Hadith 4

(The book) ‘Al Manaqib of Ibn Shehr Ashoub’ –
‘Two Christians asked Abu Bakr, ‘What is the difference between the love and the hatred, and both their sources is the one (heart)? And what is the difference between the true dream and the false dream, and both their source is the one (sleep)? ’
He indicated to Umar. When they asked him, he indicated to Ali-asws. When they asked him‑asws about the love and the hatred, he-asws said: ‘Allah-azwj the Exalted Created the souls before the bodies by two thousand years. He-azwj settled these in the air. From these who were familiar (to others), the incline over here, and from these who denied (others) differ over here’. Then they asked him-asws about the memorising and the forgetting. He-asws said: ‘Allah-azwj the Exalted Created the son of Adam-as and Made a covering for his heart. So whatever passes by the heart and the covering is open, he memorises and counts, and whatever passes by the heart and the covering is layered (closed), he does not memorise and does not count’. Then they asked him-asws about the true dream and the false dream. He-asws said: ‘Allah-azwj the Exalted Created the soul and Made an authority to be for it. It’s authority is the self. When the servant sleeps, the soul exits and it’s authority (self) remains. It passes by a group of Angels and a group of Jinn. Whatever was from the true dream, it is from the Angels, and whatever was from the false dream, it is from the Jinn’. They both became Muslims upon his-asws hands, and they were killed alongside him-asws on the day of Siffeen’’. [13]
Al Ayyashi, from Zurara who said, ‘I asked Abu Ja’far-asws about Words of Allah-azwj: And they are asking you about the soul. Say: ‘The soul is from a Command of my Lord, [17: 85]. He-asws said: ‘A creature from the creatures of Allah-azwj. He Increases in the creation whatever He so Desires to. [35: 1]’’. [14]