And Created them from the clay from which Allah -azwj Created Adam -as ...

And Created them from the clay from which Allah -azwj Created Adam -as , and Created the spirits of our -asws Shiah two thousand years before their bodies, and Presented to them and Introduced them to Rasool-Allah -saww and Ali -asws Bin Abu Talib -asws . And we -asws recognise them (Shiah) from the tone of their speech. ورواه عثمان بن عيسى، عن أبي الجراح، عن أبي جعفر عليه السلام، وزاد فيه: ” وكل قلب يحن إلى بدنه “.

And it has been reported by Usman Bin Isa, from Abu Al-Jarah, from Abu Ja’far -asws , and there is an addition to it: ‘And every heart inclines to its body’.

[19] عنه، عن يحيى بن ابراهيم بن أبي البلاد، عن أبيه، عن جده، عن عمران، عن رجل من أصحابه يقال له عمران، أنه خرج في عمرة زمن الحجاج فقلت له: هل لقيت أبا جعفر عليه السلام؟ – قال: نعم، قلت: فما قال لك؟ – قال: قال لي: يا عمران ما خبر الناس؟ – فقلت: تركت الحجاج يشتم أباك على المنابر (أعنى علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام،) فقال: أعداء الله يبدهون بسبنا، أما انهم لو استطاعوا أن يكونوا من شيعتنا لكانوا ولكنهم لا يستطيعون، ان الله أخذ ميثاقنا وميثاق شيعتنا ونحن وهم أظلة، فلو جهد الناس أن يزيدوا فيهم رجلا أو ينقصوا منهم رجلا ما قدروا عليه.

From him, from Yahya Bin Ibrahim Bin Abu Al Balaad, from his father, from his grandfather, from Imran, (It has been narrated) from a man from his companions called Imran who went out regarding Umrah during the era of Al-Hajaaj. So I said to him, ‘Did you meet Abu Ja’far -asws ?’ He said, ‘Yes’. I said, ‘So what did he -asws say to you?’ He said, ‘He -asws said to me: ‘O Imran!

What is the news of the people?’ So I said, ‘I left Al-Hajaaj insulting your -asws forefather -asws upon the Pulpit (meaning Ali -asws Bin Abu Talib -asws ). So he -asws said: ‘The enemies of Allah -azwj instinctively insult us -asws . But, had they had been able to become from our -asws Shiah, they would have been so, but they are not able to. Allah -azwj Took our -asws Covenant and the Covenant of our -asws Shiah, and us -asws and they were shadows .

Even if the people were to strive that they should increase among them a (single) man, or decrease from them a (single) man, they would not be able to do so’.