[15] عن جعفر بن محمد...

[15] عن جعفر بن محمد، عن أبيه، عن آبائه، عن علي صلوات الله عليهم قال: سلوني عن كتاب الله، فوالله ما نزلت آية من كتاب الله في ليل ولا نهار، ولا مسير ولا مقام، إلا وقد أقرأنيها رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وعلمني تأويلها From Ja’far -asws Bin Muhammad -asws , from his -asws father -asws , from his -asws forefathers -asws , from Ali -asws having said: ‘Ask me -asws about the Book of Allah -azwj , for by Allah -azwj , there is no Verse Revealed from the Book of Allah -azwj , neither during the night nor during the day, neither during the travel nor during the pause, except that Rasool-Allah -saww read it out to me -asws and let me -asws know of its explanation’.

فقام ابن الكوا فقال: يا أمير المؤمنين فما كان ينزل عليه وأنت غائب عنه ؟ قال: كان [يحفظ علي] رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله ما كان ينزل عليه من القرآن وأنا غائب حتى أقدم عليه فيقرئنيه ويقول: يا علي أنزل الله بعدك كذا وكذا، وتأويله كذا وكذا فعلمني تأويله وتنزيله So Ibn Al Kawa stood up and said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen -asws , so what about that which was Reveled unto him -saww while you -asws were absent from him -saww ?’ He -asws said: ‘Rasool-Allah -saww used to memorise it for me -asws that which was Revealed in my -asws absence, until he -saww would come to me -asws and recite it to me -asws and would say; ‘O Ali -asws !

Allah -azwj Revealed such and such during your -asws absence and its explanation is such and such. So he -saww would let its explanation be known to me -asws along with its revelation’. [16] عن علقمة بن قيس قال: قال علي: سلوني يا أهل الكوفة قبل أن لا تسألوني فوالذي نفسي بيده ما نزلت آية إلا وأنا أعلم أين نزلت وفيمن نزلت أفي سهل أم في جبل أم في مسير أم في مقام From Alqama Bin Qays who said, ‘Ali -asws said: ‘Ask me -asws , O people of Al-Kufa, before you lose me -asws .

By the One -azwj in Whose Hand is my -asws soul, a Verse was not Revealed except that I -asws know where it was Revealed, and regarding whom it was Revealed, be it on the coast or be it on a mountain, or be it during travel, or during a staying’.

[17] و قال أبو عبدالله (عليه السلام): «إن الله علم نبيه (صلى الله عليه و آله) التنزيل و التأويل، فعلمه رسول الله (صلى الله عليه و آله) عليا (عليه السلام) And Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘Allah -azwj Taught His -azwj Prophet -saww the Revelation and the interpretation, and Rasool-Allah -saww taught it to Ali -asws ’. [18] 3 – Who Can Interpret The Holy Quran?