جعفر بن محمد بن مسرور

We are the twelve Divine Leaders including Al-Hassan (MGB) and Al-Hussein (MGB) followed by the children from the progeny of Al-Hussein (MGB).”

There are twelve Divine Leaders including Ali (MGB), Al-Hassan (MGB) and Al-Hussein (MGB). Then the Divine Leaders are from the progeny of Al-Hussein (MGB).”The compiler of his book said, “I have recorded whatever narrations I have seen on this issue in the book Kamal ad-Din va Tamam al-Ni’mat fi Isbat il-Qaybat va Kashf ul-Hayrat.

O Zurarah! The people at these times are in six groups: lions, wolves, foxes, dogs, pigs and ewes. As for the lions, they are the Kings of the world whichever one loves to can conquer and not get defeated. As for the wolves - they are your businessmen. They find faults36 when they want to buy, and they praise when37 they want to sell. And as for the foxes, they are those who use their religion as a means to eat.38 What they describe by their tongues is not in their hearts. And as for the dogs, they are those who growl at the people with their tongues, and the people honor them due to fear of their tongues. And as for the pigs, they are the effeminate ones, and their look-alikes who never refuse to participate in acts of corruption when they are invited. And as for the ewes, they are the believers whose hair is shaved, whose meat is eaten, and whose bones are broken just as when ewes are caught in between lions, wolves, foxes, dogs and pigs.’”

One day when God’s Prophet (MGB) was sitting an angel who had twenty-four faces came down. The Prophet (MGB) said, ‘O my friend Gabriel! I have never seen you in this state.’ The angel said, ‘I am not Gabriel. I am Mahmood. The Honorable the Exalted God has sent me down to unite in marriage one light with another light.’ The Prophet (MGB) asked, ‘Who are they (to be united?)’ The angel replied, ‘Fatimah (MGB) with Ali (MGB).’ When the angel turned back, it was written in between his two shoulders, ‘Muhammad is God’s Prophet (MGB) and Ali (MGB) is his Trustee.’ God’s Prophet (MGB) asked, ‘Since when has this been written in between your two shoulders?’ The angel replied, ‘From twenty-two thousand years before the Honorable the Exalted God created Adam.’”

We will amuse ourselves here and move on Wednesday and join the Commander of the Faithful Ali (as) before he says the Friday prayers. While they were eating lunch, they saw a lizard. They hunted the lizard and Amr ibn Harith took it by hand, opened his palm and jokingly said, ‘This is the Commander of the Faithful! Pledge allegiance to him.’ Those seven individuals pledged allegiance to the lizard and Amr ibn Harith himself was the eighth person who pledged allegiance to the lizard. They returned on Wednesday night and arrived at Madaen on Friday. They did not disperse and were all together. The Commander of the Faithful Imam Ali (as) was delivering the Friday prayer sermon at the mosque. Once they came into the mosque, Ali (as) looked at them and said, “O people! God’s Prophet (sw) disclosed one-thousand narrations to me each of which has one-thousand gates each of which has one-thousand keys. I heard God - may His Majesty be Exalted - say, ‘One day We shall call together all human beings with their (respective) Imams…’ I swear by God that there will be eight people who shall be resurrected with their leader which will be a lizard. I could name them one by one for you if I wish.”Asbaq added, “I saw that Amr ibn Harith had become so sorry and ashamed that he held his head down just like a date palm branch.”

We are twelve Divine Leaders including Al-Hassan (s), Al-Hussein (s), and then the rest of the Divine Leaders are from the descendants of Al-Hussein (s).”

I know a man who says that your father (s) is alive and that you know about this. Al-Ridha (s) said, Glory be to God! How could God’s Messenger (s) die and Musa ibn Ja’far (s) not die? Yes. By God, he (s) died, and his property was divided and his slave wives were married off to others.”

I asked Abil Hassan Al-Ridha (s), ‘Has God authorized the servants regarding the affairs?’ The Imam (s) replied, ‘He is Exalted High above that.’ Then I asked the Imam |(s), ‘Has God predestined them to do acts of disobedience?’ The Imam (s) replied, ‘God is Just and Wise High above that.’ Then the Imam (s) added, ‘The Honorable the Exalted God said, ‘O son of Adam! I deserve that your good deeds be ascribed to Me. You deserve that your wicked deeds be ascribed to you. You do acts of disobedience using the power which I have established in you.’”

I heard my father (AS) narrate on the authority of his father (AS) that a man stood in front of the Commander of the Faithful (AS) and said, ‘O Commander of the Faithful! How did you come to recognize your Lord?’ He (AS) replied, ‘By the dissolution of intentions and the breach of aspirations. Sometimes I had an aspiration, but He got in the way between me and my aspirations. Sometimes I made some intentions, but destiny opposed my intentions. Thus, I realized that there is some other Planner.’ The man asked, ‘Why did you thank Him for His blessings?’ He (AS) replied, ‘I looked at His calamities which He fended off from me and brought them upon someone else. Thus, I realized that He has blessed me. Thus, I thanked Him.’ The man asked, ‘Why do you like to meet Him?’ He (AS) replied, ‘I saw that He has given me the religion of His Angels, Messengers and Prophets. Then I realized that He has honored me with this religion and will never forget me. Therefore, I would like to meet Him.’

God will never grant a hypocrite or a corrupt person insight, knowledge and a good-temper.”

“The first of the three in whose name the first lot was cast is Mary, the daughter of Imran, as we read in the following words of the Honorable the Exalted God, ‘Thou wast not with them when they cast lots with arrows, as to which of them should be charged with the care of Mary…’ There were six arrows in this casting. Then it is the lots cast for Jonah (AS) when he was riding the ship with the people and the ship stopped in the tumult. They cast lots for Jonah three times. Then Jonah went to the front of the ship. Suddenly a large whale opened his mouth and Jonah jumped into his mouth.
The next case is regarding Abdul Muttalib to whom God had granted nine sons. Abdul Muttalib made a vow that he would offer one of them for sacrifice to God if he was granted another son. When the number of his sons became ten with the birth of Abdullah - the father of God’s Prophet Muhammad (sw) - it was hard for Abdul Muttalib to offer Abdullah as a sacrifice. Then he brought ten camels and cast lots for either them or Abdullah. The lot fell to Abdullah’s name. He increased the number of the camels to be offered ten by ten and repeated the casting of lots. However, every time the lot fell to Abdullah’s name.
When the number of camels he offered reached one-hundred, the lot fell in the name of the camels. Abdul Muttalib said, ‘O My Lord! No. It would not be fair to suffice for this. I must draw lots three more times.’ He drew lots three more times. The lot fell to the name of the camels all three times. At this time Abdul Muttalib said, ‘Now I know that my Lord is pleased with this.” And he had their throats cut.

“Whoever doesn’t care about what he says or what he is toldis a sort of partner for Satan. Whoever doesn’t care about what evil deeds he does in front of the people is a sort of partner for Satan. Whoever gossips about a believer unduly is a sort of partner for Satan. Whoever enjoys forbidden love and the lust of adultery is a sort of partner for Satan. The Imam (MGB) then added, “Bastards have definite characteristics: First, they hate us - members of the Household of the Holy Prophet (MGB). Second, they long for the illegitimate way in which they themselves were created. Third, they disparage the religion. Fourth, they mistreat the people. They are only welcomed by those who were conceived through their mother having sex with men other than her husband, or whose mothers conceived them in their periods of menstruation.”

“Possessing the following four characteristics will perfect your Islam and eliminate your sins, and you will meet your Lord while He is pleased with you:1- Fulfilling your promises to the people,2- Being honest with the people,3- Being ashamed of what is shameful in the sight of God and the people,4- Being good-tempered with your family."

I wonder why those who fear the following four things do not seek refuge in the following four things. Why doesn’t the one who fears take refuge in God’s statement?: ‘For us God sufficeth, and He is the best disposer of affairs’, since I heard that God added, ‘And they returned with Grace and Bounty from God; no harm ever touched them.’I wonder why doesn’t the one who is sad take refuge in God’s statement?: ‘There is no god but Thou: Glory to Thee: I was indeed wrong!’, since I heard that God added, ‘So We listened to him: and delivered him from distress: and thus do We deliver those who have faith.’I wonder why doesn’t one who has been cheated take refuge in God’s statement?: ‘My (own) affair I commit to God: For God (ever) watches over His servants’, since I heard that God added, ‘Then God saved him from (every) ill that they plotted (against him).’And I wonder why doesn’t the one who wants this world and its ornaments seek refuge in God’s statement: ‘God’s Will (be done)! There is no power but with God!’ since I heard that God - may His Majesty be Exalted - added, ‘If thou dost see me less than thee in wealth and sons, it may be that my Lord will give me something better than thy garden.’ “It may be that” in this verse stands for inevitability.

“Even that woman will be punished severely who had left a goat tied in sun and it died of thirst.”

Everything in this book that is narrated from Muhammad ibn Khalid Al-Qasri has been transmitted by me from Jafar ibn Muhammad ibn Masrur - may Allah (swt) have mercy on him - from Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Amir, from his uncle Abdullah ibn Amir, from Hafsah, from Muhammad ibn Khalid ibn Abdullah Al-Bajali Al-Qasri, who was an Arab from Kufa.

Everything in this book that is narrated from Abdullah ibn Latif Al-Taflisi has been transmitted by me from Jafar ibn Muhammad ibn Masrur - may Allah (swt) be pleased with him - from Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Amir, from his uncle Abdullah ibn Amir, from Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr, from Abdullah ibn Latif Al-Taflisi.

And whatever is narrated from Ismail ibn Al-Fadl, I have narrated it from Jafar ibn Muhammad ibn Masrur - may Allah (swt) be pleased with him - from Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Amir, from his uncle Abdullah ibn Amir, from Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr, from Abd Al-Rahman ibn Muhammad, from Al-Fadl ibn Ismail ibn Al-Fadl, from his father Ismail ibn Al-Fadl Al-Hashimi.

And whatever is narrated from Muhammad ibn Al-Fiḍ, I have narrated it from Jafar ibn Muhammad ibn Masrur - may Allah (swt) be pleased with him - from Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Amir, from his uncle Abdullah ibn Amir, from Ibn Abi Umayr, from Muhammad ibn Al-Fiḍ.

I asked Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, about the saying of Allah, Exalted and Glorious is He: «Indeed, Allah and His Angels send blessings upon the Prophet. O you who have believed, send blessings upon him and submit to him (in a complete manner of) a submission.» (35:56) He said: The blessings from Allah, Exalted and Glorious is He, is a mercy, and from the Angels, it is a purification, and from the people, it is a prayer. As for the saying of Him, Exalted and Glorious is He: «and submit to him (in a complete manner of) a submission» He indicates submission to him in everything that has been issued of him. He said: Then I said to him: And how do we send blessings upon Muhammed and his Family? He said: You say: «The blessings of Allah, and the blessings of His Angels, Prophets, Messenger and all creation be upon Muhammed and his Family, and peace be upon him and upon them, and so be the mercy of Allah and His benediction.» He said: I then said: And what is the reward of the one who sends blessings upon the Prophet and his Family with this prayer? He said: That one leaves (guilt from) sins, by Allah, like one’s shape on the day his mother gave birth to him.