Whatever good you receive is from Allah and whatever evil...
Whatever good you receive is from Allah and whatever evil afflicts you is from your own-self. It is because I have priority to your good deeds and you have priority to your bad deeds. This is because I Ahmad ibn Muhammad not asked what I do but they are questioned ffor what they do." Chapter 27 : Chapter on Test and Choice H 388, Ch.
27, h 1 It is narrated from Ali ibn Ibrahim ibn Hashim from Muhammad ibn 'Isa from Yunus ibn 'Abd al-Rahman from Hamza ibn al-Tayyar from Imam abu 'Abdallah (a.s.) who has said the following. "There is no expansion or reduction but that Allah therein has a wish, decree and testing." H 389, Ch. 27, h 2 It is narrated from a number of our people from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid from his father from Fudala ibn Ayyub from Hamza ibn Muhammad al-Tayyar from abu 'Abdallah (a.
s.) who has said the following. " There is nothing in which there is expansion or reduction of the matters that Allah has commanded or has prohibited except that Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, therein has a decree and a testing." Chapter 28 : Chapter on Fortunateness and Un-fortunateness H 390, Ch. 28, h 1 It is narrated from Muhammad ibn Isma'il from al-Fadl ibn Shadhan from Saffron ibn Yahya from Mansur ibn Hazim from Imam abu 'Abdallah (a.s.) who has said the following.
"Allah created good fortune and bad fortune before He created the creatures. Whoever Allah has created fortunate He never becomes angry with him even though he may do bad deeds. He to reach and nor do the deep diving intelligence is capable to grasp. Most High is Allah. It is He who is not subject to the effects of the numbered time or extended period or limited attributes. Glorious is Allah, Who has no beginning that started or a destination that would close or an end that would finish.
Glorious is He Who is just as He Him Self has introduced. Those who speak of His attributes can never praise Him duly. He gave to everything a limit at the time of its creation for their non- similarity to Him and His none-similarity to them. For Him th of would dislike his deeds but his own self. If he is an unfortunate He would never love him even if he would do good deeds. He would love his deeds but not his own self because of what he will end up to.
If Allah would love someone He will not dislike him and if He would dislike someone He will not love him." H 391, Ch. 28, h 2 It is narrated from Ali ibn Muhammad (in a marfu' manner) from shu'ayb al-'aqaqufi from abu Basir who has said the following.