1. Muhammad ibn ya‘qub al-Kulayni has narrated from Muhammad ibn al-Hassan and Ali ibn Muhammad from Sahl ibn Ziyad from ibn Mahbub from ibn Al-Ri’ab from Bukayr ibn ‘A‘yan who has said the following. “Abu Ja‘far (a.s.) used to say, “Allah made our Shi‘a (followers) to acknowledge our Wilaya Leadership with Divine Authority) when they were only in the realm of small particles. It was the day when Allah made the small particles to acknowledge Him as the Lord and Muhammad (sw) as His prophet.”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

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 (a.s.) and ‘Uqba from abu Ja‘far (a.s.) 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 (a.s.) 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 (a.s.) then said, “Refusal to acknowledge was then and there.”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

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 (a.s.) who has said the following: “Our Wilaya is the Wilaya of Allah without which no prophet was ever sent.”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

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 (a.s) saying: "There has never been a prophet who came except with the knowledge of our rights and our preeminence over others."

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

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 (a.s) 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.”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

6. Muhammad, from Ahmad b. Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Muhammad b. al-Fudayl, from Abu al-Hasan (a.s) who said. “The Wilayah of Ali (a.s) is written in all the scriptures of the prophets, and Allah has never sent a messenger except with the prophethood of Muhammad ﷺ and the succession of Ali (a.s).”

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

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 (a.s) who said: "Indeed, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, appointed Ali (a.s) 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."

Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

Al Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moalla Bin Muhammad, from Al Washha, from Abdullah Bin Sinan, from Abu Hamza who said, ‘I heard Abu Ja’far asws saying: ‘Ali asws is a door which Allah azwj Opened. So the one who enters it would be a Momin, and the one who exits from it would be a disbeliever, and the one who does not enter it and does not exit from it would be in the layer (under a category about) which Allah azwj Blessed and High has Said: ‘For Me azwj , regarding them, is the (pending) decision’.

Translation: HubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Raib, from Bukeyr Bin Ayn who said, ‘Abu Ja’far asws was saying: ‘Allah azwj Took the Covenant of our asws Shias with the Wilayah for us asws , and they were particles on the day the Covenant was Taken upon the particles with the acknowledgment to Him azwj with the Lordship, and to Muhammad saww with the Prophet-hood. And Allah azwj Majestic and Mighty Presented to Muhammad saww , his saww community in the clay, and they were shadows. And He azwj Created them from the lay from which Adam as was created, and Allah azwj Created the spirits of our asws Shias before their bodies, by two thousand years, and presented them unto him saww . And He azwj Introduced them to Rasool-Allah saww , and Introduced them to Ali asws . And we asws recognise them in the tone of their speech’.

Translation: HubeAli — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.