101 Hadith Qudsi by pImam ibn Arabi

divine sayings
When God created the Earth, it began to quake. Then the angels asked,
“How, O Lord, will Your servants ¥nd stability upon this earth?” Whereupon
He appeared to them in a revelation that caused them to swoon. When they
came to, the angels saw that the mountains had been created.
12. In some manuscripts this reads: “the bridge over Hell is laid down”.
13. A village on the edge of the Sacred Precinct of Mecca, where the Prophet
led over a thousand pilgrims to make the pilgrimage in 7/628. He entered
a special state of grace there, and all the Companions were commanded
to pledge their allegiance to him. A peace treaty with Quraysh was then
concluded, which guaranteed access to Mecca in future years.
14. This refers to the uttering of the S¬rat al-Fåti¢a in the ritual prayer.
15. The Arabic athnå means both “to double” and “to praise or extol”.
16. The minbar (pl. manåbir) was originally a raised platform or dais from which
the Prophet addressed the community in Medina.
Part Two
1. Literally, “cool their eyes in My Gardens”. This Arabic idiom denotes the
pleasure that comes after the heat of the desert day, which makes the eyes
red, and is also associated in another ¢ad¨th with the pleasure the Prophet
experienced in prayer.
2. Some manuscripts report a different ¢ad¨th quds¨ here:
God, ever mighty and majestic is He, says: “O child of Adam, if only you
were to see how little is left of your appointed time! You would renounce all
expectations for the future, you would restrain your greed and your devising,
and you would seek to augment [your good deeds]. Nonetheless, remorse
shall seize you [at the moment of death], when your foot falters, when your
family and servants desert you, when your dearest leaves you and your nearest
forsake you. You will not be able to return to your people, nor add to what
you have done. Work, then, in view of the Day of Resurrection, the day of
sorrow and remorse.”
This tradition I have taken from revealed scriptures, in a chain of transmission
from Y¬nus b. Ya¢yå al-¡Abbås¨, on the authority of Ab¬ al-Fut¬¢ Mu¢ammad b.
Mu¢ammad b. ¡Al¨ al¨-Ê夨, on the authority of Salama b. Shab¨b, on the authority
of Man߬r b. ¡Umar, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Zakar¨ya b.
Ibråh¨m, on the authority of Salama b. ¡Abd al-Malik, on the authority of Wahb
al-Munabbih.
[Ab¬ ¡Abdallåh Wahb al-Munabbih al-Yaman¨ was born about twenty
years after the Prophet’s death, a famous Follower who listened to some of
the Companions and related from them. He is celebrated for his Book of
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