We present the first document, the book “Noor al-Thaqalayn” research and commentary by al-Sayyed Hashim al-Rasuli, forth print 1412 hijri, Ismailian for printing and publishing and distribution in Qum.

Arabic text:

159 – في تفسير علي بن إبراهيم حدثني أبي عن بعض رجاله رفعه إلى أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال : لما كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله في الغار قال لأبي بكر : كأني انظر إلى سفينة جعفر وأصحابه تقوم في البحر ، وأنظر إلى الأنصار محتبين في أفنيتهم فقال أبو بكر : وتريهم يا رسول الله ؟ قال : نعم قال : فأرنيهم ، فمسح على عينه فرآهم ، فقال في نفسه : الان صدقت انك ساحر ، فقال له رسول الله : أنت الصديق وهو قول الله عز وجل : وجعل كلمة الذين كفروا السفلى وكلمة الله هي العليا قول رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله والله عزيز حكيم .

Translation:

Tafseer Noor al-Thaqalayn – sheikh al-Huweizi (d. 1112 AH) vol 2 pg 220:

In the Tafseer of ‘Ali bin Ibrahim, my father told me from some of his rijal to abi ‘abdullah (as) that he said: When the prophet SAWS was in the cave he told Abu Bakr: It is as if I see the ship of Ja’afar and his companions in the sea and I see the Ansars sitting in the gardens of their houses, so Abu Bakr said: “You see them Ya Rassul-Allah?” he said: “yes” he said: “will you show me” so he wiped on his eyes and he saw them then he said in himself: “Now I truly believe you’re a Magician” so the prophet said: You are al-Siddiq and it is the saying of Allah: He humbled the word of the unbelievers. As for Allah’s Word, it is inherently uppermost the saying of Rassul-Allah SAWS and Allah is All-Powerful, All-Wise.

Now presenting the second document, a manuscript of Noor al-Thaqalayn dating to 1126 AH, so it is copied 15 years after the death of the author:

 Arabic text:

تفسير علي بن إبراهيم حدثني أبي عن بعض رجاله رفعه إلى أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال : لما كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله في الغار قال لأبي بكر : كأني انظر إلى سفينة جعفر وأصحابه تقوم في البحر ، وأنظر إلى الأنصار محتبين في أفنيتهم، فقال أبو بكر : وتريهم يا رسول الله ؟ قال : نعم قال : فأرنيهم ، فمسح على عينه فرآهم، فقال له رسول الله : أنت الصديق

Translation:

((In the Tafseer of ‘Ali bin Ibrahim, my father told me from some of his rijal to abi ‘abdullah (as) that he said: When the prophet SAWS was in the cave he told Abu Bakr: It is as if I see the ship of Ja’afar and his companions in the sea and I see the Ansars sitting in the gardens of their houses, so Abu Bakr said: “You see them Ya Rassul-Allah?” he said: “yes” he said: “will you show me” so he wiped on his eyes and he saw them so the prophet said: You are al-Siddiq))

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As you noticed in the manuscript the addition of “Now I truly believe you’re a Magician” cannot be found which makes us believe that it was later inserted into the book that is being printed today by the Shia Scholars of Qum unless we can see an older manuscript which contradicts this.

But this is not the end, let us check other book for same narration.

Book “Radd al-Kabir ala muzaim Ilahi Zahir” by Saeed Jasir al-Musawi.

Translation:

Ansars sitting in the gardens of their houses, so Abu Bakr said: “You see them Ya Rassul-Allah?” he said: “yes” he said: “will you show me” so he wiped on his eyes and he saw them so the prophet said: You are al-Siddiq

Discussion:

First of all the thing what was narrated by Ilahi Zahir from Bahrani has no eye or trace.  And Bahrani mentioned text which is following: Ali ibn Ibrahim, narrated to me my father from some of his men which elevated till Abu Abdullah (alaihi salam): When the prophet SAWS was in the cave he told Abu Bakr: It is as if I see the ship of Ja’afar and his companions in the sea and I see the Ansars sitting in the gardens of their houses, so Abu Bakr said: “You see them Ya Rassul-Allah?” he said: “yes” he said: “will you show me” so he wiped on his eyes and he saw them”. And Ilahi Zahir has added to this story the following passage: “And messenger of Allah said to him: You are siddiq”.  And this passage with description of Abu Bakr as Siddiq doesn’t present in narration which was mentioned by al-Bahrani. And this is addition (of Ilahi Zahir) from himself, and that kid of addition isn’t strange from Ilahi Zahir, he use to take from reports what he want and add what he want, then come and say: I relied upon steady reports, and this kind of addition which he added to report (should) be count as iftira.

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Now it is time to present scans from old editions of commentary of Bahrani, where words of messenger (sallalahu alaihi wa ala alihi wa sallam) to Abu Bakr “You are Siddiq” were clearly mentioned.

First one  – edition which was printed in Tehran in 1878 M, volume 2, p 423:

Second one – edition of Muasasat al-Wafa lil Kitab:

Third one is handwriting of Tafsir al-Burhan which dated 1241 H:

In all these 3 editions of Tafsir al-Burhan, you can see in clear form that prophet (sallalahu alaihi wa ala alihi wa sallam) indeed said to Abu Bakr: You are siddiq.

So why this Saeed Jasir al-Musawi lied upon our shaykh Ihsan Ilahi Zahir (rahmatullahi alaih)?!

May be because he was using the 4-th edition of this book, where that phrase miraculously disappeared again?!

I am talking about this one: