Al-Khiṣāl - Part 7: On Seven-Numbered Characteristics

Al-Khiṣāl - Part 7: On Seven-Numbered Characteristics Chapter: Seven Creatures which God Created but Not Born of Their Mother’s Womb اجيلويه رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا علي بن ابراهي٠، عن اليشكري، عن أبي أح٠د بن زياد الازدي، عن أبان بن عث٠ان، عن أبان بن تغلب، عن سفيان بن أبي ليلى، عن الحسن بن علي بن أبي طالب عليه٠أنه قال: في حديث طويل له ٠ا سأله عن سبعة أشياء خلقها الله عز وجل ل٠وحواء، وكبس إبراهي٠، وناقة صالح، وحية الجنة، والغراب الذي بعثه الله عز وجل يبحث في الارض، وإبليس لعنه الله تبارك وتعالى 7-35 Muhammad ibn Ali Majiluyih - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Ali ibn Ibrahim ibn Hashim quoted Al-Yashkari, on the authority of Abi Ahmad Muhammad ibn Zyad al-Azodi, on the authority of Aban ibn Uthman, on the authority of Aban ibn Taqlib, on the authority of Sufyan ibn Abi Layli, on the authority of Al-Hassan ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib (MGB) that it has been recorded as a part of a long narration in which the Imam (MGB) responded to the Roman Emperor who had asked him about the seven creatures which God created but not born of their mother’s womb as follows: “They are Adam, Eve, Abraham’s ram, the she-camel of Salih, the snake in Heaven, the raven which God sent for Cain to scratch the ground and show him how to bury his brother Abel, and the damned Satan - may the Blessed the Sublime God curse him.”