'O brother of Kalb, it is not by knowledge of unseen, and it is only a learning (ta'allum) from a possessor of knowledge (dhi 'ilm). And indeed the knowledge of the unseen is the knowledge of the Hour ('ilm al-sa'ah), and what Allah enumerated by His saying:
["Indeed, Allah, with Him is the knowledge of the Hour, and He sends down the rain, and He knows what is in the wombs. And no soul knows what it will earn tomorrow, and no soul knows in what land it will die. Indeed, Allah is Knowing, Acquainted"] 1 .'
'So He, Glorified be He, knows what is in the wombs of male or female, and ugly or beautiful, and generous or miserly, and miserable or happy, and who will be in the fire [as] firewood or in the gardens to the prophets a companion. So this is the knowledge of the unseen ('ilm al-ghayb) which no one knows except Allah, and what is other than that, then [it is] a knowledge Allah taught His prophet, so he taught it to me, and he supplicated for me that my chest comprehends it and my ribs enclose upon it.'"
Clarification (Tawdhih): From the speech of our Master in his answer to the Kalbi man when he said to him: "You have indeed been given, O Commander of the Faithful, the knowledge of the unseen," it is understood that his informing about the Tatars that [was] not by knowledge of unseen,




