3. Muhammad ibn al-Husayn and others have narrated from Sahl from Muhammad ibn ‘Isa and Muhammad ibn Yahya and Muhammad ibn al-Husayn all of them from Muhammad ibn Sinan from Isma‘il ibn Jabur and ‘Abd Al-Karim ibn ‘Amr from ‘Abd Al-Hamid ibn abu al--Daylam from abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) who has said the following.
“Moses prepared his will and be given to Yusha‘ ibn Nun. Yusha‘ ibn Nun made his will to be given to the sons of Harun. He did not made a will to be given to his own sons nor to be given to the sons of Moses. To Allah, the Most High belong all the good choice. He chooses whoever He wants from whomever He wants. He gave the glad news about Jesus to Moses and Yusha‘. When Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, raised Jesus as His Messenger Jesus said to them, “After there will come a prophet whose name will be Ahmad from the descendents of Isma‘il (a.s.). He will come and affirm my message and your message, my excuses and your excuses. (The will) will continued after him in the disciples the conservative ones. Allah, the Most High, has called them as conservative ones because they preserved the greatest name and it is the book through which such knowledge of all things is learned that existed with the prophets (s.a.) as Allah, the Most High, has said the following. “We sent Our Messengers (before you ) with clear evidence (to support their truthfulness), and sent with them the Book and the Balance . .” (57:25). The book is the greatest name. Of what is known as the books are Torah, Gospel and al-Furqan (the Holy Quran ) of which also is the book of Noah, the book of Salih, shu‘ayb and Abraham. Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, has said, “This is what is written in the ancient heavenly Books,(87:18) the Scriptures of Abraham and Moses (87:19). Where then is the book of Abraham? In fact, the book of Abraham is the greatest name. The book of Moses is thegreatest name. Thus, the will continues through one scholar to the next scholar until they delivered it to Muhammad (s.a.) “When Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, sent Muhammad (s.a.) the descendents of the conservative disciples accepted his faith but the lyinng of the Israelites refused to believe in him. He prayed to Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, and worked hard for His cause. Thereafter Allah, Most High is Whose mention, commanded him to declare the excellence of the executor of your will and he said, “My Lord, the Arabs are the most rude and unjust ones. They did not have anybooks with them, no prophet had come to them and they do not know the virtues of the prophcy of the prophets (s.a.) and their honor. They will not believe me if I would declare to them the excellence and virtues of my family. Allah, Most Holy the mention of Whose name is, said, “Do not be grieved about them . .” (16:127) “. .We have told him, “Ignore them and say to them ’farewell’. They will soon know the consequences of their deeds (43:89) He has made a mention of the name of the executor of his will and hypocrisy fell into their hearts. The Messenger of Allah noticed it and whatever they would say. Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, sais, “O Muhammad (s.a.) We know that what they say causes tension to your heart. They, in fact, do not reject what you say, but they refuse to accept the signs of Allah. However, they refuse to accept them without any good reason and authority. The the Messenger of Allah would associate with them and would seek the support of some of them against the other ones among them. He would continue to express the excepllence of the executor of his will to them fromtime to time until the following cchapter of the Holy Quran was revealed. He presented justifications against them when he was informed of death to approach and the news leaving this world. Allah, Most Holy, is the mention of Whose name, said, “When you are free from (your obligations), strive hard (to worship God) (94:7) and be devoted to your Lord’s service.” (94:8). Allah says, “When your duty is fulfilled then establish your mark and symbol and declare who the executor of will, will be and speak to them of his excellence and virtues. Thus, Muhammad (s.a.) declared, “Over whoever I have Divine Authority this Ali also has Divine Authority over them. O Lord, support those who would support him and be the enemy of those who are hostile to him three time.” He has further said, “I will commision and send the man who loves Allah and His Messenger and Allah and His Messenger love him. He is not the one who would run away from the battle field. In this he points out to the one who returned from the gates of the castle frightening and disheartening his people. He has also said, “Ali is the leader of the believers. Ali is the pillar of religion.” He has further said, “This is the one who strikes people with his sword to defend the truth after me.” The Holy Prophet has said, “The truth is with Ali wherever he would incline.” The Holy Prophet has said, “I leave among two facts, would you hold to them firmly, you will never be mislead, the book of Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, and my family, my descendents. O people, listen. I have certainly preached the message to you. You will arrive at the pool of al-kawthar, and will ask you about your dealings towards the two graviticious matters. The two graviticious matters are the book of Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, and my family. Do not proceed ahead othem lest you will be destroyed. Do not try to treach them because they by far are more knowledgeable than you. Even though al-Hujja (solid proof of Ali’s Wilaya his Divine Authority over the people after the Holy Prophet) was established through the words of the the Messenger of Allah and those of the Book that people read, however, he continued to express the excellence and spiritual virtues of his family in words and explain with verses of the Holy Quran. “People of the house, God wants to remove all kinds of uncleanliness from you and to purify you thoroughly. (33:33) “Know that whatever property you may gain, one fifth belongs to God, the Messenger, the kindred,. .” (8:41) “Give the relatives, the destitute and those who when on a journey have become needy, their dues. “ (17:26) It was Ali (a.s.) and his right was the chance to execute the will of the Holy Prophet (s.a.) that gave him the Leadership with Divine Authority which was created for him, the greatest name, the legacy of knowledge and the symbols of knowledge of the prophet-hood. He also has said, “(Muhammad), say, “I do not ask you for any payment for my preaching to you except (your) love of(my near) relatives.. .” (42:23). “questions are asked about the baby girls buried alive,” (81:8) He says, “I ask you about the love that I had told you about its great virtue. It was the love of the relatives (family of the Holy Prophet) but for what reason did you murder them. He, Most Exalted Whose mention is, has said, “Ask those who know about the heavenly Books if you do not know about this.” (16:43) He has said that the Book is the reminder and people of this reminder (the book) are the Ahl –al-Bayt of Muhammad (s.a.). Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, has commanded them to ask from but theyare not commanded to ask the ignorant people. Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, has called the Holy Quran Dhikr (reminder), thus, He has said, “We have revealed the Quran to you so that you could tell the people what has been revealed to them and so that perhaps they will think.” (16:44) Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, “The Quran is a reminder to you and to your people and you will soon be questioned about it.” (43:44) Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, has alsosaid, “Believers, obey God, His Messenger, and your leaders (who possess Divine authority). .” (4:59) He has said, “Had they referred it to the Messenger or to their leaders (who possess Divine,Authority) they could have used that information more properly. Were it not for the favor and mercy of God, all but a few of them would have followed Satan. (4:83) The referring of the matter and the task mentioned in the above verse is reffering in the task and the affairs of the people. People must referred in such tasks to the people who possess Ddivine Authority from among them. The people that Allah has commanded to be obeyed and referred to. When the Messenger of Allah returned from the his farewell piligrimage to the sacred House in Makka Jibril descended to him and said, “Messenger, preach what is revealed to you from your Lord. If you will not preach, it would be as though you have not conveyed My message. God protects you from men. He does not guide the unbelieving people.” (5:67) He called the people to come together at one place and they did. He ordered that the spiky bushes be removed from the ground to make room. He (s.a.) then said, “O people, who is your guardian with divine Authority who has greater priority to your souls than yourselves?” They said, Allah and His Messenger have such authority.” The Holy Prophet (s.a.) then said, “Over whoever I have Divine Authority this Ali also has the same degree of authority. O Lord support those who support him (Ali) and be the enemy of those who are his (Ali’s) enemies. He said this three times. This made the thorn of hyposcrisy to deep itself into the hearts of certain group of people who said, “Allah, Most Great is His to mention, has never sent any such thing to Muhammad (s.a.). He only wants to left up the shoulder of His nephew to promote him. when he arrived at madina, the Ansar, Muslims of Madina came to see him for a certain issue. They said, “O the Messenger of Allah, Allah, Most great the mention of Whose name is, has granted usa great deal of favors. He has granted us honor in bringing you to this town among us. In so doing He has brought joy to the hearts of our friend and sorrow to our enemies. We know that many delegates come to see you and there is not enough to give them and the enemies call it degrading. We would like very much if you would accept one third of our properties so that when a delegate from Makka 2would come to see you, you would find enough means to accommodate them. The Messenger of Allah did not reply them with anything and he was waiting for Jibril to come from his Lord. Jibril descended and said, “. .(Muhammad), say, “I do not ask you for any payment for my preaching to you except (your) love of(my near) relatives. .” (42:23) He did not accept their property. The hypocrites said, “Allah has not sent this to Muhammad. He only wants to left up the shoulder of his nephew to promote him. He is imposing his family up on us. Yesterday he said, “Over whoever I have Divine authority, this Ali also has the same degree of Divine authority over them and today he says, “.(Muhammad), say, “I do not ask you for any payment for my preaching to you except (your) love of(my near) relatives. . .” (42:23) Thereafter the verse of the Holy Quran about Khums (paying one fifth of net income as tax came (see 8:41) They said, “He only wants to take away our properties and interests.” Then Jibril came and said, “O Muhammad (s.a.) you have completed the task of prophet-hood and the duration of your life is coming to a close. You, now, must place the greatest name, the legacy of the knowledge and the symbols of knowledge of prophet-hood with Ali (a.s.). It is because I do not want to live the earth without having a scholar theirin so that people would learn from him how to obey Me and know through him My guardianship and aauthority. The scholar would be the Divine authority for those who come to be born at a time between the passing away of aone prophet to the appearance of the next prophet. The Imam (a.s.) said, “He (Muhammad (s.a.) bequeathed to him the greatest name, the legacy of the knowledge and the symbols of knowledge of the prophet-hood. He also bequeathed to him a thousand word and a thousand chapter whereby there would open a thousnd chapter and a thousand word from each chapter and each word.”