Ibn Babuwayh said...

Ibn Babuwayh said, ‘Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Al-Haysam Al-Ajaly narrated to us, from Abu Al-Abbas Ahmad Bin Yahya Bin Zakariyya Al-Qataan, from Bakr Bin Abdullah Bin Habeeb, from Tameem Bin Bahloul, from his father, from Muhammad Bin Sinan, from Al-MufazzAl-Bin Umar who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah -asws saying that: ‘Rasool-Allah -saww looked at Ali -asws , and Al-Hassan -asws , and Al-Husayn -asws , and he -saww wept and said: ‘You -asws would be the weakened ones after me -saww ’.

قال المفضل: فقلت له: ما معنى ذلك، يا ابن رسول الله؟ قال: «معناه أنتم الأئمة بعدي، إن الله عز و جل يقول: وَ نُرِيدُ أَنْ نَمُنَّ عَلَى الَّذِينَ اسْتُضْعِفُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَ نَجْعَلَهُمْ أَئِمَّةً وَ نَجْعَلَهُمُ الْوارِثِينَ، فهذه الآية فينا جارية إلى يوم القيامة».

Al-Mufazzal reports that I said to him -asws , ‘What is the meaning of that, O son -asws of Rasool-Allah -saww ?’ He -asws said: ‘Its meaning is that: ‘You -asws would be the Imams -asws after me -saww , that Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic is Saying: And We Intend to Confer upon those who were weakened in the land, and to Make them Imams, and Make them the inheritors [28:5] , so this is the Verse which flows in us -asws up to the Day of Judgement’.

[11] قال الطبرسي: و قال سيد العابدين علي بن الحسين (عليهما السلام): «و الذي بعث محمدا (صلى الله عليه و آله) بالحق بشيرا و نذيرا، إن الأبرار منا أهل البيت، و شيعتهم بمنزلة موسى و شيعته، و إن عدونا و أشياعه بمنزلة فرعون و أشياعه».

Tabarsy said, ‘And the Chief of the Worshippers, Ali -asws Bin Al-Husayn -asws said: ‘By the One Who -azwj Sent Muhammad -saww with the Truth as a giver of glad tidings and as a Warner, the righteous are from us -asws , the People -asws of the Household, and their -asws Shias are of the status of Musa -as and his -as Shias. Our -asws enemies and their adherents are of the status of Pharaoh -la and his -la adherents’.

[12] Prolongation of the term – the Occultation of the 12 th Imam -asws Allah -azwj Says: أَلَمْ يَأْنِ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَنْ تَخْشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَمَا نَزَلَ مِنَ الْحَقِّ وَلَا يَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِنْ قَبْلُ فَطَالَ عَلَيْهِمُ الْأَمَدُ فَقَسَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ ۖ وَكَثِيرٌ مِنْهُمْ فَاسِقُونَ {16} Has not the time yet come for those who believe that their hearts should be humble for the Zikr of Allah and what has come down from the Truth?

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