And the Mighty and Majestic Said in the story of Muhammad-saww...

And the Mighty and Majestic Said in the story of Muhammad-saww: And whatever the Rasool gives you, then take it, and whatever he forbids you from, then refrain [59:7]’’.[7] ‘During the era of Abu Ja’far-asws when he-asws passed away, we were in confusion like the sheep having not shepherd for them. We met Salim Bin Abu Jafsa, and he said, ‘O Abu Ubeyda! Who is your Imam-asws?’ I said, ‘My Imams-asws are the Progeny-asws of Muhammad-saww’. He said, ‘You are destroyed and destroying (others).

Didn’t I and you hear Abu Ja’far-asws and he-asws said: ‘One who dies and there isn’t an Imam-asws for him, dies a death of the pre-Islamic period’?’ I said, ‘Yes, by my life! That has been so’. Then, after that by three days or so, we entered to see Abu Abdullah-asws, and he-asws graced the recognition to us. I entered to see him-asws and said to him-asws, ‘I met Salim’. He-asws said to me such and such, and I said to him-asws such and such.

Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘O woe be to Salim!’ – three times. ‘Doesn’t Salim know what the status of the Imam-asws is?’ The Imam-asws is more magnificent than what Salim is going towards, and so are the people in their entirety. O Ubeyda! A dying one from us-asws does not pass away until he-asws leaves behind from after him-asws, one who deals with similar to his-asws deeds, and have methods with the like of his-asws methods, and calls to the like of that which he-asws had called to. O Abu Ubeyda!

Verily, Allah-azwj did not Prevent him-asws from what He-azwj Gave Dawood-as, and He-azwj Gave Suleyman-as superior than what He-azwj had Given Dawood-as’. Then he-asws said: This is Our Gift, so either confer or withhold, without a Reckoning [38:39]’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘What has Allah-azwj Given him-asws? May I be sacrificed for you‑asws!’ He-asws said: ‘O Abu Ubeyda!

Surely, when the Qaim-asws of the Progeny-asws of Muhammad-saww rises, he-asws would judge by the judgment of Dawood-as and Suleyman-as. He-asws will not ask the people for proof’’.[8] It was asked from Abu Abdullah-asws (6th Imam) about the afflictions of Prophet Ayoub-as, Imam-asws said: Prophet Ayoub-as saw his wife’s hair to have been cut off, and that is because she had asked a people to give her from the food what she could carry to Ayoub-as, and her hair was beautiful.

They said to her, ‘Sell this hair of yours to us and we shall give you’. So, she cut it off and handed it over to them, and took from them food for Ayoub-as.