فرجع عمرو إلى امير المؤمنين عليه السلام فاخبره بما قالت له...

فرجع عمرو إلى امير المؤمنين عليه السلام فاخبره بما قالت له المرأة وقال له فبما تقول ما نعرفك بالكهانة قال له يا عمرو ويلك انها ليست بالكهانة شئ ولكن الله خلق الارواح قبل الابدان بالفى عام فلما ركب الارواح في ابدانها كتب بين اعينهم مؤمن ام كافر وما هم به مبتلون وماهم عليه من سئ من اعمالهم و حسنه وفى قدر اذن الفارة ثم انزل بذلك قرانا على نبيه فقال ان في ذلك لايات للمتوسمين وكان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله هو المتوسم ثم انا من بعده والائمة من ذريتي من بعدى هم المتوسمون فلما تأملتها عرفت ما عليها بسيماها.

Amro returned to Amir-ul-Momineen -asws . He informed him -asws of what the woman had said to him, and he said to him -asws , ‘By what did you speak, by fortune-telling?’ He -asws said to him: ‘Woe be unto you, O Amro, it was not a thing by fortune-telling, but, Allah -azwj Created the Ruhs (souls) before the bodies by two thousand years.

When He -azwj Mounted the Ruhs into their bodies, He -azwj Wrote between their eyes whether he was a believer or an infidel, and what they will be plagued by it, and what they will have to them from evil of their deeds and good, even smaller than a rat’s ear.

Then He -azwj Sent down with that the Quran upon His -azwj Prophet -saww Surely, in that are Signs for the distinguishers [15:75] ”, and Rasool-Allah -saww was the recogniser, then I -asws am from after him -saww , and the Imams -asws from my -asws progeny -asws from after me -asws , they -asws are the recognisers. When I -asws contemplated on her, I -asws recognised what it was with her by her mark’.

[4] حدثنا احمد بن محمد عن الحسن بن محبوب عن صالح بن سهل عن ابى عبد الله عليه السلام ان رجلا جاء إلى امير المؤمنين وهو مع اصحابه فسلم عليه ثم قال انا والله احبك واتولاك فقال له امير المؤمنين ما انت كما قلت ويلك ان الله خلق الارواح قبل الابدان بالفى عام ثم عرض علينا المحب لنا فوالله ما رايت روحك فيمن عرض علينا فاين كنت قال فسكت الرجل عند ذلك ولم يراجعه.

Narrated to us Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al-Hassan Bin Mahboun, from Saleh Bin Sahl, who has said: Abu Abdullah -asws has said: ‘A man went to Amir-ul-Momineen -asws , while he -asws was with his -asws companions. He greeted him -asws , then said: ‘I, by Allah -azwj , love you -asws and I am your -asws friend.’ Amir-ul-Momineen -asws said to him: ‘You are not as you are saying, woe be unto you.

Surely Allah -azwj Created and Arwah before the bodies by two thousand years, then Presented to us -asws those that love us -asws . By Allah -azwj ! I did not see your Ruh (soul) from those who were presented to us -asws .