The Hadith of Shaddad Ibn ‘ad Ibn Iram

Narrated to us Muzaffar bin Ja’far bin Muzaffar Alawi; he said: Narrated to us Ja’far bin Muhammad bin Masud from his father; he from Ali bin Muhammad from Ahmad bin Muhammad from Hasan bin Mahboob from Ibrahim Karkhi that he said: I asked Abi Abdullah عليه السلام or someone asked him: “May Allah give you good reward, was Ali عليه السلام not firm in the religion of Allah?” He replied: “Yes, he was firm and strong.” The narrator asked, “Then how could the people subdue him and he did not defend himself and neither did he stop them?” The Imam said, “There is a verse in the Book of Allah which stopped him from it.” “What verse is that,” asked the narrator. Imam عليه السلام said: لَوْتَزَيَّلُوالَعَذَّبْنَاالَّذِينَكَفَرُوامِنْهُمْعَذَابًاأَلِيمًا Had they been widely separated one from another, We would surely have punished those who disbelieved from among them with a painful punishment.5 It was so because the believing trusts of Allah, the Mighty and Sublime were present in the loins of the infidels and hypocrites, therefore it was not possible for Ali عليه السلام to kill their ancestors till the trusts do not take birth. When the trusts came out Ali عليه السلام attacked them and eliminated them. In the same way the reappearance of our Qaim عليه السلام will not take place till the trusts of Allah do not take birth. After that he would subdue his opponents and eliminate them.”