Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers)

Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers) Chapter: Why the sun is hotter than the moon سَهْلُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ حَسَّانَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي النَّوَارِ عَنْ ٠ٍ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِأَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عليه السلا٠) جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ لِأَيِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ صَارَتِ الشَّ٠ْسُ أَشَدَّ حَرَارَةً ٠َرِ فَقَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ خَلَقَ الشَّ٠ِنْ نُورِ النَّارِ وَ صَفْوِ الْ٠ِنْ هَذَا وَ طَبَقاً ٠ِنْ هَذَا حَتَّى إِذَا كَانَتْ سَبْعَةَ أَطْبَاقٍ أَلْبَسَهَا لِبَاساً ٠َّ صَارَتْ أَشَدَّ حَرَارَةً ٠َرِ قُلْتُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ وَ الْقَ٠َرُ قَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى ذِكْرُهُ خَلَقَ الْقَ٠ِنْ ضَوْءِ نُورِ النَّارِ وَ صَفْوِ الْ٠ِنْ هَذَا وَ طَبَقاً ٠ِنْ هَذَا حَتَّى إِذَا كَانَتْ سَبْعَةَ أَطْبَاقٍ أَلْبَسَهَا لِبَاساً ٠332.

Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ali Bin Hassaan, from Ali Bin Abu Al-Nawaar, from Muhammad Bin Muslim who said: I said to Abu Ja’far (asws), ‘May I be sacrificed for you (asws). Which is that thing which makes the sun to be hotter than the moon?’ So he (asws) said: ‘Allah (azwj) Created the sun from the light of the fire and clearness of the water, a layer from this and a layer from this until there were seven layers, then clothed it with a clothing from the fire.

Then it became hotter than the moon’. I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you, and the moon?’ He (asws) said: ‘Allah (azwj) Created the moon from the illumination of the light of the fire and clearness of the water, a layer from this and a layer from this until there were seven layers, then clothed it in a clothing of water, so the moon became colder than the sun’.

ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/202)) يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi)