Hadith 203

‘Al Kafi’ – Ali Bin Ibrahim, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ali, from Abdul Rahman Bin Muhammad Al Asady, from Salim Bin Makram, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘A Jew passed by the Prophet-saww and he said, ‘Al-Saam Alayka’ (Poison be upon you)’. So, the Prophet-saww said: ‘(And) upon you’. His-saww companions said, ‘But rather he greeted upon you-saww with the death, so he said, ‘The death be upon you’. The Prophet-saww said: ‘And like that I-saww replied’. Then the Prophet-saww said: ‘This Jews, a black (snake) would sting him in his back and kill him’. The Jew went away, and collected a lot of firewood and carried it. Then it wasn’t long before he left. Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘Place it (the firewood down)’. He placed the firewood down, and there was a black (snake) in the middle of the firewood, lying on a stick. He-saww said: ‘O Jew! What did you do today? ’ He said, ‘I did not do any work except this firewood of mine which I carried and came with it, and there were two rusks with me, and I ate one and gave in charity with one to a poor person’. Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘Due to it, Allah-azwj Repelled (the death) from him’. And He-saww said: ‘The charity repels the evil death from the human being’’. [208]
The book of Zayd Al Narsy, from Muhammad Bin Ali Al Halby, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws, he (the narrator) said, ‘I said to him-asws, ‘Has the world ever been at all, since it has existed, and there wasn’t a Divine Authority in the earth? ’
He-asws said: ‘The earth had been such and there wasn’t in it neither a Rasool-as, nor a Prophet-as, nor a Divine Authority, and that was the period between Adam-as and Noah-as, and if they were to be asked about this, they would be saying, ‘The earth was never empty from the Divine Authority, and they would be lying. But rather, it is a thing Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Changed His-azwj Decision regarding it. Allah-azwj Sent the two Prophets-as as givers of glad tidings and as warners. And there has been a period between Isa-as and Muhammad-saww, from the eras, there did not happen to be in the earth, neither a Prophet-as, nor a Rasool-saww, nor a scholar. Then Allah-azwj Sent Muhammad-saww as a giver of glad tidings and as a warner, and a caller to Him-azwj’’. [209]