Hadith 95

Ja’far Bin Muhammad Bin Qawlawiya, from Sa’ad Al-Ash’ari Al-Qummi Abu Al-Qasim, may Allah-azwj Mercy him, and he is its author. It is reported by our elders, from Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws, may the greeting be upon him-asws’ – and he-asws continued the Hadeeth up to he-asws said: –
‘The subject of alterations in the Verses which are different to what Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Revealed, from what is reported by our elders, may Allah-azwj have Mercy upon them, from the Scholar-asws from Progeny-asws of Muhammad-saww, may the Salawaat of Allah-azwj be upon him-saww and upon them-asws, are Words of the Majestic and Mighty: You are the best of the communities raised up for the people; you are enjoining with the goodness and forbidding from the evil and are believing in Allah; [3: 110]. Abu Abdullah-asws said to a reciter of this Verse: ‘Woe be to you! Would the best community kill a son-asws of Rasool-Allah-saww, may the Salawaat of Allah-saww be upon him-saww and his-saww Progeny-asws? ’
He said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws, so how is it? ’
He-asws said: ‘Allah-azwj had Revealed it as: ‘You are best Imams-asws! ’ Can you see the Praise by Allah-azwj for them-asws in His-azwj Words: you are enjoining with the goodness and forbidding from the evil and are believing in Allah? His-azwj Praise for them-asws is an evidence upon that He-azwj did not Mean the whole community. Don’t you know that in the community there are the adulterers, and the sodomist(s), and the thieves, and the bandits, and the oppressors, and the mischief-makers? Do you view that Allah-azwj would Praise them and Name them as enjoiners of the good and forbidders of the evil? Never! Allah-azwj neither Praised them nor Named them as good people. But they are the evilest in Surah Al Nahl, and it is a recitation of the one who recites: that you could become a community which is more prosperous than (another) community. [16: 92]’. Abu Abdullah-asws said to the one recited this in his-asws presence: ‘Woe be to you! It is not ‘A’rba’ (the most prosperous? ’
He said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! So what is it? ’
He-asws said: ‘But rather, Allah-azwj Majestic and Mighty Revealed: ‘So that you would be Imams-asws’. They-asws are purer than your imams (leaders). But rather Allah-azwj is Trying you with it’’. [116]
And it is Revealed that a man recited to Amir Al-Momineen-asws: Then there shall come after that a year in which it would rain for the people and during it they would be pressing’ [12: 49]. He-asws said: ‘Woe be to you! Which thing were they pressing? Were they pressing the wine? ’
The man said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! How? ’
He-asws said: ‘But rather, Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Revealed it as: and during it they (clouds) would be squeezing [12: 49], i. e. , raining after years of famine, and the evidence upon that are His-azwj Words: And We Send down from the clouds abundant water [78: 14]’. And a man recited to Abu Abdullah-asws, ‘So when he fell down, it was clear to the Jinn that had they known the unseen, they would not have remained in the abasing torment [34: 14]. Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘The Jinn knew that they did not know the unseen’. The man said, ‘So how is it? ’
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