Hadith 177

Tafseer Furaat Bin Ibrahim – Ali Bin Hamdoun, from Faraj Bin Farwah, from Mas’ada, from Salih Bin Meesam, from his father who said, ‘While I was in the market when Al-Asbagh Bin Nubata came to (see) me. He said to me, ‘Woe be unto you, O Maysam! I heard a Hadeeth from Amir Al-Momineen Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws just now, severely difficult, if it happens like what he-asws mentioned’. I said, ‘And what is it? ’
He said, ‘I heard him-asws saying: ‘Our-asws Ahadeeth, of People-asws of the Household, are difficult becoming more difficult. No one can tolerate it except an Angel of Proximity or a Messenger-as Prophet-as, or a Momin whose heart Allah-azwj has tested for the Eman’’. He said, ‘I got up immediately and went to Amir Al-Momineen-asws, and I said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! May I be sacrificed for you-asws! There is a Hadeeth Al-Asbagh Bin Nubata has informed me with, I was constrained by it, panicking’. He-asws said: ‘What is it? ’ So, I informed him-asws with it’. He-asws said to me: ‘Be seated, O Meesam! Or and every knowledge the scholars can tolerate it? Allah-azwj Said to His-azwj Angels: I am going to Make a Caliph in the earth. They said: Are You going to Make in it one who will make mischief therein and shed the blood, [2: 30] – up the end of the Verse. So, do you see the Angels tolerating the knowledge? ’ I said, ‘By Allah-azwj! This is mightier than that! ’
He-asws said: ‘And another, from Musa-as. Allah-azwj Revealed the Torah unto him-as, so he-as thought that there isn’t anyone in the earth more learned than him. Allah-azwj the Exalted Informed him-as: “Among My-azwj creatures there is one who is more learned than you-as! ” And that was when He-azwj Feared the self-conceitedness upon His-azwj Prophet-saww’. He-asws said: ‘He-as supplicated to his-as Lord-azwj to Guide him-as to the scholar. Allah-azwj Gathered between him-as and Al-Khizr-as. He (Al-Khizr-as) punctured the boat, so Musa-as could not tolerate that, and he (Al-Khizr-as) killed the boy, so he-as could not tolerate it, and he (Al-Khizr-as) straightened the wall, and he-as could not tolerate that. And as for the Momin, our Prophet-saww Muhammad-saww, Rasool-Allah-saww, held my-asws hand on the day of Al-Ghadeer, and he-saww said: ‘One who whose Master I-saww was, so Ali-asws is his Master’. So, did you see the Momineen tolerating that, except the ones from them Allah-azwj Protected? Indeed! Receive glad tidings! Then receive glad tidings, for Allah-azwj has Specialised you (Shias) with what He-azwj did not Specialise the Angels, and the Prophets-as, and the Momineen, due to what you (Shias) are tolerating from the orders of Rasool-Allah-saww’’. [186]