Hadith 813

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – The number, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abu Nasr, from Hammad Bin Usman, from Abu Ubeyda al Haza’a who said, ‘‘I asked Abu Ja’far-asws about the capability and the words of the people. So he-asws said and recited this Verse: ‘and they will not stop differing [11: 118] Except the one whom your Lord shows Mercy, and it is for that He Created them [11: 119]. He-asws said: ‘O Abu Ubeyda! The people are differing regarding the correct words, and all of them are destroyed’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘(But what about) His-azwj Words Except the one whom your Lord shows Mercy [11: 119]? ’ He-asws said: ‘These are our-asws Shias, and it is for His-azwj Mercy did He-azwj Create them, and it is in His-azwj Words: and it is for that He Created them [11: 119]. He-azwj is Saying for the obedience of the Imam-asws of the Mercy which He-azwj is Saying: [7: 156] and My Mercy Extends to all things [7: 156]. He-azwj is Saying that the knowledge of the Imam-asws and that which is from his-asws knowledge encompasses everything, they being our-asws Shias’. Then He-azwj Said: ‘So, We Ordained it for those who are fearing [7: 156] – meaning wilayah of other imam and obeying him. Then He-azwj Said whom they are finding written with them in the Torah and the Evangel [7: 157] – Meaning the Prophet-saww and the successor-asws and Al-Qaim-asws (that) he would be instructing them with the good things when he-asws rises and forbidding them from the evil, the one who denies the merits of the Imam-asws and rejects it, and permitting for them the good things, taking of the knowledge from its rightful ones, and prohibiting upon them the bad, and the bad things are the words of the one who opposes (the Imams-asws). and removing from them their burdens – and these are the sins which they used to be in before their recognition of the merits of the Imam-asws, and their shackles which would be upon them -and the shackles of what they were saying from what they did not happen to have been ordered with, from neglecting the merits of the Imams-asws. So when they do recognise the merits of the Imam-asws, their offences would be removed from them, and the offence is the sin, and it is the offence’. Then He-azwj Linked them, so He-azwj Said So those who believe in him – Meaning the Imam-asws, and assist him, and help him, and follow the Light which descends with him, they would be the successful ones [7: 157] – Meaning those who kept aside from the ‘Jibt’ and ‘Taghoot’. And the ‘Jibt’ and ‘Taghoot’ is so and so, and so and so, and so and so, and the worship is the obedience of the people to them’. Then Said: And return to your Lord time after time and submit to Him [39: 54]. Then He-azwj Recompensed them so He-azwj Said For them is good news in the life of the world and in the Hereafter [10: 64]. And the Imam-asws gives them the good news of the rising of Al-Qaim-asws and of his-asws appearance, and of the killing of their enemies, and of the salvation in the Hereafter, and the return to Muhammad-saww, may Allah-azwj Send Salawat upon Muhammad-saww and his-saww Progeny-asws, the truthful, at the Fountain’’. [103]