Hadith 15

‘Al Khisaal’ – My father, from Ali, from his father, from Al Hassan Bin Al Hassan Bin Farsy, from Suleyman Bin Ja’far Al Basry, from Abdullah Bin Al Husayn Bin Zayd, ‘Son of Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws Bin Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, from his father, from Ja’far-asws Bin Muhammad-asws, from his-asws forefathers, from Ali-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘When Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Created the Paradise, Created it from two (types of) bricks –bricks of gold, and bricks of silver, and Made its walls of rubies, and its ceilings of aquamarine, and its gravel of pearls, and its dust of saffron and blue musk. He-azwj Said to it: “Speak! ” It said, ‘There is no god except You-azwj, the Living, the Eternal. Fortunate are the ones entering me’. Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Said: “By My-azwj Might, and My-azwj Magnificence, and My-azwj Majesty and My-azwj Loftiness! Neither will a habitual drinker of wine enter it, nor an intoxicated one, nor a slanderer and he is the tale-bearer (trouble-maker), nor a pimp, and he is the Qaltaban, nor a Qala and he is the police officer, nor a Zanouq and he is the hermaphrodite, nor a Khuyuf and he is the grave-robber, nor a tax collector, nor a severer of relationships, nor a believer in Compulsion! ”’. [15]
(Majlisi said), ‘And I did not find in the languages interpreting (the words), Al-Zanouq, and Al-Khuyuf with what they have been interpreted in the Hadeeth’.