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“The Divider of the Hell and the Heaven” is a hadith from the Prophet (s) about Imam 'Ali (a), which is cited in different wordings: | “The Divider of the Hell and the Heaven” is a hadith from the Prophet (s) about Imam 'Ali (a), which is cited in different wordings: | ||
* "O 'Ali, indeed, you are the divider of the Heaven and the Hell."<ref>Ṣadūq, ''ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā'', vol. 2, p. 27; Ibn ʿUqda Kūfī, ''Faḍāʾīl Amīr al-Muʾminīn(a)'', p. 102; Ṭabarī Āmulī, ''Bishārat al-Muṣṭafā'', p. 56, 102, 164.</ref> According to ''[[Sahifa Imam al-Rida (a)]], "the Hell" comes before "the Heaven": "Oh 'Ali, indeed, you are the divider of the Hell and the Heaven."<ref>Saḥīfa al-Imām al-Riḍā(a), p. 56, 57.</ref> In some sources, the hadith continues as follows: "you take your lovers inside the Heaven and your enemies inside the Hell."<ref>Khazzāz Rāzī, ''Kifāyat al-athar, p. 151, 152.</ref> | * "O 'Ali, indeed, you are the divider of the Heaven and the Hell."<ref>Ṣadūq, ''ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā'', vol. 2, p. 27; Ibn ʿUqda Kūfī, ''Faḍāʾīl Amīr al-Muʾminīn(a)'', p. 102; Ṭabarī Āmulī, ''Bishārat al-Muṣṭafā'', p. 56, 102, 164.</ref> According to ''[[Sahifa Imam al-Rida (a)]]'', "the Hell" comes before "the Heaven": "Oh 'Ali, indeed, you are the divider of the Hell and the Heaven."<ref>Saḥīfa al-Imām al-Riḍā(a), p. 56, 57.</ref> In some sources, the hadith continues as follows: "you take your lovers inside the Heaven and your enemies inside the Hell."<ref>Khazzāz Rāzī, ''Kifāyat al-athar, p. 151, 152.</ref> | ||
* "O 'Ali, indeed, you are the divider of the Heaven on the day of resurrection, telling the Hell this is mine and this is yours."<ref>Ṣadūq, ''ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā'', vol. 2, p. 86; Furāt al-Kūfī, ''Tafsīr furāt al-kūfī'', p. 511, H. 667.</ref> | * "O 'Ali, indeed, you are the divider of the Heaven on the day of resurrection, telling the Hell this is mine and this is yours."<ref>Ṣadūq, ''ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā'', vol. 2, p. 86; Furāt al-Kūfī, ''Tafsīr furāt al-kūfī'', p. 511, H. 667.</ref> | ||
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Moreover, there are hadiths in which Imam 'Ali (a) refers to himself as the divider of the Heaven and the Hell,<ref>Ṣaffār, ''Baṣāʾir al-darajāt, p. 415; Ibn ʿAsākir, ''Tārīkh-i damishq'', vol. 42, p. 298; Ḥamūyī al-Juwaynī, ''Frāʾid al-samaṭayn'', vol. 1, p. 326; Ibn Mardawayh Iṣfahānī, ''Manāqib ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib'', p. 133.</ref> including “I am the distinguisher (faruq) who distinguishes between the truth and the falsehood; I take my friends inside the Heaven and my enemies inside the Hell.”<ref>Furāt al-Kūfī, ''Tafsīr furāt al-kūfī'', p. 67.</ref> | Moreover, there are hadiths in which Imam 'Ali (a) refers to himself as the divider of the Heaven and the Hell,<ref>Ṣaffār, ''Baṣāʾir al-darajāt, p. 415; Ibn ʿAsākir, ''Tārīkh-i damishq'', vol. 42, p. 298; Ḥamūyī al-Juwaynī, ''Frāʾid al-samaṭayn'', vol. 1, p. 326; Ibn Mardawayh Iṣfahānī, ''Manāqib ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib'', p. 133.</ref> including “I am the distinguisher (faruq) who distinguishes between the truth and the falsehood; I take my friends inside the Heaven and my enemies inside the Hell.”<ref>Furāt al-Kūfī, ''Tafsīr furāt al-kūfī'', p. 67.</ref> | ||
"The Divider of the Heaven and the Hell" is also said to be a title of Imam 'Ali (a).<ref>Khwārizmī, ''al-Manāqib'', p. 41, 42; Ḥamūyī al-Juwaynī, ''Frāʾid al-samaṭayn'', vol. 1, p. 308.</ref> The hadith is cited in Imam 'Ali's (a) [[ziyara]] (attestation of pilgrimage) as well.<ref>Kulaynī, ''al-Kāfī'', vol. 4, p. 570; Ṭūsī, ''Tahdhīb al-aḥkām'', vol. 6, p. 29.</ref> | |||
==Interpretations of the Hadith== | ==Interpretations of the Hadith== | ||