Hadith 213

ww saying the Paradise is Prohibited unto the Prophetsas and the rest of the communities until yousaww enter it (first)’. Hesaww said to him: ‘O Abu Dajjana! Don’t you know that for Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic there is a flag of light, and a pillar of light. Heazwj Created these two before Heazwj Created the skies by two thousand years. It is written upon that flag: ‘There is no god except Allahazwj, Muhammadsaww is best of the created beings’. The owner (bearer) of the flag is Aliasws, Imamasws of the people’. He said, ‘The Praise is for Allahazwj Who Guided us through yousaww, and ennobled us’. The Prophetsaww said to him: ‘Don’t you know that the one who loves usasws and embraces ourasws love, Allahazwj would Settle him with usasws’, and hesaww recited this Verse: In a truthful seat, in the Presence of a Powerful King [54: 55]’’. [237]
And from Muhammad Bin Al Abbas, from Ahmad Bin Howza, from Ibrahim Bin Is’haq, from Abdullah Bin Hammad, from Amro Bin Shimr, from Abu Mikhnaf, from Yaqoub Bin Maysam, ‘He found in the book of his father that Aliasws said: ‘Iasws heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Surely those who believe and are doing righteous deeds, those, they are the best of the Created beings [98: 7]. Then hesaww turned towards Aliasws and said: ‘Yes, youasws, O Aliasws and yourasws Shias, and yourasws appointment and their appointment is at the Fountain, resplendent (of faces), kohl-applied (in their eyes), crowned’. Yaqoub (the narrator) said, ‘I narrated to Abu Ja’farasws with this, and heasws said: ‘That is how it is with usasws in the Book of Aliasws! ’
Then he (the narrator) said, ‘And it is reported by Muhammad Bin Al-Abbas in his book, approximately twenty five Ahadeeth in Tafseer of this Verse, similar to what is mentioned in this Hadeeth, that the best of the created beings, heasws is Amir Al-Momineenasws and hisasws Shias, and those who committed Kufr, from the People of the Book and the Polytheists, [98: 1], they are hisasws enemies and their adherents’’. [238]
And from the book ‘Manhaj Al Tahqeeq Ila Sawa’a Al Tareeq’ – It is reported from the book ‘Al Aal’ of Ibn Khalawiya, raising it to Jabir Al Ansary who said, ‘I heard Rasool-Allahsaww saying: ‘Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Created mesaww and Created Aliasws, and (Syeda) Fatimaasws, and Al-Hassanasws and Al-Husaynasws from one Noor (light). That Noor was compressed with a compression and ourasws Shias came out from it. Weasws glorified (Allahazwj) so they glorified, and weasws extolled the Holiness (of Allahazwj) so they extolled the Holiness, and weasws exclaimed the glory (of Allahazwj so they exclaimed, and weasws praised (Allahazwj) so they praised, and weasws professed Tawheed, so they professed. The Allahazwj Created the skies and the earth, and Created the Angels. The Angels remained for a hundred years neither knowing any glorification, nor extollation of Holiness. Weasws glorified, so ourasws Shias glorified, so the Angels glorified, and like that regarding the remainder. Thus weasws are the (first) Unitarians when there was no Unitarian apart from usasws, and there is a ri