1. `Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad `Imran al-Daqqaq, may Allah have mercy on him, said, Muhammad ibn Abu `Abd Allah al-Kufi said: Muhammad ibn Isma`il al-Barmaki said: alHusayn ibn al-Hasan said: Bakr on the authority of Abu `Abd Allah al-Barqi on the authority of `Abd Allah ibn Bahr on the authority of Abu Ayyub al-Khazzaz on the authority of Muhammad ibn Muslim that I asked Abu Ja`far al-Baqir about the Word of the Mighty and High: “O Iblis! What prevented you that you should do obeisance to hi whom I created with My Two Hands?” He replied: In the Arabic language, the hand symbolized power and bounty. As Allah says: And remember Our servant Dawud, the Possessor of Power. He also says: And the Heaven, We raised it high with power. Here the word hands [aydi] mean power. He says: And whom He has strengthened with an inspiration from Him. Here the word hand [ayyad] means strengthening. It is also said (in Arabic): I have many hands with me from so and so, implying excess and beneficence, and me so and so has a white hand, implying bounty.