Notable Points and Comprehensive Ahadith about Wilaya (Leadership with Divine Authority)

2. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from from Muhammad ibn al-Husayn from Muhammad ibn ’Isma‘il ibn Bazi‘ from Salih ibn ‘Uqba from ‘Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Ja‘fari from abu Ja‘far عليه السلام and ‘Uqba from abu Ja‘far عليه السلام who has said the following. “Allah created the creatures. He created whatever He loved from whatever He loved. The most beloved to Him He created from the clay of paradise. He created whatever He disliked from whatever He disliked. Thus, the most disliked to Him He created from the clay of fire. Then He sent them to the shadow.” I asked him, “What is the shadow?” The Imam عليه السلام said, “Have you not seen your own shadow in the sun that when look at it is nothing. Allah then sent to them the prophets who called them to acknowledge Allah as the creator. This is the meaning of His words. “(Muhammad), if you ask them, “Who had created them (idols)?” They will certainly say, “God has created them.. .”? (43:87) Then He called them to acknowledge the prophets. Some of them acknowledged and other did not acknowledge. Then He called them to acknowledge our Wilaya. Those whom He loved, by Allah, acknowledged and those whom He disliked did not acknowledge as He has said, “However, how could the people believe what they had previously called lies?. .” (10:74) Abu Ja‘far عليه السلام then said, “Refusal to acknowledge was then and there.”

3. Muhammad b. Yahya has narrated from Salama b. al-Khattab from Ali b. Sayf from al-‘Abbas b. ‘Amir from Ahmad b. Rizq al-Ghumushani from Muhammad b. ‘Abd al-Rahman from Abi ‘Abdillah عليه السلام who has said the following: “Our Wilaya is the Wilaya of Allah without which no prophet was ever sent.”

4. Mohammad b. Yahya from Abdullah b. Mohammad b. ‘Isa from Mohammad b. Abdul Hamid from Yunus b. Ya’qub, from ‘Abdul A‘la who said: I heard Aba 'Abdillah عليه السلام saying: "There has never been a prophet who came except with the knowledge of our rights and our preeminence over others."

5. Muhammad b. Yahya, from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. ‘Isa from Muhammad b. Isma'il b. Bazi‘, from Muhammad b. al-Fudayl, from Abu al-Sabbah al-Kinanii from Abu Ja'far عليه السلام who said: I heard him say: “By Allah, there are seventy rows of angels in the sky. If all the people on Earth were to gather, they could not count the number of each row of angels, and indeed, they believe in our Wilayah.”

6. Muhammad, from Ahmad b. Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Muhammad b. al-Fudayl, from Abu al-Hasan عليه السلام who said. “The Wilayah of Ali عليه السلام is written in all the scriptures of the prophets, and Allah has never sent a messenger except with the prophethood of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and the succession of Ali عليه السلام.”

7. Al-Hussein b. Muhammad, from Mu‘alla b. Muhammad, from Muhammad b. Jumhoor who said: Yunus narrated to us from Hammad b. Uthman from Al-Fudayl b. Yasar from Abu Ja'far عليه السلام who said: "Indeed, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, appointed Ali عليه السلام as a sign between Him and His creation. Whoever acknowledges him is a believer, and whoever denies him is an unbeliever. Whoever is ignorant of him is misguided, and whoever who sets up something alongside him is a polytheist. Whoever comes with his Wilayah will enter Paradise."