Hadith 39

And from him, from Abu Muhammad, from Imran Bin Musa, from Yunus Bin Ja’far, from Ali Bin Asbat, from Muhammad Bin Al Fuzeyl, from Abu Hamza Al Sumali, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws: ‘A man said to Amir Al-Momineen-asws, ‘By Allah-azwj, I love you-asws! ’ – three times. Ali-asws said: ‘By Allah-azwj, you do not love me-asws! ’’
The man was angry. He said, ‘It is as if you-asws, by Allah-azwj, are informing me what is within myself! ’ Ali-asws said to him: ‘No, by Allah-azwj had Created the souls before the bodies by two thousand years. I-asws had not seen your soul among these’’. [87]
(The book) ‘Al Kashy’ – I found in the book of Jibraeel Bin Ahmad in his handwriting, ‘It is narrated to me by Muhammad Bin Isa, from Muhammad Bin Al Fuzeyl, from Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman, from Al Heysam Bin Waqid, from Maymoun Bin Abdullah, ‘From Al-Sadiq-asws, from his-asws forefathers-asws having said: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘Allah-azwj Created the souls before the bodies by two thousand years, then Settled them in the air. Whatever they recognised from these, then they incline over here, and whatever they denied, then they differ over here’’. [88]
(The book) ‘Al Basaair’ – From one of our companions, from Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Muhammad Bin Muslim, from Ibrahim Bin Ayoub, from Amro Bin Shimr, from Jabir, ‘From Abu Ja’far-asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted Created the souls before the bodies by two thousand years. When the souls were installed in their bodies, it was written in between their eyes, ‘Momin’ or ‘Kafir’, and what they would be involved with, and what they would be upon from the evil of their deeds and it good, in (an area) a measurement of a rat’s ear. Then Quran was Revealed with that unto His-azwj Prophet-saww: Surely, in that are Signs for the distinguishers [15: 75]; and it was so that Rasool-Allah-azwj, he-saww was the distinguisher, and I-asws am so after him-saww, and so are the Imams-asws from my-asws offspring, they-asws are the distinguishers’’. [89]