Hadith 4

Tafseer Furat Bin Ibrahim – Ja’far Bin Muhammad Al Fuzary, by his chain from Qabeysa Bin Yazeed Al Jufy who said, ‘I entered to see Al-Sadiq Ja’far-asws Bin Muhammad-asws and in his-asws presence were Ibn Al-Dawoos Bin Abu Al-Dawoos, and Ibn Zabyan, and Al-Qasim Al-Sayrafi. I greeted and sat down and said, ‘O Son-asws of Rasool-Allah-saww! I came to you-asws to benefit’. He-asws said: ‘Ask and I-asws shall fulfil’. I said, ‘Where were you-asws before Allah-azwj Created the High sky and the spread earth, or darkness and light? ’
He-asws said: ‘O Qabeysa! Why did you ask us-asws about this Hadeeth during the like of this time? Do you not know that love for us-asws has been concealed and hatred for us-asws is spread out (far and wide), and that there are enemies of ours-asws from the Jinn bring our-asws Ahadeeth to our-asws enemies from the human beings, and that the walls have ears for them like the ears of the people’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘I am asking about that’. He-asws said: ‘O Qabeysa! We-asws resemblances of light around the Throne glorifying Allah-azwj before He-azwj Created Adam-as by fifteen thousand years. When Allah-azwj Created Adam-as we-asws were Poured into his-as Sulb (lineage) and did not cease to be transferred from a clean Sulb to a Purified lap until Allah-azwj Sent Muhammad-saww. We-asws are the Firmest Handhold of Allah-azwj. One who adheres with us-asws would attain salvation and one who stays behind from us-asws would collapse. We-asws neither enter him into a door of straying nor exit him from a door of guidance, and we-asws are caretakers of the sun of Allah-azwj, and we-asws are family of Rasool-Allah-saww, and we-asws are the dome whose pillars are tall, and vast is its courtyard. One who restores to us-asws attains salvation to the Paradise, and one who stays behind from us would collapse into the Fire’. I said, ‘Thanks to the Face of my Lord-azwj’’. [4]