{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_adam06_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_adam06_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_adam06_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/adam06.htm","summary":"This is a compilation of Shia Islamic hadith narrations (attributed to Imams including Musa ibn Jafar, Ali ibn al-Husain, and al-Askari) drawn together within what appears to be a larger theological or exegetical work, likely a commentary on creation and sacred history. The central argument across all the passages is that Muhammad and the four members of his Household \u2014 Ali, Fatima, al-Hasan, and al-Husain \u2014 existed as primordial lights before Adam's creation and are the true objects of cosmic honor, such that the Angels' prostration before Adam was really an acknowledgment of these five lights dwelling within him. A distinctive Shia theological claim runs throughout: the Five are not merely revered humans but ontological intermediaries through whom God grants, withholds, rewards, and punishes, making their intercession uniquely authoritative \u2014 superior even to the miracle of Adam's prostration that was granted to Muhammad's honor through divine blessings instead. The passage on Iblis introduces the eschatological claim that his appointed reprieve ends when he is slain by the Prophet in Jerusalem, or alternatively at the appearance of al-Mahdi, which the text identifies as the \"minor doomsday\" \u2014 a belief it asserts is held by most Shia and many Muslims broadly. The excerpt closes with a devotional affirmation of the doctrine of *raj'a* (the return of prophets and Imams after al-Mahdi's emergence) as a core Shia belief. This text will interest readers studying Shia cosmology, the theological elaboration of Ahl al-Bayt primacy, and Shia eschatology, but presupposes familiarity with the relevant Quranic verses and Imam traditions it cites.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Adam: Some tales related to our research","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":1129}