So when they came out from the darkness...

So when they came out from the darkness, they were with the aquamarines, so the taker and the leaver both regretted, (the taker from not having taken enough, and the leaver from not having taken any). And Zulqarnayn returned to Dowmat Al-Jandal (a kingdom), and his house was at it, and he did not cease to be in it until Allah -azwj Captured him to Him -azwj ’.

قال: «و كان (صلى الله عليه و آله) إذا حدث بهذا الحديث، قال: رحم الله أخي ذا القرنين، ما كان مخطئا إذ سلك ما سلك، و طلب ما طلب، و لو ظفر بوادي الزبرجد في مذهبه، لما ترك فيه شيئا إلا أخرجه للناس لأنه كان راغبا، و لكنه ظفر به بعد ما رجع، و قد زهد عن الدنيا بعد He -asws said: ‘And he -saww , when he -saww narrated with this Hadeeth, said: ‘May Allah -azwj have Mercy on my -saww brother Zulqarnayn!

He was not mistaken when travelled what he travelled, and sought what he sought, and had he succeeded at the valley of the aquamarines in his sect, when he left something in it, except he would have brought it out for the people because he was desirous, but he (actually) succeeded with it after having returned, and he had become abstemious from the world afterwards’’.

[2] Zulqarnayn and his kingdom جعفر بن أحمد، عن عبد الله بن موسى، عن الحسن بن علي بن أبي حمزة، عن أبيه، عن أبي بصير، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: سألته عن قول الله تعالى: ” يسئلونك عن ذي القرنين قل سأتلوا عليكم منه ذكرا Ja’far Bin Ahmad, from Abdullah Bin Musa, from Al Hassan Bin Ali Bin Abu Hamza, from his father, from Abu Baseer, ‘From Abu Abdullah -asws , he (the narrator) said, ‘I asked him -asws about the Words of Allah -azwj the Exalted: And they are asking you about Zulqarnain.

Say: ‘I will recite to you a mention of him [18:83] . قال: إن ذا القرنين بعثه الله تعالى إلى قومه فضرب على قرنه الايمن فأماته الله خمسمائة عام، ثم بعثه الله إليهم بعد ذلك فضرب على قرنه الايسر فأماته الله خمسمائة عام ثم بعثه إليهم بعد ذلك فملكه مشارق الارض ومغاربها من حيث تطلع الشمس إلى حيث تغرب He -asws said: ‘Allah -azwj Sent Zulqarnayn to his people, and they struck upon his right horn, and Allah -azwj Caused them to die for five hundred years.

Then He -azwj Sent him to them after that, and they struck upon his left horn, so Allah -azwj Caused them to die for five hundred years, then Sent him to them after that. He ruled over the east of the earth and its west, from where the sun emerges to where it sets.