Hadith 579

(The book) ‘Kifayat Al Aser’ -Abu Al Mufazzal Al Shaybani, from Ja’far Bin Muhammad Al-Husayni Al Alawy, from Ahmad Bin Abdul Mun’im Al Saydawi, from Amro Bin Shimr, from Jabir, ‘From Abu Ja’far-asws, he (the narrator) said, ‘I said to him-asws, ‘O son-asws of Rasool-Allah-saww! There are a people who are saying that Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted has Made the Imamate to be in the posterity of Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws’. He-asws said: ‘They are lying! By Allah-azwj! Or, are they not listening to Allah-azwj, Exalted is His-azwj Mention, Saying: And He Made it a Word to remain in his posterity, perhaps they would be returning [43: 28]. So, has He-azwj Made it except in the posterity of Al-Husayn-asws? ’
Then he-asws said: ‘O Jabir! The Imams-asws, they are the one Rasool-Allah-saww had given the text upon them-asws with the Imamate, and they-asws are those Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘When there was an ascension with me-saww to the sky, I-saww found their-asws names written upon the base of the Throne with Noor. Twelve names from them-asws – Ali-asws, and his-saww two grandsons-asws, and Ali-asws, and Muhammad-asws, and Ja’far-asws, and Musa-asws, and Ali-asws, and Muhammad-asws, and Ali-asws, and Al-Hassan-asws, and Al-Hujjat Al-Qaim-asws. So, these are the Imams-asws from the People-asws of the Household of the elites and the cleanliness. By Allah-azwj! no one will claim it apart from us-asws, except Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted will Resurrect him with Iblees-la and his-la armies’. Then he-asws breathed a sigh and said: ‘May Allah-azwj not take Care of the rights of this community, for they have not taken care of the rights of their Prophet-saww. But, by Allah-azwj! If they had left the rights upon its rightful ones, no two would have differed regarding Allah-azwj the Exalted’. Then he-asws prosed saying: ‘The Jews, due to their love for their Prophet-as, they were safe from the evil events of the times, and the Momineen love Progeny-asws of Muhammad-saww, they would be pelted in the horizons with the fires’’. I said, ‘O my Master-asws! Isn’t this command for you-asws all? ’ He-asws said: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘Then why are you-asws sitting back from your-asws rights and your-asws claims, and Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted Said: And strive hard in (the Way of) Allah, with a striving which He is Rightful of. He Chose you [22: 78]’. He-asws said: ‘There is no problem in Amir Al-Momineen-asws sitting back from his-asws rights when he-asws could not find any helpers, or have you not heard Allah-azwj the Exalted Saying in the story of Lut-as: He said: ‘If only there was strength for me against you, or a recourse to a strong support’ [11: 80]. And He-azwj Said in Narrating from Noah-as: Then he supplicated to his Lord: ‘I am overcome, so Help! ’ [54: 10]. And He-azwj Said in the story of Musa-as: He said: ‘My Lord! I cannot control except myself and my brother, therefore Differentiate between us and the transgressing people’ [5: 25]. So, when the Prophet-as is like that, then the successor-asws is more excusable. O Jabir! An example of the Imam-asws is an example of the Kabah, when it is come to and it does not come (to anyone)’’. [16]