Introduction to the Edition

"Six individuals from Quraysh came in the time of Abi Bakr, and they said to him: 'O Aba Said, this man about whom the people increase and decrease?, he said: 'About whom are you asking me?', they said: 'We ask you about Ali bin Abi Talib' so he said: 'As for indeed you asked me about a man more bitter than the oleander, and sweeter than the honey, and lighter than the feather, and heavier than the mountain. As for, by Allah, he did not sweeten except upon the tongues of the pious, and he was not light except upon the hearts of the believers. By Allah, he is not bitter except upon the tongue of a disbeliever, and he did not weigh heavily upon the heart of anyone except upon the heart of a hypocrite, and no one turned away from him, nor averted, nor deviated'.

In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful

The Book of Honey in the Knowledge of the Eternity Cures from the Illnesses bring it out as bees bring forth from the finest of blossoms, and it is this, and by Allah is the success: