[16] It is reported that Ibn Al-Kawa said to Ali -asws ...

[16] It is reported that Ibn Al-Kawa said to Ali -asws , ‘Due to what are you the successor -asws of Muhammad -saww from between the Clan of Abdul Muttalib -asws ?’ He -asws said: ‘Then what is the news you want? When (the Verse): And warn your kindred, the near ones! [26:214] was Revealed, Rasool-Allah -saww gathered us and we were forty men. He -saww instructed me -asws to cook a leg of a sheep for him -saww , and one Sa’a of food.

He -saww instructed me -asws , and I ground it and made bread of it, and he -saww instructed me, and I -asws brought it near. He -asws said: ‘Ten proceeded first and they ate until they were satiated, and the food remained as it had been, and that from them is one who ate the (amount of) a small sheep and drank his fill. So, they ate from it, all of them in their entirety. Abu Lahab -la said, ‘Muhammad -saww has enchanted you all’. And they dispersed from him -saww .

Then Rasool-Allah -saww called them for the second time, then said: ‘Which one of you will become my -saww brother and my -saww successor -asws and my -saww Vizier?’ He -saww presented it to them and all of them refused until he -saww ended up to me -asws , and I -asws was the youngest of them in years, and the weakest of them in eyes, and the thinnest of them in legs’.

I -asws said: ‘He -saww threw his -saww slippers towards me -asws , and therefore due to that, I -asws am his -saww successor -asws from between them’’. [17] And by this chain, from him -asws regarding His -azwj Words: And your transfer among the Sajdah performers [26:219] , he -asws said: ‘Regarding Ali -asws , and (Syeda) Fatima -asws , and Al-Hassan -asws , and Al-Husayn -asws and People -asws of his -saww Household, may the Salawat of Allah -azwj be upon them -asws ’’.

[18] ‘From Abu Ja’far Muhammad Bin Ali -asws , the Words of the Exalted: The One Who Sees you when you stand up (for Salat) [26:218] And your transfer among the Sajdah performers [26:219] . He -asws said: ‘He -azwj Sees you -saww when you -saww stand with His -azwj Command, and Transferred you -saww in the Sulb s of the Prophets -as , Prophet -as after a Prophet -as ’’. [19] Amir Al-Momineen -asws addressed at Al-Medina.

And by my -asws life, that which in their hands will melt away upon the approach of the test for the Reward and the Promise, and the allocated times passes by. And the two-tailed star will make its appearance for you from the East, and the luminous moon will make its appearance for you.