Hadith 99

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – From Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al-Husayn Bin Saeed, from Al Qasim Bin Muhammad, from Abdul Samad Bin Bashir, from Fuzeyl Sukkara who said, ‘I said to Abu Ja’far-asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! If you-asws see fit, if you-asws could teach me, ‘Did Allah-azwj, Majestic is His-azwj Face, Know before He-azwj Created the creation that He-azwj is One, for the ones in your-asws Wilayah are differing. Some of them say, He-azwj was Knowing before He-azwj Creating a thing from His-azwj creation’. And some of them say, ‘But rather, the meaning of knowing is His-azwj Doing, thus today He‑azwj Knows that He-azwj (is One), there is no other, before He-azwj Did (Create) the things. So they are saying, ‘It is proved for us that He-azwj did not cease to be a Knower that He-azwj (is One), there is none other, and so it is proved for us that there was other than Him-azwj (i. e. , Knowledge), along with Him-azwj in His-azwj eternality’. So if you-asws see fit, O my Chief-asws, if you-asws could teach me what I do not leave it to something else’. He-asws wrote: ‘Allah-azwj did not cease to be a Knower. Blessed and Exalted is His-azwj Mention’’. [106]
(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – From Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al-Husayn Bin Saeed, from Al Nazr Bin Suweyd, from Aasim Bin Humeyd, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws, he (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘Allah-azwj never ceased to be an Intender? ’ He-asws said: ‘The Intender cannot happen to be except with an intention along with him. Allah-azwj never ceased to be a Knower, Powerful, then Intended (Willed)’’. [107]
And from him, from Ahmad Bin Idrees, from Al-Husayn Bin Abdullah, from Muhammad Bin Abdullah, and Musa Bin Amro, and Al-Hassan Bin ali Bin Usman, from Ibn Sinan who said, ‘I asked Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza-asws, ‘Was it that Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Aware of Himself-azwj before He-azwj Created the creation? ’ He-asws said: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘He-azwj Saw it (His‑azwj Self) and Heard (Himself-azwj)? ’
He-asws said: ‘He-azwj was not needy to that, because He-azwj did not happen to ask it nor seek from it. He-azwj is His-azwj Self, and His-azwj Self is He-azwj. He-azwj is His-azwj Power Implemented. Thus, He-azwj is not needy that He-azwj Hears Himself-azwj, but He-azwj Chose Names for others to call Him-azwj with these’’. [108]
(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Muhammad Bin Yahya and Muhammad Bin Abdullah, altogether raising it to, ‘Abu Abdullah-asws: ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws stood up to address. ‘The Praise is for Allah-azwj the One, the First, the Samad, the Individual Who neither existed from a thing, nor Created from a thing what had existed’. Up to his-asws words: ‘Nor did the Making of things overburden Him-azwj. But rather He-azwj Said to whatever He-azwj so Desired: “Be! ”, so it came into being. He-azwj Initiated what He‑azwj Created without a preceding example, nor exhaustion, nor toil. And every maker makes something, so it is from something that he makes, and Allah-azwj Makes what He-azwj Creates, not from a thing. And every knower, so he learns from after ignorance, but Allah-azwj was not ignorant and did not learn. He-azwj Comprehended the things in Knowledge before their coming into being. So the knowledge of their coming