Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara · Hadith 3

The Book of the Glorious Quran · The Merits of the Qur’an · Volume 1, book 5, chapter 1, Hadith 3

Original Arabic text

[1543/3] الكافي: علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن ابن أبي عمير، عن إبراهيم بن عبدالحميد عن إسحاق بن غالب قال: قال أبوعبدالله عليه السلام: إذا جمع الله عزو جل الاولين و الآخرين إذا هم بشخص قد أقبل لم ير قط أحسن صورة منه فإذا نظر إليه المؤمنون وهو القرآن قالوا: هذا منا، هذا أحسن شئ رأينا فإذا انتهى إليهم جازهم، ثم ينظر إليه الشهداء حتى إذا انتهى إلى آخرهم جازهم فيقولون: هذا القرآن، فيجوزهم كلهم حتى إذا انتهى إلى المرسلين فيقولون: هذا القرآن، فيجوزهم حتى ينتهي إلى الملائكة فيقولون: هذا القرآن فيجوزهم (ثم ينتهي) حتى يقف عن يمين العرش فيقول الجبار: وعزتي وجلالي وارتفاع مكاني لاكرمن اليوم من أكرمك ولا هينن من أهانك

Published English translation

[3/1543] al-Kafi: Ali b. Ibrahim from his father from Ibn Abi Umayr from Ibrahim b. Abd al-Hamid from Ishaq b. Ghalib who said: Abu Abdillah عليه السلام said: When Allah Mighty and Majestic gathers the first ones and the last ones, they will behold a person drawing near, a more handsome form than his has never been seen (before). So when the believers will gaze at him - and it is the Qur’an - they will say ‘this is one of us! this is the most handsome thing we have seen!’ - but when he reaches them (their ranks) he will go beyond them. Then the martyrs will gaze at him, until when he reaches the last of them - he will go beyond them, they will (then) say ‘this is the Qur’an!’ He will go beyond them all until he reaches the Messengers, they will say ‘this is the Qur’an’ He will go beyond them until he reaches the angels, they will say ‘this is the Qur’an’ He will go beyond them, until he comes to stand on the right-side of the Throne, whereupon the Most-Powerful will proclaim: ‘By My Might and Majesty, and the loftiness of My position, I will honour today the one who honoured you, and debase the one who debased you’

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Shaykh Asif al-Mohseni: معتبر

Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara

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