Hadith 69

(The book) ‘Al Illal’ – From Muhammad Bin Al-Hassan Bin Al Waleed, from Muhammad Bin Al-Hassan Al Saffar, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ibn Mahboub, from Amro Bin Abu Al Miqdam, from Jabir, ‘From Abu Ja’far-asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘When Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted Loved to Create a creature by His-azwj Hands, and that was when seven thousand years had passed for the Jinn and the Nasnaas having been in the earth’. He-asws said: ‘And when it was from the Concern of Allah-azwj to Create Adam-as for that which He-azwj Wanted, from the management and the arrangement of what He-azwj was to Bring into being in the skies and the earth, and His-azwj Knowledge of what He-azwj Wanted from all of it, like Scraping off the layers of the skies, then He-azwj Said to the Angels: “Look to inhabitants of the earth from My-azwj creatures from the Jinn and the Nasnaas! ”
When they saw what they were doing in it, from the acts of disobedience and shedding the blood and the mischief in the earth without right, that was grievous upon them and they were angered for the Sake of Allah-azwj and pities upon inhabitants of the earth, and they could not control their anger. They said, ‘O Lord-azwj! You-azwj are the Mighty, the Able, the Subduer, the Forceful, the Mighty of Glory, and these are Your-azwj creatures, the weak, the humiliated in Your-azwj earth. They are turning in Your-azwj Grip and are living with Your-azwj (Given) sustenance, and they are enjoying with Your-azwj (Given) well-being, and they are disobeying You-azwj with the likes of these major sins! You-azwj are neither Regretting, nor being Angered, nor Avenging for Yourself-azwj when You-azwj Hear from them and You-azwj See, and that has been grievous upon us and we are considering it as being too much, for Your-azwj Sake’. When Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Heard that from the Angels, He-azwj Said: I am going to Make a Caliph in the earth. – for