Shia Islam on Jesus as the Spirit & Word of Allah

It is narrated from Imam Sadiq that Jesus was once on the peak of a mountain called ‘Ariha’. Satan appeared to him in the form of the King of Palestine and said to him: “O Ruhullah! You revived the dead and healed those born blind and cleaned the lepers. Can you drop yourself down from the mountain without being hurt? Jesus replied: “I was given Permission for those miracles and for this I do not have the Permission.” (The Miracles of Prophet Jesus; The Miracles of Jesus Christ 1; emphasis mine)

“Verily, in the night that Allah had promised to raise Jesus to Him, Jesus invited his disciples, who were twelve men, to a house. Jesus came out to them from a corner of the house whilst he was drying his head from water. He then said: Surely, Allah revealed to me that He will raise me this time to Him and will clear me from the Jews, so which one of you is willing to have my image cast upon him to be killed and crucified and he will be with me in the hereafter? A young man from among them said: I (will accept) O Ruhullah! Jesus replied: So, you will be the one.”1

From Al Fayz Bin Al Mukhtar who said,

‘I heard Abu Abdullah saying: ‘When the meal descended unto Isa, the disciples said, ‘Do not eat from it until there is permission for you’. But a man from them ate from it. One of the disciples said, ‘O Spirit of Allah! So and so ate from it’. Isa said to him: ‘Did you eat from it?’ He said to him, ‘No’. The disciples said, ‘Yes, by Allah, O Spirit of Allah! He has eaten from it’. Isa said to him: ‘Ratify your brother and belie your eyes’’’.²⁷⁰

Ali Bin Isa, from Ali Bin Muhammad Majaylawiya, from Al Barqy, from his father, from Muhammad Bin Sinan, from Ahmad Bin Al Nasr, from Abu Baseer who said,

‘I heard Abu Abdullah Al-Sadiq Ja’far Ibn Muhammad (saying): ‘Isa passed by a people who were rejoicing, so he said: ‘What are they doing?’ It was said, ‘O Spirit of Allah! So and so daughter of so and so is being guided to so and so son of son and so during this night of hers (wedding)’. He said: ‘They are rejoicing today and they will be crying tomorrow’.

A speaker from them said, ‘And why, O Rasool of Allah?’ He said: ‘Because their companion (the bride) will be dead during this night’. The speakers with his talk said, ‘Allah is Truthful, and His Rasool is truthful’. And the people of hypocrisy said, ‘How near is the morning!’

When it was morning, they came her upon her state, nothing new having occurred with her. They said, ‘O Spirit of Allah! That which you informed us yesterday that she would be dead, she did not die’. Isa said: ‘Allah Does whatever He so Desires to. Let us go to her’. They went racing until they knocked on the door, and her husband came out. Isa said to her: ‘Will you permit me to speak to your companion?’

He said: ‘He went inside and informed her that the Spirit of Allah and His Word was at the door along with a number (of people)”. (Pp. 181-182)

When Isa ended up to the sea, he said: ‘In the Name of Allah’, with correct certainty from him, and he walked upon the back of the surface of the water. The short man said when he looked at Isa risking it, ‘In the Name of Allah’ with correct certainty from him. He walked upon the water and caught up with Isa. Then self-conceitedness entered into himself, so he said (to himself), ‘This is Isa, the Spirit of Allah, walking upon the water and I am walking upon the water. So, what is his merit over me?’

He said: ‘So he sunk into the water, and he cried for help to Isa. So he grabbed him from the water and extracted him, then said to him: ‘What did you say, O Shortie!?’ He said, ‘I said, ‘This is Isa, Spirit of Allah, walking upon the water, and I am walking upon the water’, and the self-conceitedness entered me due to that’. Isa said to him: ‘You had placed yourself in other than the place which Allah had Placed you in, therefore Allah Detested you upon what you said. Repent to Allah Mighty and Majestic from what you said’. (Pp. 194-195)

‘From Abu Abdullah having said: ‘Isa Bin Maryam, when he passed upon the coast of the sea, threw a bite from his provision into the water. One of the disciples said to him, ‘O Spirit of Allah and His Speech! Why did you do this, and rather it is your provision?’ So he said: ‘I did this for an animal from animals of the water to eat from it, and its Reward in the Presence of Allah, is great’’’.³¹⁸

‘He said: ‘‘Isa Bin Maryam said: ‘O group of disciples! There is a need for me to you all, will you fulfil it for me?’ They said, ‘We will fulfil your need, O Spirit of Allah!’ So, he arose and washed their feet. They said, ‘We were always more rightful with this (washing your feet), O Spirit of Allah!’ (204)

He said: ‘Isa turned towards him and said: ‘You supplicate to your Lord and you are in doubt from His Prophet?’ He said, ‘O Spirit of Allah and His Word! It has been so, by Allah, what you say, therefore supplicate to Allah that He Removes it (doubt) from me’. (P. 205)

Al Sadouq, by his chain from Ibn Sinan who said,

‘Al-Sadiq said: ‘Isa Ibn Maryam said to Jibraeel: ‘When will the Hour be established?’ Jibraeel shivered with a shivering there was unconsciousness upon him from it. When he awoke, he said: ‘O Spirit of Allah! The questioned one is no more knowing with it than the questioner is, and for it from the skies and the earth, it will not come to you except suddenly’. (P. 238)

‘From Abu Al-Hassan, he (the narrator) said, ‘I said to him, ‘May I be sacrificed for you! And is other than the Majestic Creator, a creator?’ He said: ‘So Blessed is Allah, the best of the Creators [23:14], so He has Informed that among His creatures there are creators and non-creators, from them is Isa. He created from the clay a body of the bird by the Permission of Allah and blew into it, and it became a bird by the Permission of Allah; and Al-Samiry created a calf for them, a body having a mooing sound for it’ – up to the end of what has based in the book of Tawheed’’.³⁰⁵

From Al Hassan Bin Muhammad Al Nowfaly, ‘In a lengthy Hadeeth mentioning in it the argumentation of Al-Reza against the priests of the religions. The Catholic said to Al-Reza, ‘Inform me about the disciples of Isaas Bin Maryam, how much was their number? And about the scholars of the Evangel, how many were they?’

Al-Reza said: ‘You have fallen (come) to the informed one. As for the disciples, they were twelve men, and their most superior and most knowledgeable was Alouqa (Luke); and as for the Christian scholars, they were three men – Youhanna the eldest at Baakh, and Youhanna at Qarqaysia (Circesium), and Youhanna Al-Daylami at Zajar, and with him was the mention of the Prophets and mention of the People of his Household and his community, and he is the one who gave the glad tidings to the community of Isa and the Children of Israel with it”.³³⁵ 

‘I asked Abu Ja’far about Imran, ‘Was he as a Prophet?’

He said: ‘Yes, he was a Prophet Sent to his people, and Hanah wife of Imran and Hananah wife of Zakariyya were two sisters. And Yahya was born for Zakariyya from Hananah, and Maryam gave birth to Isa, and Isa was a son of a daughter of his maternal aunt, and Yahya was a son of a maternal aunt of Maryam as, and maternal aunt of a mother is at the status of the maternal aunt’’.²²²