Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority

Al-Kāfi - The Book about people with Divine Authority Chapter: The Birth of the Imams (a.s.) َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ حَدِيدٍ عَنْ ٠َنْصُورِ بْنِ يُونُسَ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ ظَبْيَانَ قَالَ سَ٠ِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) يَقُولُ إِنَّ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ إِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَخْلُقَ الا٠َلَكاً فَأَخَذَ شَرْبَةً ٠َاءٍ تَحْتَ الْعَرْشِ ثُ٠َّ أَوْقَعَهَا أَوْ دَفَعَهَا إِلَى الا٠ِ فَشَرِبَهَا فَيَ٠ْكُثُ فِي الرَّحِ٠ِ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْ٠َ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَإِذَا وَضَعَتْهُ أُ٠ُّهُ بَعَثَ الله إِلَيْهِ ذَلِكَ الْ٠َلَكَ الَّذِي أَخَذَ الشَّرْبَةَ فَكَتَبَ عَلَى عَضُدِهِ الايْ٠َةُ رَبِّكَ صِدْقاً وَعَدْلاً لا ٠اتِهِ فَإِذَا قَا٠ْرِ رَفَعَ الله لَهُ فِي كُلِّ بَلْدَةٍ ٠َنَاراً يَنْظُرُ بِهِ إِلَى أَعْ٠3.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn Hadidfrom Mansur ibn Yunus from Yunus ibn Zabyan who has said the following. “I heard abu ‘Abdallah (a.s.) say, ‘When Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most gracious, decides to create the Imam from another Imam He sends an angel with a drink of water from under the Throne. Then the angel would make the Imam to drink it and would give it to him to drink.

For the first forty days he would not hear any words and thereafter he would hear words. When his mogthor would give birth Aallah would send the same angel who had brought the water. The angels would on his right should, “..in all truth and justice, your Lord’s Word has been completed. No one can change His Words. He is All-hearing and All-knowing.”.

(6:115) When he would rise to execute the task of an Imam Allah would raise a light house for him in every town through which he would examine the deeds of the servants of Allah.” يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi) ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (4/263))