Hadith 287

ww speak the truth, O Muhammad-saww! I-azwj Chose you-saww for the Prophet-hood and Sent you-saww with the Message, and I-azwj Tested Ali-asws with the witnessing upon your-saww community, and Made him-asws a Divine Authority in the earth along with you-saww and after you-saww, and he-asws is Noor of My-azwj friends, and guardian of the ones who obey Me-azwj, and he-asws is the Word which I-azwj have Necessitated for the pious. O Muhammad-saww! And I-azwj have got him-asws married with (Syeda) Fatima-asws. He-asws is your-asws successor-asws, and your-saww inheritor, and your-asws Vizier, and washer of your-saww bareness, and helper of your-saww religion, and the killed upon My-azwj Sunnah and your-saww Sunnah. A wretched one of this community will kill him-asws! ”
Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘Then my-saww Lord-azwj Commanded me-saww with matters and things, and Commanded me-saww to conceal it and did not Permit for me-saww regarding best of my-saww companions. Then the rug came down with me-saww, and there I-saww was with Jibraeel-as taking me-saww from it until I-saww came to Sidrat Al-Muntaha, and he-as paused me-saww beneath it. Then he-as entered me-saww into the Garden Al-Mawa and I-saww saw my-saww dwelling, and your-asws dwelling, O Ali-asws, in it. While Jibraeel-as was speaking to me-saww when the Noor of Allah-azwj exalted me-saww, and I-saww looked from like the eye of the needle, to what I-saww used to look at Him-azwj during the first time. My-saww Lord-azwj, Majestic is His-azwj Majesty Called out to me-saww: “O Muhammad-saww! ” I-saww said: ‘At Your-azwj service, my-saww Lord-azwj, and my-saww God-azwj, and my-saww Master-azwj! ’
He-azwj Said: “My-azwj Mercy precedes My-azwj Wrath to you-saww and to your-saww offspring! You-saww are My-azwj elite from My-azwj creatures, and you-saww are My-azwj Trustee, and My-azwj Beloved, and My-azwj Rasool-saww, and My-saww Might and My-azwj Majesty! If the entirety of My-azwj creatures were to complain to Me-azwj regarding you-saww for the blink of an eye, or derogate you-saww or derogate My-azwj elites from your-saww offspring, I-azwj will Enter them into My-azwj Fire, and I-azwj would not Care! O Muhammad-saww! Ali-asws is Amir Al-Momineen, and chief of the Muslims, and guide of the resplendent to the Gardens of bliss, father-asws of the two grandsons-asws who would be killed unjustly! ”
Then He-azwj Obligated the Salat and whatever the Blessed and Exalted Wanted, and I-saww was near from Him-azwj during the first time like what is between the two ends of the bow are to its sides. That is the Word of the Exalted: So he was (at a distance of) two bows or nearer [53: 9] from that’’. [204]