النُّبُوَّةُ الخّاصَّةُ

PROPHETHOOD (SPECIFIC PROPHETS)

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2– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘When He had spread out the earth and enforced His commands, He chose Adam (AS) as the best of His creation and made him the first of all creation.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 91]

3– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Adam was named Adam because he was created from the surface (adim) of the earth.’
[`AeIlal al-Shara’i`a, p. 13, no. 1]

4– Abu al-Miqdam said, ‘I asked Abu al-Ja`afar
[Imam al-Baqir] (AS), ‘What did Allah create Eve from?’ He asked, ‘What do people say about this?’ I said, ‘They say that Allah created her from one of the ribs of Adam.’ He (AS) said, ‘They lie, was He incapable of creating her from something other than his rib.’ I said, ‘May I be sacrificed for you, O son of the Prophet (SAWA), what did He create her from?’ He (AS) said, ‘My father told me, informing me from his fathers (AS) that the Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Allah, Blessed and most High, grabbed a handful of clay and mixed it with His right hand – and both His hands are right – and from it He created Adam, and with the rest of the clay He created Eve.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 11, p. 116, no. 46]

5– Burayd b. Muawiya al-`AIjli, narrating from Abu Ja`afar Imam al-Baqir (AS) who said that Allah Almighty descended a houri from Heaven for Adam, and married her to one of his children, and married the other to a jinn and both of them gave birth. So, any person who is beautiful and has good manners is from the offspring of the houri, and those who are repulsive and bad-mannered are from the offspring of the jinn. He refuted the saying that he married his sons to his daughters.’
[`AeIlal al-Shara’i`a, p. 103, no. 1]

6– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Allah sent down onto Idris thirty Books.’
[In another tradition: He sent down fifty Books, and he is Ukhnukh, and he is the first person who wrote with a pen. Bihar al-Anwar, v. 11, p. 60, no. 68]
[`AeIlal al-Shara’i`a, v. 11, p. 277, no. 5]

7– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘O Abu Dharr, four of the prophets were Syriac: Adam, Seth (Sheeth), Enoch (Ukhnukh), who is Idris - and he was the first to use a pen - and Noah (AS)’.
[ al-Khisal, p. 524, no. 12]

8– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Al-Sahla mosque is where the house of Prophet Enoch (AS) was, wherein he would sew.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 11, p. 284, no. 12]

10– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The first prophet to be sent down as a messenger was Noah.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 32391]

11– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Allah sent Noah as a prophet for forty years, and he stayed among his people for one thousand years minus fifty, calling them
[to the truth]. He stayed alive for sixty years after the flood until the number of people increased and they spread out.’
[al-Mustadrak `Aala al-Saihayn, v. 2, p. 595, no. 4005]

12– Imam al-Baqir (AS), with regard to Allah’s verse in the Qur’an: "And none believed with him except a few"
[Qur’an 11:40], said, ‘They were eight.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 11, p. 336, no. 64]

13– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘When Noah (AS) planted a seed a group of people walked by him and started to laugh and mock him, saying, ‘He has now become a gardener!’ When the palm tree grew and became great and high, he cut it down and worked it, and they said, ‘He has become a carpenter!’ He then made these into a boat, and a group of people came by, laughing and mocking, saying to him, ‘He has now become a sailor in the desert of the earth!’, until he finished
[building] it.’
[al-Kafi, v. 8, p. 283, no. 425]

14– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘There were ten fathers between Adam and Noah (AS), and all of them were prophets.’
[Nur al-Thaqalayn, v. 4, p. 62, no. 71]

21– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘When Noah's prophethood finished and his time came to an end, Allah Almighty revealed to him: ‘O Noah, you have fulfilled your prophethood and your days have come to an end, so put the knowledge you have, the faith, the Great Name, the heritage of knowledge and the legacy of the knowledge of prophethood in the offspring of your progeny…’. Noah informed Sam of Hud’s name (AS), and there were prophets between Noah and Hud. Noah said, ‘Allah will send a prophet by the name of Hud. He will invite his people to Allah and they will refute him. Allah Almighty will destroy them with wind, and so those of you who live to see him must believe in him and follow him, for Allah will save you from the punishment of the wind.’
[al-Kafi, v. 8, p. 115, no. 92]

22– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘When Allah Almighty sent Hud (AS), the descendants of Sam believed in him. As for the others, they said, ‘Who can be stronger than us?’ So they were destroyed with the barren wind. Hud exhorted them and informed them of Salih (AS).’
[Kamal al-Din, p. 136, no. 5]

24– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘O people! Satisfaction and discontentment are what gather people
[in categories]. And although it was only one man who slaughtered the she-camel of Thamud, Allah included all of them in the punishment because they all accepted his action, as He Almighty said, ‘"But they hamstrung her, whereupon they became regretful."
[ Qur’an 26:157]. So, it was not long before their land declined by sinking
[into the earth] as the spike of a plough pierces weak, unploughed land.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 201]

25– Abu Matar said, ‘When the corrupt Ibn Muljam, may Allah curse him, struck the Commander of the Faithful (AS), Imam Hasan (AS) asked
[his father], ‘Shall I kill him?’ The Imam said, ‘No, but detain him and if I die, then kill him. When I die, bury me in this place between the graves of my brothers Hud and Salih.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 11, p. 379, no. 4]

27– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘On the 'day of the fire', Abraham was brought to the fire, and when he saw it he said, ‘Allah is sufficient for us and He is the best reliance.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 32288]

28– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Allah took Abraham as a friend only because of his feeding of food
[to others] and praying of prayers in the night while people were asleep.’
[`AeIlal al-Shara’i`a, p. 35, no. 4]

29– Hassan b. `Aatiyya said, ‘The first person to organise an army for war, with a right, left and middle wing was Abraham (AS), when he journeyed to fight those who imprisoned Lot (AS).’
[al-Durr al-Manthur, v. 1, p. 282]

30– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘Allah Almighty took Abraham as a friend because he did not refuse anyone, and did not ask anyone other than Allah Almighty.’
[`AeIlal al-Shara’i`a, p. 34, no. 2 ]

31– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Allah Almighty took Abraham as a servant before He took him as a prophet. Allah took him as a prophet before He took him as a messenger. Allah took him as a messenger before He took him as a friend, and Allah took him as a friend before He took him as an Imam. When He gathered all these things in Abraham He said, "I am making you the Imam of mankind."
[Qur’an 2:124]
[al-Kafi, v. 1, p. 175, no. 2]

33– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘As for the village that was rained upon with rain of evil, it was the village of Sodom, the village of the people of Lot. Allah rained rocks of baked clay upon them, meaning earthen rocks.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 12, p. 153, no. 5]

34– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Allah did not send a prophet after Lot without having dignity among his people.’
[It is narrated in Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 32361 from Abu Hurayra: ‘Allah did not send a prophet after him without being rich among his people. But the correct version is what has been mentioned in the text.]
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 12, p. 157, no. 8]

36– It is narrated in Kanz al-`Aummal, from Musa b. Sa`aid al-Rasibi, who said, ‘When Jacob went to Joseph (AS), Joseph came out with a group of people to receive him. He went past the wife of the governor while she was worshipping in one of her rooms. When she saw him she recognised him and called out to him with a sad voice, ‘O rider, how long you have rendered me sorrowful - how good piety is indeed in how it frees slaves! And how bad sinning is indeed in how it enslaves the free!’
[Amali al-Tusi, p. 457, no. 1021]

37– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Joseph was given a good share of beauty.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 32400]

38– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The honourable, son of the honourable, son of the honourable, son of the honourable is Joseph, son of Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 32404]

39– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘When the sons of Jacob asked him to allow Joseph to go outside with them, he said to them, ‘I fear the wolf may eat him while you are oblivious of him’.
[ Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 32402]. Imam (AS) said, ‘Jacob suggested to them an excuse which they later used as a scapegoat for Joseph.’
[Qur’an 12:13]
[ Qur’an 12: 50]

40– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Job was the most tolerant and patient of people, and the strongest at suppressing his anger.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 32316]

41– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Allah Almighty revealed unto Job (AS), ‘Do you know what your sin to Me was when you were struck with calamities?’ He said, ‘No.’ Allah Almighty said, ‘You went to Pharaoh and you flattered him with two words.’
[al-Da`awat, p. 123, no. 304]

42– Ibn `Aabbas narrated, ‘The wife of Job (AS) said to him one day, ‘If only you supplicated to Allah to cure you!’ He said, ‘Woe unto you! We enjoyed blessings for seventy years, so lets be patient with calamities in its equivalent!’ The narrator says, ‘He did not stay after this for long until he was cured.’
[al-Da`awat, p. 165, no. 456]

43– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Job was afflicted for seven years without having committed a single sin.’
[`AeIlal al-Shara’i`a, p. 75, no. 3]

44– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Allah, Blessed and most High, afflicted Job (AS) without a single sin, and he was patient until he was taunted, and prophets do not tolerate taunting.’
[`AeIlal al-Shara’i`a, p. 75, no. 4]

45– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Job never asked for wellbeing in any of the calamities he was struck with.’
[Qasas al-Anbiya’, p. 139, no. 147]

46– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Allah Almighty only sent five prophets from the Arabs: Hud, Salih, Ishmael, Shu`aayb, and Muhammad, the seal of the prophets, peace of Allah be upon them; and Shu`aayb was one who cried very much.’
[Qasas al-Anbiya`, p. 145, no. 157]

48– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The first prophet from the Children of Israel (Bani Isra’il) was Moses and the last of them was Jesus, and
[they had] six hundred prophets.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 13, p. 7, no. 5]

49– Ibn `Aabbas narrated, ‘The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘I saw Jesus, Moses and Abraham. As for Jesus, he had shrivelled, red skin and broad shoulders. Moses was a well-built person, heavy as if he was a gipsy.’ He was asked, ‘And Abraham?’ He said, ‘Look at your friend’, referring to himself.’
[al-Tabaqat al-Kubra, v. 1, p. 417]

50– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Praise be to Allah…who spoke to Moses directly and showed him His great signs without the use of body parts, tools, the organ of speech or the uvula.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 182]

51– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘If you want, I will give a second example of Moses, the interlocutor of Allah (AS), when he said, ‘My Lord I am indeed in need of any good You may send down to me!’
[Qur'an, 28:24]. By Allah, he did not ask Him for anything other than bread to eat because he used to eat the herbs of the earth.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 160]

52– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Allah revealed unto Moses son of `AImran (AS), ‘Do you know O Moses why I picked you from My creation and chose you to speak to?’ He said, ‘No, O Lord.’ So Allah revealed to him, ‘I looked at the earth and did not find anyone on it more humble before Me than you.’
[Amali al-Tusi, p. 165, no. 275]

53– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘When the Pharoah realised that Moses would be the cause of the downfall of his kingdom, he called the divinators and they told him of Moses's lineage and that he was from the Children of Israel. Pharoah continued to order his men to cut open the stomachs of all the pregnant women from the Children of Israel until he killed in his search more than twenty thousand children, but he was not able to kill Moses because Allah the Almighty protected him.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 13 p. 47, no. 15]

55– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘May Allah be pleased with my brother Moses, he was shy and said that
[which he was not supposed to], and if was to have stayed with his companion
[al-Khizr] he would have seen the greatest of wonders.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 13, p. 284, no. 1]

56– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Khizr was a sent prophet. Allah Almighty sent him to his people, to call them to His Oneness and to acknowledge the prophets, messengers and their scriptures. His miracle was that any time he sat on dry wood or barren land, greenery would sprout from it, and this is why he was called Khizr
[derived from the Arabic root kha-Za-ra: green (ed.)].’
[`AeIlal al-Shara`i`a , p. 59, no. 1]

57– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘The mosque of Sahla has the climate of the rider.’ He was asked, ‘And who is the rider?’ He said, ‘Khizr (AS).’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 13, p. 303, no. 25]

58– Imam al-Rida (AS) said, ‘Khizr has drunk from the fountain of life, so he is alive and will not die until the horn is blown.’
[Kamal al-Din, p. 390, no. 4 (These traditions are singular (Ahad) and are not decisive in narration, so there is no way to authenticate them by the Qur’an, authentic traditions, or the intellect)
[as mentioned in the footnote of the source reference]]

60– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘The Ishmael that Allah mentions in His book "And mention in the Book Ishmael…" was not Ishmael son of Abraham, rather he was one of the prophets whom Allah Almighty sent to his people, who took him and skinned his head and face. An angel came to him and said, ‘Allah has sent me to you, so command me with whatever you wish.’ He said, ‘I have an example before me in what will be done to al-Husayn (AS).’
[`AeIlal al-Shara’i`a, p. 77, no. 2]

61– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Ishmael was a messenger and a prophet. A group ruled over him and they peeled the skin off his face and skinned his head. A messenger
[angel] came to him from the Lord of the worlds, and said to him, ‘Your Lord greets you and says, 'I have seen what has been done to you.’ He has ordered me to obey you, so command me with whatever you wish.’ So, he said, ‘I have an example before me in al-Husayn b. Ali (AS).’
[`AeIlal al-Shara’i`a, p. 78, no. 3]

62– It is narrated in Tafsir al-Qummi, with regards to Allah’s verse in the Qur’an: "And mention in the Book Ishmael. Indeed he was true to his promise", He made a promise for an appointment and waited for his friend for one year, and his name is Ishmael, son of Hazqil.’
[Tafsir al-Qummi, v. 6, p. 51]

63– Imam al-Rida (AS) – debating with the catholicos primate leader of the Christians, said, ‘Elisha (AS) did the same as what Jesus had done (AS) - he walked on water, revived the dead, healed the blind and the leper, but his people did not take him as a god.’
[al-Ihtijaj, v. 2, p. 407, no. 307]

64– Imam al-Jawad (AS) – when `Aabd al-`Aauim al-Hasani asked him about Dhul Kifl and his name, and whether he was a messenger, said, ‘Allah, exalted be His remembrance, sent one hundred and twenty four thousand prophets, of whom three hundred and thirteen were messengers, and Dhul Kifl was one of them, peace of Allah be upon them all. He was after Solomon, son of David (AS), and he used to judge between people like David did before him. He never became angry other than for Allah, and his name was `Auwaydiya’. He is the one Allah, Mighty and Exalted, has mentioned in His book, saying "remember Ishmael, Elisha and Dhu'l-Kifl each
[of whom was] among the elect."
[ Qasas al-Anbiya’, p. 213, no. 277]

65– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘David was the greatest worshipper among mankind.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 32322]

66– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘People would visit David thinking that he was sick, whilst there was nothing wrong with him other than his extreme fear of Allah Almighty.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 32323]

67– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘Allah Almighty revealed to David (AS), ‘You would be a great worshipper, if it was not for the fact that you consume from the treasury and do not labour at all with your own hands.’ He said, ‘David (AS) then cried, so Allah revealed unto the iron, ‘Soften yourself for my worshipper David, and it did.’ So, Allah softened the metal for him, and he used to make an armour shield every day, and would sell it for one thousand dirhams. He made three hundred and sixty shields and sold them for three hundred and sixty thousand dirhams, and hence he no longer needed the treasury.’
[al-Faqih, v. 3, p. 162, no. 3594]

68– Imam al-Baqir (AS) said, ‘As for David, he owned all that was between al-Shamat, till the land of Istakhr, and the kingdom of Solomon was the same.’
[al-Khisal, p. 248, no. 110]

69– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Allah Almighty revealed unto David (AS), ‘Why is it that I see you alone?’ He said, ‘I deserted people and they deserted me because of You.’ ‘So why is it that I see you quiet?’ He said, ‘My awe of You has rendered me quiet.’ He Almighty asked, ‘So why do I see you tired?’ He said, ‘Your love has tired me.’ He Almighty asked, ‘So why do I see you poor, whilst I have provided you?’ He said, ‘Undertaking Your rights has empoverished me.’ He Almighty asked, ‘So why do I see you humiliated?’ He said, ‘The greatness of Your indescribable Magnitude has humiliated me, and this is Your right O Master.’ Allah Almighty said, ‘Then rejoice with grace from Me, for you will have whatever you want when you meet Me. Associate with people to correct their morals, and disassociate from them in their actions, and you will achieve from Me whatever you desire from Me on the Day of Judgment.’
[Amali al-Saduq, p. 164, no. 1]

70– It is narrated in Bihar al-Anwar: ‘Prophet David (AS) left for the desert by himself, so Allah revealed to him, ‘O David, why is it that I see you by yourself?’ He said, ‘O Allah, my yearning for meeting You has become extreme, and has become an obstruction between me and Your creation.’ So, Allah revealed to him, ‘Return to them, for if you bring me a runaway servant I will inscribe you in the Tablet as praised.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 14, p. 40, no. 26]

71– Solomon (AS), when he saw a male sparrow saying to a female sparrow, ‘Why do you deprive me of yourself, for if I wanted I could take Solomon’s crown with my beak and throw it in the sea!’ Solomon said to him, smiling, ‘Are you really able to do so?’ The bird said, ‘No, O Messenger of Allah, but a man may embellish himself and greaten himself in front of his wife, and a lover cannot be rebuked for what he says.’ Solomon then asked the female sparrow, ‘Why do you deprive him of yourself when he loves you?’ She said, ‘O Prophet of Allah, he is not a lover, but a claimant
[of love], for he loves someone else besides me!’ The words of this sparrow affected Solomon's heart and he cried very much, and secluded himself from people for forty days praying to Allah to empty his heart for his love for Him, and to not mix it with love for anything other than Him.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 14, p. 95, no. 3]

72– Solomon (AS) said, ‘We have been given what people
[in the past] were given as well as what they were not given, and we know what other people know as well as what they do not know. But we did not find anything better
[in all of that] than fearing Allah in secret and in public, and moderation in times of wealth as well as poverty, speaking the truth both in
[states of] pleasure and anger, and humility before Allah Almighty in every situation.’
[al-Khisal, p. 241, no. 91]

73– Imam Ali (AS) said, ‘If there was anyone who could secure a ladder to everlasting life or a way to avoid death, it would have been Solomon son of David (AS) who was given control over the domain of the jinn and humans, along with prophethood and a great position
[before Allah]. But when he finished his allotment of sustenance
[in this world] and exhausted his
[fixed] time, the bow of destruction shot him with the arrow of death, houses became vacant of him and his habitations became empty, and another group of people inherited them.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 183]

74– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Solomon (AS) would feed his guests meat in white flour, and his family brown bread with bran, and he himself would eat unsifted barley.’
[al-Da`aawat, p. 143, no. 363]

75– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘The last person to enter Heaven from among the prophets is Solomon, son of David (AS), because of all that he was given in this world.’
[Mustazrafat al-Sara’ir, p. 41, no. 7]

76– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Solomon, son of David (AS) one day said to his companions, ‘Allah Almighty has endowed upon me a kingdom that no person after me will ever have. He has given me control of the wind, the humans, the jinn, the birds and the animals, and He has taught me the language of the birds. He has given me from everything, and with all that I possess, there has never been a day when my happiness has continued until night. I would like to enter my palace tomorrow and climp atop it and oversee my subjects. So, do not permit anyone to come to me for I do not want anyone to disturb my day.’ They said, ‘Yes.’
When the next day came, he took his walking staff in his hand and went up to the highest point of his palace. He stood there leaning on his staff looking at his kingdom, happy for where he was and pleased with what had been given to him, when suddenly he saw a young man with a handsome face and neat clothes coming out to him from a corner of the palace.
When Solomon saw him, he asked him, ‘Who let you enter the palace when I wanted to be alone here for the day? And with whose permission did you enter?’ The young man replied, ‘The Lord of this palace let me enter it, and with His permission I entered.’ Solomon said, ‘Indeed its Lord is more rightful to it than me, so who are you?’ He said, ‘I am the angel of death.’ Solomon asked, ‘What has brought you here?’ He said, ‘I have come to take your soul.’ Solomon said, ‘Do what you have been commanded to do, for this is the day of my happiness, and Allah Almighty has refused for me to have a happy day without meeting Him.’
So the angel of death took his soul, while he was leaning on his staff. Solomon stayed leaning on his staff while dead until Allah wished so, while the people continued to look at him
[from below] thinking him to be alive. People then argued and differed among each other, some saying, ‘Solomon has stayed leaning on his staff for all these days, and has neither become tired nor slept nor drunk nor eaten. Surely he must be our lord whom we must worship!’ Others said, ‘Solomon is a magician, and he is showing us that he can stand there leaning on his staff. He is conjuring our eyes, while it is not actually so!’ The believers said, ‘Solomon is a servant of Allah and His prophet, and Allah controls his affairs as He wishes.’ So when they differed among each other Allah Almighty sent termites who crawled into Solomon's staff. When they had eaten the inside of the staff, it broke and Solomon (AS) fell from his palace onto his face.’
[`AeIlal al-Shara’i`a, p. 73, no. 2]

77– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The Children of Israel went to seek out Zacharias in order to kill him, so he left fleeing into the desert. A tree parted open and he entered into it, but the hem of his clothes remained outside, so they came and stood around it, and sawed through him with a saw.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 32329]

78– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Zacharias was a carpenter.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 32330]

79– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘May Allah be pleased with my brother John when he was invited by children to play, and he was small, and he said, ‘Was I created to play?!’ So, what will there be for those who perceive his statement as a sin?!’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 32425]

80– Imam al-Kazim (AS) said, ‘John, son of Zacharias (AS), cried and never laughed, and Jesus son of Mary (AS) would laugh and cry, and what Jesus (AS) used to do was better than what John (AS) used to do.’
[al-Kafi, v. 2, p. 665, no. 20]

81– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) narrated from his fathers (AS) the conversation of John with the devil: ‘John (AS) asked, ‘Have you ever been triumphant over me for any moment?’ He
[the devil] said, ‘No, but you have a feature that pleases me.’ John asked, ‘And what is that?’ He said, ‘You are a person who eats too much, so when you break your fast and fill yourself, it prevents you from performing some of your prayers and night vigils.’ John (AS) said, ‘Therefore I will make a pledge to Allah that I will never fill myself with food until I meet Him.’ Satan said to him, ‘I will make a pledge to Allah that I will never advise a submitter
[muslim] again until I meet Him.’ So he left and never returned to him after that.’
[Amali al-Tusi, p. 340, no. 692]

82– Prophet Jesus (AS) said, ‘My servant is my own two hands; my riding beast is my two feet, my bed is the earth, my pillow is a rock, my warmth in the winter is the east of the earth….I sleep and I do not possess anything, and I wake up and I do not possess anything, but there is no one on the face of this earth richer than me.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 14, p. 239, no. 17]

83– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The first prophet from the Children of Israel was Moses (AS) and the last of them was Jesus (AS), and
[they had] six hundred prophets.’
[al-Khisal, p. 524, no. 13]

84– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘The food of Jesus was broad beans until he was taken up
[by Allah], and Jesus never ate anything that had been changed by fire
[i.e.cooked] until he was taken up.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 32357]

85– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘O Umm Ayman! Did you not know that my brother Jesus never kept dinner for lunch or lunch for dinner?! He would eat from the leaves of trees, drink from rainwater, wear hair-cloth, sleep wherever he was, and he would say, ‘Every day comes with its own sustenance.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 32358]

86– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘I saw Jesus son of Mary, and lo he was a white-skinned man, and slim like a sword.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 32359]

87– Imam Ali (AS), describing Jesus (AS) said, ‘If you wish I will speak about Jesus son of Mary (AS). He used to use a rock for his pillow, wore rough clothes and ate dry food. His condiment was hunger; his lamp at night was the moon, his shade during the winter was the east of the earth and its west. His fruits and flowers were what the earth grew for the cattle. He had no wife to seduce him, nor any son to grieve him, nor wealth to deviate
[his attention], nor greed to disgrace him. His two feet were his riding beast and his two hands his servant.’
[Nahj al-Balagha, Sermon 160]

88– Imam Ja`afar al-Sadiq (AS) with regard to Allah’s verse in the Qur’an: "He has made me blessed, wherever I may be."
[Qur’an 19:31], narrated on the authority of Jesus (AS), that he said, ‘
[It means] One who greatly benefits others.’
[Ma`ani al-Akhbar, p. 212, no. 1]

90– Imam al-Baqir (AS), when a Christian scholar asked him about a man who copulated with his wife and she became pregnant with two, both in one hour, and she gave birth to both in one hour, and they both died in one hour, and they were both buried in one grave, but one lived for one hundred and fifty years and the other lived for fifty years - who were they? He replied, ‘ `Auzair and `Auzra. Their mother was pregnant with them as you have described, and she gave birth as you described, and `Auzair and `Auzra lived for so and so years. Allah then made `Auzair die for one hundred years, then he was revived and lived with `Auzra for fifty years. Then they both died together at one time.’
[al-Kafi, v. 8, p. 123, no. 94]

91– Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘Allah brought death to the prophet Irmiya’ who looked at the ruins of Jerusalem and its surroundings when Nebuchadnezzar invaded it. He said, ‘How will Allah revive this after its death?!' So Allah made him die for a hundred years, then He resurrected him. He looked at his organs and how they came together and how they became covered in flesh, and at his limbs and veins and how they were connected together. When he sat upright he said, ‘I know that Allah has power over all things’.
[ al-Ihtijaj, v. 2, p. 230, no. 223]

92– The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘It is not appropriate for a prophet to say: I am better in the eyes of Allah than Jonah son of Matta’.’
[Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 32423]

93– Imam Ali (AS), when some Jews asked him about a jail which circumambulated the whole world with its prisoner, replied, ‘O Jew, as for the jail that circled all parts of the world with its captive, it was the fish that imprisoned Jonah in its stomach.’
[Bihar al-Anwar, v. 14, p. 382, no. 2]

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1. Prophet Hud (AS) is not a biblical prophet, and his Christian name is therefore not known (ed.)
2. Prophet Salih is not a biblical prophet, and his Christian name is, therefore, not known (ed.)
3. Although Prophet Shu`aayb (AS) is not recognised as a prophet in the Judeo-Christian faiths, he is known in the biblical tradition as Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law (ed.)
4. Prophet Dhu’l Kifl (AS) is not one of the biblical prophets and so his Christian name is unknown (ed.)