S 99 Ayat 1 to 8

قوله تعالى:

بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ إِذٰا زُلْزِلَتِ الْأَرْضُ زِلْزٰالَهٰا* وَ أَخْرَجَتِ الْأَرْضُ أَثْقٰالَهٰا* وَ قٰالَ الْإِنْسٰانُ مٰا لَهٰا -إلى قوله تعالى- وَ مَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقٰالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَهُ [1-8]

Qur'ān, Sūrat al-Zalzalah [99:1–8], M.H. Shakir translation: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

When the earth is shaken with her (violent) shaking,

And the earth brings forth her burdens,

And man says: What has befallen her?

On that day she shall tell her news,

Because your Lord had inspired her.

On that day men shall come forth in sundry bodies that they may be shown their works.

So he who has done an atom's weight of good shall see it,

And he who has done an atom's weight of evil shall see it.

99-/11828 _1- ابْنُ بَابَوَيْهِ،قَالَ:حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ،عَنْ أَبِيهِ،عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ،قَالَ:حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الرَّازِيِّ،عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ،عَنْ رَوْحِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ،عَنْ هَارُونَ بْنِ خَارِجَةَ،رَفَعَهُ،عَنْ فَاطِمَةَ(عَلَيْهَا السَّلاَمُ)، قَالَتْ: «أَصَابَ النَّاسَ زَلْزَلَةٌ عَلَى عَهْدِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ،فَفَزِعُوا إِلَى أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرَ،فَوَجَدُوهُمَا قَدْ خَرَجَا فَزِعَيْنِ إِلَى عَلِيٍّ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ)،فَتَبِعَهُمَا النَّاسُ إِلَى أَنِ انْتَهَوْا إِلَى[بَابِ]عَلِيٍّ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ)،فَخَرَجَ إِلَيْهِمْ عَلِيٌّ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ)غَيْرَ مُكْتَرِثٍ لِمَا هُمْ فِيهِ،فَمَضَى فَاتَّبَعَهُ النَّاسُ حَتَّى انْتَهَى إِلَى تَلْعَةٍ [1]،فَقَعَدَ عَلَيْهَا وَ قَعَدُوا حَوْلَهُ وَ هُمْ يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَى حِيطَانِ الْمَدِينَةِ تَرْتَجُّ جَائِيَةً وَ ذَاهِبَةً،فَقَالَ لَهُمْ عَلِيٌّ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ)كَأَنَّكُمْ قَدْ هَالَكُمْ مَا تَرَوْنَ؟قَالُوا:وَ كَيْفَ لاَ يَهُولُنَا وَ لَمْ نَرَ مِثْلَهَا قَطُّ!فَحَرَّكَ شَفَتَيْهِ ثُمَّ ضَرَبَ الْأَرْضَ بِيَدِهِ،ثُمَّ قَالَ:مَا لَكِ؟اسْكُنِي،فَسَكَنَتْ،فَعَجِبُوا مِنْ ذَلِكَ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ تَعَجُّبِهِمْ أَوَّلاً حَيْثُ خَرَجَ إِلَيْهِمْ،قَالَ[لَهُمْ]:فَإِنَّكُمْ قَدْ تَعَجَّبْتُمْ مِنْ صُنْعِي؟قَالُوا:نَعَمْ،قَالَ:أَنَا الرَّجُلُ الَّذِي قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: إِذٰا زُلْزِلَتِ الْأَرْضُ زِلْزٰالَهٰا* وَ أَخْرَجَتِ الْأَرْضُ أَثْقٰالَهٰا* وَ قٰالَ الْإِنْسٰانُ مٰا لَهٰا ،فَأَنَا الْإِنْسَانُ الَّذِي يَقُولُ لَهَا:مَا لَكِ يَوْمَئِذٍ تُحَدِّثُ أَخْبٰارَهٰا إِيَّايَ تُحَدِّثُ أَخْبَارَهَا».

99-/11828 Ibn Bābawayh narrated: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, from his father, from Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, who said: Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Rāzī narrated to us from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Naṣr, from Rūḥ ibn Ṣāliḥ, from Hārūn ibn Khārijah, who raised it to Fāṭimah (ʿalayhā al-salām). She said:

“There was an earthquake during the time of Abū Bakr, and the people were terrified, so they rushed to Abū Bakr and ʿUmar. They found the two of them also frightened and going towards ʿAlī (ʿalayhis-salām), so the people followed them until they reached the door of ʿAlī (ʿalayhis-salām). Then ʿAlī (ʿalayhis-salām) came out to them, seemingly unconcerned by what they were experiencing. He proceeded onward, and the people followed him until he reached a high mound and sat upon it, while they sat around him, watching the walls of Madīnah trembling back and forth. Then ʿAlī (ʿalayhis-salām) said to them: ‘It is as if you are alarmed by what you see?’ They said: ‘And how could we not be, when we have never seen anything like it before!’ He moved his lips (silently), then struck the earth with his hand and said: ‘What is the matter with you? Be still.’ So it became still. They were more astonished at this than they had been earlier when he first came out to them. He said to them: ‘Are you amazed by what I did?’ They replied: ‘Yes.’ He said: ‘I am the man regarding whom Allah, the Exalted, said: “When the earth is shaken with her (violent) shaking, and the earth brings forth her burdens, and man says: What has befallen her?” [Qur’ān 99:1–3] I am the man who says to it: What is the matter with you? On that Day she will tell her news—she tells her news about me.’”

_1) -علل الشرائع:8/556.

_2) -علل الشرائع:5/555.

[1] التلعة:ما انهبط من الأرض،و قيل:ما ارتفع،و هو من الأضداد«لسان العرب 8:36».

_1) – ʿIlal al-Sharāʾiʿ 8:556 _2) – ʿIlal al-Sharāʾiʿ 5:555

[1] al-Talʿah: That which slopes downward from the land — and it is also said: that which rises upward — making it one of the words with opposite meanings (aḍdād). (Lisān al-ʿArab 8:36)

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99-/11829 _2- وَ عَنْهُ:عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ،عَنْ أَبِيهِ،عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَحْمَدَ،عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَيُّوبَ،عَنْ

عَلِيُّ بْنُ مَهْزِيَارَ،عَنِ ابْنِ سِنَانٍ،عَنْ يَحْيَى الْحَلَبِيِّ،عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ أَبَانٍ،عَنْ جَابِرٍ،قَالَ:حَدَّثَنِي تَمِيمُ بْنُ حِذْيَمٍ،قَالَ:

كُنَّا مَعَ عَلِيٍّ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ)حَيْثُ تَوَجَّهْنَا إِلَى الْبَصْرَةِ،قَالَ:فَبَيْنَا نَحْنُ نُزُولٌ إِذْ اضْطَرَبَتِ الْأَرْضُ،فَضَرَبَهَا عَلِيٌّ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ) بِيَدِهِ،ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهَا:«مَا لَكِ؟»ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَيْنَا بِوَجْهِهِ،ثُمَّ قَالَ لَنَا:«أَمَا إِنَّهَا لَوْ كَانَتِ الزَّلْزَلَةُ الَّتِي ذَكَرَهَا اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ فِي كِتَابِهِ لَأَجَابَتْنِي،وَ لَكِنَّهَا لَيْسَتْ تِلْكَ».

99-/11829 And from him: from Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, from his father, from Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, from Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb, from ʿAlī ibn Mahziyār, from Ibn Sinān, from Yaḥyā al-Ḥalabī, from ʿUmar ibn Abān, from Jābir, who said: Tamīm ibn Ḥidhyam narrated to me:

We were with ʿAlī (ʿalayhis-salām) when we set out toward Basrah. While we were encamped, the earth suddenly trembled. So ʿAlī (ʿalayhis-salām) struck it with his hand and said to it, “What is the matter with you?” Then he turned his face toward us and said: “Indeed, if this were the earthquake that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, mentioned in His Book, it would have responded to me. But this is not that one.”

99-/11830 _3- مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ:عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ هَوْذَةَ،عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ،عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَمَّادٍ،عَنِ الصَّبَّاحِ الْمُزَنِيِّ،عَنِ الْأَصْبَغِ بْنِ نُبَاتَةَ،قَالَ: خَرَجْنَا مَعَ عَلِيٍّ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ)وَ هُوَ يَطُوفُ فِي السُّوقِ،فَيَأْمُرُهُمْ بِوَفَاءِ الْكَيْلِ وَ الْوَزْنِ حَتَّى إِذَا انْتَهَى إِلَى بَابِ الْقَصْرِ رَكَضَ الْأَرْضَ بِرِجْلِهِ [1]الْمُبَارَكَةِ،فَتَزَلْزَلَتْ،فَقَالَ:«هِيَ هِيَ،مَا لَكِ؟اسْكُنِي، أَمَا وَ اللَّهِ إِنِّي أَنَا الْإِنْسَانُ الَّذِي تُنْبِئُهُ الْأَرْضُ أَخْبَارَهَا،أَوْ رَجُلٌ مِنِّي».

99-/11830 Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās, from Aḥmad ibn Hawdhah, from Ibrāhīm ibn Isḥāq, from ʿAbdullāh ibn Ḥammād, from al-Ṣabbāḥ al-Muzanī, from al-Aṣbagh ibn Nubātah, said:

We went out with ʿAlī (ʿalayhis-salām) while he was walking through the market, commanding them to fulfill just measure and weight. When he reached the gate of the palace, he struck the earth with his blessed foot, and it trembled. Then he said: “It is her! What is the matter with you? Be still! By Allah, I am indeed the man to whom the earth shall relate her news — or a man from me.”

99-/11831 _4- وَ عَنْهُ:عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَسَدٍ،عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الثَّقَفِيِّ،عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ النَّجَفِيِّ [2]،عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْخُرَاسَانِيِّ،عَنِ الْفَضْلِ [3]بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ،قَالَ: إِنَّ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ) كَانَ جَالِساً فِي الرَّحَبَةِ [4]فَتَزَلْزَلَتِ الْأَرْضُ،فَضَرَبَهَا عَلِيٌّ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ)بِيَدِهِ،ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهَا:«قِرِّي،إِنَّهُ إِنَّمَا هُوَ قِيَامٌ،وَ لَوْ كَانَ ذَلِكِ لَأَخْبَرْتِنِي،وَ إِنِّي أَنَا الَّذِي تُحَدِّثُهُ الْأَرْضُ أَخْبَارَهَا،ثُمَّ قَرَأَ: إِذٰا زُلْزِلَتِ الْأَرْضُ زِلْزٰالَهٰا* وَ أَخْرَجَتِ الْأَرْضُ أَثْقٰالَهٰا* وَ قٰالَ الْإِنْسٰانُ مٰا لَهٰا* يَوْمَئِذٍ تُحَدِّثُ أَخْبٰارَهٰا* بِأَنَّ رَبَّكَ أَوْحىٰ لَهٰا أَ مَا تَرَوْنَ أَنَّهَا تُحَدِّثُ عَنْ رَبِّهَا؟».

99-/11831 And from him: from ʿAlī ibn ʿAbdillāh ibn Asad, from Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Thaqafī, from ʿUbaydullāh ibn Sulaymān al-Najafī, from Muḥammad ibn al-Khurāsānī, from al-Faḍl ibn al-Zubayr, who said:

Indeed, the Commander of the Faithful, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (ʿalayhis-salām), was sitting in al-Raḥbah when the earth trembled. So ʿAlī (ʿalayhis-salām) struck it with his hand and said: “Be still! It is but a standing (motion). And if that (Final Tremor) had been it, you would have informed me. Verily, I am the one to whom the earth shall tell its news.” Then he recited: ‘When the earth is shaken with her (violent) shaking, and the earth brings forth her burdens, and man says: What has befallen her? On that day she shall tell her news, because your Lord had inspired her.’ [Qurʾān 99:1–5] Then he said: “Do you not see that it speaks about its Lord?”

99-/11832 _5- وَ عَنْهُ:عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَهْزِيَارَ،عَنْ أَبِيهِ،عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ،عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ،عَنْ يَحْيَى الْحَلَبِيِّ،عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ أَبَانٍ،عَنْ جَابِرٍ الْجُعْفِيِّ،قَالَ:حَدَّثَنِي تَمِيمُ بْنُ جَذْيَمٍ [حِذْيَمٍ] ،قَالَ: كُنَّا مَعَ عَلِيٍّ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ)حَيْثُ تَوَجَّهْنَا إِلَى الْبَصْرَةِ،فَبَيْنَا نَحْنُ نُزُولٌ إِذْ اضْطَرَبَتِ الْأَرْضُ،فَضَرَبَهَا عَلِيٌّ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ)بِيَدِهِ،ثُمَّ قَالَ:«مَا لَكِ[اسْكُنِي]؟» فَسَكَنَتْ،ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَيْنَا بِوَجْهِهِ الشَّرِيفِ،ثُمَّ قَالَ لَنَا:«أَمَا إِنَّهَا لَوْ كَانَتِ الزَّلْزَلَةُ الَّتِي ذَكَرَهَا اللَّهُ فِي كِتَابِهِ لَأَجَابَتْنِي، وَ لَكِنَّهَا لَيْسَتْ تِلْكَ».

رَوَى مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ الْبَكْرِيُّ بِإِسْنَادِهِ إِلَى هَارُونَ بْنِ خَارِجَةَ حَدِيثاً،يَرْفَعُهُ إِلَى سَيِّدَةِ النِّسَاءِ فَاطِمَةَ(عَلَيْهَا السَّلاَمُ)،قَالَتْ:«أَصَابَ النَّاسَ زَلْزَلَةٌ عَلَى عَهْدِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَ عُمَرَ،فَفَزِعَ النَّاسُ إِلَيْهِمَا،فَوَجَدُوهُمَا[قَدْ خَرَجَا]

فَزِعَيْنِ إِلَى أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ) [1]»وَ ذَكَرَ مِثْلَ مَا تَقَدَّمَ [2].

99-/11832 And from him: from al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Mahziyār, from his father, from al-Ḥusayn ibn Saʿīd, from Muḥammad ibn Sinān, from Yaḥyā al-Ḥalabī, from ʿUmar ibn Abān, from Jābir al-Juʿfī, who said:

Tamīm ibn Ḥidhyam narrated to me:

We were with ʿAlī (ʿalayhis-salām) when we set out toward Basrah. While we were encamped, the earth suddenly trembled. So ʿAlī (ʿalayhis-salām) struck it with his hand and said: “What is the matter with you? [Be still!]” So it became still. Then he turned his noble face toward us and said: “Indeed, if this were the earthquake that Allah mentioned in His Book, it would have responded to me. But this is not that one.”

Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Bakrī also narrated, with his chain of transmission to Hārūn ibn Khārijah, a ḥadīth which he raised to the Lady of the Women, Fāṭimah (ʿalayhā al-salām). She said:

“There was an earthquake during the time of Abū Bakr and ʿUmar, and the people panicked and rushed to them. They found the two of them already rushing in fear toward the Commander of the Faithful (ʿalayhis-salām).” — and then he mentioned a report similar to what was narrated earlier.

_3) -تأويل الآيات 2:1/385.

_4) -تأويل الآيات 2:2/835.

_5) -تأويل الآيات 2:3/836.

[1] ركض الأرض و الثوب:ضربهما برجله.«لسان العرب 7:159

To strike the earth or a garment with one’s foot. — Lisān al-ʿArab 7:159

[2] في المصدر:عبد اللّه بن سليمان النخعيّ،و قد ورد اسم:عبيد بن سليمان النخعيّ يروى عنه إبراهيم بن محمّد الثقفي في كتاب الغارات:11.

In the original source: The narrator is listed as ʿAbdullāh ibn Sulaymān al-Nakhaʿī, though ʿUbayd ibn Sulaymān al-Nakhaʿī is also reported, as narrated by Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Thaqafī in Kitāb al-Ghārāt vol. 1. This points to a variant in transmission.

[3] في المصدر:فضيل.

[4] الرّحبة،بالضم:بقرب القادسية،على مرحلة من الكوفة على يسار الحجاج إذا أرادوا مكّة،و الرّحبة،بالفتح،بالفتح:هي محلة بالكوفة تنسب إلى خنيس بن سعد:«مراصد الاطلاع 2:608».

Al-Raḥbah:

With ḍammah : A location near Qādisiyyah, one stage away from Kūfah on the left-hand side of the ḥajj route to Makkah.

With fatḥah : A district within Kūfah itself, named after Khunays ibn Saʿd. — Marāṣid al-Iṭṭilāʿ 2:608

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99-/11833 _6- وَ رَوَى أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ جُمْهُورٍ الْعَمِّيُّ،قَالَ:حَدَّثَنِي الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحِيمِ التَّمَّارُ،قَالَ: انْصَرَفْتُ مِنْ مَجْلِسِ بَعْضِ الْفُقَهَاءِ،فَمَرَرْتُ عَلَى سَلْمَانَ الشَّاذَكُونِيِّ،فَقَالَ لِي:مِنْ أَيْنَ جِئْتَ؟فَقُلْتُ:

جِئْتُ مِنْ مَجْلِسِ فُلاَنٍ-يَعْنِي وَاضِعِ كِتَابِ(الْوَاحِدَةِ)-فَقَالَ لِي:مَاذَا قَوْلُهُ فِيهِ؟فَقُلْتُ شَيْءٌ مِنْ فَضَائِلِ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ)،فَقَالَ:وَ اللَّهِ لَأُحَدِّثَنَّكَ بِفَضِيلَةٍ حَدَّثَنِي بِهَا قُرَشِيٌّ عَنْ قُرَشِيٍّ إِلَى أَنْ بَلَغَ سِتَّةَ نَفَرٍ[مِنْهُمْ]،ثُمَّ قَالَ:رَجَفَتْ قُبُورُ الْبَقِيعِ عَلَى عَهْدِ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ،فَضَجَّ أَهْلُ الْمَدِينَةِ مِنْ ذَلِكَ،فَخَرَجَ عُمَرُ وَ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ(صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ)يَدْعُونَ لِتَسْكُنَ الرَّجْفَةُ،فَمَا زَالَتْ تَزِيدُ إِلَى أَنْ تَعَدَّى ذَلِكَ إِلَى حِيطَانِ الْمَدِينَةِ،وَ عَزَمَ أَهْلُهَا عَلَى الْخُرُوجِ عَنْهَا،

99-/11833 Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumhūr al-ʿAmmī narrated: al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Tammār said:

*I left the gathering of one of the jurists and passed by Salmān al-Shādhakūnī. He asked me, “Where have you come from?” I replied, “From the gathering of so-and-so” — referring to the author of the book al-Wāḥidah. He asked, “What does he say in it?” I replied, “Something of the virtues of the Commander of the Faithful, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (ʿalayhis-salām).” He said: “By Allah, I shall relate to you a merit that a Qurashī narrated to me from another Qurashī, until it reached six individuals among them.”

Then he said: *The graves of al-Baqīʿ trembled during the time of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, and the people of Madīnah cried out in alarm. ʿUmar and the companions of the Messenger of Allah (ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wa ālihi) came out, supplicating for the shaking to subside. But the tremor only intensified and extended to the walls of Madīnah, to the point that its residents planned to evacuate the city.

فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ قَالَ عُمَرُ:عَلَيَّ بِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ)فَحَضَرَ،

فَقَالَ: يَا أَبَا الْحَسَنِ،أَ لاَ تَرَى إِلَى قُبُورِ الْبَقِيعِ وَ رَجْفَتِهَا حَتَّى تَعَدَّى ذَلِكَ إِلَى حِيطَانِ الْمَدِينَةِ وَ قَدْ هَمَّ أَهْلُهَا بِالرَّحْلَةِ عَنْهَا؟ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ):«عَلَيَّ بِمِائَةِ رَجُلٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ(صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ)الْبَدْرِيِّينَ»فَاخْتَارَ مِنَ الْمِائَةِ عَشْرَةً،فَجَعَلَهُمْ خَلْفَهُ،وَ جَعَلَ التِّسْعِينَ مِنْ وَرَائِهِمْ،وَ لَمْ يَبْقَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ سِوَى هَؤُلاَءِ إِلاَّ حَضَرَ حَتَّى لَمْ يَبْقَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ ثَيِّبٌ وَ لاَ عَاتِقٌ [3]إِلاَّ خَرَجَتْ،ثُمَّ دَعَا بِأَبِي ذَرٍّ وَ مِقْدَادَ وَ سَلْمَانَ وَ عَمَّارٍ،فَقَالَ لَهُمْ:«كُونُوا بَيْنَ يَدَيَّ»حَتَّى تُوُسِّطَ الْبَقِيعُ،وَ النَّاسُ مُحْدِقُونَ بِهِ،فَضَرَبَ الْأَرْضَ بِرِجْلِهِ،ثُمَّ قَالَ:«مَا لَكِ مَا لَكِ؟»ثَلاَثاً،فَسَكَنَتْ،فَقَالَ:«صَدَقَ اللَّهُ وَ صَدَقَ رَسُولُهُ(صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ)،لَقَدْ أَنْبَأَنِي بِهَذَا الْخَبَرِ،وَ هَذَا الْيَوْمِ،وَ هَذِهِ السَّاعَةِ،وَ بِاجْتِمَاعِ النَّاسِ لَهُ،إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ يَقُولُ فِي كِتَابِهِ: إِذٰا زُلْزِلَتِ الْأَرْضُ زِلْزٰالَهٰا* وَ أَخْرَجَتِ الْأَرْضُ أَثْقٰالَهٰا* وَ قٰالَ الْإِنْسٰانُ مٰا لَهٰا ،أَمَا لَوْ كَانَتْ هِيَ هِيَ لَقُلْتُ:مَا لَهَا،وَ أَخْرَجَتِ الْأَرْضُ لِي أَثْقَالَهَا»ثُمَّ انْصَرَفَ وَ انْصَرَفَ النَّاسُ مَعَهُ،وَ قَدْ سَكَنَتِ الرَّجْفَةُ.

At that moment, ʿUmar said: ‘Bring to me Abū al-Ḥasan, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (ʿalayhis-salām).’ So he came. ʿUmar said to him: ‘O Abū al-Ḥasan! Do you not see the trembling of the graves of al-Baqīʿ, which has extended to the walls of Madīnah? Its people are preparing to flee!’

ʿAlī (ʿalayhis-salām) replied: ‘Bring me one hundred men from the companions of the Messenger of Allah (ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wa ālihi) who fought at Badr.’ From among the hundred, he selected ten and placed them behind him. Then he placed the remaining ninety behind those ten. There was not a person left in Madīnah — no married woman, nor young woman — who did not come out.

He then called for Abū Dharr, Miqdād, Salmān, and ʿAmmār and said to them: ‘Stand before me.’

They proceeded until they reached the center of al-Baqīʿ while the people were encircling him. He struck the earth with his foot and said three times: ‘What is the matter with you? What is the matter with you?’ The earth settled.

He said: ‘Allah has spoken the truth, and so has His Messenger (ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi wa ālihi). He informed me of this incident, of this day, of this very hour, and of the people gathering for it. Indeed, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says in His Book: “When the earth is shaken with her (violent) shaking, and the earth brings forth her burdens, and man says: What has befallen her?” [Qurʾān 99:1–3]

Had it truly been the final earthquake, I would have said, ‘What is the matter with it?’ and the earth would have brought forth its burdens for me.’

Then he turned away, and the people turned away with him, and the tremor had ceased.”*

/11834 _7-علي بن إبراهيم:في معنى السورة إِذٰا زُلْزِلَتِ الْأَرْضُ زِلْزٰالَهٰا* وَ أَخْرَجَتِ الْأَرْضُ أَثْقٰالَهٰا قال:من الناس وَ قٰالَ الْإِنْسٰانُ مٰا لَهٰا ،قال:ذلك أمير المؤمنين(عليه السلام) يَوْمَئِذٍ تُحَدِّثُ أَخْبٰارَهٰا إلى قوله تعالى: أَشْتٰاتاً ،قال:يجيئون [4]أشتاتا مؤمنين و كافرين و منافقين لِيُرَوْا أَعْمٰالَهُمْ قال:يقفون على ما فعلوه[ثم قال]: فَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقٰالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْراً يَرَهُ* وَ مَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقٰالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَهُ ،و هو رد على المجبرة الذين يزعمون أنّه لا فعل لهم.

/11834 ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm, regarding the meaning of the sūrah:

“When the earth is shaken with her (violent) shaking, and the earth brings forth her burdens” — he said: It refers to people.

“And man says: What has befallen her?” — he said: That man is the Commander of the Faithful (ʿalayhis-salām).

“On that day she shall tell her news” to “in scattered groups (ashtātan)” — he said: They will come forth in scattered groups: believers, disbelievers, and hypocrites.

“That they may be shown their works” — he said: They will be shown what they did.

Then he said:

“So whoever does an atom's weight of good shall see it, and whoever does an atom's weight of evil shall see it” — and this is a refutation of the determinists (al-mujbirah), who claim that humans have no control over their actions.

_6) -تأويل الآيات 2:5/837.

_7) -تفسير القمّيّ 2:433.

_8) -تفسير القمّيّ 2:433.

[1] تأويل الآيات 2:4/836.

[2] تقدم في الحديث(1)من هذه السورة.

[3] جارية عاتق:أي شابة أول ما أدركت فخدرت في بيت أهلها و لم تبن إلى زوج.«الصحاح 4:1520».

[3] – Jāriyah ʿātiq: A young girl who has just reached maturity and remains secluded in her family's house, not yet married. (al-Ṣiḥāḥ 4:1520)

[4] في المصدر:يحيون.

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99-/11835 _8- قَالَ:وَ فِي رِوَايَةِ أَبِي الْجَارُودِ،عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ(عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَمُ) ،فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى: فَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقٰالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْراً يَرَهُ :

«يَقُولُ:إِنْ كَانَ مِنْ أَهْلِ النَّارِ[وَ كَانَ]قَدْ عَمِلَ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ فِي الدُّنْيَا خَيْراً[يَرَهُ]يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ حَسْرَةً،إِنْ كَانَ عَمَلُهُ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ وَ مَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقٰالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَهُ يَقُولُ:إِنْ كَانَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ رَأَى ذَلِكَ الشَّرَّ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ،ثُمَّ غَفَرَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى لَهُ».

99-/11835 It is narrated in the report of Abū al-Jārūd from Abū Jaʿfar (ʿalayhis-salām), regarding the saying of Allah, the Exalted:

“So whoever does an atom’s weight of good shall see it” — He said: “If the person is among the people of Hell, and he had done even an atom’s weight of good in the world, he will see it on the Day of Resurrection as a regret — if his deed was not done for the sake of Allah. And as for the saying, ‘And whoever does an atom’s weight of evil shall see it’ — if the person is among the people of Paradise, he will see that evil on the Day of Resurrection, then Allah, the Exalted, will forgive him.”

و قد تقدم حديث في ذلك في سورة البلد [1].

— A similar narration was previously mentioned in the interpretation of Sūrat al-Balad.

[1] تقدّم في الحديث(21)من تفسير الآيات(1-20)من سورة البلد.

[1] – Mentioned earlier in ḥadīth (21) from the commentary on verses (1–20) of Sūrat al-Balad.

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