Hadith 1

hat for me’. He-asws said: ‘The soul resides in its place. The soul of a good doer would be in illumination and expanse, and the soul of an evil doer would be in narrowness and darkness, and the body becomes soil just as it had been Created from it, and whatever is thrown with by the wild animals and the vermin from their mouths, from what it had eaten and chewed, all that would be preserved in the soul with the One Neither is the weight of a particle in the sky hidden from Him [34: 3], in the darkness of the earth, and He-azwj Knows the number of things, and their weight. The soil of the spiritualists is at that status of gold in the soil. When it would be the time of Resurrection, the earth will be rained upon with the rain of Resurrection, so the earth would be nourished, then it would churn the churning of the watercarrier, and it would become soil of the mortal, like the becoming of the gold from the soil when it is washed with the water, and the butter from the milk when it is churned. The soil would gather every mould and be transformed by the Permission of Allah-azwj, the Able, where the soul would be. So the image would return by the Permission of the Fashioner like it had been and the soul would permeate in it. Then he would be complete, not denying anything from himself’’. [7]
What is reported from Al-Sadiq-asws in description of the soul. He-asws said: ‘And by it the body is ordered and forbidden, and Rewarded and Punished, and it would have separated it (the body) and Allah-azwj the Glorious would Clothe it something else, just as His-azwj Wisdom would require’’. [8]
(The books) ‘Al Illal’ and ‘Al Uyoun’ – From his father, and Muhammad Bin Al-Hassan, from Sa’ad Bin Abdullah, and Abdullah Bin Ja’far Al Himeyri, and Muhammad Bin Yahya Al Attar, and Ahmad Bin Idrees, altogether from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah Al Barqy, from Abu Hashim Dawood Bin Qasim Al Ja’fari, ‘From Abu Ja’far Muhammad-asws Bin Ali-asws the 2nd having said: ‘One day Amir Al-Momineen-asws came and with him-asws was Al-Hassan-asws Bin Ali-asws and Salman Al Farsi-ra, may Allah-azwj have Mercy on him-ra, and Amir Al-Momineen-asws was leaning upon a hand of Salman-ra, and he-asws entered the Sacred Masjid, when a man of excellent appearance and clothing came. He greeted unto Amir Al-Momineen-asws. He-asws responded the greeting. He sat down. Then he said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! I ask you-asws about three issues. If you-asws were to inform me with these, I would know that the people are riding from your-asws orders what is Decreed upon them. And if it happens to be the otherwise, they neither safe in their world nor in their Hereafter – I will know that you-asws and them are of the same beginning’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said to him: ‘Ask me-asws whatever comes to you! ’ He said, ‘Inform me about the man when he sleeps, where does his soul go, and about the man, how come he remembers and forgets, and about the man, how come his children resemble the paternal uncles and the maternal uncles? ’
Amir Al-Momineen-asws turned to Abu Muhammad Al-Hassan-asws Bin Ali-asws. He-asws said: ‘O Abu Muhammad-asws! Answer him’. He-asws said: ‘As for what you asked about from the matter of the human being when he sleeps, where does his soul go, his soul is linked with the wind, and the wind is linked with the air up to the time what its owner moves for the waking up. When Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Permits for the return of that soul to its owner, that soul pulls the wind, and that wind pulls the air, so the soul returns. So, it settles in the body of its owner. If Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic does not Permit with the return of that soul to his owner, the air pulls the wind, and the wind pulls the soul, so it does not return to its owner up to the time when he would be Resurrected. And as for what you mentioned of the matter of the remembering and the forgetting, the heart of the man is in a cavity, and there is a covering upon the cavity. If the man w