A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from 'Abdallah ibn al- Hajjal from Ahmad ibn 'Umar al-Halabi from abu Basir who has said the following. "I went to abu 'Abdallah
(a.s.) and said, "May Allah take my soul in service for your cause,
I like to ask you a question. Is there anyone else in this house who may hear my words?" The Imams (a.s.) then folded the curtain between his room and the other room next to it and looked
into it. Then the Imams (a.s.) said, "O abu Muhammad, ask whatever you wish." I said, "May Allah take my soul in service for your cause, your followers say that the Messenger of Allah taught Ali
(a.s.) a thousand chapter of knowledge and from each chapter there opens a thousand chapter.
I then said, 'This, I swear by Allah, is knowledge.'" He would mark the ground with his staff (a sign of thinking in normal people) for a while and said, "That is knowledge but it is not
that." The narrators has said that The Imam (a.s.) then said, "O abu Muhammad, with us there is al-Jami'a. What do they know what al-Jami' is?"
I then asked, "May Allah take my soul in service for your cause, what is al-Jami'a? The Imam (a.s.) said, it is a parchment seventy yards by the yards of the Messenger of Allah long that
contains his dictations that is in graved in to with the right hand writing of Ali (a.s.).
It contains all the lawful and unlawful and all matters that people need, even the law to of compensation for A number of our people has narrated from scratch caused to a person. He then
stretched his hand to me and asked, 'May I, O abu Muhammad?' I then replied, "May Allah take my soul in service for your cause, I am all at your disposal."
He pinched me with his hand and said, "Even there is the law of compensation for this." He seemed angry. The narrator has said, "I then said, "This, I swear by Allah is knowledge." The
Imams (a.s.) said, "It certainly is knowledge but not that one."
The Imams (a.s.) remained silent for a while and then said, "With us there is al-Jafr (the parchment). What do they know what al-Jafr is? I then asked, "What is al-Jafr (the parchment or a
container) ?"
The Imams (a.s.) said, "It is a container made of skin that contains the knowledge of the prophets and the executors of their wills and the knowledge of the scholars in the past from the
Israelites." The narrator has said that he then said, "This certainly, is the knowledge." The Imam (a.s.) said, "It certainly is knowledge but not that knowledge."
The Imams (a.s.) remained silent for a while and then said, "With us there is the book (Mushaf) of Fatima, (a.s.). What do they know what Mushaf of Fatima is? The Imam (a.s.) said, "Mushaf
of Fatima is three times bigger than your Quran. There is not even a single letter therein from your Quran." The narrator has said, "I then said, "This, I swear by Allah, is the
knowledge."
The Imam (a.s.) said, "This certainly is knowledge, but it is not that." The Imam (a.s.) remained silent for a while and then said, "With us there is the knowledge of whatever has been and
the knowledge of whatever will come into being to the Day of Judgment." The narrator has said that he then said, "May Allah take my soul in service for your cause, this, I swear by Allah is,
certainly, knowledge."
The Imam (a.s.) said, "It certainly is knowledge but not that." The narrator has said that he then asked, "May Allah take my soul in service for your cause, What then is knowledge?" The
Imam (a.s.) said, "Whatever takes place during the night and during the day, one matter after the other matter and one thing after the other thing to the Day of Judgment."
H 636, Ch. 40, h 2 A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from 'Umar ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz from ibn 'Uthman who has said that he heard abu 'Abdallah (a.s.) say the
following. "The heretics will appear in the year one hundred twenty eight (745/746AD) because I have found it in the Mushaf of Fatima (a.s.)." The narrator has said that he asked the Imams
(a.s.), "What is Mushaf of Fatime?"
The Imams (a.s.) said, "When Allah took the Holy Prophet (s. a.) from this world, it caused such a degree of grief to Fatima (a.s.) that only Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, knows its
extent. Allah then sent an angel to her to offer solace and speak to her. She complained about it to Amir al-Mu'minin Ali (a.s.) who asked her to inform him whenever she would find the angel
speak to her.
She then informed him when the angel came to speak. Amir al-Mu'minin Ali (a.s.) then would write down all that he would hear of the conversations of the angel so much so that his notes took
the shape of a whole book." The Imam (a.s.) then said, "There was nothing in it of the knowledge of the lawful and unlawful matters but it had the knowledge of things that had happened and things
to happen in future." :
H 637, Ch. 40, h 3
A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn al-Hakam from al-Husayn ibn abu 'Ala'who has said that he heard abu 'Abdallah (a.s.) say the following. "With me is
the white Jafr." The narrator has said that he asked the Imams (a.s.) "What is in it?" The Imams (a.s.) said, "In it there is the psalms of David, the Torah of Moses, the Gospel of Jesus, the
Books of Abraham, the laws that explain the lawful and unlawful matters and Mushaf of Fatima (a.s.) in which,
I do not think there is nay thing from the Holy Quran. In it there is all that people need us to do for them and so that we would not need any one else. In it there is information even
about a lash, half of a lash and one forth of a lash and about the amount of compensation for A number of our people has narrated from scratch caused to someone.
"With me there is the red Jafr." The narrator has said that he asked the Imams (a.s.), "What is in the red Jafr?" The Imams (a.s.) said, "In it there is the Armaments. It is because it only
is opened for bloodshed. The owner of the sword opens it to kill." The narrator has said that 'Abdallah ibn abu Ya'fur asked the Imams (a.s.),
"May Allah keep you well, do the descendents of al-Hassan (a.s.) know this? The Imam (a.s.) said, "Yes, I swear by Allah, they know it just as they know the night that it is night and the
day that it is the day but jealousy and worldly gains cause them to act in denial and rejection. Had they sought the truth with the truth it would have been better for them."
H 638, Ch. 40, h 4
Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from Muhammad ibn 'Isa from Yunus from the person that he mentioned from Sulayman ibn Khalid from abu 'Abdallah (a.s.) who has said the following. "The Jafr of
which they speak certainly disappoints them because they (the Zaydis) do not speak the truth while Jafr does contain the truth. Let them bring to light therefrom the judgments of Ali (a.s.) and
his rulles of inheritance if they are truthful.
Ask them about (the inheritance) of paternal and maternal aunts. Let them show the Mushaf of Fatima (a.s.). In it certainly there is the will of Fatima (a.s.). With it there is the
Armaments the Messenger of Allah. Allah, the Most Holy, the Most High, has said, "Bring me a Book, revealed before this Quran, or any other proof based on knowledge to support your belief, if
indeed you are truthful" (46:4).
H 639, Ch. 40, h 5
Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn Mahbub from ibn Ri'ab from abu 'Ubaydah who has said that the people from our group asked abu 'Abdallah (a. s.) about Jafr
and the Imam (a.s.) said the following. "It is the skin of a bull which is full of knowledge." Then they asked the Imam (a.s.) about al-Jami'a. The Imam (a.s.) replied, "It is a parchment that is
seventy yards long with a width of hide like that of the leg of a huge camel.
It contains all that people may need. There is no case for there is a rule in it. In it there is the law to settle the compensation for a scratch caused to a person." The narrator has said
that he asked the Imams (a.s.), "What is Mushaf of Fatima?" The Imam (a.s.) waited for quite a while. Then he said, "You ask about what you really mean and what you do not
mean.
Fatima (a.s.) lived after the Messenger of Allah for seventy-five days. She was severely depressed because of the death of her father. Jibril (a.s.) would come to provide her solace because
of the death of her father.
Jibril would comfort her soul. Jibril would inform her about her father and his place and of the future events and about what will happen to her children. At the same time Ali (a.s.) would
write all of them down and thus is Mushaf of Fatima (a.s.)."
H 640, Ch. 40, h 6
A number of our people has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Salih ibn Sa'id from Ahmad ibn abu Bishr from Bakr ibn Karib al-Sayrafi who has said that he heard abu 'Abdallah (a.s.) say
the following. "With us there are such things that because of which we do not become need to people instead people need us.
With us there is a book that the Messenger of Allah had dictated and Ali (a.s.) had written it down. It is a book. In it there are all laws of lawful and unlawful matters. You come to us
with A number of our people has narrated from issue and we know when you follow the guidance and when you disregard it."
H 641, Ch. 40, h 7
Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from ibn abu 'Umayr from 'Umar ibn Udhayna from Fudayl ibn Yasar, Burayd ibn Mu'wiya and Zurarah who have said that 'Abdallah ibn 'Abd al-Malik
said the following to abu 'Abdallah (a.s.), "The Zaydi sect and al-Mu'tazali group circle around Muhammad ibn 'Abdallah.
Does he have any authority?" The Imam (a.s.) said, "I swear by Allah that with me there are two books in which there is the name of every prophet and the name of every king that would rule
on earth. No, I swear by Allah, the name of Muhammad ibn 'Abdallah is not in the list as one of them."
H 642, Ch. 40, h 8
Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Husayn ibn Sa'id from al-Qasim ibn Muhammad from 'Abd al-Samad ibn Bashir from Fudayl ibn Sukra who has said that once I went
to abu 'Abdallah (a.s.) and he said the following to me. "O Fudayl, do you know what at did I look just awhile before?" The narrator has said that he said to the Imams (a.s.), "No, I do not
know."
The Imam (a.s.) said, "I was looking at the book of Fatima (a.s.). There is no king who would rule on earth with being listed therein by his name and the name of his father but I did not
find the name of any of the descendent of al-Hassan therein."
