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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT
7ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ حَمَّادٍ عَنِ الْمُفَضَّلِ قَالَ قُلْتُ لابِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) كَيْفَ كُنْتُمْ حَيْثُ كُنْتُمْ فِي الاظِلَّةِ فَقَالَ يَا مُفَضَّلُ كُنَّا عِنْدَ رَبِّنَا لَيْسَ عِنْدَهُ أَحَدٌ غَيْرُنَا فِي ظُلَّةٍ خَضْرَاءَ نُسَبِّحُهُ وَنُقَدِّسُهُ وَنُهَلله وَنُمَجِّدُهُ وَمَا مِنْ مَلَكٍ مُقَرَّبٍ وَلا ذِي رُوحٍ غَيْرُنَا حَتَّى بَدَا لَهُ فِي خَلْقِ الاشْيَاءِ فَخَلَقَ مَا شَاءَ كَيْفَ شَاءَ مِنَ الْمَلائِكَةِ وَغَيْرِهِمْ ثُمَّ أَنْهَى عِلْمَ ذَلِكَ إِلَيْنَا.
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
7. Ali b. Muhammad has narrated from Sahl b. Ziyad from Muhammad ibn Ali b. Ibrahim from Ali b. Hammad from Al-Mufadhal who has said the following. “Once I asked Abu ‘Abdallah عليه السلام , “How did you exist when you existed in the shadows?” The Imam عليه السلام said, “O Mufadhal, we were in the presence of our Lord and there was no one else in the green shadow. We spoke of His Glory, Holiness, acknowledged Him as the Lords and spoke of His Majesty. There was no angel even of the ones close to Allah or a living being except us in His presence until He decided to create all things. He then created whatever He wanted, in the way He wanted of the angels and others. He then made the knowledge of that to reach and come to us.”
Source & scholarly assessments
Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 111, report 7
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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · لم يخرجه · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī
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Arabic witness SHA-256: eb8118b90978ba15ae068a893be713ad274bcd1e6f95103f6bc3810cbd108839
Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/111/7. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.
Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/111/7. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.
