Hadith 34

r You-azwj is the Praise upon Your-azwj Favours which cannot be counted, and Your-azwj Grace which cannot be forgotten. O you people! It has reached me (news) what has reached me, and I-asws see that (the end of) my-asws term is nearer, and it is as if I-asws am with you all and you have been ignorant of my-asws life-span; and I-asws hereby leave among you all what Rasool-Allah-saww had left – the Book of Allah-azwj and my-asws descendants, and it is the offspring of the Guidance to the salvation, the Seal of the Prophets-as and the Chief of the excellent ones, and the Chosen Prophet-saww’. O you people! You will not be hearing a speaker saying the like of my-asws speech after me-asws, except for a forger. I-asws am the brother-asws of Rasool-Allah-saww, and a son-asws of his-saww uncle-as, and a sword of His-azwj Wrath, and a pillar of His-azwj Triumph, and His-azwj Strength and His-azwj Severity. I-asws am a millstone circling Hell, and am its grinding molars. I-asws am an orphanage of the sons and the daughters, and the capturer of the souls, and a Torment of Allah-azwj, which cannot be repelled from the criminal people. I-asws am the debater of (against) the heroes, and a fighter of the horsemen, and a destroyer of the ones who disbelieve in the Beneficent, and son-in-law of the best of the creatures-saww, I-asws am the chief of the successors-as and a successor-asws of the best of the Prophets-as. I-asws am a door of the city of knowledge and a treasurer of the knowledge of Rasool-Allah-saww and his-saww inheritor, and I-asws am the husband of the chaste chieftess of the women of the worlds, (Syeda) Fatima-asws, the pious, the pure, the clean, the righteous, the Guide, the beloved of the Beloved of Allah-azwj and the best of his-saww daughters, and his-saww lineage, and an aroma of Rasool-Allah-saww. His-saww grandsons are the best of the grandsons, and my-asws children are the best of the children. Can anyone deny what I-asws am saying? Where are the People of the Book submitting (to)? I-asws, my-asws name in the Evangel is ‘Eliah’, and in the Torah it is ‘Barya’, and in the Psalms it is ‘Arya’, and with India it is ‘Kalban’, and with the Romans it is ‘Batreysa’, and with the Persians it is ‘Jabeyr’, and with the Turks it is, ‘Tabeyr’, and with Al-Zanj it is ‘Khabir’, and with Al-Kahna it is ‘Bousy’, and with Habsha (Ethiopia) it is ‘Tabreyk’, and with my-asws mother-as it is ‘Haydar’, and with my-asws foster mother it is ‘Maymoun’, and with the Arabs it is ‘Ali’, and with the Armenians it is ‘Fareyq’, and with my-asws father-as it is ‘Zaheer’. Indeed! And I-asws am particularised in the Quran by (certain) names. Be cautioned from mastering upon these for you would be straying in your Religion! Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic is Saying: “Allah-azwj is with the truthful! ” I-asws am that truthful, and I-asws am the proclaimer (Muezzin) in the world and the Hereafter. Allah-azwj the Exalted Says: Then a proclaimer would proclaim among them: ‘The Curse of Allah is on the unjust, [7: 44]. I-asws am that proclaimer. And Allah-azwj the Exalted Said: And a proclamation from Allah and His Rasool [9: 3]. I-asws am that proclamation. And I-asws the good doer Allah-azwj Mighty and