Hadith 80

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – From Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Al-Husayn Saeed, from Muhammad Bin Dawood, from Muhammad Bin Atiyya who said, ‘A man from the scholars of the people of Syria (Al-Shaam) came up to Abu Ja’far-asws. He said, ‘O Abu Ja’far-asws, I have come to ask you-asws a question which has exhausted me in finding one who could explain it to me, and I have asked three kinds of the people about it, so each type from them said something other than what the other one said’. Abu Ja’far-asws said to him: ‘What would that be? ’
He said, ‘I ask you-asws about the first thing what Allah-azwj Created from His-azwj creatures, for some of the ones I asked said it was the Destiny, and some of them said it was the Pen, and some of them said it was the Spirit’. Abu Ja’far-asws said: ‘They have not said anything. I-asws hereby inform you that Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted Existed and there was nothing other than Him-azwj, and He-azwj was Mighty and there was no one who was mighty before Him-azwj, and that is His-azwj Word: Glorious is your Lord, the Lord of Might, from what they are ascribing [37: 180], and He-azwj was the Creator before the creation, and had He-azwj Created, and Had He-azwj Created something from His-azwj Creation, a thing from something, then there would be no cut-off from it (the chain) ever, and it would never cease if Allah-azwj had something with Him-azwj and He-azwj did not precede it, but He-azwj Existed when there was nothing other than Him-azwj. And He-azwj Created the thing from which are all things, and it is the water from which He-azwj Created the things. He-azwj Atributed everything to the water and did not Make an attribution for the water to which it can be ascribed. And He-azwj Created the wind from the water, then Made the wind to overcome the water. So the wind was sent down into the body of the water until foam swirled from the water in accordance with what He-azwj so Desired it to swirl. He-azwj Created from that foam, pure white land w