إِنَّ سَالِمَ بْنَ أَبِي حَفْصَةَ ١ يَرْوِي عَنْكَ أَنَّكَ تَتَكَلَّمُ عَلَى سَبْعِينَ وَجْهاً لَكَ مِنْهَا الْمَخْرَجُ فَقَالَ مَا يُرِيدُ سَالِمٌ مِنِّي أَ يُرِيدُ أَنْ أَجِي ءَ بِالْمَلَائِكَةِ فَوَ اللَّهِ مَا جَاءَ بِهِمُ النَّبِيُّونَ وَ لَقَدْ قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ إِنِّی سَقِيمٌ وَ اللَّهِ مَا كَانَ سَقِيماً وَ مَا كَذَبَ وَ لَقَدْ قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ بَلْ فَعَلَهُ كَبِيرُهُمْ وَ مَا فَعَلَهُ كَبِيرُهُمْ وَ مَا كَذَبَ وَ لَقَدْ قَالَ يُوسُفُ أَيَّتُهَا الْعِيرُ إِنَّكُمْ لَسارِقُونَ وَ اللَّهِ مَا كَانُوا سَرَقُوا وَ مَا كَذَبَ ٢.

Salim b. Abi Hafsa relates from you that you speak in seventy aspects and have a way out of each of them. He said: What does Salim want of me? Does he want me to bring the angels? By God, the prophets did not bring the angels either! Abraham said: "I am sick" — yet he was not sick, nor did he lie. He said: "Rather, the greatest of them did it" — yet it was not so, nor did Abraham lie. And Joseph said: "O caravan, you are thieves" — yet they had not stolen, nor did Joseph lie.

«100»- ختص، الإختصاص شی، تفسير العياشي عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عليه السلام قَالَ: إِنَّمَا مَثَلُ عَلِيٍّ وَ مَثَلُنَا مِنْ بَعْدِهِ مِنْ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ كَمَثَلِ مُوسَى النَّبِيِّ عَلَى نَبِيِّنَا وَ آلِهِ وَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ وَ الْعَالِمِ حِينَ لَقِيَهُ وَ اسْتَنْطَقَهُ وَ سَأَلَهُ الصُّحْبَةَ فَكَانَ مِنْ أَمْرِهِمَا مَا اقْتَصَّهُ اللَّهُ لِنَبِيِّهِ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله فِي كِتَابِهِ وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ قَالَ لِمُوسَى إِنِّي اصْطَفَيْتُكَ عَلَى النَّاسِ بِرِسالاتِي وَ بِكَلامِي فَخُذْ ما آتَيْتُكَ وَ كُنْ مِنَ الشَّاكِرِينَ ثُمَّ قَالَ وَ كَتَبْنا لَهُ فِي الْأَلْواحِ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْ ءٍ مَوْعِظَةً وَ تَفْصِيلًا لِكُلِّ شَيْ ءٍ وَ قَدْ كَانَ عِنْدَ الْعَالِمِ عِلْمٌ لَمْ يُكْتَبْ لِمُوسَى فِي الْأَلْوَاحِ وَ كَانَ مُوسَى يَظُنُّ أَنَّ جَمِيعَ الْأَشْيَاءِ الَّتِي يَحْتَاجُ إِلَيْهَا وَ جَمِيعَ الْعِلْمِ قَدْ كُتِبَ لَهُ فِي الْأَلْوَاحِ كَمَا يَظُنُّ هَؤُلَاءِ الَّذِينَ يَدَّعُونَ أَنَّهُمْ فُقَهَاءُ وَ عُلَمَاءُ وَ أَنَّهُمْ قَدْ أَثْبَتُوا جَمِيعَ الْعِلْمِ وَ الْفِقْهِ فِي الدِّينِ مِمَّا يَحْتَاجُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةُ إِلَيْهِ وَ صَحَّ لَهُمْ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله وَ عَلِمُوهُ وَ لَفَظُوهُ وَ لَيْسَ كُلُّ عِلْمِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله عَلِمُوهُ وَ لَا صَارَ إِلَيْهِمْ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله وَ لَا عَرَفُوهُ وَ ذَلِكَ أَنَّ الشَّيْ ءَ مِنَ الْحَلَالِ وَ الْحَرَامِ وَ الْأَحْكَامِ يَرِدُ عَلَيْهِمْ فَيُسْأَلُونَ عَنْهُ وَ لَا يَكُونُ عِنْدَهُمْ فِيهِ أَثَرٌ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله وَ يَسْتَحْيُونَ أَنْ يَنْسُبَهُمُ النَّاسُ إِلَى الْجَهْلِ وَ يَكْرَهُونَ أَنْ يُسْأَلُوا فَلَا يُجِيبُوا فَيَطْلُبَ النَّاسُ الْعِلْمَ مِنْ مَعْدِنِهِ فَلِذَلِكَ اسْتَعْمَلُوا الرَّأْيَ وَ الْقِيَاسَ فِي دِينِ اللَّهِ وَ تَرَكُوا الْآثَارَ وَ دَانُوا لِلَّهِ بِالْبِدَعِ وَ قَدْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله كُلُّ بِدْعَةٍ ضَلَالَةٌ فَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ إِذْ سُئِلُوا عَنْ شَيْ ءٍ مِنْ

Al-Ikhtisas and Tafsir al-'Ayyashi: Ishaq b. 'Ammar relates from Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him: The likeness of 'Ali b. Abi Talib, peace be upon him, and of us, the Imams after him, among this community is like Moses and the learned man whom Moses, peace be upon him, met and with whom he spoke, and whose company he asked leave to keep; and thus God has set forth the story of the two of them in His Book for the Prophet, may God bless him and his family — where God said to Moses, peace be upon him: "O Moses, I have chosen you above people by My messages and by My speaking [to you]; so take what I have given you and be among the thankful." Then He said: "And We wrote for him on the Tablets [the Torah] in every matter an admonition and an explanation of everything." Yet that learned man had a knowledge that had not been written for Moses on the Tablets. Moses supposed that all the matters he needed in his prophethood and all the sciences had been written for him on the Tablets — just as the jurists and the scholars who make such claims suppose. They imagine that they possess all the understanding and knowledge that this community needs in religion and that they learned this knowledge from the Messenger of God and have preserved it, whereas they do not know all that the Messenger of God knew, and have no awareness of his knowledge and do not know him. Whenever they are asked about the lawful, the unlawful and the rulings, if nothing has been related about it from the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his family, they are ashamed lest people ascribe ignorance to them, and they dislike being unable to answer a question. Thus it is that people seek knowledge from other than its mine. They bring their own opinion and analogy into God's religion and leave aside the words of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his family, and wish to carry out God's affair by innovation — whereas the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his family, said: Every innovation is misguidance.