Hadith 132

-azwj should leave the servants and there is no Divine Authority upon them’. Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘Then he-asws paused, so he (Ilyas-as) said: ‘Over here, O son-asws of Rasool-Allah-saww, is a vague door. What is your-asws view if they were to say, ‘The Divine Authority is the Quran’? ’
He-asws said: ‘Then I-asws would be saying to them: ‘The Quran is not with a speech, Ordering and Prohibiting, but for the Quran there are people-asws who are ordering and prohibiting, ’ and I-asws would be saying: ‘There would get presented to some people of the earth, a difficulty which is not in the Sunnah, and the judgment wherein there is no differing, and it isn’t in the Quran, Allah-azwj refused that (situation to occur) for His-azwj Knowledge, for that strife to appear in the earth and there is no refutation for it in His-azwj Judgment, and a relief for its people’. He (Ilyas-as) said: ‘Over here you-asws are winning, O son-asws of Rasool-Allah-saww! I-as testify that Allah-azwj, Mighty is His-azwj Mention had Known of what would be hitting the creatures from difficulties in the earth, or regarding themselves from the Religion, or something else, so He-azwj Placed the Quran as Evidence’. He-asws said: ‘So the man (Ilyas-as) said: ‘Do you-asws know, O son-asws of Rasool-Allah-saww the Evidence, what it is? ’ Abu Ja’far-asws said: ‘Yes, therein is the totality of the Legal Punishments, and its interpretation during the judgment’. So he-as said: ‘Allah-azwj Refuses that a servant be hit by a difficulty in his Religion, or regarding himself, or in his wealth, and there isn’t in His-azwj earth from His-azwj Judgment which can be judged with the correctness with regards to that very difficulty’. He-asws said: ‘So the man (Ilyas-as) said: ‘But, in this door (subject matter), you-asws would be winning with an argument except if they were to forge against Allah-azwj in disputing you-asws, so they would be saying, ‘There isn’t a Divine Authority for Allah-azwj, Majestic is His-azwj Mention’. But, inform me-as about the interpretation of: So that you may not despair over what has escaped you, from what Ali has been Particularised with, nor be happy with what has been Given to you [57: 23]’. He-asws said: ‘(It is) regarding Abu so and so, and his companion. One who was foremost and one who was delayed (later one): So that you may not despair over what has escaped you, from what Ali has been Particularised with, nor be happy with what has been Given to you [57: 23], from the strife which appeared for you after Rasool-Allah-saww’. The man (Ilyas-as) said: ‘I-as testify that you Imams-asws are the owners of the wisdom wherein there is no differing’. Then the man stood up and went, and I-asws did not see him (again)’’. [132]