hadith
188
۞
11. Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya al-`Attar (RA) said, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ahmad ibn Muhammad, on the authority of al-Husayn ibn Sa`id, on the authority of alQasim ibn Muhammad, on the authority of `Abd al-Samad ibn Bashir, on the authority of Fudayl ibn Sukkarah that
I asked Abu Ja`far al-Baqir (AS): May I be taken as your ransom! I hope that you can tech me. Prior to creation, did Allah, may His Remembrance be Exalted, know that He was One? Your followers have a dispute regarding this issue. Some of them say: “The Blessed and Exalted surely knew that He was alone before He created anything from His Creation/” While others say: “Verily, the meaning of knowing is doing. Therefore, He knows today that there was no one other than Him before He created the thngs.” And they say: “If we prove that He has always known that ere was none but Him, then we have proved that there was other than Him in sempiternity [azaliyyah]. If you could be so kind, O my Master, to teach me whether the truth is other than this. Thus, he (AS) wrote: “Allah, the Exalted, has always been All-Knowing, Blessed and Exalted be His Remembrance.”
11 - حدثنا أحمد بن محمد بن يحيى العطار رحمه الله، عن أبيه، عن أحمد بن محمد، عن الحسين بن سعيد، عن القاسم بن محمد، عن عبد الصمد بن بشير، عن فضيل ابن سكرة، قال
قلت لأبي جعفر عليه السلام: جعلت فداك إن رأيت أن تعلمني هل كان الله جل ذكره يعلم قبل أن يخلق الخلق أنه وحده؟ فقد اختلف مواليك، فقال بعضهم: قد كان يعلم تبارك وتعالى أنه وحده قبل أن يخلق شيئا من خلقه، و قال بعضهم، إنما معنى يعلم يفعل، فهو اليوم يعلم أنه لا غيره قبل فعل الأشياء، وقالوا: إن أثبتنا أنه لم يزل عالما بأنه لا غيره فقد أثبتنا معه غيره في أزليته، فإن رأيت يا سيدي أن تعلمني ما لا أعدوه إلى غيره، فكتب عليه السلام : ما زال الله تعالى عالما تبارك وتعالى ذكره.
Tags
Divine Transcendence
Similar narrations
- Al-Tawḥīd #71 He who anthropomorphizes Allah with His Creation is an infidel. Verily, Allah, the Blessed and the Exalted, does not resemble anything and...
- Al-Tawḥīd #234 I was in the presend of Abu Ja`far al-Baqir (AS) when `Amr ibn `Ubayd entered and aked, “May I be your ransom! What is the wrath which is...
- Al-Tawḥīd #169 8. `Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Walid said: Ahmad ibn al-Fadl ibn al-Mughirah said: Abu Nasr Mansur ibn `Abd Allah ibn Ibrahim...
- Al-Tawḥīd #107 I wrote the following to Abu Muhammad (AS) in the year 255 AH: O my Master! Our scholars are divided on the question of Divine Unity...
- Al-Tawḥīd #170 I asked Abu `Abd Allah al-Sadiq (AS) about Allah, Blessed and Exalted be He: “Did He have knowledge of location before He created location?...
- Al-Tawḥīd #536 “No.” It was asked from him, “Then, is it bestowed by Allah, the Mighty and High?” He replied, “The servants do not have a part in it. The...
- Al-Tawḥīd #85 I asked Abu Ja`far al-Baqir (AS): “May I be your ransom! What is the meaning of the Needless [al-Samad]?” He (AS) answered: “He is the...
- Al-Tawḥīd #267 May Allah bestow upon you knowledge of what is good! Know that Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, is Eternal. Eternity is an attribute through...