Hadith 25

(The books) ‘Kunz Jamie Al Fawaid’ and ‘Taweel Al Ayaat Al Zaahira’ – Muhammad Bin Al Abbas, raising it to Muhammad Bin Ziyad who said, ‘Ibn Mihran asked Abdullah Bin Abbas about the interpretation of words of the Exalted: And indeed we are the ones arranged in rows [37: 165] And indeed were the ones Glorifying’ [37: 166]. Ibn Abbas said, ‘We were in the presence of Rasool-Allah-saww and Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws came. When the Prophet-saww saw him-asws, he-saww smiled in his-asws face and said: ‘Welcome to the one-asws Allah-azwj Created before Adam-as by forty thousand years’. I said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! Can it happen that the son would be (exist) before the father? ’
He-saww said: ‘Yes. Allah-azwj the Exalted Created me-asws and Created Ali-asws before He-azwj Created Adam-as by this period, and Created Noor. He-azwj Divided it into two halves. He-azwj Created me-asws from one half and Created Ali-asws from the other half, before all of the things. Then He-azwj Created the things. There were dark and He-azwj Illuminated these from my-saww Noor and Noor of Ali-asws. Then He-azwj Made us to be on the right of the Throne. Then He-azwj Created the Angels. We-asws glorified (Allah-azwj), so the Angels glorified, and we-asws extolled the Oneness, so the Angels extolled the Oneness, and we-asws exclaimed the Greatness so the Angels exclaimed the Greatness. So, that was from my-saww teachings and teachings of Ali-asws. And that was in the preceding Knowledge of Allah-azwj that no one loving to me-saww and Ali-asws would enter the Fire, nor would he enter the Paradise one who is hateful to me-asws and to Ali-asws. Indeed! And Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Created the Angels, in their hands are silver pitchers filled with water of life from Al-Firdows. So, there is none from a Shia of Ali-asws except and he-asws is of clean parents, pure, believers in Allah-azwj. Whenever a father of one of them (Shias) intends to sleep with his wife, an Angel from the Angels, those having pitchers from the water of Paradise in their hands, comes and pours from that water into his utensil (glass) which he drinks from it. He drinks from that water and the Eman grows in his heart just as the plant grows. Thus, they are upon a proof from their Lord-azwj, and from their Prophet-saww, and from their successor-asws Ali-asws, and from my-saww daughter-asws Al-Zahra-asws, then Al-Hassan-asws, then Al-Husayn-asws, then the Imams-asws from the sons-asws of Al-Husayn-asws’. I said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! And who are the Imams-asws? ’ He-saww said: ‘Eleven from me-asws, and their father-asws is Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws’. Then the Prophet-saww said: ‘The Praise is for Allah-azwj Who Made the love of Ali-asws and the Eman to be two causes’’. [38]