْلِسٍ مِنْ مَجَالِسِ دَارِهِ وَ يَبْسُطَ فَوْقَهَا بِسَاطاً وَ يَنْصِبَ فِي أَسْفَلِ الْحَفِيرَةِ أَسِنَّةَ رِمَاحٍ وَ نَصَبَ‏ سَكَاكِينَ مَسْمُومَةً وَ شَدَّ أَحَدَ جَوَانِبِ الْبِسَاطِ وَ الْفِرَاشِ إِلَى الْحَائِطِ لِيَدْخُلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ خَوَاصُّهُ مَعَ عَلِيٍّ ع فَإِذَا وَضَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص رِجْلَهُ عَلَى الْبِسَاطِ وَقَعَ فِي الْحَفِيرَةِ

And as for the overturning by Allah^-azwj of the poison upon the Jews, the one who aimed him^-saww with it, and Allah^-azwj’s Destroying him with it – When Rasool-Allah^-saww appeared at Al-Medina, the envy of Ibn Abayy intensified towards him^-saww. So he^-saww plotted by digging a pit for him^-saww (to fall into) in a gathering from the gatherings at his house, and he spread out a rug on top of it, and he established sharp spears and poisoned knives at the bottom of it. And he tied a rug in one of the sides and the bed to a wall for Rasool-Allah^-saww and his^-saww special ones with Ali^-asws, so that when Rasool-Allah^-saww places his^-saww leg upon the rug, he^-saww would fall into the pit.

وَ كَانَ قَدْ نَصَبَ فِي دَارِهِ وَ خَبَأَ رِجَالًا بِسُيُوفٍ مَشْهُورَةٍ يَخْرُجُونَ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ ع وَ مَنْ مَعَهُ عِنْدَ وُقُوعِ مُحَمَّدٍ فِي الْحَفِيرَةِ فَيَقْتُلُونَهُمْ بِهَا وَ دَبَّرَ أَنَّهُ إِنْ لَمْ يَنْشَطْ لِلْقُعُودِ عَلَى ذَلِكَ‏ الْبِسَاطِ أَنْ يُطْعِمُوهُ مِنْ طَعَامِهِمُ الْمَسْمُومِ لِيَمُوتَ هُوَ وَ أَصْحَابُهُ مَعَهُ جَمِيعاً

And it was so that he has established and stowed away some men in his house with unsheathed swords, to be coming out at Ali^-asws and the ones with him^-asws – during the fall of Muhammad^-saww into the pit, so they could kill them with these. And he conceived that in case he^-saww does not sit upon that rug, he would feed him^-saww from their poisoned food in order to kill him^-saww and his^-saww companions who were with him^-saww, altogether.

فَجَاءَهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع وَ أَخْبَرَهُ‏ بِذَلِكَ وَ قَالَ لَهُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُكَ أَنْ تَقْعُدَ حَيْثُ يُقْعِدُكَ وَ تَأْكُلَ مِمَّا يُطْعِمُكَ فَإِنَّهُ مُظْهِرٌ عَلَيْكَ آيَاتِهِ وَ مُهْلِكٌ أَكْثَرَ مَنْ تَوَاطَأَ عَلَى ذَلِكَ فِيكَ

Jibraeel^-as came down and informed him^-saww with that, and said to him^-saww: ‘Allah^-azwj Commands you^-saww that you^-saww sit wherever he gets you^-saww to sit, and eat from whatever he feeds you^-saww, for He^-azwj would be Manifesting His^-azwj Sign unto you^-saww, and Destroy most of the ones who are conniving upon that regarding you^-saww’.

فَدَخَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَعَدَ عَلَى الْبِسَاطِ وَ قَعَدُوا عَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَ شِمَالِهِ وَ حَوَالَيْهِ وَ لَمْ يَقَعْ فِي الْحَفِيرَةِ فَتَعَجَّبَ ابْنُ أُبَيٍّ وَ نَظَرَ وَ إِذَا قَدْ صَارَ مَا تَحْتَ الْبِسَاطِ أَرْضاً مُلْتَئِمَةً

Rasool-Allah^-saww entered and sat upon the rug, and sat on its right, and its left, and around it, and (but) he^-saww did not fall into the pit. Ibn Abayy was astonished and looked, and there had come to be what was under the rug, a solid ground.

فَأَتَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَلِيّاً ع وَ صَحْبَهُمَا بِالطَّعَامِ الْمَسْمُومِ فَلَمَّا أَرَادَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَضْعَ يَدِهِ فِي الطَّعَامِ قَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ ارْقِ‏ هَذَا الطَّعَامَ بِالرُّقْيَةِ النَّافِعَةِ

And he came to Rasool-Allah^-saww, and Ali^-asws, and their^-asws companions with the poisoned meal. When Rasool-Allah^-saww intended to place his^-saww hand among the foods, he^-saww said: ‘O Ali^-asws! Recite over this meal a beneficial incantation’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الشَّافِي بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الْكَافِي بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الْمُعَافِي بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الَّذِي لَا يَضُرُّ مَعَ اسْمِهِ شَيْ‏ءٌ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ لَا فِي السَّمَاءِ وَ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ‏

Ali^-asws said: ‘In the Name of Allah^-azwj the Healer. In the Name of Allah^-azwj the Sufficient. In the Name of Allah^-azwj the Giver of health. In the Name of Allah^-azwj Who, nothing harms with His^-azwj Name, nor an illness, neither in the earth nor in the sky, and He^-azwj is the Hearing, the Knowing’.

ثُمَّ أَكَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ مَنْ مَعَهُمَا حَتَّى شَبِعُوا

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww and Ali^-asws, and the ones with them^-asws ate until they were satiated.

ثُمَّ جَاءَ أَصْحَابُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أُبَيٍّ وَ خَوَاصُّهُ فَأَكَلُوا فَضَلَاتِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ صَحْبِهِ ظَنُّوا أَنَّهُ‏ قَدْ غَلِطَ وَ لَمْ يَجْعَلْ فِيهِ سُمُوماً لَمَّا رَأَوْا مُحَمَّداً وَ صَحْبَهُ لَمْ يُصِبْهُمْ مَكْرُوهٌ

Then the companions of Abdullah Bin Abayy and his special ones came over and they ate the leftovers of Rasool-Allah^-saww and his^-saww companions, thinking that he (Abayy) was mistaken and did not put any poison in it, when they had seen that Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww companions were not hit by anything abhorrent.

وَ جَاءَتْ بِنْتُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أُبَيٍّ إِلَى ذَلِكَ الْمَجْلِسِ الْمَحْفُورِ تَحْتَهُ الْمَنْصُوبِ فِيهِ‏ مَا نُصِبَ وَ هِيَ كَانَتْ دَبَّرَتْ ذَلِكَ وَ نَظَرَتْ فَإِذَا مَا تَحْتَ الْبِسَاطِ أَرْضٌ مُلْتَئِمَةٌ فَجَلَسَتْ عَلَى الْبِسَاطِ وَاثِقَةً فَأَعَادَ اللَّهُ الْحَفِيرَةَ بِمَا فِيهَا فَسَقَطَتْ فِيهَا وَ هَلَكَتْ فَوَقَعَتِ الصَّيْحَةُ

And the daughter of Abdullah Bin Abayy came to that sitting place, under which had been the dug-out, and established inside it what was established, and she was pondering that, and she looked, and beneath the rug was solid ground. She sat upon the rug confidently. But, Allah^-azwj Returned it as the pit with whatever was in it, and she fell into it and died, and the shouting occurred.

فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أُبَيٍّ إِيَّاكُمْ وَ أَنْ تَقُولُوا إِنَّهَا سَقَطَتْ فِي الْحَفِيرَةِ فَيَعْلَمَ مُحَمَّدٌ مَا كُنَّا قَدْ دَبَّرْنَا عَلَيْهِ فَبَكَوْا وَ قَالُوا مَاتَتِ الْعَرُوسُ وَ بِعِلَّةِ عُرْسِهَا كَانُوا دَعَوْا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ مَاتَ الْقَوْمُ الَّذِينَ أَكَلُوا فَضْلَةَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص

Abdullah Bin Abayy said, ‘Beware of saying that she fell into the pit, for Muhammad^-saww would come to know what we had plotted upon him^-saww’. They wailed and said, ‘The bride died, and by a feast of her marriage which had been prepared for Rasool-Allah^-saww’. And the people died, those who had eaten the leftovers of Rasool-Allah^-saww.

فَسَأَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ عَنْ سَبَبِ مَوْتِ الِابْنَةِ وَ الْقَوْمِ فَقَالَ ابْنُ أُبَيٍّ سَقَطَتْ مِنَ السَّطْحِ وَ لَحِقَ الْقَوْمَ‏ تُخَمَةٌ

Then (later on) Rasool-Allah^-saww for the cause of the death of the daughter and the people, so Ibn Abayy said, ‘She fell off from the roof, and the people suffered indigestion’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا ذَا مَاتُوا وَ تَغَافَلَ عَنْهُمْ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘I^-saww know that from what they died’, and he^-saww and assumed unawareness from them’.

وَ أَمَّا تَكْثِيرُ اللَّهِ الْقَلِيلَ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص كَانَ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ‏ جَالِساً هُوَ وَ أَصْحَابُهُ بِحَضْرَةِ جَمْعٍ مِنْ خِيَارِ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ إِذْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّ شِدْقِي يَتَحَلَّبُ وَ أَجِدُنِي أَشْتَهِي حَرِيرَةً مَدُوسَةً مُلَبَّقَةً بِسَمْنٍ وَ عَسَلٍ

And as for the Multiplication by Allah^-azwj of the little from the food, for Muhammad^-saww – so one day Rasool-Allah^-saww was seated, him^-saww and his^-saww companions – in the presence of a group from the good ones of the Emigrants and the Helpers, when Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘My^-saww mouth is watering, and I^-saww find myself^-saww desiring Hareer of Hyacinth prepared in ghee and honey’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ أَنَا أَشْتَهِي مَا يَشْتَهِيهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص

Ali^-asws said: ‘And I^-asws desired whatever Rasool-Allah^-saww desires’.

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِأَبِي الْفَصِيلِ مَا تَشْتَهِي أَنْتَ فَقَالَ خَاصِرَةَ حَمَلٍ مَشْوِيٍّ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to Abu Al-Fazeyl: ‘What is it that you desire?’ He said, ‘A side of roast lamb’.

وَ قَالَ لِأَبِي الشُّرُورِ وَ أَبِي الدَّوَاهِي مَا تَشْتَهِيَانِ أَنْتُمَا قَالا صَدْرَ حَمَلٍ مَشْوِيٍّ

And he^-saww said to Abu Al-Shuroor and Abu Al-Dawahy: ‘What is that you two desire?’ They said, ‘Breast of roast lamb’.

قَالَ‏ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَيُّ عَبْدٍ مُؤْمِنٍ يُضِيفُ الْيَوْمَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ صَحْبَهُ وَ يُطْعِمُهُمْ شَهَوَاتِهِمْ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Which Momin servant would toady host Rasool-Allah^-saww and his^-saww companions and feed them their desires (desired meals)?’

فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أُبَيٍ‏ هَذَا وَ اللَّهِ الْيَوْمُ الَّذِي نَكِيدُ فِيهِ مُحَمَّداً وَ صَحْبَهُ وَ نَقْتُلُهُ وَ نُخَلِّصُ الْعِبَادَ مِنْهُ وَ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَنَا أُضِيفُكُمْ عِنْدِي شَيْ‏ءٌ مِنْ بُرٍّ وَ سَمْنٍ وَ عَسَلٍ وَ عِنْدِي حَمَلٌ أَشْوِيهِ‏ لَكُمْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَافْعَلْ

Abdullah Bin Abayy said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! Today is the day in which we can plot against Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww companions, and those that love him^-saww, and we can kill him^-saww and finish off the servant and the cities, from him^-saww’. And he said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! I will be your host. In my presence there is from the wheat, and ghee, and honey, and with me there is a lamb, I can roast it for you all’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Then do so’.

فَذَهَبَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أُبَيٍّ وَ أَكْثَرَ السَّمَّ فِي ذَلِكَ الْبُرِّ الْمُلَبَّقِ بِالسَّمْنِ وَ الْعَسَلِ وَ فِي ذَلِكَ الْحَمَلِ الْمَشْوِيِّ ثُمَّ عَادَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَالَ هَلُمُّوا إِلَى مَا اشْتَهَيْتُمْ

Abdullah Bin Abayy put a lot of poison in that wheat, preparing it with the ghee and the honey and in that was the roast lamb. Then he returned to Rasool-Allah^-saww and said: ‘Come, to whatever you^-saww desired’.

قَالَ‏ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَعَ هَؤُلَاءِ قَالَ ابْنُ أُبَيٍّ أَنْتَ وَ عَلِيٌّ وَ سَلْمَانُ وَ الْمِقْدَادُ وَ أَبُو ذَرٍّ وَ عَمَّارٌ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘I^-saww and who (else)?’ Ibn Abayy said, ‘You^-saww, and Ali^-asws, and Salman^-ra, and Al Miqdad^-ra, and Abu Zarr^-ra, and Ammar^-ra’.

فَأَشَارَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى أَبِي الشُّرُورِ وَ أَبِي الدَّوَاهِي وَ أَبِي الْمَلَاهِي وَ أَبِي النَّكْثِ وَ قَالَ يَا ابْنَ أُبَيٍّ دُونَ هَؤُلَاءِ فَقَالَ ابْنُ أُبَيٍّ نَعَمْ دُونَ هَؤُلَاءِ وَ كَرِهَ أَنْ يَكُونُوا مَعَهُ‏ لِأَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا مُوَاطِئِينَ لِابْنِ أُبَيٍّ عَلَى النِّفَاقِ

Rasool-Allah^-saww gestured to Abu Al-Shuroor, and Abu Al-Dawwahy, and Abu Al-Malahy, and Abu Al-Naksi, and said: ‘O Ibn Abayy! Besides these ones?’ Ibn Abayy said, ‘Yes, besides them’, and he disliked that they should happen to be with him^-saww, because they were co-conspirators of Ibn Abayy upon the hypocrisy.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَا حَاجَةَ لِي فِي شَيْ‏ءٍ أَسْتَبِدُّ بِهِ دُونَ هَؤُلَاءِ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ‏ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ الْحَاضِرِينَ لِي

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘There is no need for me^-saww regarding anything to partake with besides them, and besides the Emigrants and the Helpers, and the ones present to me^-saww’.

فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ الشَّيْ‏ءَ قَلِيلٌ‏ لَا يُشْبِعُ‏ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ عَشَرَةٍ إِلَى خَمْسَةٍ

Abdullah said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! For me there is the thing which is little. It cannot satiate more than ten (only) up to five’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ إِنَّ اللَّهَ أَنْزَلَ مَائِدَةً عَلَى عِيسَى ع وَ بَارَكَ لَهُ فِي أَرْغِفَةٍ وَ سُمَيْكَاتٍ حَتَّى أَكَلَ وَ شَبِعَ مِنْهَا أَرْبَعَةُ آلَافٍ وَ سَبْعُمِائَةٍ فَقَالَ شَأْنَكَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O Abdullah! Allah^-azwj Sent down a meal upon Isa^-as and Blessed it for him^-as in four loaves of bread and fish – until there had eaten and satiated from it, four thousand seven hundred’. He said, ‘Its your concern’.

ثُمَّ نَادَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا مَعَاشِرَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ هَلُمُّوا إِلَى مَائِدَةِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أُبَيٍّ فَجَاءُوا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ وَ هُمْ سَبْعَةُ آلَافٍ وَ ثَمَانُمِائَةٍ

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww called out: ‘O community of Emigrants and Helpers! Come to a meal of Abdullah Bin Abayy!’ They came along with Rasool-Allah^-saww, and they were seven thousand and eight hundred.

فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ لِأَصْحَابٍ لَهُ كَيْفَ نَصْنَعُ هَذَا مُحَمَّدٌ وَ صَحْبُهُ وَ إِنَّمَا نُرِيدُ أَنْ نَقْتُلَ مُحَمَّداً وَ نَفَراً مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ‏ وَ لَكِنْ إِذَا مَاتَ مُحَمَّدٌ وَقَعَ بَأْسُ هَؤُلَاءِ بَيْنَهُمْ فَلَا يَلْتَقِي اثْنَانِ مِنْهُمْ فِي طَرِيقٍ

Abdullah said to companions of his, ‘How do we deal with this Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww (numerous) companions, and rather we wanted to kill a (small) number of his^-saww companions? But, when Muhammad^-saww dies, evil will occur between them, so you will not meet (even) two of them in a road’.

وَ بَعَثَ ابْنُ أُبَيٍّ إِلَى أَصْحَابِهِ وَ الْمُتَعَصِّبِينَ لَهُ لِيَتَسَلَّحُوا وَ يَتَجَمَّعُوا قَالَ وَ مَا هُوَ إِلَّا أَنْ يَمُوتَ مُحَمَّدٌ حَتَّى يَلْقَانَا أَصْحَابُهُ‏ وَ يَتَهَالَكُوا

And Ibn Abayy sent a message to his companions, and his fanatics – in order to arm themselves and gather together’. And he said, ‘It is not, except if Muhammad^-saww were to die, so we would face his^-saww companions and destroy them’.

فَلَمَّا دَخَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص دَارَهُ أَوْمَأَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ إِلَى بَيْتٍ لَهُ صَغِيرٍ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَنْتَ وَ هَؤُلَاءِ الْأَرْبَعَةُ يَعْنِي عَلِيّاً وَ سَلْمَانَ وَ الْمِقْدَادَ وَ عَمَّاراً فِي هَذَا الْبَيْتِ وَ الْبَاقُونَ فِي الدَّارِ وَ الْحُجْرَةِ وَ الْبُسْتَانِ وَ يَقِفُ مِنْهُمْ قَوْمٌ عَلَى الْبَابِ حَتَّى يَفْرُغَ أَقْوَامٌ

When Rasool-Allah^-saww entered his house, Abdullah gestured towards a small room of his, and he said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! You^-saww and these four – meaning Ali^-asws, and Salman^-ra, and Al Miqdad^-ra, and Ammar^-ra should be in this room, and the rest should be in the house, and the chamber, and the orchard’. And he paused a group at the door – until a group would be free and come out, then another group would enter after them.

وَ يَخْرُجُونَ ثُمَّ يَدْخُلَ بَعْدَهُمْ أَقْوَامٌ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّ الَّذِي يُبَارِكُ فِي هَذَا الطَّعَامِ الْقَلِيلِ لَيُبَارِكُ فِي هَذَا الْبَيْتِ الصَّغِيرِ الضَّيِّقِ ادْخُلْ يَا عَلِيُّ وَ يَا سَلْمَانُ‏ وَ يَا مِقْدَادُ وَ يَا عَمَّارُ ادْخُلُوا مَعَاشِرَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَ الْأَنْصَارِ فَدَخَلُوا أَجْمَعِينَ وَ قَعَدُوا حَلْقَةً وَاحِدَةً كَمَا يَسْتَدِيرُونَ حَوْلَ تَرَابِيعِ الْكَعْبَةِ وَ إِذَا الْبَيْتُ قَدْ وَسِعَهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ حَتَّى إِنَّ بَيْنَ كُلِّ رَجُلَيْنِ مِنْهُمْ مَوْضِعَ رَجُلٍ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘The One^-azwj Who will be Blessing in this little food, would Blesse in this small narrow room. Enter, O Ali^-asws, and O Salman^-ra, and O Miqdad^-ra, and O Ammar^-ra! And enter, O group of the Emigrants and the Helpers!’ They entered altogether, and they sat down in one circle – just as they would be encircling around the four corners of the Kabah, and the room had become capacious for them altogether – to the extent that between every two men of them was a place for a man.

فَدَخَلَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أُبَيٍّ فَرَأَى عَجَباً عَجِيباً مِنْ سَعَةِ الْبَيْتِ الَّذِي كَانَ ضَيِّقاً فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ايتِنَا بِمَا عَمِلْتَهُ فَجَاءَهُ بِالْحَرِيرَةِ الْمُلَبَّقَةِ بِالسَّمْنِ وَ الْعَسَلِ وَ بِالْحَمَلِ الْمَشْوِيِّ

Abdullah Bin Abayy entered, and he saw strange wonders – from the expansion of the room which was narrow. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Come to us with whatever you have made’. He came with the Hareer of the hyacinth with the ghee and the honey, and with the roast lamb.

فَقَالَ ابْنُ أُبَيٍّ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص كُلْ أَنْتَ أَوَّلًا قَبْلَهُمْ ثُمَّ لْيَأْكُلْ صَحْبُكَ هَؤُلَاءِ عَلِيٌّ وَ مَنْ مَعَهُ ثُمَّ يَطْعَمُ هَؤُلَاءِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص كَذَلِكَ أَفْعَلُ فَوَضَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَدَهُ عَلَى الطَّعَامِ وَ وَضَعَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَدَهُ مَعَهُ

Ibn Abayy said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! You^-saww should eat first before them, then let these companions of yours^-saww – Ali^-asws and the ones with him^-asws. Then feed (the rest of) them’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Like that, I^-saww shall do’. Then Rasool-Allah^-saww placed his^-saww hand upon the food, and Ali^-asws placed his^-asws hand along with him^-saww.

فَقَالَ ابْنُ أُبَيٍّ أَ لَمْ يَكُنِ الْأَمْرُ عَلَى أَنْ يَأْكُلَ عَلِيٌّ مَعَ أَصْحَابِكَ‏ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا عَبْدَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ عَلِيّاً أَعْلَمُ بِاللَّهِ وَ بِرَسُولِهِ مِنْكَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ مَا فَرَّقَ فِيمَا مَضَى بَيْنَ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ بَيْنَ عَلِيٍّ وَ لَا يُفَرِّقُ فِيمَا يَأْتِي أَيْضاً بَيْنَهُمَا إِنَّ عَلِيّاً كَانَ وَ أَنَا مَعَهُ نُوراً وَاحِداً

Ibn Abayy said, ‘Didn’t the matter happen to be upon that you^-asws shall eat with your^-asws companions – and Rasool-Allah^-saww would be (eating) alone?’ So Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O servant of Allah^-azwj! Ali^-asws is more knowing with Allah^-azwj and with His^-azwj Rasool^-saww than you. Allah^-azwj did not Differentiate in what has passed, between Ali^-asws and Muhammad^-saww, nor will He^-azwj be Differentiating as well between them^-asws. Ali^-asws was, and I^-saww was with him^-saww as one light.

عَرَضَنَا اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ عَلَى أَهْلِ سَمَاوَاتِهِ وَ أَرَضِيهِ وَ سَائِرِ حُجُبِهِ وَ جِنَانِهِ وَ هَوَائِهِ‏ وَ أَخَذَ لَنَا عَلَيْهِمُ الْعُهُودَ وَ الْمَوَاثِيقَ لِيَكُونَنَّ لَنَا وَ لِأَوْلِيَائِنَا مُوَالِينَ وَ لِأَعْدَائِنَا مُعَانِدِينَ وَ لِمَنْ نُحِبُّهُ مُحِبِّينَ وَ لِمَنْ نُبْغِضُهُ مُبْغِضِينَ‏

Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Displayed us^-asws upon the inhabitants of the skies and His^-azwj earth, and the rest of His^-azwj Veils, and His^-azwj Gardens, and its atmosphere, and Took the Covenant and the Pact upon them, for us^-asws – in order for them to become friends of ours^-asws, and enemies to our^-asws enemies, and loving to those whom we^-asws love, and hateful to those whom we^-asws hate.

مَا زَالَتْ إِرَادَتُنَا وَاحِدَةً وَ لَا تَزَالُ لَا أُرِيدُ إِلَّا مَا يُرِيدُ وَ لَا يُرِيدُ إِلَّا مَا أُرِيدُ يَسُرُّنِي مَا يَسُرُّهُ وَ يُؤْلِمُنِي مَا يُؤْلِمُهُ فَدَعْ يَا ابْنَ أُبَيٍّ عَلِيّاً فَإِنَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِنَفْسِهِ وَ بِي مِنْكَ

Our^-asws intentions did not cease to be one, nor do I^-saww want except what he^-asws wants, nor does he^-asws want except what I^-saww want. It joys me^-saww what joys him^-asws, and it pains me^-saww what pains him^-asws, therefore leave Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws, O Ibn Abayy, for he^-asws is more knowing with himself^-asws and with me^-saww than you are’.

قَالَ ابْنُ أُبَيٍّ نَعَمْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ أَفْضَى إِلَى جَدٍّ وَ مُعَتِّبٍ‏ فَقَالَ أَرَدْنَا وَاحِداً فَصَارَا اثْنَيْنِ الْآنَ يَمُوتَانِ جَمِيعاً وَ نُكْفَاهُمَا جَمِيعاً وَ هَذَا لِحَيْنُهُمَا وَ سَعَادَتُنَا فَلَوْ بَقِيَ عَلِيٌّ بَعْدَهُ لَعَلَّهُ كَانَ يُجَالِدُ أَصْحَابَنَا هَؤُلَاءِ وَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أُبَيٍّ قَدْ جَمَعَ أَصْحَابَهُ وَ مُتَعَصِّبِيهِ حَوْلَ دَارِهِ لِيَضَعُوا السَّيْفَ عَلَى‏ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص إِذَا مَاتَ بِالسَّمِّ

Ibn Abayy said, ‘Yes, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’, and he hastened to Jadd and Mo’tab and he said, ‘We intended one, so it has become two. Now they^-asws will both be dying together, and we would be refrained from their evil. This would be their^-asws disappointment and our happiness. But, if Ali^-asws had remained (alive) after him^-saww, perhaps he^-asws would have fought against these companions of ours’ – and Abdullah Bin Abayy had gathered the entirety of his companions and his fanatics around his house – to position the swords upon the companions of Rasool-Allah^-saww when he^-saww dies of the poison.

ثُمَّ وَضَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَدَهُمَا فِي الْحَرِيرَةِ الْمُلَبَّقَةِ بِالسَّمْنِ وَ الْعَسَلِ فَأَكَلَا حَتَّى شَبِعَا ثُمَّ وَضَعَ مَنِ اشْتَهَى خَاصِرَةَ الْحَمَلِ وَ مَنِ اشْتَهَى صَدْرَهُ مِنْهُمْ فَأَكَلَا حَتَّى شَبِعَا وَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ يَنْظُرُ وَ يَظُنُّ أَنْ لَا يُلْبِثُهُمُ‏ السَّمُّ فَإِذَا هُمْ لَا يَزْدَادُونَ إِلَّا نَشَاطاً

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww and Ali^-asws placed their^-asws hand in the Hareer, prepared with the ghee and the honey. They^-asws both ate until they^-asws were satiated. Then the side of the roast was placed for the ones who desired it, and the ones who desires its breast from them. They ate until they were satiated. And Abdullah looked on and thought that the poison did not affect them. But they were into getting increased in anything, except (they became more) active.

ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص هَاتِ الْحَمَلَ فَلَمَّا أَتَى بِهِ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ ضَعِ الْحَمَلَ فِي وَسَطِ الْبَيْتِ

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Bring the lamb’. When they came with it, Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O Abu Al-Hassan^-asws! Place the lamb in the middle of the room’.

فَوَضَعَهُ فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَيْفَ تَنَالُهُ أَيْدِيهِمْ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ إِنَّ الَّذِي وَسَّعَ هَذَا الْبَيْتَ وَ عَظَّمَهُ حَتَّى وَسِعَ جَمَاعَتَهُمْ وَ فَضَلَ عَنْهُمْ هُوَ الَّذِي يُطِيلُ أَيْدِيَهُمْ حَتَّى تَنَالَ هَذَا الْحَمَلَ

He placed it. Abdullah said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! How can their hands grab it?’ So Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘The One^-azwj Who Expanded the room, and Made it larger until it was capacious enough for their group, and Graced upon them, He^-azwj is the One^-azwj Who would Elongate their hands until they grab this lamb’.

قَالَ فَأَطَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى أَيْدِيَهُمْ حَتَّى نَالَتْ ذَلِكَ فَتَنَاوَلُوا مِنْهُ وَ بَارَكَ‏ فِي ذَلِكَ الْحَمَلِ حَتَّى وَسِعَهُمْ وَ أَشْبَعَهُمْ وَ كَفَاهُمْ فَإِذَا هُوَ بَعْدَ أَكْلِهِمْ لَمْ يَبْقَ مِنْهُ إِلَّا عِظَامُهُ

He^-asws said: ‘Allah^-azwj the Exalted Elongated their hands until they grabbed that, and took from it. And Allah^-azwj Blessed in that lamb until it expanded for them, and satiated them, and sufficed them. When it was after their eating, there did not remain anything from it except for its bones.

فَلَمَّا فَرَغُوا مِنْهُ طَرَحَ عَلَيْهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنْدِيلًا لَهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ اطْرَحْ عَلَيْهِ الْحَرِيرَةَ الْمُلَبَّقَةَ بِالسَّمْنِ وَ الْعَسَلِ فَفَعَلَ فَأَكَلُوا مِنْهُ حَتَّى شَبِعُوا كُلُّهُمْ وَ أَنْفَدُوهُ

When they were free from it, Rasool-Allah^-saww dropped a towel upon it, then said: ‘O Ali^-asws! Pour the Hareer prepared with the ghee and the honey upon it’. He^-asws did so, and they ate from it until they were satiated, until they were satiated, all of them and finished it.

ثُمَّ قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ نَحْتَاجُ إِلَى لَبَنٍ أَوْ شَرَابٍ نَشْرَبُهُ عَلَيْهِ

Then they said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! We are needy to milk or a drink we can drink over it’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّ صَاحِبَكُمْ أَكْرَمُ عَلَى اللَّهِ مِنْ عِيسَى ع أَحْيَا اللَّهُ تَعَالَى لَهُ الْمَوْتَى وَ سَيَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Your companion (Ali^-asws) is more prestigious to Allah^-azwj than Isa^-as is. Allah^-azwj the Exalted Revived the dead for him^-as, soon Allah^-azwj would be Doing that for Muhammad^-saww’.

ثُمَّ بَسَطَ مِنْدِيلَهُ وَ مَسَحَ يَدَهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ كَمَا بَارَكْتَ فِيهَا فَأَطْعَمْتَنَا مِنْ لَحْمِهَا فَبَارِكْ فِيهَا وَ اسْقِنَا مِنْ لَبَنِهَا

Then he^-saww spread his^-saww towel upon it and said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! Just as You^-azwj have Blessed in it and Fed us from its flesh, so Bless in it and Quench us from its milk’.

قَالَ فَتَحَرَّكَتْ وَ بَرَكَتْ وَ قَامَتْ وَ امْتَلَأَ ضَرْعُهَا

He^-asws said: ‘It (lamb bones) stirred, and was Blessed, and stood up, and its udders filled up.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ايتُونِي بِأَزْقَاقٍ وَ ظُرُوفٍ وَ أَوْعِيَةٍ وَ مَزَادَاتٍ فَجَاءُوا بِهَا فَمَلَأَهَا فَسَقَاهُمْ حَتَّى شَرِبُوا وَ رَوُوا

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Bring me^-saww cups, and bowls, and containers, and water-skins’. They came with these, and he^-saww filled these up and quenched them until they drank to their fill.

ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَوْ لَا أَنِّي أَخَافُ أَنْ يُفْتَتَنَ بِهَا أُمَّتِي كَمَا افْتُتِنَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ بِالْعِجْلِ فَاتَّخَذُوهُ رَبّاً مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ لَتَرَكْتُهَا تَسْعَى فِي أَرْضِ اللَّهِ وَ تَأْكُلُ مِنْ حَشَائِشِهَا وَ لَكِنَّ اللَّهُمَّ أَعِدْهَا عِظَاماً كَمَا أَنْشَأْتَهَا

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Had I^-saww not feared that my^-saww community would be tempted with it – just as the Children of Israel were tempted with the calf, so they took it as a lord from besides Allah^-azwj the Exalted – I^-saww would have left it to wander around in the earth of Allah^-azwj, and eat from its greenery. But, O Allah^-azwj, Return it to be bones just as You^-azwj Grew them’.

فَعَادَتْ عِظَاماً مَأْكُولًا مَا عَلَيْهَا مِنَ اللَّحْمِ شَيْ‏ءٌ وَ هُمْ يَنْظُرُونَ

Thus, it returned to be bones, being eaten up whatever was upon from the meat, anything, and they (people) were looking on.

قَالَ فَجَعَلَ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص يَتَذَاكَرُونَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ تَوْسِعَةَ اللَّهِ الْبَيْتَ وَ تَكْثِيرَهُ الطَّعَامَ وَ دَفْعَهُ غَائِلَةَ السَّمِّ

He^-asws said: ‘The companions of Rasool-Allah^-saww went on discussing after that, Allah^-azwj the Exalted Expanding the room upon them after its narrowness, and of His^-azwj Multiplying the food and Repelling the scourge of the poison.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنِّي إِذَا تَذَكَّرْتُ ذَلِكَ الْبَيْتَ كَيْفَ وَسَّعَهُ اللَّهُ بَعْدَ ضِيقِهِ وَ فِي تَكْثِيرِ ذَلِكَ الطَّعَامِ بَعْدَ قِلَّتِهِ وَ فِي ذَلِكَ السَّمِّ كَيْفَ أَزَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى غَائِلَتَهُ عَنْ‏ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ عَنْ ذَوِيهِ‏ وَ كَيْفَ وَسَّعَهُ وَ كَثَّرَهُ أَذْكُرُ مَا يَزِيدُهُ‏ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى فِي مَنَازِلِ شِيعَتِنَا وَ خَيْرَاتِهِمْ فِي جَنَّاتِ‏ عَدْنٍ وَ فِي الْفِرْدَوْسِ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘When you discussed the room – how Allah^-azwj Expanded it after its narrowness, and regarding the Multiplication of that food after its scarceness, and regarding that poison, how Allah^-azwj the Exalted Removed its scourge from Muhammad^-saww and the ones besides him^-saww, and how much He^-azwj Expanded it (and how much He^-azwj) Multiplied it! Remember what Allah^-azwj the Exalted would Increase in the houses of our^-asws Shias and their good ones, in the Gardens of Eden and in Al-Firdows’.

إِنَّ فِي شِيعَتِنَا لَمَنْ يَهَبُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى لَهُ فِي الْجِنَانِ مِنَ الدَّرَجَاتِ وَ الْمَنَازِلِ وَ الْخَيْرَاتِ مَا لَا يَكُونُ الدُّنْيَا وَ خَيْرَاتُهَا فِي جَنْبِهَا إِلَّا كَالرَّمْلَةِ فِي الْبَادِيَةِ الْفَضْفَاضَةِ

Among our^-asws Shias would be one for whom Allah^-azwj the Exalted would Endow for him in the Gardens, from the ranks and the houses and the goodness, what the world and its goodness in its sides does not happen to be except like a grain of sand in the wilderness of the desert.

فَمَا هُوَ إِلَّا أَنْ يَرَى أَخاً لَهُ مُؤْمِناً فَقِيراً فَيَتَوَاضَعَ لَهُ وَ يُكْرِمَهُ وَ يُعِينَهُ وَ يَمُونَهُ وَ يَصُونَهُ عَنْ بَذْلِ وَجْهِهِ لَهُ حَتَّى يَرَى الْمَلَائِكَةَ الْمُوَكَّلِينَ بِتِلْكَ الْمَنَازِلِ وَ الْقُصُورِ وَ قَدْ تَضَاعَفَتْ حَتَّى صَارَتْ فِي الزِّيَادَةِ كَمَا كَانَ هَذَا الزَّائِدُ فِي هَذَا الْبَيْتِ الصَّغِيرِ الَّذِي رَأَيْتُمُوهُ فِيمَا صَارَ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ كِبَرِهِ وَ عِظَمِهِ وَ سَعَتِهِ

It would not be, except that he would see a Momin brother of his, being poor, so he would be consoling to him, and honour him, and assist him, and favour him, and protect him from falling of his face (respect), until the Angels of Proximity would see those dwelling and the castles to have been Multiplied, to the extent that they would become in the increase – just as this increase in this small room – which you all saw it, in what it came to from its largeness, and its greatness, and its expansion.

فَيَقُولُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ يَا رَبَّنَا لَا طَاقَةَ لَنَا بِالْخِدْمَةِ فِي هَذِهِ الْمَنَازِلِ فَامْدُدْنَا بِمَلَائِكَةٍ يُعَاوِنُونَنَا

The Angels are saying, ‘O our Lord^-azwj! There is no strength for us regarding (building) these dwellings, so Help us with (other) Angels to be assisting us’.

فَيَقُولُ اللَّهُ مَا كُنْتُ لِأَحْمِلَكُمْ مَا لَا تُطِيقُونَ فَكَمْ تُرِيدُونَ مَدَداً فَيَقُولُونَ أَلْفَ ضِعْفِنَا

Allah^-azwj is Saying: “I^-azwj would not Load upon you what you wouldn’t be enduring. So how many (Angels) are you wanting for assistance?” They are saying, ‘A thousand multiple of us’.

وَ فِيهِمْ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مَنْ يَقُولُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ نَسْتَزِيدُ مَدَداً أَلْفَ أَلْفِ ضِعْفِنَا وَ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ عَلَى قَدْرِ قُوَّةِ إِيمَانِ صَاحِبِهِمْ وَ زِيَادَةِ إِحْسَانِهِ إِلَى أَخِيهِ الْمُؤْمِنِ

And among them from the Momineen, would be one the Angels would be saying, ‘We have to be increased for help by a thousand thousand (million) multiple, and more than that – upon a measurement of the strength of the Eman of their owners, and the increase of his favours to his Momin brother’.

فَيُمِدُّهُمُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بِتِلْكَ الْأَمْلَاكِ وَ كُلَّمَا لَقِيَ هَذَا الْمُؤْمِنُ أَخاً فَبَرَّهُ زَادَ اللَّهُ فِي مَمَالِكِهِ وَ فِي خَدَمِهِ فِي الْجَنَّةِ كَذَلِكَ

Allah^-azwj the Exalted would be Helping those Angels with that. And every time this Momin meets his brother, so he is righteous with him, Allah^-azwj Increases him in his kingdom and in his servants in Paradise, similar to that’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ إِذَا تَفَكَّرْتُ فِي الطَّعَامِ المَسْمُومِ الَّذِي صَبَرْنَا عَلَيْهِ كَيْفَ أَزَالَ اللَّهُ عَنَّا غَائِلَتَهُ وَ كَثَّرَهُ وَ وَسَّعَهُ ذَكَرْتُ صَبْرَ شِيعَتِنَا عَلَى التَّقِيَّةِ وَ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ يُؤَدِّيهِمُ اللَّهُ بِذَلِكَ الصَّبْرِ إِلَى أَشْرَفِ الْعَاقِبَةِ وَ أَكْمَلِ السَّعَادَةِ طَالَمَا يَغْتَبِطُونَ فِي تِلْكَ الْجِنَانِ بِتِلْكَ الطَّيِّبَاتِ فَيُقَالُ لَهُمْ كُلُوا هَنِيئاً بِتَقِيَّتِكُمْ‏ لِأَعْدَائِكُمْ وَ صَبْرِكُمْ عَلَى أَذَاهُمْ‏

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘And when you think regarding the poisoned food which we were patient upon, how Allah^-azwj Removed its scourge from us and Multiplied it, and Expanded it, you should remember the patience of our^-asws Shias upon the Taqiyya (dissimulation), and during that, Allah^-azwj the Exalted Leading them, due to that patience – to the noblest of the consequences and the perfect happiness – their state being the envy of in those Gardens with those goodness’s. It would be said to them, ‘Eat welcomingly – being a Recompense upon your Taqiyya (dissimulation) from your enemies and your patience upon their harm’’.[15]

16- م، تفسير الإمام عليه السلام‏ لَمَّا نَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ ثُمَّ قَسَتْ قُلُوبُكُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ ذلِكَ فَهِيَ كَالْحِجارَةِ أَوْ أَشَدُّ قَسْوَةً فِي حَقِّ الْيَهُودِ وَ النَّوَاصِبِ قَالُوا لَهُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ زَعَمْتَ أَنَّهُ مَا فِي قُلُوبِنَا شَيْ‏ءٌ مِنْ مُوَاسَاةِ الْفُقَرَاءِ وَ مُعَاوَنَةِ الضُّعَفَاءِ وَ النَّفَقَةِ فِي إِبْطَالِ الْبَاطِلِ وَ إِحْقَاقِ الْحَقِّ وَ أَنَّ الْأَحْجَارَ أَلْيَنُ مِنْ قُلُوبِنَا وَ أَطْوَعُ لِلَّهِ مِنَّا وَ هَذِهِ الْجِبَالُ بِحَضْرَتِنَا فَهَلُمَّ بِنَا إِلَى بَعْضِهَا فَاسْتَشْهِدْهُ عَلَى‏ تَصْدِيقِكَ وَ تَكْذِيبِنَا فَإِنْ نَطَقَ بِتَصْدِيقِكَ فَأَنْتَ الْمُحِقُّ يَلْزَمُنَا اتِّبَاعُكَ وَ إِنْ نَطَقَ بِتَكْذِيبِكَ أَوْ صَمَتَ فَلَمْ يَرُدَّ جَوَابَكَ فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّكَ الْمُبْطِلُ فِي دَعْوَاكَ الْمُعَانِدُ لِهَوَاكَ

‘Tafseer Imam (Hassan Al-Askari^-asws) – When this Verse was Revealed: Then your hearts hardened from after that, so these were like rocks, or more intense in hardness; [2:74], regarding the Jews and the Nasibis, they said to him^-saww, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! You^-saww are claiming that there is nothing in our hearts from consoling the poor and helping the weak, and the spending in invalidation of the falsehood, and affirmation of the truth, and that the rocks are softer than our hearts and more obedient to Allah^-azwj than we are; and here is the mountain in our presence. Come with us to its side and get it to testify upon your^-saww truthfulness and for it to belie upon us. If it speaks with your^-saww ratification, then your^-saww are the true one; it would necessitate us to follow you; and if it speaks with belying you^-saww or remains silent and does not respond to answer you^-saww, then know that you^-saww are the false one in your^-saww claim, operating (in accordance with) your^-saww own desires’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص نَعَمْ هَلُمُّوا بِنَا إِلَى أَيِّهَا شِئْتُمْ فَأَسْتَشْهِدَهُ لِيَشْهَدَ لِي عَلَيْكُمْ فَخَرَجُوا إِلَى أَوْعَرِ جَبَلٍ رَأَوْهُ فَقَالُوا يَا مُحَمَّدُ هَذَا الْجَبَلُ فَاسْتَشْهِدْهُ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Yes, come with us to wherever you want to witness it testify for me^-saww, against you’. They went out to a big mountain they had seen, and they said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! This mountain, so get it to testify’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِلْجَبَلِ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ بِجَاهِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ الطَّيِّبِينَ الَّذِينَ بِذِكْرِ أَسْمَائِهِمْ خَفَّفَ اللَّهُ الْعَرْشَ عَلَى كَوَاهِلِ ثَمَانِيَةٍ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ بَعْدَ أَنْ لَمْ يَقْدِرُوا عَلَى تَحْرِيكِهِ وَ هُمْ خَلْقٌ كَثِيرٌ لَا يَعْرِفُ عَدَدَهُمْ إِلَّا اللَّهُ‏ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to the mountain: ‘I^-saww ask you by the virtue of Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww goodly Progeny^-asws – those by the mention of whose names Allah^-azwj Lightened the Throne upon the shoulders of eight from His^-azwj Angels – after they had not been able to move it, and they were a lot of creatures – none knows their number except Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic.

وَ بِحَقِّ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ الطَّيِّبِينَ الَّذِينَ بِذِكْرِ أَسْمَائِهِمْ تَابَ اللَّهُ عَلَى آدَمَ ع وَ غَفَرَ خَطِيئَتَهُ وَ أَعَادَهُ إِلَى مَرْتَبَتِهِ

And by the right of Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww goodly Progeny^-asws – those by the mention of whose names, Allah^-azwj Turned to Adam^-as (with Mercy) and Forgave his^-as mistakes and Returned him^-as to his (former) rank.

وَ بِحَقِّ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ الطَّيِّبِينَ الَّذِينَ بِذِكْرِ أَسْمَائِهِمْ وَ سُؤَالِ اللَّهِ بِهِمْ رَفَعَ إِدْرِيسَ ع فِي الْجَنَّةِ مَكَاناً عَلِيّاً لَمَّا شَهِدْتَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ بِمَا أَوْدَعَكَ اللَّهُ بِتَصْدِيقِهِ عَلَى هَؤُلَاءِ الْيَهُودِ فِي ذِكْرِ قَسَاوَةِ قُلُوبِهِمْ وَ تَكْذِيبِهِمْ فِي جَحْدِهِمْ‏ لِقَوْلِ مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ

And by the right of Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww goodly Progeny^-asws – those by the mention of whose names and asking Allah^-azwj by them^-asws – Idrees^-as was Raised in Paradise to a lofty place, due to him^-as having testified to Muhammad^-saww with what Allah^-azwj had Entrusted him^-as with – by his^-as ratification upon these Jews regarding the mention of the hardness of their hearts, and their belying and their rejection of the words of Muhammad^-saww, Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj!’.

فَتَحَرَّكَ الْجَبَلُ وَ تَزَلْزَلَ وَ فَاضَ عَنْهُ الْمَاءُ وَ نَادَى يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَ سَيِّدُ الْخَلَائِقِ‏ أَجْمَعِينَ

The mountain stirred and shook, and the water burst forth from it, and it called out, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! I testify that you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of the Lord^-azwj of the worlds, and chief of the creatures in their entirety.

وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ قُلُوبَ هَؤُلَاءِ الْيَهُودِ كَمَا وَصَفْتَ أَقْسَى مِنَ الْحِجَارَةِ لَا يَخْرُجُ مِنْهَا خَيْرٌ كَمَا قَدْ يَخْرُجُ مِنَ الْحِجَارَةِ الْمَاءُ سَيْلًا أَوْ تَفَجُّراً

And I testify that the hearts of these Jews are just as you^-saww described, as being harder than the rocks. No good comes out from these just as the water comes out flowing from the rock or a bursting.

وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ هَؤُلَاءِ كَاذِبُونَ عَلَيْكَ فِيمَا بِهِ يَقْذِفُونَكَ‏ مِنَ الْفِرْيَةِ عَلَى رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ ‏

And I testify that they are liars against you regarding what they are accusing you^-saww with, from the fabrications against the Lord^-azwj of the worlds’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَسْأَلُكَ أَيُّهَا الْجَبَلُ أَ أَمَرَكَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بِطَاعَتِي فِيمَا أَلْتَمِسُهُ مِنْكَ بِجَاهِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ الطَّيِّبِينَ الَّذِينَ بِهِمْ نَجَّى اللَّهُ تَعَالَى نُوحاً ع‏ مِنَ الْكَرْبِ الْعَظِيمِ‏ وَ بَرَّدَ اللَّهُ النَّارَ عَلَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ ع وَ جَعَلَهَا عَلَيْهِ سَلَاماً وَ مَكَّنَهُ فِي جَوْفِ النَّارِ عَلَى سَرِيرٍ وَ فِرَاشٍ وَثِيرٍ لَمْ يَرَ ذَلِكَ الطَّاغِيَةُ مِثْلَهُ لِأَحَدٍ مِنْ مُلُوكِ الْأَرْضِ أَجْمَعِينَ فَأَنْبَتَتْ حَوَالَيْهِ‏ مِنَ الْأَشْجَارِ الْخَضِرَةِ النَّضِرَةِ النَّزِهَةِ وَ غَمَرَ مَا حَوْلَهُ مِنْ أَنْوَاعِ النُّورِ بِمَا لَا يُوجَدُ إِلَّا فِي فُصُولٍ أَرْبَعَةٍ مِنَ السَّنَةِ

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘And I^-saww ask you, O you mountain! Allah^-azwj Commands you with obeying me^-saww in whatever I^-saww seek from you – by the virtue of Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww goodly Progeny^-asws, those by whom Allah^-azwj the Exalted Rescued Noah^-as from the great distress, and Cooled the fire upon Ibrahim^-as and Made it to be a safety upon him^-as, and Placed him^-as in the middle of the fire upon a bed with a pillow-top mattress, one which that tyrant (Nimrod^-la) had not seen the like of – to anyone from the kings of the earth in their entirety, and Grew around him^-as from the green plants of fresh display, and Immersed around him^-as from the types of scattered flowers with what cannot be found except during the arrival of (all) the four seasons from the entire year.

قَالَ الْجَبَلُ بَلَى‏ أَشْهَدُ لَكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ بِذَلِكَ وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّكَ لَوِ اقْتَرَحْتَ عَلَى رَبِّكَ أَنْ يَجْعَلَ رِجَالَ الدُّنْيَا قِرَداً وَ خَنَازِيرَ لَفَعَلَ أَوْ يَجْعَلَهُمْ مَلَائِكَةً لَفَعَلَ وَ أَنْ يُقَلِّبَ النِّيرَانَ جَلِيداً وَ الْجَلِيدَ نِيرَاناً لَفَعَلَ أَوْ يُهْبِطَ السَّمَاءَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ أَوْ يَرْفَعَ الْأَرْضَ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ لَفَعَلَ أَوْ يُصَيِّرَ أَطْرَافَ الْمَشَارِقِ وَ الْمَغَارِبِ وَ الْوِهَادِ كُلِّهَا صُرَّةً كَصُرَّةِ الْكِيسِ لَفَعَلَ وَ أَنَّهُ قَدْ جَعَلَ الْأَرْضَ وَ السَّمَاءَ طَوْعَكَ وَ الْجِبَالَ وَ الْبِحَارَ تَنْصَرِفُ بِأَمْرِكَ وَ سَائِرَ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ مِنَ الرِّيَاحِ وَ الصَّوَاعِقِ وَ جَوَارِحِ الْإِنْسَانِ وَ أَعْضَاءِ الْحَيَوَانِ لَكَ مُطِيعَةً وَ مَا أَمَرْتَهَا بِهِ مِنْ شَيْ‏ءٍ ائْتَمَرَتْ

The mountain said, ‘Yes. I testify to you^-saww, O Muhammad^-saww, with that. And I testify that you^-saww, if you were to suggest to your^-saww Lord^-azwj that He^-azwj Makes the men of the world to be as monkeys and pigs, He^-azwj would, or to Make them as Angels, He^-azwj would, and to Convert the fires into ice and the ice into fires, He^-azwj would, or the sky to fall to the earth, or the ground to raise to the sky, He^-azwj would, or the ends of the east and the west and the ravines, all of these to become like the bag, He^-azwj would, and that He^-azwj should Make the earth and the sky tame to you^-saww, and the mountains and the oceans to flow by your^-saww orders, and the rest of whatever Allah^-azwj has Created from the winds and the thunderbolts – and the limbs of the human beings and the limbs of the animals obedient to you^-saww, and whatever you^-saww order anything with, it would implement your^-saww orders’.

فَقَالَتِ الْيَهُودُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَ عَلَيْنَا تُشَبِّهُ وَ تُلَبِّسُ‏ قَدْ أَجْلَسْتَ مَرَدَةً مِنْ أَصْحَابِكَ خَلْفَ صُخُورِ هَذَا الْجَبَلِ فَهُمْ يَنْطِقُونَ بِهَذَا الْكَلَامِ وَ نَحْنُ لَا نَدْرِي أَ نَسْمَعُ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ أَمْ مِنَ الْجِبَالِ لَا يَغْتَرُّ بِمِثْلِ هَذَا إِلَّا ضُعَفَاؤُكَ الَّذِينَ تَبَحْبَحُ‏ فِي عُقُولِهِمْ

The Jews said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Are you^-saww trying to deceive us and confuse us? You^-saww have seated some fanatical of your^-saww companions behind the rock of this mountain. Thus, it is they who are speaking with this speech, and we don’t know whether we are hearing from the men or from the mountain! None would be deceived by the likes of this except for the weak-minded – those who are unsettled in their minds.

فَإِنْ كُنْتَ صَادِقاً فَتَنَحَّ مِنْ مَوْضِعِكَ هَذَا إِلَى ذَلِكَ الْقَرَارِ وَ أْمُرْ هَذَا الْجَبَلَ أَنْ يَنْقَلِعَ مِنْ أَصْلِهِ فَيَسِيرَ إِلَيْكَ إِلَى هُنَاكَ فَإِذَا حَضَرَكَ وَ نَحْنُ نُشَاهِدُهُ فَأْمُرْهُ أَنْ يَنْقَطِعَ نِصْفَيْنِ مِنِ ارْتِفَاعِ سَمْكِهِ ثُمَّ تَرْتَفِعَ السُّفْلَى مِنْ قِطْعَتِهِ فَوْقَ الْعُلْيَا وَ تَنْخَفِضَ الْعُلْيَا تَحْتَ السُّفْلَى فَإِذَا أَصْلُ الْجَبَلِ قُلَّتُهُ‏ وَ قُلَّتُهُ أَصْلُهُ لِنَعْلَمَ‏ أَنَّهُ مِنَ اللَّهِ لَا يَتَّفِقُ بِمُوَاطَأَةٍ وَ لَا بِمُعَاوَنَةِ مُمَوِّهِينَ مُتَمَرِّدِينَ‏

If you were truthful, then be alone from this place of yours^-saww to go to that place, and order this mountain to uproot from its roots and come to you^-as to over there. When it is present with you^-saww, and we witness it, then order it to be cut into two halves from the top of its peak, then the bottom part of its piece should raise to be above the top, and top to come down to be under the lower part. When the base of the mountain is its peak and its peak it is base, we would know that if is (indeed) from Allah^-azwj, there has neither been an incidence of a collusion, nor assistance with the rebellious ones’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَشَارَ إِلَى حَجَرٍ فِيهِ قَدْرِ خَمْسَةِ أَرْطَالٍ‏ يَا أَيُّهَا الْحَجَرُ تَدَحْرَجْ فَتَدَحْرَجَ فَقَالَ‏ لِمُخَاطِبِهِ خُذْهُ وَ قَرِّبْهُ مِنْ أُذُنِكَ فَسَيُعِيدُ عَلَيْكَ مَا سَمِعْتَ فَإِنَّ هَذَا جُزْءٌ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الْجَبَلِ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said, and gestured towards a rock of a measurement of five Ratls (approx. 2 kg): ‘O you rock! Roll over!’ It rolled over. Then he^-saww said to them: ‘Take it to be near you, for it would repeat upon you whatever you heard, for this rock is (a part) from that mountain’.

فَأَخَذَهُ الرَّجُلُ فَأَدْنَاهُ إِلَى أُذُنِهِ فَنَطَقَ الْحَجَرُ بِمِثْلِ مَا نَطَقَ بِهِ الْجَبَلُ أَوَّلًا مِنْ تَصْدِيقِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ فِيمَا ذَكَرَهُ عَنْ قُلُوبِ الْيَهُودِ فِيمَا أَخْبَرَ بِهِ مِنْ أَنَّ نَفَقَاتِهِمْ فِي دَفْعِ أَمْرِ مُحَمَّدٍ بَاطِلٌ وَ وَبَالٌ عَلَيْهِمْ

A man grabbed it and drew it closer to his ears, and the rock spoke with the like of what the mountain had spoken with firstly – from the ratification of Rasool-Allah^-saww, regarding what he^-saww had mentioned from the hearts of the Jews, and regarding what he^-saww had informed with from their hypocrisies in repelling the matter of Muhammad^-saww as being false, and a scourge upon them.

فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَ سَمِعْتَ هَذَا أَ خَلْفَ هَذَا الْحَجَرِ أَحَدٌ يُكَلِّمُكَ يُوهِمُكَ‏ أَنَّهُ الْحَجَرُ يُكَلِّمُكَ قَالَ لَا فَأْتِنِي بِمَا اقْتَرَحْتُ فِي الْجَبَلِ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to him: ‘Did you hear this? Is there anyone behind this speaking with you, and deluding you that it is speaking with you?’ He said, ‘No, give me what I suggested regarding the mountain’.

فَتَبَاعَدَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ إِلَى فَضَاءٍ وَاسِعٍ ثُمَّ نَادَى الْجَبَلَ يَا أَيُّهَا الْجَبَلُ بِحَقِّ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ الطَّيِّبِينَ الَّذِينَ بِجَاهِهِمْ وَ مَسْأَلَةِ عِبَادِ اللَّهِ بِهِمْ أَرْسَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَى قَوْمِ عَادٍ رِيحاً صَرْصَراً عَاتِيَةً تَنْزِعُ النَّاسَ‏ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجازُ نَخْلٍ خاوِيَةٍ وَ أَمَرَ جَبْرَئِيلَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww went distant into the vast expanse, then called the mountain: ‘O you mountain! By the right of Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww goodly Progeny^-asws – those by whose virtue, and asking by them^-asws, Allah^-azwj Sent the Sarsaar wind upon the people of Aad as Tearing men away as if they were the trunks of palm-trees torn up [54:20].

أَنْ يَصِيحَ صَيْحَةً فِي قَوْمِ صَالِحٍ ع حَتَّى صَارُوا كَهَشِيمِ الْمُحْتَظِرِ لَمَّا انْقَلَعْتَ مِنْ مَكَانِكَ بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ وَ جِئْتَ إِلَى حَضْرَتِي هَذِهِ وَ وَضَعَ يَدَهُ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ

And He^-azwj Commanded Jibraeel^-as that he^-as shouted with such a shriek until they came to be like the dry fragments of trees which the maker of an enclosure collects [54:31]. Uproot from your place by the Permission of Allah^-azwj, and come over this place of mine^-saww’ – and he^-saww placed his^-saww hand upon the ground in front of him^-saww.

فَتَزَلْزَلَ الْجَبَلُ وَ سَارَ كَالْقَارِحِ الْهِمْلَاجِ‏ حَتَّى دَنَا مِنْ إِصْبَعِهِ أَصْلُهُ فَلَزِقَ‏ بِهَا وَ وَقَفَ وَ نَادَى هَا أَنَا ذَا سَامِعٌ لَكَ مُطِيعٌ يَا رَسُولَ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ وَ إِنْ رَغِمَتْ أُنُوفُ هَؤُلَاءِ الْمُعَانِدِينَ فَأْمُرْنِي آتَمِرْ بِأَمْرِكَ

The mountain trembled and became like the hooves of a horse – until it came to be in front of him^-saww and its base was close to his^-saww companions, and attached with it (the ground, and paused and called out, ‘Here! I hear you^-saww and obey – O Rasool^-saww of the Lord^-azwj of the worlds, and I shall rub the noses of these stubborn ones. Order me with your^-saww order!’

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّ هَؤُلَاءِ اقْتَرَحُوا عَلَيَّ أَنْ آمُرَكَ أَنْ تَنْقَلِعَ مِنْ أَصْلِكَ فَتَصِيرَ نِصْفَيْنِ ثُمَّ يَنْحَطَّ أَعْلَاكَ وَ يَرْتَفِعَ أَسْفَلُكَ فَتَصِيرَ ذِرْوَتُكَ‏ أَصْلَكَ وَ أَصْلُكَ ذِرْوَتَكَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘These stubborn ones are suggesting to me^-saww that I^-saww should order you to uproot from your base and become two halves, then your top should come down and your lower part should raise higher, so that your peak would be your base, and your base would be your peak’.

فَقَالَ الْجَبَلُ أَ فَتَأْمُرُنِي بِذَلِكَ يَا رَسُولَ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ قَالَ بَلَى فَانْقَطَعَ نِصْفَيْنِ وَ انْحَطَّ أَعْلَاهُ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ وَ ارْتَفَعَ أَسْفَلُهُ فَوْقَ أَعْلَاهُ فَصَارَ فَرْعُهُ أَصْلَهُ وَ أَصْلُهُ فَرْعَهُ

The mountain said, ‘Are you^-saww ordering me with that, O Rasool^-saww of the Lord^-azwj of the worlds?’ He^-saww said: ‘Yes’. The mountain cut itself into two halves and its top part dropped to the ground, and its lower part rose to be above the top part, and its branch became its root, and its root became its branch.

ثُمَّ نَادَى الْجَبَلُ مَعَاشِرَ الْيَهُودِ هَذَا الَّذِي تَرَوْنَ دُونَ مُعْجِزَاتِ مُوسَى الَّذِي تَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّكُمْ بِهِ تُؤْمِنُونَ فَنَظَرَ الْيَهُودُ بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَى بَعْضٍ فَقَالَ بَعْضٌ‏ مَا عَنْ هَذَا مَحِيصٌ

Then the mountain called out, ‘O community of the Jews! This which you are seeing is less than the miracles of Musa^-as which you are claiming that you are believing in it!’ The Jews looked at each other, and one of them said, ‘There is no escape from this!’

وَ قَالَ آخَرُونَ مِنْهُمْ هَذَا رَجُلٌ مَبْخُوتٌ مُؤْتَى لَهُ وَ الْمَبْخُوتُ تُؤْتَى‏ لَهُ الْعَجَائِبُ وَ لَا يَغُرَّنَّكُمْ مَا تُشَاهِدُونَ

And the others from them said, ‘This man, luck keeps coming to him^-saww, and the lucky one is such that the wonders come to him, so he^-saww should not be deceived by what you are witnessing from him^-saww’.

فَنَادَاهُمُ الْجَبَلُ يَا أَعْدَاءَ اللَّهِ قَدْ أَبْطَلْتُمْ بِمَا تَقُولُونَ نُبُوَّةَ مُوسَى ع هَلَّا قُلْتُمْ لِمُوسَى إِنَّ قَلْبَ الْعَصَا ثُعْبَاناً وَ انْفِلَاقَ الْبَحْرِ طُرُقاً وَ وُقُوفَ الْجَبَلِ كَالظُّلَّةِ فَوْقَكُمْ‏ إِنَّمَا تأتي [تُؤْتَى‏] لَكَ لِأَنَّكَ مُؤَاتًى لَكَ يَأْتِيكَ جَدُّكَ بِالْعَجَائِبِ فَلَا يَغُرُّنَا مَا نُشَاهِدُهُ

The mountain called out to them, ‘O enemies of Allah^-azwj! You are nullifying what you are saying of the Prophet-hood of Musa^-as. Are you not saying for Musa^-as that he^-as transformed the staff into a serpent, and split a road to be in the sea, and the mountain was like a shadow above you. There would come upon you what came upon your forefathers, with the wonders, ‘We shall not be deceived by what we witnessed’’.

فَأَلْقَمَتْهُمُ الْجِبَالُ بِمَقَالَتِهَا الصُّخُورَ وَ لَزِمَتْهُمْ‏ حُجَّةُ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ

The mountain arose – with its speech – the rocks, and necessitated the Proof of the Lord^-azwj of the worlds’.

قَوْلُهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ أَ فَتَطْمَعُونَ أَنْ يُؤْمِنُوا لَكُمْ وَ قَدْ كانَ فَرِيقٌ مِنْهُمْ يَسْمَعُونَ كَلامَ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ يُحَرِّفُونَهُ مِنْ بَعْدِ ما عَقَلُوهُ وَ هُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ

The Words of the Mighty and Majestic Are you wishing that they would be believing in you all, and there was a party from among them hearing the Speech of Allah, then they were altering it from after having understood it, while they were knowing? [2:75]

وَ إِذا لَقُوا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا قالُوا آمَنَّا وَ إِذا خَلا بَعْضُهُمْ إِلى‏ بَعْضٍ قالُوا أَ تُحَدِّثُونَهُمْ بِما فَتَحَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمْ لِيُحَاجُّوكُمْ بِهِ عِنْدَ رَبِّكُمْ أَ فَلا تَعْقِلُونَ

And when they are meeting those who are believing they are saying: ‘We believe!’, and when they are alone with each other they are saying: ‘Are you narrating them with what Allah has Disclosed upon you in order for them to argue with you by it in the Presence of your Lord? Are you not understanding? [2:76]

أَ وَ لا يَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ ما يُسِرُّونَ وَ ما يُعْلِنُونَ‏

Or are they not knowing that Allah Knows what they are keeping as secret and what they are announcing? [2:77]

قَالَ الْإِمَامُ ع فَلَمَّا بَهَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص هَؤُلَاءِ الْيَهُودَ بِمُعْجِزَتِهِ وَ قَطَعَ مَعَاذِيرَهُمْ بِوَاضِحِ دَلَالَتِهِ لَمْ يُمْكِنْهُمْ مُرَاجَعَتُهُمْ فِي حُجَّتِهِ وَ لَا إِدْخَالُ التَّلْبِيسِ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ مُعْجِزَتِهِ قَالُوا يَا مُحَمَّدُ قَدْ آمَنَّا بِأَنَّكَ الرَّسُولُ الْهَادِي الْمَهْدِيُّ وَ أَنَّ عَلِيّاً أَخُوكَ هُوَ الْوَلِيُّ وَ الْوَصِيُّ

The Imam^-asws said: ‘When Rasool-Allah^-saww had dazzled those Jews by his^-saww miracles, and cut off their excuses by clear evidences, they were not able to respond regarding his^-saww proofs, nor deception regarding his^-saww miracles. They said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! We have believed that you^-saww are the Rasool^-saww, the guide, the Guided, and that Ali^-asws your^-saww brother, he^-asws is the (rightful) guardian and the successor^-asws’.

وَ كَانُوا إِذَا خَلَوْا بِالْيَهُودِ الْآخَرِينَ يَقُولُونَ لَهُمْ إِنَّ إِظْهَارَنَا لَهُ الْإِيمَانَ بِهِ أَمْكَنُ لَنَا مِنْ مَكْرُوهِهِ وَ أَعْوَنُ لَنَا عَلَى اصْطِلَامِهِ وَ اصْطِلَامِ أَصْحَابِهِ لِأَنَّهُمْ عِنْدَ اعْتِقَادِهِمْ أَنَّنَا مِنْهُمْ‏ يَقِفُونَنَا عَلَى أَسْرَارِهِمْ وَ لَا يَكْتُمُونَنَا شَيْئاً فَنُطْلِعُ عَلَيْهِمْ‏ أَعْدَاءَهُمْ فَيَقْصِدُونَ أَذَاهُمْ بِمُعَاوَنَتِنَا وَ مُظَاهَرَتِنَا فِي أَوْقَاتِ اشْتِغَالِهِمْ وَ اضْطِرَابِهِمْ وَ فِي أَحْوَالِ تَعَذُّرِ الْمُدَافَعَةِ وَ الِامْتِنَاعِ مِنَ الْأَعْدَاءِ عَلَيْهِمْ

And when they were alone with the other Jews, they were saying to them, ‘Our display to him^-saww of the Eman with him^-saww enables us (to be safe) from his^-saww abhorrences, and would assist us upon eradicating him^-saww and eradicating his^-saww companions, because they believe we are with them, they would let us in upon their secrets, and they would not conceal anything from us. We would notify their enemies against them and they would aim for them when they would be with our aides and our apparent display (of support) – during their pre-occupation and disorder, and during state when it is impossible to defect and prevent from their enemies upon them’.

وَ كَانُوا مَعَ ذَلِكَ يُنْكِرُونَ عَلَى سَائِرِ الْيَهُودِ الْإِخْبَارَ لِلنَّاسِ عَمَّا كَانُوا يُشَاهِدُونَهُ مِنْ آيَاتِهِ وَ يُعَايِنُونَهُ مِنْ مُعْجِزَاتِهِ فَأَظْهَرَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى مُحَمَّداً رَسُولَهُ عَلَى سُوءِ اعْتِقَادَاتِهِمْ وَ قُبْحِ دَخِيلَاتِهِمْ‏ وَ عَلَى إِنْكَارِهِمْ عَلَى مَنِ اعْتَرَفَ بِمَا شَاهَدَهُ مِنْ آيَاتِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ وَاضِحَاتِ‏ بَيِّنَاتِهِ وَ بَاهِرَاتِ مُعْجِزَاتِهِ

And they were, along with that, denying upon the rest of the Jews informing the people about what they had witnessed from his^-saww signs, and had observed from his^-saww miracles. Allah^-azwj the Exalted Exposed their evil beliefs to Muhammad^-saww, His^-azwj Rasool^-saww, and their ugly mannerisms and their hidden (intentions), and upon their denial upon acknowledging with what they had witnessed from the Signs of Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww clear proofs, and his^-saww dazzling miracles.

فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَ فَتَطْمَعُونَ‏ أَنْتَ وَ أَصْحَابُكَ مِنْ عَلِيٍّ وَ آلِهِ الطَّيِّبِينَ‏ أَنْ يُؤْمِنُوا لَكُمْ‏ هَؤُلَاءِ الْيَهُودُ الَّذِينَ هُمْ بِحُجَجِ اللَّهِ قَدْ بَهَرْتُمُوهُمْ وَ بِآيَاتِ اللَّهِ وَ دَلَائِلِهِ الْوَاضِحَةِ قَدْ قَهَرْتُمُوهُمْ أَنْ يُؤْمِنُوا لَكُمْ يُصَدِّقُوكُمْ‏ بِقُلُوبِهِمْ وَ يُبْدُوا فِي الْخَلَوَاتِ لِشَيَاطِينِهِمْ شَرَائِفَ‏ أَحْوَالِكُمْ‏

(The Imam Hassan Al-Askari^-asws said): ‘The Mighty and Majestic Said: O Muhammad^-saww! Are you wishing – you^-saww and your^-saww companions from Ali^-asws and his^-asws goodly Progeny^-asws that they would be believing in you all – these Jews, those whom you^-saww have impressed, and by the Signs of Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj clear proofs you^-saww have overcome them – that they would be believing in you^-saww and they would be ratifying you^-saww with their hearts, but they (in fact allay with) Satans^-la in their privacies then (how) would they be admitting to your^-asws nobility?

وَ قَدْ كانَ فَرِيقٌ مِنْهُمْ‏ يَعْنِي مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ الْيَهُودِ مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ‏ يَسْمَعُونَ كَلامَ اللَّهِ‏ فِي أَصْلِ جَبَلِ طُورِ سَيْنَاءَ وَ أَوَامِرَهُ وَ نَوَاهِيَهُ‏ ثُمَّ يُحَرِّفُونَهُ‏ عَمَّا سَمِعُوهُ إِذَا أَدَّوْهُ إِلَى مَنْ وَرَاءَهُمْ مِنْ سَائِرِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ‏ مِنْ بَعْدِ ما عَقَلُوهُ‏ وَ عَلِمُوا أَنَّهُمْ فِيمَا يَقُولُونَهُ كَاذِبُونَ‏ وَ هُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ‏ أَنَّهُمْ فِي قَلْبِهِمْ‏ كَاذِبُونَ

And there was a party from among them – meaning the Jews from the Children of Israel, hearing the Speech of Allah – at the base of the Mount Toor of Sinai, and its Commandments and its Prohibitions, then they were altering it – from what they had heard it, when they repeated it to the ones (left) behind them from the Children of Israel, from after having understood it, and they were knowing (full well) that with their words, they are lying, while they were knowing – in their hearts that they are lying.

وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُمْ لَمَّا سَارُوا مَعَ مُوسَى ع إِلَى الْجَبَلِ فَسَمِعُوا كَلَامَ اللَّهِ وَ وَقَفُوا عَلَى أَوَامِرِهِ وَ نَوَاهِيهِ رَجَعُوا فَأَدَّوْهُ إِلَى مَنْ بَعْدَهُمْ فَشَقَّ عَلَيْهِمْ فَأَمَّا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ مِنْهُمْ فَثَبَتُوا عَلَى إِيمَانِهِمْ وَ صَدَقُوا فِي نِيَّاتِهِمْ

And that is, when they came to be with Musa^-as at the mountain so they heard the Speech of Allah^-azwj, and they were pausing upon His^-azwj Commands and His^-azwj Prohibitions, they returned and repeated it to the ones after them. It was grievous upon them. But, as for the Momineen from them, they were steadfast upon their Eman, and they were being truthful in their intentions.

وَ أَمَّا أَسْلَافُ هَؤُلَاءِ الْيَهُودِ الَّذِينَ نَافَقُوا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فِي هَذِهِ الْقِصَّةِ فَإِنَّهُمْ قَالُوا لِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى قَالَ لَنَا هَذَا وَ أَمَرَنَا بِمَا ذَكَرْنَاهُ لَكُمْ وَ نَهَانَا وَ أَتْبَعَ‏ ذَلِكَ بِأَنَّكُمْ إِنْ صَعُبَ عَلَيْكُمْ مَا أَمَرْتُكُمْ بِهِ فَلَا عَلَيْكُمْ أَنْ لَا تَفْعَلُوهُ وَ إِنْ صَعُبَ مَا عَنْهُ نَهَيْتُكُمْ فَلَا عَلَيْكُمْ أَنْ تَرْتَكِبُوهُ‏ وَ تُوَاقِعُوهُ هَذَا وَ هُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّهُمْ بِقَوْلِهِمْ هَذَا كَاذِبُونَ‏

As for the ancestor of these Jews, those who were hypocritical to Rasool-Allah^-saww in these Judgments, they said to the Children of Israel, ‘Surely, Allah^-azwj the Exalted Said this to us, and Commanded us and Prohibited us with what we are mentioning to you all, and obey that. If it turns out that it is difficult upon you what you are being Commanded with, so it is not (Obligatory) upon you that you should be doing it; and if it is difficult upon you what we are prohibiting you from, so it is not upon you that you should be leaving it and be indulging in it – this – and they were knowing (full well) that they, by this speech of theirs, were lying.

ثُمَّ أَظْهَرَ اللَّهُ نِفَاقَهُمْ عَلَى الْآخَرِينَ‏ مَعَ جَهْلِهِمْ فَقَالَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ وَ إِذا لَقُوا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا قالُوا آمَنَّا كَانُوا إِذَا لَقُوا سَلْمَانَ وَ الْمِقْدَادَ وَ أَبَا ذَرٍّ وَ عَمَّاراً قَالُوا آمَنَّا كَإِيْمَانِكُمْ إِيمَاناً بِنُبُوَّةِ مُحَمَّدٍ مَقْرُوناً بِالْإِيمَانِ بِإِمَامَةِ أَخِيهِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ بِأَنَّهُ أَخُوهُ الْهَادِي وَ وَزِيرُهُ الْمُوَافِي وَ خَلِيفَتُهُ عَلَى أُمَّتِهِ وَ مُنْجِزُ عِدَتِهِ‏ وَ الْوَافِي بِذِمَّتِهِ وَ النَّاهِضُ بِأَعْبَاءِ سِيَاسَتِهِ وَ قَيِّمُ الْخَلْقِ الذَّائِدُ لَهُمْ عَنْ سَخَطِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمُوجِبُ لَهُمْ إِنْ أَطَاعُوهُ رِضَى الرَّحْمَنِ

(The Imam Hassan Al-Askari^-asws said): ‘Then (during the time of Rasool Allah^-saww) Allah^-azwj the Exalted Manifested the extent of their hypocrisy, along with their ignorance, so the Mighty and Majestic Said: And when they are meeting those who are believing they are saying: ‘We believe!’ – It was so that when they (the hypocrites among Muslims) were meeting Salman^-as, and Al-Miqdad^-as, and Abu Zarr^-as, and Ammar^-as, they were saying, ‘We believe!’ just like your Emans – Eman in the Prophet-hood of Muhammad^-saww paired with the Eman in the Imamate of his^-saww brother Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws, and that he^-asws is his^-saww brother, the Guide, and his^-saww Vizier – the Master – and his^-saww Caliph upon his^-saww community, and the fulfiller of his^-saww promises, and the fulfiller of his^-saww guarantees, and the implementer of his^-saww rules, and custodian of the people, and their saviour from the Wrath of the Beneficent Obligated for them – if they were to obey him^-asws – (the would achieve) the Pleasure of the Beneficent.

وَ أَنَّ خَلَفَاءَهُ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ هُمُ النُّجُومُ الزَّاهِرَةُ وَ الْأَقْمَارُ الْمُنِيرَةُ وَ الشَّمُوسُ الْمُضِيئَةُ الْبَاهِرَةُ وَ أَنَّ أَوْلِيَاءَهُمْ أَوْلِيَاءُ اللَّهِ وَ أَنَّ أَعْدَاءَهُمْ أَعْدَاءُ اللَّهِ

And that his^-saww Caliphs from after him^-saww, they^-asws are the luminous stars, the radiant moons, and the dazzling bright suns, and that their^-asws friends are the friends of Allah^-azwj, and that their^-asws enemies are the enemies of Allah^-azwj.

وَ يَقُولُ بَعْضُهُمْ نَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً صَاحِبُ الْمُعْجِزَاتِ وَ مُقِيمُ الدَّلَالاتِ الْوَاضِحَاتِ هُوَ الَّذِي لَمَّا تَوَاطَأَتْ قُرَيْشٌ عَلَى قَتْلِهِ وَ طَلَبُوهُ فَقْداً لِرُوحِهِ أَيْبَسَ اللَّهُ أَيْدِيَهُمْ فَلَمْ تَعْمَلْ وَ أَرْجُلَهُمْ فَلَمْ تَنْهَضْ حَتَّى رَجَعُوا عَنْهُ خَائِبِينَ مَغْلُوبِينَ لَوْ شَاءَ مُحَمَّدٌ وَحْدَهُ قَتَلَهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ

And some of them were saying, ‘Muhammad^-saww is a performer of miracles, and an established of clear evidences. He^-saww is the one who, when the Qureysh colluded upon killing him^-saww and sought him^-saww to take his^-saww soul, Allah^-azwj the Exalted Jammed their hands so they could not act, and (Jammed) their legs so they could not arise, until they returned from him^-saww as failures, overcome, and had Muhammad^-saww along so desired, he^-saww would have killed them all.

وَ هُوَ الَّذِي لَمَّا جَاءَتْهُ قُرَيْشٌ وَ أَشْخَصَتْهُ إِلَى هُبَلَ لِيَحْكُمَ عَلَيْهِ بِصِدْقِهِمْ وَ كِذْبِهِ خَرَّ هُبَلُ لِوَجْهِهِ وَ شَهِدَ لَهُ بِنُبُوَّتِهِ وَ لِعَلِيٍ‏ أَخِيهِ بِإِمَامَتِهِ وَ لِأَوْلِيَائِهِ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ بِوِرَاثَتِهِ وَ الْقِيَامِ بِسِيَاسَتِهِ وَ إِمَامَتِهِ

And he^-saww is the one who, when the Qureysh came and took him^-saww to your Hubal (their main idol) in order to judge against him^-saww of his^-saww truthfulness and his^-saww lies, Hubal fell down upon its face and testified for him^-saww (instead), with his^-saww Prophet-hood, and testified to his^-saww brother Ali^-asws with his^-asws Imamate, and for his^-saww Guardians from after him^-asws with his^-asws inheritance and the standing by his^-saww politics and his^-asws Imamate.

وَ هُوَ الَّذِي لَمَّا أَلْجَأَتْهُ قُرَيْشٌ إِلَى الشِّعْبِ وَ وَكَّلُوا بِبَابِهِ مَنْ يَمْنَعُ مِنْ إِيصَالِ قُوتٍ وَ مِنْ خُرُوجِ أَحَدٍ عَنْهُ خَوْفاً أَنْ يَطْلُبَ لَهُمْ قُوتاً غَذَّى هُنَاكَ كَافِرَهُمْ وَ مُؤْمِنَهُمْ أَفْضَلَ مِنَ الْمَنِّ وَ السَّلْوَى كُلَّمَا اشْتَهَى كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ مِنْ أَنْوَاعِ الْأَطْعِمَةِ الطَّيِّبَاتِ وَ مِنْ أَصْنَافِ الْحَلَاوَاتِ وَ كَسَاهُمْ أَحْسَنَ الْكِسْوَاتِ

And he^-saww is the one who, when the Qureysh came to the cave (of Abu Talib^-asws) and allocated someone at its gate who would prevent anyone from arriving with provision, and (prevent) anyone from exiting from it, fearing that he^-saww would (go out) seeking provisions for them. He^-saww provided over there, their Kafirs and their Momins, (a provision) better than the Manna (truffles) and the Quails, and each one of them ate whatever he so desires – from a variety of the good foods, from a variety of the sweet dishes, and clothed them with excellent clothing’.

وَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِهِمْ إِذَا رَآهُمْ‏ وَ قَدْ ضَاقَ لِضِيقِ فَجِّهِمْ صُدُورُهُمْ قَالَ‏ بِيَدِهِ هَكَذَا بِيُمْنَاهُ إِلَى الْجِبَالِ وَ هَكَذَا بِيُسْرَاهُ إِلَى الْجِبَالِ وَ قَالَ لَهَا انْدَفِعِي فَتَنْدَفِعُ وَ تَتَأَخَّرُ حَتَّى يَصِيرُوا بِذَلِكَ‏ فِي صَحْرَاءَ لَا يُرَى طَرَفَاهَا

(Imam Hassan Al-Askari^-asws said): ‘And Rasool-Allah^-saww was in their midst. Whenever he^-saww saw them to be constricted by narrowness, he^-saww expanded their area. He^-saww gestured by his^-saww hand like this by his^-saww right hand to the mountain, and like this by his^-saww left hand to the mountain, and said to these: ‘Move apart!’ They moved apart and far away until they came to be with that in the desert; its two ends could not be seen.

ثُمَّ يَقُولُ بِيَدِهِ هَكَذَا وَ يَقُولُ أَطْلِعِي يَا أَيَّتُهَا الْمُودَعَاتُ لِمُحَمَّدٍ وَ أَنْصَارِهِ مَا أَوْدَعَكِهَا اللَّهُ مِنَ الْأَشْجَارِ وَ الْأَثْمَارِ وَ أَنْوَاعِ الزَّهْرِ وَ النَّبَاتِ فَتَطْلُعُ مِنَ الْأَشْجَارِ الْبَاسِقَةِ وَ الرَّيَاحِينِ الْمُونِقَةِ وَ الْخَضِرَاتِ النَّزِهَةِ مَا يَتَمَتَّعُ بِهِ الْقُلُوبُ وَ الْأَبْصَارُ وَ يَتَجَلَّى‏ بِهِ الْهُمُومُ وَ الْأَفْكَارُ

Then he^-saww was gesturing by his^-saww hand like this and was saying: ‘Come to Muhammad^-saww, O you deposited ones, what Allah^-azwj Deposited you two from the trees and the fruits (and the rivers), and the varieties of the blossoms and the vegetation!’ They came, from the fruit-laden trees and the fragrant basils, and the greenery what the hearts and the eyes are gladdened with – and the worries and the sadness and the thoughts disappear with.

وَ يَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ لِأَحَدٍ مِنْ مُلُوكِ الْأَرْضِ مِثْلُ صَحْرَائِهِمْ عَلَى مَا تَشْتَمِلُ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ عَجَائِبِ أَشْجَارِهَا وَ تَهَدُّلِ أَثْمَارِهَا وَ اطِّرَادِ أَنْهَارِهَا وَ غَضَارَةِ رَيَاحِينِهَا وَ حُسْنِ نَبَاتِهَا

And they were knowing that there isn’t anyone from the kings of the earth with the likes of their desert upon was is included in it from the wonders of its trees, and the growth of its fruits, and the flow of its rivers, and the fragrances of its basis, and the beauty of its vegetation’.

وَ مُحَمَّدٌ هُوَ الَّذِي لَمَّا جَاءَهُ رَسُولُ أَبِي جَهْلٍ يَتَهَدَّدُهُ وَ يَقُولُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنَّ الْخُيُوطَ الَّتِي فِي رَأْسِكَ هِيَ الَّتِي ضَيَّقَتْ عَلَيْكَ مَكَّةَ وَ رَمَتْ بِكَ إِلَى يَثْرِبَ وَ إِنَّهَا لَا تَزَالُ بِكَ حَتَّى تُنْفِرَكَ‏ وَ تَحُثَّكَ عَلَى مَا يُفْسِدُكَ وَ يُتْلِفُكَ‏ إِلَى أَنْ تُفْسِدَهَا عَلَى أَهْلِهَا وَ تَصْلِيَهُمْ حَرَّ نَارِ تَعَدِّيكَ طَوْرَكَ

And Muhammad^-saww, he^-saww is the one who, when a messenger of Abu Jahl came to threaten him, and he was saying, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! The madness which is in your^-saww head, it is which tightened Makkah upon you^-saww, and has had you^-saww thrown to Yasrib (Al-Medina), and it will not decline with you^-saww until you^-saww are alienated – and it would stimulate you^-saww upon what would corrupt you^-saww and make the corruption to reach upon its inhabitants, and the heat of a fire would arrive to them prepared by you^-saww (and) developed by you^-saww.

وَ مَا أَرَى ذَلِكَ إِلَّا وَ سَيَئُولُ إِلَى أَنْ تَثُورَ عَلَيْكَ قُرَيْشٌ ثَوْرَةَ رَجُلٍ وَاحِدٍ لِقَصْدِ آثَارِكَ‏ وَ دَفْعِ ضَرَرِكَ وَ بَلَائِكَ فَتَلْقَاهُمْ بِسُفَهَائِكَ الْمُغْتَرِّينَ بِكَ

And I do not see that except that it would be a revolution against you by the Qureysh, a revolution of one man aiming at your^-saww impacts, and they would defend your^-saww harmful effects and your^-saww calamity. You^-saww will be facing them with your^-saww foolish ones, the ones deceived by you^-saww.

وَ يُسَاعِدُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ مَنْ هُوَ كَافِرٌ بِكَ مُبْغِضٌ لَكَ فَيُلْجِئُهُ إِلَى مُسَاعَدَتِكَ وَ مُظَاهَرَتِكَ خَوْفُهُ لِأَنْ يَهْلِكَ بِهَلَاكِكَ وَ يَعْطَبَ عِيَالُهُ بِعَطَبِكَ وَ يَفْتَقِرَ هُوَ وَ مَنْ يَلِيهِ بِفَقْرِكَ وَ بِفَقْرِ مُتَّبِعِيكَ‏ إِذْ يَعْتَقِدُونَ أَنَّ أَعْدَاءَكَ

And they will (also) assist you^-saww upon that, the ones who is a Kafir with you^-saww, the one who hates you^-saww, for he would be compelled to assist you^-saww upon your^-saww victory out of fear – because he would be destroyed along with your^-saww destruction, and his dependants would be destroyed along with your^-saww destruction, and he would be impoverished, him and the ones dependent on him due to your^-saww impoverishment and the poverty of your^-saww followers, when they see that your^-saww enemies (the Makkans).

إِذَا قَهَرُوكَ وَ دَخَلُوا دِيَارَهُمْ عَنْوَةً لَمْ يُفَرِّقُوا بَيْنَ مَنْ وَالاكَ وَ عَادَاكَ وَ اصْطَلَمُوهُمْ بِاصْطِلَامِهِمْ لَكَ وَ أَتَوْا عَلَى عِيَالِهِمْ وَ أَمْوَالِهِمْ بِالسَّبْيِ وَ النَّهْبِ كَمَا يَأْتُونَ عَلَى عِيَالِكَ وَ أَمْوَالِكَ وَ قَدْ أَعْذَرَ مَنْ أَنْذَرَ وَ بَالَغَ مَنْ أَوْضَحَ

(This is because) when they overcome you^-saww and enter their houses – they will not differentiate between the ones who are your^-saww friends and your^-saww enemies, and plunder them by their plundering you^-saww. And they would come upon their dependents and upon their wealth by imprisoning and looting, just as they would be coming to your^-saww wealth and your^-saww dependents. And the fore-warned is fore-armed, and the mature is the one who had been clarified to’.

أُدِّيَتْ هَذِهِ الرِّسَالَةُ إِلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ هُوَ بِظَاهِرِ الْمَدِينَةِ بِحَضْرَةِ كَافَّةِ أَصْحَابِهِ وَ عَامَّةِ الْكُفَّارِ بِهِ مِنْ يَهُودِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَ هَكَذَا أُمِرَ الرَّسُولُ لِيُجَبِّنَ‏ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ يُغْرِيَ‏ بِالْوُثُوبِ عَلَيْهِ سَائِرَ مَنْ هُنَاكَ مِنَ الْكَافِرِينَ

This message was delivered to Muhammad^-saww, and he^-saww was at Al-Medina in the presence of all of his^-saww companions, and the generality of the Kafirs were with him^-saww, from the Jews of the Children of Israel, and such is how the messenger delivered in order to keep aside the Momineen and deceive them with the attack upon him^-saww by the rest of the ones who were over there from the Kafirs.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِلرَّسُولِ قَدْ أَطْرَيْتَ‏ مَقَالَتَكَ وَ اسْتَكْمَلْتَ رِسَالَتَكَ قَالَ بَلَى

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to the messenger: ‘Have you wrapped up your speech and completed your message?’ He said, ‘Yes’.

قَالَ فَاسْمَعِ الْجَوَابَ إِنَّ أَبَا جَهْلٍ بِالْمَكَارِهِ وَ الْعَطَبِ يَتَهَدَّدُنِي وَ رَبَّ الْعَالَمِينَ بِالنَّصْرِ وَ الظَّفَرِ يَعِدُنِي وَ خَبَرُ اللَّهِ أَصْدَقُ وَ الْقَبُولُ مِنَ اللَّهِ أَحَقُّ لَنْ يَضُرَّ مُحَمَّداً مَنْ يَخْذُلُهُ أَوْ يَغْضَبُ عَلَيْهِ بَعْدَ أَنْ يَنْصُرَهُ اللَّهُ وَ يَتَفَضَّلَ بِجُودِهِ وَ كَرَمِهِ عَلَيْهِ

He^-saww said: ‘Then hear the answer – Abu Jahl is threatening me with his abhorrences and the damage, and the Lord^-azwj of the world is Promising me^-saww the Help and the victory, and the News of Allah^-azwj is more truthful, and the Accepting from Allah^-azwj is more rightful. He will never harm Muhammad^-saww, the one who abandons him^-saww, or is angered upon him^-saww, after Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Helps him^-saww, and Graces with His^-azwj Benevolence and His^-azwj Prestige upon him^-saww.

قُلْ لَهُ يَا أَبَا جَهْلٍ إِنَّكَ رَاسَلْتَنِي‏ بِمَا أَلْقَاهُ فِي خَلَدِكَ‏ الشَّيْطَانُ وَ أَنَا أُجِيبُكَ بِمَا أَلْقَاهُ فِي خَاطِرِي‏ الرَّحْمَنُ إِنَّ الْحَرْبَ بَيْنَنَا وَ بَيْنَكَ كَائِنَةٌ إِلَى تِسْعَةٍ وَ عِشْرِينَ يَوْماً وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ سَيَقْتُلُكَ فِيهَا بِأَضْعَفِ أَصْحَابِي وَ سَتُلْقَى أَنْتَ وَ عُتْبَةُ وَ شَيْبَةُ وَ الْوَلِيدُ وَ فُلَانٌ وَ فُلَانٌ وَ ذَكَرَ عَدَداً مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ فِي قَلِيبِ بَدْرٍ مُقَتَّلِينَ‏ أَقْتُلُ مِنْكُمْ سَبْعِينَ وَ آسَرُ مِنْكُمْ سَبْعِينَ أَحْمِلُهُمْ عَلَى الْفِدَاءِ الْعَظِيمِ الثَّقِيلِ

Say to him, ‘O Abu Jahl! You are messaging me^-saww with what the Satan^-la cast in your mind, and I^-saww am answering you with what the Beneficent has Cast with into my^-saww heart. The war between us and you will happen in twenty-nine days’ time, and Allah^-azwj would be Killing you during it by a weak one of my^-saww companions. And you, and Utba, and Sheyba, and Al-Waleed, and so and so, and so and so’ – and he^-saww mentioned a number of Qureysh among the fighters at Badr – ‘Seventy of you would be killed and seventy of you would be taken prisoner. They would be loaded upon the great, heavy ransom upon them’.

ثُمَّ نَادَى جَمَاعَةَ مَنْ بِحَضْرَتِهِ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ الْيَهُودِ وَ سَائِرِ الْأَخْلَاطِ أَ لَا تُحِبُّونَ أَنْ أُرِيَكُمْ مَصْرَعَ كُلٍّ مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ هَلُمُّوا إِلَى بَدْرٍ فَإِنَّ هُنَاكَ الْمُلْتَقَى وَ الْمَحْشَرَ وَ هُنَاكَ الْبَلَاءَ الْأَكْبَرَ لِأَضَعَ قَدَمِي عَلَى مَوَاضِعِ مَصَارِعِهِمْ ثُمَّ سَتَجِدُونَهَا لَا تَزِيدُ وَ لَا تَنْقُصُ وَ لَا تَتَغَيَّرُ وَ لَا تَتَقَدَّمُ وَ لَا تَتَأَخَّرُ لَحْظَةً وَ لَا قَلِيلًا وَ لَا كَثِيراً

Then he^-saww called out to a group of the ones in his^-saww presence, from the Momineen, and the Jews, and the rest of the mingled ones: ‘Would you like me^-saww to show you the death of each one of them?’ They said, ‘Yes’. He^-saww said: ‘Let us go to Badr, for the meeting and the gathering (for battle) would be over there, and over there would be the great calamity. I^-saww shall place my^-saww feet upon the places of their deaths, they you will be finding that it would neither be exceeded, nor be deficient, nor preceded, nor delayed by a moment, neither little nor more’.

فَلَمْ يَخْفَ ذَلِكَ عَلَى أَحَدٍ مِنْهُمْ وَ لَمْ يُجِبْهُ‏ إِلَّا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَحْدَهُ وَ قَالَ نَعَمْ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ وَ قَالَ الْبَاقُونَ نَحْنُ نَحْتَاجُ إِلَى مَرْكُوبٍ وَ آلَاتٍ وَ نَفَقَاتٍ فَلَا يُمْكِنُنَا الْخُرُوجُ إِلَى هُنَاكَ وَ هُوَ مَسِيرَةُ أَيَّامٍ

That was not hidden upon anyone from them, and none answered him^-saww except Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws, alone, and said: ‘Yes, in the Name of Allah^-azwj!’ The rest of them said, ‘We are needy to the rides, and tools, and the expense monies, for the going out is not possible for us to over there as it is a journey of (a few) days’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِسَائِرِ الْيَهُودِ فَأَنْتُمْ مَا ذَا تَقُولُونَ قَالُوا نَحْنُ نُرِيدُ أَنْ نَسْتَقِرَّ فِي بُيُوتِنَا وَ لَا حَاجَةَ لَنَا فِي مُشَاهَدَةِ مَا أَنْتَ فِي ادِّعَائِهِ مُحِيلٌ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to the rest of the Jews: ‘What is that which you are saying?’ They said, ‘We want to stay in our houses, and there is no need for us in witnessing what you^-asws are claiming, as it is impossible’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَا نَصَبَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِي الْمَسِيرِ إِلَى هُنَاكَ اخْطُوا خُطْوَةً وَاحِدَةً فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يَطْوِي الْأَرْضَ لَكُمْ وَ يُوصِلُكُمْ فِي الْخُطْوَةِ الثَّانِيَةِ إِلَى هُنَاكَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘I^-saww am not encumbering you regarding the journeying to over there. Take one step, and Allah^-azwj will Fold the ground for you and you will be reaching by your second step, to over there’.

فَقَالَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ صَدَقَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَلْنَتَشَرَّفْ بِهَذِهِ الْآيَةِ

The Momineen said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww speaks the truth, so let us be honoured by these Signs’.

وَ قَالَ الْكَافِرُونَ وَ الْمُنَافِقُونَ سَوْفَ نَمْتَحِنُ هَذَا الْكَذِبَ لِيُقْطَعَ‏ عُذْرُ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ يَصِيرَ دَعْوَاهُ حُجَّةً عَلَيْهِ وَ فَاضِحَةً لَهُ فِي كَذِبِهِ

And the Kafirs and the Munafiqs said, ‘Soon we will examine this like in order to cut off the excuse of Muhammad^-saww and his^-saww claim would become an argument against him^-saww, and it would be an unmasking for him^-saww regarding his^-saww lies’.

قَالَ فَخَطَا الْقَوْمُ خُطْوَةً ثُمَّ الثَّانِيَةَ فَإِذَا هُمْ عِنْدَ بِئْرِ بَدْرٍ فَعَجِبُوا فَجَاءَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ اجْعَلُوا الْبِئْرَ الْعَلَامَةَ وَ اذْرَعُوا مِنْ عِنْدِهَا كَذَا ذِرَاعاً

He^-asws said: ‘The people took a step, then the second, and they were at the well of Badr, and they were astonished. Rasool-Allah^-saww came over and he^-saww said: ‘Make the well as the mark, and measure out from it, such and such cubits’.

فَذَرَعُوا فَلَمَّا انْتَهَوْا إِلَى آخِرِهَا قَالَ هَذَا مَصْرَعُ أَبِي جَهْلٍ يَجْرَحُهُ فُلَانٌ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ وَ يُجَهِّزُ عَلَيْهِ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ أَضْعَفُ أَصْحَابِي

They measured out, and when they came to the end of it, he^-saww said: ‘This is the death (place) of Abu Jahl. So and so (from the) Helpers would injure him, And Abdullah Bin Masoud, the (physically) weakest of my^-saww companions, would kill him’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ اذْرَعُوا مِنَ الْبِئْرِ مِنْ جَانِبٍ آخَرَ ثُمَّ مِنْ جَانِبٍ آخَرَ كَذَا وَ كَذَا ذِرَاعاً وَ ذِرَاعاً وَ ذَكَرَ أَعْدَادَ الْأَذْرُعِ مُخْتَلِفَةً

Then he^-saww said: ‘Measure out from the well, from another side, then another side, then another side, such and such cubits’, and he^-saww mentioned the different number of the cubits.

فَلَمَّا انْتَهَى كُلُّ عَدَدٍ إِلَى آخِرِهِ قَالَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص هَذَا مَصْرَعُ عُتْبَةَ وَ ذَلِكَ مَصْرَعُ شَيْبَةَ وَ ذَلِكَ مَصْرَعُ الْوَلِيدِ وَ سَيُقْتَلُ فُلَانٌ وَ فُلَانٌ إِلَى أَنْ سَمَّى تَمَامَ سَبْعِينَ مِنْهُمْ بِأَسْمَائِهِمْ وَ سَيُؤْسَرُ فُلَانٌ وَ فُلَانٌ إِلَى أَنْ ذَكَرَ سَبْعِينَ بِأَسْمَائِهِمْ وَ أَسْمَاءِ آبَائِهِمْ وَ صِفَاتِهِمْ وَ نَسَبَ الْمَنْسُوبِينَ إِلَى الْآبَاءِ مِنْهُمْ وَ نَسَبَ الْمَوَالِيَ مِنْهُمْ إِلَى مَوَالِيهِمْ

When they ended each number to its end, Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘This is the death place of Utba, and that is the death place of Sheyba, and that is the death place of Al Waleed, and so and so would be killed’ – until he^-saww named all seventy of them by their names – ‘And so and so, and so and so would be captured’ – until he^-saww mentioned seventy of them by their names and the names of their fathers, and their description, and the lineages to their forefathers from them, and lineage of the slaves from them to their masters.

ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَ وَقَفْتُمْ عَلَى مَا أَخْبَرْتُكُمْ بِهِ قَالُوا بَلَى قَالَ إِنَّ ذَلِكَ لَحَقٌّ كَائِنٌ إِلَى ثَمَانِيَةٍ وَ عِشْرِينَ يَوْماً مِنَ الْيَوْمِ فِي الْيَوْمِ التَّاسِعِ‏ وَ الْعِشْرِينَ وَعْداً مِنَ اللَّهِ مَفْعُولًا وَ قَضَاءً حَتْماً لَازِماً

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Are you familiar upon what I^-saww informed you all with?’ They said, ‘Yes’. He^-saww said: ‘That is true. It would happen after twenty-eight days from today, during the twenty ninth day – a Promise from Allah^-azwj to be accomplished, and an Ordainment, inevitable, compulsory.

ثُمَّ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَا مَعْشَرَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَ الْيَهُودِ اكْتُبُوا بِمَا سَمِعْتُمْ فَقَالُوا يَا

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O group of Muslims, and the Jews! Write down what you heard!’ They said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! We have heard, and retained, and we will not forget’.

رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَدْ سَمِعْنَا وَ وَعَيْنَا وَ لَا نَنْسَى فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْكِتَابَةُ أَذْكَرُ لَكُمْ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ أَيْنَ الدَّوَاةُ وَ الْكَتِفُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ذَلِكَ لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا مَلَائِكَةَ رَبِّي اكْتُبُوا مَا سَمِعْتُمْ مِنْ هَذِهِ الْقِصَّةِ فِي أَكْتَافٍ وَ اجْعَلُوا فِي كُمِّ كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ كَتِفاً مِنْ ذَلِكَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘The writing is better and would be more reminding for you’. They said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! And where is the ink and the paper?’ Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘That is for the Angels’. Then he^-saww said: ‘O Angels of my^-saww Lord^-azwj! Write down what you heard from this story in a shoulder bone, and make it to be in a sleeve of each one of them, a shoulder bone from that’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ مَعَاشِرَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ تَأَمَّلُوا أَكْمَامَكُمْ وَ مَا فِيهَا وَ أَخْرِجُوهُ وَ اقْرَءُوهُ

Then he^-saww said: ‘O group of Muslims! Examine your sleeves and whatever is in them, and bring it out and read it!’

فَتَأَمَّلُوهَا فَإِذَا فِي كُمِّ كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ صَحِيفَةٌ قَرَأَهَا وَ إِذَا فِيهَا ذِكْرُ مَا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فِي ذَلِكَ سَوَاءً لَا يَزِيدُ وَ لَا يَنْقُصُ وَ لَا يَتَقَدَّمُ وَ لَا يَتَأَخَّرُ

They examined them, and there was a parchment in the sleeve of every one of them. They read it, and therein was a mention of what Rasool-Allah^-saww had said regarding that, exactly, neither was there an addition nor a subtraction, nor a preceding nor a delay (in the timings of the deaths).

فَقَالَ أَعِيدُوهَا فِي أَكْمَامِكُمْ تَكُنْ‏ حُجَّةً عَلَيْكُمْ وَ شَرَفاً لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْكُمْ وَ حُجَّةً عَلَى أَعْدَائِكُمْ فَكَانَتْ مَعَهُمْ

He^-saww said: ‘Return these into your sleeves. It would become a proof upon you, and a nobility for the Momineen from you, and a proof against the Kafirs’. They were with them.

فَلَمَّا كَانَ يَوْمُ بَدْرٍ جَرَتِ الْأُمُورُ كُلُّهَا بِبَدْرٍ وَ وَجَدُوهَا كَمَا قَالَ‏ ص لَا يَزِيدُ وَ لَا يَنْقُصُ قَابَلُوا بِهَا مَا فِي كُتُبِهِمْ فَوَجَدُوهَا كَمَا كَتَبَتْهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ فِيهَا لَا يَزِيدُ وَ لَا يَنْقُصُ وَ لَا يَتَقَدَّمُ وَ لَا يَتَأَخَّرُ فَقَبِلَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ ظَاهِرَهُمْ‏ وَ وَكَلُوا بَاطِنَهُمْ إِلَى خَالِقِهِمْ

When it was the day of (the battle of) Badr, the matter unfolded at Badr and they found it to be just as he^-saww had said it would. Neither was there an increase nor a reduction. They compared it with whatever was in their books and they found it just as the Angels had written it. Neither was there an increase, nor a decrease, nor a preceding, nor a delay. The Muslims accepted their (Jew’s) apparent, and left their hidden to their Creator.

فَلَمَّا أَفْضَى بَعْضُ هَؤُلَاءِ الْيَهُودِ إِلَى بَعْضٍ قَالُوا أَيَّ شَيْ‏ءٍ صَنَعْتُمْ أَخْبَرْتُمُوهُمْ بِمَا فَتَحَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنَ الدَّلَالاتِ عَلَى صِدْقِ نُبُوَّةِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ إِمَامَةِ أَخِيهِ عَلِيٍّ لِيُحَاجُّوكُمْ بِهِ عِنْدَ رَبِّكُمْ بِأَنَّكُمْ كُنْتُمْ قَدْ عَلِمْتُمْ هَذَا وَ شَاهَدْتُمُوهُ فَلَمْ تُؤْمِنُوا بِهِ وَ لَمْ تُطِيعُوهُ

When these Jews arrived to the others (hypocrites), they (Jews) said, ‘Which thing did you do? ‘Are you narrating them with what Allah has Disclosed upon you – from the proofs upon the truthfulness of the Prophet-hood of Muhammad^-saww and the Imamate of his^-saww brother Ali^-asws in order for them to argue with you by it in the Presence of your Lord?’ – that you have known this and witnessed it, but did not believe in it and did not obey it.

وَ قَدَرُوا بِجَهْلِهِمْ أَنَّهُمْ إِنْ لَمْ يُخْبِرُوهُمْ بِتِلْكَ الْآيَاتِ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُمْ‏ عَلَيْهِمْ حُجَّةٌ فِي غَيْرِهَا

And they (Jews at the time of Prophet Musa^-as) reckoned in their ignorance, that they, if they do not inform them (the generality of the Jews) with those Signs, there would not be an argument for it upon them regarding others.

ثُمَّ قَالَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ أَ فَلا تَعْقِلُونَ‏ أَنَّ هَذَا الَّذِي تُخْبِرُونَهُمْ بِهِ بِمَا فَتَحَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ دَلَائِلِ نُبُوَّةِ مُحَمَّدٍ حُجَّةٌ عَلَيْكُمْ عِنْدَ رَبِّكُمْ

Then Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Said: Are you not understanding? – that this, which you are informing with, is from what Allah has Disclosed upon you, from the proofs of the Prophet-hood of Muhammad^-saww, and is an argument against you in the Presence of your Lord?

قَالَ‏ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ أَ وَ لا يَعْلَمُونَ‏ يَعْنِي أَ وَ لَا يَعْلَمُ هَؤُلَاءِ الْقَائِلُونَ لِإِخْوَانِهِمْ‏ أَ تُحَدِّثُونَهُمْ بِما فَتَحَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمْ‏ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ ما يُسِرُّونَ‏ مِنْ عَدَاوَةِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ يُضْمِرُونَهُ مِنْ أَنَّ إِظْهَارَهُمُ الْإِيمَانَ بِهِ أَمْكَنُ لَهُمْ مِنِ اصْطِلَامِهِ وَ إِبَارَةِ أَصْحَابِهِ‏ وَ ما يُعْلِنُونَ‏ مِنَ الْإِيمَانِ ظَاهِراً لِيُؤْنِسُوهُمْ وَ يَقِفُوا بِهِ عَلَى‏ أَسْرَارِهِمْ فَيُذِيعُونَهَا بِحَضْرَةِ مَنْ يَضُرُّهُمْ

Then Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Said: Or are they not knowing? – meaning, ‘Or are they not knowing, those speakers to their brethren, ‘Are you narrating them with what Allah has Disclosed upon you’, that Allah Knows what they are keeping as secret – from the enmity to Muhammad^-saww, and are keeping it in their consciences from their displaying of the Eman in it and the possibility of it being a lesson for his^-as companions, and what they are announcing? – from the apparent Eman in order to get their sympathy, and they are refraining with it from their secrets. Thus, they are wasting it in the presence of the one who would harm them.

وَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ لَمَّا عَلِمَ ذَلِكَ دَبَّرَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ تَمَامَ أَمْرِهِ وَ بُلُوغَ غَايَةِ مَا أَرَادَ اللَّهُ‏ بِبَعْثِهِ وَ أَنَّهُ يُتِمُّ أَمْرَهُ وَ أَنَّ نِفَاقَهُمْ وَ كِيَادَهُمْ لَا يَضُرُّهُ‏

And that Allah^-azwj, Let Muhammad^-saww know that, what they were contriving, the complete of his^-saww matters, and it reached the peak what Allah^-azwj Intended by Sending him^-saww, and he^-saww completed his^-saww matters, and that they hypocrisies and their plots did not harm him^-saww’’.[16]

17- كا، الكافي عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ غَيْرُهُ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ شَبَابٍ الصَّيْرَفِيِّ عَنْ مَالِكِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ النَّهْدِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ السَّلَامِ بْنِ حَارِثٍ عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي حَفْصَةَ الْعِجْلِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: كَانَ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص ثَلَاثَةٌ لَمْ تَكُنْ فِي أَحَدٍ غَيْرِهِ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ فَيْ‏ءٌ وَ كَانَ لَا يَمُرُّ فِي طَرِيقٍ فَيُمَرَّ فِيهِ بَعْدَ يَوْمَيْنِ أَوْ ثَلَاثَةٍ إِلَّا عُرِفَ أَنَّهُ قَدْ مَرَّ فِيهِ لِطِيبِ عَرْفِهِ وَ كَانَ لَا يَمُرُّ بِحَجَرٍ وَ لَا شَجَرٍ إِلَّا سَجَدَ لَهُ‏

‘Al-Kafi’ – Ali Bin Muhammad and someone else, from Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Muhammad Bin Al Waleed Shabab Al Sayrafi, from Malik Bin Ismail Al Nahdy, from Abdul Salam Bin Haris, from Salim Bin Abu Hafs Al Ajaly,

‘From Abu Ja’far^-asws having said: ‘There was in Rasool-Allah^-saww, three (qualities) which did not happen to be in anyone other than him^-saww – There did not happen to be a shadow for him^-saww, and he^-saww did not pass by in a street and someone would pass by in it after two days or three except he would recognise that he^-saww had passed by in it, recognising him^-saww due to the perfume, and he^-saww neither passed by a stone nor a tree except it did Sajdah to him^-saww’’.[17]

18- كا، الكافي عَلِيٌّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْمَغْرَاءِ عَنْ عَمَّارٍ السِّجِسْتَانِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع عَنْ أَبِيهِ ع‏ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَضَعَ حَجَراً عَلَى الطَّرِيقِ يَرُدُّ الْمَاءَ عَنْ أَرْضِهِ فَوَ اللَّهِ مَا نَكَبَ بَعِيراً وَ لَا إِنْسَاناً حَتَّى السَّاعَةِ

‘Al-Kafi’ – Ali, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Abu Al Magra, from Amaar Al Sijistany,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws, from his^-asws father^-asws that Rasool-Allah^-saww placed a rock upon the street intending (diverting) the water from his^-saww land, so, by Allah^-azwj, neither a camel nor a human has moved it until this time’’.[18]

باب 3 ما ظهر له ص شاهدا على حقيته من المعجزات السماوية و الغرائب العلوية من انشقاق القمر و رد الشمس و حبسها و إظلال الغمامة و ظهور الشهب و نزول الموائد و النعم من السماء و ما يشاكل ذلك زائدا على ما مضى في باب جوامع المعجزات‏

CHAPTER 3 – WHAT APPEARED FOR HIM^-saww AS TESTIMONY UPON HIS^-saww REALITY, FROM THE HEAVENLY MIRACLES AND THE  SUPERIOR ODDITIES – FROM THE SPLITTING OF THE MOON, AND RETURNING THE SUN AND WITHHOLDING IT, AND SHADING OF THE CLOUD, AND APPEARANCE OF THE METEORS, AND DESCENT OF THE MEALS AND BOUNTIES FROM THE SKY, AND THE LIKE, IN ADDITION TO WHAT IS PASSED IN THE CHAPTER ON THE SUMMARY OF THE MIRACLES

الآيات القمر اقْتَرَبَتِ السَّاعَةُ وَ انْشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ

The Verses – (Surah) Al Qamar: The time approached and the moon split apart [54:1]

وَ إِنْ يَرَوْا آيَةً يُعْرِضُوا وَ يَقُولُوا سِحْرٌ مُسْتَمِرٌّ

And if they see a Sign they turn aside and are saying, ‘Continuous sorcery!’ [54:2]

Notes –

ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ‏ اجْتَمَعَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالُوا إِنْ كُنْتَ صَادِقاً فَشُقَّ لَنَا الْقَمَرَ فِلْقَتَيْنِ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنْ فَعَلْتُ تُؤْمِنُونَ قَالُوا نَعَمْ

Ibn Abbas – ‘The Polytheists gathered to Rasool-Allah^-saww. They said, ‘If you were truthful, split the moon for us in two pieces!’ Rasool-Allah^-saww said to them: ‘If I^-saww do so, will you believe?’ They said, ‘Yes’.

وَ كَانَتْ لَيْلَةُ بَدْرٍ فَسَأَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص رَبَّهُ أَنْ يُعْطِيَهُ مَا قَالُوا فَانْشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ فِلْقَتَيْنِ‏ وَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يُنَادِي يَا فُلَانُ يَا فُلَانُ اشْهَدُوا..

And it was a night of the full moon. Rasool-Allah^-saww asked his^-saww Lord to Grant him^-saww what they said. The moon split asunder into two pieces, and Rasool-Allah^-saww called out: ‘O so and so! O so and so! Bear witness!’

وَ قَالَ ابْنُ مَسْعُودٍ انْشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص شِقَّتَيْنِ فَقَالَ لَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص اشْهَدُوا اشْهَدُوا

And Ibn Masoud – ‘The moon split asunder in the era of Rasool-Allah^-saww into two segments. Rasool-Allah^-saww said to us: ‘Bear witness! Bear witness!’

وَ رُوِيَ أَيْضاً عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: وَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ الْحَرَاءَ بَيْنَ فِلْقَيِ الْقَمَرِ

And it is reported as well from Ibn Masoud, he said, ‘By the One in Whose Hand is my soul! I have seen (mount) Hara between two halves of the moon!’

وَ عَنْ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ مُطْعِمٍ قَالَ: انْشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص حَتَّى صَارَ فِرْقَتَيْنِ عَلَى هَذَا الْجَبَلِ فَقَالَ أُنَاسٌ سَحَرَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ إِنْ كَانَ سَحَرَكُمْ فَلَمْ يَسْحَرِ النَّاسَ كُلَّهُمْ

And from Jubeyr Bin Mut’am who said, ‘The moon had split asunder in the era of Rasool-Allah^-saww until it became in two segments upon this mountain. Some people said, ‘Muhammad^-saww has bewitched us!’ A man said, ‘If he^-saww has bewitched you, but he^-saww has not bewitched all the people’.

رواه جمع من الصحابة قالوا سئل رسول الله ص انشقاق القمر معجزة فسأل ربه فشقه

A lot of the companions said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww was asked for splitting the moon as a miracle. He^-saww asked his^-saww Lord^-azwj, so He^-azwj Split it’.

و قال القاضي في الشفاء أجمع المفسرون و أهل السنة على وقوع الانشقاق و روى البخاري بإسناده عن أبي معمر عن ابن مسعود قال‏ انشق القمر على عهد رسول الله‏ ص فرقتين فرقة فوق الجبل و فرقة دونه فقال رسول الله ص اشهدوا

And Al Qazi said in ‘Al Shifa’, ‘The interpreters (of the Quran) and the autobiographers are unanimous upon occurrence of the splitting (of the moon), and it is reported by Al Bukhari by his chain from Abu Ma’mar, from Ibn Masoud who said, ‘The moon split asunder in the era of Rasool-Allah^-azwj into two parts. A part above the mountains and a part beneath it. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Bear witness!’’

فقال علي ع من رواية أبي حذيفة الأرحبي‏ انشق القمر و نحن مع النبي ص

Ali^-asws said, from a report by Abu Huzeyfa Al Arhy: ‘The moon split asunder while we were with the Prophet^-saww’.

و عن أنس‏ سأل أهل مكة النبي ص أن يريهم آية فأراهم انشقاق القمر فرقتين حتى رأوا حراء بينهما

And from Anas (well-known fabricator), ‘The people of Makkah asked the Prophet^-saww to show them a Sign (miracle). He^-saww showed them splitting of the moon into two segments until they saw (mount) Hara between the two’.

1- فس، تفسير القمي‏ اقْتَرَبَتِ السَّاعَةُ قَالَ قَرُبَتِ الْقِيَامَةُ فَلَا يَكُونُ بَعْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص إِلَّا الْقِيَامَةُ وَ قَدِ انْقَضَتِ النُّبُوَّةُ وَ الرِّسَالَةُ قَوْلُهُ‏ وَ انْشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ فَإِنَّ قُرَيْشاً سَأَلَتْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ يُرِيَهُمْ آيَةً فَدَعَا اللَّهَ فَانْشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ بِنِصْفَيْنِ‏ حَتَّى نَظَرُوا إِلَيْهِ ثُمَّ الْتَأَمَ فَقَالُوا هَذَا سِحْرٌ مُسْتَمِرٌّ أَيْ صَحِيحٌ وَ رُوِيَ أَيْضاً فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ اقْتَرَبَتِ السَّاعَةُ قَالَ خُرُوجُ الْقَائِمِ ع

حَدَّثَنَا حَبِيبُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ‏ بْنِ أَبَانٍ الْآجُرِّيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ عَنْ‏ مُحَمَّدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي يُونُسُ قَالَ: قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع اجْتَمَعُوا أَرْبَعَةَ عَشَرَ رَجُلًا أَصْحَابُ الْعَقَبَةِ لَيْلَةَ أَرْبَعَةَ عَشَرَ مِنْ ذِي الْحِجَّةِ فَقَالُوا لِلنَّبِيِّ ص مَا مِنْ نَبِيٍّ إِلَّا وَ لَهُ آيَةٌ فَمَا آيَتُكَ فِي لَيْلَتِكَ هَذِهِ

‘Tafseer Al-Qummi’ – ‘It has been narrated to us by Habeeb Ibn Al-Hassan Bin Aban Al-Ajary, from Muhammad Bin Hisham, from Muhammad, from Yunus who said,

‘Abu Abdullah^-asws said to me: ‘Fourteen companions of Al-Aqba[19] gathered on the night of the fourteenth of Zilhijja, and they said to the Prophet^-saww, ‘There is none from the Prophets^-as except that he^-as had a miracle to show, so what is your^-saww miracle in this night of yours^-saww?’

فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص مَا الَّذِي تُرِيدُونَ فَقَالُوا إِنْ يَكُنْ لَكَ عِنْدَ رَبِّكَ قَدْرٌ فَأْمُرِ الْقَمَرَ أَنْ يَنْقَطِعَ قِطْعَتَيْنِ

The Prophet^-saww said: ‘What is it which you want?’ They said, ‘If there is Power in your^-saww Lord^-azwj, then order the moon that it should split into two pieces’.

فَهَبَطَ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ اللَّهُ‏ يُقْرِئُكَ السَّلَامَ وَ يَقُولُ لَكَ إِنِّي قَدْ أَمَرْتُ كُلَّ شَيْ‏ءٍ بِطَاعَتِكَ فَرَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ فَأَمَرَ الْقَمَرَ أَنْ يَنْقَطِعَ قِطْعَتَيْنِ فَانْقَطَعَ قِطْعَتَيْنِ فَسَجَدَ النَّبِيُّ ص شُكْراً لِلَّهِ وَ سَجَدَ شِيعَتُنَا ثُمَّ رَفَعَ النَّبِيُّ رَأْسَهُ وَ رَفَعُوا رُءُوسَهُمْ فَقَالُوا يَعُودُ كَمَا كَانَ فَعَادَ كَمَا كَانَ ثُمَّ قَالُوا يَنْشَقُّ رَأْسُهُ فَأَمَرَهُ فَانْشَقَّ

Jibraeel^-as descended and said: ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Allah^-azwj Conveys Greetings to you^-saww and is Saying to you^-saww: ‘I^-azwj have Commanded everything to be obedient to you^-saww, therefore raise your^-saww head, and order the moon that it should split into two pieces’. So it split into two pieces. The Prophet^-saww performed Sajdah in appreciation to Allah^-azwj, and our^-asws Shias (also) did Sajdah. Then the Prophet^-saww raised his^-saww head, and they raised their heads. Then they said: ‘Return it to what it was!’ He^-saww returned it to what it was. Then they said, ‘Break its head!’ He^-saww ordered it, and it split’.

فَسَجَدَ النَّبِيُّ ص شُكْراً لِلَّهِ وَ سَجَدَ شِيعَتُنَا فَقَالُوا يَا مُحَمَّدُ حِينَ تَقَدَّمَ سُفَّارُنَا مِنَ الشَّامِ وَ الْيَمَنِ نَسْأَلُهُمْ‏ مَا رَأَوْا فِي هَذِهِ اللَّيْلَةِ فَإِنْ يَكُونُوا رَأَوْا مِثْلَ مَا رَأَيْنَا عَلِمْنَا أَنَّهُ مِنْ رَبِّكَ وَ إِنْ لَمْ يَرَوْا مِثْلَ مَا رَأَيْنَا عَلِمْنَا أَنَّهُ سِحْرٌ سَحَرْتَنَا بِهِ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ‏ اقْتَرَبَتِ السَّاعَةُ إِلَى آخِرِ السُّورَةِ

The Prophet^-saww performed Sajdah in appreciation to Allah^-azwj, and our^-asws Shias (also) did Sajdah. They said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! When our travellers come back from Syria and the Yemen, we will ask them what they saw in this night. If they have (also) seen the like of what we saw, we will know that it is from your^-saww Lord^-azwj. And if they did not see the like of what we saw, we will know that it is sorcery which you^-saww have enchanted us with. Therefore Allah^-azwj Revealed: The time approached [54:1] – up to the end of the Chapter’’.[20]

2- م، تفسير الإمام عليه السلام ج، الإحتجاج بِالْإِسْنَادِ إِلَى أَبِي مُحَمَّدٍ الْعَسْكَرِيِّ ع‏ فِي احْتِجَاجِ النَّبِيِّ ص عَلَى قُرَيْشٍ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَا أَبَا جَهْلٍ إِنَّمَا دَفَعَ عَنْكَ الْعَذَابَ لِعِلْمِهِ بِأَنَّهُ سَيَخْرُجُ مِنْ صُلْبِكَ ذُرِّيَّةٌ طَيِّبَةٌ عِكْرِمَةُ ابْنُكَ وَ سَيَلِي مِنْ أُمُورِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ مَا إِنْ أَطَاعَ اللَّهَ فِيهِ كَانَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ خَلِيلًا وَ إِلَّا فَالْعَذَابُ نَازِلٌ عَلَيْكَ

‘Tafseer of the Imam (Hassan Al-Askari^-asws) – By the chain to Abu Muhammad Al-Askari^-asws regarding the argumentation of the Prophet^-saww against Qureysh: ‘Allah^-azwj the Exalted, O Abu Jahl^-la, is rather Repelling the Punishment from you^-la due to His^-azwj Knowledge that there would be coming out from your loins, a good offspring – Ikrima your^-la so, and he would be ruling from the affairs of the Muslims what, if he was to obey Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww during it, he would be majestic in the Presence of Allah^-azwj, or else the Punishment would descend upon you^-la.

وَ كَذَلِكَ سَائِرُ قُرَيْشٍ السَّائِلِينَ لَمَّا سَأَلُوا مِنْ هَذَا إِنَّمَا أُمْهِلُوا لِأَنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِمَ أَنَّ بَعْضَهُمْ سَيُؤْمِنُ بِمُحَمَّدٍ وَ يَنَالُ بِهِ السَّعَادَةَ فَهُوَ لَا يَقْطَعُهُ عَنْ تِلْكَ السَّعَادَةِ وَ لَا يَبْخَلُ بِهَا عَلَيْهِ أَوْ مَنْ يُولَدُ مِنْهُ مُؤْمِنٌ فَهُوَ يُنْظِرُ أَبَاهُ لِإِيصَالِ ابْنِهِ إِلَى السَّعَادَةِ وَ لَوْ لَا ذَلِكَ لَنَزَلَ الْعَذَابُ بِكَافَّتِكُمْ فَانْظُرْ نَحْوَ السَّمَاءِ

And similar to that are the Qureysh, the questioners – when they are asking this, they are rather being Respited – because Allah^-azwj Knows that some of them would be believing in Muhammad^-saww (later one), and attain the happiness with it. Thus, He^-azwj is Exalted. He^-azwj is not Cutting him off from that happiness, nor is He^-azwj being Stingy with him upon it, or the ones who would be born from him being a Momin. He^-azwj Waits with his father so that his son can come to the happiness. And had it not been for that, the Punishment would descend with all of them. Look around at the sky!’

فَنَظَرَ أَكْنَافَهَا فَإِذَا أَبْوَابُهَا مُفَتَّحَةٌ وَ إِذَا النِّيرَانُ نَازِلَةٌ مِنْهَا مُسَامِتَةٌ لِرُءُوسِ الْقَوْمِ حَتَّى تَدْنُوَ مِنْهُمْ حَتَّى وَجَدُوا حَرَّهَا بَيْنَ أَكْتَافِهِمْ فَارْتَعَدَتْ فَرَائِصُ‏ أَبِي جَهْلٍ وَ الْجَمَاعَةِ

So, he^-la looked, and its gateways had been opened, and the fires were descending from it aligned to the heads of the people, approaching them – until they found its heat between their shoulders. The limbs of Abu Jahl^-la and the group (started) trembling.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَا تَرُوعَنَّكُمْ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُهْلِكُكُمْ بِهَا وَ إِنَّمَا أَظْهَرَهَا عِبْرَةً

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Do not let it terrify you, for you would not be destroyed by it, and rather its appearance is a lesson’.

ثُمَّ نَظَرُوا وَ إِذَا قَدْ خَرَجَ مِنْ ظُهُورِ الْجَمَاعَةِ أَنْوَارٌ قَابَلَتْهَا وَ دَفَعَتْهَا حَتَّى أَعَادَتْهَا فِي السَّمَاءِ كَمَا جَاءَتْ مِنْهَا

Then they looked, and there had emitted from the backs of the group, lights facing these (fires), and they lifted these and repelled these until they returned these back into the sky, just as they had come out from it.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بَعْضُ هَذِهِ الْأَنْوَارِ أَنْوَارُ مَنْ قَدْ عَلِمَ اللَّهُ أَنَّهُ سَيُسْعِدُهُ بِالْإِيمَانِ فِي كُلٍّ مِنْكُمْ مِنْ بَعْدُ وَ بَعْضُهَا أَنْوَارٌ طَيِّبَةٌ سَيَخْرُجُ عَنْ بَعْضِكُمْ مِمَّنْ لَا يُؤْمِنُ وَ هُمْ مُؤْمِنُونَ‏

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Some of these lights, are the lights of the one whom Allah^-azwj Knows that he would be fortunate with the Eman with me^-saww, from you all afterwards, and some of these are lights of the goodly offspring which would be coming out from some of you – from the ones who do not believe (at the moment), and (then) they would be Momineen’’.[21]

3- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي ابْنُ الصَّلْتِ عَنِ ابْنِ عُقْدَةَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْحُسَيْنِيِّ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنِ الرِّضَا عَنْ آبَائِهِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ع قَالَ: انْشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ بِمَكَّةَ فِلْقَتَيْنِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص اشْهَدُوا اشْهَدُوا

‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – Ibn Al Salt, from Ibn Aqadah, from Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Ali Al Husayni, from Ja’far Ibn Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ubeydullah Bin Ali,

‘From Al-Reza^-asws, from his^-asws forefathers^-asws, from Ali^-asws having said: ‘The moon split into two halves at Makkah, so Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Bear witness! Bear witness to this!’’[22]

4- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي جَمَاعَةٌ عَنْ أَبِي الْمُفَضَّلِ عَنْ نَصْرِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِ وَ عُمَرَ بْنِ أَبِي حَسَّانَ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ أَبِي إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ دَيْلَمِ بْنِ غَزْوَانَ الْعَبْدِيِّ وَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي سَارَةَ الشَّيْبَانِيِّ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ الْبُنَانِيِّ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ‏ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص بَعَثَ رَجُلًا إِلَى فِرْعَوْنٍ مِنْ فَرَاعِنَةِ الْعَرَبِ يَدْعُوهُ إِلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فَقَالَ لِرَسُولِ النَّبِيِّ ص أَخْبِرْنِي عَنْ هَذَا الَّذِي يَدْعُونِي‏ إِلَيْهِ أَ مِنْ فِضَّةٍ هُوَ أَمْ مِنْ ذَهَبٍ أَمْ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ

‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – A group, from Abu Al Mufazzal, from Nasr Bin Al Qasim, and Amro Bin Abu Hasan, from Is’haq Bin Abu Israeel, from Daylam Bin Gazwan Al Abady, and Ali Bin Abu Sarah Al Shaybani, from Sabit Al Banany, from Anas Bin Malik (fabricator),

‘Rasool-Allah^-saww sent a man to a pharaoh from the pharaohs of the Arabs calling him to Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic. He said to the messenger of the Prophet^-saww, ‘Inform me about the One^-azwj Who you are calling me to, is He^-azwj of silver, or of gold or of iron?’

فَرَجَعَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص فَأَخْبَرَهُ بِقَوْلِهِ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص ارْجِعْ إِلَيْهِ فَادْعُهُ فَقَالَ يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ إِنَّهُ أَعْتَى‏ مِنْ ذَلِكَ قَالَ ارْجِعْ إِلَيْهِ‏ فَقَالَ‏ كَقَوْلِهِ فَبَيْنَا هُوَ يُكَلِّمُهُ إِذْ رَعَدَتْ سَحَابَةٌ رَعْدَةً فَأَلْقَتْ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ صَاعِقَةً ذَهَبَتْ بِقِحْفِ‏ رَأْسِهِ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ ثَنَاؤُهُ‏ وَ يُرْسِلُ‏ الصَّواعِقَ فَيُصِيبُ بِها مَنْ يَشاءُ وَ هُمْ يُجادِلُونَ فِي اللَّهِ وَ هُوَ شَدِيدُ الْمِحالِ‏

He returned to the Prophet^-saww and informed him^-saww of his words. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘Return to him and call him’. He said, ‘O Prophet^-saww of Allah^-azwj! He has transgressed from that’. He^-saww said: ‘Return to him’. He (still) said like his words (before). While he was speaking to him when a cloud rumbled with thunder and a thunderbolt fell upon his head and took off the top of his skull. Allah^-azwj, Majestic is His^-azwj Praise Revealed: and He Sends the thunderbolts, so He Hits with these the ones He so Desires to, and they are disputing regarding Allah and He is Mighty in Strength [13:13]’’.[23]

5- ص، قصص الأنبياء عليهم السلام الصَّدُوقُ بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ‏ أَنَّهُ سُئِلَ عَنْ قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى‏ اقْتَرَبَتِ السَّاعَةُ وَ انْشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ قَالَ انْشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص حَتَّى صَارَ بِنِصْفَيْنِ وَ نَظَرَ إِلَيْهِ النَّاسُ وَ أَعْرَضَ أَكْثَرُهُمْ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى جَلَّ ذِكْرُهُ‏ وَ إِنْ يَرَوْا آيَةً يُعْرِضُوا وَ يَقُولُوا سِحْرٌ مُسْتَمِرٌّ فَقَالَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ سَحَرَ الْقَمَرَ سَحَرَ الْقَمَرَ

‘Qasas Al-Anbiya^-as’ – Al-Sadouq, by his chain from Ibn Abbas, from him, he had asked about Words of the Exalted: The time approached and the moon split apart [54:1]. He (Ibn Abbas)  said, ‘The moon split in the era of Rasool-Allah^-saww until it became two halves, and the people looked at it and most of them turned away. Allah^-azwj the Exalted, Majestic is His^-azwj Mention, Revealed: And if they see a Sign they turn aside and are saying, ‘Continuous sorcery!’ [54:2]. The Polythests said, ‘The moon is bewitched! The moon is bewitched!’’ (P.s. – This is not a Hadeeth)[24]

6- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ‏ أَنَّ أَهْلَ الْمَدِينَةِ مُطِرُوا مَطَراً عَظِيماً فَخَافُوا الْغَرَقَ فَشَكَوْا إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَ اللَّهُمَّ حَوَالَيْنَا وَ لَا عَلَيْنَا فَانْجَابَتِ السَّحَابُ عَنِ الْمَدِينَةِ عَلَى هَيْئَةِ الْإِكْلِيلِ لَا تَمْطُرُ فِي الْمَدِينَةِ وَ تَمْطُرُ حَوَالَيْهَا فَعَايَنَ مُؤْمِنُهُمْ وَ كَافِرُهُمْ أَمْراً لَمْ يُعَايِنُوا مِثْلَهُ

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – It is reported that the people of Al-Medina were rained upon with a mighty rainfall. They feared the drowning. They complained to him^-saww. He^-saww said: ‘Around us, nor upon us!’ The clouds cleared away from Al-Medina in the appearance of the circle. It did not rain in Al-Medina and it rained around it. Their believers and their unbelievers witnessed a matter they had not witnessed the like of it’.[25]

7- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ‏ أَنَّهُ كَانَ فِي سَفَرَيْنِ مِنْ أَسْفَارِهِ قَبْلَ الْبِعْثَةِ مَعْرُوفَيْنِ مَذْكُورَيْنِ عِنْدَ عَشِيرَتِهِ وَ غَيْرِهِمْ لَا يَدْفَعُونَ حَدْيثَهُمَا فَكَانَتْ سَحَابَةٌ أَظَلَّتْ عَلَيْهِ حِينَ يَمْشِي تَدُورُ مَعَهُ حَيْثُمَا دَارَ وَ تَزُولُ حَيْثُ زَالَ يَرَاهَا رُفَقَاؤُهُ وَ مُعَاشِرُوهُ

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – It is reported that he^-saww was in a journey from his^-saww journeys before the Prophet-hood. It is famously mentioned with his^-saww clan and others who did not dispute their narrations. There was a cloud shading upon him^-saww when he^-saww walking, rotating with him^-saww wherever he^-saww rotated, and moving away when he^-saww paused. His^-saww friends and his^-saww community saw it’.[26]

8- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ‏ أَنَّ الْقَمَرَ انْشَقَّ وَ هُوَ بِمَكَّةَ أَوَّلَ مَبْعَثِهِ يَرَاهُ أَهْلُ الْأَرْضِ طُرّاً فَتَلَا بِهِ عَلَيْهِمْ قُرْآناً فَمَا أَنْكَرُوا ذَلِكَ عَلَيْهِ وَ كَانَ مَا أَخْبَرَهُمْ بِهِ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ الَّذِي لَا يَخْفَى أَثَرُهُ وَ لَا يَنْدَرِسُ ذِكْرُهُ وَ قَوْلُ بَعْضِ النَّاسِ إِنَّهُ لَمْ يَرَهُ إِلَّا وَاحِدٌ خَطَأٌ بَلْ شُهْرَتُهُ أَغْنَتْ‏ عَنْ نَقْلِهِ عَلَى أَنَّهُ إِنْ لَمْ يَرَهُ إِلَّا وَاحِدٌ كَانَ أَعْجَبَ

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – It is reported that  the moon split asunder while he^-saww was a Makkah in the beginning of his^-saww Prophet-hood. The people of the earth saw it, all of them. He^-saww recited Quran to them. They did not deny that to him^-saww, and the matter which he^-saww had informed them with, its effects were not hidden nor could its mention be erased, and words of some of the people that no one saw it except one person is erroneous. But its fame is needless of transmitting based upon the no one had seen it except one would be strange’. (P.s. – This is not a Hadeeth)[27]

9- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح‏ مِنْ مُعْجِزَاتِهِ ص أَنَّ أَبَا طَالِبٍ سَافَرَ بِمُحَمَّدٍ ص فَقَالَ كُلَّمَا كُنَّا نَسِيرُ فِي الشَّمْسِ تَسِيرُ الْغَمَامَةُ بِسَيْرِنَا وَ تَقِفُ بِوُقُوفِنَا فَنَزَلْنَا يَوْماً عَلَى رَاهِبٍ بِأَطْرَافِ الشَّامِ فِي صَوْمَعَةٍ فَلَمَّا قَرُبْنَا مِنْهُ نَظَرَ إِلَى الْغَمَامَةِ تَسِيرُ بِسَيْرِنَا قَالَ فِي هَذِهِ الْقَافِلَةِ شَيْ‏ءٌ

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – From his^-saww miracles is that Abu Talib^-asws journeyed with Muhammad^-saww. He^-as said, ‘Every time we were travelling in the (heat of the) sun, the cloud travelled with our travel, and it stopped at our stopping. One day we descended unto a monk on the outskirts of Syrian in a hermitage. When we were near to it, he looked at the cloud travelling with our travelling, he said, ‘There is something regarding this caravan’.

فَنَزَلَ فَأَضَافَنَا وَ كَشَفَ‏ عَنْ كَتِفَيْهِ فَنَظَرَ إِلَى الشَّامَةِ بَيْنَ كَتِفَيْهِ فَبَكَى وَ قَالَ يَا أَبَا طَالِبٍ لَمْ تَجِبْ‏ أَنْ تُخْرِجَهُ مِنْ مَكَّةَ وَ بَعْدَ إِذْ أَخْرَجْتَهُ فَاحْتَفِظْ بِهِ وَ احْذَرْ عَلَيْهِ الْيَهُودَ فَلَهُ شَأْنٌ عَظِيمٌ وَ لَيْتَنِي أُدْرِكُهُ فَأَكُونَ أَوَّلَ مُجِيبٍ لِدَعْوَتِهِ

He descended and hosted us, and uncovered from his^-saww shoulder. He^-saww looked at the mole between his^-saww shoulders and cried, and said, ‘O Abu Talib^-asws! It is not surprising that you^-asws brought him^-saww out from Makkah, and after having brought him^-saww out, then protect him^-saww and be cautious upon him^-saww of the Jews, for there is a great occupation for him^-saww, and if I were to come across him^-saww, I would become the first one to answer his^-saww call’’.[28]

10- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح‏ مِنْ مُعْجِزَاتِ النَّبِيِّ ص أَنَّهُ كَانَ لَيْلَةً جَالِساً فِي الْحِجْرِ وَ كَانَتْ قُرَيْشٌ فِي مَجَالِسِهَا يَتَسَامَرُونَ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ قَدْ أَعْيَانَا أَمْرُ مُحَمَّدٍ فَمَا نَدْرِي مَا نَقُولُ فِيهِ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ قُومُوا بِنَا جَمِيعاً إِلَيْهِ نَسْأَلْهُ أَنْ يُرِيَنَا آيَةً مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَإِنَّ السِّحْرَ قَدْ يَكُونُ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ لَا يَكُونُ فِي السَّمَاءِ

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – From the miracles of the Prophet^-saww is that one night he^-saww was seated in the chamber, and the Qureysh were in their gathering discussing. One of them said to them, ‘The matter of Muhammad^-saww has exhausted us and we do not know what we should be saying regarding it’. One of them said, ‘Arise and let us all go to him^-saww. We shall ask him^-saww to show us a sign from the sky, for the sorcery can only happen in the earth and cannot happen in the sky’.

فَصَارُوا إِلَيْهِ فَقَالُوا يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ هَذَا الَّذِي نَرَى مِنْكَ سِحْراً فَأَرِنَا آيَةً فِي السَّمَاءِ فَإِنَّا نَعْلَمُ أَنَّ السِّحْرَ لَا يَسْتَمِرُّ فِي السَّمَاءِ كَمَا يَسْتَمِرُّ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ أَ لَسْتُمْ تَرَوْنَ هَذَا الْقَمَرَ فِي تَمَامِهِ لِأَرْبَعَ عَشْرَةَ فَقَالُوا بَلَى قَالَ فَتُحِبُّونَ‏ أَنْ تَكُونَ الْآيَةُ مِنْ قِبَلِهِ وَ جِهَتِهِ قَالُوا قَدْ أَحْبَبْنَا ذَلِكَ

They came to him^-saww and said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! If that which we see from you does not happen to be sorcery, then show us a sign in the sky, for we know that the sorcery cannot continue in the sky just as it tends to continue in the earth’. He^-saww said to them: ‘Aren’t you seeing this moon of the fourteenth being in its completeness?’ They said, ‘Yes’. He^-saww would you like it to become a sign from its direction and its perspective’. They said, ‘We would love that’.

فَأَشَارَ إِلَيْهِ بِإِصْبَعِهِ فَانْشَقَّ بِنِصْفَيْنِ فَوَقَعَ نِصْفُهُ عَلَى ظَهْرِ الْكَعْبَةِ وَ نِصْفُهُ الْآخَرُ عَلَى جَبَلِ أَبِي قُبَيْسٍ وَ هُمْ يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَ بَعْضُهُمْ فَرُدَّهُ إِلَى مَكَانِهِ فَأَوْمَأَ بِيَدِهِ إِلَى النِّصْفِ الَّذِي كَانَ عَلَى جَبَلِ أَبِي قُبَيْسٍ فَطَارَا جَمِيعاً فَالْتَقَيَا فِي الْهَوَاءِ فَصَارَا وَاحِداً وَ اسْتَقَرَّ الْقَمَرُ فِي مَكَانِهِ عَلَى مَا كَانَ

He^-saww gestured to it with his^-saww finger and it split into two halves. Half of it fell upon the back of the Kabah and the other half upon the mount Abu Qubays, and they were looking towards it. One of them said, ‘Return it to its place’. He^-saww gestured with his^-saww hand towards the half which was upon mount Abu Qubays, and it flew altogether and met up in the air and became one, and the moon settled upon what it used to be.

فَقَالُوا قُومُوا فَقَدِ اسْتَمَرَّ سِحْرُ مُحَمَّدٍ فِي السَّمَاءِ وَ الْأَرْضِ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ‏ اقْتَرَبَتِ السَّاعَةُ وَ انْشَقَ‏ الْقَمَرُ وَ إِنْ يَرَوْا آيَةً يُعْرِضُوا وَ يَقُولُوا سِحْرٌ مُسْتَمِرٌّ

They said, ‘Arise, for the sorcery of Muhammad^-saww continues in the sky and the earth!’ Allah^-azwj Revealed: The time approached and the moon split apart [54:1] And if they see a Sign they turn aside and are saying, ‘Continuous sorcery!’ [54:2]’’.[29]

11- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب أَجْمَعَ الْمُفَسِّرُونَ وَ الْمُحَدِّثُونَ سِوَى عَطَاءٍ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ وَ الْبَلْخِيِ‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ اقْتَرَبَتِ السَّاعَةُ وَ انْشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ أَنَّهُ اجْتَمَعَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ لَيْلَةَ بَدْرٍ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص فَقَالُوا إِنْ كُنْتَ صَادِقاً فَشُقَّ لَنَا الْقَمَرَ فِرْقَتَيْنِ قَالَ ص إِنْ فَعَلْتُ تُؤْمِنُونَ قَالُوا نَعَمْ فَأَشَارَ إِلَيْهِ بِإِصْبَعِهِ فَانْشَقَّ شِقَّتَيْنِ رُئِيَ حَرَى‏ بَيْنَ فَلْقَيْه

‘Al-Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashoub – The interpreters (of the Quran) and the narrators (of the Hadeeth) are united, except for Ata’a and Al-Husayn Al-Balkhy regarding His^-azwj Words: The time approached and the moon split apart [54:1] that the Polytheists gathered one night coming to the Prophet^-saww and they said: ‘If you^-saww were truthful, then split the moon for us into two parts’. He^-saww said: ‘If I^-saww were to do that, will you believe?’ They said, ‘Yes’. He^-saww gestured with his^-saww finger and it split into two parts, seen free between the two splits’’.

وَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ نِصْفاً عَلَى أَبِي قُبَيْسٍ وَ نِصْفاً عَلَى قيقعان [قُعَيْقِعَانَ‏]

And in a report, half was upon Abu Qubays and half upon (mount) Qayqan.

وَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ نِصْفٌ عَلَى الصَّفَا وَ نِصْفٌ عَلَى الْمَرْوَةِ فَقَالَ ص اشْهَدُوا اشْهَدُوا فَقَالَ نَاسٌ سَحَرَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ إِنْ كَانَ سَحَرَكُمْ فَلَمْ يَسْحَرِ النَّاسَ كُلَّهُمْ

And in a report – Half was upon Al-Safa and Half upon Al-Marwa. He^-saww said: ‘Bear witness! Bear witness!’ The people said, ‘Muhammad^-saww has bewitched us!’ A man said, ‘If Muhammad^-saww has bewitched you, then he^-saww cannot have bewitched all of them’.

وَ كَانَ ذَلِكَ قَبْلَ الْهِجْرَةِ وَ بَقِيَ قَدْرَ مَا بَيْنَ الْعَصْرِ إِلَى اللَّيْلِ وَ هُمْ يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَيْهِ وَ يَقُولُونَ هَذَا سِحْرٌ مُسْتَمِرٌّ فَنَزَلَ‏ وَ إِنْ يَرَوْا آيَةً يُعْرِضُوا الْآيَاتِ

And that was before the Emigration, and it remained for a measurement of what is between Al-Asr to the night and they were looking at it and saying, ‘This is continuous sorcery’. It was Revealed: ‘And if they see a Sign they turn aside and are saying, ‘Continuous sorcery!’ [54:2] – the Verse.

وَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ أَنَّهُ قَدِمَ السُّفَّارُ مِنْ كُلِّ وَجْهٍ فَمَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ قَدِمَ إِلَّا أَخْبَرَهُمْ أَنَّهُمْ رَأَوْا مِثْلَ مَا رَأَوْا

And in a report – travellers came from every direction, and there was no one except he informed them that they had seen the like of what they saw’’. [30]

12- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب أَبُو رَجَاءٍ الْعُطَارِدِيُ‏ قَالَ: أَوَّلُ مَا أَنْكَرْنَا عِنْدَ مَبْعَثِ النَّبِيِّ ص انْقِضَاضُ الْكَوَاكِبِ

‘Al-Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashoub – Abu Raja’a Al Utaridy who said, ‘The first of what we denied at the Prophetic mission of the Prophet^-saww was the swooping of the stars’. (P.s. – This is not a Hadeeth)[31]

Notes –

الحديث‏ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُبْغِضُ الْعِفْرِيَةَ النِّفْرِيَةَ

The Hadeeth: ‘Allah^-azwj Hates the devilish, the rebellious (person)!’

13- عم، إعلام الورى‏ مِنْ مُعْجِزَاتِهِ ص أَنَّ الْقَمَرَ انْشَقَّ لَهُ بِنِصْفَيْنِ بِمَكَّةَ فِي أَوَّلِ مَبْعَثِهِ وَ قَدْ نَطَقَ بِهِ الْقُرْآنُ‏

‘Ilam Al Wara’ – ‘From his^-saww miracles is that the moon had split for him^-saww into two halves, at Makkah in the beginning of his^-saww Prophetic mission and the Quran has Spoken of it.

وَ قَدْ صَحَّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ أَنَّهُ قَالَ انْشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ حَتَّى صَارَ فِرْقَتَيْنِ فَقَالَ كُفَّارُ أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ هَذَا سِحْرٌ سَحَرَكُمْ بِهِ ابْنُ أَبِي كَبْشَةَ انْظُرُوا السُّفَّارَ فَإِنْ كَانُوا رَأَوْا مَا رَأَيْتُمْ فَقَدْ صَدَقَ وَ إِنْ كَانُوا لَمْ يَرَوْا مَا رَأَيْتُمْ فَهُوَ سِحْرٌ سَحَرَكُمْ بِهِ

And it has been correctly reported from Abdullah Bin Masoud. He said, ‘The moon split to the extent that it became two segments. The Kafirs of the people of Makkah said, ‘This is sorcery, a bewitching by the son of Abu Kabasha! Look at the travellers. If they had seen what you have seen, it is true, and if they did not see it what you have seen, it is sorcery you have been bewitched with!’’

قَالَ فَسُئِلَ السُّفَّارُ وَ قَدْ قَدِمُوا مِنْ كُلِّ وَجْهٍ فَقَالُوا رَأَيْنَاهُ

He (Ibn Masoud) said, ‘The travellers were asked and they had arrived from every direction. They said, ‘We saw it!’’[32]

Notes –

وَ قَالَ الْقَاضِي فِي الشِّفَاءِ خَرَجَ الطَّحَاوِيُ‏ فِي مُشْكِلِ الْحَدِيثِ عَنْ أَسْمَاءَ بِنْتِ عُمَيْسٍ مِنْ طَرِيقَيْنِ‏ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص كَانَ يُوحَى إِلَيْهِ وَ رَأْسُهُ فِي حِجْرِ عَلِيٍّ فَلَمْ يُصَلِّ الْعَصْرَ حَتَّى غَرَبَتِ الشَّمْسُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَ صَلَّيْتَ يَا عَلِيُّ قَالَ لَا

And Al-Qazi said in ‘Al Shifa’, ‘Al Tahawy brought out in ‘Mushkil Al Hadeeth’ from Asma Bint Umeys from two paths, ‘The Prophet^-saww was being Revealed to while his^-saww head was in the lap of Ali^-asws, so he^-saww did not pray Al Asr Salat until the sun had set. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Have you^-asws prayed, O Ali^-asws?’ He^-asws said: ‘No’.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّهُ كَانَ فِي طَاعَتِكَ وَ فِي طَاعَةِ رَسُولِكَ فَارْدُدْ عَلَيْهِ الشَّمْسَ قَالَ أَسْمَاءُ فَرَأَيْتُهَا غَرَبَتْ ثُمَّ رَأَيْتُهَا طَلَعَتْ بَعْدَ مَا غَرَبَتْ وَ وَقَعَتْ‏ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ وَ ذَلِكَ بِالصَّهْبَاءِ فِي خَيْبَرَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! It is in Your^-azwj obedience and in obedience to Your^-azwj Rasool^-saww!’ The sun was returned to (for) him^-saww. Asma said, ‘I had seen it set, the I saw it emerge after it had been set, and it (sunshine) fell upon the ground, and that (happened) as Al-Sahba in Khyber’.

وَ رَوَى يُونُسُ بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ فِي زِيَادَةِ الْمَغَازِي رِوَايَتَهُ عَنِ ابْنِ إِسْحَاقَ‏ لَمَّا أُسْرِيَ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَخْبَرَ قَوْمَهُ بِالرِّفْقَةِ وَ الْعَلَامَةِ الَّتِي فِي الْعِيرِ قَالُوا مَتَى تَجِي‏ءُ قَالَ يَوْمَ الْأَرْبِعَاءِ

And it is reported by Yunus Bin Bukeyr in ‘Ziyadat Al Magazy’, reported it from Ibn Is’haq, ‘When where was an ascension with Rasool-Allah^-saww and he^-saww informed his^-saww people of his^-saww ascension and the signs which were in the caravan, they said, ‘When will it come?’ He^-saww said: ‘On the day of Wednesday!’

فَلَمَّا كَانَ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمُ أَشْرَفَتْ قُرَيْشٌ يَنْظُرُونَ وَ قَدْ وَلَّى النَّهَارُ وَ لَمْ تَجِئْ فَدَعَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَزِيدَ لَهُ فِي النَّهَارِ سَاعَةٌ وَ حُبِسَتْ عَلَيْهِ الشَّمْسُ‏

When it was that day, Qureysh came out looking and the day had turned around and it did not come. Rasool-Allah^-saww supplicated, and there was an increase of an hour for him^-saww in the day and the sun was withheld for him^-saww’.

14- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح عَنْ أَسْمَاءَ بِنْتِ عُمَيْسٍ قَالَتْ‏ إِنَّ عَلِيّاً بَعَثَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فِي حَاجَةٍ فِي غَزْوَةِ حُنَيْنٍ وَ قَدْ صَلَّى النَّبِيُّ ص الْعَصْرَ وَ لَمْ يُصَلِّهَا عَلِيٌّ فَلَمَّا رَجَعَ وَضَعَ رَأْسَهُ فِي حِجْرِ عَلِيٍّ ع وَ قَدْ أَوْحَى اللَّهُ إِلَيْهِ فَجَلَّلَهُ بِثَوْبِهِ

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – From Asma Bint Umays^ar having said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww sent Ali^-asws regarding a need during the military expedition of Hunayn and the Prophet^-saww had prayed Al-Asr Salat and Ali^-asws had not prayed it. When he^-asws returned, he^-saww placed his^-saww head in the lap of Ali^-asws and Allah^-azwj had Revealed to him^-saww, so he^-asws covered him^-saww with his^-asws cloth.

فَلَمْ يَزَلْ كَذَلِكَ حَتَّى كَادَتِ الشَّمْسُ تَغِيبُ ثُمَّ إِنَّهُ سُرِّيَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص فَقَالَ أَ صَلَّيْتَ يَا عَلِيُّ قَالَ لَا فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص اللَّهُمَّ رُدَّ عَلَى عَلِيٍّ الشَّمْسَ فَرَجَعَتْ حَتَّى بَلَغَتْ نِصْفَ الْمَسْجِدِ قَالَتْ أَسْمَاءُ وَ ذَلِكَ بِالصَّهْبَاءِ

It did not cease to be like that until the sun almost set, then the Prophet^-saww got up and said: ‘Have you^-asws prayed, O Ali^-asws?’ He^-asws said: ‘No’. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! Return the sun for Ali^-asws!’ It returned until it reached half the Masjid. Asma^ar said, ‘And that was at Al-Sahba’’.[33]

15- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ أَنَّ فَاطِمَةَ ع جَاءَتْ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص حَامِلَةً حَسَناً وَ حُسَيْناً وَ فَخَّاراً فِيهِ حَرِيرَةٌ فَقَالَ ادْعِي ابْنَ عَمِّكِ وَ أَجْلَسَ أَحَدَهُمَا عَلَى فَخِذِهِ الْيُمْنَى وَ الْآخَرَ عَلَى فَخِذِهِ الْيُسْرَى وَ عَلِيّاً وَ فَاطِمَةَ أَحَدَهُمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ وَ الْآخَرَ خَلْفَهُ‏ فَقَالَ اللَّهُمَّ هَؤُلَاءِ أَهْلُ بَيْتِي فَأَذْهِبْ عَنْهُمُ الرِّجْسَ وَ طَهِّرْهُمْ تَطْهِيراً ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ وَ أَنَا عِنْدَ عَتَبَةِ الْبَابِ

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – It is reported from Umm Salma^ar that (Syeda) Fatima^-asws came to the Prophet^-saww carrying Hassan^-asws and Husayn^-asws, and there was a clay pot with silk in it. He^-saww said: ‘Call your^-asws cousin^-asws!’, and he^-saww seated one of them^-asws upon the right thigh and the other upon the left thigh, and Ali^-asws and Fatima^-asws, one of them^-asws in front of him^-saww and the other behind him^-saww, and said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! They^-asws are the People^-asws of my^-saww Household, so let (always) keep uncleanness away from them^-asws and Purify them^-asws with a purification’ – three times, and I^ar was at the threshold of the door.

فَقُلْتُ وَ أَنَا مِنْهُمْ فَقَالَ أَنْتِ إِلَى خَيْرٍ وَ مَا فِي الْبَيْتِ غَيْرُ هَؤُلَاءِ وَ جَبْرَئِيلُ ثُمَّ أَغْدَفَ عَلَيْهِمْ كِسَاءً خَيْبَرِيّاً فَجَلَّلَهُمْ بِهِ وَ هُوَ مَعَهُمْ ثُمَّ أَتَاهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ بِطَبَقٍ فِيهِ رُمَّانٌ وَ عِنَبٌ فَأَكَلَ النَّبِيُّ ص فَسَبَّحَ الْعِنَبُ وَ الرُّمَّانُ ثُمَّ أَكَلَ الْحَسَنُ وَ الْحُسَيْنُ فَتَنَاوَلَا فَسَبَّحَ الْعِنَبُ وَ الرُّمَّانُ فِي أَيْدِيهِمَا ثُمَّ دَخَلَ عَلِيٌّ فَتَنَاوَلَ مِنْهُ فَسَبَّحَ أَيْضاً

I^ar said, ‘And am I^ar from them^-asws?’ He^-saww said: ‘You^ar are upon good’, and there was no one else in the house apparat from them^-asws and Jibraeel^-as. Then he^-saww covered them^-asws with a Khyberiyya cloak and he^-saww was with them^-asws. Then Jibraeel^-as came to him^-saww with a tray wherein was a pomegranate and grapes. The Prophet^-saww ate and praised the grapes and the pomegranate. Then Al-Hassan^-asws and Al-Husayn^-asws ate and grabbed the grapes and the pomegranate in their^-asws hands. Then Ali^-asws entered, took some from it, and praised as well.

ثُمَّ دَخَلَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الصَّحَابَةِ وَ أَرَادَ أَنْ يَتَنَاوَلَ فَقَالَ جَبْرَئِيلُ إِنَّمَا يَأْكُلُ مِنْ هَذَا نَبِيٌّ أَوْ وَلَدُ نَبِيٍّ أَوْ وَصِيُّ نَبِيٍّ

Then a man from the companions entered and wanted to take, but Jibraeel^-as said: ‘But rather there shall eat from this, either a Prophet^-as, or a child of a Prophet^-as or a successor^-as of a Prophet^-as.[34]

16- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رَوَتْ عَائِشَةُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص بَعَثَ عَلِيّاً يَوْماً فِي حَاجَةٍ فَانْصَرَفَ عَلِيٌّ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ هُوَ فِي حُجْرَتِي فَلَمَّا دَخَلَ عَلِيٌّ مِنْ بَابِ الْحُجْرَةِ اسْتَقْبَلَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى الْفَضَاءِ بَيْنَ الْحُجَرِ فَعَانَقَهُ وَ أَظَلَّتْهُمَا غَمَامَةٌ سَتَرَتْهُمَا عَنِّي

Ayesha reported that one day Rasool-Allah^-saww sent Ali^-asws regarding a need. Ali^-asws came to Rasool-Allah^-saww while he^-saww was in my chamber. When Ali^-asws entered from the door of the room, Rasool-Allah^-saww welcomed him^-asws to the courtyard between the rooms and hugged him^-asws, and a cloud shaded them^-asws veiling them from me.

ثُمَّ زَالَتْ عَنْهُمَا الْغَمَامَةُ فَرَأَيْتُ فِي يَدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص عُنْقُودَ عِنَبٍ أَبْيَضَ وَ هُوَ يَأْكُلُ وَ يُطْعِمُ عَلِيّاً فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ تَأْكُلُ وَ تُطْعِمُ عَلِيّاً وَ لَا تُطْعِمُنِي قَالَ هَذَا مِنْ ثِمَارِ الْجَنَّةِ لَا يَأْكُلُهَا إِلَّا نَبِيٌّ أَوْ وَصِيُّ نَبِيٍّ فِي الدُّنْيَا

Then the cloud lifted from them^-asws and I saw in the hand of Rasool-Allah^-saww a bunch of white grapes and he^-saww was eating and feeding Ali^-asws. I said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! You^-saww are eating and feeding Ali^-asws and are not feeding me?’ He^-saww said: ‘This is from the fruits of Paradise, none shall eat it except a Prophet^-as, or a successor^-as of a Prophet^-as in the world’’.[35]

17- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي الْفَحَّامُ عَنْ عَمِّهِ عُمَرَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ عَاصِمٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْعَبْدِيِّ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْأُمَوِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جَرِيرٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ بْنِ الْعَلَاءِ عَنْ يُوسُفَ بْنِ عَطِيَّةَ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ: أَمَرَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ أُسْرِجَ بَغْلَتَهُ الدُّلْدُلَ وَ حِمَارَهُ الْيَعْفُورَ فَفَعَلْتُ مَا أَمَرَنِي بِهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَاسْتَوَى عَلَى بَغْلَتِهِ وَ اسْتَوَى عَلِيٌّ عَلَى حِمَارِهِ وَ سَارَا وَ سِرْتُ مَعَهُمَا

‘Al Amaali’ of the Sheykh Al Tusi – Al Faham, from his uncle Umar Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Suleyman Bin Aasim, from Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Al Abady, from Ali Bin Al Hassan Al Amawy, from Muhammad Bin Jareer, from Abdul Jabbar Bin Al A’ala, from yusuf Bin Atiya, from Sabit from Anas (well-known fabricator) who said,

‘Rasool-Allah^-saww instructed me to saddle his^-saww mule, Duldul, and his^-saww donkey Al-Yafour. I did what Rasool-Allah^-saww had instructed me with. He^-saww sat upon his^-saww mule and Ali^-asws sat upon his^-saww donkey and they^-asws both travelled and I travelled with them^-asws.

فَأَتَيْنَا سَفْحَ‏ جَبَلٍ فَنَزَلَا وَ صَعِدَا حَتَّى صَارَا عَلَى ذِرْوَةِ الْجَبَلِ ثُمَّ رَأَيْتُ غَمَامَةً بَيْضَاءَ كَدَارَةِ الْكُرْسِيِ‏ وَ قَدْ أَظَلَّتْهُمَا وَ رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ص وَ قَدْ مَدَّ يَدَهُ إِلَى شَيْ‏ءٍ يَأْكُلُ وَ أَطْعَمَ عَلِيّاً حَتَّى تَوَهَّمْتُ أَنَّهُمَا قَدْ شَبِعَا ثُمَّ رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ص وَ قَدْ مَدَّ يَدَهُ إِلَى شَيْ‏ءٍ وَ قَدْ شَرِبَ وَ سَقَى عَلِيّاً حَتَّى قَدَّرْتُ أَنَّهُمَا قَدْ شَرِبَا رَيَّهُمَا ثُمَّ رَأَيْتُ الْغَمَامَةَ وَ قَدِ ارْتَفَعَتْ

We came to the base of a mountain and they^-asws descended until they^-asws came to the peak of the mountain. Then I saw a white cloud, circular like a disc to have shaded them^-asws both, and I saw the Prophet^-saww to have extended his^-saww hand to something which he^-saww ate and fed Ali^-asws, until I thought that they^-asws were satiated. Then I saw the Prophet^-saww to have extended his^-saww hand to something and he^-saww drank and quenched Ali^-asws until I reckoned that they^-asws had both drunk their^-asws fill. Then I saw the cloud to have been lifted.

وَ نَزَلَا فَرَكِبَا وَ سَارَا وَ سِرْتُ مَعَهُمَا وَ الْتَفَتَ النَّبِيُّ ص فَرَأَى فِي وَجْهِي تَغَيُّراً فَقَالَ مَا لِي أَرَى وَجْهَكَ مُتَغَيِّراً فَقُلْتُ ذَهَلْتُ‏ مِمَّا رَأَيْتُ فَقَالَ فَرَأَيْتَ مَا كَانَ فَقُلْتُ نَعَمْ فِدَاكَ أَبِي وَ أُمِّي يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

And they^-asws came down and rode and travelled, and I travelled with them^-asws, and the Prophet^-saww turned and I saw changes in his^-saww face. He^-saww said: ‘What is the matter I^-saww see your face to have changed?’ I said, ‘It fell from what I saw’. He^-saww said: ‘And what was it you saw?’ I said, ‘Good, may my father and my mother be sacrificed for you^-saww, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’

قَالَ يَا أَنَسُ وَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ مَا يَشَاءُ لَقَدْ أَكَلَ مِنْ تِلْكَ الْغَمَامَةِ ثَلَاثُمِائَةٍ وَ ثَلَاثَةَ عَشَرَ نَبِيّاً وَ ثَلَاثُمِائَةٍ وَ ثَلَاثَةَ عَشَرَ وَصِيّاً مَا فِيهِمْ نَبِيٌّ أَكْرَمُ عَلَى اللَّهِ مِنِّي وَ لَا فِيهِمْ وَصِيٌّ أَكْرَمُ عَلَى اللَّهِ مِنْ عَلِيٍ‏

He^-saww said: ‘O Anas! By the One^-azwj Who Creates whatever He^-azwj so Desires to. There have eaten from that cloud, three hundred and thirteen Prophets^-as and three hundred and thirteen successors^-as, there not being among them^-as any Prophet^-as more prestigious to Allah^-azwj than me^-saww, nor is there any successor^-as more prestigious to Allah^-azwj than Ali^-asws.[36]

18- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي ابْنُ حَشِيشٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ مُطَاعٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَسَنٍ الْقَوَّاسِ‏ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ الْوَاسِطِيِّ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ هَارُونَ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ ثَابِتٍ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: رَكِبَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ بَغْلَتَهُ فَانْطَلَقَ إِلَى جَبَلِ آلِ فُلَانٍ وَ قَالَ يَا أَنَسُ خُذِ الْبَغْلَةَ وَ انْطَلِقْ إِلَى مَوْضِعِ كَذَا وَ كَذَا تَجِدْ عَلِيّاً جَالِساً يُسَبِّحُ بِالْحَصَى فَأَقْرِئْهُ مِنِّي السَّلَامَ وَ احْمِلْهُ عَلَى الْبَغْلَةِ وَ أْتِ بِهِ إِلَيَّ

‘Al Amaali’ of Sheykh Al Tusi – Ibn Hasheesh, from Ali Bin Al Qasim Bin Yaqoub, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn Bin Muta’a, from Ahmad Bin hassan Al Qawas, from Muhammad bin Salmah Al Wasity, from Yazeed Bin Haroun, from Hamad Ibn Salmah, from Sabit, from Anas Bin Malik (a well-known fabricator) who said,

‘One day Rasool-Allah^-saww rode his^-saww mule and went to the mountain of the family of so and so, and said: ‘O Anas! Take the mule and go to such and such place you will find Ali^-asws seated by the horse, glorifying. Convey to him^-asws the greetings from me^-saww and carry him^-asws upon the mule and come with him^-asws to me^-saww’.

قَالَ أَنَسٌ فَذَهَبْتُ فَوَجَدْتُ عَلِيّاً ع كَمَا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَحَمَلْتُهُ عَلَى الْبَغْلَةِ فَأَتَيْتُ بِهِ إِلَيْهِ فَلَمَّا أَنْ بَصُرَ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ وَ عَلَيْكَ السَّلَامُ يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ اجْلِسْ فَإِنَّ هَذَا مَوْضِعٌ قَدْ جَلَسَ فِيهِ سَبْعُونَ نَبِيّاً مُرْسَلًا مَا جَلَسَ فِيهِ مِنَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ أَحَدٌ إِلَّا وَ أَنَا خَيْرٌ مِنْهُ

Anas said, ‘I went and found Ali^-asws just as Rasool-Allah^-saww had said, and I carried him^-asws upon the mule and came with him^-asws to him^-saww. When he^-saww saw Rasool-Allah^-saww, he^-asws said: ‘The greetings be unto you^-saww, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’ He^-saww said: ‘And upon you^-asws be the greetings, O Abu Al-Hassan^-asws, be seated, for this place is where seventy Messenger Prophets^-as have sat upon. None from the Prophets^-as has sat in it except and I^-saww am better than him^-as, and no Prophet^-as has made a brother of his^-as to sit in it except an you^-asws are better than him^-as’.

وَ قَدْ جَلَسَ فِي مَوْضِعِ كُلِّ نَبِيٍّ أَخٌ لَهُ مَا جَلَسَ مِنَ الْإِخْوَةِ أَحَدٌ إِلَّا وَ أَنْتَ خَيْرٌ مِنْهُ قَالَ أَنَسٌ فَنَظَرْتُ إِلَى سَحَابَةٍ قَدْ أَظَلَّتْهُمَا وَ دَنَتْ مِنْ رُءُوسِهِمَا فَمَدَّ النَّبِيُّ ص يَدَهُ إِلَى السَّحَابَةِ فَتَنَاوَلَ عُنْقُودَ عِنَبٍ فَجَعَلَهُ بَيْنَهُ وَ بَيْنَ عَلِيٍّ وَ قَالَ كُلْ يَا أَخِي فَهَذِهِ هَدِيَّةٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى إِلَيَّ ثُمَّ إِلَيْكَ

Anas said, ‘I looked at a cloud which had shaded them^-asws and was close to their^-asws heads. The Prophet^-saww extended his^-saww hand to the cloud and grabbed a bunch of grapes and made it to be between him^-saww and Ali^-asws, and said: ‘Eat, O my^-saww brother, for this is a gift from Allah^-azwj the Exalted to me^-saww, then to you^-asws’.

قَالَ أَنَسٌ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ عَلِيٌ‏ أَخُوكَ قَالَ نَعَمْ عَلِيٌّ أَخِي قُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صِفْ لِي كَيْفَ عَلِيٌّ أَخُوكَ قَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ خَلَقَ مَاءً تَحْتَ الْعَرْشِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَخْلُقَ آدَمَ بِثَلَاثَةِ آلَافِ عَامٍ وَ أَسْكَنَهُ فِي لُؤْلُؤَةٍ خَضْرَاءَ فِي غَامِضِ عِلْمِهِ إِلَى أَنْ خَلَقَ آدَمَ

Anas said, ‘I said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Ali^-asws is your^-saww brother?’ He^-saww said: ‘Yes, Ali^-asws is my^-saww brother’. I said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Describe to me, how Ali^-asws can be your^-saww brother’. He^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Created water beneath the Throne before He^-azwj Created Adam^-as by three thousand years, and Settled it in green pearls in the unfathomable of His^-azwj Knowledge until He^-azwj Created Adam^-as.

فَلَمَّا أَنْ خَلَقَ آدَمَ نَقَلَ ذَلِكَ الْمَاءَ مِنَ اللُّؤْلُؤَةِ فَأَجْرَاهُ فِي صُلْبِ آدَمَ إِلَى أَنْ قَبَضَهُ اللَّهُ ثُمَّ نَقَلَهُ فِي صُلْبِ شَيْثٍ‏ فَلَمْ يَزَلْ ذَلِكَ الْمَاءُ يَنْتَقِلُ مِنْ ظَهْرٍ إِلَى ظَهْرٍ حَتَّى صَارَ فِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ‏ ثُمَّ شَقَّهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ نِصْفَيْنِ فَصَارَ نِصْفُهُ فِي أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ وَ نِصْفٌ فِي أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَأَنَا مِنْ نِصْفِ الْمَاءِ وَ عَلِيٌّ مِنَ النِّصْفِ الْآخَرِ فَعَلِيٌّ أَخِي فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ

When He^-azwj Created Adam^-as, Transferred than water from the pearls and Caused it to flow in the Sulb of Adam^-as until Allah^-azwj Caused him^-as to pass away. Then He^-azwj Transferred it in the Sulb of Shees^-as, and that water did not cease to be transferred from a back to a back until it came to be in Abdul Muttalib^-asws. Then Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Split it into two halves, so half of it came to be in my^-saww father^-asws Abdullah Bin Abdul Muttalib^-asws, and half into Abu Talib^-asws. Thus, I^-saww am from half the water and Ali^-asws is from the other half, therefore Ali^-asws is my^-saww brother in the world and the Hereafter’.

ثُمَّ قَرَأَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ وَ هُوَ الَّذِي‏ خَلَقَ مِنَ الْماءِ بَشَراً فَجَعَلَهُ نَسَباً وَ صِهْراً وَ كانَ رَبُّكَ قَدِيراً

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww recited: And He it is Who Created a person from the water, so He Made for him relationships of lineage and marriage; and your Lord was always Powerful [25:54]’’.[37]

19- كا، الكافي الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْمُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ بِسْطَامِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ الْفَارِسِيِ‏ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الْفَارِسِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مَعْرُوفٍ عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ رَزِينٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ قَالَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ‏ عَلَيْكُمْ بِالْهَرِيسَةِ فَإِنَّهَا تُنَشِّطُ لِلْعِبَادَةِ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْماً وَ هِيَ مِنَ الْمَائِدَةِ الَّتِي أُنْزِلَتْ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص‏

‘Al-Kafi’ – Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Al Moala Bin Muhammad, from Bastaam Bin Murrah Al Farsy who said, ‘It was narrated to us by Abdul Rahman Bin Yazeed Al Farsy, from Muhammad Bin Marouf, from Salih Bin Razeyn,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said: ‘It is upon you with the (eating) ‘Al-Hareysa’ for it invigorates for the worship for forty days, and it is from the meals of Paradise which descended unto Rasool-Allah^-saww’’.[38]

[1] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 1

[2] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 2

[3] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 3

[4] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 4

[5] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 5

[6] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 6

[7] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 7

[8] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 8

[9] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 9

[10] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 10

[11] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 11

[12] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 12

[13] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 13

[14] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 14

[15] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 15

[16] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 16

[17] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 17

[18] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 2 H 18

[19] Those who had plotted to murder Rasool-Allah^-saww by pushing him^-saww into the ravine.

[20] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 1

[21] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 2

[22] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 3

[23] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 4

[24] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 5

[25] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 6

[26] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 7

[27] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 8

[28] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 9

[29] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 10

[30] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 11

[31] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 12

[32] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 13

[33] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 14

[34] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 15

[35] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 16

[36] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 17

[37] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 18

[38] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 17, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 3 H 19