Hadith 7

According to Ibn Musa, from Muhammad Bin Yaqoub, from Ali Bin Muhammad Bin Abdullah, from Ibrahim Bin Is’haq Al Ahmar, from Muhammad Bin Suleyman, from his father who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah Al-Sadiqasws, ‘So and so is such and such with his worship, and his Religion, and his meritsare such and such’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So heasws said: ‘How is his intellect? ’ I said, ‘I don’t know’. So heasws said: ‘The Rewards are in accordance to the intellect. There used to be a man from the Children of Israel who used to worship Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic in an island from the island of the sea. (It was) green to behold, a lot of trees, clean water, and an Angel from the Angels passed by him, and he said, ‘O Lordazwj! Show me the Rewards of this servant of yours’. Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Showed that to him, but the Angel considered it little. Then Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Revealed unto him that he should accompany him. So, the Angel came to him in the image of a human being, and he (the worshipper) said to him, ‘Who are you? ’ He (the Angel) said, ‘I am a worshipping man. Your status has reached me, and your worshipping in this place, so I came to worship with you’. And he was with him for that day of his. So, when it was morning, the Angel said to him, ‘Your place is natural’. He said, ‘Alas! If only there was an animal for our Lordazwj, for if there was a donkey for our Lordazwj, we would pasture it in this place, as this plush grass is going to waste’. So the Angel said to him, ‘And there is no donkey for your Lordazwj? ’ He said, ‘If there was a donkey for him, the likes of these plush grass would not go to waste! ’. Then Allahazwj Mighty and Majestic Revealed unto the Angel: “But rather, Iazwj Rewarded him in accordance to his intellect”’. [6]