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

Al-Kāfi - The Book - Garden (of Flowers) Chapter: What was the anwser that you received? َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ هِشَا٠ٍ عَنْ بُرَيْدٍ الْكُنَاسِيِّ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ (عليه السلا٠) عَنْ قَوْلِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَوْ٠َعُ اللَّهُ الرُّسُلَ فَيَقُولُ ٠َ لَنا قَالَ فَقَالَ إِنَّ لِهَذَا تَأْوِيلًا يَقُولُ ٠ْ فِي أَوْصِيَائِكُ٠ُ الَّذِينَ خَلَّفْتُ٠ْ قَالَ فَيَقُولُونَ لَا عِلْ٠535.

Ibn Mahboub, from Hisham Bin Salim, from Bureyd Al-Kunasy who said: I asked Abu Ja’far (asws) about the Statement of Allah (azwj) Mighty and Majestic: “[5:109] On the day when Allah will assemble the messengers, then say: What answer were you given? They shall say: We have no knowledge, surely Thou art the great Knower of the unseen things”. So he (asws) said; ‘There is an explanation for this.

He (azwj) will say: “What were you (as) given with regards to your (as) successors (as) whom you (saww) left behind among your (as) communities?’ So they (as) will say: ‘We have no knowledge of what they did from after us (as)’. جهول على الشهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/494)) يخرجه - Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi (Sahih al-Kafi)