Hisham bin Hakam reports that Ibn
Abil-Iwaja and Abu Shaker Desani and Abdul-Malak and Ibn Muqaffa came to Maccah
and were throwing taunts on the holy Qur'an and making fun of the people who
came for hajj.
Ibn Abil-Iwaja said, "Come let each of us take one quarter
of the Qur'an and pin-point its faults and fallacies, and next year when again
we meet here, we would have proven the whole of the Qur'an faulty."
Next they gathered once again at Maccah and confessed to each other their
inability to find any fault with the Qur'an. At that time, Imam al-Sadeq passed
near them, narrating this qur'anic verse: "Say, 'If men and the jinn get
united that they bring the like of this Qur'an, they would bring not the like
of it, even though some of them to the others be helpers." (Al-Isra: 88)
They all wept and said, "If there is any reality to Islam, the
successorship of Mohammad belongs to none but Jafer ibn Mohammed. By God, there
never was a time when we saw him and were not awed by his magnificence and our
bodies did not tremble."
(Ithbat al-Hudaat)
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