Does All-Mighty Allah has a particular shape? (Sahih al-Bukhari Page 1021, No.7437, A-Soltaniah Edition)

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• ✓ Al-Kafi 3:70

  Shia

  Al-Kafi · Book 3, Hadith 70

  I wrote to Abu al-Hasan (peace be upon him) asking about 'body' and 'shape.' He wrote back saying, "Glory be to Him, there is nothing like Him; He is neither body nor shape." This was also narrated by Muhammad ibn Abi Abdullah but without naming the man. — OR — Abu Basir asked Abu Abdullah (peace be upon him) while I was present: I recite the Qur'an in one night? He said: No. Then two nights? He said: No, until it reached six nights. Then he pointed and said: This is it. Then Abu Abdullah said: O Abu Muhammad, the companions of Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) who came before you used to recite the Qur'an in a month or less. The Qur'an should not be recited hastily but recited in measured, melodious tone. When you pass a verse mentioning hellfire, pause and seek refuge with God from hellfire. Abu Basir said: I want to recite the Qur'an in Ramadan in one night? He said: No. Then in two? No. Then in three? Yes. And he gestured with his hand: Ramadan is a month unlike any other months with a right and sanctity. Pray as much as you can. — OR — If speech is obstructed from him, the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) and, if Allah wills, others come; the Messenger of Allah sits to his right and another to his left and says to him, 'As for what you hoped for, it is before you; and what you feared, you are safe from it.' Then a door to Paradise is opened for him. The Messenger of Allah says, 'This is your place in Paradise. If you wish, we will return you to the world where you have gold and silver.' He says, 'I do not need anything in the world.' At that moment his color becomes bright, his forehead sweats, his lips shrink, his nostrils expand, and his left eye weeps. He tells you, 'Take satisfaction from these signs.' When the soul departs from the body, it is presented as it was presented to him while in the body. He chooses the Hereafter. He is washed, turned over during washing, and when placed in shrouds and laid on his bed, his soul departs walking ahead between people. The souls of the believers meet him, greet him, and give him glad tidings of what Allah has prepared for him from the pleasures. When he is placed in his grave, his soul returns to his hips and he is questioned. If he responds correctly, the door to Paradise, which the Messenger of Allah showed him, is opened, and he enters by its light, radiance, coolness, and pleasant fragrance. I asked, 'May I be your ransom, what about the pressure of the grave?' He said, 'Far be it! There is nothing of it upon the believers. By Allah, this earth boasts over it saying, "A believer has trodden upon my back; not another believer has trodden upon yours." And the earth says, "By Allah, I used to love you when you walked upon me, but when I am given charge of you, you will know what I will do to you." It then spreads its sight for him.' — OR — I asked him about the verse: 'And whoever enters it shall be safe.' He said: "If a person commits a crime outside the sanctuary and then flees to the sanctuary, no one has the right to seize him there, but he is prevented from the market, he is not bought from or sold to, not given food or water, nor spoken to. If such treatment is applied, he is close to being taken. If he commits a crime inside the sanctuary, the prescribed punishment is applied to him there, for he did not leave the sanctuary’s sanctity." — OR — Among the happiness of a man is to uncover the cloth from a fair-skinned woman. — OR — I asked about a mentally incapacitated woman who is losing her mind, whether it is permissible to sell her and her dower. He said no, and about the divorce of an intoxicated person and his manumission, he said it is not permissible. — OR — Whoever commits fornication with a close relative until he has intercourse with her is struck with a sword blow that reaches its goal. If a woman follows him (commits fornication with him), she is struck with a sword blow that reaches its purpose. When asked: Who hits them if they have no accuser? He replied: That matter is for the Imam when they are brought before him.

• ✓ Al-Kafi 3:74

  Shia

  Al-Kafi · Book 3, Hadith 74

  I heard from Muhammad ibn Ziyad, who reported from Abdullah ibn al-Mughira, from Hasan ibn Said, from Bakr ibn Salih, from al-Husayn ibn al-Hasan, from Muhammad ibn Isma'il, from Sahl ibn Ziyad, that I entered upon Abu Abdullah (peace be upon him) and said, "Hisham ibn al-Hakam says a great statement, but I will abbreviate it for you. He claims that Allah is a body, because things are of two kinds: body and the act of body. The maker cannot be 'act' in the sense of the act itself, but may be in the sense of the doer." Abu Abdullah (p.b.u.h.) said, "Woe to him! Does he not know that body is limited and finite and shape is limited and finite? If it can be limited, it can undergo increase and decrease. If it can undergo increase and decrease, it is created." I said, "What then should I say?" He said, "No body and no shape. He is the One who gives bodies their embodiment and shapes their forms; He is not fragmented, does not limit Himself, nor increase or diminish. If He were as they say, there would be no distinction between Creator and creature, or between the initiator and the initiated. But He is the initiator, different from those who embodied Him, shaped Him, or created Him, for He resembles nothing, nor does anything resemble Him." — OR — When Allah the Exalted commanded these verses to descend to earth, they clung to the Throne and said, 'O Lord, to whom are You sending us down? To the people of sins and faults?' So Allah the Mighty and Majestic revealed to them: 'Descend, by My might and glory, no one from the family of Muhammad and his followers who recites what I have prescribed daily will recite these verses except that I will look upon him with My hidden eye seventy times daily; for every look, I fulfill seventy needs and accept him despite the sins in him.' And this is the Mother of the Book; Allah and the angels and those endowed with knowledge bear witness to it, as well as the verse of the Throne and the verse of Dominion. — OR — At the moment of death, the eye of the deceased sheds tears. That was in the presence of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family), and he sees what pleases him. Then he said, “Do you not see that a person sees what pleases him and what he loves, so his eye weeps because of that and he smiles?” — OR — I asked Abu Abdullah (peace be upon him) about the verse of Allah Almighty: 'And whoever intends injustice against him through error, We will make him taste a painful punishment.' He said: Every injustice that a person commits against himself in Mecca, whether through theft or oppression of another or any kind of injustice, I consider that an error. That is why it is guarded so that the sanctuary remains peaceful. — OR — A man complained to him about phlegm, so he asked, "Do you have a girl who makes you laugh?" He replied, "No." He said, "Then take one, for that cuts off phlegm." — OR — I asked him about umm al-walad being sold as a debt. He said yes, at the price of her manumission. — OR — I said to him: The man approaches a close relative, where should he be struck with the sword? He said: The neck.