Abu Ja`far Muhammad b. `Ali b. al-Husayn b. Musa b. Babuwayh al-Qummi (ra) narrated to us. He said: `Ali b. al-Husayn b. Shadhuwayh al-Mu’addab (ra) narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. `Abdullah b. Ja`far b. Jami` al-Himyari narrated to us from his father. He said:
Ya`qub b. Yazid narrated to me from Muhammad b. Abi `Umayr from
Aban b. `Uthman from
Aban b. Taghlub from
`Ikrama from
Ibn `Abbas. He said
When `Isa reached thirty years of age, Allah sent him to the Children of Israel. So, Iblis (la) came to him at a stop of Bayt al-Maqdis, which was the stop of Afek. So, he said: O `Isa! Are you the one who – by the greatness of your lordship – was able to be created without a father? `Isa (as) said: Rather, the greatness belongs to the One who created me; that is how Adam and Hawwa’ were created [as well]. Iblis said: O `Isa! Are you the one who – by the greatness of your lordship – was able to speak in the cradle as a child? `Isa (as) said: O Iblis! Rather, the greatness belongs to the One who gave me speech in my childhood; and if He willed, He could have made me mute. Iblis said: So, are you the one who – by the greatness of your lordship – were able to create the form of a bird out of clay, blew into it, and it was able to fly? `Isa (as) said: Rather, the greatness belongs to the One who created me and created what He subjected to me. Iblis said: So, are you the one who – by the greatness of your lordship – cure the ill? `Isa (as) said: Rather, the greatness belongs to the One by whose permission I cured them; and if He willed, He could have made me ill. Iblis said: So, are you the one who – by the greatness of your lordship – is able to resurrect the dead? `Isa (as) said: Rather, the greatness belongs to the One by whose permission I resurrected them; there is nothing stopping Him from causing those I resurrected to die and causing me to die. Iblis said: O `Isa! Are you the one who – by the greatness of your lordship – is able to walk on the sea without wetting your feet and without sinking in it? `Isa (as) said: Rather, the greatness belongs to the One who overcame it for me; and if He willed, He could have drowned me. Iblis said: O `Isa! Are you the one who – by the greatness of your lordship – will rule over the heavens and the Earth one day; and you will be above all that, running the affairs and distributing sustenance [to the world]? So, `Isa (as) became astounded at the words of Iblis, the accursed disbeliever, so `Isa (as) said: Glorified is Allah – His glory fills His heavens and His Earth, the extension of His words, the weight of His Throne, and His contentment. He said: So, when Iblis (la) heard that, he went on his face, not possessing anything, until he fell into the green ocean. Ibn `Abbas said: A female Jinn walked on the shore of the ocean, seeing Iblis prostrating upon a solid rock, with tears flowing on his cheeks. She looked at him astonishingly, went to him and said to him: Woe to you, Iblis! What do you hope for in a long prostration? So, he said to her: O righteous woman, daughter of a righteous man: I hope that, if I am good to my Lord, and He admits me to the Fire, that He takes me out of the Fire out of His mercy.