al-Musannaf Abdur Razaq

al-Juz al-Mafqud min al-Juz al-Awwal min al-Musannaf Abdur Razaq, Publish: Dar al-Muhadith, Riyadh/Saudia

 
It is narrated by Imam Abdur Razaq from Mua’mar, from Ibn al-Manqadr, from Jabir ibn `Abd Allah said to the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) : “O Messenger of Allah (Peace Be Upon Him), may my father and mother be sacrificed for you, tell me of the first thing Allah created before all things.” He (Peace Be Upon Him) said: “O Jabir, the first thing Allah created was the light of your Prophet from His light, and that light remained (lit. “turned”) in the midst of His Power for as long as He wished, and there was not, at that time, a Tablet or a Pen or a Paradise or a Fire or an angel or a heaven or an earth. And when Allah wished to create creation, he divided that Light into four parts and from the first made the Pen, from the second the Tablet, from the third the Throne, [and from the fourth everything else]…….” [Musannaf Abdur Razaq, al-Juz al-Mafqud min al-Juz al-Awwal min al-Musannaf Abdur Razaq, Page No. 99, Hadith Number 18]

More References: Qastalani in Mawahib ul Laduniyah Volume 001, Page No. 71, Zurqani in Sharah Mawahib ul Laduniyah Volume 001, Page No. 89-91, Ajluni in Kashf al-Khafa (وقال : رواه عبد الرزاق بسنده عن جابر بن عبد اﷲ رضي اﷲ عنهما) Volume 001, Page No. 311, Hadith Number 827, Halabi in his Sirah Volume 001, Page No. 50, Ashraf Ali Thanvi in Nashar ut-Tib Volume 001, Page No. 13