If you -asws provide me the answer to these seven you then...

If you -asws provide me the answer to these seven you then are the most knowledgeable person on earth, the best of them and have more authority over the people than they themselves do.’ Imam -asws then said, ‘Ask your questions O Jewish man.’ He said, ‘Tell me about the first stone that was placed on the face of earth, the first tree that was planted on earth and the first water fountain that gushed out of earth.’ ‘Amir-ul-Momineen -asws answered his questions.

The Jewish man then said to him -asws , ‘Tell me how many Imam -asws (Leaders with Divine Authority) will this nation have’? Tell me about your Prophet -saww : where will be his place in Paradise and who will be with him -saww therein’?’ ‘Amir-ul-Momineen -asws (Imam Ali -asws ) said, ‘This nation will have 12 ‘A’immah -asws . All of them -asws will be from the descendants of the Holy Prophet -saww of this nation. They -asws will be from my -asws descendants.

The place of our Holy Prophet -saww in Paradise will be the best and holiest of them in Eden. With him -saww , in his -saww dwelling, will be these 12 people -asws from his -saww descendants. Their -asws mothers -asws and grandmothers -asws and the mothers -asws of their mothers -asws and their -asws descendants will live with them -asws . No one else will live therein as their -asws partners.

[17] The narrator of the Hadith says: ‘Once I went to visit the (house of) the daughter of the Holy Prophet -saww and I saw with Syeda -asws a tablet in which the names of the executors (implementers) of the Wills (of Leaders with Divine Authority) from her descendants were written. I then (with Syeda -asws ‘s permission) counted them to twelve. The last one’s name was Al-Qa’im -ajfj (the one who will rise with Divine Authority and power).

The name of three of them was Mohammed -asws and the name of another three was Ali -asws .’ [18] The narrator of the Hadith says: Our 5 th Imam said: ‘Allah -azwj Sent Muhammad -saww to all Jinn and man and appointed twelve executors of the will after him. Of these twelve people, there are those who have already left this world and there are those who will enter this world and complete their task. All the executors of the Wills (of the Prophets -as ) experienced certain traditions, Sunnah.