سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ ع يَقُولُ كَانَ جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ ع يَقُولُ لَوْ لَا أَنَّا نَزْدَادُ لَأَنْفَدْنَا. - مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ مِثْلَهُ.
“Would we not receive (new knowledge) we would diminish (in knowledge).” Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Muhammad ibn Khalid from Safwan from abu a1-Hassan (a.s.) a similar Hadith.
قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَا ذَرِيحُ لَوْ لَا أَنَّا نَزْدَادُ لَأَنْفَدْنَا.
“O Dharih, “Would we not receive (new knowledge) we will diminish (in knowledge).”said:
سَمِعْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ع يَقُولُ لَوْ لَا أَنَّا نَزْدَادُ لَأَنْفَدْنَا قَالَ قُلْتُ تَزْدَادُونَ شَيْئاً لَا يَعْلَمُهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص قَالَ أَمَا إِنَّهُ إِذَا كَانَ ذَلِكَ عُرِضَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص ثُمَّ عَلَى الْأَئِمَّةِ ثُمَّ انْتَهَى الْأَمْرُ إِلَيْنَا.
“Would we not receive additional (knowledge) we would diminish (in knowledge).” The narrator has said that he asked the Imams (a.s.) “Do receive additional something that the Messenger of Allah does not know?” The Imam (a.s.) said, “The fact of the matter is that when that happens, it is presented to the Messenger of A
لَيْسَ يَخْرُجُ شَيْءٌ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ حَتَّى يَبْدَأَ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص ثُمَّ بِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ع ثُمَّ بِوَاحِدٍ بَعْدَ وَاحِدٍ لِكَيْلَا يَكُونَ آخِرُنَا أَعْلَمَ مِنْ أَوَّلِنَا.
“Nothing comes from Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, except that first it begins with the Messenger of Allah then Amir al-Mu’minin Ali (a.s.) then the Imams one after the other so that the last us would not be more knowledgeable than the first of us.”