وَ رَسُولُهُ وَ لَيْسَ كُلُّ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله يَسْأَلُهُ عَنِ الشَّيْ ءِ فَيَفْهَمُ كَانَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَسْأَلُهُ وَ لَا يَسْتَفْهِمُهُ حَتَّى إِنْ كَانُوا لَيُحِبُّونَ أَنْ يَجِي ءَ الْأَعْرَابِيُّ وَ الطَّارِي فَيَسْأَلَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله حَتَّى يَسْمَعُوا وَ كُنْتُ أَدْخُلُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله كُلَّ يَوْمٍ دَخْلَةً وَ كُلَّ لَيْلَةٍ دَخْلَةً فَيُخْلِينِي فِيهَا أَدُورُ مَعَهُ حَيْثُمَا دَارَ وَ قَدْ عَلِمَ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَصْنَعْ ذَلِكَ بِأَحَدٍ مِنَ النَّاسِ غَيْرِي وَ رُبَّمَا كَانَ ذَلِكَ فِي بَيْتِي ١ يَأْتِينِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله أَكْثَرَ ذَلِكَ فِي بَيْتِي وَ كُنْتُ إِذَا دَخَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ بَعْضَ مَنَازِلِهِ أَخْلَانِي وَ أَقَامَ عَنِّي نِسَاءَهُ فَلَا يَبْقَى عِنْدَهُ غَيْرِي وَ إِذَا أَتَانِي لِلْخَلْوَةِ مَعِي فِي بَيْتِي لَمْ تَقُمْ عَنْهُ فَاطِمَةُ وَ لَا أَحَدٌ مِنْ بَنِیَّ وَ كُنْتُ إِذَا سَأَلْتُهُ أَجَابَنِي وَ إِذَا سَكَتُّ عَنْهُ وَ فَنِيَتْ مَسَائِلِي ابْتَدَأَنِي فَمَا نَزَلَتْ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله آيَةٌ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ إِلَّا أَقْرَأَنِيهَا وَ أَمْلَاهَا عَلَیَّ فَكَتَبْتُهَا بِخَطِّي وَ عَلَّمَنِي تَأْوِيلَهَا وَ تَفْسِيرَهَا وَ نَاسِخَهَا وَ مَنْسُوخَهَا وَ مُحْكَمَهَا وَ مُتَشَابِهَهَا وَ خَاصَّهَا وَ عَامَّهَا وَ دَعَا اللَّهَ لِي أَنْ يُعْطِيَنِي فَهْمَهَا وَ حِفْظَهَا فَمَا نَسِيتُ آيَةً مِنْ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ وَ لَا عِلْماً أَمْلَاهُ عَلَیَّ وَ كَتَبْتُهُ مُنْذُ دَعَا اللَّهَ لِي بِمَا دَعَاهُ وَ مَا تَرَكَ شَيْئاً عَلَّمَهُ اللَّهُ مِنْ حَلَالٍ وَ لَا حَرَامٍ أَمْرٍ وَ لَا نَهْیٍ كَانَ أَوْ يَكُونُ وَ لَا كِتَابٍ مُنْزَلٍ عَلَى أَحَدٍ قَبْلَهُ فِي أَمْرٍ بِطَاعَةٍ أَوْ نَهْيٍ عَنْ مَعْصِيَةٍ إِلَّا عَلَّمَنِيهِ وَ حَفَّظَنِيهِ فَلَمْ أَنْسَ حَرْفاً وَاحِداً ثُمَّ وَضَعَ صلى اللّٰه عليه و آله يَدَهُ عَلَی صَدْرِي وَ دَعَا اللَّهَ لِي أَنْ يَمْلَأَ قَلْبِي عِلْماً وَ فَهْماً وَ حُكْماً وَ نُوراً فَقُلْتُ يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ بِأَبِي أَنْتَ وَ أُمِّي إِنِّي مُنْذُ دَعَوْتَ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لِي بِمَا دَعَوْتَ لَمْ أَنْسَ شَيْئاً وَ لَمْ يَفُتْنِي شَيْ ءٌ لَمْ أَكْتُبْهُ أَ فَتَتَخَوَّفُ عَلَیَّ النِّسْيَانَ فِيمَا بَعْدُ فَقَالَ لَا لَسْتُ أَخَافُ عَلَيْكَ النِّسْيَانَ وَ لَا الْجَهْلَ.

"And whatever the Messenger gives you, take it; and whatever he forbids you, abstain from it." One who does not understand what God and the Messenger intend falls into error. It was not the case that every one of the companions of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his family, who asked him about something would understand its answer correctly. Some of them would ask him about something and would not succeed in grasping his intent, and did not comprehend his words. The way of benefiting from the Prophet was difficult for them, so much so that they wished some bedouin, some newcomer, would arrive and question him so that he would answer and they would hear. I had one appointed time every day when I would come into the presence of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his family, and one appointed time every night. In these two times he left me free to be with him however it might be. All the companions of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his family, knew that he had with no one of the people the accommodation he had with me. This appointed time of mine was sometimes in my own house; most often the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his family, would come to my house; and when I went into one of his dwellings he would be alone with me and send his wives out from my presence, and none remained with him but me. And when he came to be alone with me in my own house, he did not send out Fatima al-Zahra nor any of my children. When I asked him he would answer, and when I sat silent and my questions came to an end, he himself would begin to speak. Not a single verse of the Qur'an came down upon him but that he recited it to me and dictated it to me slowly until I wrote it in my own hand, and he taught me its interpretation and its explanation and asked God to grant me the understanding and the memorising of it. From the time he prayed for me, I have not forgotten a single verse of the Book of God, nor have I forgotten any knowledge that he recited to me and that I wrote down. He did not fall short in teaching me. Whatever God had taught him of the lawful and the unlawful, the command and the prohibition, that has been or that will be, he taught to me. Every book that had come down to one of the prophets before him, concerning a command that must be obeyed or a prohibition of a sin, he taught me, and I committed it to memory. I did not forget a single letter of it. Then he placed his hand upon my breast and asked God to fill my heart with knowledge, understanding, judgement and light. I said to him: O Prophet of God, may my father and mother be your ransom, do you fear forgetfulness for me after this? He said: No, I have no anxiety concerning you on the score of forgetfulness and ignorance.

نهج، نهج البلاغة ف، تحف العقول مرسلا مثله- نی، الغيبة للنعماني ابن عقدة و محمد بن همام و عبد العزيز و عبد الواحد ابنا عبد اللّٰه بن يونس عن رجالهم عن عبد الرزاق و همام عن معمر بن راشد عن أبان بن أبي عياش عن سليم مثله:

Nahj al-Balagha and Tuhaf al-'Uqul: The like of it has been related. Al-Ghayba of al-Nu'mani: Aban b. Abi 'Ayyash related the like of it from Sulaym.

ج، الإحتجاج عَنْ مَسْعَدَةَ بْنِ صَدَقَةَ عَنْ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عليهما السلام قَالَ: خَطَبَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عليه السلام وَ سَاقَ الْحَدِيثَ إِلَى أَنْ قَالَ فَقَالَ لَهُ رَجُلٌ إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ مِنْ سَلْمَانَ وَ أَبِي ذَرٍّ الْغِفَارِيِ

Al-Ihtijaj: Mas'ada b. Sadaqa related from Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, that the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, delivered a sermon, and he related the like of the above hadith up to where he said: And all the companions of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his family,