Bihar Al-Anwaar Volume 18 Part 2

بحار الأنوار

BIHAR AL-ANWAAR

الجزء الثامن عشر

Volume 18

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 12 آخر فيما أخبر بوقوعه بعده ص‏

CHAPTER 12 – ANOTHER REGARDING WHAT HE^-saww INFORMED WITH THE EVENTS TRANSPIRING AFTER HIM^-saww

1- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي حَمَّوَيْهِ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ حَمَّوَيْهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ بَكْرٍ عَنِ الْفَضْلِ بْنِ حُبَابٍ الْجَمْحِيِّ عَنْ مَكِّيٍّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ وَهْبِ بْنِ حِزَامٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص أَوْصَى عِنْدَ وَفَاتِهِ بِخُرُوجِ الْيَهُودِ مِنْ جَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِ فَقَالَ اللَّهَ اللَّهَ فِي الْقِبْطِ فَإِنَّكُمْ سَتَظْهَرُونَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ يَكُونُونَ لَكُمْ عُدَّةً وَ أَعْوَاناً فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ‏

‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – Hamwiya Bin Ali Bin Hamwiya, from Muhammad Bin Muhammad Bin Bakr, from Al Fazal Bin habab Al Jamhy, from Maky, from Muhammad Bin Yasar, from Wahab BinHazam, from his father, from Yahya Bin Ayoub, from Yazeed Bin Abu Habeeb, from Abu Salma, from Abdul Rahman,

‘From Umm Sama^-ra that Rasool-Allah^-saww bequeathed during his^-saww expiry that the Jews will be coming out from the Arabian Peninsula. He^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj! Allah^-azwj, regarding the Coptics, for you will be victorious upon them and they will become a number and assistants in the Way of Allah^-azwj’’.[1]

2- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي جَمَاعَةٌ عَنْ أَبِي الْمُفَضَّلِ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ الْهَيْثَمِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ بُهْلُولٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ بُهْلُولِ بْنِ حَسَّانَ عَنْ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنِ الْوَصِينِ‏ بْنِ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ عُمَيْرِ بْنِ هَانِي عَنْ جُنَادَةَ بْنِ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَ عَنْ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص قَالَ: سَتَكُونُ فِتَنٌ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُ الْمُؤْمِنُ أَنْ يُغَيِّرَ فِيهَا بِيَدٍ وَ لَا لِسَانٍ

‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – A group, from Abu Al Mufazzal, from Dawood Bin Al Haysam, from his grandfather Is’haq Bin Bahloul, from his father Bahloul Bin Hasan, from Talha Bin Zayd, from Al Waseyn Bin Ata’a, from Umeyr Bin Hany, from Janada Bin Abu Amiya, from Abadah bin Al Samit,

‘From the Prophet^-saww having said: ‘Strife (Fitna) will happen, the Momin will not be able to change (anything) during it, neither by hand not by tongue’.

فَقَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع وَ فِيهِمْ‏ يَوْمَئِذٍ مُؤْمِنُونَ قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَ فَيَنْقُصُ ذَلِكَ مِنْ إِيْمَانِهِمْ شَيْئاً قَالَ لَا إِلَّا كَمَا يَنْقُصُ‏ الْقَطْرُ مِنَ الصَّفَا إِنَّهُمْ يَكْرَهُونَهُ بِقُلُوبِهِمْ

Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws said: ‘And there will be Momineen among them in those days?’ He^-saww said: ‘Yes’. He^-asws said: ‘And will anything be reduced from their Eman?’ He^-saww said: ‘No, except as the drop (of rain) reduced from the Al-Safa. They will be abhorring it with their hearts’’.[2]

3- مع، معاني الأخبار الْهَمَذَانِيُّ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ جُمَيْعٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ آبَائِهِ ع قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ إِذَا مَشَتْ أُمَّتِي الْمُطَيْطَا وَ خَدَمَتْهُمْ فَارِسُ وَ الرُّومُ كَانَ بَأْسُهُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ

‘Ma’any Al Akhbaar’ – Al Hamdany, from Ali, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Amro Bin Jamie,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws, from his^-asws forefathers^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: When my^-saww Ummah walks with an arrogant, swaying gait, and the Persians and Byzantines serve them, their violence will be directed against one another.[3]

4- ب، قرب الإسناد هَارُونُ عَنِ ابْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ آبَائِهِ ع أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ: تَارِكُوا الْحَبَشَةَ مَا تَارَكُوكُمْ فَوَ الَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لَا يَسْتَخْرِجُ كَنْزَ الْكَعْبَةِ إِلَّا ذُو السُّوَيْقَتَيْنِ‏

‘Qurb Al Isnaad’ – Haroun, from Ibn Ziyad,

‘From Ja’far^-asws, from his^-asws forefathers^-asws that Rasool-Allah^-saww said: Leave the Abyssinians alone as long as they leave you alone; for by Him^-azwj in Whose Hand is my soul, none shall extract the treasure of the Kabah except the one with the thin shins[4]

5- ب، قرب الإسناد هَارُونُ عَنِ ابْنِ صَدَقَةَ عَنْ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ ع أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ: إِذَا ظَهَرَتِ الْقَلَانِسُ‏ الْمُتَرَّكَةُ ظَهَرَ الرِّيَاءُ

‘Qurb Al Isnaad’ – Haroun, from Ibn Sadaqah,

‘From Ja’far^-asws, from his^-asws father^-asws that Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘When the shining caps appear, the showing-off (adultery) will appear’’.[5]

6- ثو، ثواب الأعمال أَبِي عَنْ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّوْفَلِيِّ عَنِ السَّكُونِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ سَيَأْتِي عَلَى أُمَّتِي زَمَانٌ تَخْبُثُ فِيهِ سَرَائِرُهُمْ وَ تَحْسُنُ فِيهِ عَلَانِيَتُهُمْ طَمَعاً فِي الدُّنْيَا لَا يُرِيدُونَ بِهِ مَا عِنْدَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَكُونُ أَمْرُهُمْ رِيَاءً لَا يُخَالِطُهُ خَوْفٌ يَعُمُّهُمُ اللَّهُ مِنْهُ بِعِقَابٍ فَيَدْعُونَهُ دُعَاءَ الْغَرِيقِ فَلَا يُسْتَجَابُ لَهُمْ‏

‘Sawab Al Amaal’ – My father, from Ali, from his father, from Al Nowfaly, from Al Sakuny,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘There would be coming a time upon the people, their secretive matters would be wicked and they would be good in the public in greed regarding the world, not intending by it what is in the Presence of their Lord^-azwj. Their religion would be show-off, with fear not blending in them. Allah^-azwj would Punish them generally. They would be supplicating with the Supplication of the drowning one (Dua Al-Ghareek), but it would not be Answered for them’’.[6]

7- ثو، ثواب الأعمال بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ سَيَأْتِي عَلَى أُمَّتِي زَمَانٌ لَا يَبْقَى مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ إِلَّا رَسْمُهُ وَ لَا مِنَ الْإِسْلَامِ إِلَّا اسْمُهُ يُسَمَّوْنَ‏ بِهِ وَ هُمْ أَبْعَدُ النَّاسِ مِنْهُ مَسَاجِدُهُمْ عَامِرَةٌ وَ هِيَ خَرَابٌ مِنَ الْهُدَى فُقَهَاءُ ذَلِكَ الزَّمَانِ شَرُّ فُقَهَاءَ تَحْتَ ظِلِّ السَّمَاءِ مِنْهُمْ خَرَجَتِ الْفِتْنَةُ وَ إِلَيْهِمْ تَعُودُ

‘Sawab Al Amaal’ – By this chain,

‘He^-asws said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘There will come a time upon my^-saww community there will not remain anything from the Quran except its rituals, nor from Islam except is name. They will be named by it (as Muslims) but they will be the remotest of the people from it (Islam). Their Masjid will be well-built, but these will be the ruination of the guidance. The jurists (Mujtahids) of that time will be the worst of the jurists under the shade of the sky. The Fitna (strife) will emerge from them and to them it shall return’’.[7]

8- كا، الكافي أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْكُوفِيِّ عَنِ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ عَنِ‏ الْعَرْزَمِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ سَيَأْتِي عَلَى النَّاسِ زَمَانٌ لَا يُنَالُ الْمُلْكُ فِيهِ إِلَّا بِالْقَتْلِ وَ التَّجَبُّرِ وَ لَا الْغِنَى إِلَّا بِالْغَصْبِ وَ الْبُخْلِ وَ لَا الْمَحَبَّةُ إِلَّا بِاسْتِخْرَاجِ الدِّينِ وَ اتِّبَاعِ الْهَوَى

‘Al Kafi’ – Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Al-Hassan Bin Ali Al Kufy, from Al-Abbas Bin Aamir, from Al Arzamy,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘There will come a time upon the people, the kingdom (governance) will not be achieved during it except by the killing and the coercion, nor the riches except by the usurpation and the stinginess, nor the love (of the people) except by the exiting (from) the Religion and following personal desires.

فَمَنْ أَدْرَكَ ذَلِكَ الزَّمَانَ فَصَبَرَ عَلَى الْفَقْرِ وَ هُوَ يَقْدِرُ عَلَى الْغِنَى وَ صَبَرَ عَلَى الْبِغْضَةِ وَ هُوَ يَقْدِرُ عَلَى الْمَحَبَّةِ وَ صَبَرَ عَلَى الذُّلِّ وَ هُوَ يَقْدِرُ عَلَى الْعِزِّ آتَاهُ اللَّهُ ثَوَابَ خَمْسِينَ صِدِّيقاً مِمَّنْ صَدَّقَ بِي‏

The one who comes across that time period and is patient upon the poverty while he is able upon the riches, and is patient upon the hatred (of the people) while he is able upon the love, and is patient upon the humiliation while he is able upon the honour (from the people), Allah^-azwj would Give him the Rewards of fifty truthful ones from the one who ratified me^-saww’’.[8]

أبواب أحواله ص من البعثة إلى نزول المدينة

CHAPTER OF HIS^-saww SITUATIONS FROM THE PROPHET-HOOD UP TO THE ARRIVAL AT MEDINA

باب 1 المبعث و إظهار الدعوة و ما لقي ص من القوم و ما جرى بينه و بينهم و جمل أحواله إلى دخول الشعب و فيه إسلام حمزة رضي الله عنه و أحوال كثير من أصحابه و أهل زمانه‏

CHAPTER 1 – THE PROPHET-HOOD AND THE MANIFESTATION OF THE CALL AND WHAT HE^-saww FACED FROM THE PEOPLE AND WHAT FLOWED BETWEEN HIM^-saww AND THEM, AND THE SUMMARY OF HIS^-saww SITUATION UP TO THE ENTRY INTO THE CAVE, AND IN IT IS THE ISLAM OF HAMZA^-ra AND A LOT OF SITUATIONS OF HIS^-saww COMPANIONS AND THE PEOPLE OF HIS^-saww TIME

الآيات البقرة ما يَوَدُّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتابِ وَ لَا الْمُشْرِكِينَ أَنْ يُنَزَّلَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ خَيْرٍ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ وَ اللَّهُ يَخْتَصُّ بِرَحْمَتِهِ مَنْ يَشاءُ وَ اللَّهُ ذُو الْفَضْلِ الْعَظِيمِ‏

The Verses – (Surah) Al Baqarah: They do not like it, those who are disbelieving from the People of the Book, nor the Polytheists, that there should descend upon you from goodness, from your Lord; and Allah Specialises by His Mercy the one He so Desires to; and Allah is with the Mighty Grace [2:105]

و قال تعالى‏ كَما أَرْسَلْنا فِيكُمْ رَسُولًا مِنْكُمْ يَتْلُوا عَلَيْكُمْ آياتِنا وَ يُزَكِّيكُمْ وَ يُعَلِّمُكُمُ الْكِتابَ وَ الْحِكْمَةَ وَ يُعَلِّمُكُمْ ما لَمْ تَكُونُوا تَعْلَمُونَ‏

Just as We have Sent among you a Rasool from among you who recites to you Our Verses and purifies you and teaches you the Book and the Wisdom and teaches you that which you were not knowing [2:151]

و قال تعالى‏ وَ اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَتَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَ ما أَنْزَلَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنَ الْكِتابِ وَ الْحِكْمَةِ يَعِظُكُمْ بِهِ وَ اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَ اعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ بِكُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ عَلِيمٌ‏

And the Exalted Said: ‘and remember the Bounties of Allah upon you, and what He Revealed upon you from the Book and the Wisdom, Advising you with it; and fear Allah, and know that Allah is Knower of all things [2:231]

و قال تعالى‏ تِلْكَ آياتُ اللَّهِ نَتْلُوها عَلَيْكَ بِالْحَقِّ وَ إِنَّكَ لَمِنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ‏

These are the Verses of Allah: We Recite these upon you with the Truth; and verily you are from the Rasools [2:252]

آل عمران‏ وَ اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَتَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ كُنْتُمْ أَعْداءً فَأَلَّفَ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُمْ بِنِعْمَتِهِ إِخْواناً وَ كُنْتُمْ عَلى‏ شَفا حُفْرَةٍ مِنَ النَّارِ فَأَنْقَذَكُمْ مِنْها كَذلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ آياتِهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ‏

(Surah) Aal-e-Imran: and remember the Favour of Allah upon you when you were enemies, so He United between your hearts and (it was) by His Favour you became brethren and you were on the brink of a pit of the fire, so He Saved you from it.  Like that Allah Clarifies His Signs for you all perhaps you may be rightly Guided [3:103]

و قال تعالى‏ لَقَدْ مَنَّ اللَّهُ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِذْ بَعَثَ فِيهِمْ رَسُولًا مِنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ يَتْلُوا عَلَيْهِمْ آياتِهِ وَ يُزَكِّيهِمْ وَ يُعَلِّمُهُمُ الْكِتابَ وَ الْحِكْمَةَ وَ إِنْ كانُوا مِنْ قَبْلُ لَفِي ضَلالٍ مُبِينٍ‏

And the Exalted Said: Certainly Allah Conferred a Favour upon the Momineen when He Sent among them a Rasool from among themselves, reciting to them His Verses and purifying them, and teaching them the Book and the Wisdom, although before that they were in clear straying [3:164]

النساء ما أَصابَكَ مِنْ حَسَنَةٍ فَمِنَ اللَّهِ وَ ما أَصابَكَ مِنْ سَيِّئَةٍ فَمِنْ نَفْسِكَ وَ أَرْسَلْناكَ لِلنَّاسِ رَسُولًا وَ كَفى‏ بِاللَّهِ شَهِيداً

(Surah) Al Nisaa: Whatever befalls you from a good, so it is from Allah, and whatever befalls you from an evil, so it is from yourselves; and We Sent you to the people as a Rasool, and suffice with Allah as a Witness [4:79]

مَنْ يُطِعِ الرَّسُولَ فَقَدْ أَطاعَ اللَّهَ وَ مَنْ تَوَلَّى فَما أَرْسَلْناكَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَفِيظاً

There is one who obeys the Rasool, so he has obeyed Allah, and there is one who turns back, so We have not Sent you as a keeper over them [4:80]

و قال تعالى‏ إِنَّا أَوْحَيْنا إِلَيْكَ كَما أَوْحَيْنا إِلى‏ نُوحٍ وَ النَّبِيِّينَ‏ إلى قوله‏ لكِنِ اللَّهُ يَشْهَدُ بِما أَنْزَلَ إِلَيْكَ أَنْزَلَهُ بِعِلْمِهِ وَ الْمَلائِكَةُ يَشْهَدُونَ وَ كَفى‏ بِاللَّهِ شَهِيداً

And the Exalted said: Surely, We have Revealed unto you as We had Revealed unto Noah, and the Prophets [4:163] – up to His^-azwj Words: But Allah Testifies with what He has Revealed to you that He Revealed it by His Knowledge, and the Angels are testifying (also); and Suffice with Allah as a Witness [4:166]

المائدة يا أَيُّهَا الرَّسُولُ بَلِّغْ ما أُنْزِلَ إِلَيْكَ مِنْ رَبِّكَ وَ إِنْ لَمْ تَفْعَلْ فَما بَلَّغْتَ رِسالَتَهُ وَ اللَّهُ يَعْصِمُكَ مِنَ النَّاسِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْكافِرِينَ‏

(Surah) Al Maidah: O you Rasool! Deliver what has been Revealed unto you from your Lord; and if you don’t do so, then you have not delivered His Message, and Allah will Protect you from the people. Surely Allah does not Guide the Kafir people [5:67]

و قال تعالى‏ ما عَلَى الرَّسُولِ إِلَّا الْبَلاغُ وَ اللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ ما تُبْدُونَ وَ ما تَكْتُمُونَ

And the Exalted Said: It is not upon the Rasool except for the delivery (of the Message), and Allah Knows what they are manifesting and what they are concealing [5:99]

‏ الأنعام‏ قُلْ أَ غَيْرَ اللَّهِ أَتَّخِذُ وَلِيًّا فاطِرِ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ وَ هُوَ يُطْعِمُ وَ لا يُطْعَمُ قُلْ إِنِّي أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ أَسْلَمَ وَ لا تَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ‏ إلى آخر الآيات

(Surah) Al Anaam: Say: ‘Shall I take other than Allah as a Guardian (and) He is the originator of the skies and the earth, and He Feeds and is not fed?’ Say, ‘I have been Commanded that I should be the first one to submit, and you should not become from the associators’ [6:14] – up to the end of the Verses.

و قال تعالى‏ قَدْ نَعْلَمُ إِنَّهُ لَيَحْزُنُكَ الَّذِي يَقُولُونَ فَإِنَّهُمْ لا يُكَذِّبُونَكَ وَ لكِنَّ الظَّالِمِينَ بِآياتِ اللَّهِ يَجْحَدُونَ‏

And the Exalted Said: ‘We do Know it has grieved you, that which they are saying. They are not belying you, but the unjust ones are rejecting the Signs of Allah [6:33]

و قال تعالى‏ قُلْ لا أَسْئَلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ أَجْراً إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرى‏ لِلْعالَمِينَ‏

And the Exalted Said: Say: ‘I do not ask you for a recompense upon it; it is only a Reminder for the worlds [6:90]

و قال تعالى‏ اتَّبِعْ ما أُوحِيَ إِلَيْكَ مِنْ رَبِّكَ لا إِلهَ إِلَّا هُوَ وَ أَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ

And the Exalted Said: Follow what is Revealed to you from your Lord; there is no god but He; and turn away from the associators [6:106]

وَ لَوْ شاءَ اللَّهُ ما أَشْرَكُوا وَ ما جَعَلْناكَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَفِيظاً وَ ما أَنْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ بِوَكِيلٍ

And if Allah had so Desired, they would not have associated, and We have not Made you as a keeper over; them, and you are not upon them as a disposer [6:107]

وَ لا تَسُبُّوا الَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ فَيَسُبُّوا اللَّهَ عَدْواً بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ كَذلِكَ زَيَّنَّا لِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ عَمَلَهُمْ ثُمَّ إِلى‏ رَبِّهِمْ مَرْجِعُهُمْ فَيُنَبِّئُهُمْ بِما كانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ‏

And do not insult those who are supplicating to the ones besides Allah so they would (in retaliation) be insulting Allah in enmity, without knowledge. Like that We Adorn for every community, their deeds, then to their Lord would be their return, and We would Inform them with what they had been doing [6:108]

إلى قوله تعالى‏ وَ كَذلِكَ جَعَلْنا لِكُلِّ نَبِيٍّ عَدُوًّا شَياطِينَ الْإِنْسِ وَ الْجِنِّ يُوحِي بَعْضُهُمْ إِلى‏ بَعْضٍ زُخْرُفَ الْقَوْلِ غُرُوراً وَ لَوْ شاءَ رَبُّكَ ما فَعَلُوهُ فَذَرْهُمْ وَ ما يَفْتَرُونَ

Up to the Words of the Exalted: And like that We Make an enemy for every Prophet, satans of the humans and the Jinn, suggesting flowery words to each other, deceiving; and had your Lord so Desired, they would not have done it. So leave them and what they are fabricating [6:112]

وَ لِتَصْغى‏ إِلَيْهِ أَفْئِدَةُ الَّذِينَ لا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ وَ لِيَرْضَوْهُ وَ لِيَقْتَرِفُوا ما هُمْ مُقْتَرِفُونَ‏

And for inclining towards it the hearts of those who are not believing in the Hereafter and let them be pleased with it and let them earn whatever they are earning [6:113]

إلى قوله تعالى‏ أَ وَ مَنْ كانَ مَيْتاً فَأَحْيَيْناهُ وَ جَعَلْنا لَهُ نُوراً يَمْشِي بِهِ فِي النَّاسِ كَمَنْ مَثَلُهُ فِي الظُّلُماتِ لَيْسَ بِخارِجٍ مِنْها كَذلِكَ زُيِّنَ لِلْكافِرِينَ ما كانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

Up to the Words of the Exalted: Or is the one who was dead, so We Revived him and Made for him a Light he can walk with among the people, like the one similar to him in the darkness not exiting from it? Like that it was adorned for the Kafirs what they were doing [6:122]

وَ كَذلِكَ جَعَلْنا فِي كُلِّ قَرْيَةٍ أَكابِرَ مُجْرِمِيها لِيَمْكُرُوا فِيها وَ ما يَمْكُرُونَ إِلَّا بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ وَ ما يَشْعُرُونَ‏

And like that We Made in every town the great ones to be its criminals to plot therein, and they are not plotting except against their own souls and they are not perceiving [6:123]

الأعراف قُلْ يا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ إِلَيْكُمْ جَمِيعاً الَّذِي لَهُ مُلْكُ السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضِ لا إِلهَ إِلَّا هُوَ يُحيِي وَ يُمِيتُ فَآمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ النَّبِيِّ الْأُمِّيِّ الَّذِي يُؤْمِنُ بِاللَّهِ وَ كَلِماتِهِ وَ اتَّبِعُوهُ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ‏

(Surah) Al A’raaf: Say: ‘O you people! I am a Rasool of Allah to you all, Who for Him is the Kingdom of the skies and the earth. There is no god except Him, He Causes to live and die. Therefore believe in Allah and His Rasool, the prophet, the Ummy (From Makkah) who believes in Allah and His Words, and follow him, so you may be rightly Guided’ [7:158]

و قال‏ خُذِ الْعَفْوَ وَ أْمُرْ بِالْعُرْفِ وَ أَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْجاهِلِينَ‏

And Said: Take to the Forgiveness and enjoin good and turn away from the ignorant ones [7:199]

الأنفال‏ وَ إِذْ قالُوا اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كانَ هذا هُوَ الْحَقَّ مِنْ عِنْدِكَ فَأَمْطِرْ عَلَيْنا حِجارَةً مِنَ السَّماءِ أَوِ ائْتِنا بِعَذابٍ أَلِيمٍ

(Surah) Al Anfaal: And when they said, ‘O Allah! In case this is the Truth from Your Presence, then Rain upon us stones from the sky or Give up a painful Punishment [8:32]

وَ ما كانَ اللَّهُ لِيُعَذِّبَهُمْ وَ أَنْتَ فِيهِمْ وَ ما كانَ اللَّهُ مُعَذِّبَهُمْ وَ هُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ

And Allah was not going to Punish them while you were among them, nor would Allah Punish them while they are seeking Forgiveness [8:33]

وَ ما لَهُمْ أَلَّا يُعَذِّبَهُمُ اللَّهُ وَ هُمْ يَصُدُّونَ عَنِ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرامِ وَ ما كانُوا أَوْلِياءَهُ إِنْ أَوْلِياؤُهُ إِلَّا الْمُتَّقُونَ وَ لكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لا يَعْلَمُونَ

And what is for them that Allah should not Punish them and they are hindering from the Sacred Masjid, and they were not its custodians? Surely, its custodians are only the pious ones, but most of them are not knowing [8:34]

وَ ما كانَ صَلاتُهُمْ عِنْدَ الْبَيْتِ إِلَّا مُكاءً وَ تَصْدِيَةً فَذُوقُوا الْعَذابَ بِما كُنْتُمْ تَكْفُرُونَ

And it was not their Salat by the House (Kabah) except for whistling and clapping; therefore taste the Punishment due to what you were disbelieving [8:35]

‏ التوبة هُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُ بِالْهُدى‏ وَ دِينِ الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ وَ لَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ‏

(Surah) Al Tawbah: He is the One Who Sent His Rasool with the Guidance and the Religion of Truth in order to prevail it upon all the Religions, and even if the Polytheists dislike it [9:33]

يونس‏ وَ إِمَّا نُرِيَنَّكَ بَعْضَ الَّذِي نَعِدُهُمْ أَوْ نَتَوَفَّيَنَّكَ فَإِلَيْنا مَرْجِعُهُمْ ثُمَّ اللَّهُ شَهِيدٌ عَلى‏ ما يَفْعَلُونَ‏

(Surah) Yunus^-as: And either We will Show you part of that which We have Prepared for them or We will Cause you to pass away, then to Us would be their return, then Allah will Testify upon what they had been doing [10:46]

يوسف نَحْنُ نَقُصُّ عَلَيْكَ أَحْسَنَ الْقَصَصِ بِما أَوْحَيْنا إِلَيْكَ هذَا الْقُرْآنَ وَ إِنْ كُنْتَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ لَمِنَ الْغافِلِينَ‏

(Surah) Yusuf^-as: We Relate to you the best of stories, by What We Reveal unto you this Quran, and even though you were from before it, of the heedless ones [12:3]

و قال تعالى‏ قُلْ هذِهِ سَبِيلِي أَدْعُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ عَلى‏ بَصِيرَةٍ أَنَا وَ مَنِ اتَّبَعَنِي وَ سُبْحانَ اللَّهِ وَ ما أَنَا مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ‏

And the Exalted Said: Say: ‘This is my way. I call to Allah upon an insight, I and the one who follows me, and Glorious is Allah, and I am not from of the Polytheists’ [12:108]

الرعد إِنَّما أَنْتَ مُنْذِرٌ وَ لِكُلِّ قَوْمٍ هادٍ

(Surah) Al Ra’ad: But rather, you are a Warner, and for every people there is a Guide [13:7]

و قال تعالى‏ وَ إِنْ ما نُرِيَنَّكَ بَعْضَ الَّذِي نَعِدُهُمْ أَوْ نَتَوَفَّيَنَّكَ فَإِنَّما عَلَيْكَ الْبَلاغُ وَ عَلَيْنَا الْحِسابُ‏

And the Exalted Said: And even if We were to Show you part of what We Threaten them with or Cause you to expire, rather upon you is the delivery (of the Message) and upon Us is the Reckoning [13:40]

الحجر لا تَمُدَّنَّ عَيْنَيْكَ إِلى‏ ما مَتَّعْنا بِهِ أَزْواجاً مِنْهُمْ وَ لا تَحْزَنْ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ اخْفِضْ جَناحَكَ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

(Surah) Al Hijr: Do not extend your eyes to what We have Provided with two categories from them, nor grieve upon them, and lower your wings towards the Momineen [15:88]

وَ قُلْ إِنِّي أَنَا النَّذِيرُ الْمُبِينُ

And say: ‘Surely I am the clear Warner’ [15:89]

كَما أَنْزَلْنا عَلَى الْمُقْتَسِمِينَ

Like what We Sent to the dividers [15:90]

الَّذِينَ جَعَلُوا الْقُرْآنَ عِضِينَ

Those who made the Quran to be parts [15:91]

فَوَ رَبِّكَ لَنَسْئَلَنَّهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ

So, by your Lord! We will be Questioning them altogether [15:92]

عَمَّا كانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

About what they were doing [15:93]

فَاصْدَعْ بِما تُؤْمَرُ وَ أَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ

So proclaim what you are Commanded with and turn away from the polytheists [15:94]

إِنَّا كَفَيْناكَ الْمُسْتَهْزِئِينَ

We will Suffice you against the scoffers [15:95]

الَّذِينَ يَجْعَلُونَ مَعَ اللَّهِ إِلهاً آخَرَ فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ

Those who are making another god with Allah, so soon they shall come to know [15:96]

وَ لَقَدْ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ يَضِيقُ صَدْرُكَ بِما يَقُولُونَ

And We have Known that you tend to constrict your chest due to what they are saying [15:97]

فَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ وَ كُنْ مِنَ السَّاجِدِينَ

Therefore Glorify with the Praise of your Lord, and become from the prostrating ones [15:98]

وَ اعْبُدْ رَبَّكَ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَكَ الْيَقِينُ‏

And worship your Lord until there comes to you certainty [15:99]

النحل‏ وَ ما أَنْزَلْنا عَلَيْكَ الْكِتابَ إِلَّا لِتُبَيِّنَ لَهُمُ الَّذِي اخْتَلَفُوا فِيهِ وَ هُدىً وَ رَحْمَةً لِقَوْمٍ يُؤْمِنُونَ‏

(Surah) Al Nahl: And We did not Reveal the Book unto you except for you to clarify to them what they were differing in, and as a Guidance and a Mercy for a believing people [16:64]

و قال تعالى‏ وَ نَزَّلْنا عَلَيْكَ الْكِتابَ تِبْياناً لِكُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ وَ هُدىً وَ رَحْمَةً وَ بُشْرى‏ لِلْمُسْلِمِينَ‏

And the Exalted Said: And We Revealed the Book unto you as a clarification of all things, and Guidance and Mercy and glad tidings for the submitters [16:89]

و قال تعالى‏ ادْعُ إِلى‏ سَبِيلِ رَبِّكَ بِالْحِكْمَةِ وَ الْمَوْعِظَةِ الْحَسَنَةِ وَ جادِلْهُمْ بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِمَنْ ضَلَّ عَنْ سَبِيلِهِ وَ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ‏

And the Exalted Said: Call to the Way of your Lord with the wisdom and goodly exhortation, and have disputations with them by that which is best; surely your Lord is more Knowing with ones who stray from His Way, and He is more Knowing with ones Guided aright [16:125]

الإسراء نَحْنُ أَعْلَمُ بِما يَسْتَمِعُونَ بِهِ إِذْ يَسْتَمِعُونَ إِلَيْكَ وَ إِذْ هُمْ نَجْوى‏ إِذْ يَقُولُ الظَّالِمُونَ إِنْ تَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا رَجُلًا مَسْحُوراً

(Surah) Al Isra’a: We are more Knowing of what they are listening intently to when they listen to you, and when they are whispering when the unjust ones are saying, ‘Surely you are only following a bewitched man’ [17:47]

انْظُرْ كَيْفَ ضَرَبُوا لَكَ الْأَمْثالَ فَضَلُّوا فَلا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ سَبِيلًا

Look how they are striking examples for you! So they have gone astray and cannot find a way [17:48]

الكهف‏ وَ اتْلُ ما أُوحِيَ إِلَيْكَ مِنْ كِتابِ رَبِّكَ لا مُبَدِّلَ لِكَلِماتِهِ وَ لَنْ تَجِدَ مِنْ دُونِهِ مُلْتَحَداً

(Surah) Al Kahf: And recite what is Revealed to you from the Book of your Lord. There is no alternant to his Words, and you will never find a refuge from besides Him [18:27]

مريم‏ أَ فَرَأَيْتَ الَّذِي كَفَرَ بِآياتِنا وَ قالَ لَأُوتَيَنَّ مالًا وَ وَلَداً

(Surah) Maryam^-as: Do you see the one who commits Kufr with Our Signs and says, ‘I will be Given wealth and children’ [19:77]

أَطَّلَعَ الْغَيْبَ أَمِ اتَّخَذَ عِنْدَ الرَّحْمنِ عَهْداً

Has he been Notified of the unseen, or taken a Pact with the Beneficent? [19:78]

كَلَّا سَنَكْتُبُ ما يَقُولُ وَ نَمُدُّ لَهُ مِنَ الْعَذابِ مَدًّا

Never! We shall Record what he is saying and We will Extend for him a term of the Punishment [19:79]

وَ نَرِثُهُ ما يَقُولُ وَ يَأْتِينا فَرْداً

And We shall Inherit what they are saying, and they would come to Us individually [19:80]

و قال تعالى‏ فَإِنَّما يَسَّرْناهُ بِلِسانِكَ لِتُبَشِّرَ بِهِ الْمُتَّقِينَ وَ تُنْذِرَ بِهِ قَوْماً لُدًّا

And the Exalted Said: But rather We have Eased it by your tongue to give the glad tidings to the pious with it and to warn by it a contentious people [19:97]

طه‏ كَذلِكَ نَقُصُّ عَلَيْكَ مِنْ أَنْباءِ ما قَدْ سَبَقَ وَ قَدْ آتَيْناكَ مِنْ لَدُنَّا ذِكْراً

(Surah) Ta Ha: Like that We Relate unto you from the news of what has preceded, and We have Given you Zikr from Us [20:99]

مَنْ أَعْرَضَ عَنْهُ فَإِنَّهُ يَحْمِلُ يَوْمَ الْقِيامَةِ وِزْراً

One who turns away from him would bear a burden on the Day of Qiyamah [20:100]

الأنبياء وَ إِذا رَآكَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا إِنْ يَتَّخِذُونَكَ إِلَّا هُزُواً أَ هذَا الَّذِي يَذْكُرُ آلِهَتَكُمْ وَ هُمْ بِذِكْرِ الرَّحْمنِ هُمْ كافِرُونَ‏

(Surah) Al-Anbiya: And when those who commit Kufr see you they are not taking you except as a mockery, ‘Is this the one who mentions your gods?’ And they, with the Zikr of the Beneficent, they are committing Kufr [21:36]

الحج‏ وَ مِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يُجادِلُ فِي اللَّهِ بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ وَ يَتَّبِعُ كُلَّ شَيْطانٍ مَرِيدٍ

(Surah) Al Hajj: And from the people there is one who disputes regarding Allah without knowledge and follows every rebellious satan [22:3]

كُتِبَ عَلَيْهِ أَنَّهُ مَنْ تَوَلَّاهُ فَأَنَّهُ يُضِلُّهُ وَ يَهْدِيهِ إِلى‏ عَذابِ السَّعِيرِ

It is Decreed against him that the one who befriends him, so he would stray him and guide him to the Punishment of the Blazing Fire [22:4]

و قال تعالى‏ قُلْ يا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّما أَنَا لَكُمْ نَذِيرٌ مُبِينٌ‏

Say: ‘O you people! But rather, I am only a clear warner to you [22:49]

و قال تعالى‏ لِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ جَعَلْنا مَنْسَكاً هُمْ ناسِكُوهُ فَلا يُنازِعُنَّكَ فِي الْأَمْرِ وَ ادْعُ إِلى‏ رَبِّكَ إِنَّكَ لَعَلى‏ هُدىً مُسْتَقِيمٍ‏

And the Exalted Said: For every community, We Made rituals which they are performing, therefore they should not be disputing you regarding the matter; and call to your Lord, surely you are upon a Straight Guidance [22:67]

الفرقان‏ وَ ما أَرْسَلْناكَ إِلَّا مُبَشِّراً وَ نَذِيراً

(Surah) Al Furqan: And We have not Sent you except as a giver of glad tidings and as a warner [25:56]

قُلْ ما أَسْئَلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ أَجْرٍ إِلَّا مَنْ شاءَ أَنْ يَتَّخِذَ إِلى‏ رَبِّهِ سَبِيلًا

Say: ‘I do not ask you for any recompense over it except one who so desires to should take a way to his Lord [25:57]

وَ تَوَكَّلْ عَلَى الْحَيِّ الَّذِي لا يَمُوتُ وَ سَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِهِ وَ كَفى‏ بِهِ بِذُنُوبِ عِبادِهِ خَبِيراً

And he should rely on the Ever-living Who does not die, and Glorify with His Praise; and Sufficient is He of being Aware of the sins of His servants [25:58]

الشعراء لَعَلَّكَ باخِعٌ نَفْسَكَ أَلَّا يَكُونُوا مُؤْمِنِينَ

(Surah) Al Shuara: Perhaps you will torment yourself with grief because they are not becoming Momineen [26:3]

إِنْ نَشَأْ نُنَزِّلْ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ السَّماءِ آيَةً فَظَلَّتْ أَعْناقُهُمْ لَها خاضِعِينَ‏

If We Desired to, We would Send down upon them a Sign from the sky, so their necks would be humbled to it [26:4]

و قال تعالى‏ وَ أَنْذِرْ عَشِيرَتَكَ الْأَقْرَبِينَ‏

And the Exalted Said: And warn your kindred, the near ones! [26:214]

فاطر إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُسْمِعُ مَنْ يَشاءُ وَ ما أَنْتَ بِمُسْمِعٍ مَنْ فِي الْقُبُورِ

(Surah) Fatir: And neither are the living equal to the dead. Surely, Allah Makes to hear one He so Desires to, and you cannot make hear the ones in the graves [35:22]

إِنْ أَنْتَ إِلَّا نَذِيرٌ

Surely, you are only a warner [35:23]

إِنَّا أَرْسَلْناكَ بِالْحَقِّ بَشِيراً وَ نَذِيراً

We Sent you with the Truth as a herald of glad tidings and as a warner, and there is no community except a warner has been among them [35:24]

يس‏ لِيُنْذِرَ مَنْ كانَ حَيًّا وَ يَحِقَّ الْقَوْلُ عَلَى الْكافِرِينَ

(Surah) Yaseen: For him to warn one who was alive, and (for) the Word to be proven true upon the Kafirs [36:70]

‏ المؤمن‏ فَاصْبِرْ إِنَّ وَعْدَ اللَّهِ حَقٌّ فَإِمَّا نُرِيَنَّكَ بَعْضَ الَّذِي نَعِدُهُمْ أَوْ نَتَوَفَّيَنَّكَ فَإِلَيْنا يُرْجَعُونَ‏

(Surah) Al Momin: So be patient, surely the Promise of Allah is True. Either We will Show you part of what We Threaten them with, or We shall Cause you to pass away, to Us they would be returning [40:77]

حمعسق‏ فَلِذلِكَ فَادْعُ وَ اسْتَقِمْ كَما أُمِرْتَ وَ لا تَتَّبِعْ أَهْواءَهُمْ وَ قُلْ آمَنْتُ بِما أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ مِنْ كِتابٍ وَ أُمِرْتُ لِأَعْدِلَ بَيْنَكُمُ اللَّهُ رَبُّنا وَ رَبُّكُمْ لَنا أَعْمالُنا وَ لَكُمْ أَعْمالُكُمْ لا حُجَّةَ بَيْنَنا وَ بَيْنَكُمُ اللَّهُ يَجْمَعُ بَيْنَنا وَ إِلَيْهِ الْمَصِيرُ

(Surah) Shura: Therefore due to that, so invite, and be steadfast as you are Commanded, and do not follow their whims, and say: ‘I believe in whatever Allah Reveals in the Book, and I am Commanded to do justice between you. Allah is our Lord and your Lord. For us are our deeds and for you are your deeds. There is no argument between us and you. Allah would Gather us and to Him is the journey’ [42:15]

و قال تعالى‏ ما كُنْتَ تَدْرِي مَا الْكِتابُ وَ لَا الْإِيمانُ وَ لكِنْ جَعَلْناهُ نُوراً نَهْدِي بِهِ مَنْ نَشاءُ مِنْ عِبادِنا وَ إِنَّكَ لَتَهْدِي إِلى‏ صِراطٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ

And the Exalted Said: And like that We Sent down a Spirit unto you from Our Command. You (people) did not know what the Book was, nor the Eman, but We Made it a ‘Noor’ (Light) We Guide with one We so Desire from Our servants; and surely you (Rasool) guide to the Straight Path [42:52]

صِراطِ اللَّهِ الَّذِي لَهُ ما فِي السَّماواتِ وَ ما فِي الْأَرْضِ أَلا إِلَى اللَّهِ تَصِيرُ الْأُمُورُ

A Path of Allah Who, for Him is whatever is in the skies and whatever is in the earth. Indeed! To Allah do the matters eventually come [42:53]

الزخرف‏ فَإِمَّا نَذْهَبَنَّ بِكَ فَإِنَّا مِنْهُمْ مُنْتَقِمُونَ

(Surah) Al Zukhruf: So if We were to Take you away, We would still Take Revenge from them [43:41]

أَوْ نُرِيَنَّكَ الَّذِي وَعَدْناهُمْ فَإِنَّا عَلَيْهِمْ مُقْتَدِرُونَ

Or We will show you that which We Promised them, for We are Powerful upon them [43:42] 

فَاسْتَمْسِكْ بِالَّذِي أُوحِيَ إِلَيْكَ إِنَّكَ عَلى‏ صِراطٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ

Therefore adhere with that which is Revealed unto you, surely you are upon a Straight Path [43:43]

وَ إِنَّهُ لَذِكْرٌ لَكَ وَ لِقَوْمِكَ وَ سَوْفَ تُسْئَلُونَ‏

And it is a Zikr for you and for your people, and soon you shall be Questioned [43:44]

الفتح‏ إِنَّا أَرْسَلْناكَ شاهِداً وَ مُبَشِّراً وَ نَذِيراً

(Surah) Al Fat’h: Surely, We Sent you as a witness, and a giver of glad tidings and a warner [48:8]

لِتُؤْمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَ رَسُولِهِ وَ تُعَزِّرُوهُ وَ تُوَقِّرُوهُ وَ تُسَبِّحُوهُ بُكْرَةً وَ أَصِيلًا

In order for you all to believe in Allah and His Rasool, and to help him and revere him, and you should Glorify Him morning and evening [48:9]

الذاريات‏ فَتَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ فَما أَنْتَ بِمَلُومٍ

(Surah) Al Zariyaat: So turn away from them, for you are not with a blame [51:54]

وَ ذَكِّرْ فَإِنَّ الذِّكْرى‏ تَنْفَعُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ‏

And continue to remind, for surely the Zikr benefits the Momineen [51:55]

الطور فَذَكِّرْ فَما أَنْتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِكاهِنٍ وَ لا مَجْنُونٍ‏

(Surah) Al Toor: Therefore, continue to remind, for by the Grace of your Lord, you are neither a soothsayer nor a madman [52:29] 

النجم‏ فَأَعْرِضْ عَنْ مَنْ تَوَلَّى عَنْ ذِكْرِنا وَ لَمْ يُرِدْ إِلَّا الْحَياةَ الدُّنْيا إلى قوله تعالى‏ هذا نَذِيرٌ مِنَ النُّذُرِ الْأُولى‏

(Surah) Al Najm: Therefore turn aside from one who turns his back from Our Zikr, and he does not want except the life of the world [53:29] – up to the Words of the Exalted: This one is a Warner from the former Warners [53:56]

القمر فَتَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ‏

(Surah) Al Qamar: Therefore turn away from them. [54:6]

القلم‏ فَلا تُطِعِ الْمُكَذِّبِينَ

(Surah) Al Qalam: So do not heed the beliers [68:8]

وَدُّوا لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ

They wish that you should be pliant so they (too) would be pliant [68:9]

وَ لا تُطِعْ كُلَّ حَلَّافٍ مَهِينٍ

And do not heed a despicable oath-monger [68:10]

هَمَّازٍ مَشَّاءٍ بِنَمِيمٍ

A defamer, malicious slanderer [68:11]

مَنَّاعٍ لِلْخَيْرِ مُعْتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ

Preventer of the good, an excessive sinner [68:12]

عُتُلٍّ بَعْدَ ذلِكَ زَنِيمٍ‏ إلى آخر الآيات

Callous, after (all) that, ignoble [68:13] – up to the end of the Verses (Verse 52)

المعارج‏ سَأَلَ سائِلٌ بِعَذابٍ واقِعٍ

(Surah) Al Ma’arij: A questioner, asked for the Punishment to befall [70:1]

لِلْكافِرينَ لَيْسَ لَهُ دافِعٌ

For the Kafirs, there wouldn’t be a dispeller for it [70:2]

مِنَ اللَّهِ ذِي الْمَعارِجِ‏

 (It is) from Allah, One with the ways of ascent [70:3]

و قال تعالى‏ فَما لِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا قِبَلَكَ

And the Exalted Said: So what is the matter with those who commit Kufr racing ahead before you, [70:36]

مُهْطِعِينَ عَنِ الْيَمِينِ وَ عَنِ الشِّمالِ

On the right and on the left in separate groups? [70:37]

عِزِينَ أَ يَطْمَعُ كُلُّ امْرِئٍ مِنْهُمْ أَنْ يُدْخَلَ جَنَّةَ نَعِيمٍ‏ إلى آخر السورة

Does every person from them desires that he should enter the Garden of Bliss? [70:38] – up to the end of the Chapter (Verse 44)

المزمل‏ إِنَّا أَرْسَلْنا إِلَيْكُمْ رَسُولًا شاهِداً عَلَيْكُمْ كَما أَرْسَلْنا إِلى‏ فِرْعَوْنَ رَسُولًا

(Surah) Al Muzammil: Surely, We Sent a Rasool to you as a witness upon you, just as We had Sent a Rasool to Pharaoh [73:15]

فَعَصى‏ فِرْعَوْنُ الرَّسُولَ فَأَخَذْناهُ أَخْذاً وَبِيلًا

But Pharaoh disobeyed the Rasool, so We Seized him with a ruinous Seizing [73:16]

المدثر 1 يا أَيُّهَا الْمُدَّثِّرُ قُمْ فَأَنْذِرْ

(Surah) Al Muddasir: O you Al-Muddasir! (the covered one) [74:1] Arise, so warn (others) [74:2] 

إلى قوله‏ ذَرْنِي وَ مَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيداً

Up to His^-azwj Words: Leave Me and the one I Created as Al-Waheed [74:11] 

وَ جَعَلْتُ لَهُ مالًا مَمْدُوداً وَ بَنِينَ شُهُوداً

And Made extensive wealth to be for him [74:12] And boys as witnesses [74:13]

وَ مَهَّدْتُ لَهُ تَمْهِيداً ثُمَّ يَطْمَعُ أَنْ أَزِيدَ

And the way was paved for him [74:14] Then he covets that I should Increase? [74:15]

كَلَّا إِنَّهُ كانَ لِآياتِنا عَنِيداً سَأُرْهِقُهُ صَعُوداً

Never! Surely he was stubborn to Our Signs [74:16] Soon I will Overtake him with an ever-increasing Punishment [74:17]

إِنَّهُ فَكَّرَ وَ قَدَّرَ فَقُتِلَ كَيْفَ قَدَّرَ

He pondered and plotted [74:18] So he would be killed, how (much) he plotted! [74:19]

ثُمَّ قُتِلَ كَيْفَ قَدَّرَ ثُمَّ نَظَرَ

Then, he would be killed, how (much) he plotted! [74:20] Then he looked [74:21]

ثُمَّ عَبَسَ وَ بَسَرَ ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ وَ اسْتَكْبَرَ

Then he frowned and scowled [74:22] Then he turned back and was arrogant [74:23] 

فَقالَ إِنْ هذا إِلَّا سِحْرٌ يُؤْثَرُ إِنْ هذا إِلَّا قَوْلُ الْبَشَرِ سَأُصْلِيهِ سَقَرَ

Then he said, ‘This is only an effect of sorcery [74:24] Surely these are only words of the human’ [74:25] I will Make him arrive to Saqar [74:26] 

إلى قوله تعالى‏ فَما لَهُمْ عَنِ التَّذْكِرَةِ مُعْرِضِينَ كَأَنَّهُمْ حُمُرٌ مُسْتَنْفِرَةٌ

Up to the Words of the Exalted: So what is the matter with them, turning away from the Tazkira? [74:49] As if they were frightened donkeys [74:50]

فَرَّتْ مِنْ قَسْوَرَةٍ بَلْ يُرِيدُ كُلُّ امْرِئٍ مِنْهُمْ أَنْ يُؤْتى‏ صُحُفاً مُنَشَّرَةً

Fleeing from a lion [74:51] But, every person from them wants to be Given pages spread out [74:52] 

القيامة فَلا صَدَّقَ وَ لا صَلَّى

(Surah) Al Qiyamah: So he neither ratified nor did he send the Salawat [75:31]

وَ لكِنْ كَذَّبَ وَ تَوَلَّى ثُمَّ ذَهَبَ إِلى‏ أَهْلِهِ يَتَمَطَّى ‏

But he belied and turned back [75:32] Then he went to his family swaggering (boasting) [75:33]

أَوْلى‏ لَكَ فَأَوْلى‏ ثُمَّ أَوْلى‏ لَكَ فَأَوْلى

Woe be to you, so woe! [75:34] Then woe be to you, so woe! [75:35] 

النبأ عَمَّ يَتَساءَلُونَ عَنِ النَّبَإِ الْعَظِيمِ الَّذِي هُمْ فِيهِ مُخْتَلِفُونَ‏

(Surah) Al Naba: What are they asking about? [78:1] About the Magnificent News, [78:2] Which they are differing in? [78:3]

عبس‏ قُتِلَ الْإِنْسانُ ما أَكْفَرَهُ مِنْ أَيِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ خَلَقَهُ مِنْ نُطْفَةٍ خَلَقَهُ

(Surah) Abasa: May the human be killed, what (a lot is) his Kufr! [80:17] From which thing is his creation? [80:18]

فَقَدَّرَهُ ثُمَّ السَّبِيلَ يَسَّرَهُ

From a sperm He Created him, and Determined him [80:19] Then the way, He Eased it for him [80:20]

ثُمَّ أَماتَهُ فَأَقْبَرَهُ ثُمَّ إِذا شاءَ أَنْشَرَهُ

Then He would Cause him to die, so had him buried [80:21] Then when He so Desires, He would Raise him [80:22]

كَلَّا لَمَّا يَقْضِ ما أَمَرَهُ‏

Never! But he has yet to do what He Commanded him [80:23]

التكوير إِنَّهُ لَقَوْلُ رَسُولٍ كَرِيمٍ

(Surah) Al Takweer: It is certainly the world of an honourable Messenger [81:19]

ذِي قُوَّةٍ عِنْدَ ذِي الْعَرْشِ مَكِينٍ مُطاعٍ ثَمَّ أَمِينٍ

The processor of strength, distinguished, in the Presence of the Possessor of the Throne [81:20] Obedient, then trustworthy [81:21]

وَ ما صاحِبُكُمْ بِمَجْنُونٍ وَ لَقَدْ رَآهُ بِالْأُفُقِ الْمُبِينِ

And your companion is not insane [81:22] And he had seen him in the clear horizon [81:23] 

وَ ما هُوَ عَلَى الْغَيْبِ بِضَنِينٍ وَ ما هُوَ بِقَوْلِ شَيْطانٍ رَجِيمٍ

And he is not a withholder of the unseen [81:24] And it is not a speech of the Pelted Satan [81:25]

فَأَيْنَ تَذْهَبُونَ إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌ لِلْعالَمِينَ لِمَنْ شاءَ مِنْكُمْ أَنْ يَسْتَقِيمَ‏

So where are you going? [81:26] Surely he is only a Zikr for the worlds [81:27] For ones from you who desires to go straight [81:28] 

المطففين‏ إِنَّ الَّذِينَ أَجْرَمُوا كانُوا مِنَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا يَضْحَكُونَ وَ إِذا مَرُّوا بِهِمْ يَتَغامَزُونَ

(Surah) Al Mutaffifeen: Surely, those who committed crimes (criminals) used to laugh at those who believed [83:29] And when he passed by them, they winked at each other [83:30]

وَ إِذَا انْقَلَبُوا إِلى‏ أَهْلِهِمُ انْقَلَبُوا فَكِهِينَ وَ إِذا رَأَوْهُمْ قالُوا إِنَّ هؤُلاءِ لَضالُّونَ

And when they returned to their people, they returned jesting (joking) [83:31] And when they saw them, they said, ‘Surely they are straying’ [83:32]

وَ ما أُرْسِلُوا عَلَيْهِمْ حافِظِينَ فَالْيَوْمَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنَ الْكُفَّارِ يَضْحَكُونَ

And they were not Sent as keepers over them [83:33] So today, those who believe shall be laughing at the Kafirs [83:34]

عَلَى الْأَرائِكِ يَنْظُرُونَ هَلْ ثُوِّبَ الْكُفَّارُ ما كانُوا يَفْعَلُونَ‏

Upon the couches, they would be gazing [83:35] Would the Kafirs be Rewarded (except for) what they had been doing? [83:36]

الأعلى‏ سَنُقْرِئُكَ فَلا تَنْسى‏ إِلَّا ما شاءَ اللَّهُ إِنَّهُ يَعْلَمُ الْجَهْرَ وَ ما يَخْفى‏

(Surah) Al A’ala: We will Make you read, so you will not forget [87:6] Except what Allah so Desires. He Knows the declared, and what is hidden (remains undeclared) [87:7]

وَ نُيَسِّرُكَ لِلْيُسْرى‏ فَذَكِّرْ إِنْ نَفَعَتِ الذِّكْرى‏

And We will Ease you to the ease [87:8] Therefore do Zikr, surely the Zikr is beneficial [87:9] 

سَيَذَّكَّرُ مَنْ يَخْشى‏ وَ يَتَجَنَّبُهَا الْأَشْقَى

He would be doing Zikr, one who fears [87:10] And the wretched one will shun it [87:11]

الَّذِي يَصْلَى النَّارَ الْكُبْرى‏ ثُمَّ لا يَمُوتُ فِيها وَ لا يَحْيى‏

The one who will arrive to the great Fire [87:12] Then they will neither be dying therein nor living [87:13]

الغاشية فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّما أَنْتَ مُذَكِّرٌ لَسْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

(Surah) Al Ghashiya: Therefore do Zikr. But rather, you are a Zikr [88:21] You aren’t a controller over them [88:22] 

إِلَّا مَنْ تَوَلَّى وَ كَفَرَ فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذابَ الْأَكْبَرَ

Except one who turns back and commits Kufr [88:23] So Allah will Punish him with the greatest Punishment [88:24]

إِنَّ إِلَيْنا إِيابَهُمْ ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنا حِسابَهُمْ‏

Surely, to Us is their return [88:25] Then surely upon Us is their Reckoning [88:26]

البلد لا أُقْسِمُ بِهذَا الْبَلَدِ وَ أَنْتَ حِلٌّ بِهذَا الْبَلَدِ

(Surah) Al Balad: No! I do Swear by this city! [90:1] And you are a dweller in this city [90:2]

وَ والِدٍ وَ ما وَلَدَ لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنْسانَ فِي كَبَدٍ

And (I Swear by) a father and what he begot [90:3] We have Created the human being in suffering [90:4] 

أَ يَحْسَبُ أَنْ لَنْ يَقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ يَقُولُ أَهْلَكْتُ مالًا لُبَداً

Does he reckon that no one will ever be able upon him? [90:5] He is saying, ‘I have destroyed abundant wealth’ [90:6] 

أَ يَحْسَبُ أَنْ لَمْ يَرَهُ أَحَدٌ أَ لَمْ نَجْعَلْ لَهُ عَيْنَيْنِ

Does he reckon that no one sees him? [90:7] Have We not Made two eyes for him, [90:8] 

وَ لِساناً وَ شَفَتَيْنِ وَ هَدَيْناهُ النَّجْدَيْنِ‏

And a tongue and two lips? [90:9] And Guided him (to) the two ways? [90:10]

العلق‏ اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ خَلَقَ الْإِنْسانَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ

(Surah) Al Alaq: Read in the Name of your Lord Who Created! [96:1] He Created the human being from a clot [96:2] 

اقْرَأْ وَ رَبُّكَ الْأَكْرَمُ الَّذِي عَلَّمَ بِالْقَلَمِ ‏

Read, by your Lord, the most Benevolent [96:3] Who Taught by the Pen [96:4]

عَلَّمَ الْإِنْسانَ ما لَمْ يَعْلَمْ‏ إلى آخر السورة

Taught the human being what he did not know [96:5] – up to the end of the Chapter (Verse 19)

البينة لَمْ يَكُنِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتابِ وَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ مُنْفَكِّينَ حَتَّى تَأْتِيَهُمُ الْبَيِّنَةُ

(Surah) Al Bayyina: They did not happen to let go, those who committed Kufr, from the People of the Book and the Polytheists, until the clear evidence came to them [98:1] 

رَسُولٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ يَتْلُوا صُحُفاً مُطَهَّرَةً فِيها كُتُبٌ قَيِّمَةٌ

A Rasool from Allah, reciting pure pages [98:2] Wherein is correct Scripture [98:3] 

وَ ما تَفَرَّقَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتابَ إِلَّا مِنْ بَعْدِ ما جاءَتْهُمُ الْبَيِّنَةُ

And those Given the Book did not separate except from after the clear evidence had come to them [98:4]

القريش‏ لِإِيلافِ قُرَيْشٍ إِيلافِهِمْ رِحْلَةَ الشِّتاءِ وَ الصَّيْفِ‏ السورة

(Surah) Al Quraysh: For the protection of Quraysh [106:1] Their protection of trading caravans of the winter and the summer [106:2] – the Chapter (Up to Verse 4)

الماعون‏ أَ رَأَيْتَ الَّذِي يُكَذِّبُ بِالدِّينِ‏ السورة

(Surah Al Maoun): Have you seen the one who belies the Religion? [107:1] – the Chapter

الجحد قُلْ يا أَيُّهَا الْكافِرُونَ‏ السورة

(Surah) Al Kafiroun: Say: ‘O you Kafirs!’ [109:1] – The Chapter (Up to Verse 6)

تبت‏ تَبَّتْ يَدا أَبِي لَهَبٍ‏ السورة

(Surah Lahab): May both the hands of Abu Lahab perish, and (so would) he! [111:1] – The Chapter

الفلق‏ قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقِ‏ إلى آخر السورة

(Surah Al Falaq): Say: ‘I seek Refuge with Lord of Al-Falaq [113:1] – Up to the end of the Chapter

Note –

رُوِيَ عَنْ سَلَّامِ بْنِ مِسْكِينٍ عَنْ أَبِي يَزِيدَ الْمَدَنِيِ‏ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَقِيَ أَبَا جَهْلٍ فَصَافَحَهُ أَبُو جَهْلٍ فَقِيلَ لَهُ فِي ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ وَ اللَّهِ إِنِّي لَأَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ صَادِقٌ وَ لَكِنْ مَتَى كُنَّا تَبَعاً لِعَبْدِ مَنَافٍ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ هَذِهِ الْآيَةَ

It is reported from Sallam Bin Miskeen, from Abu Yazeed Al Madani, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww met Abu Jahl^-la. Abu Jahl^-la shook his^-saww hand. He^-la was asked about that. He^-la said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! I^-la do know he^-saww is truthful, but when have we ever followed Abd Manaf^-as?’ Allah^-azwj Revealed this Verse (6:33)

رُوِيَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ع‏ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقْرَأُ لَا يُكَذِّبُونَكَ وَ يَقُولُ إِنَّ الْمُرَادَ بِهَا أَنَّهُمْ لَا يُؤْتُونَ بِحَقٍّ هُوَ أَحَقُّ مِنْ حَقِّكَ

It is reported from Ali^-asws, he^-asws used to recite: They are not belying you [6:33] and say: ‘The Intended with it is they are not coming with any truth which is more truthful than your^-saww truth’.

سُئِلَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع عَنْ قَوْلِ النَّبِيِّ ص إِنَّ الشِّرْكَ أَخْفَى مِنْ دَبِيبِ النَّمْلِ عَلَى صَفْوَانَةٍ سَوْدَاءَ فِي لَيْلَةٍ ظَلْمَاءَ فَقَالَ كَانَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ يَسُبُّونَ مَا يَعْبُدُ الْمُشْرِكُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ وَ كَانَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ يَسُبُّونَ مَا يَعْبُدُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ فَنَهَى اللَّهُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَنْ سَبِّ آلِهَتِهِمْ لِكَيْلَا يَسُبُّوا الْكُفَّارُ إِلَهَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَيَكُونَ‏ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ قَدْ أَشْرَكُوا مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ

Abu Abdullah^-asws was asked about words of the Prophet^-saww: ‘The Polytheism (Shirk) is more hidden than the creeping of an ant upon a black rock during a dark night’. He^-asws said: ‘The believers were reviling what the Polytheists were worshipping, the ones besides Allah^-azwj, and the Polytheists were reviling what the believers were worshipping. Allah^-azwj prohibited the believers from reviling their gods lest the Kafirs revile the God^-azwj of the believers, for the believers would be committing Shirk (Polytheism), from which they would not know .

أن النبي ص لما خرج من مكة بقيت فيها بقية من المؤمنين لم يهاجروا لعذر و كانوا على عزم الهجرة فرفع الله العذاب عن مشركي مكة لحرمة استغفارهم فلما خرجوا أذن الله في فتح مكة

When the Prophet^-saww went out from Makkah, a remainder of the believers remained in it. They did not emigrate due to excuses, and (although) there had been determined upon the emigrating, so Allah^-azwj Raised the Punishment away from the Polytheists of Makkah due to the sanctity of their (believers) seeking Forgiveness. When they did go out, Allah^-azwj Permitted regarding the conquest of Makkah.

وَ فِي تَفْسِيرِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ‏ لَمَّا قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص لِقُرَيْشٍ إِنِّي أَقْتُلُ جَمِيعَ مُلُوكِ الدُّنْيَا وَ أَجُرُّ الْمُلْكَ إِلَيْكُمْ فَأَجِيبُونِي إِلَى مَا أَدْعُوكُمْ إِلَيْهِ تَمْلِكُونَ بِهَا الْعَرَبَ وَ يَدِينُ لَكُمُ الْعَجَمُ

And in the Tafseer of Ali Bin Ibrahim – ‘When the Prophet^-saww said to Quraysh: ‘I^-saww shall kill the entirety of the kings of the world and drag the kingdoms to you all, so answer me^-saww to what I^-saww am calling you to, for due to it you will be ruling the Arabs, and the non-Arabs will be submitting to you all!’

فَقَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ‏ اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كانَ هذا هُوَ الْحَقَ‏ الْآيَةَ حَسَداً لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص ثُمَّ قَالَ غُفْرَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّنَا فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ‏ وَ ما كانَ اللَّهُ لِيُعَذِّبَهُمْ‏ الْآيَةَ

Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘‘O Allah! In case this is the Truth from Your Presence [8:32]’ – the Verse, out of envy to Rasool-Allah^-saww. Then he^-la said: ‘Your^-azwj Forgiveness, O our Lord^-azwj!’ Allah^-azwj Revealed: ‘And Allah was not going to Punish them (while you were among them, nor would Allah Punish them while they are seeking Forgiveness) [8:33] – the Verse.

و روي‏ أن النبي ص كان إذا صلى في المسجد الحرام قام رجلان من بني عبد الدار عن يمينه فيصفران و رجلان عن يساره فيصفقان بأيديهما فيخلطان عليه صلاته فقتلهم الله جميعا ببدر

It is reported that when the Prophet^-saww was praying Salat in the Sacred Masjid, two men from the clan of Abdul Daar stood on his^-saww right whistling (loudly), and two men stood on his^-saww left and clapped their hands (loudly), to spoil his^-saww Salat upon him^-saww, so Allah^-azwj killed them all at (battle of) Badr.

جَاءَ فِي الْحَدِيثِ‏ أُمِرْنَا مَعَاشِرَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ أَنْ نُكَلِّمَ النَّاسَ عَلَى قَدْرِ عُقُولِهِمْ‏

It has come in the Hadeeth: ‘We, the community of Prophets^-as have been Commanded to speak to the people based upon the level of their intellects’.

روي في الصحيح عن خباب بن الأرت قال‏ كنت رجلا غنيا و كان لي على العاص بن وائل دين فأتيته أتقاضاه فقال لي لا أقضيك حتى تكفر بمحمد فقلت لن أكفر به حتى نموت و نبعث‏ فقال فإني لمبعوث بعد الموت فسوف أقضيك إذا رجعت إلى مال و ولد

It is reported in ‘Al-Saheeh’ from Khabab Bin Al-Ars who said, ‘I was a rich man and there was outstanding debt for me upon Al Aas Bin Waail. I went to him to demand it. He said to me, ‘I will not pay you until you disbelieve Muhammad^-saww!’ I said, ‘I will never disbelieve him^-saww until we are dead and Resurrected!’ He said, ‘If I am Resurrected after the death, then I shall pay you when I return to (be with) wealth and children!’

فِي الْخَبَرِ الْمَأْثُورِ عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: لَمَّا نَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ جَمَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ وَ هُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ أَرْبَعُونَ رَجُلًا الرَّجُلُ مِنْهُمْ يَأْكُلُ الْمُسِنَّةَ وَ يَشْرَبُ الْعُسَّ

In the Hadeeth well-known Hadeeth from Al Bara’a Bin Aazib, he said, ‘When this Verse (And warn your kindred, the near ones! [26:214]) was Revealed, Rasool-Allah^-saww gathered the clan of Abdul Muttalib^-as, and on that day they were forty men. From them, a man could eat the fat of a lamb and drink a pitcher of milk.

فَأَمَرَ عَلِيّاً ع بِرِجْلِ شَاةٍ فَأَدَمَهَا ثُمَّ قَالَ ادْنُوا بِسْمِ اللَّهِ فَدَنَا الْقَوْمُ عَشَرَةً عَشَرَةً فَأَكَلُوا حَتَّى صَدَرُوا ثُمَّ دَعَا بِقَعْبٍ مِنْ لَبَنٍ فَجَرَعَ مِنْهُ جُرْعَةً ثُمَّ قَالَ هَلُمُّوا اشْرَبُوا بِسْمِ اللَّهِ فَشَرِبُوا حَتَّى رَوُوا

He^-saww instructed Ali^-asws with (cooking) a leg of a sheep. He^-asws prepared it. Then he^-saww said: ‘Approach, in the Name of Allah^-azwj!’ The people approached, ten by ten. They ate until they were satisfied. Then he^-saww called for a bowl of milk, drank a mouthful from it, then said: ‘Come, drink in the Name of Allah^-azwj!’ They drank until they were saturated.

فَبَدَرَهُمْ أَبُو لَهَبٍ فَقَالَ هَذَا مَا سَحَرَكُمْ بِهِ الرَّجُلُ

Abu Lahab^-la rushed to them saying, ‘This is what the man has bewitched you all with!’

فَسَكَتَ ص يَوْمَئِذٍ وَ لَمْ يَتَكَلَّمْ ثُمَّ دَعَاهُمْ مِنَ الْغَدِ إِلَى مِثْلِ ذَلِكَ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ وَ الشَّرَابِ ثُمَّ أَنْذَرَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ يَا بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ إِنِّي أَنَا النَّذِيرُ إِلَيْكُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ الْبَشِيرُ فَأَسْلِمُوا وَ أَطِيعُونِي تَهْتَدُوا

On that day, he^-saww remained silent and did not speak. Then he^-saww invited them the next day to a meal similar to that, with food and drink. Then Rasool-Allah^-saww warned them. He^-saww said: ‘O clan of Abdul Muttalib^-as! Surely, I^-saww am the warner to you all, from Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic, and the bearer of glad tidings, so submit and obey me^-saww, you will be guided!’

ثُمَّ قَالَ مَنْ يُؤَاخِينِي وَ يُوَازِرُنِي وَ يَكُونُ وَلِيِّي وَ وَصِيِّي بَعْدِي وَ خَلِيفَتِي فِي أَهْلِي وَ يَقْضِي دَيْنِي

Then he^-saww said: ‘Who will be my^-saww brother and support me^-saww, and be my^-saww guardian, and my^-saww successor after me^-saww, and my^-saww replacement in my^-saww family, and pay off my^-saww debts?’

فَسَكَتَ الْقَوْمُ فَأَعَادَهَا ثَلَاثاً كُلَّ ذَلِكَ يَسْكُتُ الْقَوْمُ وَ يَقُولُ عَلِيٌّ أَنَا

The people were silent. He^-saww repeated all that thrice. The people were silent, and Ali^-asws said: ‘I^-asws will!’

فَقَالَ فِي الْمَرَّةِ الثَّالِثَةِ أَنْتَ

He^-saww said during the third time: ‘You^-asws will!’

فَقَامَ الْقَوْمُ وَ هُمْ يَقُولُونَ لِأَبِي طَالِبٍ أَطِعْ ابْنَكَ فَقَدْ أُمِّرَ عَلَيْكَ- أورده الثعلبي‏ في تفسيره

The people stood up and they were saying to Abu Talib^-as, ‘Obey your^-as own son^-asws, for he^-asws has been appointed upon you^-as’. – Al Sa’alby has reported it in his Tafseer.

وَ رُوِيَ عَنْ أَبِي رَافِعٍ هَذِهِ الْقِصَّةُ وَ أَنَّهُ جَمَعَهُمْ فِي الشِّعْبِ فَصَنَعَ لَهُمْ رِجْلَ شَاةٍ فَأَكَلُوا حَتَّى تَضَلَّعُوا وَ سَقَاهُمْ عُسّاً فَشَرِبُوا كُلُّهُمْ حَتَّى رَوُوا

And this story is reported from Abu Rafie, ‘And he^-saww gathered them in the mountain pass. He^-saww prepared for them a leg of lamb. They ate until they were satiated, and he^-saww quenched them with a gourd (of milk). All of them drank until they were saturated.

ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ أَمَرَنِي أَنْ‏ أَنْذِرْ عَشِيرَتَكَ الْأَقْرَبِينَ‏ وَ أَنْتُمْ عَشِيرَتِي وَ رَهْطِي وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَمْ يَبْعَثْ نَبِيّاً إِلَّا وَ جَعَلَ لَهُ مِنْ أَهْلِهِ أَخاً وَ وَزِيراً وَ وَارِثاً وَ وَصِيّاً وَ خَلِيفَةً فِي أَهْلِهِ فَأَيُّكُمْ يَقُومُ فَيُبَايِعُنِي عَلَى أَنَّهُ أَخِي وَ وَارِثِي وَ وَزِيرِي وَ وَصِيِّي وَ يَكُونُ مِنِّي بِمَنْزِلَةِ هَارُونَ مِنْ مُوسَى إِلَّا أَنَّهُ لَا نَبِيَّ بَعْدِي

Then he^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj has Commanded me^-saww: warn your kindred, the near ones! [26:214], and you are my^-saww kindred and my^-saww clan, and Allah^-azwj did not Send any Prophet^-as except and He^-azwj Made a brother, and Vizier, and inheritor, and successor, and caliph (replacement) in his^-as family, to be for him^-as! Which one of you will stand and pledge allegiance to me^-saww upon that he would be my^-saww brother, and my^-saww inheritor, and my^-saww Vizier, and my^-saww successor^-asws, and be from me^-saww at the status of Haroun^-as from Musa^-as, except that surely there is no Prophet^-as after me^-saww!’

فَسَكَتَ الْقَوْمُ فَقَالَ لَيَقُومَنَ‏ قَائِمُكُمْ أَوْ لَيَكُونَنَّ مِنْ غَيْرِكُمْ ثُمَّ لَتَنْدَمُنَّ ثُمَّ أَعَادَ الْكَلَامَ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ

The people were silent. He^-saww said: ‘Let your standing one stand, or let him be from others, then you will regret!’

فَقَامَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَبَايَعَهُ فَأَجَابَهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ ادْنُ مِنِّي فَدَنَا مِنْهُ فَفَتَحَ فَاهُ وَ مَجَّ فِي فِيهِ مِنْ رِيقِهِ وَ تَفَلَ بَيْنَ كَتِفَيْهِ وَ ثَدْيَيْهِ

Then he^-saww repeated the speech three times. Ali^-asws stood up and pledged allegiance to him^-saww, and answered him^-saww. He^-saww said: ‘Come near me^-saww!’ He^-asws went near him^-saww. He^-saww opened his^-saww mouth and applied his^-saww saliva between his^-asws shoulders and his^-asws chest.

فَقَالَ أَبُو لَهَبٍ بِئْسَ مَا حَبَوْتَ بِهِ ابْنَ عَمِّكَ أَنْ أَجَابَكَ فَمَلَأْتَ فَاهُ وَ وَجْهَهُ بُزَاقاً

Abu Lahab^-la said, ‘Evil is what you^-saww have gifted your^-saww cousin. He^-asws answered you^-saww, so you^-saww filled his^-asws mouth and his^-asws face with spittle!’

فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص مَلَأْتُهُ حُكْماً وَ عِلْماً

The Prophet^-saww said: ‘I^-saww have filled him^-asws with wisdom and knowledge!’’

وَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: لَمَّا نَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ صَعِدَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَلَى الصَّفَا فَقَالَ يَا صَبَاحَاهْ

And from Ibn Abbas who said, ‘When this Verse (May both the hands of Abu Lahab perish, and (so would) he! [111:1]) was Revealed, Rasool-Allah^-saww ascended upon (the hill) Al Safa. He^-saww said: ‘O what a morning!’

فَاجْتَمَعَتْ إِلَيْهِ قُرَيْشٌ فَقَالُوا مَا لَكَ

Quraysh gathered to him^-saww. They said, ‘What is the matter with you^-saww?’

فَقَالَ أَ رَأَيْتَكُمْ إِنْ أَخْبَرْتُكُمْ أَنَّ الْعَدُوَّ مُصَبِّحُكُمْ أَوْ مُمَسِّيكُمْ مَا كُنْتُمْ تُصَدِّقُونَنِي

He^-saww said: ‘What is you view if I^-saww were to inform you all that the enemy will come in your morning or in your evening, will you be ratifying me^-saww?’

قَالُوا بَلَى

They said, ‘Yes!’

قَالَ فَإِنِّي‏ نَذِيرٌ لَكُمْ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ عَذابٍ شَدِيدٍ

He^-saww: ‘I^-saww am a warner to you all before a severe Punishment (befalls)’ [34:46]’.

قَالَ أَبُو لَهَبٍ تَبّاً لَكَ أَ لِهَذَا دَعَوْتَنَا جَمِيعاً

Abu Lahab^-la said: ‘May destruction be for you^-saww! Is it for this you^-saww have called us all?’

فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى‏ تَبَّتْ يَدا أَبِي لَهَبٍ‏ إِلَى آخِرِ السُّورَةِ

Allah^-azwj the Exalted Revealed: May both the hands of Abu Lahab perish, and (so would) he! [111:1] – up to the end of the Chapter.

قال الأوزاعي سمعت يحيى بن أبي كثير يقول‏ سألت أبا سلمة أي القرآن أنزل من قبل قال‏ يا أَيُّهَا الْمُدَّثِّرُ

Al-Awzaie said, ‘I heard Yahya Bin Abu Kaseer saying, ‘I asked Abu Salma, ‘Which Quran (Chapter) was Revealed before (first)?’ He said: ‘O you Al-Muddasir! (the covered one) [74:1]?’

فقلت أو اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ‏ فقال سألت جابر بن عبد الله أي القرآن أنزل قبل قال‏ يا أَيُّهَا الْمُدَّثِّرُ فقلت أو اقْرَأْ

I said, ‘Or (was it): Read in the Name of your Lord [96:1]?’ He said, ‘I had asked Jabir Bin Abdullah^-ar, ‘Which Quran was Revealed before (first)?’ He^-ar said, ‘O you Al-Muddasir! (the covered one) [74:1]’. I said, ‘Or was it: Read [96:1]?’

قَالَ جَابِرٌ أُحَدِّثُكُمْ مَا حَدَّثَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ جَاوَرْتُ بِحِرَاءَ شَهْراً فَلَمَّا قَضَيْتُ جِوَارِي نَزَلْتُ فَاسْتَبْطَنْتُ الْوَادِيَ فَنُودِيتُ فَنَظَرْتُ أَمَامِي وَ خَلْفِي وَ عَنْ يَمِينِي وَ عَنْ شِمَالِي فَلَمْ أَرَ أَحَداً

Jabir^-ar said, ‘I^-ar am narrating to you what Rasool-Allah^-saww had narrated to us. He^-saww said: ‘I^-saww spent a month at (mount) Hira. When I^-saww had fulfilled my^-saww seclusion, I^-saww descended. I^-saww came to the interior of the valley. I^-saww was called out at. I^-saww looked in front of me^-as, and behind me^-saww, and on my^-saww right, and on my^-saww left, but I^-saww could not see anything.

ثُمَّ نُودِيتُ فَرَفَعْتُ رَأْسِي فَإِذَا هُوَ عَلَى الْعَرْشِ فِي الْهَوَاءِ يَعْنِي جَبْرَئِيلَ ع فَقُلْتُ دَثِّرُونِي دَثِّرُونِي

Then I^-saww was called out at. I^-saww raised my^-saww head, and behold he^-as was upon the Throne in the air, meaning Jibraeel^-as. I^-saww said: ‘Cover me^-saww! Cover me^-saww!’

فَصَبُّوا عَلَيَّ مَاءً فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَ‏ يا أَيُّهَا الْمُدَّثِّرُ

He^-as poured water upon me^-saww, and Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Revealed: ‘O you Al-Muddasir! (the covered one) [74:1]’.

و قال‏ في قوله تعالى‏ ذَرْنِي وَ مَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيداً نزلت الآيات في الوليد بن المغيرة المخزومي و ذلك أن قريشا اجتمعت في دار الندوة فقال لهم الوليد إنكم ذوو أحساب و ذوو أحلام و إن العرب يأتونكم فينطلقون من عندكم على أمر مختلف فأجمعوا أمركم على شي‏ء واحد ما تقولون في هذا الرجل

And he said regarding Words of the Exalted: Leave Me and the one I Created as Al-Waheed [74:11], ‘The Verses were Revealed regarding Al-Waleed Bin Al Mugheira Al Makhzumi, and that is because Quraysh had gathered in the house of consultation. Al Waheed said to them, ‘You are people of noble lineage and sound judgment, while the Arabs come to you and then depart from you with differing opinions. Agree upon one single position. What do you say about this man?’

قالوا نقول إنه شاعر فعبس عندها و قال قد سمعنا الشعر فما يشبه قوله الشعر

They said, ‘We say that he^-saww is a poet!’ At that, he frowned and said, ‘We have heard poetry, and what he^-saww says does not resemble poetry’.

فقالوا نقول إنه كاهن قال إذا يأتونه فلا يجدونه يحدث بما يحدث به الكهنة

They said, ‘Then we say that he^-saww is a soothsayer’. He said, ‘If people come to him^-saww, they will not find him^-saww relating what the soothsayers relate!’

قالوا نقول إنه مجنون قال إذا يأتونه فلا يجدونه مجنونا

They said, ‘We say that he^-saww is insane!’ He said, ‘If people come to him^-saww, they will not find him^-saww insane!’

قالوا نقول إنه ساحر قال و ما الساحر فقالوا بشر يحببون بين المتباغضين و يبغضون بين المتحابين قال فهو ساحر فخرجوا

They said, ‘We say that he^-saww is a sorcerer!’ He said, ‘And what is a sorcerer?’ They said, ‘A person who causes affection between those who hate one another and causes hatred between those who love one another!’ He said, ‘Then he^-saww is a sorcerer’’.

فكان‏ لا يلقى أحد منهم النبي ص إلا قال يا ساحر يا ساحر و اشتد عليه ذلك فأنزل الله تعالى‏ يا أَيُّهَا الْمُدَّثِّرُ إلى قوله‏ إِلَّا قَوْلُ الْبَشَرِ- عن مجاهد

It was so that the Prophet^-saww would not meet anyone of them except he would say, ‘O sorcerer! O sorcerer!’, and that was grievous upon him^-saww, so Allah^-azwj the Exalted Revealed: O you Al-Muddasir! (the covered one) [74:1] – up to His^-azwj Words: Surely these are only words of the human’ [74:25]’ – from Mujahid.

و يروى‏ أن النبي ص لما أنزل عليه‏ حم تَنْزِيلُ الْكِتابِ‏ قام إلى المسجد و الوليد بن المغيرة قريب منه يسمع قراءته فلما فطن النبي ص لاستماعه لقراءته أعاد قراءة الآية

And it is reported that when: Ha Meem [40:1] Revelation of the Book [40:2] was Revealed, the Prophet^-saww stood to go to the Masjid, and Al-Waleed bin Al Mugheira was nearby him^-saww. He heard his^-saww recitation. When the Prophet^-saww realised he was listening intently to his^-saww recitation, he^-saww repeated the recitation of the Verse.

فانطلق الوليد حتى أتى مجلس قومه بني مخزوم فقال و الله لقد سمعت من محمد آنفا كلاما ما هو من كلام الإنس و لا من كلام الجن و إن له لحلاوة و إن عليه لطلاوة و إن أعلاه لمثمر و إن أسفله لمعذق و إنه ليعلو و ما يعلى

Al-Waleed went until he came to a gathering of his people of the clan of Makhzoum. He said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! I have just heard from Muhammad^-saww such speech which is neither from the speech of humans, nor from the speech of Jinn, and there is a sweetness for it, and upon it is the excellence and splendour, and its upper part bears fruit, and their lower part is firmly rooted, and they rise above everything, while nothing rises above them!’

ثم انصرف إلى منزله فقال قريش صبأ و الله الوليد و الله ليصبأن قريش كلهم و كان يقال للوليد ريحانة قريش فقال لهم أبو جهل أنا أكفيكموه

Then he left to go to his house. Quraysh said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! Al-Waleed has reneged. He will make all of Quraysh as renegades!’, and they used to call Al-Waleed ‘Aroma of Quraysh’. Abu Jahl^-la said to them, ‘I^-la shall suffice you all!’

فانطلق فقعد إلى جنب الوليد حزينا فقال له ما لي أراك حزينا يا ابن أخي قال هذه قريش يعيبونك على كبر سنك و يزعمون أنك زينت كلام محمد

He^-la went and sat down to a side of Al-Waleed, saddened. He said to him^-la, ‘What is the matter I see you^-la grieving, O cousin?’ He said, ‘These Quraysh are faulting you upon the oldness of your age, and they are alleging that you have adorned the speech of Muhammad^-saww!’

فقام مع أبي جهل حتى أتى مجلس قومه فقال تزعمون أن محمدا مجنون فهل رأيتموه يخنق قط قالوا اللهم لا

He stood with Abu Jahl^-la until he came to the gathering of his people. He said, ‘You are alleging that Muhammad^-saww is insane. Have you ever seen him^-as in a fit of madness?’ They said, ‘O Allah^-azwj, no!’

قال تزعمون أنه كاهن فهل رأيتم عليه شيئا من ذلك قالوا اللهم لا

He said, ‘You are alleging that he^-saww is a soothsayer. Have you seen him^-saww being upon anything of that?’ They said, ‘O Allah^-azwj, no!’

قال تزعمون أنه شاعر فهل رأيتموه أنه ينطق بشعر قط قالوا اللهم لا

He said, ‘You are alleging that he^-saww is a poet. Have you seen him^-saww speak poetry at all?’ They said, ‘O Allah^-azwj, no!’

قال تزعمون أنه كذاب فهل جربتم عليه شيئا من الكذب قالوا اللهم لا و كان يسمى الصادق الأمين قبل النبوة من صدقه

He said, ‘You are alleging that he^-saww is a liar. Have you experienced him^-saww being upon anything from the lies?’ They said, ‘O Allah^-azwj, no!’ – and he^-saww had been named as ‘The truthful, the trustworthy’ before his^-saww Prophet-hood, due to his^-saww truthfulness.

قالت قريش للوليد فما هو فتفكر في نفسه ثم نظر و عبس فقال ما هو إلا ساحر أ ما رأيتموه يفرق بين الرجل و أهله و ولده و مواليه فهو ساحر و ما يقوله سحر يؤثر

Quraysh said to Al-Waleed, ‘So what is he^-saww?’ He thought within himself, then looked and frowned. He said, ‘He^-saww is not except a sorcerer. Have you not seen him^-saww separating between the man and his wife and his children and his slaves? He^-saww is a sorcerer, and what he^-saww is saying is impactful (transmitted) magic!’

جاءت الرواية أن رسول الله ص أخذ بيد أبي جهل ثم قال له‏ أَوْلى‏ لَكَ فَأَوْلى‏ ثُمَّ أَوْلى‏ لَكَ فَأَوْلى‏ فقال أبو جهل بأي شي‏ء تهددني لا تستطيع أنت و لا ربك أن تفعلا بي شيئا و إني لأعز أهل هذا الوادي فأنزل الله سبحانه كما قال له رسول الله ص

The report has come that Rasool-Allah^-saww held the hand of Abu Jahl^-la, then said to him^-la: Woe be to you, so woe! [75:34] Then woe be to you, so woe! [75:35]. Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘Which thing are you^-saww threatening me^-la with? Neither you^-saww nor your^-saww Lord^-saww has the capacity to do anything with me^-la, and I^-la am strongest of the people of this valley!’ Thus, Allah^-azwj the Glorious Revealed just as Rasool-Allah^-saww had said to him^-la’.

وَ فِي الْحَدِيثِ‏ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ لِجَبْرَئِيلَ مَا أَحْسَنَ مَا أَثْنَى عَلَيْكَ رَبُّكَ‏ ذِي قُوَّةٍ عِنْدَ ذِي الْعَرْشِ مَكِينٍ مُطاعٍ ثَمَّ أَمِينٍ‏ فَمَا كَانَتْ قُوَّتُكَ وَ مَا كَانَتْ أَمَانَتُكَ

And in the hadeeth: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said to Jibraeel^-as: ‘How excellent is what your^-as Lord^-azwj has Praised upon you^-as: The processor of strength, distinguished, in the Presence of the Possessor of the Throne [81:20] Obedient, then trustworthy [81:21]! What was your^-as strength and what was your^-as trustworthiness?’

فَقَالَ أَمَّا قُوَّتِي فَإِنِّي بُعِثْتُ إِلَى مَدَائِنِ قَوْمِ لُوطٍ وَ هِيَ أَرْبَعُ مَدَائِنَ فِي كُلِّ مَدِينَةٍ أَرْبَعُمِائَةِ أَلْفِ مُقَاتِلٍ سِوَى الذَّرَارِيِّ فَحَمَلْتُهُمْ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ السُّفْلَى حَتَّى سَمِعَ أَهْلُ السَّمَاوَاتِ أَصْوَاتَ الدَّجَاجِ و نُبَاحَ الْكِلَابِ ثُمَّ هَوَيْتُ بِهِنَّ فَقَلَّبْتُهُنَّ وَ أَمَّا أَمَانَتِي فَإِنِّي لَمْ أُؤْمَرْ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ فَعَدَوْتُهُ إِلَى غَيْرِهِ

He^-as said: ‘As for my^-as strength, I^-as was Sent to cities of the people of Lut^-as, and these were four cities. In each city were four hundred thousand warriors, apart from the opposing. I^-as carried them from the low land until the inhabitants of the skies heard the voices of the chicken and barking of the dogs, then I^-as came down with them and overturned them; and as for my^-as trustworthiness, I^-as have not been Commanded with anything and I^-as have transgressed to do something else!’’

وَ يُرْوَى عَنْ أَسْمَاءَ بِنْتِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ قَالَتْ‏ لَمَّا نَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ السُّورَةُ أَقْبَلَتِ الْعَوْرَاءُ أُمُّ جَمِيلٍ بِنْتِ حَرْبٍ وَ لَهَا وَلْوَلَةٌ وَ فِي يَدِهَا فِهْرٌ وَ هِيَ تَقُولُ

مُذَمَّماً أَبَيْنَا		وَ دِينَهُ قَلَيْنَا
وَ أَمْرَهُ عَصَيْنَا

And it is reported from Asma Bint Abu Bakr who said, ‘When this Chapter (81) was Revealed, the one-eyed Umm Jameel Bint Harb came, and there was (sounds of) wailing for her, and in her hand was a stone, and she was saying (a poem), ‘We rejected the one who was reviled, we detested his^-saww religion, and we disobeyed his^-saww command’.

وَ النَّبِيُّ ص جَالِسٌ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ وَ مَعَهُ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَلَمَّا رَآهَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ قَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَدْ أَقْبَلَتْ وَ أَنَا أَخَافُ أَنْ تَرَاكَ

And the Prophet^-saww was seated in the Masjid and with him^-saww was Abu Bakr. When Abu Bakr saw her, he said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! She is coming and I fear that she might see you^-saww!’

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنَّهَا لَنْ تَرَانِي وَ قَرَأَ قُرْآناً فَاعْتَصَمَ بِهِ كَمَا قَالَ وَ قَرَأَ وَ إِذا قَرَأْتَ الْقُرْآنَ جَعَلْنا بَيْنَكَ وَ بَيْنَ الَّذِينَ لا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ حِجاباً مَسْتُوراً

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘She will never see me^-saww!’ And he^-saww recited Quran and protected with it just as He^-azwj Said, and he^-saww recited: 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].

فَوَقَفَتْ عَلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ لَمْ تَرَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَتْ يَا أَبَا بَكْرٍ أُخْبِرْتُ أَنَّ صَاحِبَكَ هَجَانِي فَقَالَ لَا وَ رَبِّ الْبَيْتِ مَا هَجَاكِ

She paused by Abu Bakr and did not see Rasool-Allah^-saww. She said, ‘O Abu Bakr! I have been informed that your companion has satirised me?’ He said, ‘No, by the Lord^-azwj of the House (Kabah), he^-saww has not satirised you!’

فَوَلَّتْ وَ هِيَ تَقُولُ قُرَيْشٌ عَلِمَتْ أَنِّي بِنْتُ سَيِّدِهَا

She turned back and she said, ‘Quraysh know that I am a daughter of its chief!’’

وَ رُوِيَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص قَالَ: صَرَفَ اللَّهُ سُبْحَانَهُ عَنِّي ثُمَّ إِنَّهُمْ يَذُمُّونَ مُذَمَّماً وَ أَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ

And it is reported that the Prophet^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj the Glorious has Turned it away from me^-saww, then they are condemning a condemned (Muzamma), and I^-saww am the praised one (Muhammad)!’

1- ك، إكمال الدين أَبِي عَنْ سَعْدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنِ ابْنِ عَمِيرَةَ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: كَانَ عَلِيٌّ ع مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فِي غَيْبَتِهِ لَمْ يَعْلَمْ بِهَا أَحَدٌ

‘Ikmal Al Deen’ – My father, from Sa’ad, from Ibn Isa, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Ibn Umeyra, from Dawood Bin Yazeed,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Ali^-asws was with Rasool-Allah^-saww during his^-saww absence, no one knew of it’’.[9]

2- ك، إكمال الدين ابْنُ الْوَلِيدِ عَنْ سَعْدٍ وَ الصَّفَّارِ مَعاً عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي الْخَطَّابِ وَ الْيَقْطِينِيِّ مَعاً عَنْ صَفْوَانَ عَنِ ابْنِ مُسْكَانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ الْحَلَبِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: اكْتَتَمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِمَكَّةَ مُخْتَفِياً خَائِفاً خَمْسَ سِنِينَ لَيْسَ يُظْهِرُ أَمْرَهُ وَ عَلِيٌّ ع اكْتَتَمَ‏ مَعَهُ وَ خَدِيجَةُ ع ثُمَّ أَمَرَهُ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَصْدَعَ بِمَا أُمِرَ بِهِ فَظَهَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَظْهَرَ أَمْرَهُ‏

‘Ikmal Al Deen’ – Ibn Al-Waleed, from Sa’ad and Al Safar both together from Ibn Abu Al Khatab and Al Yaqteeny both together, from Safwan, from Ibn Muskan, from Muhammad Al Halby,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww concealed (himself^-saww) at Makkah, hiding in fear for five years, not manifesting his^-saww matter, and Ali^-asws concealed (himself^-asws) with him^-saww and so did (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws. Then Allah^-azwj Commanded him^-saww to proclaim with what He^-saww had been Commanded with. So, Rasool-Allah^-saww appeared and manifested his^-saww matter’’.[10]

3- ك، إكمال الدين وَ فِي خَبَرٍ آخَرَ أَنَّهُ ص كَانَ مُخْتَفِياً بِمَكَّةَ ثَلَاثَ سِنِينَ‏

‘Ikmal Al Deen’ – And in another Hadeeth, he^-saww was hiding in Makkah for three years’.[11]

4- ك، إكمال الدين أَبِي وَ ابْنُ الْوَلِيدِ مَعاً عَنْ سَعْدٍ وَ الْحِمْيَرِيِّ وَ مُحَمَّدٍ الْعَطَّارِ وَ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ إِدْرِيسَ جَمِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ عِيسَى وَ ابْنِ أَبِي الْخَطَّابِ وَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ هَاشِمٍ جَمِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ رِئَابٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ الْحَلَبِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: مَكَثَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِمَكَّةَ بَعْدَ مَا جَاءَهُ الْوَحْيُ عَنِ اللَّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى ثَلَاثَ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً مِنْهَا ثَلَاثُ سِنِينَ مُخْتَفِياً خَائِفاً لَا يُظْهِرُ حَتَّى أَمَرَهُ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَصْدَعَ بِمَا أُمِرَ بِهِ فَأَظْهَرَ حِينَئِذٍ الدَّعْوَةَ

‘Ikmal Al Deen’ – My father and Ibn Al-Waleed both together from Sa’ad and Al Himeyri and Muhammad Al Attar, and Almad Bin Idrees altogether from Ibn Isa and Ibn Abu Al Khatab and Ibrahim Hashim from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Raib, from Ubeydullah Al Halby,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww remained at Makkah after the Revelation came to him^-saww from Allah^-azwj Blessed and Exalted, for thirteen years – from these three years were spent in hiding fearfully, not manifesting (anything) until Allah^-azwj Commanded him^-saww to proclaim what He^-azwj had been Commanded with, then at that time he^-saww manifested the call’’.[12]

5- ل، الخصال أَبِي عَنْ سَعْدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عُقْبَةَ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: رَنَّ إِبْلِيسُ أَرْبَعَ رَنَّاتٍ أَوَّلُهُنَّ يَوْمَ لُعِنَ وَ حِينَ أُهْبِطَ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ وَ حِينَ بُعِثَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص عَلَى حِينِ فَتْرَةٍ مِنَ الرُّسُلِ وَ حِينَ أُنْزِلَتْ أُمُّ الْكِتَابِ وَ نَخَرَ نَخْرَتَيْنِ حِينَ أَكَلَ آدَمُ ع مِنَ الشَّجَرَةِ وَ حِينَ أُهْبِطَ مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ

‘Al Khisaal’ – My father, from Sa’ad, from Ibn Isa, from Ibn Fazal, from Ali Bin Aqaba, from one of our companions,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Iblees^-la shouted four shouts. The first of these was on the day he^-la was Cursed, and when he^-la was descended to the earth, and when Muhammad^-saww was Sent upon a gap period from the Rasools^-as, and when the Mother of the Book (Surah Al-Fatiha) was Revealed. And he^-la sneered with two sneers – when Adam^-as ate from the tree, and when he^-as was descended from Paradise’.[13]

6- ع، علل الشرائع الطَّالَقَانِيُّ عَنِ الْجَلُودِيِّ عَنِ الْجَوْهَرِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْوَاحِدِ بْنِ غِيَاثٍ عَنْ‏ أَبِي عَوَانَةَ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ أَبِي صَادِقٍ‏ عَنْ رَبِيعَةَ بْنِ نَاجِدٍ أَنَّ رَجُلًا قَالَ لِعَلِيٍّ ع يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ بِمَا وَرِثْتَ ابْنَ عَمِّكَ دُونَ عَمِّكَ

‘Ilal Al Sharaie’ – Al Talaqany, from Al Jaloudy, from Al Jowhary, from Abdul Wahid Bin gayas, from Abu Awana, from Umar Bin Al Mugheira, from Abu Sadiq, from Rabie Bin Najid,

‘A man said to Ali^-asws, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen^-asws! Due to what did you^-asws inherit your^-asws cousin^-saww besides your^-asws uncle?’

فَقَالَ يَا مَعْشَرَ النَّاسِ فَفَتَحُوا آذَانَهُمْ وَ اسْتَمَعُوا فَقَالَ ع جَمَعَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ فِي بَيْتِ رَجُلٍ مِنَّا أَوْ قَالَ أَكْبَرِنَا فَدَعَا بِمُدٍّ وَ نِصْفٍ مِنْ طَعَامٍ وَ قَدَحٍ لَهُ يُقَالُ لَهُ الْغُمَرُ فَأَكَلْنَا وَ شَرِبْنَا وَ بَقِيَ الطَّعَامُ وَ الشَّرَابُ كَمَا هُوَ وَ فِينَا مَنْ يَأْكُلُ الْجَذَعَةَ وَ يَشْرَبُ الْفَرَقَ

He^-asws said: ‘O community of people! Open your ears and listen! Rasool-Allah^-saww gathered us, the clan of Abdul Muttalib^-asws in a house of a man from us’ – or said, ‘our elder’. ‘He^-saww called for a Mudd and a half of good and a cup of his^-saww called Al-Gamr. We ate and drank, and the food and the drink remained as it was, and among us was one who ate the forearm (of a sheep) and drank a gourd.

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِنْ قَدْ تَرَوْنَ هَذِهِ فَأَيُّكُمْ يُبَايِعُنِي عَلَى أَنَّهُ أَخِي وَ وَارِثِي وَ وَصِيِّي فَقُمْتُ إِلَيْهِ وَ كُنْتُ أَصْغَرَ الْقَوْمِ وَ قُلْتُ أَنَا قَالَ اجْلِسْ ثُمَّ قَالَ ذَلِكَ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ كُلَّ ذَلِكَ أَقُومُ إِلَيْهِ فَيَقُولُ اجْلِسْ حَتَّى كَانَ فِي الثَّالِثَةِ فَضَرَبَ بِيَدِهِ عَلَى يَدِي فَبِذَلِكَ وَرِثْتُ ابْنَ عَمِّي دُونَ عَمِّي‏

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘You have seen this, so which one of you will pledge allegiance to me^-saww upon that he would be my^-saww brother and my^-saww inheritor and my^-asws successor^-asws?’ I^-asws stood to him^-saww, and I^-asws was the youngest of the people, and I^-asws said: ‘I^-asws will’. He^-saww said: ‘Be seated’. Then he^-saww said that three times, during all that I^-asws stood to him^-saww and he^-saww said: ‘Be seated’, until it was during the third, he^-saww struck his^-saww hand upon my^-asws hand. Thus, due to that, I^-asws inherited a son of my^-asws uncle besides my^-asws uncle’’.[14]

7- ع، علل الشرائع الطَّالَقَانِيُّ عَنِ الْجَلُودِيِّ عَنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَزْدِيِّ عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ الرَّبِيعِ وَ شَرِيكِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنِ الْمِنْهَالِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ نَوْفَلٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع قَالَ: لَمَّا نَزَلَتْ‏ وَ أَنْذِرْ عَشِيرَتَكَ الْأَقْرَبِينَ‏ أَيْ رَهْطَكَ الْمُخْلَصِينَ دَعَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ وَ هُمْ إِذْ ذَاكَ أَرْبَعُونَ رَجُلًا يَزِيدُونَ رَجُلًا أَوْ يَنْقُصُونَ رَجُلًا فَقَالَ أَيُّكُمْ يَكُونُ أَخِي وَ وَارِثِي وَ وَزِيرِي وَ وَصِيِّي وَ خَلِيفَتِي فِيكُمْ بَعْدِي

‘Ilal Al Sharaie’ – Al Talaqany, from Al Jaloudy, from Al Mugheira Bin Muhammad, from Ibrahim Bin Muhammad Al Azdy, from Qays Bin Al Rrabie, and Shareek Bin Abdullah, from Al Al Amsh, form Al Minhal Bin Amro, from Abdullah Bin Al Haris Bin Nowfal,

‘From Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws having said: ‘When (the Verse): And warn your kindred, the near ones! [26:214] was Revealed, i.e., a group of your^-saww sincere friends, Rasool-Allah^-saww called the clan of Abdul Muttalib, and they were forty men, either more by a man or less by a man, and he^-saww said: ‘Which one of you will become my^-saww brother, and my^-saww inheritor, and my^-saww Vizier, and my^-saww successor, and my^-saww Caliph among you all, after me^-saww?’

فَعَرَضَ عَلَيْهِمْ ذَلِكَ رَجُلًا رَجُلًا كُلَّهُمْ يَأْبَى ذَلِكَ حَتَّى أَتَى عَلَيَّ فَقُلْتُ أَنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ يَا بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ هَذَا أَخِي وَ وَارِثِي وَ وَصِيِّي وَ وَزِيرِي وَ خَلِيفَتِي فِيكُمْ بَعْدِي ‏

He^-saww turned towards man after man; all of them refused that until he^-saww came to me^-asws. I^-asws said: ‘I^-asws will, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’ He^-saww said: ‘O clan of Abdul Muttalib^-asws! This is my^-saww brother, and my^-saww inheritor, and my^-saww successor, and my^-saww Vizier, and My^-saww Caliph among you all after me^-saww’.

فَقَامَ الْقَوْمُ يَضْحَكُ بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَى بَعْضٍ وَ يَقُولُونَ لِأَبِي طَالِبٍ قَدْ أَمَرَكَ أَنْ تَسْمَعَ وَ تُطِيعَ لِهَذَا الْغُلَامِ

The people arose, laughing with each other and saying to Abu Talib^-asws (scornfully): ‘You^-asws have been ordered to listen and be obedient to this boy!’’.[15]

8- فس، تفسير القمي أَبِي عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عُقْبَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: إِنَّ إِبْلِيسَ رَنَّ رَنِيناً لَمَّا بَعَثَ اللَّهُ نَبِيَّهُ ص عَلَى حِينِ فَتْرَةٍ مِنَ الرُّسُلِ وَ حِينَ أُنْزِلَتْ أُمُّ الْكِتَابِ‏

‘Tafseer Al-Qummi’ – from Al-Hassan Bin Ali Bin Fazal, from Ali Bin Aqbah,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Iblees^-la wailed loudly when Allah^-azwj Sent His^-azwj Prophet^-saww upon a gap period from the Rasools^-as, and when the Mother of the Book (Surah Al-Fatiha) was Revealed’’.[16]

9- فس، تفسير القمي فِي رِوَايَةِ أَبِي الْجَارُودِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ حَتَّى تَفْجُرَ لَنا مِنَ الْأَرْضِ يَنْبُوعاً أَيْ عَيْناً أَوْ تَكُونَ لَكَ جَنَّةٌ أَيْ بُسْتَانٌ‏ مِنْ نَخِيلٍ وَ عِنَبٍ فَتُفَجِّرَ الْأَنْهارَ خِلالَها تَفْجِيراً مِنْ تِلْكَ الْعُيُونِ‏ أَوْ تُسْقِطَ السَّماءَ كَما زَعَمْتَ عَلَيْنا كِسَفاً

‘Tafseer Al-Qummi’ – In a report of Abu Al Jaroud,

‘From Abu Ja’far^-asws regarding His^-azwj Words: until you cause a spring to gush out for us from the ground as a fountain [17:90], i.e., as a spring, Or there should happen to be a garden for you of palm trees and grapes, and you cause the rivers to flow in the midst of it with a flowing [17:91], from those springs, Or you should cause the sky to fall upon us in pieces [17:92].

وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ إِنَّهُ سَيَسْقُطُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ كِسَفٌ لِقَوْلِهِ‏ وَ إِنْ يَرَوْا كِسْفاً مِنَ السَّماءِ ساقِطاً يَقُولُوا سَحابٌ مَرْكُومٌ‏ وَ قَوْلِهِ‏ أَوْ تَأْتِيَ بِاللَّهِ وَ الْمَلائِكَةِ قَبِيلًا وَ الْقَبِيلُ الْكَثِيرُ أَوْ يَكُونَ لَكَ بَيْتٌ مِنْ زُخْرُفٍ‏ الْمُزَخْرَفُ بِالذَّهَبِ‏ أَوْ تَرْقى‏ فِي السَّماءِ وَ لَنْ نُؤْمِنَ لِرُقِيِّكَ حَتَّى تُنَزِّلَ عَلَيْنا كِتاباً نَقْرَؤُهُ‏

And that is, Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Surely, a piece would fall from the sky due to His^-azwj Words: And if they should see pieces of the sky falling down, they would be saying: ‘Piled up clouds’ [52:44]; and His^-azwj Words: or you should come with Allah and the Angels face to face [17:92], and the (words) ‘face to face’ means a lot of them; Or there should happen to be for you a house of gold [17:93], decorated with gold; and we will never believe in your ascending until you bring down for us a letter to read’. [17:93].

يَقُولُ مَنَّ اللَّهُ إِلَى عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي أُمَيَّةَ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً صَادِقٌ وَ أَنِّي أَنَا بَعَثْتُهُ وَ يَجِي‏ءُ مَعَهُ أَرْبَعَةٌ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ يَشْهَدُونَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ كَتَبَهُ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ‏ قُلْ سُبْحانَ رَبِّي هَلْ كُنْتُ إِلَّا بَشَراً رَسُولًا

Allah^-azwj is Saying to Abdullah Bin Abu Amiya that Muhammad^-saww is truthful, and it is I^-azwj Who Sent him^-saww, and there will come with him^-saww, forty from the Angels testifying that Allah^-azwj, He^-azwj Ordained it. Allah^-azwj Revealed: Say: ‘Glorious is my Lord!’ Are you except a human Rasool? [17:93]’’.[17]

10- فس، تفسير القمي‏ فَاصْدَعْ بِما تُؤْمَرُ وَ أَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ إِنَّا كَفَيْناكَ الْمُسْتَهْزِئِينَ‏ فَإِنَّهَا نَزَلَتْ بِمَكَّةَ بَعْدَ أَنْ نُبِّئَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِثَلَاثِ سِنِينَ وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ النُّبُوَّةَ نَزَلَتْ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص يَوْمَ الْإِثْنَيْنِ وَ أَسْلَمَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَوْمَ الثَّلَاثَاءِ ثُمَّ أَسْلَمَتْ خَدِيجَةُ بِنْتُ خُوَيْلِدٍ زَوْجَةُ النَّبِيِّ ص

‘Tafseer Al-Qummi’ –  ‘So proclaim what you are Commanded with and turn away from the polytheists [15:94] We will Suffice you against the scoffers [15:95] – it was Revealed at Makkah after the Prophet-hood of Rasool-Allah^-saww by three years, and that is, the Prophet^-saww was Revealed unto Rasool-Allah^-saww on the day of Tuesday, and Ali^-asws announced Islam on the day of Wednesday, then (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws Bint Khuwaylid, wife of Rasool-Allah^-saww announced her^-asws Islam.

ثُمَّ دَخَلَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص وَ هُوَ يُصَلِّي وَ عَلِيٌّ ع بِجَنْبِهِ وَ كَانَ مَعَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ جَعْفَرٌ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ فَقَالَ لَهُ أَبُو طَالِبٍ صِلْ جَنَاحَ‏ ابْنِ عَمِّكَ فَوَقَفَ جَعْفَرٌ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ عَلَى يَسَارِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَبَدَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ مِنْ بَيْنِهِمَا

Then Abu Talib^-asws came to the Prophet^-saww and he^-saww was praying Salat and Ali^-asws by his^-saww side, and with Abu Talib^-asws was Ja’far^-asws. Abu Talib^-asws said: ‘Connect the wing of the son of your uncle’. Ja’far^-asws paused on the left of Rasool-Allah^-saww. Rasool-Allah^-saww started praying Salat from between them.

فَكَانَ يُصَلِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ جَعْفَرٌ وَ زَيْدُ بْنُ حَارِثَةَ وَ خَدِيجَةُ فَلَمَّا أَتَى لِذَلِكَ سِنُونَ أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ‏ فَاصْدَعْ بِما تُؤْمَرُ وَ أَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ إِنَّا كَفَيْناكَ الْمُسْتَهْزِئِينَ‏ وَ كَانَ الْمُسْتَهْزِءُونَ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص خَمْسَةً الْوَلِيدَ بْنَ الْمُغِيرَةِ وَ الْعَاصَ بْنَ وَائِلٍ وَ الْأَسْوَدَ بْنَ الْمُطَّلِبِ وَ الْأَسْوَدَ بْنَ عَبْدِ يَغُوثَ وَ الْحَارِثَ بْنَ طَلَاطِلَةَ الْخُزَاعِيَّ

Rasool-Allah^-saww and Ali^-asws and Ja’far^-asws and Zayd Bin Harisa^-ra and Khadeeja^-asws were praying Salat. When years came for that, Allah^-azwj Revealed upon him^-saww So proclaim what you are Commanded with and turn away from the polytheists [15:94] We will Suffice you against the scoffers [15:95]; and the scoffers at Rasool-Allah^-saww were five – Al-Waleed Bin Al-Mugheira, and al Aas Bin Wail, and Al-Aswad Bin Al-Matlab, and al Aswad Bin Abd Yagous, and Al-Haris Bin Talatala Al-Khuzaie.

أقول: ثم ساق الحديث إلى آخر خبر هلاك المستهزءين على ما نقلنا عنه في أبواب المعجزات. ثم قال‏ فخرج رسول الله ص فقام على الحجر فقال يا معشر قريش يا معشر العرب أدعوكم إلى شهادة أن لا إله إلا الله و أني رسول الله و آمركم بخلع الأنداد و الأصنام فأجيبوني تملكون بها العرب و تدين لكم العجم و تكونون ملوكا في الجنة

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘Then he continued the Hadeeth up to the end of the death of the scoffers upon what we transmitted from him in the chapters of the miracles. Then Rasool-Allah^-saww went out and stood at the (Black) Stone and said: ‘O community of Quraysh! O community of Arabs! I^-saww call you to the testimony that there is no god except Allah^-azwj and I^-saww am Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, and I^-saww instruct you to leave the rival gods and the idols and answer me^-saww, you will rule over the Arabs by it, and the non-Arabs will follow your Religion, and you will become kings in Paradise’.

فاستهزءوا منه و قالوا جن محمد بن عبد الله و لم يجسروا عليه لموضع أبي طالب فاجتمعت قريش على أبي طالب‏ فقالوا يا أبا طالب إن ابن أخيك قد سفه أحلامنا و سب آلهتنا و أفسد شباننا و فرق جماعتنا فإن كان يحمله على ذلك العدم جمعنا له مالا فيكون أكثر قريش مالا و نزوجه أي امرأة شاء من قريش

They scoffed at him^-saww and said, ‘Muhammad^-saww Bin Abdullah^-asws is insane’ and they could not be audacious upon him^-saww due to the position of Abu Talib^-asws. The Quraysh gathered to Abu Talib^-asws and said, ‘O Abu Talib^-asws! The son of your^-asws brother has stultified our dreams and insulted our gods, and spoilt our youths, and separated our communities. So, if it was the poverty which carried him^-saww upon that, we will gather wealth for him^-saww and he^-saww will become the wealthiest of Quraysh and we will get him^-saww married to whichever woman he^-saww so desires from Quraysh’.

فقال له أبو طالب ما هذا يا ابن أخ فقال يا عم هذا دين الله الذي ارتضاه لأنبيائه و رسله بعثني الله رسولا إلى الناس فقال يا ابن أخ إن قومك قد أتوني يسألوني أن أسألك أن تكف عنهم

Abu Talib^-asws said to him^-saww: ‘What is this, O son of brother?’ He^-saww said: ‘O uncle!  This is Religion of Allah^-azwj which He^-azwj is Pleased with for His^-azwj Prophets^-as and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww. Allah^-azwj Sent me^-saww as a Messenger to the people’. He^-asws said: ‘O son of brother! Your^-saww people came to me^-asws asking me^-asws to ask you^-saww to restrain from them’.

فقال يا عم لا أستطيع أن أخالف أمر ربي فكف عنه أبو طالب ثم اجتمعوا إلى أبي طالب فقالوا أنت سيد من ساداتنا فادفع إلينا محمدا لنقتله و تملك علينا

He^-saww said: ‘O uncle! I^-saww have no capacity to oppose a Command of my^-saww Lord^-azwj’. So, Abu Talib^-asws refrained from him^-saww. Then they gathered to Abu Talib^-asws and said, ‘You^-asws are a chief from our chiefs, so hand over Muhammad^-saww to us for us to kill him^-saww and you can rule over us’.

فقال أبو طالب قصيدته الطويلة يقول فيها.

و لما رأيت القوم لا ود بينهم‏		و قد قطعوا كل العرى و الوسائل
كذبتم و بيت الله يبزى محمد		و لما نطاعن دونه و نناضل
و نسلمه‏ حتى نصرع حوله		و نذهل عن أبنائنا و الحلائل

Abu Talib^-asws recited his^-as long poem, in which he^-as said: ‘When I^-as saw that the people had no affection among themselves, and that they had severed all bonds and means of connection, you have lied, by the House of Allah^-azwj! Muhammad^-saww will not be surrendered while we fight and struggle on his^-saww behalf, nor will we hand him^-saww over until we are struck down around him^-saww, and we become heedless of our sons and our wives’.

فلما اجتمعت قريش على قتل رسول الله ص و كتبوا الصحيفة القاطعة جمع أبو طالب بني هاشم و حلف لهم بالبيت و الركن و المقام و المشاعر في الكعبة لئن شاكت محمدا شوكة لآتين عليكم يا بني هاشم‏

When Quraysh gathered upon killing Rasool-Allah^-saww and wrote out the parchment (pact) of the cutting-off (sanctions), Abu Talib^-asws gathered the clan of Hashim^-as and swore to them by the House (Kabah), and the (Yemeni) Corner, and the Standing Place (of Ibrahim^-as), and the (Sacred) Monuments in the Kabah, ‘Even if Muhammad^-saww were to complain of a thorn, I^-as shall come upon you, O clan of Hashim^-as’.

فأدخله الشعب و كان يحرسه بالليل و النهار قائما بالسيف على رأسه أربع سنين فلما خرجوا من الشعب حضر أبا طالب الوفاة فدخل إليه رسول الله ص و هو يجود بنفسه فقال يا عم ربيت صغيرا و كفلت يتيما فجزاك الله عني خيرا أعطني كلمة أشفع لك بها عند ربي‏

He^-as entered him^-saww into the cave and would protect him^-saww at night and day, standing with the sword by his^-saww head for four years. When they came out from the cave, death presented to Abu Talib^-asws, so Rasool-Allah^-saww came to him^-asws and he^-asws was breathing his^-asws last. He^-saww said: ‘O uncle! You^-asws nourished a young one, and took responsibility for an orphan, so may Allah^-azwj Recompense you^-asws good on my^-saww behalf. Give me a phrase I^-saww can intercede for you^-saww by it in the Presence of my^-saww Lord^-azwj’.

فروي أنه لم يخرج من الدنيا حتى أعطى رسول الله الرضا

It is reported that he^-asws did not exit from the world until he^-asws had given Rasool-Allah^-azwj the satisfaction’’.[18]

11- فس، تفسير القمي‏ وَ أَنْذِرْ عَشِيرَتَكَ الْأَقْرَبِينَ‏ قَالَ نَزَلَتْ‏ وَ رَهْطَكَ مِنْهُمُ الْمُخْلَصِينَ‏

‘Tafseer Al-Qummi’ – And warn your kindred, the near ones! [26:214] – He (Ali Bin Ibrahim) said, ‘It was Revealed as and your group of sincere ones! [26:214].

قَالَ نَزَلَتْ بِمَكَّةَ فَجَمَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بَنِي هَاشِمٍ وَ هُمْ أَرْبَعُونَ رَجُلًا كُلَّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ يَأْكُلُ الْجَذَعَ وَ يَشْرَبُ الْقِرْبَةَ فَاتَّخَذَ لَهُمْ طَعَاماً يَسِيراً بِحَسَبِ مَا أَمْكَنَ فَأَكَلُوا حَتَّى شَبِعُوا فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَنْ يَكُونُ وَصِيِّي وَ وَزِيرِي وَ خَلِيفَتِي فَقَالَ أَبُو لَهَبٍ هَذَا مَا سَحَرَكُمْ مُحَمَّدٌ فَتَفَرَّقُوا

He (Amir Al-Momineen^-asws said, ‘It was Revealed as Makkah, so Rasool-Allah^-saww gathered the Clan of Hashim^-as, and they were forty men, each one of them ate the forearm (of the grilled sheep) and drank the water-skin. I^-asws had taken little food for them in according to what I^-asws was able to, but they (all) ate until they were satiated. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Who will become my^-saww successor and my^-saww Vizier and my^-saww Caliph?’ Abu Lahab^-la said, ‘This is what Muhammad^-saww has bewitched you all with, so disperse!’

فَلَمَّا كَانَ الْيَوْمُ الثَّانِي أَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَفَعَلَ بِهِمْ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ سَقَاهُمُ اللَّبَنَ‏ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَيُّكُمْ يَكُونُ وَصِيِّي وَ وَزِيرِي وَ خَلِيفَتِي فَقَالَ‏ أَبُو لَهَبٍ هَذَا مَا سَحَرَكُمْ مُحَمَّدٌ فَتَفَرَّقُوا

When it was the second day, Rasool-Allah^-saww instruct, and I^-asws did with them similar to that, then quenched them the milk. Rasool-Allah^-saww said to them: ‘Which one of you will become my^-saww successor, and My^-saww Vizier and my^-saww Caliph?’ Abu Lahab^-la said, ‘This is what Muhammad^-saww has bewitched you all with, so disperse!’

فَلَمَّا كَانَ الْيَوْمُ الثَّالِثُ أَمَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَفَعَلَ بِهِمْ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ سَقَاهُمُ اللَّبَنَ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَيُّكُمْ يَكُونُ وَصِيِّي وَ وَزِيرِي وَ خَلِيفَتِي وَ يُنْجِزُ عِدَاتِي وَ يَقْضِي دَيْنِي

When it was the third day, Rasool-Allah^-saww instructed and I^-asws did with them similar to that, then quenched them the milk. Rasool-Allah^-saww said to them: ‘Which one of you will become my^-saww successor, and my^-saww Vizier and my^-saww Caliph, and fulfil my^-saww promises made and pay back my^-saww debts?’

فَقَامَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ كَانَ أَصْغَرَهُمْ سِنّاً وَ أَحْمَشَهُمْ سَاقاً وَ أَقَلَّهُمْ مَالًا فَقَالَ أَنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنْتَ هُوَ

Ali^-asws stood up, and he^-asws was the youngest of them in years, and thinnest of them in legs, and least of them in wealth, and he^-asws said: ‘I^-asws, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’ Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘You^-asws are he’’.[19]

12- فس، تفسير القمي‏ وَ عَجِبُوا أَنْ جاءَهُمْ مُنْذِرٌ مِنْهُمْ‏ قَالَ نَزَلَتْ بِمَكَّةَ لَمَّا أَظْهَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الدَّعْوَةَ بِمَكَّةَ اجْتَمَعَتْ قُرَيْشٌ إِلَى أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَقَالُوا يَا أَبَا طَالِبٍ إِنَّ ابْنَ أَخِيكَ قَدْ سَفَّهَ أَحْلَامَنَا وَ سَبَّ آلِهَتَنَا وَ أَفْسَدَ شَبَابَنَا وَ فَرَّقَ جَمَاعَتَنَا فَإِنْ كَانَ الَّذِي يَحْمِلُهُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ الْعُدْمَ جَمَعْنَا لَهُ مَالًا حَتَّى يَكُونَ أَغْنَى رَجُلٍ فِي قُرَيْشٍ وَ نُمَلِّكَهُ عَلَيْنَا

‘Tafseer Al-Qummi’ – And they are wondering if a warner has come from them, [38:4]. He (Ali Bin Ibrahim) said, ‘It was Revealed at Makkah. When Rasool-Allah^-saww manifest the call at Makkah, Quraysh gathered to Abu Talib^-asws and they said, ‘O Abu Talib^-asws! The son of your brother has discredited our dreams and insulted our gods and spoilt our youths and separated out communities, so if it was the poverty which has carried him^-saww upon that, we shall gather wealth for him^-saww until he^-saww becomes the richest man among Quraysh and we shall make him^-saww rule upon us’.

فَأَخْبَرَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص بِذَلِكَ فَقَالَ لَوْ وَضَعُوا الشَّمْسَ فِي يَمِينِي وَ الْقَمَرَ فِي يَسَارِي مَا أَرَدْتُهُ وَ لَكِنْ يُعْطُونِي كَلِمَةً يُمَلِّكُونَ بِهَا الْعَرَبَ وَ يَدِينُ لَهُمْ بِهَا الْعَجَمُ وَ يَكُونُونَ مُلُوكاً فِي الْجَنَّةِ

Abu Talib^-asws informed Rasool-Allah^-saww with that. He^-saww said: ‘If they were to place the sun in my^-saww right hand and the moon in my^-saww left, I^-saww would not want it, but they should give me a phrase (Kalima), they will rule the Arabs by it, and the non-Arabs will follow them by it, and they would become kings in Paradise’.

فَقَالَ لَهُمْ أَبُو طَالِبٍ ذَلِكَ فَقَالُوا نَعَمْ وَ عَشْرَ كَلِمَاتٍ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص تَشْهَدُونَ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ أَنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ فَقَالُوا نَدَعُ ثَلَاثَمِائَةٍ وَ سِتِّينَ إِلَهاً وَ نَعْبُدُ إِلَهاً وَاحِداً

Abu Talib^-asws said that to them. They said, ‘Yes, and (even) ten phrases’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said to them: ‘You should testify that there is no god except Allah^-azwj and I^-saww am Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj’. They said, ‘We should leave three hundred and sixty gods and worship One God^-azwj?’

فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ سُبْحَانَهُ‏ وَ عَجِبُوا أَنْ جاءَهُمْ مُنْذِرٌ مِنْهُمْ وَ قالَ الْكافِرُونَ هذا ساحِرٌ كَذَّابٌ‏ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ إِلَّا اخْتِلاقٌ‏ أَيْ تَخْلِيطٌ

Allah^-azwj Revealed: And they are wondering if a warner has come from them, and the Kafirs said, ‘This one is a lying sorcerer! [38:4] – up to His^-azwj Words: only a fabrication’ [38:7] – i.e., a confusing mixture’’.[20] 

13- فس، تفسير القمي أَبِي عَنِ الْأَصْبَهَانِيِّ عَنِ الْمِنْقَرِيِ‏ عَنْ حَفْصٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع‏ يَا حَفْصُ إِنَّ مَنْ صَبَرَ صَبَرَ قَلِيلًا وَ إِنَّ مَنْ جَزِعَ جَزِعَ قَلِيلًا

‘Tafseer Al-Qummi’ – My father, from Al Isbahany, from Al Minqary, from Hafs who said,

‘Abu Abdullah^-asws said: ‘O Hafs! The one who observes patience, is patient (for a) little while, and the one who panics, panics (for a) little while’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ عَلَيْكَ بِالصَّبْرِ فِي جَمِيعِ أُمُورِكَ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ بَعَثَ مُحَمَّداً ص وَ أَمَرَهُ‏ بِالصَّبْرِ وَ الرِّفْقِ فَقَالَ‏ وَ اصْبِرْ عَلى‏ ما يَقُولُونَ وَ اهْجُرْهُمْ هَجْراً جَمِيلًا وَ قَالَ‏ ادْفَعْ بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ‏ السَّيِّئَةَ فَإِذَا الَّذِي بَيْنَكَ وَ بَيْنَهُ عَداوَةٌ كَأَنَّهُ وَلِيٌّ حَمِيمٌ‏ فَصَبَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص حَتَّى قَابَلُوهُ بِالْعِظَامِ‏ وَ رَمَوْهُ بِهَا

Then he^-asws said: ‘Upon you is to be with the patience in the entirety of your affairs, for when Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Sent Muhammad^-saww, He^-azwj Commanded him^-saww with the observance of patience and the gentleness, so the Blessed and Exalted Said: Repel (evil) by that which is best, So if there is enmity between you and him, he would be like your intimate friend [41:34] And none would receive it except those who are patient, and none would receive it except one with a mighty share [41:35]. Rasool-Allah^-saww was patient to the extent that they came to him^-saww with the bones (of the animals) and hit him^-saww with these’’

فَضَاقَ صَدْرُهُ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ‏ وَ لَقَدْ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ يَضِيقُ صَدْرُكَ بِما يَقُولُونَ‏ ثُمَّ كَذَّبُوهُ وَ رَمَوْهُ فَحَزِنَ لِذَلِكَ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ‏ قَدْ نَعْلَمُ إِنَّهُ لَيَحْزُنُكَ الَّذِي يَقُولُونَ فَإِنَّهُمْ لا يُكَذِّبُونَكَ وَ لكِنَّ الظَّالِمِينَ بِآياتِ اللَّهِ يَجْحَدُونَ وَ لَقَدْ كُذِّبَتْ رُسُلٌ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ فَصَبَرُوا عَلى‏ ما كُذِّبُوا وَ أُوذُوا حَتَّى أَتاهُمْ نَصْرُنا

His^-saww chest was straitened, so Allah^-azwj Revealed: And We have Known that you tend to constrict your chest due to what they are saying [15:97]. Then they belied him^-saww and pelted him^-saww, and he^-saww was grief-stricken due to that, so Allah^-azwj Revealed: We do Know it has grieved you, that which they are saying. They are not belying you, but the unjust ones are rejecting the Signs of Allah [6:33] And the Rasools from before you have been belied, but they were patient upon what they (people) had been belying until Our Help came to them; [6:34].

فَأَلْزَمَ نَفْسَهُ ص الصَّبْرَ فَقَعَدُوا وَ ذَكَرُوا اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى وَ كَذَّبُوهُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَقَدْ صَبَرْتُ فِي نَفْسِي وَ أَهْلِي وَ عِرْضِي وَ لَا صَبْرَ لِي عَلَى ذِكْرِهِمْ‏ إِلَهِي فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ‏ وَ لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا السَّماواتِ وَ الْأَرْضَ وَ ما بَيْنَهُما فِي سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ وَ ما مَسَّنا مِنْ لُغُوبٍ فَاصْبِرْ عَلى‏ ما يَقُولُونَ‏

He^-saww necessitated the patience for himself^-saww. They sat and mentioned Allah^-azwj Blessed and Exalted and they belied him^-saww. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘I^-saww have been patient regarding myself^-saww, and my^-saww family, and my^-saww honour, and there is no patience for me^-saww upon their mentioning (against) my^-saww God^-azwj’. Allah^-azwj Revealed: And We have Created the skies and the earth and what is between the two in six days and there did not touch Us not any fatigue [50:38] Therefore be patient upon what they are saying [50:39].

فَصَبَرَ ص فِي جَمِيعِ أَحْوَالِهِ ثُمَّ بُشِّرَ فِي الْأَئِمَّةِ مِنْ عِتْرَتِهِ‏ وَ وُصِفُوا بِالصَّبْرِ فَقَالَ‏ وَ جَعَلْنا مِنْهُمْ‏ أَئِمَّةً يَهْدُونَ بِأَمْرِنا لَمَّا صَبَرُوا وَ كانُوا بِآياتِنا يُوقِنُونَ‏

Thus, Rasool-Allah^-saww was patient in the entirety of his^-saww states. Then He^-azwj Gave the Glad Tidings regarding the Imams^-asws from his^-saww offspring, and they^-asws were described with the patience, so He^-azwj Said: And We Made from them Imams guiding by Our Command when they were patient, and they were certain of Our Signs [32:24].

فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ قَالَ ص الصَّبْرُ مِنَ الْإِيمَانِ كَالرَّأْسِ مِنَ الْبَدَنِ‏ فَشَكَرَ اللَّهُ لَهُ ذَلِكَ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ‏ وَ تَمَّتْ كَلِمَتُ رَبِّكَ الْحُسْنى‏ عَلى‏ بَنِي إِسْرائِيلَ بِما صَبَرُوا وَ دَمَّرْنا ما كانَ يَصْنَعُ فِرْعَوْنُ وَ قَوْمُهُ وَ ما كانُوا يَعْرِشُونَ‏ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص آيَةُ بُشْرَى‏ وَ انْتِقَامٍ

During that, he^-asws said: ‘The patience is from the Eman like the head is from the body. Allah^-azwj Thanked that to him^-saww and Revealed unto him^-saww: and the Good Word of your Lord was Completed in the Children of Israel due to their being patient, and We Destroyed what Pharaoh and his people were doing and what they were constructing [7:137]. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘A Verse of glad tidings and revenge’.

فَأَبَاحَ اللَّهُ قَتْلَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ‏ حَيْثُ وُجِدُوا فَقَتَلَهُمْ عَلَى يَدَيْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَحِبَّائِهِ وَ عَجَّلَ لَهُ ثَوَابَ صَبْرِهِ مَعَ مَا ادَّخَرَ لَهُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ

Then Allah^-azwj Legalised the killing of the Polytheists. Allah^-azwj Killed them at the hands of Rasool-Allah^-saww and his^-saww loved ones, and Allah^-azwj Hastened to him^-saww the Reward of his^-saww patience along with what He^-azwj had Treasured for him^-saww in the Hereafter’’.[21]

14- ص، قصص الأنبياء عليهم السلام ذَكَرَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَ هُوَ مِنْ أَجَلِّ رُوَاةِ أَصْحَابِنَا أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص لَمَّا أَتَى لَهُ سَبْعٌ وَ ثَلَاثُونَ سَنَةً كَانَ يَرَى فِي نَوْمِهِ كَأَنَّ آتِياً أَتَاهُ فَيَقُولُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَ كَانَ بَيْنَ الْجِبَالِ يَرْعَى غَنَماً فَنَظَرَ إِلَى شَخْصٍ يَقُولُ لَهُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ مَنْ أَنْتَ قَالَ أَنَا جَبْرَئِيلُ أَرْسَلَنِي اللَّهُ إِلَيْكَ لِيَتَّخِذَكَ رَسُولًا

‘Qasas Al-Anbiya^-as’ – Ali Bin Ibrahim mentioned, and it is from the reason of the report of our companions that when thirty-seven years came to the Prophet^-saww, he^-saww saw in his^-saww dream as if a comer had come to him^-saww and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’, and he^-saww was between the mountain pasturing sheep. He^-saww looked at a person saying to him^-saww, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’ He^-saww said to him: ‘Who are you?’ He said, ‘I^-as am Jibraeel^-as. Allah^-azwj Sent me^-as to you^-saww in order to take you^-saww as a Rasool^-saww’.

وَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يَكْتُمُ ذَلِكَ فَأَنْزَلَ جَبْرَئِيلَ بِمَاءٍ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ فَتَوَضَّأْ فَعَلَّمَهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ الْوُضُوءَ عَلَى الْوَجْهِ وَ الْيَدَيْنِ مِنَ الْمِرْفَقِ وَ مَسْحِ الرَّأْسِ وَ الرِّجْلَيْنِ إِلَى الْكَعْبَيْنِ وَ عَلَّمَهُ الرُّكُوعَ وَ السُّجُودَ

And Rasool-Allah^-saww used to conceal that, and Jibraeel^-as descended with water from the sky and he^-as said: ‘O Muhammad^-saww, perform Wudu’u’. Jibraeel^-as taught him^-saww the washing upon the face, and the two hands from the elbows, and the wiping of the head and the two legs to the ankles, and taught him^-saww the Ruku’u and the Sajdah.

فَدَخَلَ عَلِيٌّ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمَا وَ هُوَ يُصَلِّي هَذَا لَمَّا تَمَّ لَهُ ص أَرْبَعُونَ سَنَةً فَلَمَّا نَظَرَ إِلَيْهِ يُصَلِّي قَالَ يَا أَبَا الْقَاسِمِ مَا هَذَا قَالَ هَذِهِ الصَّلَاةُ الَّتِي أَمَرَنِي اللَّهُ بِهَا فَدَعَاهُ إِلَى الْإِسْلَامِ فَأَسْلَمَ وَ صَلَّى مَعَهُ وَ أَسْلَمَتْ خَدِيجَةُ فَكَانَ لَا يُصَلِّي إِلَّا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ خَدِيجَةُ ع خَلْفَهُ

Ali^-asws came to Rasool-Allah^-saww and he^-saww was praying Salat – this was when forty years were complete for him^-saww. When he^-asws looked at him^-saww praying Salat, he^-asws said: ‘O Abu Al-Qasim^-saww! What is this?’ He^-saww said: ‘This is the Salat which Allah^-azwj Commanded me^-saww with’. He^-saww invited him^-asws to Islam, and he^-asws became a Muslim, and prayed Salat with him^-saww, and Khadeeja^-asws became a Muslim. It was so that no one used to pray Salat except Rasool-Allah^-saww, and Ali^-asws, and Khadeeja^-asws behind him^-saww.

فَلَمَّا أَتَى لِذَلِكَ أَيَّامٌ دَخَلَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ إِلَى مَنْزِلِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ مَعَهُ جَعْفَرٌ فَنَظَرَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَلِيٌّ بِجَنْبِهِ يُصَلِّيَانِ فَقَالَ لِجَعْفَرٍ يَا جَعْفَرُ صِلْ جَنَاحَ ابْنِ عَمِّكَ فَوَقَفَ جَعْفَرُ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ مِنَ الْجَانِبِ الْآخَرِ

When days came to that, Abu Talib^-asws came to the house of Rasool-Allah^-saww and with him^-asws was Ja’far^-asws. He^-asws looked at Rasool-Allah^-saww and Ali^-asws praying Salat by his^-saww side. He^-saww said to Ja’far^-asws: ‘O Ja’far^-asws! Connect your wing to your cousin’. Ja’far^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws stood on the other side.

ثُمَّ خَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى بَعْضِ أَسْوَاقِ الْعَرَبِ فَرَأَى زَيْداً فَاشْتَرَاهُ لِخَدِيجَةَ وَ وَجَدَهُ غُلَاماً كَيِّساً فَلَمَّا تَزَوَّجَهَا وَهَبَتْهُ لَهُ فَلَمَّا نُبِّئَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَسْلَمَ زَيْدٌ أَيْضاً فَكَانَ يُصَلِّي خَلْفَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص عَلِيٌّ وَ جَعْفَرٌ وَ زَيْدٌ وَ خَدِيجَةُ

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww went out to one of the Arab markets and saw Zayd, and he^-saww bought him for (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws, and found him to be a courteous slave. When he^-saww married her^-asws she gifted him to him^-saww. When Rasool-Allah^-saww got Prophet-hood, Zayd became a Muslim as well. Rhere used to pray Salat behind Rasool-Allah^-saww, Ali^-asws and Ja’far^-asws and Zayd and Khadeeja^-asws’’.[22] (derogatory)

15- ص، قصص الأنبياء عليهم السلام قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ‏ وَ لَمَّا أَتَى عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص زَمَانٌ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ‏ فَاصْدَعْ بِما تُؤْمَرُ وَ أَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ‏ فَخَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَامَ عَلَى الْحِجْرِ وَ قَالَ يَا مَعْشَرَ قُرَيْشٍ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْعَرَبِ أَدْعُوكُمْ إِلَى عِبَادَةِ اللَّهِ وَ خَلْعِ الْأَنْدَادِ وَ الْأَصْنَامِ وَ أَدْعُوكُمْ إِلَى شَهَادَةِ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ أَنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ فَأَجِيبُونِي تَمْلِكُونَ بِهَا الْعَرَبَ وَ تَدِينُ لَكُمْ بِهَا الْعَجَمُ وَ تَكُونُونَ مُلُوكاً

‘Qasas Al-Anbiya^-as’ – Ali Bin Ibrahim said, ‘When a time came to Rasool-Allah^-saww, during that Allah^-azwj Revealed unto him^-saww: So proclaim what you are Commanded with and turn away from the polytheists [15:94]. Rasool-Allah^-saww went out and stood at the (Black) Stone and said, ‘O community of Quraysh! O community of Arabs! I^-saww am calling you all to the worship of Allah^-azwj and leave the rival gods and the idols, and I^-saww am calling you to the testimony that there is no god except Allah^-azwj, and I^-saww am Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj, so answer me^-saww, you will rule over the Arabs by it, and the non-Arabs will follow you, and you will become kings’.

فَاسْتَهْزَءُوا مِنْهُ وَ ضَحِكُوا وَ قَالُوا جُنَّ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ وَ آذَوْهُ بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ وَ كَانَ مَنْ يَسْمَعُ مِنْ خَبَرِهِ مَا سَمِعَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكُتُبِ يُسْلِمُونَ فَلَمَّا رَأَتْ قُرَيْشٌ مَنْ يَدْخُلُ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ جَزِعُوا مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَ مَشَوْا إِلَى أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ قَالُوا كُفَّ عَنَّا ابْنَ أَخِيكَ فَإِنَّهُ قَدْ سَفَّهَ أَحْلَامَنَا وَ سَبَّ آلِهَتَنَا وَ أَفْسَدَ شَبَابَنَا وَ فَرَّقَ جَمَاعَتَنَا

But they mocked at him^-saww and laughed and said, ‘Muhammad^-saww Bin Abdullah^-asws is insane’ (God Forbid), and they hurt him^-saww by their tongues, and it so happened that the ones from the People of the Book who heard his^-saww news were becoming Muslims. So, when Quraysh saw the ones entering into Islam, they panicked from that and walked to Abu Talib^-asws and said, ‘Restrain your^-asws nephew from us, for he^-saww has demeaned out dreams and insulted our gods, and spoil our youths and separated our communities’.

وَ قَالُوا يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِلَى مَا تَدْعُو قَالَ إِلَى شَهَادَةِ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ خَلْعِ الْأَنْدَادِ كُلِّهَا قَالُوا نَدَعُ ثَلَاثَمِائَةٍ وَ سِتِّينَ إِلَهاً وَ نَعْبُدُ إِلَهاً وَاحِداً وَ حَكَى اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَزَّ وَ عَلَا قَوْلَهُمْ‏ وَ عَجِبُوا أَنْ جاءَهُمْ مُنْذِرٌ مِنْهُمْ وَ قالَ الْكافِرُونَ هذا ساحِرٌ كَذَّابٌ أَ جَعَلَ الْآلِهَةَ إِلهاً واحِداً إِنَّ هذا لَشَيْ‏ءٌ عُجابٌ‏ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ بَلْ لَمَّا يَذُوقُوا عَذابِ‏

And they said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! What are you^-saww calling to?’ He^-saww said: ‘To the testimony that there is no god except Allah^-azwj, and leaving the rival gods, all of them’. They said, ‘Should we leave three hundred and sixty gods and worship One God^-azwj?’ And Allah^-azwj the Exalted, Mighty and Lofty Related their words: And they are wondering if a warner has come from them, and the Kafirs said, ‘This one is a lying sorcerer! [38:4] Is he making the gods to be One God? Surely this is a strange thing!’ [38:5] – up to His^-azwj Words: But, when they do taste the Punishment (there would be no doubts) [38:8].

ثُمَّ قَالُوا لِأَبِي طَالِبٍ إِنْ كَانَ ابْنُ أَخِيكَ يَحْمِلُهُ عَلَى هَذَا الْعَدَمُ جَمَعْنَا لَهُ مَالًا فَيَكُونُ أَكْثَرَ قُرَيْشٍ مَالًا فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مَا لِي حَاجَةٌ فِي الْمَالِ فَأَجِيبُونِي تَكُونُوا مُلُوكاً فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ مُلُوكاً فِي الْآخِرَةِ

Then they said to Abu Talib^-asws, ‘If your^-asws nephew, was carried upon this due to poverty, we will gather such wealth for him^-saww, he^-saww will become of the most wealth from Quraysh’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘There is no need for me^-saww regarding the wealth. Answer me^-saww and you will become kings in the world and kings in the Hereafter’.

فَتَفَرَّقُوا ثُمَّ جَاءُوا إِلَى أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَقَالُوا أَنْتَ سَيِّدٌ مِنْ سَادَاتِنَا وَ ابْنُ أَخِيكَ فَرَّقَ جَمَاعَتَنَا فَهَلُمَّ نَدْفَعُ إِلَيْكَ أَبْهَى فَتًى مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَ أَجْمَلَهُمْ وَ أَشْرَفَهُمْ عُمَارَةَ بْنَ الْوَلِيدِ يَكُونُ لَكَ ابْناً وَ تَدْفَعُ إِلَيْنَا مُحَمَّداً لِنَقْتُلَهُ فَقَالَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ مَا أَنْصَفْتُمُونِي تَسْأَلُونِّي أَنْ أَدْفَعَ إِلَيْكُمُ ابْنِي لِتَقْتُلُوهُ وَ تَدْفَعُونَ إِلَيَّ ابْنَكُمْ لِأُرَبِّيَهُ لَكُمْ فَلَمَّا أَيِسُوا مِنْهُ كَفُّوا

They dispersed, then came to Abu Talib^-asws and said, ‘You^-asws are a chief from our chiefs, and your^-asws nephew separating our community, so come, we shall hand over to you^-asws a pompous youth from Quraysh and their most handsome and their nobles, Amarah Bin Al-Waleed to become a son for you^-asws, and you^-asws hand over Muhammad^-saww to us so we can kill him^-saww’. Abu Talib^-asws said, ‘You are not being fair to me^-asws. You are asking me^-asws to hand over my son to you for you to kill him and you are handing over your son to me^-as for me to nourish him for you’. When they despaired from him^-as, they refrained’’.[23]

16- ص، قصص الأنبياء عليهم السلام‏ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لَا يَكُفُّ عَنْ عَيْبِ آلِهَةِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ وَ يَقْرَأُ عَلَيْهِمُ الْقُرْآنَ وَ كَانَ الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ مِنْ حُكَّامِ الْعَرَبِ يَتَحَاكَمُونَ إِلَيْهِ فِي الْأُمُورِ وَ كَانَ لَهُ عَبِيدٌ عَشَرَةٌ عِنْدَ كُلِّ عَبْدٍ أَلْفُ دِينَارٍ يَتَّجِرُ بِهَا وَ مَلَكَ الْقِنْطَارَ وَ كَانَ عَمَّ أَبِي جَهْلٍ فَقَالُوا لَهُ يَا عَبْدَ شَمْسٍ‏ مَا هَذَا الَّذِي يَقُولُ مُحَمَّدٌ أَ سِحْرٌ أَمْ كِهَانَةٌ أَمْ خَطْبٌ فَقَالَ دَعُونِي أَسْمَعْ كَلَامَهُ

‘Qasas Al-Anbiya^-as’ – Rasool-Allah^-saww did not stop faulting the gods of the Polytheists and reading the Quran unto them; and Al-Waleed Al Mugheira was from the judged of the Arabs, they used to seek his judgment in matters, and there were ten slaves for him, each slave having a thousand Dinars with him to trade with, and he was an owner of the ‘Qantar’ (a hundredweight of gold), and he was an uncle of Abu Jahl^-la. They said to him, ‘O Abd Shams! What is this which Muhammad^-saww is saying? Is it sorcery, or fortune telling, or sermons?’ He said, ‘Leave me to hear his^-saww speech’.

فَدَنَا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ هُوَ جَالِسٌ فِي الْحِجْرِ فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَنْشِدْنِي شِعْرَكَ فَقَالَ مَا هُوَ بِشِعْرٍ وَ لَكِنَّهُ كَلَامُ اللَّهِ الَّذِي بَعَثَ أَنْبِيَاءَهُ وَ رُسُلَهُ بِهِ فَقَالَ اتْلُ فَقَرَأَ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ‏ فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ الرَّحْمَنَ اسْتَهْزَأَ مِنْهُ وَ قَالَ تَدْعُو إِلَى رَجُلٍ بِالْيَمَامَةِ بِاسْمِ الرَّحْمَنِ

He went near Rasool-Allah^-saww and he^-saww was seated by the (Black) Stone. He said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Prose your^-saww poem to me’. He^-saww said: ‘It is not poetry, but it is Speech of Allah^-azwj Who Sent His^-azwj Prophets^-as and His^-azwj Rasools^-as with it’. He said, ‘Recite’. He^-saww recited: ‘In the Name of Allah^-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful’. When he heard ‘The Beneficent’, he mocked at it and said, ‘Are you calling to a man at Yamama with a name of ‘Al-Rahman’?’

قَالَ لَا وَ لَكِنِّي أَدْعُو إِلَى اللَّهِ وَ هُوَ الرَّحْمَنُ الرَّحِيمُ ثُمَّ افْتَتَحَ حم السَّجْدَةَ فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ فَإِنْ أَعْرَضُوا فَقُلْ أَنْذَرْتُكُمْ صاعِقَةً مِثْلَ صاعِقَةِ عادٍ وَ ثَمُودَ وَ سَمِعَهُ اقْشَعَرَّ جِلْدُهُ وَ قَامَتْ كُلُّ شَعْرَةٍ فِي بَدَنِهِ وَ قَامَ وَ مَشَى إِلَى بَيْتِهِ وَ لَمْ يَرْجِعْ إِلَى قُرَيْشٍ فَقَالُوا صَبَا أَبُو عَبْدِ شَمْسٍ إِلَى دِينِ مُحَمَّدٍ

He^-saww said: ‘No, by I^-saww am calling to Allah^-azwj, and He^-azwj is the Beneficent, the Merciful’. Then he^-saww opened Surah Fussilat (41). When he^-saww reached to His^-azwj Words: But if they turn aside, then say: ‘I warn you of a thunderbolt like the thunderbolt (which struck the people of) Aad and Samood [41:13], and he heard it, his skin chilled and every hair in his body stood up, and he arose and walked to his house, and did not come out to Quraysh. They said, ‘Abu Abd Al-Shams has reneged to the Religion of Muhammad^-saww’.

فَاغْتَمَّتْ قُرَيْشٌ وَ غَدَا عَلَيْهِ أَبُو جَهْلٍ فَقَالَ فَضَحْتَنَا يَا عَمِّ قَالَ يَا ابْنَ أَخِ مَا ذَاكَ وَ إِنِّي عَلَى دِينِ قَوْمِي وَ لَكِنِّي سَمِعْتُ كَلَاماً صَعْباً تَقْشَعِرُّ مِنْهُ الْجُلُودُ قَالَ أَ فَشِعْرٌ هُوَ قَالَ مَا هُوَ بِشِعْرٍ قَالَ فَخَطْبٌ قَالَ لَا إِنَّ الْخَطْبَ كَلَامٌ مُتَّصِلٌ وَ هَذَا كَلَامٌ مَنْثُورٌ لَا يُشْبِهُ بَعْضُهُ بَعْضاً لَهُ طُلَاوَةٌ قَالَ فَكِهَانَةٌ هُوَ قَالَ لَا قَالَ فَمَا هُوَ قَالَ دَعْنِي أُفَكِّرُ فِيهِ

Quraysh were gloomy and Abu Jahl^-la came to him in the morning and said, ‘You have shamed us, O uncle’. He said, ‘O son of brother! That is not so, and I am upon the religion of my people, but I heard difficult speech, the skin chilled from it’. He^-la said, ‘It is poetry?’ He said, ‘It is not poetry’. He^-la said, ‘A sermon?’ He said, ‘No. The sermon is a connected speech, and this is a scattered speech, part of it does not resemble part, for it is a recitation’. He^-la said, ‘Is it fortune-telling?’ He said, ‘No’. He^-la said, ‘So, what is it?’ He said, ‘Leave me to think regarding it’.

فَلَمَّا كَانَ مِنَ الْغَدِ قَالُوا يَا عَبْدَ شَمْسٍ مَا تَقُولُ قَالَ قُولُوا هُوَ سِحْرٌ فَإِنَّهُ آخَذُ بِقُلُوبِ النَّاسِ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى فِيهِ‏ ذَرْنِي وَ مَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيداً وَ جَعَلْتُ لَهُ مالًا مَمْدُوداً وَ بَنِينَ شُهُوداً إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ عَلَيْها تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ

When it was the next morning, they said, ‘O Abd Al-Shams! What are you saying?’ He said, ‘Keep saying that it is sorcery, for it tends to grab the hearts of the people’. Allah^-azwj the Exalted Revealed regarding it: Leave Me and the one I Created as Al-Waheed [74:11] And Made extensive wealth to be for him [74:12] And boys as witnesses [74:13] – up to His^-azwj Words: Upon it are nineteen [74:30]’’.

وَ فِي حَدِيثِ حَمَّادِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ قَالَ: جَاءَ وَلِيدُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ اقْرَأْ عَلَيَّ فَقَالَ‏ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُ بِالْعَدْلِ وَ الْإِحْسانِ وَ إِيتاءِ ذِي الْقُرْبى‏ وَ يَنْهى‏ عَنِ الْفَحْشاءِ وَ الْمُنْكَرِ وَ الْبَغْيِ يَعِظُكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ‏

And in a Hadeeth of Hamad Bin Zayd, from Ayoub, from Ikrimah who said, ‘Waleed Bin Al-Mugheira came to Rasool-Allah^-saww and said, ‘Recite unto me’. He^-saww said: ‘Surely Allah Commands with the justice, and the kindness, and giving to the near of kin, and Forbids from the immoralities, and the evil, and the tyranny. He Advises you, perhaps you would be mindful [16:90]’.

فَقَالَ أَعِدْ فَأَعَادَ فَقَالَ وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ لَهُ الْحَلَاوَةَ وَ الطُّلَاوَةَ إِنَّ أَعْلَاهُ لَمُثْمِرٌ وَ إِنَّ أَسْفَلَهُ لَمُعْذِقٌ وَ مَا هَذَا بِقَوْلِ بَشَرٍ

He said, ‘Repeat it’. He^-saww repeated. He said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! There is sweetness for it, and the acceptability, and that its top is fruitful and its bottom is tasty, and this is not a word of a poet’’.[24]

17- ص، قصص الأنبياء عليهم السلام‏ كَانَ قُرَيْشٌ يَجِدُّونَ فِي أَذَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ كَانَ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ عَلَيْهِ عَمُّهُ أَبُو لَهَبٍ فَكَانَ ص ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ جَالِساً فِي الْحِجْرِ فَبَعَثُوا إِلَى سَلَى الشَّاةِ فَأَلْقَوْهُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَاغْتَمَّ مِنْ ذَلِكَ فَجَاءَ إِلَى أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَقَالَ يَا عَمِّ كَيْفَ حَسَبِي فِيكُمْ قَالَ وَ مَا ذَاكَ يَا ابْنَ أَخِ قَالَ إِنَّ قُرَيْشاً أَلْقَوْا عَلَيَّ السَّلَى

‘Qasas Al-Anbiya^-as’ – Quraysh used to strive in hurting Rasool-Allah^-saww, and the severest of the people to him^-saww was his^-saww uncle Abu Lahab^-la. One day he^-saww was seated by the (Black) Stone, they sent for the intestines of the sheep and threw it upon Rasool-Allah^-saww. He^-saww was gloomy from that and came to Abu Talib^-asws and said: ‘O uncle! How are you^-asws going to suffice me^-saww among you all?’ He^-asws said: ‘And what is that, O son of brother?’ He^-saww said: ‘Quraysh threw the intestines (of a sheep) upon me^-saww’.

فَقَالَ لِحَمْزَةَ خُذِ السَّيْفَ وَ كَانَتْ قُرَيْشٌ جَالِسَةً فِي الْمَسْجِدِ فَجَاءَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ وَ مَعَهُ السَّيْفُ وَ حَمْزَةُ وَ مَعَهُ السَّيْفُ فَقَالَ أَمِرَّ السَّلَى عَلَى سِبَالِهِمْ فَمَنْ أَبَى فَاضْرِبْ عُنُقَهُ فَمَا تَحَرَّكَ أَحَدٌ حَتَّى أَمَرَّ السَّلَى عَلَى سِبَالِهِمْ ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ قَالَ يَا ابْنَ أَخِ هَذَا حَسَبُكَ مِنَّا وَ فِينَا

He^-asws said to Hamza^-asws: ‘Take the sword!’ And Quraysh were seated in the Masjid. So, Abu Talib^-asws came and with him^-asws was the sword, and (so did) Hamza^-asws and with him^-asws was the sword. He^-asws said: ‘Instruct the intestine to be upon their path, and if anyone refuses, then strike off his neck’. No one moved until the intestines were upon their path. Then he^-asws turned towards Rasool-Allah^-saww and said: ‘O nephew! This suffices you^-saww from us and among us’’.[25]

18- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ‏ دَخَلَ النَّبِيُّ ص الْكَعْبَةَ وَ افْتَتَحَ الصَّلَاةَ فَقَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ مَنْ يَقُومُ إِلَى هَذَا الرَّجُلِ فَيُفْسِدُ عَلَيْهِ صَلَاتَهُ فَقَامَ ابْنُ الزِّبَعْرَى وَ تَنَاوَلَ فَرْثاً وَ دَماً وَ أَلْقَى ذَلِكَ عَلَيْهِ فَجَاءَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ وَ قَدْ سَلَّ سَيْفَهُ فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهُ جَعَلُوا يَنْهَضُونَ فَقَالَ وَ اللَّهِ لَئِنْ قَامَ أَحَدٌ جَلَّلْتُهُ بِسَيْفِي

‘Qurb Al Isnaad’ – Ibn Abbas, ‘The Prophet^-saww entered the Kabah and began the Salat. Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘Who will stand to this man and spoil his^-saww Salat unto him^-saww?’ Al Zab’ary stood up and grabbed some dung and blood and threw that upon him^-saww. Abu Talib^-asws came and he^-asws had unsheathed his^-asws sword. When they saw him^-asws, they went on to stand up. He^-asws said: ‘By Allah^-azwj! If anyone stands up, I^-asws will strike him with my^-asws sword’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا ابْنَ أَخِي مَنِ الْفَاعِلُ بِكَ قَالَ هَذَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ‏ فَأَخَذَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ فَرْثاً وَ دَماً وَ أَلْقَى عَلَيْهِ

Then he^-asws said: ‘O nephew! Who did this with you^-saww?’ He^-saww said: ‘This Abdullah’. Abu Talib^-asws grabbed the dung and blood and threw it upon him’.

وَ فِي رِوَايَاتٍ مُتَوَاتِرَةٍ أَنَّهُ أَمَرَ عَبِيدَهُ أَنْ يُلْقُوا السَّلَى عَنْ ظَهْرِهِ وَ يَغْسِلُوهُ ثُمَّ أَمَرَهُمْ‏ أَنْ يَأْخُذُوهُ فَيُمِرُّوا عَلَى أَسْبِلَتِهِمْ بِذَلِكَ

And in recurrent reports, he^-saww ordered his^-saww slaves to cast off the intestines from his^-saww back and wash him^-saww. Then he^-saww ordered them to take it and pass upon their path with that’.

وَ فِي رِوَايَةِ الْبُخَارِيِ‏ أَنَّ فَاطِمَةَ ع أَمَاطَتْهُ‏ ثُمَّ أَوْسَعَتْهُمْ شَتْماً وَ هُمْ يَضْحَكُونَ فَلَمَّا سَلَّمَ النَّبِيُّ ص قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ عَلَيْكَ الْمَلَأُ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ اللَّهُمَّ عَلَيْكَ أَبَا جَهْلِ بْنَ هِشَامٍ وَ عُتْبَةَ بْنَ رَبِيعَةَ وَ شَيْبَةَ بْنَ رَبِيعَةَ وَ عُقْبَةَ بْنَ أَبِي مُعَيْطٍ وَ أُمَيَّةَ بْنَ خَلَفٍ

And in the report of Al-Bukhary, (Syeda) ‘Fatima^-asws removed it, then they were reviling and laughing. When the Prophet^-saww greeted (finished Salat), said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! Upon You^-azwj is (to Deal with) the assembly of Quraysh. O Allah^-azwj! Upon You^-azwj is (to Deal with) Abu Jahl^-la Bin Hashim, and Otbah Bin Rabie, and Shayba Bin Rabie, and Aqabah Bin Abu Mueet, and Amayya Bin Khalaf’.

فَوَ اللَّهِ الَّذِي لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ مَا سَمَّى النَّبِيُّ ص يَوْمَئِذٍ أَحَداً إِلَّا وَ قَدْ رَأَيْتُهُ يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ وَ قَدْ أُخِذَ بِرِجْلِهِ يَجُرُّ إِلَى الْقَلِيبِ مَقْتُولًا إِلَّا أُمَيَّةَ فَإِنَّهُ كَانَ مُنْتَفِخاً فِي دِرْعِهِ فَتَزَايَلَ مَنْ جَرَّهُ فَأَقَرُّوهُ وَ أَلْقَوْا عَلَيْهِ الْحَجَرَ

By Allah^-azwj, the One Who, there is no god except He^-azwj! The Prophet^-saww did not mention anyone on that day except and I saw him on the day of (battle of) Badr and he had been seized by his left dragged to the well, having been killed, except Amayya, for he was swollen in his armour, and he was hamstrung and the stone was thrown upon him’.

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ‏ وَقَفَ النَّبِيُّ ص عَلَى قَلِيبِ بَدْرٍ فَقَالَ بِئْسَ عَشِيرَةُ الرَّجُلِ كُنْتُمْ لِنَبِيِّكُمْ كَذَّبْتُمُونِي وَ صَدَّقَنِي النَّاسُ وَ أَخْرَجْتُمُونِي وَ آوَانِي النَّاسُ وَ قَاتَلْتُمُونِي وَ نَصَرَنِي النَّاسُ

Muhammad Bin Is’haq, ‘The Prophet^-saww paused at the well of Badr and said: ‘You were evil clan of a man to your Prophet^-saww. You belied me^-saww and the people ratified me^-saww, and you expelled me^-saww and the people sheltered me^-saww, and you fought against me^-saww and the people helped me^-saww’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ هَلْ‏ وَجَدْتُمْ ما وَعَدَ رَبُّكُمْ حَقًّا فَقَدْ وَجَدْتُ مَا وَعَدَنِي رَبِّي حَقّاً

Then he^-saww said: ‘Did you find what your Lord^-azwj had Promised as being true? I^-saww have found what my^-saww Lord^-azwj Promised me^-saww as true’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّهُمْ يَسْمَعُونَ مَا أَقُولُ‏

Then he^-saww said: ‘They are hearing what I^-saww am saying’’.[26]

19- ك، إكمال الدين أَبِي وَ ابْنُ الْوَلِيدِ مَعاً عَنْ سَعْدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي الْخَطَّابِ وَ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى مَعاً عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ جَمِيلِ بْنِ دَرَّاجٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع مَا أَجَابَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص أَحَدٌ قَبْلَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ خَدِيجَةَ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمَا وَ لَقَدْ مَكَثَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِمَكَّةَ ثَلَاثَ سِنِينَ مُخْتَفِياً خَائِفاً يَتَرَقَّبُ وَ يَخَافُ قَوْمَهُ وَ النَّاسَ‏

‘Ikmal Al Deen’ – My father and Ibn Al-Waleed both together, from Sa’ad, from Ibn Abu Al Khatab and Muhammad Bin Isa both together, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Jameel Bin Daraj, from Muhammad Bin Muslim who said,

‘Abu Ja’far^-asws said: ‘No one answered Rasool-Allah^-saww before Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws and (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws, and Rasool-Allah^-saww had stayed at Makkah for three years fearfully, waiting in fear and fearing his^-saww people and the people (in general)’’.[27]

20- فس، تفسير القمي عَلِيُّ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الطَّائِيِّ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ حَفْصٍ الْكُنَاسِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ بَكْرٍ الْأَرَّجَانِيَّ قَالَ: قَالَ لِيَ الصَّادِقُ جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ع أَخْبِرْنِي عَنِ الرَّسُولِ‏ ص كَانَ عَامّاً لِلنَّاسِ أَ لَيْسَ قَدْ قَالَ اللَّهُ فِي مُحْكَمِ كِتَابِهِ‏ وَ ما أَرْسَلْناكَ إِلَّا كَافَّةً لِلنَّاسِ‏ لِأَهْلِ الشَّرْقِ وَ الْغَرْبِ وَ أَهْلِ السَّمَاءِ وَ الْأَرْضِ مِنَ الْجِنِ‏ وَ الْإِنْسِ هَلْ بَلَّغَ‏ رِسَالَتَهُ إِلَيْهِمْ كُلِّهِمْ قُلْتُ لَا أَدْرِي

‘Tafseer Al-Qummi’ – Ali Bin Ja’far, from Muhammad Bin Abdullah Al Taif, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hafs Al Kunasy who said, ‘I heard Abdullah Bin Bakr Al Arjany who said,

‘Al-Sadiq Ja’far^-asws Bin Muhammad^-asws said to me: ‘Inform me^-asws about Rasool-Allah^-saww, was he^-saww generally for the people? Hasn’t Allah^-azwj Said in the Decisive of His^-azwj Book: And We did not Send you except to all of the people, to the East, and the West, and the inhabitants of the sky and the earth from the Jinn and the Humans. Did his^-saww Message reach all of them?’ I said, ‘I don’t know’.

قَالَ يَا ابْنَ بَكْرٍ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص لَمْ يَخْرُجْ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ فَكَيْفَ بَلَّغَ‏ أَهْلَ الشَّرْقِ وَ الْغَرْبِ قُلْتُ لَا أَدْرِي‏

He^-asws said: ‘O son of Bakr! Surely, Rasool-Allah^-saww never went out (in person) from Al-Medina, so how could it reach the people of the East and the West?’ I said, ‘I don’t know’.

قَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى أَمَرَ جَبْرَئِيلَ فَاقْتَلَعَ الْأَرْضَ بِرِيشَةٍ مِنْ جَنَاحِهِ وَ نَصَبَهَا لِمُحَمَّدٍ ص‏ وَ كَانَتْ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ مِثْلَ رَاحَتِهِ فِي كَفِّهِ يَنْظُرُ إِلَى أَهْلِ الشَّرْقِ وَ الْغَرْبِ وَ يُخَاطِبُ كُلَّ قَوْمٍ بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ وَ يَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَ إِلَى نُبُوَّتِهِ بِنَفْسِهِ فَمَا بَقِيَتْ قَرْيَةٌ وَ لَا مَدِينَةٌ إِلَّا وَ دَعَاهُمُ النَّبِيُّ ص بِنَفْسِهِ‏

He^-asws said: ‘Allah^-azwj the Exalted Commanded Jibraeel^-as, so he^-as uprooted the land by the quill from his wing, and instated it for Rasool-Allah^-saww, and it was in front of him^-saww like in the palm of his^-saww hand. He^-saww looked at the inhabitants of the East and the West, and addressed every person in their language, and called them to Allah^-azwj the Exalted and to his^-saww own Prophet-hood. There neither remained a town, nor a city, except that the Prophet^-saww called them by himself^-saww’’.[28]

21- كا، الكافي عَلِيٌّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: لَا تَدَعْ صِيَامَ يَوْمِ سَبْعٍ وَ عِشْرِينَ مِنْ رَجَبٍ فَإِنَّهُ الْيَوْمُ الَّذِي نَزَلَتْ فِيهِ النُّبُوَّةُ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ ص‏

‘Al Kafi’ – Ali, from his father, from Al Qasim, from his grandfather Al-Hassan,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Do not leave the Fasts of the day of 27^th Rajab for it is the day in which the Prophet-hood was Revealed unto Muhammad^-saww’’.[29]

22- كا، الكافي الْعِدَّةُ عَنْ سَهْلٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ الْأَوَّلِ ع قَالَ: بَعَثَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مُحَمَّداً ص رَحْمَةً لِلْعَالَمِينَ فِي سَبْعٍ وَ عِشْرِينَ مِنْ رَجَبٍ الْخَبَرَ

‘Al Kafi’ – The number, from Sahl, from one of our companions,

‘From Abu Al-Hassan^-asws the 1^st having said: ‘Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Sent Muhammad^-saww as a Mercy for the worlds during the 27^th of Rajab’’.[30]

23- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي الْمُفِيدُ عَنِ ابْنِ قُولَوَيْهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْجَوْهَرِيِّ عَنِ الْأَشْعَرِيِّ عَنِ الْبَزَنْطِيِّ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ كَثِيرٍ النَّوَّاءِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: فِي الْيَوْمِ السَّابِعِ وَ الْعِشْرِينَ مِنْ رَجَبٍ نَزَلَتِ النُّبُوَّةُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص الْخَبَرَ

‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – Al Mufeed, from Ibn Qawlawiya, from Muhammad Bin Al-Hassan Al Jowhary, from Al Ashary, from Al Bazanty, from Aban Bin Usman, from Kaseer Al Nawa,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘During the day of the 27^th Rajab the Prophet-hood was Revealed unto Rasool-Allah^-saww’ – the Hadeeth’.[31]

24- كا، الكافي عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ رَفَعَهُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: يَوْمَ سَبْعَةٍ وَ عِشْرِينَ مِنْ رَجَبٍ نُبِّئَ فِيهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص الْحَدِيثَ

Ali Bin Muhammad, raising it,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘On the 27^th day of Rajab Rasool-Allah^-saww was Given the News during it’ – the Hadeeth’.[32]

25- ن، عيون أخبار الرضا عليه السلام فِي عِلَلِ الْفَضْلِ عَنِ الرِّضَا ع قَالَ: فَإِنْ قَالَ فَلِمَ جُعِلَ الصَّوْمُ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ خَاصَّةً دُونَ سَائِرِ الشُّهُورِ قِيلَ لِأَنَّ شَهْرَ رَمَضَانَ هُوَ الشَّهْرُ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى فِيهِ الْقُرْآنَ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ ع وَ فِيهِ نُبِّئَ مُحَمَّدٌ ص‏

‘Uyoun Akhbar Al-Reza^-asws’ – In (the book) ‘Al-Illal’, Al-Fazal,

‘From Abu Reza^-asws having said: ‘If it is said, ‘Why have the Fasts during a month of Ramazan Made to be special besides the rest of the months?’ It would be said, ‘Because the Month of Ramazan, it is the month in which Allah^-azwj the Exalted Revealed the Quran’ – up to his^-asws words: ‘And during it Muhammad^-saww was Given the News’’.[33]

26- ك، إكمال الدين أَبِي عَنْ سَعْدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أُذَيْنَةَ وَ بُرَيْدٍ الْعِجْلِيِ‏ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع‏ إِنَّما أَنْتَ مُنْذِرٌ وَ لِكُلِّ قَوْمٍ هادٍ فَقَالَ الْمُنْذِرُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَلِيٌّ الْهَادِي وَ فِي كُلِّ زَمَانٍ إِمَامٌ مِنَّا يَهْدِيهِمْ إِلَى مَا جَاءَ بِهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏

‘Al Kafi’ – My father, from Sa’ad, from Ibn Isa, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Ibn Azina and Bureyd Al Ijaly who said,

‘I said to Abu Ja’far^-asws, ‘But rather, you are a Warner, and for every people there is a Guide [13:7]. He^-asws said: ‘The warner is Rasool-Allah^-saww and Ali^-asws is the Guide, and during every era there is an Imam^-asws from us^-asws guiding them to what Rasool-Allah^-saww came with’’.[34]

27- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي جَمَاعَةٌ عَنْ أَبِي الْمُفَضَّلِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَرِيرٍ الطَّبَرِيُّ سَنَةَ ثَمَانٍ وَ ثَلَاثِمِائَةٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ الرَّازِيُّ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ الْأَبْرَشِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْغَفَّارِ بْنِ الْقَاسِمِ قَالَ أَبُو الْمُفَضَّلِ وَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ الْبَاغَنْدِيُ‏ وَ اللَّفْظُ لَهُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الصَّبَّاحِ الْجَرْجَرَائِيِ‏ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ صَالِحٍ الْجُعْفِيِّ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ الْأَعْمَشِ وَ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ جَمِيعاً عَنِ الْمِنْهَالِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ نَوْفَلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع قَالَ: لَمَّا نَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص‏ وَ أَنْذِرْ عَشِيرَتَكَ الْأَقْرَبِينَ‏ دَعَانِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ لِي يَا عَلِيُّ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى أَمَرَنِي أَنْ‏ أَنْذِرْ عَشِيرَتَكَ الْأَقْرَبِينَ‏

‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – A group, from Abu Al Mufazzal wo said, ‘It was narrated to us by Muhammad Bin Jareer Al Tabary in the year three hundred and eight who said, ‘It was narrated to us by Muhammad Bin Hayd Al Razy, from Salmah Bin Al Fazal Al Abrash, from Muhammad Bin Is’haq, from Abdul Gaffar Bin Al Qasim who said, ‘Abu Al Mufazzal said, ‘And it was narrated to us by Muhammad Bin Muhammad Bin Suleyman al Bagandy, from Muhammad Bin Al Sabah Al Jarjaraie, from Salmah Bin Salih Al Jufy, from Suleyman Al Amsh and Abu Maryam, altogether from Al Minhal Bin Amro, from Abdullah Bin Al Haris Bin Nowfal, from Abdullah Bin Abbas,

‘From Ali Bin Abu Talib^-asws having said: ‘When this Verse: And warn your kindred, the near ones! [26:214] was Revealed unto Rasool-Allah^-saww, Rasool-Allah^-saww called me^-asws and said to me^-asws: ‘O Ali^-asws! Allah^-azwj the Exalted Commanded me^-saww that I^-saww warn your^-asws kindred, the near ones’.

قَالَ فَضِقْتُ بِذَلِكَ ذَرْعاً وَ عَرَفْتُ أَنِّي مَتَى أُبَادِيهِمْ بِهَذَا الْأَمْرِ أَرَى مِنْهُمْ مَا أَكْرَهُ فَصُمْتُ عَلَى‏ ذَلِكَ وَ جَاءَنِي جَبْرَئِيلُ فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنَّكَ إِنْ لَمْ تَفْعَلْ مَا أُمِرْتَ بِهِ عَذَّبَكَ رَبُّكَ فَاصْنَعْ لَنَا يَا عَلِيُّ صَاعاً مِنْ طَعَامٍ وَ اجْعَلْ عَلَيْهِ رِجْلَ شَاةٍ وَ امْلَأْ لَنَا عُسّاً مِنْ لَبَنٍ ثُمَّ اجْمَعْ لِي بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ حَتَّى أُكَلِّمَهُمْ وَ أُبَلِّغَهُمْ مَا أُمِرْتُ بِهِ فَفَعَلْتُ مَا أَمَرَنِي بِهِ

He^-saww said: ‘I^-saww was constricted with uneasiness due to that, and I^-saww recognised that when I^-saww manifest the matter to them I^-saww will see from them what I^-saww dislike. So, I^-saww was silent upon that and Jibraeel^-as came to me^-saww and said: ‘O Muhammad^-saww! If you^-saww do not do what you^-saww have been Commanded with, your^-saww Lord^-azwj will Punish you^-saww’. So, prepare for us, O Ali^-asws, a Sa’a of food and make a leg of a (grilled) sheep to be upon it, and fill up a mug of milk, then gather the clan of Abdul Muttalib^-asws for me^-saww until I^-saww speak to them and deliver to them what I^-saww have been Commanded with’.

ثُمَّ دَعَوْتُهُمْ أَجْمَعَ وَ هُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ أَرْبَعُونَ رَجُلًا يَزِيدُونَ رَجُلًا أَوْ يَنْقُصُونَ رَجُلًا فِيهِمْ أَعْمَامُهُ أَبُو طَالِبٍ وَ حَمْزَةُ وَ الْعَبَّاسُ وَ أَبُو لَهَبٍ فَلَمَّا اجْتَمَعُوا لَهُ دَعَانِي بِالطَّعَامِ الَّذِي صَنَعْتُ لَهُمْ فَجِئْتُ بِهِ‏ فَلَمَّا وَضَعْتُهُ تَنَاوَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص جِذْمَةً مِنَ اللَّحْمِ فَنَتَفَهَا بِأَسْنَانِهِ ثُمَّ أَلْقَاهَا فِي نَوَاحِي الصَّفْحَةِ ثُمَّ قَالَ خُذُوا بِسْمِ اللَّهِ

I^-asws did what he^-saww had instructed with, then I^-asws invited them altogether and on that day they were forty men, either increasing my one man or less by one man; among them was his^-saww uncle Abu Talib^-asws, and Hamza^-asws, and Al-Abbas, and Abu Lahab^-la. When they had gathered to him^-saww, he^-saww called me^-asws for the meal which I^-asws had made for him^-saww. I^-asws came with it. When I^-asws had placed it, Rasool-Allah^-saww took a piece of the meat and cut it with his^-saww teeth, then threw it in the corner of the tray, then said: ‘Take, in the Name of Allah^-azwj!’

فَأَكَلَ الْقَوْمُ حَتَّى صَدَرُوا مَا لَهُمْ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ حَاجَةٌ وَ مَا أَرَى إِلَّا مَوَاضِعَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَ ايْمُ اللَّهِ الَّذِي نَفْسُ عَلِيٍّ بِيَدِهِ إِنْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ الْوَاحِدُ مِنْهُمْ لَيَأْكُلُ مَا قَدَّمْتُ لِجَمِيعِهِمْ ثُمَّ جِئْتُهُمْ بِذَلِكَ الْعُسِّ فَشَرِبُوا حَتَّى رَوُوا جَمِيعاً وَ ايْمُ اللَّهِ إِنْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ الْوَاحِدُ مِنْهُمْ لَيَشْرَبُ مِثْلَهُ

The people ate until they were satiated and there was no need for them from the food, and I^-asws did not see except the placing of their hands (traces), and I^-asws swear by Allah^-azwj in Whose Hand is the soul of Ali^-asws, if even one man from them had eaten what I^-asws had forwarded to all of them, (it would not have sufficed). Then I^-asws came to them with that mug, and they drank until they were all saturated, and I^-asws swear by Allah^-azwj, one man could have drunk the like of it.

فَلَمَّا أَرَادَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَنْ يُكَلِّمَهُمْ بَدَرَهُ أَبُو لَهَبٍ إِلَى الْكَلَامِ فَقَالَ لَشَدَّ مَا سَحَرَكُمْ صَاحِبُكُمْ فَتَفَرَّقَ الْقَوْمُ وَ لَمْ يُكَلِّمْهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ لِي مِنَ الْغَدِ يَا عَلِيُّ إِنَّ هَذَا الرَّجُلَ قَدْ سَبَقَنِي إِلَى مَا سَمِعْتَ مِنَ الْقَوْلِ فَتَفَرَّقَ الْقَوْمُ قَبْلَ أَنْ أُكَلِّمَهُمْ فَعُدْ لَنَا مِنَ الطَّعَامِ بِمِثْلِ مَا صَنَعْتَ ثُمَّ اجْمَعْهُمْ لِي

When Rasool-Allah^-saww wanted to speak to them, Abu Lahab^-la preceded him^-saww to the speaking and said, ‘Intense is what your companion has bewitched you all with’. The people dispersed and Rasool-Allah^-saww did not speak to them. The next morning, he^-saww said to me^-asws: ‘O Ali^-asws! This man had preceded me^-saww to what you^-asws heard of the words, and the people dispersed before I^-saww could speak to them, so prepare for us from the food the like of what you^-asws did, then gather them to me^-saww’.

قَالَ فَفَعَلْتُ ثُمَّ جَمَعْتُهُمْ فَدَعَانِي بِالطَّعَامِ فَقَرَّبْتُهُ لَهُمْ فَفَعَلَ كَمَا فَعَلَ بِالْأَمْسِ وَ أَكَلُوا حَتَّى مَا لَهُمْ بِهِ مِنْ حَاجَةٍ ثُمَّ قَالَ اسْقِهِمْ فَجِئْتُهُمْ بِذَلِكَ الْعُسِّ فَشَرِبُوا حَتَّى رَوُوا مِنْهُ جَمِيعاً

He^-asws said: ‘So, I did it, then gathered them. He^-saww called me^-asws for the meal, and I^-asws forwarded it to them. He^-saww did just as he^-saww had done the day before and they ate until there was no need for them (to eat anymore). Then he^-saww said: ‘Quench them’. So, I^-asws came to them with that mug and they drank until they were all saturated from it.

ثُمَّ تَكَلَّمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ يَا بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ إِنِّي وَ اللَّهِ مَا أَعْلَمُ شَابّاً فِي الْعَرَبِ جَاءَ قَوْمَهُ بِأَفْضَلَ مِمَّا جِئْتُكُمْ بِهِ إِنِّي قَدْ جِئْتُكُمْ بِخَيْرِ الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ وَ قَدْ أَمَرَنِيَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَنْ أَدْعُوَكُمْ إِلَيْهِ فَأَيُّكُمْ يُؤْمِنُ بِي وَ يُؤَازِرُنِي عَلَى أَمْرِي فَيَكُونَ أَخِي وَ وَصِيِّي وَ وَزِيرِي وَ خَلِيفَتِي فِي أَهْلِي مِنْ بَعْدِي

Then Rasool-Allah^-saww spoke and said: ‘O Clan of Abdul Muttalib^-asws! By Allah^-azwj, I^-saww do not know of any youth among the Arabs who came to his people with better than what I^-saww have come with to you all. I^-saww have come to you with the news of the world and the Hereafter, and Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic has Commanded me^-saww that I^-saww call you to Him^-azwj, so which one of you will be believe in me^-saww and be my^-saww Vizier upon my^-saww matter and become my^-saww brother, and my^-saww successor, and my^-saww Caliph among my^-saww people from after me^-saww?’

قَالَ فَأَمْسَكَ الْقَوْمُ وَ أَحْجَمُوا عَنْهَا جَمِيعاً قَالَ فَقُمْتُ وَ إِنِّي لَأَحْدَثُهُمْ سِنّاً وَ أَرْمَصُهُمْ عَيْناً وَ أَعْظَمُهُمْ بَطْناً وَ أَحْمَشُهُمْ سَاقاً فَقُلْتُ أَنَا يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ أَكُونُ وَزِيرَكَ عَلَى مَا بَعَثَكَ اللَّهُ بِهِ

He^-asws said: ‘He^-saww looked at (all) the people and they all abstained from it. I^-asws stood up and I^-asws was the youngest of them in years and smallest of them in eyes, and largest of them in bellies, and thinnest of them in legs, and I^-asws said: ‘I^-asws will, O Prophet^-saww of Allah^-azwj! I^-asws will become your^-saww Vizier upon what Allah^-azwj has Sent you^-saww with!’

قَالَ فَأَخَذَ بِيَدِي ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ هَذَا أَخِي وَ وَصِيِّي وَ وَزِيرِي وَ خَلِيفَتِي فِيكُمْ فَاسْمَعُوا لَهُ وَ أَطِيعُوا قَالَ فَقَامَ الْقَوْمُ يَضْحَكُونَ وَ يَقُولُونَ لِأَبِي طَالِبٍ قَدْ أَمَرَكَ أَنْ تَسْمَعَ لِابْنِكَ وَ تُطِيعَ‏

He^-asws said: ‘He^-saww grabbed my^-asws hand then said: ‘This is my^-saww brother, and my^-saww successor, and my^-saww Vizier, and my^-saww Caliph among you all, therefore listen to him^-asws and obey!’ The people stood up laughing and saying to Abu Talib^-asws: ‘You^-asws have been instructed to listen to your^-asws own son^-asws and obey’’.[35]

28- ما، الأمالي للشيخ الطوسي بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ صَالِحٍ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ رَقَدْتُ بِالْأَبْطَحِ عَلَى سَاعِدِي وَ عَلِيٌّ عَنْ يَمِينِي وَ جَعْفَرٌ عَنْ يَسَارِي وَ حَمْزَةُ عِنْدَ رِجْلِي قَالَ فَنَزَلَ جَبْرَئِيلُ وَ مِيكَائِيلُ وَ إِسْرَافِيلُ فَفَزِعْتُ لِخَفْقِ أَجْنِحَتِهِمْ

‘Al Amaali’ of the sheykh Al Tusi – By his chain from Ibrahim Bin Salih, from Zayd Bin Al-Hassan, from his father,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘I^-saww was lying down with my^-saww arms on my^-saww armpits, and Ali^-asws was on my^-saww right and Ja’far^-asws on my^-saww left and Hamza^-asws by my^-saww legs. Jibraeel^-as and Mikaeel^-as and Israfeel^-as descended and I^-saww was alarmed due to the furling of their^-as wings.

قَالَ فَرَفَعْتُ رَأْسِي فَإِذَا إِسْرَافِيلُ يَقُولُ لِجَبْرَئِيلَ إِلَى أَيِّ الْأَرْبَعَةِ بُعِثْتَ وَ بُعِثْنَا مَعَكَ قَالَ فَرَكَضَ‏ بِرِجْلِهِ فَقَالَ إِلَى هَذَا وَ هُوَ مُحَمَّدٌ سَيِّدُ النَّبِيِّينَ ثُمَّ قَالَ مَنْ هَذَا الْآخَرُ قَالَ هَذَا أَخُوهُ وَ وَصِيُّهُ‏ وَ هُوَ سَيِّدُ الْوَصِيِّينَ

He^-saww said: ‘I^-saww raised my^-saww head, and there Israfeel^-as was saying to Jibraeel^-as: ‘To which of the four have you^-as been Sent and we^-as have been Sent along with you^-as?’ He^-as nudged with his^-as leg and said: ‘To this one, and he^-saww is Muhammad^-saww, Chief of the Prophets^-as’. Then he^-as said: ‘Who is this other one?’ He^-as said: ‘This is his^-saww brother^-asws and his^-saww successor^-asws and he^-asws is the Chief of the successors^-as’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ فَمَنِ الْآخَرُ قَالَ جَعْفَرُ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ لَهُ جَنَاحَانِ خَضِيبَانِ يَطِيرُ بِهِمَا فِي الْجَنَّةِ ثُمَّ قَالَ فَمَنِ الْآخَرُ قَالَ عَمُّهُ حَمْزَةُ وَ هُوَ سَيِّدُ الشُّهَدَاءِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ

Then he^-as said: ‘Who is the other one?’ He^-as said: ‘Ja’far^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws. There are two wings for him^-asws. He^-asws will be flying with these in Paradise’. Then he^-as said: ‘Who is the other one?’ He^-as said: ‘His^-saww uncle Hamza^-asws, and he^-asws is the chief of the martyrs on the Day of Qiyamah’’.[36]

29- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب‏ أَرْسَلَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بَعْدَ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً مِنْ عُمُرِهِ حِينَ تَكَامَلَ بِهَا وَ اشْتَدَّ قُوَاهُ لِيَكُونَ مُتَهَيِّئاً وَ مُتَأَهِّباً لِمَا أَنْذَرَ بِهِ وَ لِبِعْثَتِهِ

‘Al-Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashoub – ‘Allah the Exalted Sent him^-saww (for the Prophetic mission) after forty years of his^-saww age had been completed and his^-saww strength was strong so that he^-saww would be prepared and ready for that about which he^-saww would be warning with and for his^-saww mission.

دَرَجَاتٌ أُولَاهَا الرُّؤْيَا الصَّادِقَةُ وَ الثَّانِيَةُ- مَا رَوَاهُ الشَّعْبِيُّ وَ دَاوُدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ أَنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى قَرَنَ جَبْرَئِيلَ بِنُبُوَّةِ رَسُولِهِ ثَلَاثَ سِنِينَ يَسْمَعُ حِسَّهُ وَ لَا يَرَى شَخْصَهُ وَ يُعَلِّمُهُ الشَّيْ‏ءَ بَعْدَ الشَّيْ‏ءِ وَ لَا يَنْزِلُ عَلَيْهِ الْقُرْآنُ فَكَانَ فِي هَذِهِ الْمُدَّةِ مُبَشِّراً غَيْرَ مَبْعُوثٍ إِلَى الْأُمَّةِ

Its first level is the true dream, and the second is what is reported by Al-Shabi and Dawood Bin Aamir that Allah^-azwj the Exalted Paired Jibraeel^-as with the Prophethood of His^-azwj Rasool^-saww for three years. He^-saww heard his^-saww voice but could not see his^-as person, and he^-as taught him^-saww the thing after the thing, and the Quran was not Revealed unto him^-saww. He^-saww was a bearer of glad tidings to the community during this period.

وَ الثَّالِثَةُ حَدِيثُ خَدِيجَةَ وَ وَرَقَةَ بْنِ نَوْفَلٍ

And the third is the Hadeeth of Khadeeja^-as and Warqa Bin Nowfal.

الرَّابِعَةُ أَمْرُهُ بِتَحْدِيثِ النِّعَمِ فَأُذِنَ لَهُ فِي ذِكْرِهِ دُونَ إِنْذَارِهِ قَوْلُهُ‏ وَ أَمَّا بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ فَحَدِّثْ‏ أَيْ بِمَا جَاءَكَ مِنَ النُّبُوَّةِ

The fourth was when he^-saww was Commanded to speak of the blessings, and he was Granted permission to mention them without warning the people. His^-azwj Words: And as for the Favour of your Lord, so do announce (it) [93:11] – i.e. (announce) what has come to you^-saww of the Prophet-hood.

وَ الْخَامِسَةُ حِينَ نَزَلَ عَلَيْهِ الْقُرْآنُ بِالْأَمْرِ وَ النَّهْيِ فَصَارَ بِهِ مَبْعُوثاً وَ لَمْ يُؤْمَرْ بِالْجَهْرِ وَ نَزَلَ‏ يا أَيُّهَا الْمُدَّثِّرُ فَأَسْلَمَ عَلِيٌّ وَ خَدِيجَةُ ثُمَّ زَيْدٌ ثُمَّ جَعْفَرٌ

The fifth was when the Qur’an was Revealed to him^-saww with Commands and Prohibitions, and through this he^-saww became one who had been Sent. However, he^-saww was not Commanded to proclaim it publicly. Then the Verse was Revealed: O you Al-Muddasir! (the covered one) [74:1] Arise, so warn (others) [74:2]. Ali^-asws and Khadeeja^-as then accepted Islam, followed by Zayd, and then Ja’far^-ar.

وَ السَّادِسَةُ أُمِرَ بِأَنْ يَعُمَّ بِالْإِنْذَارِ بَعْدَ خُصُوصِهِ وَ يَجْهَرَ بِذَلِكَ وَ نَزَلَ‏ فَاصْدَعْ بِما تُؤْمَرُ قَالَ ابْنُ إِسْحَاقَ وَ ذَلِكَ بَعْدَ ثَلَاثِ سِنِينَ مِنْ مَبْعَثِهِ وَ نَزَلَ‏ وَ أَنْذِرْ عَشِيرَتَكَ الْأَقْرَبِينَ‏ فَنَادَى يَا صَبَاحَاهْ

The sixth was when he^-saww was commanded to extend the warning generally after it had initially been directed specifically, and to proclaim it openly. Then the^-saww Verse was Revealed: So proclaim what you are Commanded with [15:94]. Ibn Is’haq said, ‘This was three years after the beginning of his^-saww mission. Then the Verse was Revealed: And warn your kindred, the near ones! [26:214]. He^-saww called out: ‘O what a morning!’

وَ السَّابِعَةُ الْعِبَادَاتُ لَمْ يُشَرَّعْ مِنْهَا مُدَّةَ مُقَامِهِ بِمَكَّةَ إِلَّا الطَّهَارَةُ وَ الصَّلَاةُ وَ كَانَتْ فَرْضاً عَلَيْهِ وَ سُنَّةً لِأُمَّتِهِ ثُمَّ فُرِضَتِ الصَّلَوَاتُ الْخَمْسُ بَعْدَ إِسْرَائِهِ وَ ذَلِكَ فِي السَّنَةِ التَّاسِعَةِ مِنْ نُبُوَّتِهِ

The seventh concerned the acts of worship. During the period of his residence in Makkah, none of them had been legislated except the purification and the Salat. These were obligatory upon him^-saww and a Sunnah for his^-saww community. Then the five (daily) Salats were made obligatory after his Ascension, and that was in the ninth year of his^-saww Prophethood.

فَلَمَّا تَحَوَّلَ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ فُرِضَ صِيَامُ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ فِي السَّنَةِ الثَّانِيَةِ مِنَ الْهِجْرَةِ فِي شَعْبَانَ وَ حُوِّلَتِ الْقِبْلَةُ وَ فُرِضَ زَكَاةُ الْفِطْرِ وَ شُرِّعَ‏ فِيهَا صَلَاةُ الْعِيدِ وَ كَانَ فُرِضَ الْجُمُعَةُ فِي أَوَّلِ الْهِجْرَةِ بَدَلًا مِنْ صَلَاةِ الظُّهْرِ

When he^-saww moved to Medina, fasting the month of Ramazan was made obligatory in Shaban of the second year after the Hijrah. The direction of the Salat was changed, Zakat Al Fitr was made obligatory, and the Eid Salat was legislated therein. The Friday Salat had been made obligatory at the beginning of the Hijrah in place of Al-Zohr Salat.

ثُمَّ فُرِضَتْ زَكَاةُ الْأَمْوَالِ ثُمَّ الْحَجُّ وَ الْعُمْرَةُ وَ التَّحْلِيلُ وَ التَّحْرِيمُ وَ الْحَظْرُ وَ الْإِبَاحَةُ وَ الِاسْتِحْبَابُ وَ الْكَرَاهَةُ ثُمَّ فُرِضَ الْجِهَادُ ثُمَّ وَلَايَةُ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع وَ نَزَلَ‏ الْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ‏

Then Zakat on wealth was made obligatory, followed by Hajj and Umrah, the making lawful and unlawful, prohibition and permissibility, recommendation and dislike. Then Jihad was made obligatory, followed by the authority of Amir Al-Momineen^-asws. Then the Verse was Revealed: Today I Perfected your Religion for you [5:3]. (P.s. – This is not a Hadith but a commentary based on a dream)[37]

30- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ هَاشِمٍ الْقُمِّيُّ فِي كِتَابِهِ‏ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص لَمَّا أَتَى لَهُ سَبْعٌ وَ ثَلَاثُونَ سَنَةً كَانَ يَرَى فِي نَوْمِهِ كَأَنَّ آتِياً أَتَاهُ فَيَقُولُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَيُنْكِرُ ذَلِكَ فَلَمَّا طَالَ عَلَيْهِ الْأَمْرُ كَانَ يَوْماً بَيْنَ الْجِبَالِ يَرْعَى غَنَماً لِأَبِي طَالِبٍ فَنَظَرَ إِلَى شَخْصٍ يَقُولُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

‘Al-Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashoub – Ali Bin Ibrahim Bin Hashim Al Qummy in his book – ‘The Prophet^-saww, when thirty-seven years came to him^-saww, he^-saww saw in his^-saww dream that a comer had come to him^-saww saying: ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’ He^-saww denied that. When the matter prolonged upon him^-saww, one day he^-saww was pasturing sheep of Abu Talib^-asws between the mountains, he^-saww looked at a person saying ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’

فَقَالَ لَهُ مَنْ أَنْتَ قَالَ أَنَا جَبْرَئِيلُ أَرْسَلَنِي اللَّهُ إِلَيْكَ لِيَتَّخِذَكَ رَسُولًا فَأَخْبَرَ النَّبِيُّ ص خَدِيجَةَ بِذَلِكَ فَقَالَتْ يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَرْجُو أَنْ يَكُونَ كَذَلِكَ فَنَزَلَ عَلَيْهِ جَبْرَئِيلُ وَ أَنْزَلَ عَلَيْهِ مَاءً مِنَ السَّمَاءِ وَ عَلَّمَهُ الْوُضُوءَ وَ الرُّكُوعَ وَ السُّجُودَ

He^-saww said to him^-as: ‘Who are you^-as?’ He^-as said: ‘I^-as am Jibraeel^-as! Allah^-azwj has Sent me^-as to you^-saww to take you^-saww as a Rasool^-saww’. The Prophet^-saww informed (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws with that. She^-as said: ‘O Muhammad^-saww! I^-as wish it would be like that’. Jibraeel^-as descended unto him^-saww, and water from the sky descended unto him^-as, and he^-as taught him^-saww the Wudu’u, and the Ruku’u and the Sajdah.

فَلَمَّا تَمَّ لَهُ أَرْبَعُونَ سَنَةً عَلَّمَهُ حُدُودَ الصَّلَاةِ وَ لَمْ يَنْزِلْ عَلَيْهِ أَوْقَاتُهَا فَكَانَ يُصَلِّي رَكْعَتَيْنِ فِي كُلِّ وَقْتٍ

When forty years came to him^-saww, he^-as taught him^-saww the limits of the Salat, and its timings were not Revealed unto him^-saww. He^-saww used to pray two Cycles during every time’’.

أَبُو مَيْسَرَةَ وَ بُرَيْدَةَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص كَانَ إِذَا انْطَلَقَ بَارِزاً سَمِعَ صَوْتاً يَا مُحَمَّدُ فَيَأْتِي خَدِيجَةَ وَ يَقُولُ يَا خَدِيجَةُ قَدْ خَشِيتُ أَنْ يَكُونَ خَالَطَ عَقْلِي شَيْ‏ءٌ إِنِّي إِذَا خَلَوْتُ أَسْمَعُ صَوْتاً وَ أَرَى نُوراً

Abu Maysara and Bureyda – ‘The Prophet^-saww, when he^-saww went out, heard a voice: ‘O Muhammad^-saww!’ He^-saww came to (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws and said: ‘O Khadeeja^-asws! I^-saww fear something may have mingled in my^-saww intellect. When I^-saww am alone I^-saww tend to hear a voice and seen a light’.

مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَعْبٍ وَ عَائِشَةُ أَوَّلُ مَا بُدِئَ بِهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ مِنَ الْوَحْيِ الرُّؤْيَا الصَّادِقَةُ وَ كَانَ‏ يَرَى الرُّؤْيَا فَتَأْتِيهِ مِثْلُ فَلَقِ الصُّبْحِ ثُمَّ حُبِّبَ إِلَيْهِ الْخَلَأُ فَكَانَ يَخْلُو بِغَارِ حِرَاءَ فَسَمِعَ نِدَاءَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ فَغُشِيَ عَلَيْهِ

Muhammad Bin Ka’ab and Ayesha– ‘The first of what Rasool-Allah^-saww manifested from the Revelation was the truthful dream, and he^-saww had seen the dream and like the split morning had come to him^-saww. Then, the isolation was beloved to him^-saww, and he^-saww would isolate in the cave of Al Hira. He^-saww heard a call: ‘O Muhammad^-saww!’ There was faintness upon him^-saww.

فَلَمَّا كَانَ الْيَوْمُ الثَّانِي سَمِعَ مِثْلَهُ نِدَاءً فَرَجَعَ إِلَى خَدِيجَةَ وَ قَالَ زَمِّلُونِي زَمِّلُونِي فَوَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ خَشِيتُ عَلَى عَقْلِي فَقَالَتْ كَلَّا وَ اللَّهِ لَا يُخْزِيكَ اللَّهُ أَبَداً إِنَّكَ لَتَصِلُ الرَّحِمَ وَ تَحْمِلُ الْكَلَّ وَ تَكْسِبُ الْمُعْدِمَ‏ وَ تَقْرِي الضَّيْفَ وَ تُعِينُ عَلَى نَوَائِبِ الْحَقِّ

When it was the second day, he^-saww heard a call like it. So, he^-saww returned to Khadeeja^-asws and said: ‘Cover me^-saww! Cover me^-saww, for by Allah^-azwj, I^-saww fear upon my^-saww intellect!’ She^-as said: ‘Never, by Allah^-azwj! Allah^-azwj will not confuse you^-saww, ever! You^-saww tend to help the relatives, and carry the orphans (weak), and give to the poor, and honour the weak and assist upon a variety of rights’.

فَانْطَلَقَتْ خَدِيجَةُ حَتَّى أَتَتْ وَرَقَةَ بْنَ نَوْفَلٍ فَقَالَ وَرَقَةُ هَذَا وَ اللَّهِ النَّامُوسُ‏ الَّذِي أُنْزِلَ عَلَى مُوسَى وَ عِيسَى ع وَ إِنِّي أَرَى فِي الْمَنَامِ ثَلَاثَ لَيَالٍ أَنَّ اللَّهَ أَرْسَلَ فِي مَكَّةَ رَسُولًا اسْمُهُ مُحَمَّدٌ وَ قَدْ قَرُبَ وَقْتُهُ وَ لَسْتُ أَرَى فِي النَّاسِ رَجُلًا أَفْضَلَ مِنْهُ

Khadeeja^-asws went until she^-as came to Waraqah Bin Nowfal. Waraqah said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! This is the News  bearer which descended upon Musa^-as, and Isa^-as, and I have been seeing in the dream for three nights that Allah^-azwj is to Send a Rasool^-saww in Makkah, his^-saww name is Muhammad^-saww and its time has drawn near, and I don’t see any man among the people better than him^-saww’.

فَخَرَجَ ص إِلَى حِرَاءَ فَرَأَى كُرْسِيّاً مِنْ يَاقُوتَةٍ حَمْرَاءَ مِرْقَاةً مِنْ زَبَرْجَدٍ وَ مِرْقَاةً مِنْ لُؤْلُؤٍ فَلَمَّا رَأَى ذَلِكَ غُشِيَ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ وَرَقَةُ يَا خَدِيجَةُ فَإِذَا أَتَتْهُ الْحَالَةُ فَاكْشِفِي عَنْ رَأْسِكِ فَإِنْ خَرَجَ فَهُوَ مَلَكٌ وَ إِنْ بَقِيَ فَهُوَ شَيْطَانٌ فَنَزَعَتْ خِمَارَهَا فَخَرَجَ الْجَائِي فَلَمَّا اخْتَمَرَتْ عَادَ

He^-saww went out to Hira and saw a throne of red ruby, embedded from aquamarine and embedded from pearls. When he^-saww saw that there was faintness upon him^-saww. Waraqah said, ‘O Khadeeja^-asws! When such a state comes to him^-saww then uncover from your^-as head. So, if he comes out then he^-saww is an Angel, and if he remains (hidden) then he is Satan^-la’. She^-as removed her^-as veil and the comer came out. When she^-as veiled, he returned.

فَسَأَلَهُ وَرَقَةُ عَنْ صِفَةِ الْجَائِي فَلَمَّا حَكَاهُ قَامَ وَ قَبَّلَ رَأْسَهُ وَ قَالَ ذَاكَ النَّامُوسُ الْأَكْبَرُ الَّذِي نَزَلَ عَلَى مُوسَى وَ عِيسَى ع ثُمَّ قَالَ أَبْشِرْ فَإِنَّكَ أَنْتَ النَّبِيُّ الَّذِي بُشِّرَ بِهِ مُوسَى وَ عِيسَى ع وَ إِنَّكَ نَبِيٌّ مُرْسَلٌ سَتُؤْمَرُ بِالْجِهَادِ وَ تَوَجَّهَ نَحْوَهَا

Waraqah asked him^-saww about the description of the comer. When he^-saww told him, he stood up and kissed his^-saww head and said, ‘Receive glad tidings, for you are the Prophet^-saww whose greatest News (glad tidings) were given by Musa^-as and Isa^-as, and you^-saww are a Messenger Prophet^-saww. You^-saww will be Commanded with the Jihad and will head towards it.

وَ أَنْشَأَ يَقُولُ‏

فَإِنْ يَكُ حَقّاً يَا خَدِيجَةُ فَاعْلَمِي‏		حَدِيثَكِ إِيَّانَا فَأَحْمَدُ مُرْسَلٌ‏
وَ جِبْرِيلُ يَأْتِيهِ وَ مِيكَالُ مَعَهُمَا		مِنَ اللَّهِ وَحْيٌ يَشْرَحُ الصَّدْرَ مُنَزَّلٌ‏
يَفُوزُ بِهِ مَنْ فَازَ عِزّاً لِدِينِهِ‏		وَ يَشْقَى بِهِ الْغَاوِي الشَّقِيُّ الْمُضَلِّلُ‏
فَرِيقَانِ مِنْهُمْ فِرْقَةٌ فِي جِنَانِهِ‏		وَ أُخْرَى بِأَغْلَالِ الْجَحِيمِ تُغَلِّلُ‏

And he (Waraqah) prosed (a poem), ‘If what you have told us, O Khadeeja^-as, is indeed true, then know that Ahmad^-saww is a Messenger. Jibraeel^-as comes to him^-saww, and Mikaeel^-as comes with him. Revelation from Allah^-azwj comes down to him^-saww, explaining and expanding the chest. Whoever attains success through it gains honour for his^-saww religion, while through it the misguided, wretched one who leads others astray suffers. There will be two groups among them – one group will be in His^-azwj Gardens, and another will be bound in the chains of Hell!’

وَ مِنْ قَصِيدَةٍ لَهُ‏

يَا لَلرِّجَالُ لِصَرْفِ الدَّهْرِ وَ الْقَدَرِ		وَ مَا لِشَيْ‏ءٍ قَضَاهُ اللَّهُ مِنْ غَيْرٍ
حَتَّى خَدِيجَةُ تَدْعُونِي لِأُخْبِرَهَا		وَ مَا لَنَا بِخَفِيِّ الْعِلْمِ مِنْ خَبَرٍ
فَخَبَّرَتْنِي بِأَمْرٍ قَدْ سَمِعْتُ بِهِ‏		فِيمَا مَضَى مِنْ قَدِيمِ النَّاسِ وَ الْعَصْرِ
بِأَنَّ أَحْمَدَ يَأْتِيهِ فَيُخْبِرُهُ‏		جِبْرِيلُ أَنَّكَ مَبْعُوثٌ إِلَى الْبَشَرِ

And from a poem of his, ‘O men, how wondrous are the turning of time and destiny, and there is no changing anything that Allah has decreed. Even Khadeeja^-as called me, asking me to tell her^-as what had happened, though we have no knowledge of the unseen to inform us of it. She^-as informed me of an affair that I had already heard about, concerning the people of ancient times and bygone ages, that Ahmad^-saww is visited by Jibraeel^-as who informs him^-saww: ‘You^-saww have been Sent as a Messenger^-saww to mankind!’

وَ مِنْ قَصِيدَةٍ لَهُ‏

فَخَبَّرَنَا عَنْ كُلِّ خَيْرٍ بِعِلْمِهِ‏		وَ لِلْحَقِّ أَبْوَابٌ لَهُنَّ مَفَاتِحُ‏
وَ إِنَّ ابْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ أَحْمَدَ مُرْسَلٌ‏		إِلَى كُلِّ مَنْ ضَمَّتْ عَلَيْهِ الْأَبَاطِحُ‏
وَ ظَنِّي بِهِ أَنْ سَوْفَ يُبْعَثُ صَادِقاً		كَمَا أُرْسِلَ الْعَبْدَانِ نُوحٌ وَ صَالِحٌ‏
وَ مُوسَى وَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ حَتَّى يُرَى لَهُ‏		بَهَاءٌ وَ مَنْشُورٌ مِنَ الذِّكْرِ وَاضِحٌ‏

And from a poem of his, ‘He^-saww informed us, through his^-saww knowledge, about every good thing, and truth has doors whose keys are with them. Indeed, the son of Abdullah^-as, Ahmad^-saww, is a Messenger^-saww sent to everyone whom the open lands contain, and my expectation of him^-saww is that he^-saww will soon be Sent as a truthful Messenger^-saww just as the two servants, Noah^-as and Salih^-as were Sent, and Musa^-as and Ibrahim^-as, until there appears for him^-saww splendour and a clear proclamation from the Scripture’.

وَ رُوِيَ‏ أَنَّهُ نَزَلَ جَبْرَئِيلُ عَلَى جِيَادٍ أَصْفَرَ وَ النَّبِيُّ ص بَيْنَ عَلِيٍّ ع وَ جَعْفَرٍ فَجَلَسَ جَبْرَئِيلُ عِنْدَ رَأْسِهِ وَ مِيكَائِيلُ عِنْدَ رِجْلِهِ وَ لَمْ يُنَبِّهَاهُ إِعْظَاماً لَهُ فَقَالَ مِيكَائِيلُ إِلَى أَيِّهِمْ بُعِثْتَ قَالَ إِلَى الْأَوْسَطِ فَلَمَّا انْتَبَهَ أَدَّى إِلَيْهِ جَبْرَئِيلُ الرِّسَالَةَ عَنِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى فَلَمَّا نَهَضَ جَبْرَئِيلُ لِيَقُومَ أَخَذَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِثَوْبِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ مَا اسْمُكَ قَالَ جَبْرَئِيلُ

And it is reported that Jibraeel^-as descended upon yellow horses and the Prophet^-saww was between Ali^-asws and Ja’far^-asws. Jibraeel^-as sat by his^-saww head, and Mikaeel^-as by his^-saww legs, and did not awaken any bone of his^-saww. Mikaeel^-as said: ‘To which of them have you^-as been Sent?’ He^-as said: ‘To the middle one’. When he^-saww awoke, Jibraeel^-as repeated the Message to him^-saww from Allah^-azwj the Exalted. When Jibraeel^-as started to leave, Rasool-Allah^-saww grabbed his^-as cloth, then said: ‘What is your^-as name?’ He^-as said: ‘Jibraeel^-as’.

ثُمَّ نَهَضَ النَّبِيُّ ص لِيَلْحَقَ بِقَوْمِهِ فَمَا مَرَّ بِشَجَرَةٍ وَ لَا مَدَرَةٍ إِلَّا سَلَّمَتْ عَلَيْهِ وَ هَنَّأَتْهُ ثُمَّ كَانَ جَبْرَئِيلُ يَأْتِيهِ وَ لَا يَدْنُو مِنْهُ إِلَّا بَعْدَ أَنْ يَسْتَأْذِنَ عَلَيْهِ فَأَتَاهُ يَوْماً وَ هُوَ بِأَعْلَى مَكَّةَ فَغَمَزَ بِعَقِبِهِ بِنَاحِيَةِ الْوَادِي فَانْفَجَرَ عَيْنٌ فَتَوَضَّأَ جَبْرَئِيلُ وَ تَطَهَّرَ الرَّسُولُ ثُمَّ صَلَّى الظُّهْرَ وَ هِيَ أَوَّلُ صَلَاةٍ فَرَضَهَا اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ

Then the Prophet^-saww got up to be with his^-saww people. He^-saww did not pass by any tree nor rod except it greeted unto him^-saww and congratulated him^-saww. Then Jibraeel^-as used to come to him^-saww and would not go near him^-saww until he^-as had sought his^-saww permission. One day he^-as came and he^-saww was at the high ground of Makkah. He^-as struck his^-as heel in an area of the valley and a spring burst forth. Jibraeel^-as performed Qudu’u and the Rasool^-saww cleaned, then prayed Al-Zohr Salat, and it is the first salat Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Obligated.

وَ صَلَّى أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ص وَ رَجَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنْ يَوْمِهِ إِلَى خَدِيجَةَ فَأَخْبَرَهَا فَتَوَضَّأَتْ وَ صَلَّتْ صَلَاةَ الْعَصْرِ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ

And Amir Al-Momineen^-asws prayed Salat with the Prophet^-saww, and Rasool-Allah^-saww returned on that day to (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws and informed her^-as. She^-as performed Wudu’u and prayed Salat Al-Asr from that day onwards’.

وَ رُوِيَ‏ أَنَّ جَبْرَئِيلَ ع أَخْرَجَ قِطْعَةَ دِيبَاجٍ فِيهَا خَطٌّ فَقَالَ اقْرَأْ قُلْتُ كَيْفَ أَقْرَأُ وَ لَسْتُ بِقَارِئٍ إِلَى ثَلَاثِ مَرَّاتٍ فَقَالَ فِي الْمَرَّةِ الرَّابِعَةِ اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ‏ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ ما لَمْ يَعْلَمْ‏

And it is reported that Jibraeel^-as brought out a piece of brocade wherein was a line, and he^-as said: ‘Read!’ I^-saww said: ‘How can I^-saww read and I^-saww am not a reader?’ – up to three times. He^-as said during the fourth: ‘Read in the Name of your Lord Who Created! [96:1] – up to His^-azwj Words: what he did not know [96:5]. 

ثُمَّ أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى جَبْرَئِيلَ وَ مِيكَائِيلَ ع وَ مَعَ كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا سَبْعُونَ أَلْفَ مَلَكٍ وَ أَتَى بِالْكُرْسِيِّ وَ وَضَعَ تَاجاً عَلَى رَأْسِ مُحَمَّدٍ ص وَ أَعْطَى لِوَاءَ الْحَمْدِ بِيَدِهِ فَقَالَ اصْعَدْ عَلَيْهِ وَ احْمَدِ اللَّهَ

Then Allah^-azwj Sent down Jibraeel^-as and Mikaeel^-as, and with each one of them were seventy thousand Angels, and he^-as came with a throne (chair) and placed a crown upon the head of Muhammad^-saww and gave the Flag of Praise in his^-saww hand. He^-as said: ‘Ascend unto it and praise Allah^-azwj’.

فَلَمَّا نَزَلَ عَنِ الْكُرْسِيِّ تَوَجَّهَ إِلَى خَدِيجَةَ فَكَانَ كُلُّ شَيْ‏ءٍ يَسْجُدُ لَهُ وَ يَقُولُ بِلِسَانٍ فَصِيحٍ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ فَلَمَّا دَخَلَ الدَّارَ صَارَتِ الدَّارُ مُنَوَّرَةً فَقَالَتْ‏ خَدِيجَةُ وَ مَا هَذَا النُّورُ قَالَ هَذَا نُورُ النُّبُوَّةِ قُولِي لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ فَقَالَتْ طَالَ مَا قَدْ عَرَفْتُ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ أَسْلَمَتْ فَقَالَ يَا خَدِيجَةُ إِنِّي لَأَجِدُ بَرْداً فَدَثَّرَتْ عَلَيْهِ فَنَامَ فَنُودِيَ‏ يا أَيُّهَا الْمُدَّثِّرُ الْآيَةَ فَقَامَ وَ جَعَلَ إِصْبَعَهُ فِي أُذُنِهِ وَ قَالَ اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ فَكَانَ كُلُّ مَوْجُودٍ يَسْمَعُهُ يُوَافِقُهُ

When he^-saww descended from the chair he^-saww headed towards (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws, and everything was prostrating to him^-saww and saying in an eloquent tongue: ‘The greetings be unto you^-saww, O Prophet^-saww of Allah^-azwj!’ When he^-saww entered the house, it became an illuminated house. (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws said: ‘And what is this Noor?’ He^-saww said: ‘This is the Noor of Prophet-hood, say, ‘There is no god except Allah^-azwj, Muhammad^-saww is Rasool-Allah^-saww’’. She^-as said: ‘I^-as have long known that’. Then she^-asws announced her^-asws Islam.

فقال: يا خديجة إني لاجد بردا، فدثرت عليه فنام فنودي: ” يا أيها المدثر ” الآية، فقام وجعل إصبعه في اذنه وقال: الله أكبر، الله أكبر فكان كل موجود يسمعه يوافقه.

He^-saww said: ‘O Khadeeja^-asws! I^-saww feel cold’. She^-as covered upon him^-saww and he^-saww slept. Then there was a Call: O you Al-Muddasir! (the covered one) [74:1] – the Verse. He^-saww stood up and placed his^-saww fingers in his^-saww ears and said: ‘Allah^-azwj is the Greatest!’ Allah^-azwj is the Greatest!’ Everything present which heard him^-saww, responded in agreement with him^-saww’.

وَ رُوِيَ‏ أَنَّهُ لَمَّا نَزَلَ قَوْلُهُ‏ وَ أَنْذِرْ عَشِيرَتَكَ الْأَقْرَبِينَ‏ صَعِدَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ الصَّفَا فَقَالَ يَا صَبَاحَاهْ‏ فَاجْتَمَعَتْ إِلَيْهِ قُرَيْشٌ فَقَالُوا مَا لَكَ قَالَ أَ رَأَيْتَكُمْ إِنْ أَخْبَرْتُكُمْ أَنَّ الْعَدُوَّ مُصَبِّحُكُمْ أَوْ مُمَسِّيكُمْ مَا كُنْتُمْ تُصَدِّقُونَنِي قَالُوا بَلَى قَالَ فَإِنِّي‏ نَذِيرٌ لَكُمْ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ عَذابٍ شَدِيدٍ فَقَالَ أَبُو لَهَبٍ تَبّاً لَكَ أَ لِهَذَا دَعَوْتَنَا فَنَزَلَتْ سُورَةُ تَبَّتْ‏

And it is reported that when the Words: And warn your kindred, the near ones! [26:214], one day Rasool-Allah^-saww climbed upon Al-Safa and said: ‘O people!’ Quraysh gathered to him^-saww and they said, ‘What is the matter with you^-saww?’ He^-saww said: ‘What is your view if I^-saww were to inform you that the enemy with be onto you in the morning or evening, will you not be ratifying me^-saww?’ They said, ‘Yes’. He^-saww said: ‘I^-saww am a warner to you all in front of severe Punishment’. Abu Lahab^-la said, ‘May your^-saww hands break, is it to this you^-saww called us?’ Surah Lahab was Revealed’’.

قَتَادَةُ أَنَّهُ خَطَبَ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّ الرَّائِدَ لَا يَكْذِبُ أَهْلَهُ وَ لَوْ كُنْتُ كَاذِباً لَمَا كَذَبْتُكُمْ وَ اللَّهِ الَّذِي لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ إِنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ إِلَيْكُمْ حَقّاً خَاصَّةً وَ إِلَى النَّاسِ عَامَّةً وَ اللَّهِ لَتَمُوتُونَ كَمَا تَنَامُونَ وَ لَتُبْعَثُونَ كَمَا تَسْتَيْقِظُونَ وَ لَتُحَاسَبُونَ كَمَا تَعْمَلُونَ وَ لَتُجْزَوْنَ بِالْإِحْسَانِ إِحْسَاناً وَ بِالسُّوءِ سُوءاً وَ إِنَّهَا الْجَنَّةُ أَبَداً وَ النَّارُ أَبَداً وَ إِنَّكُمْ أَوَّلُ مَنْ أُنْذِرْتُمْ

Qatadah – ‘He^-saww addressed, then said: ‘O you people! The pioneer is not belied by his people, and even if you were liars, I^-saww would not lie to you. By the One^-azwj Who, there is no god except He^-azwj! I^-saww am a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj to you all, truly, in particular, and to the people in general. By Allah^-azwj! You will be dying just as you are going to sleep, and you will be Resurrected just as you tend to wake up, and you will be Reckoned with just as you are working and you will be Recompensed goodly with the good deeds, and with evil for the evil deeds, and it is Paradise forever and the Fire forever, and you are the first one I^-saww am warning’.

ثُمَّ فَتَرَ الْوَحْيُ فَجَزِعَ لِذَلِكَ النَّبِيُّ ص جَزَعاً شَدِيداً فَقَالَتْ لَهُ خَدِيجَةُ لَقَدْ قَلَاكَ رَبُّكَ‏ فَنَزَلَ سُورَةُ الضُّحَى‏ فَقَالَ لِجَبْرَئِيلَ مَا يَمْنَعُكَ أَنْ تَزُورَنَا فِي كُلِ‏ يَوْمٍ فَنَزَلَ‏ وَ ما نَتَنَزَّلُ إِلَّا بِأَمْرِ رَبِّكَ‏ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ نَسِيًّا

Then there was a gap period of the Revelation and the Prophet^-saww was alarmed due to that with intense alarm. Khadeeja^-asws said to him^-saww: ‘Your^-saww Lord^-azwj has abhorred you^-saww’. Surah Al-Zoha was Revealed. He^-saww said to Jibraeel^-as: ‘What prevented you^-as from visiting us during every day?’ It was Revealed: And we (Angels) do not descend except by the Command of your Lord; (for Him is what is in front of us and what is behind us and whatever is between that; and your Lord was not) forgetful [19:64]’’.[38]

31- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب الْفَائِقُ‏ أَنَّهُ لَمَّا اعْتَرَضَ أَبُو لَهَبٍ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص عِنْدَ إِظْهَارِ الدَّعْوَةِ قَالَ لَهُ أَبُو طَالِبٍ يَا أَعْوَرُ مَا أَنْتَ وَ هَذَا

Al-Faiq – ‘When Abu Lahab^-la objected to Rasool-Allah^-saww during the manifestation of the call, Abu Talib^-asws said to him^-la: ‘O Awr (one without brothers)! What is it to you^-la and this?’

ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ‏ إِنَّ الْوَلِيدَ بْنَ الْمُغِيرَةِ أَتَى قُرَيْشاً فَقَالَ إِنَّ النَّاسَ يَجْتَمِعُونَ غَداً بِالْمَوْسِمِ وَ قَدْ فَشَا أَمْرُ هَذَا الرَّجُلِ فِي النَّاسِ وَ هُمْ يَسْأَلُونَكُمْ عَنْهُ فَمَا تَقُولُونَ فَقَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ أَقُولُ إِنَّهُ مَجْنُونٌ وَ قَالَ أَبُو لَهَبٍ أَقُولُ إِنَّهُ شَاعِرٌ وَ قَالَ عُقْبَةُ بْنُ أَبِي مُعَيْطٍ أَقُولُ إِنَّهُ كَاهِنٌ فَقَالَ الْوَلِيدُ بَلْ أَقُولُ هُوَ سَاحِرٌ يُفَرِّقُ بَيْنَ الرَّجُلِ وَ الْمَرْأَةِ وَ بَيْنَ الرَّجُلِ وَ أَخِيهِ وَ أَبِيهِ

Ibn Abbas – ‘Al-Waleed Bin Al Mugheira came to Quraysh and said, ‘The people are gathering tomorrow for the season (Hajj) and the matter of this man (Rasool-Allah^-saww) has spread among the people, and they will be asking you all about him^-saww, so what will you be saying?’ Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘I^-la will be saying that he^-saww is insane’; and Abu Lahab^-la said, ‘I^-la will be saying he^-saww is a sorcerer’, and Aqabah Bin Abu Mueet said, ‘I will be saying he^-saww is a soothsayer’. Al-Waleed said, ‘I will be saying he^-saww is a sorcerer separating between the man and the woman, and between the man and his brother and his father’.

فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى‏ ن وَ الْقَلَمِ‏ الْآيَةَ وَ قَوْلَهُ‏ وَ ما هُوَ بِقَوْلِ شاعِرٍ الْآيَةَ

So, Allah^-azwj the Exalted Revealed: Noon and the Pen, [68:1] – the Verse; and His^-azwj Words: And it is not the word of a poet [69:41] – the Verse’.

وَ كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ص يَقْرَأُ الْقُرْآنَ فَقَالَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ وَ الْوَلِيدُ وَ عُتْبَةُ وَ شَيْبَةُ لِلنَّضْرِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ مَا يَقُولُ مُحَمَّدٌ فَقَالَ أَسَاطِيرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ مِثْلُ مَا كُنْتُ أُحَدِّثُكُمْ عَنِ الْقُرُونِ الْمَاضِيَةِ فَنَزَلَ‏ وَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَسْتَمِعُ إِلَيْكَ وَ جَعَلْنا عَلى‏ قُلُوبِهِمْ أَكِنَّةً الْآيَةَ

And the Prophet^-saww was reciting the Quran, and Abu Sufyan and Al-Waleed and Otbah and Shayba said to Al Nazar Bin Al Haris, ‘What is Muhammad^-saww saying?’ He said, ‘Stories of the former ones, similar to what I tent to narrate to you about the past generations’. It was Revealed: And from them is one who listens attentively to you, and We Made a covering to be upon their hearts [6:25] – the Verse.

الْكَلْبِيُّ قَالَ النَّضْرُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ وَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أُمَيَّةَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ لَنْ نُؤْمِنَ بِكَ حَتَّى تَأْتِيَنَا بِكِتَابٍ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ وَ مَعَهُ أَرْبَعَةُ أَمْلَاكٍ يَشْهَدُونَ عَلَيْهِ أَنَّهُ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ وَ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُهُ فَنَزَلَ‏ وَ لَوْ نَزَّلْنا عَلَيْكَ كِتاباً فِي قِرْطاسٍ‏

Al Kalby – ‘Al Nazar Bin Al Haris and Abdullah Bin Amiya said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! we will never believe in you^-saww until you^-saww come to us with a letter from the Presence of Allah^-azwj and with it being four Angels testifying upon it that it is indeed from the Presence of Allah^-azwj and that you^-saww are His^-azwj Rasool^-saww’. It was Revealed: And had We Sent down upon you writing in a paper, [6:7]’.

وَ قَالَ قُرَيْشُ مَكَّةَ أَوْ يَهُودُ الْمَدِينَةِ إِنَّ هَذِهِ الْأَرْضَ لَيْسَتْ بِأَرْضِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ وَ إِنَّمَا أَرْضُ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ الشَّامُ فَأْتِ الشَّامَ فَنَزَلَ‏ وَ إِنْ‏ كادُوا لَيَسْتَفِزُّونَكَ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ‏

And Quraysh of Makkah said, or Jews of Medina, ‘This land isn’t the land of the Prophets^-as, and rather the land of Prophets^-as is Syria’. It was Revealed: And surely, they plotted to scare you off the land in order to expel you from it, [17:76].

وَ قَالَ أَهْلُ مَكَّةَ تَرَكْتَ مِلَّةَ قَوْمِكَ وَ قَدْ عَلِمْنَا أَنَّهُ لَا يَحْمِلُكَ عَلَى ذَلِكَ إِلَّا الْفَقْرُ فَإِنَّا نَجْمَعُ لَكَ مِنْ أَمْوَالِنَا حَتَّى تَكُونَ مِنْ أَغْنَانَا فَنَزَلَ‏ قُلْ أَ غَيْرَ اللَّهِ أَتَّخِذُ وَلِيًّا

And the people of Makkah said, ‘You^-saww are neglecting the religion of your^-saww people and we have come to know that nothing has carried you^-saww upon doing that except for the poverty, so we will gather our wealth for you^-saww until you^-saww will become from our richest ones’. It was Revealed: Say: ‘Shall I take other than Allah as a Guardian [6:14].

وَ كَانَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ إِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ مَا ذَا أَنْزَلَ رَبُّكُمْ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ قَالُوا أَسَاطِيرَ الْأَوَّلِينَ فَنَزَلَ‏ وَ إِذا قِيلَ لَهُمْ ما ذا أَنْزَلَ رَبُّكُمْ‏ الْآيَةَ

And the Polytheists, when it was said to them, ‘What is that which your Lord^-azwj Revealed unto Muhammad^-saww?’, they said, ‘Stories of the former ones’. It was Revealed: And when it is said to them: ‘What is it that your Lord Revealed?’ [16:24] – the Verse.

ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ‏ قَالَتْ قُرَيْشٌ إِنَّ الْقُرْآنَ لَيْسَ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ وَ إِنَّمَا يُعَلِّمُهُ بَلْعَامٌ وَ كَانَ قَيْناً بِمَكَّةَ رُومِيّاً نَصْرَانِيّاً وَ قَالَ الضَّحَّاكُ أَرَادُوا بِهِ سَلْمَانَ وَ قَالَ مُجَاهِدٌ عَبْداً لِبَنِي الْحَضْرَمِيِّ يُقَالُ لَهُ يَعِيشُ فَنَزَلَ‏ وَ لَقَدْ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُمْ يَقُولُونَ إِنَّما يُعَلِّمُهُ بَشَرٌ الْآيَةَ

Ibn Abbas said, ‘Quraysh said, ‘The Quran isn’t from the Presence of Allah^-azwj, and rather he^-saww learnt it by being taught, and we had protected at Makkah a Roman Christian’. And Al Zahak said, ‘They intended Salman^-ra by it’. And Al-Mujahid (Non-Shia source) said, ‘(It was) a slave of the clan of al Hazramy called Yaish’. It was Revealed: And We have Known they are saying, ‘But rather a person teaches him’. [16:103] – the Verse.

وَ قَوْلُهُ‏ وَ قالَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا إِنْ هَذا إِلَّا إِفْكٌ افْتَراهُ‏ مُحَمَّدٌ وَ اخْتَلَقَهُ مِنْ تِلْقَاءِ نَفْسِهِ‏ وَ أَعانَهُ عَلَيْهِ قَوْمٌ آخَرُونَ‏ يَعْنُونَ عَدَّاساً مَوْلَى خُوَيْطِبٍ وَ يَسَاراً غُلَامَ الْعَلَاءِ بْنِ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ وَ حِبْراً مَوْلَى عَامِرٍ وَ كَانُوا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ فَكَذَّبَهُمُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى فَقَالَ‏ فَقَدْ جاؤُ ظُلْماً الْآيَاتِ‏

And His^-azwj Words: And those who commit Kufr are saying, ‘Surely, this is only a lie. He fabricated it – Muhammad^-saww, and he^-saww created it by himself^-saww, and he is being assisted upon it by other people,  – meaning Adasa, a slave of Khuweytab, and Yasaar a slave of Al-Ala Bin Al-Hazramy and Habr a slave of Aamir, and they were from the People of the Book, and Allah^-azwj the Exalted Belied them and Said: so they have come with injustice and falsehood’ [25:4] – the Verses’’.[39]

32- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ وَ مُجَاهِدٌ فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ وَ قالَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَوْ لا نُزِّلَ‏ عَلَيْهِ الْقُرْآنُ جُمْلَةً واحِدَةً كَمَا أُنْزِلَتِ التَّوْرَاةُ وَ الْإِنْجِيلُ فَقَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى‏ كَذلِكَ‏ مُتَفَرِّقاً لِنُثَبِّتَ بِهِ فُؤادَكَ‏ وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يُوحَى فِي كُلِّ حَادِثَةٍ وَ لِأَنَّهَا نَزَلَتْ عَلَى أَنْبِيَاءَ يَكْتُبُونَ وَ يَقْرَءُونَ وَ الْقُرْآنُ نَزَلَ عَلَى نَبِيٍّ أُمِّيٍّ وَ لِأَنَّ فِيهِ نَاسِخاً وَ مَنْسُوخاً وَ فِيهِ مَا هُوَ جَوَابٌ لِمَنْ سَأَلَهُ عَنْ أُمُورٍ وَ فِيهِ مَا هُوَ إِنْكَارٌ لِمَا كَانَ وَ فِيهِ مَا هُوَ حِكَايَةُ شَيْ‏ءٍ جَرَى‏ وَ لَمْ يَزَلْ ص يُرِيهِمُ الْآيَاتِ وَ يُخْبِرُهُمْ بِالْمَغِيبَاتِ ‏

‘Al-Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashoub – Ibn Abbas and Mujahid (Non-Shia source) regarding His^-azwj Words: And those who are committing Kufr say, ‘Why wasn’t the Quran Revealed unto him all at once?’ [25:32] just as the Torah and Evangel were Revealed. Allah^-azwj the Exalted Said: Like that – separately, We Affirmed your heart with it, [25:32], and that is because he^-saww was Revealed unto during every event, and had it been Revealed upon the Prophets^-as, they^-as would be writing and reading, and the Quran was Revealed upon the Ummy Prophet^-saww, and because therein are Abrogating and Abrogated (Verses), and in it is what is an answer to the ones who asked him^-saww about matters, and in it what is a denial of what had happened, and in it is what is a narration of things which flowed, and he^-saww did not cease showing them the Signs and informing them of the hidden matters.

فَنَزَلَ‏ وَ لا تَعْجَلْ بِالْقُرْآنِ‏ الْآيَةَ وَ مَعْنَاهُ لَا تَعْجَلْ بِقِرَاءَتِهِ عَلَيْهِمْ حَتَّى أُنْزِلَ عَلَيْكَ التَّفْسِيرُ فِي أَوْقَاتِهِ كَمَا أُنْزِلَ عَلَيْكَ التِّلَاوَةُ

It was Revealed: and do not be hasty with the Quran [20:114] – the Verse, and its meaning is that, ‘Do not be hasty with its recitation to them until the interpretation is Revealed unto you^-saww during its timings just as the recitation has been Revealed unto you^-saww’.

بَاعَ خَبَّابُ بْنُ الْأَرَتِّ سُيُوفاً مِنَ الْعَاصِ بْنِ وَائِلٍ فَجَاءَهُ يَتَقَاضَاهُ فَقَالَ أَ لَيْسَ يَزْعُمُ مُحَمَّدٌ أَنَّ فِي الْجَنَّةِ مَا ابْتَغَى أَهْلُهَا مِنْ ذَهَبٍ وَ فِضَّةٍ وَ ثِيَابٍ وَ خَدَمٍ قَالَ بَلَى قَالَ فَأَنْظِرْنِي أَقْضِكَ هُنَاكَ حَقَّكَ فَوَ اللَّهِ لَا تَكُونُ هُنَالِكَ وَ أَصْحَابُكَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ آثَرُ مِنِّي فَنَزَلَ‏ أَ فَرَأَيْتَ الَّذِي كَفَرَ بِآياتِنا إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ فَرْداً

Khabab Bin Al Arat sold a sword to Al Aas Bin Wail and he came to him to demand it (price). He said, ‘Isn’t Muhammad^-saww alleging that in Paradise would be whatever its inhabitants seek, from gold and silver and clothes and servants?’ He said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘Respite me, I shall fulfil your right over there, for by Allah^-azwj, over there you and your companions will not be more preferable than me’. It was Revealed: Do you see the one who commits Kufr with Our Signs [19:77] – up to His^-azwj Words: individually [19:80].

وَ تَكَلَّمَ النَّضْرُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ص فَكَلَّمَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص حَتَّى أَفْحَمَهُ‏ ثُمَّ قَالَ‏ إِنَّكُمْ وَ ما تَعْبُدُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ حَصَبُ جَهَنَّمَ‏ الْآيَةَ

And Al-Nazar Bin Al-Haris spoke with the Prophet^-saww, and Rasool-Allah^-saww spoke to him until he^-saww made him understand. Then he^-saww said: You, and whatever you are worshipping from besides Allah, would be the fuel of Hell. [21:98] – the Verse.

فَلَمَّا خَرَجَ النَّبِيُّ ص قَالَ ابْنُ الزِّبَعْرَى أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ وَجَدْتُهُ فِي مَجْلِسٍ لَخَصَمْتُهُ فَسَلُوا مُحَمَّداً أَ كُلُّ مَا يُعْبَدُ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ فِي جَهَنَّمَ مَعَ مَنْ عَبَدَهُ فَنَحْنُ نَعْبُدُ الْمَلَائِكَةَ وَ الْيَهُودُ تَعْبُدُ عُزَيْراً وَ النَّصَارَى تَعْبُدُ عِيسَى

When the Prophet^-saww came out, Ibn Al-Zab’ary said, ‘But by Allah^-azwj, if I find him^-saww in a gathering, I would contend him^-saww and ask Muhammad^-saww, ‘Is it all that is worshipped from besides Allah^-azwj, would be in Hell along with the ones who worship it? We worship the Angels, and the Jews worship Uzair^-as, and the Christians worship Isa^-as?’

فَأُخْبِرَ النَّبِيُّ ص فَقَالَ يَا وَيْلُ أُمِّهِ أَ مَا عَلِمَ أَنَّ مَا لِمَا لَا يَعْقِلُ وَ مَنْ لِمَنْ يَعْقِلُ فَنَزَلَ‏ إِنَّ الَّذِينَ سَبَقَتْ لَهُمْ‏ الْآيَةَ

The Prophet^-saww informed and said: ‘O woe be unto his mother! But, does he not know that (the word) ‘What’ is for what has no intellect, and ‘Ones’ is for one who does have intellect’?’ It was Revealed: Surely, those for whom the good has preceded from Us, [21:101] – the Verse.

وَ قَالَتِ الْيَهُودُ أَ لَسْتَ لَمْ تَزَلْ نَبِيّاً قَالَ بَلَى قَالَتْ فَلِمَ لَمْ تَنْطِقْ فِي الْمَهْدِ كَمَا نَطَقَ عِيسَى ع فَقَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ خَلَقَ عِيسَى مِنْ غَيْرِ فَحْلٍ فَلَوْ لَا أَنَّهُ نَطَقَ فِي الْمَهْدِ لَمَا كَانَ لِمَرْيَمَ عُذْرٌ إِذْ أُخِذَتْ بِمَا يُؤْخَذُ بِهِ مِثْلُهَا وَ أَنَا وُلِدْتُ بَيْنَ أَبَوَيْنِ

And the Jews said, ‘Haven’t you^-saww ceased to be a Prophet^-saww?’ He^-saww said: ‘Yes’. They said, ‘But you^-saww did not speak in the cradle just as Isa^-as spoke?’ He^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Created Isa^-as from without a stallion (male intervention). So, had he^-as not spoken in the cradle, there would have been no excuse for Maryam^-as then she^-as would have been seized with what the like of her^-as would have been seized with, and I^-saww was born between parents’.

وَ اجْتَمَعَتْ قُرَيْشٌ إِلَيْهِ فَقَالُوا إِلَى مَا تَدْعُونَا يَا مُحَمَّدُ قَالَ إِلَى شَهَادَةِ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ خَلْعِ الْأَنْدَادِ كُلِّهَا قَالُوا نَدَعُ ثَلَاثَمِائَةٍ وَ سِتِّينَ إِلَهاً وَ نَعْبُدُ إِلَهاً وَاحِداً فَنَزَلَ‏ وَ عَجِبُوا أَنْ جاءَهُمْ مُنْذِرٌ مِنْهُمْ‏ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ عَذابِ

And Quraysh gathered to him^-saww and they said, ‘What are you^-saww calling us to, O Muhammad^-saww?’ He^-saww said: ‘To the testimony that there is no god except Allah^-azwj, and leaving the rival gods (idols), all of them’. They said, ‘We should leave three hundred and sixty gods and worship (only) One God?’ It was Revealed: And they are wondering if a warner has come from them [38:4] – up to His^-azwj Words: the Punishment [38:8].

نَزَلَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ وَ عِكْرِمَةُ وَ أَبُو الْأَعْوَرِ السُّلَمِيُّ عَلَى عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أُبَيٍّ وَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي سَرْحٍ فَقَالُوا يَا مُحَمَّدُ ارْفُضْ ذِكْرَ آلِهَتِنَا وَ قُلْ إِنَّ لَهَا شَفَاعَةً لِمَنْ عَبَدَهَا وَ نَدَعُكَ وَ رَبَّكَ فَشَقَّ ذَلِكَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ص فَأَمَرَ فَأُخْرِجُوا مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ وَ نَزَلَ‏ وَ لا تُطِعِ الْكافِرِينَ‏ مِنْ أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ وَ الْمُنافِقِينَ‏ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ

Abu Sufyan and Ikrimah and Abu Al Awr Al Salmy lodged with Abdullah Bin Abayy and they came and said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Adjourn the mention of our gods and say that there will be intercession for them for the one who worships them, and we will leave you^-saww and your^-saww Lord^-azwj (won’t bother you^-saww)’. That was grievous upon the Prophet^-saww. He^-saww ordered and they were expelled from Medina, and it was Revealed: O you Prophet! Fear Allah and do not follow the Kafirs [33:1] – from the people of Makkah, and the hypocrites from the people of Medina.

ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ‏ عَيَّرُوا النَّبِيَّ بِكَثْرَةِ التَّزَوُّجِ وَ قَالُوا لَوْ كَانَ نَبِيّاً لَشَغَلَتْهُ النُّبُوَّةُ عَنْ تَزَوُّجِ النِّسَاءِ فَنَزَلَ‏ وَ لَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنا رُسُلًا مِنْ قَبْلِكَ‏

Ibn Abbas – ‘They faulted the Prophet^-saww for marrying a lot and they said, ‘If he^-saww was a Prophet^-as, he^-saww would have been too pre-occupied with the Prophet-hood from marrying the women’. It was Revealed: And We had Sent Rasools from before you [13:38].

ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ وَ الْأَصَمُ‏ كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ص يُصَلِّي عِنْدَ الْمَقَامِ فَمَرَّ بِهِ أَبُو جَهْلٍ فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَ لَمْ أَنْهَكَ عَنْ هَذَا وَ تَوَعَّدَهُ فَأَغْلَظَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ وَ انْتَهَرَهُ فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ بِأَيِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ تُهَدِّدُنِي أَ مَا وَ اللَّهِ إِنِّي لَأَكْبَرُ هَذَا الْوَادِي نَادِياً فَنَزَلَتْ‏ أَ رَأَيْتَ الَّذِي يَنْهى‏ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ فَلْيَدْعُ نادِيَهُ سَنَدْعُ الزَّبانِيَةَ

Ibn Abbas and Al Asam – ‘The Prophet^-saww was praying Salat by the Standing Place (of Ibrahim^-as and Abu Jahl^-la passed by him^-saww and said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Did I^-la not forbid you^-saww from this?’ And he^-la threatened him^-saww. The Prophet^-saww was harsh to him^-la and rebuked him^-la. He^-la said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! By which thing do you^-saww guide me. By Allah^-azwj, I^-la am the greatest of this valley in summoning (the army)’. It was Revealed: Have you seen the one who forbids [96:9] – up to His^-azwj Words: So let him call a calling [96:17] We would be Calling the Angels of Hell [96:18]’.

فَقَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ لَوْ نَادَى لَأَخَذَتْهُ الزَّبَانِيَةُ بِالْعَذَابِ مَكَانَهُ

Ibn Abbas said, ‘If he^-la had summoned (an army), the Angels of Hell would have seized him^-la with the Punishment, in his^-la place’.

الْقُرَظِيُ‏ قَالَتْ قُرَيْشٌ يَا مُحَمَّدُ شَتَمْتَ الْآلِهَةَ وَ سَفِهْتَ الْأَحْلَامَ وَ فَرَّقْتَ الْجَمَاعَةَ فَإِنْ طَلَبْتَ مَالًا أَعْطَيْنَاكَ أَوِ الشَّرَفَ سَوَّدْنَاكَ أَوْ كَانَ بِكَ عِلَّةٌ دَاوَيْنَاكَ

Al-Qurtuby (Non-Shia source) – Quraysh said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! You^-saww insult the gods and stultify the dreams, and separate the communities, so if you^-as are seeking wealth, we shall give it to you^-saww, or the nobility, we shall make you^-saww our chief, or if there was an illness with you^-saww, we shall heal you^-saww’.

فَقَالَ ص لَيْسَ شَيْ‏ءٌ مِنْ ذَلِكَ بَلْ بَعَثَنِي اللَّهُ إِلَيْكُمْ رَسُولًا وَ أَنْزَلَ كِتَاباً فَإِنْ قَبِلْتُمْ مَا جِئْتُ بِهِ فَهُوَ حَظُّكُمْ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ وَ إِنْ تَرُدُّوهُ أَصْبِرُ حَتَّى يَحْكُمَ اللَّهُ بَيْنَنا

He^-saww said: ‘There isn’t anything from that, but Allah^-azwj has Sent me^-saww as a Rasool^-as to you all, and Revealed a Book. If you were to accept what I^-saww have come with, it would be your share in the world and the Hereafter, and if you were to reject it, I^-saww shall be patient until Allah^-azwj Decides between us’.

قَالُوا فَسَلْ رَبَّكَ أَنْ يَبْعَثَ مَلَكاً يُصَدِّقُكَ وَ يَجْعَلَ لَنَا كُنُوزاً وَ جِنَاناً وَ قُصُوراً مِنْ ذَهَبٍ أَوْ يُسْقِطَ عَلَيْنَا السَّمَاءَ كَمَا زَعَمْتَ كِسْفاً أَوْ تَأْتِيَ بِاللَّهِ وَ الْمَلائِكَةِ قَبِيلًا

They said, ‘Ask your^-saww Lord^-azwj to Send an Angel to ratify you^-saww, and Make treasures and gardens and castles of gold to be for us, or the sky to fall down upon us in pieces just as you^-saww claimed, or you^-saww come with Allah^-azwj and the Angels face to face’.

فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أُمَيَّةَ الْمَخْزُومِيُّ وَ اللَّهِ لَا أُؤْمِنُ بِكَ حَتَّى تَتَّخِذَ سُلَّماً إِلَى السَّمَاءِ ثُمَّ تَرْقَى وَ أَنَا أَنْظُرُ فَقَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ إِنَّهُ أَبَى إِلَّا سَبَّ الْآلِهَةِ وَ شَتْمَ الْآبَاءِ وَ إِنِّي أُعَاهِدُ اللَّهَ لَأَحْمِلَنَّ حَجَراً فَإِذَا سَجَدَ ضَرَبْتُ بِهِ رَأْسَهُ

Abdullah Bin Amiya al Makhzoumy said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! I will not believe in you^-saww until you^-saww take a stairway to the sky, then ascend while I am looking’. Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘He^-saww refuses except to revile the gods and insult the forefathers, and I^-la vow to Allah^-azwj, that I^-la will carry a rock, and when he^-saww is in Sajdah, I^-la shall strike his^-saww head with it’.

فَانْصَرَفَ النَّبِيُّ ص حَزِيناً فَنَزَلَ‏ وَ قالُوا لَنْ نُؤْمِنَ لَكَ حَتَّى تَفْجُرَ لَنا الْآيَاتِ

The Prophet^-saww left grieving, and it was Revealed: And they say: ‘We will never believe in you until you cause a spring to gush out for us [17:90] – the Verses up to 17:94.

الْكَلْبِيُ‏ قَالَتْ قُرَيْشٌ يَا مُحَمَّدُ تُخْبِرُنَا عَنْ مُوسَى وَ عِيسَى وَ عَادٍ وَ ثَمُودَ فَأْتِ بِآيَةٍ حَتَّى نُصَدِّقَكَ فَقَالَ ص أَيَّ شَيْ‏ءٍ تُحِبُّونَ أَنْ آتِيَكُمْ بِهِ قَالُوا اجْعَلْ لَنَا الصَّفَا ذَهَباً وَ ابْعَثْ لَنَا بَعْضَ مَوْتَانَا حَتَّى نَسْأَلَهُمْ عَنْكَ وَ أَرِنَا الْمَلَائِكَةَ يَشْهَدُونَ لَكَ أَوِ ائْتِنَا بِاللَّهِ وَ الْمَلائِكَةِ قَبِيلًا

Al-Kalby (Non-Shia source) – Quraysh said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! You^-saww inform us about Musa^-as and Isa^-as and Aad and Samood, so come with a Signe until we ratify you^-saww’. He^-saww said: ‘Which thing would you like me^-saww to come to you with?’ They said, ‘Make (the hill) Al Safa as gold for us, and resurrect some of our deceased ones until we ask them about you^-saww, and show us the Angels testifying for you^-saww, or bring Allah^-azwj and the Angels face to face (to us)’.

فَقَالَ ص فَإِنْ فَعَلْتُ بَعْضَ مَا تَقُولُونَ أَ تُصَدِّقُونِّي قَالُوا وَ اللَّهِ لَئِنْ فَعَلْتَ‏ لَنَتَّبِعَنَّكَ أَجْمَعِينَ فَقَامَ ص يَدْعُو أَنْ يُجْعَلَ الصَّفَا ذَهَباً فَجَاءَهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع فَقَالَ إِنْ شِئْتَ أَصْبَحَ الصَّفَا ذَهَباً وَ لَكِنْ إِنْ لَمْ يُصَدِّقُوا عَذَّبْتُهُمْ وَ إِنْ شِئْتَ تَرَكْتَهُمْ حَتَّى يَتُوبَ تَائِبُهُمْ فَقَالَ ص بَلْ يَتُوبُ تَائِبُهُمْ فَنَزَلَ‏ وَ أَقْسَمُوا بِاللَّهِ جَهْدَ أَيْمانِهِمْ لَئِنْ جاءَهُمْ نَذِيرٌ

He^-saww said: ‘If I^-saww were to do part of what you are saying, will you ratify me^-saww?’ They said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! If you^-saww were to do so, we shall all follow you^-saww’. He^-saww stood up to supplicate that Al-Safa be transformed into gold, but Jibraeel^-as came and said: ‘If you^-saww so desire Al-Safa would become god, but if they still do not ratify you, they will be Punished, and if you^-saww so desire, you^-saww can leave them until their repentant ones repent’. He^-saww said: ‘But, their repentant ones should repent’. It was Revealed: And they swore by Allah with the strongest of their oaths, if a warner were to come to them [35:42]’.

وَ رُوِيَ‏ أَنَّ قُرَيْشاً كَانُوا يَلْعَنُونَ الْيَهُودَ وَ النَّصَارَى بِتَكْذِيبِهِمُ الْأَنْبِيَاءَ وَ لَوْ أَتَاهُمْ نَبِيٌّ لَنَصَرُوهُ فَلَمَّا بَعَثَ اللَّهُ النَّبِيَّ ص كَذَّبُوهُ فَنَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ وَ كَانُوا يُشِيرُونَ إِلَيْهِ بِالْأَصَابِعِ بِمَا حَكَى اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ‏ وَ إِذا رَأَوْكَ إِنْ يَتَّخِذُونَكَ إِلَّا هُزُواً يَقُولُ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ‏ أَ هذَا الَّذِي يَذْكُرُ آلِهَتَكُمْ‏ وَ ذَلِكَ قَوْلُهُ إِنَّهَا جَمَادٌ لَا تَنْفَعُ وَ لَا تَضُرُّ وَ هُمْ بِذِكْرِ الرَّحْمنِ هُمْ كافِرُونَ‏

And it is reported that Quraysh used to be cursed by the Jews and the Christians due to their belying the Prophets^-as, and if a Prophet^-as were to come to them, they would be helping him^-as. When Allah^-azwj Sent the Prophet^-as, they belied him^-saww, and this Verse was Revealed, and they were gesturing to him^-saww with the fingers with what Allah^-azwj has Narrated about them: And when those who commit Kufr see you they are not taking you except as a mockery, [21:36] – some of them said to the others, ‘Is this the one who mentions your gods?’ [21:36]. And those are His^-azwj Words that these are stones, neither benefitting nor harming: And they, with the Zikr of the Beneficent, they are committing Kufr [21:36].

وَ مَشَّشَ أُبَيُّ بْنُ خَلَفٍ بِعَظْمٍ رَمِيمٍ فَفَتَّهُ فِي يَدِهِ ثُمَّ نَفَخَهُ فَقَالَ أَ تَزْعُمُ أَنَّ رَبَّكَ يُحْيِي هَذَا بَعْدَ مَا تَرَى فَنَزَلَ‏ وَ ضَرَبَ لَنا مَثَلًا السُّورَةَ

And Abay Bin Khalaf crushed a decayed bone in his hand then blew it away and said, ‘Are you^-saww claiming that your^-saww Lord^-azwj will Revive this after what you^-saww see?’ It was Revealed: And he strikes out an example for Us [36:78] – (up to the end of) the Chapter.

وَ ذَكَرُوا أَنَّهُ كَانَ إِذَا قَدِمَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ص وَفْدٌ لِيَعْلَمُوا عِلْمَهُ انْطَلَقُوا بِأَبِي لَهَبٍ إِلَيْهِمْ وَ قَالُوا لَهُ أَخْبِرْ عَنِ ابْنِ أَخِيكَ فَكَانَ يَطْعُنُ فِي النَّبِيِّ ص وَ قَالَ الْبَاطِلَ وَ قَالَ إِنَّا لَمْ نَزَلْ نُعَالِجُهُ مِنَ الْجُنُونِ فَيَرْجِعُ الْقَوْمُ وَ لَا يَلْقَوْنَهُ

And they mentioned that when a delegation proceeded to the Prophet^-saww in order to learn his^-saww knowledge, they went with Abu Lahab^-la to them and said to him^-la, ‘Inform about the son^-saww of your^-la brother^-asws!’ He^-la used to vilify regarding the Prophet^-saww and say the falsities, and he^-la said, ‘We do not cease to heal him^-saww from the insanity’. The people returned and did not meet him^-saww.

طَارِقٌ الْمُحَارِبِيُ‏ رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ص فِي سُوَيْقَةِ ذِي الْمَجَازِ عَلَيْهِ حُلَّةٌ حَمْرَاءُ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ قُولُوا لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ تُفْلِحُوا وَ أَبُو لَهَبٍ يَتْبَعُهُ وَ يَرْمِيهِ بِالْحِجَارَةِ وَ قَدْ أَدْمَى كَعْبَهُ وَ عُرْقُوبَيْهِ‏ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ لَا تُطِيعُوهُ فَإِنَّهُ كَذَّابٌ‏

Taraq Al-Mahariby – ‘I saw the Prophet^-saww in a market of Zil Majaz, having a red garment upon him^-saww and he^-saww was saying: ‘O you people! Say, ‘There is no god except Allah^-azwj’, you will succeed!’; and Abu Lahab^-la was pursuing him^-saww and pelting him^-saww with the stones and the skin of his^-saww heel had been injured severely and he^-la was saying, ‘O you people! Do not follow him^-saww, for he^-saww is a liar!’’ (God Forbid)[40]

33- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب رَوَى أَبُو أَيُّوبَ الْأَنْصَارِيُ‏ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص وَقَفَ بِسُوقِ ذِي الْمَجَازِ فَدَعَاهُمْ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَ الْعَبَّاسُ قَائِمٌ يَسْمَعُ الْكَلَامَ فَقَالَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّكَ كَذَّابٌ وَ مَضَى إِلَى أَبِي لَهَبٍ وَ ذَكَرَ ذَلِكَ فَأَقْبَلَا يُنَادِيَانِ أَنَّ ابْنَ أَخِينَا هَذَا كَذَّابٌ فَلَا يَغُرَّنَّكُمْ عَنْ دِينِكُمْ

‘Al-Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashoub – It is reported by Abu Ayoub Al-Ansary that the Prophet^-saww paused by the market of Zil Majaz and called them to Allah^-azwj, and Al-Abbas was standing listening to the speech. He said, ‘I testify that you^-saww are a liar!’ and went to Abu Lahab^-la and mentioned that. They both came calling out, ‘This son^-saww of our brother^-asws is a liar, so do not let him^-saww deceive you from your religion!’

قَالَ وَ اسْتَقْبَلَ النَّبِيَّ ص أَبُو طَالِبٍ فَاكْتَنَفَهُ وَ أَقْبَلَ عَلَى أَبِي لَهَبٍ وَ الْعَبَّاسِ فَقَالَ لَهُمَا مَا تُرِيدَانِ تَرِبَتْ أَيْدِيكُمَا وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّهُ لَصَادِقُ الْقِيلِ

He (the narrator) said, ‘And Abu Talib^-asws came to the Prophet^-as and defended him^-saww, and faced Abu Lahab^-la and Al-Abbas and said to them: ‘What do you two want? May your hands break. By Allah^-azwj, he^-saww is truthful of the words’.

ثُمَّ أَنْشَأَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ‏

أَنْتَ الْأَمِينُ أَمِينُ اللَّهِ لَا كَذَبَ‏		وَ الصَّادِقُ الْقَوْلُ لَا لَهْوَ وَ لَا لَعِبَ‏
أَنْتَ الرَّسُولُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ نَعْلَمُهُ‏		عَلَيْكَ تَنْزِلُ مِنْ ذِي الْعِزَّةِ الْكُتُبُ‏

Then Abu Talib^-asws prosed a poem, ‘You^-saww are the trustworthy one, the trusted one of Allah^-azwj, with no falsehood in you^-saww. You^-saww are truthful in speech, with neither frivolity nor play. You^-saww are the Messenger^-saww, the Messenger of Allah^-azwj, as we know, and upon you^-saww the Scriptures descend from the One of Might’.

مُقَاتِلٌ‏ إِنَّهُ رَفَعَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ يَوْماً بَيْنَهُ وَ بَيْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَنْتَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الْجَانِبِ وَ نَحْنُ مِنْ هَذَا الْجَانِبِ فَاعْمَلْ أَنْتَ عَلَى دِينِكَ وَ مَذْهَبِكَ وَ إِنَّنَا عَامِلُونَ عَلَى دِينِنَا وَ مَذْهَبِنَا فَنَزَلَ‏ وَ قالُوا قُلُوبُنا فِي أَكِنَّةٍ

Maqatil – One day Abu Jahl^-la and raised (the issue) between him^-la and Rasool-Allah^-saww and said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! You^-saww are from that side, and we are from this side, so you^-saww act upon your^-saww Religion and your^-saww doctrine, and we shall act upon our religion and our doctrine’. It was Revealed: And they are saying, ‘Our hearts are in coverings [41:5].

ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ‏ كَانَ جَمَاعَةٌ إِذَا صَحَّ جِسْمُ أَحَدِهِمْ وَ نُتِجَتْ فَرَسُهُ وَ وَلَدَتِ امْرَأَتُهُ غُلَاماً وَ كَثُرَتْ مَاشِيَتُهُ رَضِيَ بِالْإِسْلَامِ وَ إِنْ أَصَابَهُ وَجَعٌ أَوْ سُوءٌ قَالَ مَا أَصَبْتُ فِي هَذَا الدِّينِ إِلَّا سُوءاً فَنَزَلَ‏ وَ مِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يَعْبُدُ اللَّهَ عَلى‏ حَرْفٍ‏

Ibn Abbas – ‘It so happened that there was a group, when the body of one of them was healthy, and his horse reproduced, and his wife gave birth to a boy, and whatever he desired multiplied, he was pleased with Islam, and if hunger of evil hit him, he said, ‘Nothing has hit us in this Religion except evil’. It was Revealed: And from the people there is one who worships Allah superficially. [22:11].

وَ نَهَى أَبُو جَهْلٍ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص عَنِ الصَّلَاةِ وَ قَالَ إِنْ رَأَيْتُ مُحَمَّداً يُصَلِّي لَأَطَأَنَّ عُنُقَهُ فَنَزَلَ‏ فَاصْبِرْ لِحُكْمِ رَبِّكَ وَ لا تُطِعْ مِنْهُمْ آثِماً أَوْ كَفُوراً

And Abu Jahl^-la forbade Rasool-Allah^-saww from praying the Salat, and said, ‘If I^-la see Muhammad^-saww praying Salat, I^-la will strike his^-saww neck’. It was Revealed: Therefore, be patient for the Decision of your Lord, and neither heed from them a sinner nor a Kafir [76:24]. 

ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ وَ إِنْ كادُوا لَيَفْتِنُونَكَ عَنِ الَّذِي أَوْحَيْنا قَالَ وَفْدُ ثَقِيفٍ نُبَايِعُكَ عَلَى ثَلَاثٍ لَا نَنْحَنِي‏ وَ لَا نَكْسِرُ إِلَهاً بِأَيْدِينَا وَ تَمَتَّعْنَا بِاللَّاتِ سَنَةً ‏

Ibn Abbas regarding His^-azwj Words: And surely they plotted to tempt you away from which We Revealed to you [17:73], ‘A delegation of Saqeef said, ‘We shall pledge allegiance to you^-saww upon three (stipulations) – We will neither pray Salat, nor break a god with our hands, and we shall be with Al Laat (and idol) for a year’.

فَقَالَ ص لَا خَيْرَ فِي دِينٍ لَيْسَ فِيهِ رُكُوعٌ وَ سُجُودٌ فَأَمَّا كَسْرُ أَصْنَامِكُمْ بِأَيْدِيكُمْ فَذَاكَ لَكُمْ وَ أَمَّا الطَّاغِيَةُ اللَّاتُ فَإِنِّي غَيْرُ مُمَتِّعُكُمْ بِهَا قَالُوا أَجِّلْنَا سَنَةً حَتَّى نَقْبِضَ مَا يُهْدَى لِآلِهَتِنَا فَإِذَا قَبَضْنَاهَا كَسَرْنَاهَا وَ أَسْلَمْنَا فَهُمْ بِتَأْجِيلِهِمْ فَنَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ

He^-saww said: ‘There is no good in a religion there isn’t any Ruku’u or Sajdah in it. As for breaking your idols with your hand, that is for you, and for the idol Al Laat, I^-saww will not let you be with it’. They said, ‘Respite us for a year until we pick up what we are guided to our gods. When we do pick them up, we shall break these and become Muslims’. They, due to their postponement, this Verse was Revealed.

قَالَ قَتَادَةُ فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ قَوْلَهُ‏ ثُمَّ لا تَجِدُ لَكَ عَلَيْنا نَصِيراً قَالَ اللَّهُمَّ لَا تَكِلْنِي إِلَى نَفْسِي طَرْفَةَ عَيْنٍ أَبَداً

Qatadah said, ‘When he^-saww heard His^-azwj Words: then you would not have found for yourself, a helper against Us [17:75], he^-saww said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! Do not Allocate me^-saww to myself even for the blink of an eye, ever!’

وَ كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ص يَطُوفُ فَشَتَمَهُ عُقْبَةُ بْنُ أَبِي مُعَيْطٍ وَ أَلْقَى عِمَامَتَهُ فِي عُنُقِهِ وَ جَرَّهُ مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ فَأَخَذُوهُ مِنْ يَدِهِ وَ كَانَ ص يَوْماً جَالِساً عَلَى الصَّفَا فَشَتَمَهُ أَبُو جَهْلٍ

And the Prophet^-saww was performing Tawaaf and Aqbah Bin Abu Mueet reviled him^-saww and threw his turban in his^-saww neck and dragged him^-saww from the (Sacred) Masjid, and he^-saww grabbed it from his hand; and one day he^-saww was seated upon Al-Safa and Abu Jahl^-la reviled him^-saww.

ثُمَّ شَجَّ رَأْسَهُ حَمْزَةُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ‏ شِعْرٌ

لَقَدْ عَجِبْتُ لِأَقْوَامٍ ذَوِي سَفَهٍ‏		مِنَ الْقَبِيلَيْنِ مِنْ سَهْمٍ وَ مَخْزُومٍ‏
الْقَائِلِينَ لِمَا جَاءَ النَّبِيُّ بِهِ‏		هَذَا حَدِيثٌ أَتَانَا غَيْرَ مَلْزُومٍ‏
فَقَدْ أَتَاهُمْ بِحَقٍّ غَيْرِ ذِي عِوَجٍ‏		وَ مُنَزَّلٌ مِنْ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ مَعْلُومٌ‏
مِنَ الْعَزِيزِ الَّذِي لَا شَيْ‏ءَ يَعْدِلُهُ‏		فِيهِ مَصَادِيقُ مِنْ حَقٍّ وَ تَعْظِيمٍ‏
فَإِنْ تَكُونُوا لَهُ ضِدّاً يَكُنْ لَكُمْ‏		ضِدّاً بِغَلْبَاءَ مِثْلَ اللَّيْلِ عُلْكُومٍ‏
فَآمِنُوا بِنَبِيٍّ لَا أَبَا لَكُمْ‏		ذِي خَاتَمٍ صَاغَهُ الرَّحْمَنُ مَخْتُومٍ‏

Then Hamza^-ar Bin Abdul Muttalib^-as struck his^-la head, and prosed a poem, ‘I am truly amazed at people of foolishness from the two tribes, Sahm and Makhzum, who say concerning what the Prophet^-saww brought. This is a tale that has come to us, and we are not bound by it. Yet he^-saww has brought them a truth without any deviation, Revealed from the known Book of Allah^-azwj, from the Almighty, whom nothing can equal. Within it are confirmations of truth and glorification. If you become opposed to him^-saww, there will be an opposing force against you, possessing overwhelming strength, like a pitch black and impenetrably dark night. So believe in a Prophet^-as, may you have no father, who possesses a seal fashioned by the Most Merciful and sealed!’’.[41]

34- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ وَ أَنَسٌ‏ أَوْحَى اللَّهُ إِلَيْهِ يَوْمَ الْإِثْنَيْنِ السَّابِعَ وَ الْعِشْرِينَ مِنْ رَجَبٍ وَ لَهُ أَرْبَعُونَ سَنَةً

Ibn Abbas and Anas (fabricator), ‘Allah^-azwj revealed to him^-saww on the day of Monday the 27^th of Rajab and there were forty years for him^-saww’.

ابْنُ مَسْعُودٍ إِحْدَى وَ أَرْبَعُونَ سَنَةً

Ibn Masoud – ‘Forty one years’’.

ابْنُ الْمُسَيَّبِ وَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ ثَلَاثٌ وَ أَرْبَعُونَ سَنَةً وَ كَانَ لِإِحْدَى عَشْرَةَ خَلَوْنَ مِنْ رَبِيعٍ الْأَوَّلِ وَ قِيلَ لِعَشْرٍ خَلَوْنَ مِنْ رَبِيعٍ الْأَوَّلِ وَ قِيلَ بُعِثَ فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ لِقَوْلِهِ‏ شَهْرُ رَمَضانَ الَّذِي أُنْزِلَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ‏ أَيْ ابْتِدَاءُ إِنْزَالِهِ لِلسَّابِعَ عَشَرَ أَوْ الثَّامِنَ عَشَرَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ وَ الرَّابِعِ وَ الْعِشْرِينَ

Ibn Al-Musayyab and Ibn Abbas – ‘Forty-three years, and it was eleven days vacant from Rabbi Al-Awwal’. And it is said, ‘Ten vacant from Rabbi Al-Awwal’. And it is said, ‘He^-saww was Sent during the Month of Ramazan due to His^-azwj Words: The Month of Ramazan is that in which the Quran was Revealed [2:185]. i.e., its Revelation was initiated on the 17^th or eighteenth. From Ibn Abbas, ‘Twenty fourth’.

عَنْ أَبِي الْخُلْدِ قَامَ يَدْعُو النَّاسَ وَ أَقَامَ‏ أَبُو طَالِبٍ بِنُصْرَتِهِ فَأَسْلَمَ خَدِيجَةُ وَ عَلِيٌّ وَ زَيْدٌ وَ أُسْرِيَ بِهِ بَعْدَ النُّبُوَّةِ بِسَنَتَيْنِ وَ قَالُوا بِسَنَةٍ وَ سِتَّةِ أَشْهُرٍ بَعْدَ رُجُوعِهِ مِنَ الطَّائِفِ

From Ibn Khalid – ‘He^-saww stood up calling the people and Abu Talib^-asws stood to help him^-saww. (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws announced her^-asws Islam, and Ali^-asws and Zayd, and there was an ascension with him^-saww after the Prophet-hood, by two years, and they said, ‘By a year and six months after his^-saww return from Al Taif.

الْحَلَبِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: اكْتَتَمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِمَكَّةَ مُسْتَخْفِياً خَائِفاً خَمْسَ سِنِينَ لَيْسَ يَظْهَرُ وَ عَلِيٌّ ع مَعَهُ وَ خَدِيجَةُ ثُمَّ أَمَرَهُ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَصْدَعَ بِمَا يُؤْمَرُ فَظَهَرَ وَ أَظْهَرَ أَمْرَهُ‏

Al-Halby, from Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww concealed (himself) at Makkah fearfully, fearing for five years, not manifesting, and Ali^-asws was with him^-saww and (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws. Then Allah^-azwj Commanded him^-saww to proclaim with what he^-saww had been Commanded with, so he^-saww appeared and manifest his^-saww matter’’.[42]

35- شي، تفسير العياشي عَنْ زُرَارَةَ وَ حُمْرَانَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ وَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع‏ قَوْلُهُ‏ خَيْرُ الْماكِرِينَ‏ قَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص قَدْ كَانَ لَقِيَ مِنْ قَوْمِهِ بَلَاءً شَدِيداً حَتَّى أَتَوْهُ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ وَ هُوَ سَاجِدٌ حَتَّى طَرَحُوا عَلَيْهِ رَحِمَ شَاةٍ فَأَتَتْهُ ابْنَتُهُ وَ هُوَ سَاجِدٌ لَمْ يَرْفَعْ رَأْسَهُ فَرَفَعَتْهُ عَنْهُ وَ مَسَحَتْهُ

‘Tafseer Al-Ayyashi – From Zurara and Human,

‘From Abu Ja’far^-asws and Abu Abdullah^-asws – His^-azwj Words: and Allah is the best of planners [3:54]. He^-asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww had faced severe afflictions from his^-saww people to the extent that they came to him^-saww one day while he^-saww was in Sajdah and overturned the intestines of a sheep upon him^-saww. His^-saww daughter^-asws came while he^-saww was in Sajdah, not having raised his^-saww head, and she^-as raised it from him^-saww and wiped him^-saww.

ثُمَّ أَرَاهُ اللَّهُ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ الَّذِي يُحِبُّ إِنَّهُ كَانَ بِبَدْرٍ وَ لَيْسَ مَعَهُ غَيْرُ فَارِسٍ وَاحِدٍ ثُمَّ كَانَ مَعَهُ يَوْمَ الْفَتْحِ اثْنَا عَشَرَ أَلْفاً حَتَّى جَعَلَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ وَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ يَسْتَغِيثُونَ

Then, after that, Allah^-azwj Showed him^-saww that which he^-saww loved. He^-saww was at (battle of) Badr and there wasn’t with him^-saww apart from one horse, then one the day of the conquest (of Makkah) there were twelve thousand (horses), to the extent that Abu Sufyan and the Polytheists came to seek his^-saww help.

ثُمَّ لَقِيَ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع مِنَ الشِّدَّةِ وَ الْبَلَاءِ وَ التَّظَاهُرِ عَلَيْهِ وَ لَمْ يَكُنْ مَعَهُ أَحَدٌ مِنْ قَوْمِهِ بِمَنْزِلَتِهِ أَمَّا حَمْزَةُ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ فَقُتِلَ يَوْمَ أُحُدٍ وَ أَمَّا جَعْفَرٌ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ فَقُتِلَ يَوْمَ مُؤْتَةَ

Then Amir Al-Momineen^-asws faced from the difficulties and the afflictions and the backers against him^-asws, and there was no one from his^-asws people with him^-asws in his^-asws home. As for Hamza^-asws, he^-asws was killed on the day of (battle of) Ohad, and as for Ja’far^-asws, he^-asws was killed on the day of (battle of) Muta’’.[43]

36- م، تفسير الإمام عليه السلام قَالَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ع‏ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص لَمَّا تَرَكَ التِّجَارَةَ إِلَى الشَّامِ وَ تَصَدَّقَ بِكُلِّ مَا رَزَقَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى مِنْ تِلْكَ التِّجَارَاتِ كَانَ يَغْدُو كُلَّ يَوْمٍ إِلَى حِرَاءَ يَصْعَدُهُ‏ وَ يَنْظُرُ مِنْ قُلَلِهِ إِلَى آثَارِ رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ وَ إِلَى 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

‘Tafseer if the Imam (Hassan Al-Askari^-asws) – 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. 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 وَ أَذِنَ لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ فَنَزَلُوا وَ مُحَمَّدٌ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِمْ

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 أَمَرَ بِالرَّحْمَةِ فَأُنْزِلَتْ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ لَدُنْ سَاقِ الْعَرْشِ إِلَى رَأْسِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ غُرَّتِهِ 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 الْعُلْوِ 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.

‏ يَقُولُ وَ قَدِ اشْتَدَّ عَلَيْهِ مَا يَخَافُهُ مِنْ تَكْذِيبِ قُرَيْشٍ فِي خَبَرِهِ وَ نِسْبَتِهِمْ إِيَّاهُ إِلَى الْجُنُونِ وَ أَنَّهُ يَعْتَرِيهِ شَيَاطِينُ‏ وَ كَانَ مِنْ أَوَّلِ أَمْرِهِ أَعْقَلَ خَلْقِ اللَّهِ‏ وَ أَكْرَمَ بَرَايَاهُ وَ أَبْغَضَ الْأَشْيَاءِ إِلَيْهِ الشَّيْطَانُ وَ أَفْعَالُ الْمَجَانِينِ وَ أَقْوَالُهُمْ

He^-saww was saying, and it had intensified upon him^-saww what he^-saww feared upon from the belying of the Quraysh regarding his^-saww news, and their linking him^-saww to the 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 اللَّهُ 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 what he^-saww arrived to anything from these, 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, receive Glad Tidings’.

أَبْشِرْ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ قَدْ فَضَّلَكَ وَ جَمَّلَكَ وَ زَيَّنَكَ وَ أَكْرَمَكَ فَوْقَ الْخَلَائِقِ أَجْمَعِينَ مِنَ الْأَوَّلِينَ وَ الْآخِرِينَ لَا يَحْزُنُكَ 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 Quraysh 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 يَبْلُغُكَ 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 أُجُورَ 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 ع وَ هُوَ طِفْلٌ أَ هُوَ وَلَدُ عَمِّي وَ قَالَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ لَمَّا تَحَرَّكَ عَلِيٌّ وَلِيداً 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 كِفَّةٍ مِنْهُ وَ مُثِّلَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ سَائِرُ الْخَلْقِ مِنْ أُمَّتِهِ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ فِي كِفَّةٍ فَوُزِنَ بِهِمْ فَرُجِّحَ

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 الْكِفَّةِ وَ تُرِكَ عَلِيٌّ فِي كِفَّةِ مُحَمَّدٍ الَّتِي كَانَ فِيهَا فَوُزِنَ بِسَائِرِ أُمَّتِهِ فَرُجِّحَ بِهِمْ وَ عَرَفَهُ‏ 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 عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ صَفِيِّيَ الَّذِي أُؤَيِّدُ بِهِ هَذَا الدِّينَ يُرَجَّحُ عَلَى جَمِيعِ أُمَّتِكَ بَعْدَكَ فَذَلِكَ حِينَ شَرَحَ اللَّهُ صَدْرِي بِأَدَاءِ الرِّسَالَةِ وَ خَفَّفَ عَنِّي‏ مُكَافَحَةَ الْأُمَّةِ وَ سَهَّلَ عَلَيَّ مُبَارَزَةَ الْعُتَاةِ 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”. So 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 Quraysh’’.[44]

37- عم، إعلام الورى أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْبَيْهَقِيُّ فِي كِتَابِ دَلَائِلِ النُّبُوَّةِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَافِظُ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ‏ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ بَكْرٍ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي الْأَشْعَثِ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ إِيَاسِ بْنِ عَفِيفٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ عَفِيفٍ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: كُنْتُ امْرَأً تَاجِراً فَقَدِمْتُ مِنًى أَيَّامَ الْحَجِّ وَ كَانَ الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ امْرَأً تَاجِراً فَأَتَيْتُهُ أَبْتَاعُ مِنْهُ وَ أَبِيعُهُ قَالَ فَبَيْنَا نَحْنُ إِذَا خَرَجَ‏ رَجُلٌ مِنْ خِبَاءٍ يُصَلِّي فَقَامَ تُجَاهَ الْكَعْبَةِ ثُمَّ خَرَجَتِ امْرَأَةٌ فَقَامَتْ تُصَلِّي وَ خَرَجَ غُلَامٌ يُصَلِّي مَعَهُ فَقُلْتُ يَا عَبَّاسُ مَا هَذَا الدِّينُ إِنَّ هَذَا الدِّينَ مَا نَدْرِي مَا هُوَ

‘Ilam Al-Wara’ – Abu Bakr Al Bayhaqi, in the book ‘Dalaail Al Nabuwwah’, said, ‘It was informed to us by Al Hafiz Abu Abdullah, from Muhammad Bin Yaqoub, from Ahmad Bin Abdul Jabbar, from Yunus Bin Bakr, from Abu Is’haq, from Yahya Bin Abu Al Ash’as, from Ismail Bin Ayas Bin Afeef, from his father, from his grandfather Afeef having said,

‘I was a businessman and the days of Hajj preceded from me, and Al-Abbas Bin Al Muttalib was a businessman. So, I came to him to buy from him and sell to him. While we were (dealing) when a man came out from concealment to pray Salat. He stood facing the Kabah. Then a lady came out and stood to pray, and a boy came out to pray with him. I said, O Abbas! What is this Religion? This Religion, we do not know what it is?’

فَقَالَ هَذَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ يَزْعُمُ أَنَّ اللَّهَ أَرْسَلَهُ وَ أَنَّ كُنُوزَ كِسْرَى وَ قَيْصَرَ يُسْتَفْتَحُ‏ عَلَيْهِ وَ هَذِهِ امْرَأَتُهُ خَدِيجَةُ بِنْتُ خُوَيْلِدٍ آمَنَتْ بِهِ وَ هَذَا الْغُلَامُ ابْنُ عَمِّهِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ آمَنَ بِهِ قَالَ عَفِيفٌ فَلَيْتَنِي كُنْتُ آمَنْتُ بِهِ يَوْمَئِذٍ فَكُنْتُ أَكُونُ ثَانِياً تَابِعَهُ

He said, ‘This is Muhammad^-saww Bin Abdullah^-asws. He^-saww claims that Allah^-azwj Sent him^-saww and that the treasures of Chosroe and Caesar would be opened up to him^-saww, and this is his^-saww wife (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws Bint Khuwaylid having believed in him^-saww, and this boy^-asws is his^-saww cousin Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws having believed in him^-saww’. Afeef said, ‘Alas! If only I have believed in him^-saww on that day, I would have been the second to follow him^-saww’.

إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ وَ قَالَ فِي الْحَدِيثِ‏ إِذْ خَرَجَ مِنْ خِبَاءٍ فَوَثَبَ نَظَرَ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فَلَمَّا رَآهَا قَدْ مَالَتْ قَامَ يُصَلِّي ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ قِيَامَ خَدِيجَةَ خَلْفَهُ

Ibrahim Bin Sa’ad, from Muhammad Bin Is’haq, and said in the Hadeeth, ‘When he^-saww came out from hiding, he^-saww looked towards the sky. When he^-saww saw it as being filled, he^-saww stood to pray’. Then he mentioned the standing of (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws behind him^-saww.

وَ أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ بِإِسْنَادٍ ذَكَرَهُ عَنْ مجاهدين حبر [مُجَاهِدِ بْنِ جَبْرٍ] قَالَ: كَانَ مِمَّا أَنْعَمَ اللَّهُ عَلَى عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ أَرَادَ بِهِ الْخَيْرَ أَنَّ قُرَيْشاً أَصَابَتْهُمْ أَزْمَةٌ شَدِيدَةٌ وَ كَانَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ ذَا عِيَالٍ كَثِيرَةٍ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِلْعَبَّاسِ عَمِّهِ وَ كَانَ مِنْ أَيْسَرِ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ يَا عَبَّاسُ إِنَّ أَخَاكَ أَبَا طَالِبٍ كَثِيرُ الْعِيَالِ وَ قَدْ أَصَابَ النَّاسَ مَا تَرَى مِنْ هَذِهِ الْأَزْمَةِ فَانْطَلِقْ‏ حَتَّى نُخَفِّفَ عَنْهُ مِنْ عِيَالِهِ‏

And it was informed to us by Abu Al-Husayn Bin Al-Fazl by a chain he mentioned, from Mujahideyn Hibr who said, ‘It was from what Allah^-azwj had Conferred upon Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws and Wanted the goodness with him^-asws is that Quraysh had been hit by severe drought, and Abu Talib^-asws was with a lot of dependants. Rasool-Allah^-saww said to Al-Abbas, his^-saww uncle, and he was from the affluent ones of the Clan of Hashim^-as: ‘O Abbas! Your brother Abu Talib^-asws is with a lot of dependants, and the people are hit with what you can see from this drought, so let us go and lighten his^-as (burden) of his^-as dependants’.

وَ أَخَذَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَلِيّاً فَضَمَّهُ إِلَيْهِ فَلَمْ يَزَلْ عَلِيٌّ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص حَتَّى بَعَثَهُ اللَّهُ نَبِيّاً فَاتَّبَعَهُ عَلِيٌّ وَ آمَنَ بِهِ وَ صَدَّقَهُ‏

And Rasool-Allah^-saww grabbed Ali^-asws and hugged him^-asws to him^-saww, and Ali^-asws did not cease to be with Rasool-Allah^-saww until Allah^-azwj Sent him^-saww as a Prophet^-saww, so Ali^-asws followed him^-saww and believed in him^-saww and ratified him^-saww’’.[45]

38- عم، إعلام الورى‏ جَدَّتْ قُرَيْشٌ فِي أَذَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ كَانَ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ عَلَيْهِ عَمُّهُ أَبُو لَهَبٍ وَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ جَالِساً فِي الْحِجْرِ فَبَعَثُوا إِلَى سَلَى الشَّاةِ فَأَلْقَوْهُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَاغْتَمَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص مِنْ ذَلِكَ فَجَاءَ إِلَى أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَقَالَ يَا عَمِّ كَيْفَ حَسَبِي فِيكُمْ قَالَ وَ مَا ذَاكَ يَا ابْنَ أَخِ قَالَ إِنَّ قُرَيْشاً أَلْقَوْا عَلَيَّ السَّلَى

‘Ilam Al-Wara’ – Quraysh strove to harm Rasool-Allah^-saww, and the severest of the people upon him^-saww was his^-saww uncle Abu Lahab^-la. One day Rasool-Allah^-saww was seated by the (Black) Stone, and they called for the intestines of the sheep and threw them upon Rasool-Allah^-saww. Rasool-Allah^-saww was gloomy from that, and he^-saww came to Abu Talib^-asws and said: ‘O Uncle^-asws! How will you^-as suffice me^-saww among you all?’ He^-as said: ‘And what (makes you^-saww say that, O son^-saww of brother^-asws?’ He^-saww said: ‘Quraysh threw the intestines (of a sheep) upon me^-saww’.

فَقَالَ لِحَمْزَةَ خُذِ السَّيْفَ وَ كَانَتْ قُرَيْشٌ جَالِسَةً فِي الْمَسْجِدِ فَجَاءَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ وَ مَعَهُ السَّيْفُ وَ حَمْزَةُ وَ مَعَهُ السَّيْفُ فَقَالَ أَمِرَّ السَّلى عَلَى سِبَالِهِمْ فَمَنْ أَبَى فَاضْرِبْ عُنُقَهُ فَمَا تَحَرَّكَ أَحَدٌ حَتَّى أَمَرَّ السَّلى عَلَى سِبَالِهِمْ ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ يَا ابْنَ أَخِ هَذَا حَسَبُكَ فِينَا

He^-as said to Hamza^-asws: ‘Take the sword!’ And Quraysh were seated in the Masjid. Abu Talib^-asws came and with him^-asws was the sword, and (so did) Hamza^-asws and with him^-asws was the sword. ‘He^-asws said: ‘Instruct the intestine to be upon their path, and if anyone refuses, then strike off his neck’. No one moved until the intestines were upon their path. Then he^-asws turned towards Rasool-Allah^-saww and said: ‘O nephew! This suffices you^-saww from us and among us’’

وَ فِي كِتَابِ دَلَائِلِ النُّبُوَّةِ عَنْ أَبِي دَاوُدَ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ سَمِعْتُ عَمْرَو بْنَ مَيْمُونٍ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ: بَيْنَمَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص سَاجِداً وَ حَوْلَهُ نَاسٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَ ثَمَّ سَلَى بَعِيرٍ فَقَالُوا مَنْ يَأْخُذُ سَلَى هَذَا الْجَزُورِ أَوِ الْبَعِيرِ فَيُفَرِّقُهُ‏ عَلَى ظَهْرِهِ

And in (the book) ‘Dalail Al-Nabuwwah’, from Abu Dawood, from Sha’ba, from Abu Is’haq, from Amro Bin Maymoun narrating from Abdullah who said, ‘While Rasool-Allah^-saww was in Sajdah and around him^-saww were people from Quraysh, they called for the intestines of a camel, and they said, ‘Who will take the intestines of this camel and cast it upon his^-saww back?’

فَجَاءَ عُقْبَةُ بْنُ أَبِي مُعَيْطٍ فَقَذَفَهُ عَلَى ظَهْرِ النَّبِيِّ ص وَ جَاءَتْ فَاطِمَةُ ع فَأَخَذَتْهُ مِنْ ظَهْرِهِ وَ دَعَتْ عَلَى مَنْ صَنَعَ ذَلِكَ

Aqaba Bin Abu Mueet came and threw it upon the back of the Prophet^-saww, and (Syeda) Fatima^-asws came and took it from his^-saww back and returned it upon the one who had done that.

قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ فَمَا رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص دَعَا عَلَيْهِمْ إِلَّا يَوْمَئِذٍ فَقَالَ اللَّهُمَّ عَلَيْكَ الْمَلَأَ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ اللَّهُمَّ عَلَيْكَ أَبَا جَهْلِ بْنَ هِشَامٍ وَ عُتْبَةَ بْنَ رَبِيعَةَ وَ شَيْبَةَ بْنَ رَبِيعَةَ وَ عُقْبَةَ بْنَ أَبِي مُعَيْطٍ وَ أُمَيَّةَ بْنَ خَلَفٍ أَوْ أُبَيَّ بْنَ خَلَفٍ شَكَّ شُعْبَةُ

Abdullah said, ‘I had not seen Rasool-Allah^-saww supplicate against them except on that day. He^-saww said: ‘O Allah^-azwj! Upon You^-azwj (is to Deal with) the assembly of Quraysh. O Allah^-azwj! Upon You^-azwj (is to Deal with) Abu Jahl^-la Bin Hashim^-as, and Utba Bin Rabie, and Shayba Bin Rabie, and Uqba Bin Abu Mueet, and Amiya Bin Khalaf’ – or Abay Bin Khalaf, the doubt being of Sha’ba.

قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ وَ لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُهُمْ قُتِلُوا يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ وَ أُلْقُوا فِي الْقَلِيبِ أَوْ قَالَ فِي بِئْرٍ غَيْرَ أَنَّ أُمَيَّةَ بْنَ خَلَفٍ أَوْ أُبَيَّ بْنَ خَلَفٍ كَانَ رَجُلًا بَادِناً فَقُطِّعَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَبْلُغَ الْبِئْرَ

Abdullah said, ‘I saw them being killed on the Day of (battle of) Badr and thrown into the well, apart from Amiya Bin Khalaf, or Abay Bin Khalaf. He was a large-bodied man, so he was cut (into pieces) before he reached the well’.

أَخْرَجَهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ فِي الصَّحِيحِ قَالَ وَ أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَافِظُ أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْفَقِيهُ أَخْبَرَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ مُوسَى حَدَّثَنَا الْحَمِيدِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ حَدَّثَنَا بُنَانُ بْنُ بِشْرٍ وَ ابْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ قَالا سَمِعْنَا قَيْساً يَقُولُ سَمِعْنَا خَبَّاباً يَقُولُ‏ أَتَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص وَ هُوَ مُتَوَسِّدٌ بُرْدَهُ فِي ظِلِّ الْكَعْبَةِ وَ قَدْ لَقِينَا مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ شِدَّةً شَدِيدَةً فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَ لَا تَدْعُو اللَّهَ لَنَا

Bukhari has brought it out in the Saheeh. He said, ‘And it was informed to us by Al-Hafiz, from Abu Bak Al-Faqeeh, from Bishr Bin Musa, from Al-Hameedi, from Sufyan, from Banan Bin Bishr, and Ibn Abu Khalid, from Qays, from Khabab who said, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww came and it was cold in the shade of the Kabah, and we had faced severe difficulties from the Polytheists. I said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Can you^-saww supplicate to Allah^-azwj for us?’

فَقَعَدَ وَ هُوَ مُحْمَرٌّ وَجْهُهُ فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ لَيُمْشَطُ أَحَدُهُمْ بِأَمْشَاطِ الْحَدِيدِ مَا دُونَ عَظْمِهِ مِنْ لَحْمٍ أَوْ عَصَبٍ مَا يَصْرِفُهُ ذَلِكَ عَنْ دِينِهِ وَ يُوضَعُ الْمِنْشَارُ عَلَى مَفْرِقِ رَأْسِهِ فَيُشَقُّ بِاثْنَيْنِ مَا يَصْرِفُهُ ذَلِكَ عَنْ دِينِهِ وَ لَيُتِمَّنَّ اللَّهُ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ حَتَّى يَسِيرَ الرَّاكِبُ مِنْ صَنْعَاءَ إِلَى حَضْرَمَوْتَ لَا يَخَافُ إِلَّا اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ الذِّئْبَ عَلَى غَنَمِهِ

He^-saww sat down and he^-saww was red-faced, and said: ‘If it was from the ones who were before you, and one of you would be combed with the comb or iron the flesh from below his bones, or nerves, that would not have turned him from his Religion; and the saw placed on top of his head and split into two, that would not have turned him from his Religion; And Allah^-azwj will Complete this matter until the rider would travel from Sana’a up to Hazramaut, not fearing anyone except Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic, and the wolf upon his sheep’.

رَوَاهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ فِي الصَّحِيحِ عَنِ الْحُمَيْدِيِّ وَ أَخْرَجَاهُ‏ مِنْ وَجْهٍ آخَرَ عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ‏ قَالَ وَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحَافِظُ بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ هِشَامٍ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص‏ مَرَّ بِعَمَّارٍ وَ أَهْلِهِ وَ هُمْ يُعَذَّبُونَ فِي اللَّهِ فَقَالَ أَبْشِرُوا آلَ عَمَّارٍ فَإِنَّ مَوْعِدَكُمُ الْجَنَّةُ

Al-Bukhari has reported it in Al-Saheeh, from Al-Hameedi, and extracted it from another aspect from Ismail. He said, ‘It was narrated to us by Al-Hafiz, by his chain from Hisham, from Abu Al-Zubeyr, from Jabir, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww passed by Ammar^-ra and his^-ra family and they were being punished for the Sake of Allah^-azwj. He^-saww said: ‘Receive glad tidings, family of Ammar^-ra, for your Promise is Paradise’.

وَ أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ بُشْرَانَ الْعَدْلُ بِإِسْنَادِهِ عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ قَالَ: أَوَّلُ شَهِيدٍ كَانَ اسْتُشْهِدَ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ أُمُّ عَمَّارٍ سُمَيَّةُ طَعَنَهَا أَبُو جَهْلٍ بِطَعْنَةٍ فِي قُبُلِهَا

And it was narrated to us by Ibn Basharn Al-Adl, by his chain from Mujahid who said, ‘The first martyr to be martyred in Islam was the mother of Ammar^-ra, Samiya. Abu Jahl^-la stabbed her with a stab in her heart.

وَ رَوَى عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ هَاشِمٍ بِإِسْنَادِهِ قَالَ: كَانَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ تَعَرَّضَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص‏ وَ آذَاهُ بِالْكَلَامِ وَ اجْتَمَعَتْ بَنُو هَاشِمٍ فَأَقْبَلَ حَمْزَةُ وَ كَانَ فِي الصَّيْدِ فَنَظَرَ إِلَى اجْتِمَاعِ النَّاسِ فَقَالَ مَا هَذَا فَقَالَتْ لَهُ امْرَأَةٌ مِنْ بَعْضِ السُّطُوحِ يَا بَا يَعْلَى إِنَّ عَمْرَو بْنَ هِشَامٍ تَعَرَّضَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ وَ آذَاهُ

It is reported by Ali Bin Ibrahim Bin Hashim, by his chain, said, ‘Abu Jahl^-la presented to Rasool-Allah^-saww and hurt him^-saww with the speech, and the Clan of Hashim^-as gathered. Hamza^-asws came, and he^-asws was in his hunting. He^-asws looked at the gathering of the people and said: ‘What is this?’ A woman said to him^-asws from one of the rooftops, ‘O Baya’la! Amro Bin Hashim presented to Muhammad^-saww and hurt him^-saww.

فَغَضِبَ حَمْزَةُ وَ مَرَّ نَحْوَ أَبِي جَهْلٍ وَ أَخَذَ قَوْسَهُ فَضَرَبَ بِهَا رَأْسَهُ ثُمَّ احْتَمَلَهُ فَجَلَدَ بِهِ الْأَرْضَ وَ اجْتَمَعَ النَّاسُ وَ كَادَ يَقَعُ فِيهِمْ شَرٌّ فَقَالُوا لَهُ يَا بَا يَعْلَى صَبَوْتَ إِلَى دِينِ ابْنِ أَخِيكَ قَالَ نَعَمْ أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً رَسُولُ اللَّهِ عَلَى جِهَةِ الْغَضَبِ وَ الْحَمِيَّةِ

Hamza^-asws was angered and passed by Abu Jahl^-la and grabbed his^-la bow and struck his^-la head with it, then carried him^-la and threw him^-la on the ground, and the people gathered around, and evil almost occurred among them. They said to him^-asws, ‘Baya’la! You^-asws have inclined to the Religion of the son^-saww of your^-asws brother^-asws’. He^-asws said: ‘Yes, I^-asws testify that there is no god except Allah^-azwj and that Muhammad^-saww is Rasool-Allah^-saww’ – upon an aspect of the anger and the zeal.

فَلَمَّا رَجَعَ إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ نَدِمَ فَغَدَا عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ يَا ابْنَ أَخِ أَ حَقّاً مَا تَقُولُ فَقَرَأَ عَلَيْهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص سُورَةً مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ فَاسْتَبْصَرَ حَمْزَةُ وَ ثَبَتَ عَلَى دِينِ الْإِسْلَامِ وَ فَرِحَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ سَرَّ أَبُو طَالِبٍ بِإِسْلَامِهِ وَ قَالَ فِي ذَلِكَ‏

When he^-asws returned to his^-asws house, he^-asws regretted, and in the morning he^-asws went to Rasool-Allah^-saww and said: ‘O nephew ^-saww! Is it true what you^-saww are saying?’ So, Rasool-Allah^-saww recited unto him^-asws a Chapter from the Quran. Hamza^-asws became insightful and was affirmed upon the Religion of Islam, and Rasool-Allah^-saww was happy and Abu Talib^-asws rejoiced with his^-asws Islam and said a poem regarding that: –

فَصَبْراً أَبَا يَعْلَى عَلَى دِينِ أَحْمَدَ		وَ كُنْ مُظْهِراً لِلدِّينِ وُفِّقْتَ صَابِراً
وَ حُطْ مَنْ أَتَى بِالدِّينِ مِنْ عِنْدِ رَبِّهِ‏		بِصِدْقٍ وَ حَقٍّ لَا تَكُنْ حَمْزُ كَافِراً
فَقَدْ سَرَّنِي إِذْ قُلْتَ إِنَّكَ مُؤْمِنٌ‏		فَكُنْ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ فِي اللَّهِ نَاصِراً
وَ نَادِ قُرَيْشاً بِالَّذِي قَدْ أَتَيْتَهُ‏		جِهَاراً وَ قُلْ مَا كَانَ أَحْمَدُ سَاحِراً

‘Be patient, O Abu Ya’la, upon the religion of Ahmad^-saww, and be one who openly manifests the religion. May you be granted success while remaining patient. Protect the one who has brought the religion from his Lord^-azwj, with truthfulness and truth, and do not be an unbeliever, O Hamza^-ar. It has indeed pleased me when you^-ar said that you^-ar are a believer, so be a supporter of Rasool-Allah^-saww for the sake of Allah^-azwj, and call out to Quraysh with that which you have brought, openly, and say Ahmad^-saww was not a sorcerer’.[46]

39- فر، تفسير فرات بن إبراهيم الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ مُعَنْعَناً عَنْ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ ع قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ لَمَّا نَزَلَتْ عَلَيَّ وَ أَنْذِرِ عَشِيرَتَكَ الْأَقْرَبِينَ وَ رَهْطَكَ مِنْهُمُ الْمُخْلَصِينَ فَقَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ع هَذِهِ قِرَاءَةُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ

‘Tafseer Furat Bin Ibrahim – Al Husayn Bin Saeed,

‘From Ja’far^-asws, from his^-asws father^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘When (the Verse): And warn your kindred, the near ones and your group of sincere ones! [26:214], Abu Ja’far^-asws said: ‘This is the recitation of Abdullah (Bin Mas’oud)’’.[47]

40- فر، تفسير فرات بن إبراهيم عُبَيْدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ مُعَنْعَناً عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى‏ وَ أَنْذِرْ عَشِيرَتَكَ الْأَقْرَبِينَ‏ قَالَ دَعَاهُمْ يَعْنِي النَّبِيَّ ص فَجَمَعَهُمْ عَلَى فَخِذَةِ شَاةٍ وَ قَدَحٍ مِنْ لَبَنٍ‏ أَوْ قَالَ قَعْبٍ مِنْ لَبَنٍ وَ إِنَّ فِيهِمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ ثَلَاثِينَ رَجُلًا يَأْكُلُ كُلُّ رَجُلٍ جَذَعَةً قَالَ فَأَكَلْنَا حَتَّى شَبِعْنَا وَ شَرِبْنَا حَتَّى رَوِينَا

‘Tafseer Furat Bin Ibrahim – Ubeyd Bin Kaseer,

‘From Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws regarding the Words of the Exalted: And warn your kindred, the near ones! [26:214], said: ‘He^-saww called them – meaning the Prophet^-saww, and gathered them upon a thigh of a (grilled) sheep and a cup of milk’, or said, ‘A container of milk, and on that day among them there were thirty men. Each man ate a forearm (of a sheep). So, we (all) ate until we were satiated, and we drank until we were saturated’’.[48]

41- فر، تفسير فرات بن إبراهيم الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَفَّانَ مُعَنْعَناً عَنْ أَبِي رَافِعٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ‏ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص جَمَعَ وُلْدَ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ فِي الشِّعْبِ وَ هُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ وُلْدُهُ لِصُلْبِهِ وَ أَوْلَادُهُمْ أَرْبَعُونَ رَجُلًا فَصَنَعَ لَهُمْ رِجْلَ شَاةٍ وَ ثَرَدَ لَهُمْ ثَرِيدَةً فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِ‏ ذَلِكَ الْمَرَقَ وَ اللَّحْمَ ثُمَّ قَدَّمُوهَا إِلَيْهِمْ فَأَكَلُوا مِنْهُ حَتَّى شَبِعُوا ثُمَّ سَقَاهُمْ عُسّاً وَاحِداً فَشَرِبُوا كُلُّهُمْ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الْعُسِّ حَتَّى رَوُوا

‘Tafseer Furat Bin Ibrahim – Al-Hassan Bin Ali Bin Afan, from Abu Rafie, ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww gathered the sons of Abdul Muttalib^-asws in the cave, and on that day, his^-as son of his^-as lineage and their children were forty men. He^-saww made a leg of a sheep for them, and some porridge, and he^-saww poured that sauce upon the meat, then forwarded it to them. They ate from it until they were satiated, then he^-saww quenched them one cup, and all of them drank from that cup until they were saturated.

ثُمَّ قَالَ أَبُو لَهَبٍ وَ اللَّهِ وَ إِنَّ مِنَّا نَفَرٌ يَأْكُلُ أَحَدُهُمْ الْجَفْرَةَ وَ مَا يُصْلِحُهَا فَمَا يَكَادُ يُشْبِعُهُ وَ يَشْرَبُ الْفَرَقَ مِنَ النَّبِيذِ فَمَا يُرْوِيهِ وَ إِنَّ ابْنَ أَبِي كَبْشَةَ دَعَانَا عَلَى رِجْلِ شَاةٍ وَ عُسٍّ مِنْ شَرَابٍ فَشَبِعْنَا وَ رَوِينَا إِنَّ هَذَا لَهُوَ السِّحْرُ الْمُبِينُ

Then Abu Lahab^-la said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! And even if each one of them had eaten a full-grown goat it would have almost not satiated him, and drunk the pot of Al Nabeez, it would not have saturated him, and the son of Abu Kabasha has called us upon one leg of a (grilled) sheep and a cup of drink, and we are satiated and saturated. Surely, this is due to his^-saww clear sorcery’.

قَالَ ثُمَّ دَعَاهُمْ فَقَالَ لَهُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ أَمَرَنِي أَنْ أُنْذِرَ عَشِيرَتِيَ الْأَقْرَبِينَ وَ رَهْطِيَ الْمُخْلَصِينَ وَ إِنَّكُمْ عَشِيرَتِيَ الْأَقْرَبُونَ‏ وَ رَهْطِيَ الْمُخْلَصُونَ‏ وَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَمْ يَبْعَثْ نَبِيّاً إِلَّا جَعَلَ لَهُ أَخاً مِنْ أَهْلِهِ وَ وَارِثاً وَ وَصِيّاً وَ وَزِيراً فَأَيُّكُمْ يَقُومُ فَيُبَايِعُنِي عَلَى أَنَّهُ أَخِي وَ وَزِيرِي وَ وَارِثِي دُونَ أَهْلِي وَ وَصِيِّي وَ خَلِيفَتِي فِي أَهْلِي وَ يَكُونُ مِنِّي بِمَنْزِلَةِ هَارُونَ مِنْ مُوسَى غَيْرَ أَنَّهُ لَا نَبِيَّ بَعْدِي

He (the narrator) said, ‘Then he called them (again the next day) and said to them: ‘Allah^-azwj has Commanded me^-saww that I^-saww should warn my^-saww kindred, the near ones, and my^-saww group of sincere ones, and you all are my^-saww near relatives and my sincere group, and that Allah^-azwj did not Send any Prophet^-as except He^-azwj Made a brother to be for him^-as from his^-as family and an inheritor, and a successor and a Vizier. Which one of you will stand upon that he would be my^-saww brother, and my^-saww Vizier and my^-saww inheritor besides my^-saww family, and my^-saww successor and my^-saww Caliph among my^-saww family, and be from me^-saww at the status of Haroun^-as from Musa^-as, apart from that there will not be any Prophet^-as after me^-saww?’

فَأَمْسَكَ الْقَوْمُ فَقَالَ وَ اللَّهِ لَيَقُومَنَّ قَائِمُكُمْ أَوْ لَتَكُونَنَ‏ فِي غَيْرِكُمْ ثُمَّ لَتَنْدَمُنَّ فَقَامَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ هُمْ يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَيْهِ كُلُّهُمْ فَبَايَعَهُ وَ أَجَابَهُ إِلَى مَا دَعَاهُ إِلَيْهِ

The people refrained, so he^-saww said: ‘Either one of you stands up or it will happen to be among others, then you will be regretting’. Ali^-asws stood up, and they were looking at him^-asws, all of them, and he^-asws pledged allegiance to him^-saww and answered him^-saww to what he^-saww had called him^-asws to.

فَقَالَ ادْنُ مِنِّي فَدَنَا مِنْهُ فَقَالَ افْتَحْ فَاكَ فَمَجَّ فِي فِيهِ مِنْ رِيقِهِ وَ تَفَلَ بَيْنَ كَتِفَيْهِ وَ بَيْنَ ثَدْيَيْهِ فَقَالَ أَبُو لَهَبٍ لَبِئْسَ مَا حَبَوْتَ بِهِ ابْنَ عَمِّكَ أَجَابَكَ‏ فَمَلَأْتَ فَاهُ وَ وَجْهَهُ بُزَاقاً قَالَ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ص‏ بَلْ مَلَأْتُهُ عِلْماً وَ حِلْماً وَ فَهْماً

He^-saww said: ‘Come near me^-saww’. He^-asws went near him^-saww. He^-saww said: ‘Open your^-asws mouth’, and he^-saww applied his^-saww saliva into his^-asws mouth and spat between his^-asws shoulders and between his^-asws breasts. Abu Lahab^-la said, ‘Evil is what you^-saww love your^-saww cousin^-asws with. He^-asws answers you^-as and you^-saww fill his^-asws mouth and his^-asws face with saliva?’ The Prophet^-saww said: ‘But I^-saww filled him^-asws with knowledge and forbearance and understanding.[49]

42- كا، الكافي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنِ ابْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ جَعْفَراً ع يَقُولُ‏ جَاءَ جَبْرَئِيلُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ رَبُّكَ يُقْرِئُكَ السَّلَامَ وَ يَقُولُ لَكَ دَارُ خَلْقِي

‘Al Kafi’ – Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Al Husayn Bin Al-Hassan who said,

‘I heard Ja’far^-asws saying: ‘Jibraeel^-as came over to the Prophet^-saww and he^-as said: ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Your^-saww Lord^-azwj Coveys the greetings to you^-as, and is Saying to you^-saww: “Be polite with My^-azwj creatures.[50]

43- كا، الكافي أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ بَزِيعٍ عَنْ حَمْزَةَ بْنِ بَزِيعٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ أَمَرَنِي رَبِّي بِمُدَارَاةِ النَّاسِ كَمَا أَمَرَنِي بِأَدَاءِ الْفَرَائِضِ

‘Al Kafi’ – Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar, from Muhammad Bin Ismail Bin Bazie, from Abdullah Bin Sinan,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘My^-azwj Lord^-azwj Commanded me with being polite with the people just as He^-azwj Commanded with the fulfilment of the Obligations’’.[51]

44- كا، الكافي الْعِدَّةُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى الثَّوْرِيِّ الْعَطَّارِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ الْعَلَوِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ ع قَالَ: لَمَّا أَمَرَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ رَسُولَهُ ص بِإِظْهَارِ الْإِسْلَامِ وَ ظَهَرَ الْوَحْيُ رَأَى قِلَّةً مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَ كَثْرَةً مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ فَاهْتَمَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص هَمّاً شَدِيداً فَبَعَثَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ إِلَيْهِ جَبْرَئِيلَ ع بِسِدْرٍ مِنْ سِدْرَةِ الْمُنْتَهَى فَغَسَلَ بِهِ رَأْسَهُ فَجَلَا بِهِ هَمَّهُ

‘Al Kafi’ – Then number (of reporters), from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ali, from Ubeyd Bin Yahya Al Sowry Al Ataar, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn Al Alawy, from his father, from his grandfather,

‘From Ali^-asws having said: ‘When Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Commanded His^-azwj Rasool^-saww with manifesting Islam and the Revelation appeared, he^-saww looked at the scarcity of the Muslims and the abundance of the Polytheists. Rasool-Allah^-saww became feverish with intense fever, so Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Sent Jibraeel^-as to him^-saww with a lotus from the Lotus Tree and washed his^-saww head with it, and his^-saww fever receded from him^-saww’’.[52]

45- كا، الكافي الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْمُعَلَّى عَنِ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ وَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالا إِنَّ النَّاسَ لَمَّا كَذَّبُوا بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص هَمَّ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى بِهَلَاكِ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا عَلِيّاً فَمَا سِوَاهُ بِقَوْلِهِ‏ فَتَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ فَما أَنْتَ بِمَلُومٍ‏ ثُمَّ بَدَا لَهُ فَرَحِمَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ثُمَّ قَالَ لِنَبِيِّهِ ص‏ وَ ذَكِّرْ فَإِنَّ الذِّكْرى‏ تَنْفَعُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ‏

‘Al Kafi’ – And by this chain, from Abaan, from Abu Baseer, who has said:

Abu Ja’far^-asws and Abu Abdullah^-asws, both of them^-asws said: ‘When the people belied Rasool-Allah^-saww, Allah^-azwj Blessed and Exalted Decided to Destroy the people of the earth except for Ali^-asws and no one else, by His^-azwj Statement: So turn away from them, for you are not with a blame [51:54]. Then Changed (His^-azwj Decision)  for them, so He^-azwj was Merciful to the Momineen. Then He^-azwj Said to His^-azwj Prophet^-saww: And continue to remind, for surely the Zikr benefits the Momineen [51:55]’’.[53]

Notes –

عَنِ الْمُعَلَّى بْنِ خُنَيْسٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع‏ أَنَّ يَوْمَ النَّيْرُوزِ هُوَ الْيَوْمُ الَّذِي هَبَطَ فِيهِ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ص

From Al-Moalla Bin Khuneys, from Abu Abdullah^-asws: ‘The day of Al Neyrouz, it is the day in which Jibraeel^-as descended unto the Prophet^-saww’.

46- وَ رَوَى السَّيِّدُ بْنُ طَاوُسٍ فِي كِتَابِ سَعْدِ السُّعُودِ، مِنْ كِتَابِ تَفْسِيرِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْعَبَّاسِ بْنِ مَرْوَانَ عَنِ حُسَيْنِ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ الْخَيْبَرِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جَرِيرٍ عَنْ زَكَرِيَّا بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ عَفَّانَ بْنِ سَلْمَانَ قَالَ وَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ الْكَاتِبُ عَنْ جَدِّهِ عَنْ عَفَّانَ وَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ زَكَرِيَّا عَنِ الْوَاحِدِ بْنِ غِيَاثٍ قَالا حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ عَنْ أَبِي صَادِقٍ عَنْ أَبِي رَبِيعَةَ بْنِ نَاجِدٍ

And it is reported by Al Seyyid Ibn Tawoos in the book of Sa’ad Al Saoud from the book of Tafseer of Muhammad Bin Al-Abbas Bin Marwan, from Husayn Bin Al Hakam Al Kahybari, from Muhammad Bin Jareer, from Zakariyya Bin Yahya, from Afan Bin Salman, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad Al Katib, from his grandfather, from Afan, from Abdul Uzayr Bin Yahya, from Musa Bin Zakariya, from Al Wahid Bin Gayas, from Abu Awana, from Usman Bin Al Mugheira, from Abu Sadiq, from Abu Rabie Bin Najid,

أَنَّ رَجُلًا قَالَ لِعَلِيٍّ ع يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ لِمَ وَرِثْتَ ابْنَ عَمِّكَ دُونَ عَمِّكَ قَالَهَا ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ حَتَّى اشْرَأَبَّ النَّاسُ وَ نَشَرُوا آذَانَهُمْ

‘A man said to Ali^-asws, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen^-asws! Why did you^-asws inherit the son^-saww of your^-asws uncle^-asws besides your^-asws uncle?’ He said it three times until the people raised their necks and strained to listen.

ثُمَّ قَالَ جَمَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص أَوْ دَعَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ كُلُّهُمْ يَأْكُلُ الْجَذَعَةَ وَ يَشْرَبُ الْفَرَقَ قَالَ فَصَنَعَ لَهُمْ مُدّاً مِنْ طَعَامٍ فَأَكَلُوا حَتَّى شَبِعُوا قَالَ وَ بَقِيَ الطَّعَامُ كَمَا هُوَ كَأَنَّهُ لَمْ يُمَسَّ وَ لَمْ يُشْرَبْ ‏

Then he^-asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww gathered – or Rasool-Allah^-saww called – the Clan of Abdul Muttalib^-asws. All of them could have eaten the camel and drunk the pot (of water). I^-asws made a Mud of food for them, and they ate until they were satiated, and the food remained just as it was, as if it had not been touched and not been drunk.

فَقَالَ يَا بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ إِنِّي بُعِثْتُ إِلَيْكُمْ بِخَاصَّةٍ وَ إِلَى النَّاسِ بِعَامَّةٍ وَ قَدْ رَأَيْتُمْ مِنْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةِ مَا رَأَيْتُمْ‏ فَأَيُّكُمْ يُبَايِعُنِي عَلَى أَنْ يَكُونَ أَخِي وَ صَاحِبِي وَ وَارِثِي فَلَمْ يَقُمْ إِلَيْهِ أَحَدٌ

He^-saww said: ‘O Clan of Abdul Muttalib^-asws! I^-saww have been Sent to you all in particular and to the people in general, and I^-saww have shown you from these Signs which you have seen. Which one of you will pledge allegiance to me upon that he would become my^-saww brother, and my^-saww companion and my^-saww inheritor?’ But no one stood up to (answer) him^-saww.

قَالَ فَقُمْتُ وَ كُنْتُ أَصْغَرَ الْقَوْمِ سِنّاً فَقَالَ اجْلِسْ قَالَ ثُمَّ قَالَ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ كُلَّ ذَلِكَ أَقُومُ إِلَيْهِ فَيَقُولُ لِيَ اجْلِسْ حَتَّى كَانَتِ الثَّالِثَةُ ضَرَبَ يَدَهُ عَلَى يَدِي فَقَالَ فَلِذَلِكَ وَرِثْتُ ابْنَ عَمِّي دُونَ عَمِّي

He^-asws said: ‘I^-asws stood up, and I^-asws was the youngest of the people in years. He^-saww said: ‘Be seated’. Then he^-asws said it three times, during all that I^-asws stood up to (answer) him^-saww, so he^-saww said to me^-asws: ‘Be seated, until it was three times, he^-saww struck his^-saww hand upon my^-asws hands. Thus, due to that, I^-asws inherited the son^-saww of my^-asws uncle^-asws besides my^-asws uncle’’.[54]

47- أَقُولُ ثُمَّ رَوَى السَّيِّدُ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ فِي الْكِتَابِ الْمَسْطُورِ مِنَ الْكِتَابِ الْمَذْكُورِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ الْبَاهِلِيِّ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ النَّهَاوَنْدِيِّ عَنْ عَمَّارِ بْنِ حَمَّادٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شِمْرٍ عَنْ مُبَارَكِ بْنِ فَضَّالٍ‏ وَ الْعَامَّةُ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ص قَالَ: إِنَّ قَوْماً خَاضُوا فِي بَعْضِ أَمْرِ عَلِيٍّ ع بَعْدَ الَّذِي كَانَ مِنْ وَقْعَةِ الْجَمَلِ قَالَ الرَّجُلُ الَّذِي سَمِعَ مِنَ‏ الْحَسَنِ الْحَدِيثَ وَيْلَكُمْ مَا تُرِيدُونَ مِنْ أَوَّلِ السَّابِقِ بِالْإِيمَانِ بِاللَّهِ وَ الْإِقْرَارِ بِمَا جَاءَ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘Then the Seyyid reported in the written book from the mentioned book, from Muhammad Al Bahily, from Ibrahim Bin Is’haq Al Nahawandy, from Amar bin Hamad al Ansary, from Amro Bin Shimr, from Mubarak Bin Fazal and the general Mmuslims from Al-Hassan,

‘From a man from the companions of the Prophet^-saww who said, ‘A group fought regarding one of the matters of Ali^-asws after what happened, from the event of the (battle of) the camel. The man who heard the Hadeeth from Al-Hassan said, ‘Woe be unto you! What do you want from the first one who preceded with the Eman with Allah^-azwj, and the acknowledgement with what has come from the Presence of Allah^-azwj?

لَقَدْ كُنْتُ عَاشِرَ عَشَرَةٍ مِنْ وُلْدِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ إِذْ أَتَانَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع فَقَالَ أَجِيبُوا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص إِلَى غَدٍ فِي مَنْزِلِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَتَغَامَزْنَا فَلَمَّا وَلَّى قُلْنَا أَ تَرَى مُحَمَّداً أَنْ يُشْبِعَنَا الْيَوْمَ وَ مَا مِنَّا يَوْمَئِذٍ مِنَ الْعَشَرَةِ رَجُلًا إِلَّا وَ هُوَ يَأْكُلُ الْجَذَعَةَ السَّمِينَةَ وَ يَشْرَبُ الْفَرَقَ مِنَ اللَّبَنِ

I was the tenth of the ten from the sons of Abdul Muttalib^-asws when Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws came to us and said, ‘Answer Rasool-Allah^-saww to a lunch in the house of Abu Talib^-asws’. So, we winked at each other. When he^-asws had gone back, we said, ‘Do you see Muhammad^-saww to (be able to) satiate us today?’ And on that day there was none from the ten of us any man except, that he could eat the fat sheep and drink the pot of milk.

فَغَدَوْا عَلَيْهِ فِي مَنْزِلِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ وَ إِذَا نَحْنُ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص فَحَيَّيْنَاهُ بِتَحِيَّةِ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ وَ حَيَّانَا هُوَ بِتَحِيَّةِ الْإِسْلَامِ فَأَوَّلُ مَا أَنْكَرْنَا مِنْهُ ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ أَمَرَ بِجَفْنَةٍ مِنْ خُبْزٍ وَ لَحْمٍ فَقُدِّمَتْ إِلَيْنَا وَ وَضَعَ يَدَهُ الْيُمْنَى عَلَى ذِرْوَتِهَا وَ قَالَ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ كُلُوا عَلَى اسْمِ اللَّهِ

We went to him^-asws in the house of Abu Talib^-asws, and there we were with Rasool-Allah^-saww. We greeted him^-saww with the greeting of the Pre-Islamic period and he^-saww greeted us with the greeting of Islam. So, the first of what we denied from him^-saww was that. Then he^-saww called for a tray of bread and meat and forwarded it to us, and he^-saww placed his^-saww right hand upon its sheep and said: ‘In the Name of Allah^-azwj! Eat in the Name of Allah^-azwj’.

فَتَغَيَّرْنَا لِذَلِكَ ثُمَّ تَمَسَّكْنَا لِحَاجَتِنَا إِلَى الطَّعَامِ وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّنَا جَوَّعْنَا أَنْفُسَنَا لِلْمِيعَادِ بِالْأَمْسِ فَأَكَلْنَا حَتَّى انْتَهَيْنَا وَ الْجَفْنَةُ كَمَا هِيَ مُدْفَقَةٌ ثُمَّ دَفَعَ إِلَيْنَا عُسّاً مِنْ لَبَنٍ فَكَانَ عَلِيٌّ يَخْدُمُنَا فَشَرِبْنَا كُلُّنَا حَتَّى رَوِينَا وَ الْعُسُّ عَلَى حَالِهِ حَتَّى إِذَا فَرَغْنَا

We changed to that, then we withheld due our need for the meal, and that we had kept ourselves hungry for the appointment since the day before. We ate until we ended, and the tray was just as it had been (full of food). Then he^-saww handed over a pitcher of milk, and Ali^-asws served us, and all of us drank until we were saturated, and the pitcher was upon its state (still full), until when we were free, he^-saww said:

قَالَ يَا بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ إِنِّي نَذِيرٌ لَكُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ جَلَّ وَ عَزَّ إِنِّي أَتَيْتُكُمْ بِمَا لَمْ يَأْتِ بِهِ أَحَدٌ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ فَإِنْ تُطِيعُونِي تَرْشُدُوا وَ تُفْلِحُوا وَ تَنْجَحُوا إِنَّ هَذِهِ مَائِدَةٌ أَمَرَنِيَ اللَّهُ بِهَا فَصَنَعْتُهَا لَكُمْ كَمَا صَنَعَ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ ع لِقَوْمِهِ فَمَنْ كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ مِنْكُمْ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يُعَذِّبُهُ عَذَاباً لَا يُعَذِّبُهُ أَحَداً مِنَ الْعَالَمِينَ‏ وَ اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَ اسْمَعُوا مَا أَقُولُ لَكُمْ

‘O sons of Abdul Muttalib^-asws! I^-saww am a warner to you all from Allah^-azwj Majestic and Mighty. I^-saww have come to you with what no one from the Arabs has come with, so if you were to obey me^-saww you will be rightly guided and be successful and achieve. This is a meal which Allah^-azwj had Commanded me^-saww, so I^-saww made it for you just as Isa^-as Ibn Maryam^-as had done it to his^-as people. The one from you who disbelieves after that, then Allah^-azwj will Punish him with such a Punishment He^-azwj has not Punished anyone from the world, and fear Allah^-azwj and listen to what I^-saww am saying to you.

وَ اعْلَمُوا يَا بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ أَنَّ اللَّهَ لَمْ يَبْعَثْ رَسُولًا إِلَّا جَعَلَ لَهُ أَخاً وَ وَزِيراً وَ وَصِيّاً وَ وَارِثاً مِنْ أَهْلِهِ وَ قَدْ جَعَلَ لِي وَزِيراً كَمَا جَعَلَ لِلْأَنْبِيَاءِ قَبْلِي وَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ أَرْسَلَنِي إِلَى النَّاسِ كَافَّةً

And know, O sons of Abdul Muttalib^-asws, that Allah^-azwj did not Send any Messenger except He^-azwj Made a brother to be for him^-as, and a Vizier and an inheritor, from his^-as family members, and He^-azwj has Made for me^-saww a Vizier just as He^-azwj had Made for the Prophets^-as before me^-saww; and Allah^-azwj has Sent me^-saww to the people altogether.

وَ أَنْزَلَ عَلَيَّ وَ أَنْذِرْ عَشِيرَتَكَ الْأَقْرَبِينَ وَ رَهْطَكَ الْمُخْلَصِينَ وَ قَدْ وَ اللَّهِ أَنْبَأَنِي بِهِ وَ سَمَّاهُ لِي وَ لَكِنْ أَمَرَنِي أَنْ أَدْعُوَكُمْ وَ أَنْصَحَ لَكُمْ وَ أَعْرِضَ عَلَيْكُمْ لِئَلَّا يَكُونَ لَكُمُ الْحُجَّةُ فِيمَا بَعْدُ وَ أَنْتُمْ عَشِيرَتِي وَ خَالِصُ رَهْطِي فَأَيُّكُمْ يَسْبِقُ إِلَيْهَا عَلَى أَنْ يُؤَاخِيَنِي فِي اللَّهِ وَ يُوَازِرَنِي فِي اللَّهِ جَلَّ وَ عَزَّ

And it has been Revealed unto me^-saww: And warn your kindred, the near ones and your group of sincere ones! [26:214]; and by Allah^-azwj He^-saww has Given me^-saww the News of it and Caused me^-saww to hear it, but He^-saww Commanded me^-saww to invite you all and advise you, and present to you lest the need happens to be for you in what is to come afterwards; and you are my^-saww kindred and the sincere ones of my^-saww group. Which one of you will precede to it, upon (a stipulation) that he^-saww will establish brotherhood for me^-saww for the Sake of Allah^-azwj, and be my^-saww Vizier for the Sake of Allah^-azwj Majestic and Mighty?

وَ مَعَ ذَلِكَ يَكُونُ لِي يَداً عَلَى جَمِيعِ مَنْ خَالَفَنِي فَأَتَّخِذُهُ وَصِيّاً وَ وَلِيّاً وَ وَزِيراً يُؤَدِّي عَنِّي وَ يُبَلِّغُ رِسَالَتِي وَ يَقْضِي دَيْنِي مِنْ بَعْدِي وَ عِدَاتِي مَعَ أَشْيَاءَ اشْتَرَطَهَا

And, along with that, he will happen to be a hand for me^-saww upon the entirety of the ones left behind me^-saww, so I^-saww will take him as a successor, and a guardian, and a Vizier. He will execute (matters) on my^-saww behalf, and deliver my^-saww Message, and fulfil my^-saww debts from after me^-saww and my^-saww promises made, with the things I^-saww have stipulated’.

فَسَكَتُوا فَأَعَادَهَا ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ كُلَّهَا لَيَسْكُتُونَ‏ وَ يَثِبُ فِيهَا عَلِيٌّ فَلَمَّا سَمِعَهَا أَبُو لَهَبٍ قَالَ تَبّاً لَكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ وَ لِمَا جِئْتَنَا بِهِ أَ لِهَذَا دَعَوْتَنَا وَ هَمَّ أَنْ يَقُومَ مُوَلِّياً فَقَالَ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ لَتَقُومُنَّ أَوْ يَكُونُ فِي غَيْرِكُمْ

Everyone was silent, and he^-saww repeated it three times; during all of these they were silent, and Ali^-asws leapt up during these (calls). When Abu Lahab^-la heard it, he^-la said, ‘May your^-saww hands break, O Muhammad^-saww, and to what you^-saww have come to us with. Is it for this you^-saww called us?’ And they thought of arising to turn back. He^-saww said: ‘But, by Allah^-azwj, you are arising, or it would happen to be among others.

وَ قَالَ يُحَرِّصُهُمْ لِئَلَّا يَكُونَ لِأَحَدٍ مِنْهُمْ فِيمَا بَعْدَ حُجَّةٌ قَالَ فَوَثَبَ عَلِيٌّ ع فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَنَا لَهَا فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ أَنْتَ لَهَا قُضِيَ الْقَضَاءُ وَ جَفَّ الْقَلَمُ‏ يَا عَلِيُّ اصْطَفَاكَ اللَّهُ بِأَوَّلِهَا وَ جَعَلَكَ وَلِيَّ آخِرِهَا

And he^-saww said: ‘(Then you) will covet them perhaps there will be a need for anyone from them afterwards’. Ali^-asws leapt up and said: ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! I^-asws am for it’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘O Abu Al-Hassan^-asws! You^-asws are for it. The Ordainment has come to pass, and the Pen has dried up (Raised). O Ali^-asws! Allah^-azwj had Chosen you^-asws at the beginning of it and Made you^-asws at the end of it’’.[55]

48- نهج، نهج البلاغة إِلَى أَنْ بَعَثَ اللَّهُ سُبْحَانَهُ مُحَمَّداً لِإِنْجَازِ عِدَتِهِ وَ تَمَامِ نُبُوَّتِهِ مَأْخُوذاً عَلَى النَّبِيِّينَ مِيثَاقَهُ مَشْهُورَةً سِمَاتُهُ‏ كَرِيماً مِيلَادُهُ وَ أَهْلُ الْأَرْضِ يَوْمَئِذٍ مِلَلٌ مُتَفَرِّقَةٌ وَ أَهْوَاءٌ مُنْتَشِرَةٌ وَ طَرَائِقُ‏ مُتَشَتِّتَةٌ بَيْنَ مُشَبِّهٍ لِلَّهِ بِخَلْقِهِ أَوْ مُلْحِدٍ فِي اسْمِهِ أَوْ مُشِيرٍ إِلَى غَيْرِهِ

Nahj (Balagha)– ‘Up to the time when Allah^-azwj the Glorious Sent Muhammad^-saww to Fulfil His^-azwj Promise and Complete his^-saww Prophet-hood, having been Taken as a Covenant upon the Prophet^-saww, his^-saww name being well-known (in the previous Books), his^-saww birth being honourable; and on that day the people of the earth were of different religion and separate thinking, and being on various paths – between resembling Allah^-azwj to His^-azwj creatures, or being apostates in His^-azwj Name, or indicating to someone else.

فَهَدَاهُمْ بِهِ مِنَ الضَّلَالَةِ وَ أَنْقَذَهُمْ بِمَكَانِهِ مِنَ الْجَهَالَةِ ثُمَّ اخْتَارَ سُبْحَانَهُ لِمُحَمَّدٍ لِقَاءَهُ وَ رَضِيَ لَهُ مَا عِنْدَهُ وَ أَكْرَمَهُ عَنْ دَارِ الدُّنْيَا وَ رَغِبَ بِهِ عَنْ مُقَارَبَةِ الْبَلْوَى فَقَبَضَهُ إِلَيْهِ كَرِيماً ص‏

He^-saww guided them from straying and saved them from the ignorance in its place. Then the Glorious Chose for Muhammad^-saww to meet Him^-azwj, and Pleased for him^-saww what is with Him^-azwj, and Honoured him^-saww from the house of the world, and Desired him^-saww to be away from the place of affliction, so He^-azwj Captured him^-saww, the honourable one, to Him^-azwj’’.[56]

49- نهج، نهج البلاغة وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ أَرْسَلَهُ بِالدِّينِ الْمَشْهُورِ وَ الْعِلْمِ الْمَأْثُورِ وَ الْكِتَابِ الْمَسْطُورِ وَ النُّورِ السَّاطِعِ وَ الضِّيَاءِ اللَّامِعِ وَ الْأَمْرِ الصَّادِعِ إِزَاحَةً لِلشُّبُهَاتِ وَ احْتِجَاجاً بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ وَ تَحْذِيراً بِالْآيَاتِ وَ تَخْوِيفاً لِلْمَثُلَاتِ‏

Nahj (Balagha) – ‘And I^-asws testify that Muhammad^-saww is His^-azwj servant and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww, having Sent him^-saww well-known Religion, and the inherited knowledge, and the written Book, and the shining Noor, and the illumination for the blindness, and the proclaimed matter clarifying the doubtful matters, and the argumentation with the proof, and the warning with the Signs, and the frightening with the Punishments.

وَ النَّاسُ فِي فِتَنٍ انْجَذَمَ‏ فِيهَا حَبْلُ الدِّينِ وَ تَزَعْزَعَتْ سَوَارِي الْيَقِينِ وَ اخْتَلَفَ النَّجْرُ وَ تَشَتَّتَ الْأَمْرُ وَ ضَاقَ الْمَخْرَجُ وَ عَمِيَ الْمَصْدَرُ فَالْهُدَى خَامِلٌ وَ الْعَمَى شَامِلٌ عُصِيَ الرَّحْمَنُ وَ نُصِرَ الشَّيْطَانُ وَ خُذِلَ الْإِيمَانُ فَانْهَارَتْ دَعَائِمُهُ

And the people were in strife, the rope of Religion was cut off, and removed from the certainty, and people differed, and the commands were various, and the way out was narrow, and the chests were blinded. The guided ones were inactive, and the comprehending ones were blinded, and the Beneficent was disobeyed, and the Satan^-la was aided, and the Eman was abandoned.

وَ تَنَكَّرَتْ مَعَالِمُهُ وَ دَرَسَتْ سُبُلُهُ وَ عَفَتْ‏ شُرُكُهُ أَطَاعُوا الشَّيْطَانَ فَسَلَكُوا مَسَالِكَهُ وَ وَرَدُوا مَنَاهِلَهُ بِهِمْ سَارَتْ أَعْلَامُهُ وَ قَامَ لِوَاؤُهُ فِي فِتَنٍ‏ دَاسَتْهُمْ بِأَخْفَافِهَا وَ وَطِئَتْهُمْ بِأَظْلَافِهَا وَ قَامَتْ عَلَى سَنَابِكِهَا

And His^-azwj Teachings were denied, and his^-la ways were learnt, and his^-la participation was obscured. They followed the Satan^-la and travelled his^-la ways, and they drank from his^-la fountains. By them, his^-la banners came to be, and his^-la flag was raised. During the Fitna they were trampled by its stupidity, and put down by its fists and stood upon its branches.

فَهُمْ فِيهَا تَائِهُونَ حَائِرُونَ جَاهِلُونَ مَفْتُونُونَ فِي خَيْرِ دَارٍ وَ شَرِّ جِيرَانٍ نَوْمُهُمْ سُهُودٌ وَ كُحْلُهُمْ دُمُوعٌ بِأَرْضٍ عَالِمُهَا مُلْجَمٌ وَ جَاهِلُهَا مُكْرَمٌ‏

During it there were lost, confused, ignorant, tempted, being in a good house and an evil neighbourhood. They were deprived of sleep, and their Kohl was tears, in a land where the learned were restrained, and the ignorant were honoured.[57]

50- نهج، نهج البلاغة أَرْسَلَهُ عَلَى حِينِ فَتْرَةٍ مِنَ الرُّسُلِ وَ طُولِ هَجْعَةٍ مِنَ الْأُمَمِ وَ اعْتِزَامٍ‏ مِنَ الْفِتَنِ وَ انْتِشَارٍ مِنَ الْأُمُورِ وَ تَلَظٍّ مِنَ الْحُرُوبِ وَ الدُّنْيَا كَاسِفَةُ النُّورِ ظَاهِرَةُ الْغُرُورِ عَلَى حِينِ اصْفِرَارٍ مِنْ وَرَقِهَا وَ إِيَاسٍ مِنْ ثَمَرِهَا وَ اغْوِرَارٍ مِنْ مَائِهَا

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘He^-azwj Sent him^-saww upon a gap period from the Messengers, and a prolonged slumber from the communities, and their being overcome by the Fitna, and the scattering of the affairs, and flares of wars, and the world was eclipsed of the Noor. The deception had appeared upon a decay of its leaves (decline of the good times), and despair from its fruits, and depletion from its waters.

قَدْ دَرَسَتْ أَعْلَامُ الْهُدَى‏ وَ ظَهَرَتْ أَعْلَامُ الرَّدَى فَهِيَ مُتَجَهِّمَةٌ لِأَهْلِهَا عَابِسَةٌ فِي وَجْهِ طَالِبِهَا ثَمَرُهَا الْفِتْنَةُ وَ طَعَامُهَا الْجِيفَةُ وَ شِعَارُهَا الْخَوْفُ وَ دِثَارُهَا السَّيْفُ

The signs of guidance had been obliterated, and the signs of annihilation had appeared. It was gloomy for its people, frowning in the face of its seeker. Its fruit was the Fitna and its food was the carcass, and its clothing was the fear, and its blanket was the sword.[58]

51- نهج، نهج البلاغة بَعَثَهُ وَ النَّاسُ ضُلَّالٌ فِي حَيْرَةٍ وَ حَاطِبُونَ‏ فِي فِتْنَةٍ قَدِ اسْتَهْوَتْهُمُ الْأَهْوَاءُ وَ اسْتَزَلَّتْهُمُ الْكِبْرِيَاءُ وَ اسْتَخَفَّتْهُمُ الْجَاهِلِيَّةُ الْجَهْلَاءُ حَيَارَى فِي زَلْزَالٍ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ وَ بَلَاءٍ مِنَ الْجَهْلِ فَبَالَغَ ص فِي النَّصِيحَةِ وَ مَضَى عَلَى الطَّرِيقَةِ وَ دَعَا إِلَى الْحِكْمَةِ وَ الْمَوْعِظَةِ الْحَسَنَةِ

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘He^-azwj Sent him^-asws, and the people were in confusion, and they were adjusting in Fitna, the personal desires having overwhelmed them, and the self-greatness (arrogance) had gripped them, and the ignorance of the ignoramuses had undervalued them, being confused in the tremors of the matters and the afflictions from the ignorance. He^-saww delivered regarding the advice and went upon the way, and called to the wisdom and the goodly exhortations’’.[59]

52- نهج، نهج البلاغة أَمَّا بَعْدُ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ سُبْحَانَهُ بَعَثَ مُحَمَّداً ص وَ لَيْسَ أَحَدٌ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ يَقْرَأُ كِتَاباً وَ لَا يَدَّعِي نُبُوَّةً وَ لَا وَحْياً فَقَاتَلَ بِمَنْ أَطَاعَهُ مَنْ عَصَاهُ يَسُوقُهُمْ إِلَى مَنْجَاتِهِمْ وَ يُبَادِرُ السَّاعَةَ أَنْ تَنْزِلَ بِهِمْ يَحْسِرُ الْحَسِيرُ وَ يَقِفُ الْكَسِيرُ فَيُقِيمُ عَلَيْهِ حَتَّى يُلْحِقَهُ غَايَتَهُ إِلَّا هَالِكاً لَا خَيْرَ فِيهِ حَتَّى أَرَاهُمْ مَنْجَاتَهُمْ وَ بَوَّأَهُمْ مَحَلَّتَهُمْ فَاسْتَدَارَتْ رَحَاهُمْ وَ اسْتَقَامَتْ قَنَاتُهُمْ‏

‘Nahj Balagha’ – However, Allah^-azwj the Glorious Sent Muhammad^-saww and there wasn’t anyone from the Arabs who had read a Book, nor claimed Prophethood, nor any Revelation. He^-saww fought with the ones who obeyed him^-saww against the ones who disobeyed him^-saww, ushering them to their salvation, and lest the Hour should descend with them, feeling the feelings, and mending the broken until it reached its peak, only destroying the one who had no good in him, until he^-saww had shown them their salvation, and their neighbourhoods had been destroyed so he^-saww turned them around and established their channels’’.[60]

53- نهج، نهج البلاغة أَرْسَلَهُ دَاعِياً إِلَى الْحَقِّ وَ شَاهِداً عَلَى الْخَلْقِ فَبَلَّغَ رِسَالاتِ رَبِّهِ غَيْرَ وَانٍ وَ لَا مُقَصِّرٍ وَ جَاهَدَ فِي اللَّهِ أَعْدَاءَهُ غَيْرَ وَاهِنٍ وَ لَا مُعَذِّرٍ إِمَامُ مَنِ اتَّقَى وَ بَصَرُ مَنِ اهْتَدَى

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘He^-azwj Sent him^-saww as a caller to the Truth, and a witness upon the creatures, so he^-saww delivered the Message of his^-saww Lord^-azwj without alterations nor being deficient, and he^-saww fought against His^-azwj enemies in the Way of Allah^-azwj with neither weakness nor excuses, leading the one who fears and making insightful the one who sought guidance’’.[61]

54- نهج، نهج البلاغة أَرْسَلَهُ عَلَى حِينِ فَتْرَةٍ مِنَ الرُّسُلِ وَ تَنَازُعٍ مِنَ الْأَلْسُنِ فَقَفَّى بِهِ الرُّسُلَ وَ خَتَمَ بِهِ الْوَحْيَ فَجَاهَدَ فِي اللَّهِ الْمُدْبِرِينَ عَنْهُ وَ الْعَادِلِينَ بِهِ‏

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘He^-azwj Sent him^-asws upon a gap period from the Messengers, and contending of the tongues, so He^-azwj Stopped the Messengers with him^-saww and Sealed the revelation with him^-saww. He^-azwj fought for the Sake of Allah^-azwj the ones who turned around from Him^-azwj and the ones who set up rivals with Him^-azwj’’.[62]

55- نهج، نهج البلاغة فَبَعَثَ مُحَمَّداً ص بِالْحَقِّ لِيُخْرِجَ عِبَادَهُ مِنْ عِبَادَةِ الْأَوْثَانِ إِلَى عِبَادَتِهِ وَ مِنْ طَاعَةِ الشَّيْطَانِ إِلَى طَاعَتِهِ بِقُرْآنٍ قَدْ بَيَّنَهُ وَ أَحْكَمَهُ لِيَعْلَمَ الْعِبَادُ رَبَّهُمْ إِذْ جَهِلُوهُ وَ لِيُقِرُّوا بِهِ‏ إِذْ جَحَدُوهُ وَ لِيُثْبِتُوهُ بَعْدَ إِذْ أَنْكَرُوهُ ‏

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘He^-azwj Sent Muhammad^-saww with the Truth in order to extract His^-azwj servants from worshipping the idols to worshipping Him^-azwj, and from obeying the Satan^-la to obeying Him^-azwj, with a Quran he^-saww had explained and judged by in order to teach the servant of their Lord^-azwj when they were ignorant, and for him^-saww to recited with it when they argued against him^-saww, and for him^-saww to prove Him^-azwj when they denied Him^-azwj.

فَتَجَلَّى سُبْحَانَهُ لَهُمْ فِي كِتَابِهِ مِنْ غَيْرِ أَنْ يَكُونُوا رَأَوْهُ بِمَا أَرَاهُمْ مِنْ قُدْرَتِهِ وَ خَوَّفَهُمْ مِنْ سَطْوَتِهِ وَ كَيْفَ مَحَقَ مَنْ مَحَقَ بِالْمَثُلَاتِ وَ احْتَصَدَ مَنِ احْتَصَدَ بِالنَّقِمَاتِ

The Glorious Flashed to them in His^-azwj Book from without them becoming seeing Him^-azwj, with what He^-azwj Showed them of His^-azwj Power, and Scared them of His^-azwj Dominance, and how He^-azwj had Annihilated the ones He^-azwj had Annihilated with the Punishments and Cut-down the ones He^-azwj had Cut-down with the scourges.[63]

56- نهج، نهج البلاغة وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ وَ نَجِيبُهُ وَ صَفْوَتُهُ لَا يُوَازَى فَضْلُهُ وَ لَا يُجْبَرُ فَقْدُهُ أَضَاءَتْ بِهِ الْبِلَادُ بَعْدَ الضَّلَالَةِ الْمُظْلِمَةِ وَ الْجَهَالَةِ الْغَالِبَةِ وَ الْجَفْوَةِ الْجَافِيَةِ وَ النَّاسُ‏ يَسْتَحِلُّونَ الْحَرِيمَ وَ يَسْتَذِلُّونَ الْحَكِيمَ يَحْيَوْنَ عَلَى فَتْرَةٍ وَ يَمُوتُونَ عَلَى كَفْرَةٍ

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘And I^-asws testify that Muhammad^-saww is His^-azwj servant and His^-saww Rasool^-saww, and His^-saww Highborn, and His^-azwj Elite. Neither can his^-saww merits be equalled nor has his^-saww loss be replaced. The country was illuminated by his after the dark straying, and the overwhelming ignorance, and the arid dryness, and the people were legalising the Prohibition and were exhausting the wise ones, and were living upon the interval (gap period of the Prophets^-as) and dying upon the Kufr’’.[64]

57- نهج، نهج البلاغة أَرْسَلَهُ عَلَى حِينِ فَتْرَةٍ مِنَ الرُّسُلِ وَ طُولِ هَجْعَةٍ مِنَ الْأُمَمِ وَ انْتِقَاضٍ مِنَ الْمُبْرَمِ فَجَاءَهُمْ بِتَصْدِيقِ الَّذِي بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ وَ النُّورِ الْمُقْتَدَى بِهِ‏

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘He^-azwj Sent him^-saww upon a gap period from the Messengers, and prolonged slumber from the communities, and suspension of the (religious) Laws, so he^-saww came to them with the ratification of that which came before him^-saww, and the Noor to guide with’’.[65]

58- نهج، نهج البلاغة بَعَثَهُ‏ بِالنُّورِ الْمُضِي‏ءِ وَ الْبُرْهَانِ الْجَلِيِّ وَ الْمِنْهَاجِ الْبَادِي وَ الْكِتَابِ الْهَادِي أُسْرَتُهُ خَيْرُ أُسْرَةٍ وَ شَجَرَتُهُ خَيْرُ شَجَرَةٍ أَغْصَانُهَا مُعْتَدِلَةٌ وَ ثِمَارُهَا مُتَهَدِّلَةٌ مَوْلِدُهُ بِمَكَّةَ وَ هِجْرَتُهُ بِطَيْبَةَ عَلَا بِهَا ذِكْرُهُ وَ امْتَدَّ بِهَا صَوْتُهُ

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘He^-azwj Sent him^-saww with the illuminating Noor, and the flashing proofs, and the manifest program and the Guiding Book. His^-azwj family was the best of the families, and his^-saww lineage was the best of the lineages, its branches being even and its fruits being ripe. His^-saww birth was at Makkah and his^-saww emigration was at Tayba (Medina). His^-azwj mentioned was raised by it and his^-saww voice was extended by it.

أَرْسَلَهُ بِحُجَّةٍ كَافِيَةٍ وَ مَوْعِظَةٍ شَافِيَةٍ وَ دَعْوَةٍ مُتَلَافِيَةٍ أَظْهَرَ بِهِ الشَّرَائِعَ الْمَجْهُولَةَ وَ قَمَعَ بِهِ الْبِدَعَ الْمَدْخُولَةَ وَ بَيَّنَ بِهِ الْأَحْكَامَ الْمَفْصُولَةَ

He^-azwj Sent him^-saww with sufficient proofs, and healing preaching, and effective calling manifesting the neglected Laws, and eradicated the heresies which had permeated (the societies), and explained the meritorious rulings by it’’.[66]

59- نهج، نهج البلاغة وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ الصَّفِيُّ وَ أَمِينُهُ الرَّضِيُّ ص أَرْسَلَهُ بِوُجُوبِ الْحُجَجِ وَ ظُهُورِ الْفَلَجِ وَ إِيضَاحِ الْمَنْهَجِ فَبَلَّغَ الرِّسَالَةَ صَادِعاً بِهَا وَ حُمِلَ عَلَى الْمَحَجَّةِ دَالًّا عَلَيْهَا وَ أَقَامَ أَعْلَامَ الِاهْتِدَاءِ وَ مَنَارَ الضِّيَاءِ وَ جَعَلَ أَمْرَاسَ الْإِسْلَامِ مَتِينَةً وَ عُرَى الْإِيمَانِ وَثِيقَةً

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘And I^-asws testify that Muhammad^-saww is His^-azwj servant and His^-azwj Messenger, the elite, and His^-azwj Trustworthy one, the one Pleased with. He^-azwj Sent him^-saww with the Obligation of Hajj, and manifesting the fissures and clarifying the manifesto. He^-saww delivered the Message proclaiming it, and carried upon the goal pointing to it, and established the signs of guidance and illuminating minarets and making the pillars of Islam to be solid, and exposed the Eman and its reliability’’.[67]

60- نهج، نهج البلاغة وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ دَعَا إِلَى طَاعَتِهِ وَ قَاهَرَ أَعْدَاءَهُ جِهَاداً عَنْ دِينِهِ لَا يَثْنِيهِ عَنْ ذَلِكَ اجْتِمَاعٌ عَلَى تَكْذِيبِهِ وَ الْتِمَاسٌ لِإِطْفَاءِ نُورِهِ‏

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘And I^-asws testify that Muhammad^-saww is His^-azwj servant and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww, calling to His^-azwj obedience, and compelling His^-azwj enemies fighting from His^-azwj Religion, not dissuading him^-saww from that, having gathered upon belying him^-saww, and seeking to extinguishing His^-azwj Light’’.[68]

61- نهج، نهج البلاغة وَ لَمْ يَجْمَعْ بَيْتٌ وَاحِدٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ غَيْرَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ خَدِيجَةَ وَ أَنَا ثَالِثُهُمَا أَرَى نُورَ الْوَحْيِ وَ الرِّسَالَةِ وَ أَشَمُّ رِيحَ النُّبُوَّةِ وَ لَقَدْ سَمِعْتُ رَنَّةَ الشَّيْطَانِ حِينَ نَزَلَ الْوَحْيُ عَلَيْهِ ص

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘And there was no consensus regarding Islam in any house in those days apart from Rasool-Allah^-saww and Khadeeja^-asws and I^-asws being the third of them^-asws. I^-asws saw the Noor of the Revelation and the Message, and smelt the aroma of the Prophet-hood; and I^-asws had heard the noise of Satan^-la when the Revelation descended.

فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا هَذِهِ الرَّنَّةُ فَقَالَ هَذَا الشَّيْطَانُ قَدْ أَيِسَ مِنْ عِبَادَتِهِ إِنَّكَ تَسْمَعُ مَا أَسْمَعُ وَ تَرَى مَا أَرَى إِلَّا أَنَّكَ لَسْتَ بِنَبِيٍّ وَ لَكِنَّكَ وَزِيرٌ وَ إِنَّكَ لَعَلَى خَيْرٍ

I^-asws said: ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! What is this noise?’ He^-saww said: ‘This is Satan^-la. He^-la has despaired from being worshipped. You^-asws heard what I^-saww heard, and saw what I^-saww saw, except you^-asws are not a Prophet, but you^-asws are a Vizier, and you^-asws are upon good’’.[69]

Notes –

فَرَوَى أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ فِي مُسْنَدِهِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع قَالَ: كُنْتُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَبِيحَةَ اللَّيْلَةِ الَّتِي أُسْرِيَ بِهِ فِيهَا وَ هُوَ بِالْحِجْرِ يُصَلِّي فَلَمَّا قَضَى صَلَاتَهُ وَ قَضَيْتُ صَلَاتِي سَمِعْتُ رَنَّةً شَدِيدَةً فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ‏ اللَّهِ مَا هَذِهِ الرَّنَّةُ قَالَ أَ لَا تَعْلَمُ هَذِهِ رَنَّةُ الشَّيْطَانِ عَلِمَ أَنَّهُ أُسْرِيَ بِيَ اللَّيْلَةَ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فَأَيِسَ مِنْ أَنْ يُعْبَدَ فِي هَذِهِ الْأَرْضِ

It has been narrated by Ahmad Bin Hanbal in his ‘Musnad’, from Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws who said, ‘I^-asws was with Rasool-Allah^-saww in the morning of the night in which there was an Ascension with him^-saww, and he was at praying Salat as Al Hijr. When he^-saww had fulfilled his^-saww Salat and I^-asws had fulfilled my^-asws Salat, I^-asws heard a severe wailing sound. I^-asws said: ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! What is this wail?’ He^-saww said: ‘Don’t you^-asws know? This is a wail of Satan^-la. He^-la knows that there was an Ascension with me^-saww to the sky at night, so he^-la has despaired from being worshipped in this land’’.

وَ قَدْ رُوِيَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ص‏ مَا يُشَابِهُ هَذَا لَمَّا بَايَعَهُ الْأَنْصَارُ السَّبْعُونَ لَيْلَةَ الْعَقَبَةِ سُمِعَ مِنَ الْعَقَبَةِ صَوْتٌ عَالٍ فِي جَوْفِ اللَّيْلِ يَا أَهْلَ مَكَّةَ هَذَا مُذَمَّمٌ وَ الصُّبَاةُ مَعَهُ قَدْ أَجْمَعُوا عَلَى حَرْبِكُمْ

And it has been narrated from the Prophet^-saww what resembles this. When seventy Helpers pledged allegiance to him^-saww on the night of Al-Aqaba, a loud voice was heard from Al-Aqaba in the middle of the night: ‘O people of Makkah! This is a condemned one, and the young men have gathered to battle you all!’

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِلْأَنْصَارِ أَ لَا تَسْمَعُونَ مَا يَقُولُ هَذَا أَزَبُّ الْكَعْبَةِ يَعْنِي شَيْطَانَهَا وَ قَدْ رُوِيَ أَزْيَبُ الْعَقَبَةِ ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَ أَ تَسْمَعُ يَا عَدُوَّ اللَّهِ أَ مَا وَ اللَّهِ لَأَفْرُغَنَّ لَكَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said to the Helpers: Do you not hear what this ‘Azabb al-Ka’bah’—meaning the devil of the Kabah—is saying?” (It has also been narrated as ‘Azyab al-‘Aqabah’). Then, turning to him^-la, he^-saww said, “Do you^-la hear this, O enemy of Allah^-azwj? By Allah, I^-saww shall certainly deal with you.”!’’

62- نهج، نهج البلاغة وَ نَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ خَاضَ إِلَى رِضْوَانِ اللَّهِ كُلَّ غَمْرَةٍ وَ تَجَرَّعَ فِيهِ كُلَّ غُصَّةٍ وَ قَدْ تَلَوَّنَ لَهُ الْأَدْنَوْنَ وَ تَأَلَّبَ عَلَيْهِ الْأَقْصَوْنَ وَ خَلَعَتْ إِلَيْهِ الْعَرَبُ أَعِنَّتَهَا وَ ضَرَبَتْ إِلَى مُحَارَبَتِهِ بُطُونَ رَوَاحِلِهَا حَتَّى أَنْزَلَتْ بِسَاحَتِهِ عَدَاوَتَهَا مِنْ أَبْعَدِ الدَّارِ وَ أَسْحَقِ الْمَزَارِ

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘And we testify that Muhammad^-saww is His^-azwj servant and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww. He^-saww went into every adversity to the Pleasure of Allah^-azwj, and endured every adversity regarding Him^-azwj; and the near relatives changed their colours to him^-saww, and the remote ones gathered against him^-saww in hostility’’.[70]

63- نهج، نهج البلاغة وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ أَرْسَلَهُ وَ أَعْلَامُ الْهُدَى دَارِسَةٌ وَ مَنَاهِجُ الدِّينِ طَامِسَةٌ فَصَدَعَ بِالْحَقِّ وَ نَصَحَ لِلْخَلْقِ وَ هَدَى إِلَى الرُّشْدِ وَ أَمَرَ بِالْقَصْدِ ص‏

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘And I^-asws testify that Muhammad^-saww is His^-azwj servant and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww. He^-azwj Sent him^-saww and the signs of guidance as a lesson, and manifesto of the tightness of Religion. He^-saww proclaimed with the Truth and advised to the people, and guided to the righteous guidance, and instructed with the intention’’.[71]

64- نهج، نهج البلاغة بَعَثَهُ حِينَ لَا عَلَمٌ قَائِمٌ وَ لَا مَنَارٌ سَاطِعٌ وَ لَا مَنْهَجٌ وَاضِحٌ‏

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘He^-saww Sent him^-saww when there was no established knowledge, nor a shining minaret, nor any clear manifesto’’.[72]

65- نهج، نهج البلاغة ثُمَّ إِنَّ اللَّهَ سُبْحَانَهُ بَعَثَ مُحَمَّداً ص بِالْحَقِّ حِينَ دَنَا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا الِانْقِطَاعُ وَ أَقْبَلَ مِنَ الْآخِرَةِ الِاطِّلَاعُ وَ أَظْلَمَتْ بَهْجَتُهَا بَعْدَ إِشْرَاقٍ وَ قَامَتْ بِأَهْلِهَا عَلَى سَاقٍ وَ خَشُنَ مِنْهَا مِهَادٌ وَ أَزِفَ مِنْهَا قِيَادٌ فِي انْقِطَاعٍ مِنْ مُدَّتِهَا وَ اقْتِرَابٍ مِنْ أَشْرَاطِهَا وَ تَصَرُّمٍ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا وَ انْفِصَامٍ مِنْ حَلْقَتِهَا وَ انْتِشَارٍ مِنْ سَبَبِهَا وَ عَفَاءٍ مِنْ أَعْلَامِهَا وَ تَكَشُّفٍ مِنْ عَوْرَاتِهَا وَ قَصْرٍ مِنْ طُولِهَا

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘Then Allah^-azwj the Glorious Sent Muhammad^-saww with the Truth when the termination had drawn near to the world and the notification from the Hereafter had come, and its splendour had darkened after its shining, and it had stood with its people upon difficulties, and the cradle had roughened from it, and leadership had depleted from it during the cutting off from its term, and the drawing closer from its conditions, and the Punishment of its people, and the schisms of its circles, and the scattering of its causes, and exemption from its signs, and uncovering from its nakedness, and shortening of its length.

جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ سُبْحَانَهُ بَلَاغاً لِرِسَالَتِهِ وَ كَرَامَةً لِأُمَّتِهِ وَ رَبِيعاً لِأَهْلِ زَمَانِهِ وَ رِفْعَةً لِأَعْوَانِهِ وَ شَرَفاً لِأَنْصَارِهِ‏

Allah^-azwj the Glorious Made him^-saww to deliver His^-azwj Message, and an honour of his^-saww community, and a nourisher of the people of his^-saww era and a raising of his^-saww aiders, and nobility of his^-saww helpers’’.[73]

66- نهج، نهج البلاغة أَرْسَلَهُ بِالضِّيَاءِ وَ قَدَّمَهُ فِي الاصْطِفَاءِ فَرَتَقَ بِهِ الْمَفَاتِقَ وَ سَاوَرَ بِهِ الْمُغَالِبَ وَ ذَلَّلَ بِهِ الصُّعُوبَةَ وَ سَهَّلَ بِهِ الْحُزُونَةَ حَتَّى سَرَّحَ الضَّلَالَ عَنْ يَمِينٍ وَ شِمَالٍ‏

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘He^-azwj Sent him^-saww with the illumination and Preceded him^-saww regarding the Selection. The corruption was corrected by him^-saww, and the troubles were overcome by him^-saww, and the absurdities were disgraced by him^-saww, and the griefs were eased by him^-saww, until straying departed to the right and left’’.[74]

67- نهج، نهج البلاغة فَصَدَعَ بِمَا أَمَرَ بِهِ وَ بَلَّغَ رِسَالَةَ رَبِّهِ فَلَمَّ اللَّهُ بِهِ الصَّدْعَ وَ رَتَقَ بِهِ‏ الْفَتْقَ وَ أَلَّفَ بِهِ بَيْنَ ذَوِي الْأَرْحَامِ بَعْدَ الْعَدَاوَةِ الْوَاغِرَةِ فِي الصُّدُورِ وَ الضَّغَائِنِ الْقَادِحَةِ فِي الْقُلُوبِ

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘He^-saww proclaimed whatever he^-saww had been Commanded with and delivered the Message of his^-saww Lord^-azwj. Allah^-azwj Transmitted the proclamation by him^-saww, and corrected the corruption by him^-saww, and Effected cordiality between him^-saww and the ones with relationships after the enmity and the malice in the chests, and the angers which had kindled in the hearts’’.[75]

68- نهج، نهج البلاغة إِنَّ اللَّهَ سُبْحَانَهُ بَعَثَ مُحَمَّداً ص نَذِيراً لِلْعَالَمِينَ وَ أَمِيناً عَلَى التَّنْزِيلِ وَ أَنْتُمْ مَعْشَرَ الْعَرَبِ عَلَى شَرِّ دِينٍ وَ فِي شَرِّ دَارٍ مُنِيخُونَ بَيْنَ حِجَارَةٍ خُشْنٍ وَ حَيَّاتٍ صُمٍّ تَشْرَبُونَ الْكَدِرَ وَ تَأْكُلُونَ الْجَشِبَ وَ تَسْفِكُونَ دِمَاءَكُمْ وَ تَقْطَعُونَ أَرْحَامَكُمْ الْأَصْنَامُ فِيكُمْ مَنْصُوبَةٌ وَ الْآثَامُ بِكُمْ مَعْصُوبَةٌ

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘Allah^-azwj the Glorious Sent Muhammad^-saww as a warner to the worlds, and a trustee upon the Revelation, and you community of Arabs, were upon evil religion and in an evil house. You were living between rough stones and the life of deaf people. You were drinking the dirty and eating the coarse, and you were spilling your blood and cutting off your relationships. The idols had been installed among you and your sins were inseparable from you’’.[76]

69- نهج، نهج البلاغة إِنَّ اللَّهَ سُبْحَانَهُ بَعَثَ مُحَمَّداً وَ لَيْسَ أَحَدٌ مِنَ الْعَرَبِ يَقْرَأُ كِتَاباً وَ لَا يَدَّعِي نُبُوَّةً فَسَاقَ النَّاسَ حَتَّى بَوَّأَهُمْ مَحَلَّتَهُمْ‏ وَ بَلَّغَهُمْ مَنْجَاتَهُمْ فَاسْتَقَامَتْ قَنَاتُهُمْ وَ اطْمَأَنَّتْ صِفَاتُهُمْ

‘Nahj Balagha’ –  ‘Allah^-azwj the Glorious Sent Muhammad^-saww and there wasn’t anyone from the Arabs who had read a Book nor claimed Prophet-hood. So, he^-saww ushered the people until they dwelled in their places and delivered their manifesto, and straightened their channels, and assured their qualities’’.[77]

70- نهج، نهج البلاغة وَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ ابْتَعَثَهُ وَ النَّاسُ يَضْرِبُونَ فِي غَمْرَةٍ وَ يَمُوجُونَ فِي حَيْرَةٍ قَدْ قَادَتْهُمْ أَزِمَّةُ الْحَيْنِ وَ اسْتَغْلَقَتْ عَلَى أَفْئِدَتِهِمْ أَقْفَالُ الرَّيْنِ

‘Nahj Balagha’ – ‘And I^-asws testify that Muhammad^-saww is His^-azwj servant and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww. He^-azwj Sent him^-saww forth while the people were plunging into the depths of error and surging in a sea of bewilderment—led by the reins of ruin, with the locks of spiritual darkness sealing their hearts.[78]

71- أقول قال الكازروني في المنتقى فيما رواه بإسناده‏ أول ما بدئ به رسول الله من الوحي الرؤيا الصادقة و كان لا يرى رؤيا إلا جاءت به مثل فلق الصبح ثم حبب إليه الخلاء فكان يأتي حراء فيتعبد فيه‏ حتى فجأه الحق و هو في غار حراء فجاءه الملك

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘Al-Kaziruny said in ‘Al-Mantaqa’ among what he reported by his chain, ‘The first of the Revelation what Rasool-Allah^-saww was begun with was the true dream, and he^-saww would not see a dream except it would come to pass like the splitting of the morning. Then seclusion became beloved to him^-saww, so he^-saww would go to the cave of (Mount) Hira and worship there until the truth came to him^-saww while he^-saww was in the cave of (Mount) Hira. Then the Angel came to him^-saww’.

Note –

في المصدر: فكان يأتي حراء فيتحنث فيه. و هو التعبد الليالى ذوات العدد و يتزود لذلك ثمّ يرجع الى خديجة فتزوده لمثلها حتّى فجأه الحق

In the source – ‘He would go to Hira and engage in spiritual devotion there’ – This means worshipping for a number of nights, taking provisions for that purpose, and then returning to (Syeda) Khadeeja^-as who would provide him^-saww with provisions for another similar period, until the Truth came to him^-saww.

و ساق الحديث إلى أن قال.كان ورقة بن نوفل ابن عم خديجة امرأ تنصر في الجاهلية و كان يكتب العبراني بالعربية من الإنجيل ما شاء الله أن يكتب و كان شيخا كبيرا قد عمي فقالت له خديجة أي ابن عم اسمع من ابن أخيك

And he continued the Hadeeth up to he said, ‘Waraqa Bin Nawfal was the son of Khadeeja^-as’s paternal uncle. During the pre-Islamic period, he had become a Christian, and he used to write in Arabic from the Evangel in Hebrew whatever Allah^-azwj Willed him to write. He was an elderly man who had become blind. Khadeeja^-as said to him: ‘O son of my^-as uncle, listen to your nephew!’

فقال ورقة يا ابن أخي ما ترى فأخبره رسول الله ص فقال ورقة هذا الناموس الأكبر الذي أنزل الله تعالى على موسى ع يا ليتني فيها جذعا أكون حيا حين يخرجك قومك

Waraqa said, ‘O son of my brother, what do you^-saww see? Rasool-Allah^-saww informed him of what he^-saww had seen. Waraqa said, ‘This is the Greatest News which Allah^-azwj the Exalted had Sent down to Musa^-as. If only I were young and strong during that time! If only I were alive when your^-saww people drive you^-saww out!’

فقال رسول الله ع أ و مخرجي هم

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Will they drive me^-saww out?’

قال نعم لم يأت رجل قط بما جئت به إلا عودي و إن يدركني يومك أنصرك نصرا مؤزرا

He said, ‘Yes. No man has ever come with the like of what you^-saww have brought except that he was opposed. If I live to see your^-saww day, I will support you^-saww with powerful support!’

ثم لم ينشب ورقة أن توفي و فتر الوحي فترة ثم أتاه الوحي الناموس جبرئيل ع و صاحب سر الملك

Then Waraqa did not remain long before he died, and Revelation ceased for a period. Then Revelation of the News came to him^-saww again via Jibraeel^-as bearing the King’s secret.

وَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ أُخْرَى‏ أَنَّ خَدِيجَةَ أَتَتْ وَرَقَةَ وَ قَالَتْ أَخْبِرْنِي عَنْ جَبْرَئِيلَ مَا هُوَ

And in another report, ‘Khadeeja^-as came to Waraqa and said: ‘Inform me^-as about Jibraeel^-as, what is he^-as?’

قَالَ قُدُّوسٌ قُدُّوسٌ مَا ذُكِرَ جَبْرَئِيلُ فِي بَلْدَةٍ لَا يَعْبُدُونَ فِيهَا اللَّهَ

He said, ‘Holy! Holy! Jibraeel^-as has not been mentioned in any city in which Allah^-azwj is not being worshipped!’

قَالَتْ إِنَّ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ أَخْبَرَنِي أَنَّهُ أَتَاهُ

She^-as said: ‘Muhammad^-saww Bin Abdullah^-as informed me^-as  and he^-as had come to him^-saww!’

قَالَ فَإِنْ كَانَ جَبْرَئِيلُ هَبَطَ إِلَى هَذِهِ الْأَرْضِ لَقَدْ أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ إِلَيْهَا خَيْراً عَظِيماً هُوَ النَّامُوسُ الْأَكْبَرُ الَّذِي أَتَى مُوسَى وَ عِيسَى ع بِالرِّسَالَةِ وَ الْوَحْيِ

He said, ‘If Jibraeel^-as has come down to this land, Allah^-azwj has Sent down mighty good to it. He^-as is the greatest News bearer which Musa^-as and Isa^-as had been Given with the Message and the Revelation!’

قَالَتْ فَأَخْبِرْنِي هَلْ تَجِدُ فِيمَا قَرَأْتَ مِنَ التَّوْرَاةِ وَ الْإِنْجِيلِ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يَبْعَثُ نَبِيّاً فِي هَذَا الزَّمَانِ يَكُونُ يَتِيماً فَيُؤْوِيهِ اللَّهُ وَ فَقِيراً فَيُغْنِيهِ اللَّهُ تَكْفُلُهُ امْرَأَةٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ أَكْثَرُهُمْ حَسَباً وَ ذَكَرَتْ كَلَاماً آخَرَ

She^-as said: ‘Inform me^-as! Have you found among what you have read from the Torah and the Evangel that Allah^-azwj will Send a Prophet^-as in this era who would be an orphan so Allah^-azwj will Shelter him^-as, and poor so Allah^-azwj will Enrich him^-saww, a woman of Quraysh will look after him^-saww, he^-saww will be most distinguished of them in language?’ – and she^-as mentioned other speech.

فَقَالَ لَهَا نَعْتُهُ مِثْلُ نَعْتِكِ يَا خَدِيجَةُ

He said to her^-as, ‘Similar to your^-as description, O Khadeeja^-as!’

قَالَتْ فَهَلْ تَجِدُ غَيْرَهَا

She^-as said: ‘Have you found anything else?’

قَالَ نَعَمْ إِنَّهُ يَمْشِي عَلَى الْمَاءِ كَمَا مَشَى عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ وَ تُكَلِّمُهُ الْمَوْتَى كَمَا كَلَّمَتْ عِيسَى ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ ع وَ تُسَلِّمُ عَلَيْهِ الْحِجَارَةُ وَ تَشْهَدُ لَهُ الْأَشْجَارُ وَ أَخْبَرَهَا بِنَحْوِ قَوْلِ بَحِيرَى

He said, ‘Yes’. He^-saww will walk upon the water like what Isa Ibn Maryam^-as had walked, and the dead will speak to him^-saww like what they had spoken to Isa Ibn Maryam^-as, and the stones will greet unto him^-saww, and the trees will testify for him^-saww’ – and he informed her^-as approximate to the words of Baheera.

ثُمَّ انْصَرَفَتْ عَنْهُ وَ أَتَتْ عَدَّاساً الرَّاهِبَ وَ كَانَ شَيْخاً قَدْ وَقَعَ حَاجِبَاهُ عَلَى عَيْنَيْهِ مِنَ الْكِبَرِ فَقَالَتْ يَا عَدَّاسُ أَخْبِرْنِي عَنْ جَبْرَئِيلَ ع مَا هُوَ

Then she^-as left from him and came to Addas the monk, and he was an old man. His eyebrows had fallen upon his eyes due to old age. She^-as said: ‘O Addas! Inform me^-as about Jibraeel^-as, what is he^-as?’

فَقَالَ قُدُّوسٌ قُدُّوسٌ وَ خَرَّ سَاجِداً وَ قَالَ مَا ذُكِرَ جَبْرَئِيلُ فِي بَلْدَةٍ لَا يُذْكَرُ اللَّهُ فِيهَا وَ لَا يُعْبَدُ

He said, ‘Holy! Holy!’ – and he fell in prostration, and said, ‘Jibraeel^-as has not been mentioned in any city, Allah^-azwj is not being mentioned in or worshipped!’

قَالَتْ أَخْبِرْنِي عَنْهُ

She^-as said: ‘Inform me^-as about him^-as!’

قَالَ لَا وَ اللَّهِ لَا أُخْبِرُكِ حَتَّى تُخْبِرَنِي مِنْ أَيْنَ عَرَفْتِ اسْمَ جَبْرَئِيلَ

He said, ‘No by Allah^-azwj, I will not inform you^-as until you^-as inform me from where do you know the name ‘Jibraeel’!’

قَالَتْ لِي عَلَيْكَ عَهْدُ اللَّهِ وَ مِيثَاقُهُ بِالْكِتْمَانِ

She^-as said: ‘For me^-as upon you is a pact of Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj Covenant of the concealment!’

قَالَ نَعَمْ

He said, ‘Yes’.

قَالَتْ أَخْبَرَنِي بِهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ أَنَّهُ أَتَاهُ

She^-as said: ‘Muhammad^-saww Bin Abdullah^-as had informed me^-as with it that he^-as had come to him^-saww.

قَالَ عَدَّاسٌ ذَلِكِ النَّامُوسُ الْأَكْبَرُ الَّذِي كَانَ يَأْتِي مُوسَى وَ عِيسَى ع بِالْوَحْيِ وَ الرِّسَالَةِ وَ اللَّهِ لَئِنْ كَانَ نَزَلَ جَبْرَئِيلُ عَلَى هَذِهِ الْأَرْضِ لَقَدْ نَزَلَ إِلَيْهَا خَيْرٌ عَظِيمٌ وَ لَكِنْ يَا خَدِيجَةُ إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ رُبَّمَا عَرَضَ لِلْعَبْدِ فَأَرَاهُ أُمُوراً فَخُذِي كِتَابِي هَذَا فَانْطَلِقِي بِهِ إِلَى صَاحِبِكِ فَإِنْ كَانَ مَجْنُوناً فَإِنَّهُ سَيَذْهَبُ عَنْهُ وَ إِنْ كَانَ مِنْ أَمْرِ اللَّهِ فَلَنْ يَضُرَّهُ‏

Addas said, ‘That is the greatest News-bearer who had come to Musa^-as and Isa^-as with the Revelation and the Message. By Allah^-azwj! If Jibraeel^-as has descended upon this land, mighty goodness has descended to it. But, O Khadeeja^-as, sometimes the Satan^-la tends to present to the servant and shows him matter, so take this letter of mine and go with it to your^-as companions. If he^-saww was insane, it will go away from him^-saww, and if it was from the Command of Allah^-azwj, it will not harm him^-saww!’

ثُمَّ انْطَلَقَتْ بِالْكِتَابِ مَعَهَا فَلَمَّا دَخَلَتْ مَنْزِلَهَا إِذَا هِيَ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص مَعَ جَبْرَئِيلَ ع قَاعِدٌ يُقْرِئُهُ هَذِهِ الْآيَاتِ‏ ن وَ الْقَلَمِ وَ ما يَسْطُرُونَ ما أَنْتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍ وَ إِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجْراً غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍ وَ إِنَّكَ لَعَلى‏ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ فَسَتُبْصِرُ وَ يُبْصِرُونَ بِأَيِّكُمُ الْمَفْتُونُ‏ أَيِ الضَّالُّ أَوِ الْمَجْنُونُ‏

Then she^-as went with the letter being with her^-as. When she^-as entered her^-as house, behold, there was Rasool-Allah^-saww seated with Jibraeel^-as reading to him^-saww the Verse: Noon and the Pen, and what they will be writing! [68:1] You are not, by the Favour of your Lord, insane! [68:2] And surely, for you there shall be an unrestricted Recompense [68:3] And you are upon magnificent morals [68:4] So you shall be seeing, and they (too) shall be seeing [68:5] Which one of you is bewitched [68:6] – i.e. strayed or mad.

فَلَمَّا سَمِعَتْ خَدِيجَةُ قِرَاءَتَهُ اهْتَزَّتْ فَرَحاً ثُمَّ رَآهُ ص عَدَّاسٌ‏ فَقَالَ اكْشِفْ لِي عَنْ ظَهْرِكَ فَكَشَفَ فَإِذَا خَاتَمُ النُّبُوَّةِ يَلُوحُ بَيْنَ كَتِفَيْهِ

When (Syeda) Khadeeja^-as heard his^-as recitation, she^-as trembled with joy. Then Adda came to see him^-saww. He said, ‘Uncover for me from your^-saww back!’ He^-saww uncovered, and behold, there was the seal of Prophet-hood shining between his^-saww shoulders.

فَلَمَّا نَظَرَ عَدَّاسٌ إِلَيْهِ خَرَّ سَاجِداً يَقُولُ قُدُّوسٌ قُدُّوسٌ أَنْتَ وَ اللَّهِ النَّبِيُّ الَّذِي بَشَّرَ بِكَ مُوسَى وَ عِيسَى ع أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ يَا خَدِيجَةُ لَيَظْهَرَنَّ لَهُ أَمْرٌ عَظِيمٌ وَ نَبَأٌ كَبِيرٌ فَوَ اللَّهِ يَا مُحَمَّدُ إِنْ عِشْتُ حَتَّى تُؤْمَرَ بِالدُّعَاءِ لَأَضْرِبَنَّ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ بِالسَّيْفِ هَلْ أُمِرْتَ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ بَعْدُ

When Addas looked at it, he fell in prostration saying, ‘Holy! Holy! By Allah^-azwj, you^-saww are the Prophet^-saww whom Musa^-as and Isa^-as had given the glad tidings with! By Allah^-azwj, O Khadeeja^-as! A mighty matter shall appear for him^-saww, and great News. By Allah^-azwj, O Muhammad^-saww! If I were to live until you^-saww are Commanded with the call, I will strike with the sword in front of you^-saww! Have you^-saww been Commanded with anything yet?’

قَالَ لَا

He^-saww said: ‘No!’

قَالَ سَتُؤْمَرُ ثُمَّ تُؤْمَرُ ثُمَّ تُكَذَّبُ ثُمَّ يُخْرِجُكَ قَوْمُكَ‏ وَ اللَّهُ يَنْصُرُكَ وَ مَلَائِكَتُهُ

He said, ‘You^-saww will be Commanded, then you^-saww will be Commanded. Then you^-saww will be belied, then your^-saww people will expel you^-saww, and Allah^-azwj and His^-azwj Angels will help you^-saww!

وَ رُوِيَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ الْبَصْرِيِّ أَنَّ أَصْحَابَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا حُجَّةُ اللَّهِ عَلَى كِسْرَى فِيكَ

And it is reported from Al-Hassan Al-Basri, ‘The companions of Rasool-Allah^-saww said, ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! What is the Proof of Allah^-azwj against Chosroe regarding you^-saww?’

قَالَ بَعَثَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ مَلَكاً فَأَخْرَجَ يَدَهُ مِنْ سُورِ جِدَارِ بَيْتِهِ الَّذِي هُوَ فِيهِ تَلَأْلَأَ نُوراً فَلَمَّا رَآهَا فَزِعَ فَقَالَ لَمْ تَفْزَعْ يَا كِسْرَى إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ بَعَثَ رَسُولًا وَ أَنْزَلَ عَلَيْهِ كِتَاباً فَاتَّبِعْهُ تَسْلَمْ دُنْيَاكَ وَ آخِرَتُكَ قَالَ سَأَنْظُرُ

He^-saww said: ‘Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic Sent an Angel. He brought out his hand from a hole in a wall of his house which he was in, shining with light. When he saw it, he was alarmed. He said, ‘Do not be alarmed, O Chosroe! Allah^-azwj has Sent a Rasool^-saww and a Book has been Sent down upon him^-saww, so follow him^-saww! Your world and your hereafter will be safe!’ He said, ‘I shall consider’’. (P.s. – This report contains derogatory matters)[79]

72- شي، تفسير العياشي عَنْ عَمَّارِ بْنِ‏ مِيثَمٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: قَرَأَ رَجُلٌ عِنْدَ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع‏ فَإِنَّهُمْ لا يُكَذِّبُونَكَ وَ لكِنَّ الظَّالِمِينَ بِآياتِ اللَّهِ يَجْحَدُونَ‏ فَقَالَ بَلَى وَ اللَّهِ لَقَدْ كَذَّبُوهُ أَشَدَّ التَّكْذِيبِ وَ لَكِنَّهَا مُخَفَّفَةٌ لَا يَكْذِبُونَكَ لَا يَأْتُونَ بِبَاطِلٍ يُكَذِّبُونَ بِهِ حَقَّكَ‏

‘Tafseer Al-Ayyashi’ – From Amaar Bin Maysam,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘A man recited in the presence of Amir Al-Momineen^-asws: They are not belying you, but the unjust ones are rejecting the Signs of Allah [6:33]. He^-asws said: ‘Yes, by Allah^-azwj! They had belied him^-saww with the most intense of the denials but it was hidden. (The meaning of) They are not belying you – is that ‘they would not be able to come up with the refutation in order to belie your^-saww Truth with’’.[80]

73- شي، تفسير العياشي عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ الْمُنْذِرِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ فَإِنَّهُمْ لا يُكَذِّبُونَكَ‏ قَالَ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ إِبْطَالَ قَوْلِكَ

‘Tafseer Al-Ayyashi’ – Fom Al Husayn Bin Al Manzar,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws regarding His^-azwj Words: They are not belying you [6:33], said: ‘They are not having the ability to invalidate your^-saww words’’.[81]

74- ختص، الإختصاص‏ قَرَنَ إِسْرَافِيلُ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص ثَلَاثَ سِنِينَ يَسْمَعُ الصَّوْتَ وَ لَا يَرَى شَيْئاً ثُمَّ قَرَنَ بِهِ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً وَ ذَلِكَ حَيْثُ أُوحِيَ إِلَيْهِ فَأَقَامَ بِمَكَّةَ عَشْرَ سِنِينَ ثُمَّ هَاجَرَ إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ فَأَقَامَ بِهَا عَشْرَ سِنِينَ وَ قُبِضَ ص وَ هُوَ ابْنُ ثَلَاثٍ وَ سِتِّينَ سَنَةً

‘Al-Ikhtisas’ – Israfeel^-as paired with Rasool-Allah^-saww for three years. He^-saww heard the voice but did not see anything. Then Jibraeel^-as was paired with him^-saww for twenty years, and that is when Allah^-azwj Revealed to him^-saww. He^-saww stayed at Makkah for twenty years, then emigrated to Medina and stayed at it for twenty years, and he^-saww passed away when he^-saww was sixty-three years’’.[82]

75 الطُّرَفُ، لِلسَّيِّدِ بْنِ طَاوُسٍ نَقْلًا مِنْ كِتَابِ الْوَصِيَّةِ لِعِيسَى بْنِ الْمُسْتَفَادِ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ عَنْ بَدْءِ الْإِسْلَامِ كَيْفَ أَسْلَمَ عَلِيٌّ وَ كَيْفَ أَسْلَمَتْ خَدِيجَةُ فَقَالَ تَأْبَى إِلَّا أَنْ تَطْلُبَ أُصُولَ الْعِلْمِ وَ مُبْتَدَأَهُ أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ إِنَّكَ لَتَسْأَلُ تَفَقُّهاً

‘Al Taraf’ of Seyyid Bin Tawoos, copying from the book ‘Al Wasiya’ of Isa Bin Al Mustafad,

‘From Musa^-asws Bin Ja’far^-asws, he (the narrator) said, ‘He^-asws was asked about the beginning of Islam, ‘How did Ali^-asws become a Muslim? And how did (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws become a Muslim?’ He^-asws said: ‘You are refusing except to seek the origin of the knowledge and its beginning. But, by Allah^-azwj, you should ask to understand it’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبِي ع عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ لِي لَمَّا دَعَاهُمَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ وَ يَا خَدِيجَةُ أَسْلَمْتُمَا لِلَّهِ وَ سَلَّمْتُمَا لَهُ

Then he^-asws said: ‘I asked my^-asws father^-asws about that, and he^-asws said to me^-asws: ‘When Rasool-Allah^-saww invited both of them, he^-saww said: ‘O Ali^-asws, and O Khadeeja^-asws! You have both become Muslims for Allah^-azwj and have submitted to Him^-azwj’.

وَ قَالَ إِنَّ جَبْرَئِيلَ عِنْدِي يَدْعُوكُمَا إِلَى بَيْعَةِ الْإِسْلَامِ فَأَسْلِمَا تَسْلَمَا وَ أَطِيعَا تَهْدِيَا فَقَالا فَعَلْنَا وَ أَطَعْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

And he^-saww said: ‘Jibraeel^-as is with me^-saww calling just as to the allegiance of Islam, so submit submissively and obey, you will both be guided’. They said, ‘We do so and obey, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’

فَقَالَ إِنَّ جَبْرَئِيلَ عِنْدِي يَقُولُ لَكُمَا إِنَّ لِلْإِسْلَامِ شُرُوطاً وَ عُهُوداً وَ مَوَاثِيقَ فَابْتَدِئَاهُ بِمَا شَرَطَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْكُمَا لِنَفْسِهِ وَ لِرَسُولِهِ أَنْ تَقُولَا نَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ فِي مُلْكِهِ‏ لَمْ يَتَّخِذْ وَلَداً وَ لَمْ يَتَّخِذْ صَاحِبَةً إِلَهاً وَاحِداً مُخْلِصاً

He^-saww said: ‘Jibraeel^-as is with me^-saww, saying to you: ‘For Islam there are conditions and pacts and covenants, therefore begin it with what Allah^-azwj has Stipulated upon you for Himself^-azwj and for His^-azwj Rasool^-saww that you should be saying: ‘We testify that there is no god except Allah^-azwj Alone, there being no associates for Him^-azwj in His^-azwj Kingdom. He^-azwj did not Take a son, and did not Take a female companion. One God, purely.

وَ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُولُهُ أَرْسَلَهُ إِلَى النَّاسِ كَافَّةً بَيْنَ يَدَيِ السَّاعَةِ وَ نَشْهَدُ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يُحْيِي وَ يُمِيتُ وَ يَرْفَعُ وَ يَضَعُ وَ يُغْنِي وَ يُفْقِرُ وَ يَفْعَلُ مَا يَشَاءُ وَ يَبْعَثُ مَنْ فِي الْقُبُورِ قَالا شَهِدْنَا

And that Muhammad^-saww is His^-azwj servant and His^-azwj Rasool^-saww. He^-azwj Sent him^-saww to the people in their entirety before the (establishment of the) House; and we testify that Allah^-azwj Causes to live and Causes to die, and He^-azwj Raises and Places down, and Enriches and Impoverishes, and Does whatever He^-azwj so Desires to and will Resurrect the ones in the graves’. They^-asws said, ‘We do testify’.

قَالَ وَ إِسْبَاغُ الْوُضُوءِ عَلَى الْمَكَارِهِ وَ غَسْلُ الْوَجْهِ وَ الْيَدَيْنِ وَ الذِّرَاعَيْنِ وَ مَسْحُ الرَّأْسِ وَ الرِّجْلَيْنِ إِلَى الْكَعْبَيْنِ وَ غُسْلُ الْجَنَابَةِ فِي الْحَرِّ وَ الْبَرْدِ وَ إِقَامُ الصَّلَاةِ وَ أَخْذُ الزَّكَاةِ مِنْ حِلِّهَا وَ وَضْعِهَا فِي أَهْلِهَا وَ حِجُّ الْبَيْتِ وَ صَوْمُ شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ وَ الْجِهَادُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَ بِرُّ الْوَالِدَيْنِ وَ صِلَةُ الرَّحِمِ وَ الْعَدْلُ فِي الرَّعِيَّةِ وَ الْقَسْمُ بِالسَّوِيَّةِ وَ الْوُقُوفُ عِنْدَ الشُّبْهَةِ وَ رَفْعُهَا إِلَى الْإِمَامِ فَإِنَّهُ لَا شُبْهَةَ عِنْدَهُ

He^-saww said: ‘And to perfect the Wudu’u upon its rules, and washing the face and the two hands and the two forearms and wiping the head and the two feet up to the ankles, and washing from the sexual impurity in the hold and the cold (climate), and establishing the Salat, and taking the Zakat from its Permissible(s) and placing it among its deserving ones, and Hajj of the House (Kabah), and Fasting the Month of Ramazan, and the Jihad in the Way of Allah^-azwj, and righteousness with the parents, and helping the relatives, and the justice among the citizens, and the distribution with the fairness, and the pausing at the doubtful matters and raising it to the Imam^-asws, for it would not be doubtful with him^-asws.

وَ طَاعَةُ وَلِيِّ الْأَمْرِ بَعْدِي وَ مَعْرِفَتُهُ فِي حَيَاتِي وَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِي وَ الْأَئِمَّةُ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ وَاحِدٌ بَعْدَ وَاحِدٍ وَ مُوَالاةُ أَوْلِيَاءِ اللَّهِ وَ مُعَادَاةُ أَعْدَاءِ اللَّهِ وَ الْبَرَاءَةُ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ وَ حِزْبِهِ وَ أَشْيَاعِهِ وَ الْبَرَاءَةُ مِنَ الْأَحْزَابِ تَيْمٍ وَ عَدِيٍّ وَ أُمَيَّةَ وَ أَشْيَاعِهِمْ وَ أَتْبَاعِهِمْ وَ الْحَيَاةُ عَلَى دِينِي وَ سُنَّتِي وَ دِينِ وَصِيِّي وَ سُنَّتِهِ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ وَ الْمَوْتُ عَلَى مِثْلِ ذَلِكَ‏ وَ تَرْكُ شُرْبِ الْخَمْرِ وَ مُلَاحَاةُ النَّاسِ‏

And obedience to the Master^-asws of the Command (Wali Al-Amr) after me^-saww, and recognising him^-asws during my^-saww lifetime and after my^-saww passing away, and the Imams^-asws from after him^-asws, one after another, and the befriending the friends of Allah^-azwj and being inimical to the enemies of Allah^-azwj, and the disavowing from the Pelted Satan^-la and his^-la party and his^-la adherents, and the disavowing from the allies – (Clans of) Taym, and Aday, and Umayya and their adherents and their followers, and the living upon my^-saww Religion and My^-saww Sunnah and Religion of my^-saww successor^-asws and his^-asws Sunnah up to the Day of Qiyamah, and the death upon the like of that, and shunning drinking of the wine and the conflicts of the people.

يَا خَدِيجَةُ فَهِمْتِ مَا شَرَطَ رَبُّكِ عَلَيْكِ قَالَتْ نَعَمْ وَ آمَنْتُ وَ صَدَّقْتُ وَ رَضِيتُ وَ سَلَّمْتُ قَالَ عَلِيٌّ وَ أَنَا عَلَى ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ تُبَايِعُنِي عَلَى مَا شَرَطْتُ عَلَيْكَ قَالَ نَعَمْ

O Khadeeja^-asws! Do you^-as understand what your^-as Lord^-azwj has Stipulated upon you^-as?’ She^-as said: ‘Yes, and I^-as confirm and ratify and am pleased and submit’. Ali^-asws said: ‘And so do I^-asws upon that’. He^-saww said: ‘O Ali^-asws! Do you^-asws pledge allegiance to me^-saww upon what has been stipulated upon you^-asws?’ He^-asws said: ‘Yes’.

قَالَ فَبَسَطَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص كَفَّهُ وَ وَضَعَ كَفَّ عَلِيٍّ ع فِي كَفِّهِ وَ قَالَ بَايِعْنِي يَا عَلِيُّ عَلَى مَا شَرَطْتُ عَلَيْكَ وَ أَنْ تَمْنَعَنِي مِمَّا تَمْنَعُ مِنْهُ نَفْسَكَ

He^-asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww extended his^-saww palm and placed the palm of Ali^-asws in his^-saww palm and said: ‘Pledge allegiance to me^-saww O Ali^-asws upon what is stipulated upon you^-asws and that you^-asws will prevent (from) me^-saww from what you^-asws will prevent yourself^-asws’.

فَبَكَى عَلِيٌّ ع وَ قَالَ بِأَبِي وَ أُمِّي لَا حَوْلَ وَ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص اهْتَدَيْتَ وَ رَبِّ الْكَعْبَةِ وَ رَشَدْتَ وَ وُفِّقْتَ أَرْشَدَكَ اللَّهُ يَا خَدِيجَةُ ضَعِي يَدَكَ فَوْقَ يَدِ عَلِيٍّ فَبَايِعِي لَهُ فَبَايَعَتْ عَلَى مِثْلِ مَا بَايَعَ عَلَيْهِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع عَلَى أَنَّهُ لَا جِهَادَ عَلَيْهَا

Ali^-asws cried and said: ‘By my^-asws father^-asws and my^-asws mother^-asws! There is neither any might nor strength except with Allah^-azwj’. Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘You^-asws are guided by the Lord^-azwj of the Kabah, and are rightly guided and harmonised. May Allah^-azwj Guide you^-as, O Khadeeja^-asws! Place your^-as hand above the hand of Ali^-asws and pledge allegiance to me^-saww for him^-asws’. She^-as pledged allegiance upon the like of what Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws had pledged upon except that there would be no Jihad upon her^-as.

ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا خَدِيجَةُ هَذَا عَلِيٌّ مَوْلَاكِ وَ مَوْلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ إِمَامُهُمْ بَعْدِي قَالَتْ صَدَقْتَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَدْ بَايَعْتُهُ عَلَى مَا قُلْتَ أُشْهِدُ اللَّهَ وَ أُشْهِدُكَ‏ وَ كَفَى بِاللَّهِ شَهِيداً عَلِيماً

Then he^-saww said: ‘O Khadeeja^-asws! This Ali^-asws is your^-as Master and Master of the Momineen and their Imam^-asws after me^-saww’. She^-as said: ‘You^-saww speak the truth, O Rasool-Allah^-saww! I^-as have pledged to him^-asws upon what you^-saww said. I^-as keep Allah^-azwj as Witness, and I^-as keep you^-saww as witness, and suffice with Allah^-azwj as an All-Knowing Witness’’.[83]

76- فس، تفسير القمي فِي رِوَايَةِ أَبِي الْجَارُودِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع‏ فِي قَوْلِهِ‏ قُلْ أَيُّ شَيْ‏ءٍ أَكْبَرُ شَهادَةً قُلِ اللَّهُ شَهِيدٌ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَكُمْ‏ وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ مُشْرِكِي أَهْلِ مَكَّةَ قَالُوا يَا مُحَمَّدُ مَا وَجَدَ اللَّهُ رَسُولًا يُرْسِلُهُ غَيْرَكَ مَا نَرَى أَحَداً يُصَدِّقُكَ بِالَّذِي تَقُولُ

In a report of Abu Al Jaroud,

‘From Abu Ja’far^-asws regarding His^-azwj Words: Say: ‘Which thing is the greatest in testimony?’ Say: ‘Allah is a Witness between me and you [6:19], said: ‘And that was when the Polytheists of the people of Makkah said, ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Did Allah^-azwj not Find anyone as a Rasool other than you^-saww? We have not seen anyone who ratifies that which you^-saww are saying’.

وَ ذَلِكَ فِي أَوَّلِ مَا دَعَاهُمْ وَ هُوَ يَوْمَئِذٍ بِمَكَّةَ قَالُوا وَ لَقَدْ سَأَلْنَا عَنْكَ الْيَهُودَ وَ النَّصَارَى فَزَعَمُوا أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ لَكَ ذِكْرٌ عِنْدَهُمْ فَأْتِنَا بِمَنْ يَشْهَدُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص‏ اللَّهُ شَهِيدٌ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَكُمْ‏ الْآيَةَ

And that was when he^-saww first called them (to Islam), and he^-saww was in Makkah in those days. They said, ‘We have asked the Jews and the Christians about you^-saww, and they claimed that there is no mention of you^-saww with them. Who have you^-saww come with to testify that you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj?’ Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘Allah is a Witness between me and you – the Verse’’.[84]

77- فس، تفسير القمي‏ وَ إِذْ قالُوا اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كانَ هذا هُوَ الْحَقَّ مِنْ عِنْدِكَ‏ الْآيَةَ فَإِنَّهَا نَزَلَتْ لَمَّا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص لِقُرَيْشٍ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بَعَثَنِي أَنْ أَقْتُلَ جَمِيعَ مُلُوكِ الدُّنْيَا وَ أَجُرَّ الْمُلْكَ إِلَيْكُمْ فَأَجِيبُونِي إِلَى مَا أَدْعُوكُمْ إِلَيْهِ تَمْلِكُوا بِهَا الْعَرَبَ وَ تَدِينُ لَكُمْ بِهَا الْعَجَمُ وَ تَكُونُوا مُلُوكاً فِي الْجَنَّةِ

‘Tafseer Al-Qummi’ – And when they said, ‘O Allah! In case this is the Truth from Your Presence [8:32] – the Verse. It was Revealed when Rasool-Allah^-saww said to Quraysh: ‘Allah^-azwj has Sent me^-saww to kill the entirety of the kings of the world and flow the kingdom to you all, therefore answer me^-saww to what I^-saww am calling you towards, you will rule the Arabs by it and the non-Arabs will follow you all and you will become kings in Paradise’.

فَقَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ‏ اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كانَ هذا الَّذِي يَقُولُ‏ مُحَمَّدٌ هُوَ الْحَقَّ مِنْ عِنْدِكَ فَأَمْطِرْ عَلَيْنا حِجارَةً مِنَ السَّماءِ أَوِ ائْتِنا بِعَذابٍ أَلِيمٍ‏ حَسَداً لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ كُنَّا وَ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ‏ كَفَرَسَيْ رِهَانٍ نَحْمِلُ إِذَا حَمَلُوا وَ نَظْعَنُ إِذَا ظَعَنُوا وَ نُوقِدُ إِذَا أَوْقَدُوا فَلَمَّا اسْتَوَى بِنَا وَ بِهِمُ الرَّكْبُ قَالَ قَائِلٌ مِنْهُمْ مِنَّا نَبِيٌّ لَا نَرْضَى بِذَلِكَ أَنْ يَكُونَ فِي‏ بَنِي هَاشِمٍ وَ لَا يَكُونَ فِي‏ بَنِي مَخْزُومٍ ثُمَّ قَالَ غُفْرَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ

Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘O Allah^-azwj! If this which Muhammad^-saww is saying it is the truth from You^-azwj, then Rain upon us stones from the sky or Give up a painful Punishment [8:32], in envy to Rasool-Allah^-saww’. Then he^-la said, ‘We and the Clan of Hashim^-as used to be like two pledged horses. We carried when they carried, and we travelled when they travelled, and we ignited when they ignited. When the riders were equal between them and us, and a speaker from them said, ‘There is a Prophet^-saww from us’. We will not be pleased with that there should happen to be from the Clan of Hashim^-as or from the clan of Makhzoum’. Then he^-la said, ‘Your^-azwj Forgiveness, O Allah^-azwj’.

فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ فِي ذَلِكَ‏ وَ ما كانَ اللَّهُ لِيُعَذِّبَهُمْ وَ أَنْتَ فِيهِمْ وَ ما كانَ اللَّهُ مُعَذِّبَهُمْ وَ هُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ‏ حِينَ قَالَ غُفْرَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ

Allah^-azwj Revealed regarding that: And Allah was not going to Punish them while you were among them, nor would Allah Punish them while they are seeking Forgiveness [8:33], when he^-la said, ‘Your^-azwj Forgiveness, O Allah^-azwj’.

فَلَمَّا هَمُّوا بِقَتْلِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص وَ أَخْرَجُوهُ مِنْ مَكَّةَ قَالَ اللَّهُ‏ وَ ما لَهُمْ أَلَّا يُعَذِّبَهُمُ اللَّهُ وَ هُمْ يَصُدُّونَ عَنِ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرامِ وَ ما كانُوا أَوْلِياءَهُ‏ يَعْنِي قُرَيْشاً مَا كَانُوا أَوْلِيَاءَ مَكَّةَ إِنْ أَوْلِياؤُهُ إِلَّا الْمُتَّقُونَ‏ أَنْتَ وَ أَصْحَابُكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ فَعَذَّبَهُمُ اللَّهُ بِالسَّيْفِ يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ فَقُتِلُوا

When they thought of killing Rasool-Allah^-saww and expelling him^-saww from Makkah, Allah^-azwj Said: And (reason) is for them that Allah should not Punish them and they are hindering from the Sacred Masjid, and they were not its custodians? – meaning Quraysh were not custodians of Makkah, Surely, its custodians are only the pious ones [8:34], you^-saww and your^-saww companions, O Muhammad^-saww’. Allah^-azwj Punished them with the sword on the day of (battle of) Badr and they were killed.[85]

78- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب الْكَلْبِيُ‏ أَتَى أَهْلُ مَكَّةَ النَّبِيَّ ص فَقَالُوا مَا وَجَدَ اللَّهُ رَسُولًا غَيْرَكَ مَا نَرَى أَحَداً يُصَدِّقُكَ فِيمَا تَقُولُ وَ لَقَدْ سَأَلْنَا عَنْكَ الْيَهُودَ وَ النَّصَارَى فَزَعَمُوا أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ لَكَ عِنْدَهُمْ ذِكْرٌ فَأَرِنَا مَنْ يَشْهَدُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ كَمَا تَزْعُمُ

‘Al-Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashoub – Al-Kalby – ‘The people of Makkah came to the Prophet^-saww and they said, ‘Did not Allah^-azwj find any Rasool^-as apart from you^-saww!? We cannot find anyone who can ratify you^-saww regarding what you^-saww are saying, and we have asked the Jews and the Christians about you^-saww, and they are claiming that there is no mention of you^-saww with them, so show us one who can testify that you^-saww are a Rasool^-saww of Allah^-azwj just as you^-saww claim’.

فَنَزَلَ‏ قُلْ أَيُّ شَيْ‏ءٍ أَكْبَرُ شَهادَةً الْآيَةَ وَ قَالُوا الْعَجَبُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى لَمْ يَجِدْ رَسُولًا يُرْسِلُهُ إِلَى النَّاسِ إِلَّا يَتِيمَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَنَزَلَ‏ الر تِلْكَ آياتُ الْكِتابِ الْحَكِيمِ أَ كانَ لِلنَّاسِ‏ الْآيَاتِ

It was Revealed: Say: ‘Which thing is the greatest in testimony?’ [6:19] – the Verse. And they said, ‘(It is) strange that Allah^-azwj the Exalted did not Find any Rasool^-saww to Send to the people except an orphan of Abu Talib^-asws’. It was Revealed: Alif Lam Ra; these are Verses of the Book of the Wise [10:1] Was it so strange for the people [10:2] – the Verses.

وَ قَالَ الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ وَ اللَّهِ لَوْ كَانَتِ النُّبُوَّةُ حَقّاً لَكُنْتُ أَوْلَى بِهَا مِنْكَ لِأَنَّنِي أَكْبَرُ مِنْكَ سِنّاً وَ أَكْثَرُ مِنْكَ مَالًا

And Al-Waleed Bin Al-Mugheira said, ‘By Allah^-azwj! If the Prophet-hood was true, I would be foremost with it that you^-saww are, for I am older than you^-saww in years, and more of wealth than you^-saww are’.

وَ قَالَ جَمَاعَةٌ لِمَ لَمْ يُرْسِلْ رَسُولًا مِنْ مَكَّةَ أَوْ مِنَ الطَّائِفِ عَظِيماً يَعْنِي أَبَا جَهْلٍ وَ عَبْدَ نَائِلٍ‏ فَنَزَلَ‏ وَ قالُوا لَوْ لا نُزِّلَ هذَا الْقُرْآنُ عَلى‏ رَجُلٍ‏

And a group said, ‘Why no Rasool^-saww was Sent from great ones of Makkah or from Al-Taif?’ – meaning Abu Jahl^-la and Abd Na’il. It was Revealed: And they are saying, ‘If only this Quran had been Revealed unto a great man from the two towns’ [43:31].

وَ قَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ زَاحَمَنَا بَنُو عَبْدِ مَنَافٍ فِي الشَّرَفِ حَتَّى إِذَا صِرْنَا كَفَرَسَيْ رِهَانٍ قَالُوا مِنَّا نَبِيٌّ يُوحَى إِلَيْهِ وَ اللَّهِ لَا نُؤْمِنُ بِهِ وَ لَا نَتَّبِعُهُ أَبَداً إِلَّا أَنْ يَأْتِيَنَا وَحْيٌ كَمَا يَأْتِيهِ فَنَزَلَ‏ وَ إِذا جاءَتْهُمْ آيَةٌ قالُوا لَنْ نُؤْمِنَ حَتَّى نُؤْتى‏ الْآيَةَ

And Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘We rival the Clan of Abd Manaf^-ar in the nobility until we became like two pledged horses. They said, ‘There is a Prophet^-saww from us, it is being Revealed to him^-saww’. By Allah^-azwj! We will not believe him^-saww nor will we follow him^-saww, ever, except if Revelation comes to us just as it comes to him^-saww’. It was Revealed: And when a Sign comes to them, they are saying, ‘We will never believe until We are Given [6:124] – the Verse.

وَ قَالَ الْحَارِثُ بْنُ نَوْفَلِ بْنِ عَبْدِ مَنَافٍ إِنَّا لَنَعْلَمُ أَنْ قَوْلَكَ حَقٌّ وَ لَكِنْ يَمْنَعُنَا أَنْ نَتَّبِعَ الْهُدَى مَعَكَ وَ نُؤْمِنَ بِكَ مَخَافَةَ أَنْ يَتَخَطَّفَنَا الْعَرَبُ مِنْ أَرْضِنَا وَ لَا طَاقَةَ لَنَا بِهَا فَنَزَلَتْ‏ وَ قالُوا إِنْ نَتَّبِعِ الْهُدى‏ مَعَكَ نُتَخَطَّفْ مِنْ أَرْضِنا فَقَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى رَادّاً عَلَيْهِمْ‏ أَ وَ لَمْ نُمَكِّنْ لَهُمْ حَرَماً آمِناً

And Al-Haris Bin Nowfal Bin Abd Manaf said, ‘I know that your^-saww words are true, but we are being prevented from following the guidance with you^-saww and believing you^-saww, out of fear that the Arabs would expel us from our land and there is no strength for us with (resisting) it’. So, it was Revealed: And they are saying, ‘If we follow the Guidance with you, we would be forced out from our land’. [28:57]. Allah^-azwj the Exalted Rebutted against them: Or, did We not Establish a safe, sacred (territory) for them, [28:57]’’.[86]

79- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ فِي خَبَرٍ طَوِيلٍ عَنْ كَثِيرِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ أَنَّهُ طَلَعَ مِنَ الْأَبْطَحِ رَاكِبٌ وَ مِنْ وَرَائِهِ سَبْعَ عَشْرَةَ نَاقَةً مُحَمَّلَةً ثِيَابَ دِيبَاجٍ عَلَى كُلِّ نَاقَةٍ عَبْدٌ أَسْوَدُ يَطْلُبُ النَّبِيَّ الْكَرِيمَ لِيَدْفَعَهَا إِلَيْهِ بِوَصِيَّةٍ مِنْ أَبِيهِ فَأَوْمَأَ ابْنُ أَبِي الْبَخْتَرِيِّ إِلَى أَبِي جَهْلٍ وَ قَالَ هَذَا صَاحِبُكَ

‘Al-Manaqib’ of Ibn Shehr Ashoub – Muhammad Bin Is’haq, in a lengthy Hadeeth from Kaseer Bin Aamir – ‘A Rider emerged from Al-Abtah, and from behind him were seventeen camels loaded with clothes of brocade, upon each camel being a black (slave), seeking the honourable Prophet^-saww in order to hand these over to him^-saww as per the will of his (deceased) father. Ibn Abu Al Bakhtary indicated to Abu Jahl^-la and said, ‘This is your guy’. When he went near him^-la, he said, ‘You^-la are not my guy’.

فَلَمَّا دَنَا مِنْهُ قَالَ مَا أَنْتَ بِصَاحِبِي فَمَا زَالَ يَدُورُ حَتَّى رَأَى النَّبِيَّ ص فَسَعَى إِلَيْهِ وَ قَبَّلَ يَدَيْهِ وَ رِجْلَيْهِ فَقَالَ لَهُ النَّبِيُّ ص أَ لَيْسَ أَنْتَ بَلَحاً نَاجِيَ بْنَ الْمُنْذِرِ السَّكَّاكِيَّ قَالَ بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

He did not cease to go around until he saw the Prophet^-saww, so he strived towards him^-saww and kissed his^-saww hand and his^-saww legs. The Prophet^-saww said to him: ‘Aren’t you Balha Najy Bin Al-Manzar Al-Sakaky?’ He said, ‘Yes, O Rasool-Allah^-saww!’ He^-saww said: ‘Where are the seventeen camels laden with gold, and silver, and gems, and sapphire, and jewels, and such things other than that?’ He said, ‘They are coming behind me’.

قَالَ فَأَيْنَ سَبْعَ عَشْرَةَ نَاقَةً مُحَمَّلَةً ذَهَباً وَ فِضَّةً وَ دُرّاً وَ يَاقُوتاً وَ جَوْهَراً وَ وَشْياً وَ مُلْحَماً وَ غَيْرَ ذَلِكَ قَالَ هِيَ وَرَائِي مُقْبِلَةٌ فَقَالَ هِيَ سَبْعَ عَشْرَةَ نَاقَةً عَلَى كُلِّ نَاقَةٍ عَبْدٌ أَسْوَدُ عَلَيْهِمْ أَقْبِيَةُ الدِّيبَاجِ وَ مَنَاطِقُ الذَّهَبِ وَ أَسْمَاؤُهُمْ مُحْرِزٌ وَ مُنْعَمٌ وَ بَدْرٌ وَ شِهَابٌ وَ مِنْهَاجٌ وَ فُلَانٌ وَ فُلَانٌ قَالَ بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ سَلِّمِ الْمَالَ وَ أَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ فَأَوْرَدَ الْمَالَ بِجُمْلَتِهِ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص

He^-saww said: ‘These are seventeen camels, upon each camel being a black slave, upon them are garments of brocade, and a container of gold, and their names are recorded, and donors, and (it is) Badr, and Shahab, and Minhaj, and so and so, and so and so’. He said, ‘Yes, O Rasool-Allah^-saww’. He^-saww said: ‘Submit the wealth, and I^-saww am Muhammad^-saww Bin Abdullah^-asws’. He handed over the total wealth to the Prophet^-saww.

فَقَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ يَا آلَ غَالِبٍ إِنْ لَمْ تُنْصِفُونِي وَ تَنْصُرُونِي عَلَيْهِ لَأَضَعَنَّ سَيْفِي فِي صَدْرِي وَ هَذَا الْمَالُ كُلُّهُ لِلْكَعْبَةِ وَ رَكِبَ فَرَسَهُ وَ جَرَّدَ سَيْفَهُ وَ نَفَرَتْ مَكَّةَ أَقْصَاهَا وَ أَدْنَاهَا حَتَّى أَجَابَتْ أَبَا جَهْلٍ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفَ مُقَاتِلٍ وَ رَكِبَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ فِي بَنِي هَاشِمٍ وَ بَنِي عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ وَ أَحَاطُوا بِالنَّبِيِّ ص

Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘O family of Ghalib! If you do not be fair to me and help me^-la upon it, I^-la shall place my^-la sword on my^-la chest, and this wealth, all of it is for the Kabah’, and he^-la rode his^-la horse and bared his^-la sword and went to the outskirts of Makkah and its nearby places until seventy thousand fighters had answered Abu Jahl^-la; and Abu Talib^-asws rode among the Clan of Hashim^-as and the Clan of Abdul Muttalib^-asws and surrounded the Prophet^-saww (protectively).

ثُمَّ قَالَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ مَا الَّذِي تُرِيدُونَ قَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ إِنَّ ابْنَ أَخِيكَ قَدْ جَنَى عَلَيْنَا جِنَايَاتٍ عَظِيمَةً وَ يَحِقُّ لِلْعَرَبِ أَنْ تَغْضَبَ وَ تَسْفِكَ الدِّمَاءَ وَ تَسْبِيَ النِّسَاءَ قَالَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ وَ مَا ذَاكَ فَذَكَرَ قِصَّةَ الْغُلَامِ وَ أَنَّ مُحَمَّداً سَحَرَهُ وَ رَدَّهُ إِلَى دِينِهِ وَ أَخَذَ مِنْهُ الْمَالَ وَ هُوَ شَيْ‏ءٌ مَبْعُوثٌ لِلْكَعْبَةِ فَقَالَ قِفْ حَتَّى أَمْضِيَ إِلَيْهِ وَ أَسْأَلَهُ عَنْ ذَلِكَ

Then Abu Talib^-asws said: ‘What is that which you want?’ Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘The son^-saww of your^-asws brother^-asws has committed a great crime against us, and it is a right of the Arabs that they become angry and spill the blood and capture the women’. Abu Talib^-asws said: ‘And what is that (crime)?’ So, he^-la mentioned the story of the boy and that Muhammad^-saww had cast a spell on him, and returned him to his^-as Religion, and took the wealth from him, and it was a thing which had been sent for the Kabah. He^-as said: ‘Pause, until I^-as go to him^-saww and ask him^-saww about that’.

فَلَمَّا أَتَى النَّبِيَّ ص وَ سَأَلَهُ رَدَّ ذَلِكَ قَالَ لَا أُعْطِيهِ حَبَّةً وَاحِدَةً قَالَ خُذْ عَشَرَةً وَ أَعْطِهِ سَبْعَةً فَأَبَى ثُمَّ أَمَرَ ص أَنْ تُوقَفَ الْهَدِيَّةُ بَيْنَ‏ يَدَيْهِ وَ يُنَادِيَهَا سَبْعَ مَرَّاتٍ فَإِنْ كَلَّمَتْهَا فَالْهَدِيَّةُ هَدِيَّتُهَا وَ إِنْ كَلَّمْتُهَا أَنَا وَ أَجَابَتْنِي فَالْهَدِيَّةُ هَدِيَّتِي

When he^-as came to the Prophet^-saww and asked him^-saww to return that, he^-saww said: ‘I^-saww will not give him^-la even one grain’. He^-as said: ‘Take ten and give him^-la seven’. He^-saww refused. Then he^-saww instructed: ‘The gifts should be placed in front of them (camels) and called out seven times, so if they speak then the gifts are their gifts, and if I^-saww speak to these and they answer me^-saww, then the gifts are my^-saww gifts’.

فَأَتَى أَبُو طَالِبٍ وَ قَالَ إِنَّ ابْنَ أَخِي قَدْ أَجَابَكَ إِلَى النَّصَفَةِ وَ ذَكَرَ مَقَالَ النَّبِيِّ ص وَ الْمِيعَادَ غَداً عِنْدَ طُلُوعِ الشَّمْسِ فَأَتَى أَبُو جَهْلٍ إِلَى الْكَعْبَةِ وَ سَجَدَ لِهُبَلَ وَ رَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ وَ ذَكَرَ الْقِصَّةَ ثُمَّ قَالَ أَسْأَلُكَ أَنْ تَجْعَلَ النُّوقَ تُخَاطِبُنِي وَ لَا يَشْمَتَ بِي مُحَمَّدٌ وَ أَنَا أَعْبُدُكَ مِنْ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً وَ مَا سَأَلْتُكَ حَاجَةً فَإِنْ أَجَبْتَنِي هَذِهِ لَأَضَعَنَّ لَكَ قُبَّةً مِنْ لُؤْلُؤٍ أَبْيَضَ وَ سِوَارَيْنِ مِنَ الذَّهَبِ وَ خَلْخَالَيْنِ مِنَ الْفِضَّةِ وَ تَاجاً مُكَلَّلًا بِالْجَوْهَرِ وَ قِلَادَةً مِنَ الْعِقْيَانِ‏

Abu Talib^-asws came and said, ‘The son^-saww of my^-asws brother^-asws has answered you to the fairness’, and he^-asws mentioned the words of the Prophet^-saww and the appointment the next morning at the emergence of the sun. So, Abu Jahl^-la came to the Kabah and prostrated to Hobal (an idol) and raised his^-la head and mentioned the story, then said, ‘I^-la ask you to make the camels to address me^-la and do not let Muhammad^-saww gloat over me^-la, and I^-la am your worshipper for forty years and have not asked you any need. So, if you were to answer me^-la, I^-la shall place a dome of white pearls for you and pots of gold and anklets of silver and a crown embedded with jewels and a necklace of pure gold.

ثُمَّ إِنَّ النَّبِيَّ ص حَضَرَ وَ كَانَ مِنْهُ الْمُعْجِزَاتُ أَجَابَهُ كُلُّ نَاقَةٍ سَبْعَ مَرَّاتٍ وَ شَهِدَتْ بِنُبُوَّتِهِ بَعْدَ عَجْزِ أَبِي جَهْلٍ فَأَخَذَ الْمَالَ‏

Then the Prophet^-saww presented, and there were miracles from him^-saww, every camel answered him^-saww seven times and testified with his^-saww Prophet-hood after the frustration of Abu Jahl^-la, and he^-saww took the wealth’’.[87]

80- قب، المناقب لابن شهرآشوب‏ كَانَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ يَقُولُ لَيْتَ لِمُحَمَّدٍ إِلَيَّ حَاجَةً فَأَسْخَرُ مِنْهُ وَ أَرُدُّهُ إِذِ اشْتَرَى أَبُو جَهْلٍ مِنْ رَجُلٍ طَارِئٍ‏ بِمَكَّةَ إِبِلًا فَلَوَاهُ بِحَقِّهِ‏ فَأَتَى نَادِيَ‏ قُرَيْشٍ مُسْتَجِيراً بِهِمْ فَأَحَالُوهُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ص اسْتِهْزَاءً بِهِ لِقِلَّةِ مِنْعَتِهِ‏ عِنْدَهُمْ

Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘If only there would be a need for Muhammad^-saww to me^-la then I^-la could mock him^-saww and return him^-saww. When Abu Jahl^-la had originally bought a camel from a man at Makkah and turned around with his right (price), so he (the man) came to Quraysh to get recompense with them. They pointed him to go to the Prophet^-saww in mocking him^-saww due to the little of his^-saww strength with them.

فَأَتَى الرَّجُلُ مُسْتَجِيراً بِهِ فَمَضَى ص مَعَهُ وَ قَالَ قُمْ يَا أَبَا جَهْلٍ وَ أَدِّ إِلَى الرَّجُلِ حَقَّهُ إِنَّمَا كُنِّيَ أَبَا جَهْلٍ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمَ وَ كَانَ اسْمُهُ عَمْرَو بْنَ هِشَامٍ فَقَامَ مُسْرِعاً وَ أَدَّى حَقَّهُ فَقَالَ لَهُ بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِهِ فَعَلَ ذَلِكَ‏ فَرَقاً مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ ‏

The man came to seek recompense with him. He^-saww went with him and said: ‘Arise, O Abu Jahl^-la, and give the man his right’. But rather he^-saww teknonymed him^-la as ‘Abu Jahl^-la’ (Father of ignorance) on that day, and his^-la (real) name was Amro Bin Hisham. He^-la stood up quickly and paid his right. One of his^-la companions said to him^-la, ‘You^-la did that out of fear from 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 يَقْضَمُنِي الثُّعْبَانَانِ

He^-la said, ‘Woe be unto you all! Excuse me^-la. When he^-saww came, I^-la saw men on his^-saww right having shining bayonets in their hands, and two serpents on his^-saww left gnashing their fangs, and such flames shining from their eyes; if I^-la had refused, I^-la would not have been safe from being stabbed by the bayonets in my^-la belly and the two serpents squeezing me^-la.[88]

81- شي، تفسير العياشي عَنْ سَدِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنِي جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ أَنَ‏ الْمُشْرِكِينَ كَانُوا إِذَا مَرُّوا بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص طَأْطَأَ أَحَدُهُمْ رَأْسَهُ‏ وَ ظَهْرَهُ هَكَذَا وَ غَطَّى رَأْسَهُ بِثَوْبِهِ حَتَّى لَا يَرَاهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ‏ أَلا إِنَّهُمْ يَثْنُونَ صُدُورَهُمْ لِيَسْتَخْفُوا مِنْهُ أَلا حِينَ يَسْتَغْشُونَ ثِيابَهُمْ يَعْلَمُ ما يُسِرُّونَ وَ ما يُعْلِنُونَ‏

‘Tafseer Al-Ayyashi’ – From Sudeyr,

‘From Abu Ja’far^-asws having said: ‘Jabir Bin Abdullah^-ra informed me^-asws that the Polytheists, when they used to pass by Rasool-Allah^-saww, one of them used to lower his head and his back like this, and cover up his head until Rasool-Allah^-saww could not see him. So, Allah^-azwj Revealed: Indeed!  They are folding up their chests to conceal from Him; Indeed, (it is) when they are gathering their clothes. He Knows what they are keeping as secret and what they are making public. [11:5]’’.[89]

82- كا، الكافي أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ النَّضْرِ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شِمْرٍ عَنْ جَابِرٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ ع قَالَ: أَقْبَلَ أَبُو جَهْلِ بْنُ هِشَامٍ وَ مَعَهُ قَوْمٌ‏ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ فَدَخَلُوا عَلَى أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَقَالُوا إِنَّ ابْنَ أَخِيكَ قَدْ آذَانَا وَ آذَى آلِهَتَنَا فَادْعُهُ وَ مُرْهُ فَلْيَكُفَّ عَنْ آلِهَتِنَا وَ نَكُفُّ عَنْ إِلَهِهِ قَالَ فَبَعَثَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ فَدَعَاهُ

‘Al Kafi’ – Abu Ali Al Ashary, from Muhammad Bin Salim, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abu Nasr, from Amro Bin Shimr, from Jabir,

‘From Abu Ja’far^-asws having said: ‘Abu Jahl Bin Hisham, and with him were a group from Quraysh, came over to Abu Talib^-asws, and they said, ‘The son^-saww of your^-asws brother^-asws has harmed us and harmed our gods, therefore instruct him^-as to restrain from our gods, and we would restrain from his^-saww God^-azwj’. Abu Talib^-asws sent a message to Rasool-Allah^-saww, to call him^-saww over.

فَلَمَّا دَخَلَ النَّبِيُّ ص لَمْ يَرَ فِي الْبَيْتِ إِلَّا مُشْرِكاً فَقَالَ‏ السَّلامُ عَلى‏ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ الْهُدى‏ ثُمَّ جَلَسَ فَخَبَّرَهُ أَبُو طَالِبٍ بِمَا جَاءُوا لَهُ فَقَالَ أَ وَ هَلْ لَهُمْ فِي كَلِمَةٍ خَيْرٍ لَهُمْ مِنْ هَذَا يَسُودُونَ بِهَا الْعَرَبَ وَ يَطَئُونَ أَعْنَاقَهُمْ

When the Prophet^-saww came over, he^-saww did not see in the room except for the Polytheists. He^-saww said: ‘Greetings be upon the one who follows the Guidance!’ Then he^-saww was seated. Abu Talib^-asws informed him^-saww with what (proposal) they had come over with to him^-as. He^-saww said: ‘Or shall I^-saww give a solution for them in a statement (There is no god except Allah^-azwj), which is good for them, by which they would be prevailing upon the Arabs and treading on their necks?’

فَقَالَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ نَعَمْ وَ مَا هَذِهِ الْكَلِمَةُ فَقَالَ تَقُولُونَ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ

Abu Jahl said, ‘Yes, and what is this statement?’ He^-saww said: ‘You should be saying, ‘There is no god except Allah^-azwj’’.

قَالَ فَوَضَعُوا أَصَابِعَهُمْ فِي آذَانِهِمْ وَ خَرَجُوا هُرَّاباً وَ هُمْ يَقُولُونَ‏ ما سَمِعْنا بِهذا فِي الْمِلَّةِ الْآخِرَةِ إِنْ هذا إِلَّا اخْتِلاقٌ‏ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ فِي قَوْلِهِمْ‏ ص وَ الْقُرْآنِ ذِي الذِّكْرِ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ‏ إِلَّا اخْتِلاقٌ‏

He^-asws said: ‘They placed their fingers in their ears and went out fleeing, and they were saying, ‘We were not made to hear this in the former nations. This is nothing except for a fabrication’. Allah^-azwj the Exalted Revealed regarding their words [38:1] Saad. I Swear by the Quran, full of Remembrance – up to His^-azwj Words [38:7] this is nothing but a fabrication’’.[90]

83- فر، تفسير فرات بن إبراهيم يَحْيَى بْنُ زِيَادٍ مُعَنْعَناً عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شِمْرٍ قَالَ: سَأَلْتُ جَعْفَرَ بْنَ مُحَمَّدٍ ع أَنِّي أَؤُمُّ قَوْمِي فَأَجْهَرُ بِ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ‏ قَالَ نَعَمْ حَقٌّ مَا جُهِرَ بِهِ‏ قَدْ جَهَرَ بِهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص ‏

‘Tafseer Furat Bin Ibrahim’ – Yahya Bin Ziyad, from Amro Bin Shimr who said,

‘I asked Ja’far^-asws Bin Muhammad^-asws, ‘I lead my people (in Salat), so should I be loud with ‘In the Name of Allah^-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful’?’ He^-asws said: ‘Yes, it is right to be loud with it. Rasool-Allah^-saww had been loud with it’.

ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص كَانَ مِنْ أَحْسَنِ النَّاسِ صَوْتاً بِالْقُرْآنِ فَإِذَا قَامَ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ يُصَلِّي جَاءَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ وَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ يَسْتَمِعُونَ قِرَاءَتَهُ فَإِذَا قَالَ‏ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ‏ وَضَعُوا أَصَابِعَهُمْ فِي آذَانِهِمْ وَ هَرَبُوا

Then he^-asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah^-saww was from the most beautiful of the people in voice with the Quran (recitation). When he^-saww stood to pray at night, Abu Jahl^-la came and the Polytheists were listening to his^-saww recitation. When he^-saww said: ‘In the Name of Allah^-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful’, they placed their fingers in their ears and fled.

فَإِذَا فَرَغَ مِنْ ذَلِكَ جَاءُوا فَاسْتَمَعُوا وَ كَانَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ يَقُولُ إِنَّ ابْنَ أَبِي كَبْشَةَ لَيُرَدِّدُ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ إِنَّهُ لَيُحِبُّهُ

When he^-saww was free from that, they came and listened, and Abu Jahl^-la said, ‘The son^-saww of Abu Kabasha chants the Name of his^-saww Lord^-azwj. He^-saww loves Him^-azwj’.

فَقَالَ جَعْفَرٌ ع صَدَقَ وَ إِنْ كَانَ كَذُوباً قَالَ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ‏ وَ إِذا ذَكَرْتَ رَبَّكَ فِي الْقُرْآنِ وَحْدَهُ وَلَّوْا عَلى‏ أَدْبارِهِمْ نُفُوراً وَ هُوَ بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ‏

Ja’far^-asws said: ‘He^-la spoke the truth, and even though he^-la was a liar. Allah^-azwj Revealed: And whenever you mention your Lord in the Quran as being One, they turn around upon their backs in aversion [17:46], and it is ‘In the Name of Allah^-azwj the Beneficent, the Merciful’’.[91]

84- فر، تفسير فرات بن إبراهيم مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ عُلْوَانَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ دَاوُدَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي حَفْصٍ الصَّائِغِ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ ع قَالَ: لَمَّا نَزَلَتْ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ص‏ وَ لَوْ لا أَنْ ثَبَّتْناكَ لَقَدْ كِدْتَ تَرْكَنُ إِلَيْهِمْ شَيْئاً قَلِيلًا إِذاً لَأَذَقْناكَ ضِعْفَ الْحَياةِ وَ ضِعْفَ الْمَماتِ‏ قَالَ تَفْسِيرُهَا قَالُوا نَعْبُدُ إِلَهَكَ سَنَةً وَ تَعْبُدُ إِلَهَنَا سَنَةً

‘Tafseer Furat Bin Ibrahim – Muhammad Bin Al-Hassan Bin Ibrahim, from Ulwan Bin Muhammad, from Dawood, from his father, from Abu Hafs Al Saig,

‘From Ja’far^-asws Bin Muhammad^-asws having said: ‘When it was Revealed unto the Prophet^-saww: And had We not Affirmed you, you would have almost inclined towards them something little [17:74] Then We would have Made you taste weakness of life and weakness of death, [17:75], its interpretation is, they said, ‘We shall worship your^-saww God^-azwj for a year and you^-saww worship our gods for a year’.

قَالَ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَلَيْهِ‏ قُلْ يا أَيُّهَا الْكافِرُونَ لا أَعْبُدُ ما تَعْبُدُونَ وَ لا أَنْتُمْ عابِدُونَ ما أَعْبُدُ إِلَى آخِرِ السُّورَةِ

He^-asws said: ‘Allah^-azwj the Exalted Revealed to him^-saww: ‘Say: ‘O you Kafirs!’ [109:1] I do not worship what you are worshipping [109:2] Nor are you worshipping what I worship [109:3] – up to the end of the Chapter’’.[92]

85- كا، الكافي عَلِيٌّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: بَيْنَا النَّبِيُّ ص فِي الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ وَ عَلَيْهِ ثِيَابٌ لَهُ جُدُدٌ فَأَلْقَى الْمُشْرِكُونَ عَلَيْهِ سَلَى نَاقَةٍ فَمَلَئُوا ثِيَابَهُ بِهَا فَدَخَلَهُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ فَذَهَبَ إِلَى أَبِي طَالِبٍ فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا عَمِّ كَيْفَ تَرَى حَسَبِي فِيكُمْ فَقَالَ لَهُ وَ مَا ذَاكَ يَا ابْنَ أَخِي فَأَخْبَرَهُ الْخَبَرَ

‘Al Kafi’ – Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Hisham Bin Al Hakam,

‘From Abu Abdullah^-asws having said: ‘While the Prophet^-saww was in the Sacred Masjid and upon him^-saww were new clothes, the Polytheists threw upon him^-saww the stomach contents of a she-camel. His^-saww clothes were stained by it. There entered into him^-saww due to that, whatever Allah^-azwj so Desired. He^-saww went to Abu Talib^-asws and said to him^-asws: ‘O Uncle! How do you^-asws view my^-asws nobility among you all?’ He^-asws said to him^-saww: ‘And what is that, O son^-saww of my^-asws brother^-asws?’ He^-saww informed him^-asws the news.

فَدَعَا أَبُو طَالِبٍ حَمْزَةَ وَ أَخَذَ السَّيْفَ وَ قَالَ لِحَمْزَةَ خُذِ السَّلَى ثُمَّ تَوَجَّهْ إِلَى الْقَوْمِ وَ النَّبِيُّ ص مَعَهُ فَأَتَى قُرَيْشاً وَ هُمْ حَوْلَ الْكَعْبَةِ فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهُ عَرَفُوا الشَّرَّ فِي وَجْهِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ لِحَمْزَةَ أَمِرَّ السَّلى عَلَى سِبَالِهِمْ فَفَعَلَ ذَلِكَ حَتَّى أَتَى عَلَى آخِرِهِمْ ثُمَّ الْتَفَتَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ص‏ فَقَالَ يَا ابْنَ أَخِي هَذَا حَسَبُكَ فِينَا

Abu Talib^-asws called Hamza^-asws and grabbed the sword and said to Hamza^-asws to take the stomach contents (of a camel), then divert towards the group, and the Prophet^-saww was with him^-asws. He^-asws came to the Quraysh, and they were around the Kabah. When they saw him^-asws, they recognised the ferocity in his^-asws face. Then he^-asws said to Hamza^-asws: ‘Paste the stomach contents (of a camel) upon their faces’. He^-asws did that until he^-asws came to their last one. Then Abu Talib^-asws turned towards the Prophet^-saww, so he^-asws said: ‘O son^-saww of my^-asws brother^-asws! This is your^-saww nobility among us’’.[93]

86- عم، إعلام الورى رُوِيَ‏ أَنَّ أَبَا جَهْلٍ عَاهَدَ اللَّهَ أَنْ يَفْضَخَ‏ رَأْسَهُ ص بِحَجَرٍ إِذَا سَجَدَ فِي صَلَاتِهِ فَلَمَّا قَامَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص يُصَلِّي وَ سَجَدَ وَ كَانَ إِذَا صَلَّى صَلَّى بَيْنَ الرُّكْنَيْنِ الْأَسْوَدِ وَ الْيَمَانِيِّ وَ جَعَلَ الْكَعْبَةَ بَيْنَهُ وَ بَيْنَ الشَّامِ احْتَمَلَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ الْحَجَرَ ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ نَحْوَهُ حَتَّى إِذَا دَنَا مِنْهُ رَجَعَ مُنْتَقِعاً لَوْنُهُ مَرْعُوباً قَدْ يَبِسَتْ يَدَاهُ عَلَى حَجَرِهِ حَتَّى قَذَفَ الْحَجَرَ مِنْ يَدِهِ

‘Ilam Al-Wara’ – It is reported that Abu Jahl^-la vowed to Allah^-azwj that he^-la would break his^-saww head with a stone when he^-saww performs Sajdah during his^-saww Salat. When Rasool-Allah^-saww stood to pray and he^-saww went into Sajdah, and it was so that whenever he^-saww prayed Salat, did so between the two corners – the (Black) Stone and the Yemeni (corners), and would make the Kabah to be between him^-saww and Syria – Abu Jahl^-la carried the stone, then came near him^-saww until when he^-saww was near him^-saww, he^-la returned changed of colour, fearing, his^-la hand having dried up (frozen) upon his^-la stone to the extent that the stone fell from his^-la hand.

وَ قَامَ إِلَيْهِ رِجَالٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ فَقَالُوا مَا لَكَ يَا أَبَا الْحَكَمِ قَالَ عَرَضَ لِي دُونَهُ فَحْلٌ مِنَ الْإِبِلِ مَا رَأَيْتُ مِثْلَ هَامَتِهِ وَ قَصَرَتِهِ وَ لَا أَنْيَابِهِ لِفَحْلٍ قَطُّ فَهَمَّ أَنْ يَأْكُلَنِي‏

Men from Quraysh stood up to him^-la and they said, ‘What is the matter with you^-la, O Abu Al-Hakam^-la?’ He^-la said, ‘I saw a male from the camels by his^-saww side what I^-la have not seek the like of its movement and neck, nor teeth of a camel at all. I^-la thought it would devour me^-la’’.[94]

87- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ‏ أَنَّهُ لَمَّا نَزَلَ‏ فَاصْدَعْ بِما تُؤْمَرُ وَ أَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ إِنَّا كَفَيْناكَ الْمُسْتَهْزِئِينَ‏ يَعْنِي خَمْسَةَ نَفَرٍ فَبَشَّرَ النَّبِيُّ ص أَصْحَابَهُ أَنَّ اللَّهَ كَفَاهُ أَمْرَهُمْ فَأَتَى الرَّسُولُ ص الْبَيْتَ وَ الْقَوْمُ فِي الطَّوَافِ وَ جَبْرَئِيلُ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – It is reported that when (the Verse): So proclaim what you are Commanded with and turn away from the polytheists [15:94] We will Suffice you against the scoffers [15:95], meaning five persons. The Prophet^-saww gave glad tidings to his^-saww companions that Allah^-azwj would Suffice him^-saww of their matters. The Rasool^-saww came to the House (Kabah) and the people were in the Tawaaf, and Jibraeel^-as was on his^-saww right.

فَمَرَّ الْأَسْوَدُ بْنُ الْمُطَّلِبِ فَرَمَى‏ فِي وَجْهِهِ بِوَرَقَةٍ خَضْرَاءَ فَأَعْمَى اللَّهُ بَصَرَهُ وَ أَثْكَلَهُ وُلْدَهُ وَ مَرَّ بِهِ الْأَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ يَغُوثَ فَأَوْمَأَ إِلَى بَطْنِهِ فَسَقَى مَاءً فَمَاتَ حَبَناً فَمَرَّ بِهِ الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ فَأَوْمَأَ إِلَى جُرْحٍ كَانَ فِي أَسْفَلِ رِجْلِهِ فَانْتَقَضَ بِذَلِكَ فَقَتَلَهُ وَ مَرَّ بِهِ الْعَاصُ بْنُ وَائِلٍ فَأَشَارَ إِلَى أَخْمَصِ رِجْلِهِ فَخَرَجَ عَلَى حِمَارٍ لَهُ يُرِيدُ الطَّائِفَ فَدَخَلَتْ فِيهِ شَوْكَةٌ فَقَتَلَتْهُ وَ مَرَّ بِهِ الْحَارِثُ بْنُ طَلَاطِلَةَ فَأَوْمَأَ إِلَيْهِ فَتَفَقَّأَ قَيْحاً فَمَاتَ‏

He^-as passed by Al-Aswad Bin Al-Muttalib and hit him in his face with a green leaf and Allah^-azwj Blinded his sight, and bereaved him of his son; and he^-as passed by Al-Aswad Bin Abd Yagous and gestured to his belly, and he kept drinking water and died of swelling; and he^-as passed by Al-Waleed Bin Al-Mugheirs and gestured to a would which was at the bottom of his leg, and it broke due to that and killed him; and he^-as passed by Al-Aas Bin Wail and gestured to the sole of his leg. He went out upon a donkey of his intending Al-Taif, and a thorn entered into it and killed him; and he^-saww passed by Al-Haris Bin Talatala and gestured towards him, and he vomited violently and died’’.[95]

88- يج، الخرائج و الجرائح رُوِيَ‏ أَنَّهُ ص لَمَّا تَلَا وَ النَّجْمِ إِذا هَوى‏ ما ضَلَّ صاحِبُكُمْ وَ ما غَوى‏ قَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ‏ كَفَرْتُ بِرَبِّ النَّجْمِ فَقَالَ لَهُ النَّبِيُّ ص سَلَّطَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْكَ كَلْباً مِنْ كِلَابِهِ يَعْنِي أَسَداً

‘Al-Kharaij Wa Al-Jaraih’ – It is reported that when he^-saww recited: (I Swear) by the star when it swoops down [53:1] Your companion does not err, and does not deviate [53:2], a man from Quraysh said, ‘You^-saww disbelieve in the Lord^-azwj of the star’. The Prophet^-saww said: ‘May Allah^-azwj Overcome upon you by a dog from His^-azwj dogs’ – meaning a lion.

فَخَرَجَ مَعَ أَصْحَابِهِ‏ إِلَى الشَّامِ حَتَّى إِذَا كَانُوا بِهَا رَأَى أَسَداً فَجَعَلَتْ فَرَائِصُهُ تُرْعَدُ فَقِيلَ لَهُ مِنْ أَيِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ تُرْعَدُ وَ مَا نَحْنُ وَ أَنْتَ إِلَّا سَوَاءٌ فَقَالَ إِنَّ مُحَمَّداً دَعَا عَلَيَّ لَا وَ اللَّهِ مَا أَظَلَّتْ هَذِهِ السَّمَاءُ ذَا لَهْجَةٍ أَصْدَقَ مِنْ مُحَمَّدٍ

He went out with his companions to Syria, until when they were by it, he saw a lion, and his limbs started trembling. It was said to him, ‘From which thing are you scared, and you and us are not, except the same?’ He said, ‘Muhammad^-saww had supplicated against me. No, by Allah^-azwj! This sky has not shaded upon anyone of a more truthful tone than Muhammad^-saww’.

ثُمَّ وَضَعُوا الْعَشَاءَ فَلَمْ يُدْخِلْ يَدَهُ فِي فِيهِ ثُمَّ جَاءَ الْقَوْمُ فَحَاطُوهُ بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ وَ بِمَتَاعِهِمْ وَ وَسَّطُوهُ بَيْنَهُمْ وَ نَامُوا جَمِيعاً حَوْلَهُ فَجَاءَهُمُ الْأَسَدُ فَهَمَسَ يَسْتَنْشِقُ رَجُلًا رَجُلًا حَتَّى انْتَهَى إِلَيْهِ فَضَغَمَهُ ضَغْمَةً كَانَتْ إِيَّاهَا وَ قَالَ بِآخِرِ رَمَقٍ أَ لَمْ أَقُلْ إِنَّ مُحَمَّداً أَصْدَقُ النَّاسِ وَ مَاتَ

Then they placed the dinner, but he did not enter his hand in his mouth. Then, the people came and surrounded him with themselves and their luggage, and he was in the midst of them, and they all slept around him (protectively). The lion came to them and grumbled and went past man by man until it ended up to him and chewed him and he said with the last of his breath, ‘Did I not say that Muhammad^-saww is the most truthful of the people?’ And he died’’.[96]

89- وَ أَقُولُ قَالَ فِي الْمُنْتَقَى، فِي السَّنَةِ الْخَامِسَةِ مِنْ نُبُوَّتِهِ ص تُوُفِّيَتْ سُمَيَّةُ بِنْتُ حباط مَوْلَاةُ أَبِي حُذَيْفَةَ بْنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ وَ هِيَ أُمُّ عَمَّارِ بْنِ يَاسِرٍ أَسْلَمَتْ بِمَكَّةَ قَدِيماً وَ كَانَتْ مِمَّنْ تُعَذَّبُ فِي اللَّهِ لِتَرْجِعَ عَنْ دِينِهَا فَلَمْ تَفْعَلْ فَمَرَّ بِهَا أَبُو جَهْلٍ فَطَعَنَهَا فِي قَلْبِهَا فَمَاتَتْ وَ كَانَتْ عَجُوزاً كَبِيرَةً فَهِيَ أَوَّلُ شَهِيدَةٍ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ

And I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘It is said in (the book) Al-Mantaqa – ‘In the fifth year from his^-saww Prophet-hood, Samiya Bint Hayat, mistress (owner) of Abu Huzeyfa Bin Al-Mugheira died, and she was the mother of Ammar Bin Yasser. She became a Muslim at Makkah in the early days, and she was one of those tormented for the Sake of Allah^-azwj to return her from her Religion, but she did not do so. Abu Jahl^-la passed by her and stabbed her in her heart, and she died; and she was an old-aged woman, and was the first martyr in Islam.

وَ فِي سَنَةِ سِتٍّ أَسْلَمَ حَمْزَةُ وَ عُمَرُ وَ قَدْ قِيلَ أَسْلَمَا فِي سَنَةِ خَمْسٍ قَالَ وَ لَمَّا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى‏ فَاصْدَعْ بِما تُؤْمَرُ وَ أَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ‏ قَامَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص عَلَى الصَّفَا وَ نَادَى فِي أَيَّامِ الْمَوْسِمِ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ فَرَمَقَهُ النَّاسُ بِأَبْصَارِهِمْ قَالَهَا ثَلَاثاً ثُمَّ انْطَلَقَ حَتَّى أَتَى الْمَرْوَةَ

And in the year six, Hamza^-asws and Umar became Muslims, and it has been said, in year five. When Allah^-azwj the Exalted Revealed: So proclaim what you are Commanded with and turn away from the polytheists [15:94]. Rasool-Allah^-saww stood upon Al-Safa and called out during the days of the season (Hajj): ‘O you people! I^-saww am a Rasool^-saww of the Lord^-azwj of the world!’ But the people gazed at him^-saww with their eyes. He^-saww said it thrice, then went until he^-saww came to Al-Marwa.

ثُمَّ وَضَعَ يَدَهُ فِي أُذُنِهِ ثُمَّ نَادَى ثَلَاثاً بِأَعْلَى صَوْتِهِ يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنِّي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ثَلَاثاً فَرَمَقَهُ النَّاسُ بِأَبْصَارِهِمْ وَ رَمَاهُ أَبُو جَهْلٍ قَبَّحَهُ اللَّهُ بِحَجَرٍ فَشَجَّ بَيْنَ عَيْنَيْهِ وَ تَبِعَهُ الْمُشْرِكُونَ بِالْحِجَارَةِ فَهَرَبَ حَتَّى أَتَى الْجَبَلَ فَاسْتَنَدَ إِلَى مَوْضِعٍ يُقَالُ لَهُ الْمُتَّكَأُ وَ جَاءَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ فِي طَلَبِهِ

Then he^-saww placed his^-saww hand in his^-saww ear, then called out thrice at the top of his^-saww voice: ‘O you people! I^-saww am a Rasool^-saww of the Lord^-azwj of the world!’ thrice. But the people gazed at him^-saww with their eyes, and Abu Jahl^-la, may Allah^-azwj Deface him^-la, pelted him^-saww with a stone, and it injured him^-saww between his^-saww eyes, and the Polytheists pursued him^-saww with the stone until he^-saww came to the mountain. He (rested) at a place called Al-Matka’a, and the Polytheists came seeking him^-saww.

وَ جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ع وَ قَالَ يَا عَلِيُّ قَدْ قُتِلَ مُحَمَّدٌ فَانْطَلَقَ إِلَى مَنْزِلِ خَدِيجَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا فَدَقَّ الْبَابَ فَقَالَتْ خَدِيجَةُ مَنْ هَذَا قَالَ أَنَا عَلِيٌّ قَالَتْ يَا عَلِيُّ مَا فَعَلَ مُحَمَّدٌ قَالَ لَا أَدْرِي إِلَّا أَنَّ الْمُشْرِكِينَ قَدْ رَمَوْهُ بِالْحِجَارَةِ وَ مَا أَدْرِي أَ حَيٌّ هُوَ أَمْ مَيِّتٌ فَأَعْطِينِي شَيْئاً فِيهِ مَاءٌ وَ خُذِي مَعَكِ شَيْئاً مِنْ هَيْسٍ‏ وَ انْطَلِقِي بِنَا نَلْتَمِسُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ص فَإِنَّا نَجِدُهُ جَائِعاً عَطْشَاناً

And a man came to Ali^-asws Bin Abu Talib^-asws and said: ‘O Ali^-asws! Muhammad^-saww has been killed’. He^-asws went to the house of (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws and knocked on the door. Khadeeja^-asws said: ‘Who is this?’ He^-asws said: ‘I^-asws am Ali^-asws’. She^-as said: ‘What happened with Muhammad^-saww?’ He^-asws said: ‘I^-asws don’t know except that the Polytheists had pelted him^-saww with stones, and I^-asws do not know whether he^-saww is alive or dead, so give me^-asws something with water in it and take something from dates and let us^-asws go and seek Rasool-Allah^-saww, for we^-asws might find him^-saww hungry, thirsty’.

فَمَضَى حَتَّى جَازَ الْجَبَلَ وَ خَدِيجَةُ مَعَهُ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ يَا خَدِيجَةُ اسْتَبْطِنِي‏ الْوَادِيَ حَتَّى أَسْتَظْهِرَهُ فَجَعَلَ يُنَادِي يَا مُحَمَّدَاهْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ نَفْسِي لَكَ الْفِدَاءُ فِي أَيِّ وَادٍ أَنْتَ مُلْقًى

He^-asws went until he^-asws crossed over the mountain, and (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws was with him^-asws. Ali^-asws said: ‘O Khadeeja^-asws! Enter the midst of the walled until I^-asws am on the back of it’. He^-asws went on calling out: ‘O Muhammad^-saww! O Rasool-Allah^-saww! May my^-asws soul be ransomed for you^-saww! In which valley are you^-saww in?’

وَ جَعَلَتْ خَدِيجَةُ تُنَادِي مَنْ أَحَسَّ لِيَ النَّبِيَّ الْمُصْطَفَى مَنْ أَحَسَّ لِيَ الرَّبِيعَ الْمُرْتَضَى مَنْ أَحَسَّ لِيَ الْمَطْرُودَ فِي اللَّهِ مَنْ أَحَسَّ لِي أَبَا الْقَاسِمِ

And (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws went on calling out: ‘Who search out the Chosen Prophet^-saww for me^-as? Who can search out the youthful Chosen one for me^-as? Who can search out for me^-as the one expelled regarding Allah^-azwj? Who can search out for me^-as Abu Al-Qasim^-saww?’

وَ هَبَطَ عَلَيْهِ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع فَلَمَّا نَظَرَ إِلَيْهِ النَّبِيُّ ص بَكَى وَ قَالَ مَا تَرَى مَا صَنَعَ بِي قَوْمِي كَذَّبُونِي وَ طَرَدُونِي وَ خَرَجُوا عَلَيَّ فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ نَاوِلْنِي يَدَكَ فَأَخَذَ يَدَهُ فَأَقْعَدَهُ عَلَى الْجَبَلِ ثُمَّ أَخْرَجَ مِنْ تَحْتِ جَنَاحِهِ دُرْنُوكاً مِنْ دَرَانِيكِ الْجَنَّةِ مَنْسُوجاً بِالدُّرِّ وَ الْيَاقُوتِ وَ بَسَطَهُ حَتَّى جَلَّلَ بِهِ جِبَالَ تِهَامَةَ

Jibraeel^-as descended unto him^-saww. When the Prophet^-saww looked at him^-as, he^-saww wept and said: ‘Do you^-as not see what my^-saww people have done with me^-saww? They belied me^-saww and expelled me^-saww and came out against me^-saww’. He^-as said: ‘O Muhammad^-saww, give me^-as your^-saww hand!’ He^-as grabbed his^-saww hand and guided him^-saww to the mountain, then brought out a rug from the rugs of Paradise from beneath his^-as wing, embedded with the gems and the sapphire, and spread it out until the mountain of Tahama jingled with.

ثُمَّ أَخَذَ بِيَدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص حَتَّى أَقْعَدَهُ عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُ جَبْرَئِيلُ يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَ تُرِيدُ أَنْ تَعْلَمَ كَرَامَتَكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَ فَادْعُ إِلَيْكَ تِلْكَ الشَّجَرَةَ تُجِبْكَ فَدَعَاهَا فَأَقْبَلَتْ حَتَّى خَرَّتْ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ سَاجِدَةً فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ مُرْهَا تَرْجِعْ فَأَمَرَهَا فَرَجَعَتْ إِلَى مَكَانِهَا

Then he^-as grabbed the hand of Rasool-Allah^-saww and seated him^-saww upon it. Then Jibraeel^-as said to him^-saww: ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Do you^-saww want to know your^-saww prestige to Allah^-azwj?’ He^-saww said: ‘Yes’. He^-as said: ‘Call that tree to you^-saww, it will answer you^-saww’. He^-saww called it, and it came until it fell down prostrate before him^-saww. He^-as said: ‘O Muhammad^-saww! Order it to return’. He^-saww ordered it, and it returned to its place.

وَ هَبَطَ عَلَيْهِ إِسْمَاعِيلُ حَارِسُ السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا فَقَالَ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَدْ أَمَرَنِي رَبِّي أَنْ أُطِيعَكَ أَ فَتَأْمُرُنِي أَنْ أَنْثُرَ عَلَيْهِمُ النُّجُومَ فَأُحْرِقَهُمْ

And (Angel) Ismail^-as, guard of the sky, descended to the sky of the world and said: ‘The greetings be upon you^-saww, O Rasool-Allah^-saww! My^-as Lord^-azwj Commands me^-as to obey you^-saww, so will you^-saww order me^-as, I^-as scatter those stars upon them and burn them?’

وَ أَقْبَلَ مَلَكُ الشَّمْسِ فَقَالَ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَ تَأْمُرُنِي أَنْ آخُذَ عَلَيْهِمُ الشَّمْسَ فَأَجْمَعَهَا عَلَى رُءُوسِهِمْ فَتُحْرِقَهُمْ

And the Angel of the sun came and said: ‘The greetings be upon you^-saww, O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Will you^-saww order me to seize the sun to be upon them, and gather it upon their head and incinerate them?’

وَ أَقْبَلَ مَلَكُ الْأَرْضِ فَقَالَ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ قَدْ أَمَرَنِي أَنْ أُطِيعَكَ أَ فَتَأْمُرُنِي أَنْ آمُرَ الْأَرْضَ فَتَجْعَلَهُمْ فِي بَطْنِهَا كَمَا هُمْ عَلَى ظَهْرِهَا

And the Angel of the earth came and said: ‘The greetings be upon you^-saww, O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Allah^-azwj Mighty and Majestic has Commanded me to obey you^-saww. Will you^-saww order me to open upon the ground and make them to be in its belly just as they are upon its back (surface)?’

وَ أَقْبَلَ مَلَكُ الْجِبَالِ فَقَالَ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ أَمَرَنِي أَنْ أُطِيعَكَ أَ فَتَأْمُرُنِي أَنْ آمُرَ الْجِبَالَ فَتَنْقَلِبَ عَلَيْهِمْ فَتَحْطِمَهُمْ

And the Angel of the mountains came and said: ‘The greetings be upon you^-saww, O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Allah^-azwj has Commanded me to obey you^-saww. Will you^-saww order me to overturn the mountains upon them and smash them?

وَ أَقْبَلَ مَلَكُ الْبِحَارِ فَقَالَ السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَدْ أَمَرَنِي رَبِّي أَنْ أُطِيعَكَ أَ فَتَأْمُرُنِي أَنْ آمُرَ الْبِحَارَ فَتُغْرِقَهُمْ

And the Angel of the oceans came and said: ‘The greetings be upon you^-saww, O Rasool-Allah^-saww! My Lord^-azwj had Commanded me to obey you^-saww. Will you^-saww order me to instruct the oceans to drown them?’

فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص قَدْ أُمِرْتُمْ بِطَاعَتِي قَالُوا نَعَمْ فَرَفَعَ رَأْسَهُ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ وَ نَادَى أَنِّي لَمْ أُبْعَثْ عَذَاباً إِنَّمَا بُعِثْتُ رَحْمَةً لِلْعَالَمِينَ دَعُونِي وَ قَوْمِي فَإِنَّهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ

Rasool-Allah^-saww said: ‘You have all been Commanded to be obedient to me^-saww?’ They said, ‘Yes’. He^-saww raised his^-saww head towards the sky and called out: ‘I^-saww am not Sent as a punishment, but rather I^-saww have been Send as a mercy to the worlds. My^-saww people left me^-saww for they do not know’.

وَ نَظَرَ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع إِلَى خَدِيجَةَ تَجُولُ فِي الْوَادِي فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَ لَا تَرَى إِلَى خَدِيجَةَ قَدْ أَبْكَتْ لِبُكَائِهَا مَلَائِكَةُ السَّمَاءِ ادْعُهَا إِلَيْكَ فَأَقْرِئْهَا مِنِّي السَّلَامَ وَ قُلْ لَهَا إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُقْرِئُكِ السَّلَامَ وَ بَشِّرْهَا أَنَّ لَهَا فِي الْجَنَّةِ بَيْتاً مِنْ قَصَبٍ لَا نَصَبَ فِيهِ وَ لَا صَخَبَ‏ لُؤْلُؤاً مُكَلَّلًا بِالذَّهَبِ

And Jibraeel^-as looked at (Syeda) Khadeeja^-asws wandering in the valley, so he^-as said: ‘O Rasool-Allah^-saww! Do you^-saww not see Khadeeja^-asws, and the Angels of the sky are wailing to her^-as wailing? Call her^-as to you^-saww and convey the greetings from me^-as and say to her^-as: ‘Allah^-azwj Conveys the Greetings’, and give her^-as the glad tidings that there is a house for her^-as in Paradise from hollow pearls. Neither is there any toil in it nor any clamour. Pearls encrusted with the gold’.

فَدَعَاهَا النَّبِيُّ ص وَ الدِّمَاءُ تَسِيلُ مِنْ وَجْهِهِ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ وَ هُوَ يَمْسَحُهَا وَ يَرُدُّهَا قَالَتْ فِدَاكَ أَبِي وَ أُمِّي دَعِ الدَّمْعَ يَقَعْ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ قَالَ أَخْشَى أَنْ يَغْضَبَ رَبُّ الْأَرْضِ عَلَى مَنْ عَلَيْهَا

The Prophet^-saww called her^-as and the tears were flowing from his^-saww face upon the ground, and he^-saww was wiping them and returning them. She^-as said: ‘May my^-as father and my^-as mother be sacrificed for you^-saww! Leave the tears to flow upon the ground’. He^-saww said: ‘I^-saww fear that the Lord^-azwj of the earth might be Angered at the ones upon it (having made me^-saww cry’.

فَلَمَّا جُنَّ عَلَيْهِمُ اللَّيْلُ انْصَرَفَتْ خَدِيجَةُ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا وَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ عَلِيٌّ ع وَ دَخَلَتْ بِهِ مَنْزِلَهَا فَأَقْعَدَتْهُ عَلَى الْمَوْضِعِ الَّذِي فِيهِ الصَّخْرَةُ وَ أَظَلَّتْهُ بِصَخْرَةٍ مِنْ فَوْقِ رَأْسِهِ وَ قَامَتْ فِي وَجْهِهِ تَسْتُرُهُ بِبُرْدِهَا

When the night shielded upon them, Khadeeja^-asws and Rasool-Allah^-saww and Ali^-asws left, and she^-as entered her^-as house with him^-saww. She^-as seated him^-asws upon the place wherein was a rock, and shaded him^-saww with a stone from above his^-saww head, and she^-as stood facing him^-saww cheering him^-saww with her^-as coolness.

وَ أَقْبَلَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ يَرْمُونَهُ بِالْحِجَارَةِ فَإِذَا جَاءَتْ مِنْ فَوْقِ رَأْسِهِ صَخْرَةٌ وَقَتْهُ الصَّخْرَةُ وَ إِذَا رَمَوْهُ مِنْ تَحْتِهِ وَقَتْهُ الْجُدْرَانُ الْحَيِّطُ وَ إِذَا رُمِيَ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ وَقَتْهُ خَدِيجَةُ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا بِنَفْسِهَا وَ جَعَلَتْ تُنَادِي يَا مَعْشَرَ قُرَيْشٍ تُرْمَى الْحُرَّةُ فِي مَنْزِلِهَا فَلَمَّا سَمِعُوا ذَلِكَ انْصَرَفُوا عَنْهُ وَ أَصْبَحَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص وَ غَدَا إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ يُصَلِّي

And the Polytheists came to pelt him^-saww with the stones. Whenever a stone came from above him^-saww, the rock saved him^-saww, and whenever they pelted him^-saww from beneath him^-saww, the walls saved him^-saww, and whenever they pelted from in front of him^-saww, Khadeeja^-asws saved him^-saww by herself^-asws, and she^-asws went on calling out: ‘O community of Quraysh! You are pelting the free woman in her^-asws house?’ When they heard that, they dispersed from him^-saww. In the morning, Rasool-Allah^-saww woke up and went to the Masjid to pray Salat.

قَالَ وَ فِي سَنَةِ ثَمَانٍ مِنْ نُبُوَّتِهِ ص نَزَلَتْ‏ الم غُلِبَتِ الرُّومُ‏ كَمَا مَرَّتْ قِصَّتُهُ فِي بَابِ إِعْجَازِ الْقُرْآنِ

And in the year eight from his^-saww Prophet-hood, it was Revealed: The Romans are defeated [30:2], just as its story has passed in the chapter on the miracles of the Quran’’.[97]

 

[1] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 18, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 12 H 1

[2] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 18, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 12 H 2

[3] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 18, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 12 H 3

[4] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 18, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 12 H 4

[5] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 18, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 12 H 5

[6] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 18, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 12 H 6

[7] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 18, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 12 H 7

[8] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 18, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 2 Ch 12 H 8

[9] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 18, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 1 H 1

[10] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 18, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 1 H 2

[11] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 18, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 1 H 3

[12] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 18, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 1 H 4

[13] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 18, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 1 H 5

[14] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 18, The book of our Prophet^-saww, P 3 Ch 1 H 6

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