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3. Imam Jafar as-Sadiq (p): Prophet Dawood (David) (p) inherited
the knowledge of the prophets (who preceded him), Prophet Sulayman
(Solomon) (p) inherited (the knowledge of) Prophet Dawood (p) and
Prophet Muhammad (p) inherited (the knowledge of) Prophet Sulayman
(p) and we are the inheritors of the knowledge of Prophet Muhammad
(p), and indeed with us is the knowledge of the Book of Prophet
Ibrahim (Abraham) (p) and the Tablets of Prophet Musa (Moses) (p).
The knowledge that only increases day and night, day by day and
hour by hour.
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7. Imam Musa al-Kazim (p) was asked by a narrator: Is the Prophet
Muhammad (p) the inheritor of the knowledge of all the Prophets.
The Imam (p): Yes.
The Narrator: From Prophet Adam (p) to the Prophet Muhammad (p) himself?
The Imam (p): Whosoever was sent as prophet by God, Prophet Muhammad
(p) was more knowledgeable than him.
The Imam (p) continued: Verily God says in his Noble Quran: If there
was a Quran by which the mountains were made to move, or the earth
split asunder, or the dead made to speak thereby… (Q, 13:31)
and surely we have inherited that Noble Quran which causes the mountains
to move, and the cities to cleave asunder, and the dead to come back
to life. We know (the place of) the water beneath the air. Indeed,
in the Noble Quran there are verses according to which nothing can
happen without God’s permission, just as what was permitted
by God written in the previous books. God has entered this for us
in the Book of the Books (Ummul Kitab). Verily, God has said: And
nothing is hidden in the heaven and earth, but it is in a Manifest
Book (Ummul Kitab) (Q, 27:75).
Then, the Imam (p) quoted the verse: Then We gave the Book to those
of our servants as We have chosen … (Q, 35:32). And we are
those whom God has chosen, and to whom He has given this, in which
is the meaning of everything.
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