Hadith 130

And it is reported by this chain, ‘From Abu Ja’far-asws having said: ‘O community of Shias! Argue by (utilising) the Chapter: Surely We Revealed it [97: 1] (Surah Al-Qadr), you would be winning, for by Allah-azwj, it is a Proof of Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted upon the creatures, after Rasool-Allah-saww, and it is a Chief of your Religion, and it is a peak of our-asws teachings. O community of Shias! Argue by (utilising the Chapter): Ha Meem! [44: 1] (I Swear) by the Clarifying Book [44: 2], for it is for the Masters-asws of the Command (Wali Al-Amr(s)) in particular, after Rasool-Allah-saww. O community of Shias! Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted is Saying: and there is no community except a warner has been among them [35: 24]’. It is said, ‘O Abu Ja’far-asws! The warner of this community is Muhammad-saww! ’ He-asws said: ‘You speak the truth! And was there a warner while he-saww was alive, from the ones sent in the horizons of the earth? ’ The questioner said, ‘No’. Abu Ja’far-asws said: ‘What is your view if the one he-saww sent, wasn’t his-saww warner just as Rasool-Allah-saww was a warner in his-saww sending from Allah-azwj the Exalted? ’ He said, ‘Yes (he was)’. He-asws said: ‘So like that, Muhammad-saww did not pass away except and for him-saww was one he-saww sent as a warner. So, if you were to say, no, then Rasool-Allah-saww would have wasted the ones in the lineages of the men from his-saww community’. The questioner said, ‘Wouldn’t the Quran suffice them? ’ He-asws said: ‘Yes, if they were to find an interpreter for it’. He said, ‘Or didn’t Rasool-Allah-saww interpret it? ’ He-asws said: ‘Yes, but he-saww interpreted it to one man, and interpreted the glory of that man to the community, and he is Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws’. The questioner said, ‘O Abu Ja’far-asws! It is as if this matter is special, the generality cannot bear it’. He-asws said: ‘Yes, Allah-azwj Refused to be worshipped except secretly until there came the beginning of its reason in which His-azwj Religion was to be manifested, just as Rasool-Allah-saww was with Khadeeja-asws, concealing, until he-saww was Commanded with the proclamation’. The questioner said, ‘Is it befitting for the master of this Religion that he-saww conceals? ’ He-asws said: ‘Or didn’t Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws conceal on the day he-asws professed Islam with Rasool-Allah-saww until His-azwj Command appeared? ’ He said, ‘Yes’. He-asws said: ‘So, like that, we-asws are Commanded until the Book reaches its term’’. [130]