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As I was researching a particular topic totally unrelated to Christianity, I came across this tidbit of information about the person I believe to be Paul, in a hadith narrated by Ali (as).
6 months after the prophet (pbuh&hf) passed away, a gang led by Umar ibn Al-Khattab the 2nd khalif surrounded the house of Ali & Fatima (as) and threatened to burn the house down if Ali did not come out and pledge his allegiance to the first Khalif, Abu Bakr.
The gang broke the door down, tied Ali’s hands and dragged him and his followers out of his home to the mosque to force his pledge of allegiance to the new Khalif, while at the mosque and after his allegiance was forcefully extracted, the following exchange took place.
Ali (as) said to Umar: O son of Sahak, we don’t have a right (in this matter) yet you and your companion (abu bakr) do?
Omar replied: stop it now that you have given the allegiance. The people are pleased with my companion and were not pleased with you, so what’s my fault?
Ali said: But God and his Prophet were not pleased except with me, so rejoice, you and your companion and whomever follows you two with God’s anger, punishment, and humiliation. Woe to you ibn Al-Khattab, if you only knew what you brought on yourself and your companion.
Abu Bakr interjected: Oh Umar, so long as he gave us his pledge, let him say what he wants.
Ali continued: I won’t say any more than this, I remind you of what the prophet (pbuh&hf) had said. I heard him say, “a coffin in helfire, with 12 men inside it, 6 of them are from the earlier generations and 6 from the latter generation. In a coffin that is locked in a pit inside hellfire. The pit, covered by a rock. When God wishes to intensify the hellfire, He would remove the rock from the pit and the hellfire would burn more intensely from the heat of the pit.”
so I asked the messenger of Allah (pbuh&hf) about the 6 people from the earlier generation, while you were witnesses and he said, "the early ones are: 1. The son of Adam who killed his brother, 2. The Pharaoh, 3. The one who disputed with Abraham (as) about his lord. 4,5. and two men from the children of Israel who changed their books and ways, the first one Judified the Jews and the 2nd one Christianized the Christians. 6. And Iblis/Satan/Lucifer is the 6th.
From the later generations, the anti-christ and these 5 companions of the scroll & book, including their two idols whom they agreed and contracted against you, my brother, and their mutiny against you after you. This one, and this one" until he named and counted all of them for us.
Salman answered: you spoke the truth, we testify that we heard this from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh&hf)…
Source: Kitab Salim bin Qais, Page 161.
My commentary: the Pharaoh referred to is the one who persecuted Moses and the children of Isarel, Judify is not a word I know, but I couldn’t think of anything else to translate it to, and I don’t know who that person is. The one who Christanized the Christians is Paul. The 5 people of the scroll and book is a reference to Umar, Abu Bakr, Ma’az and 2 others who wrote a document agreeing with one another about their plans to remove Ali from any leadership role after the Prophet’s death. The two idols are a reference to Abu Bakr and Umar, in other traditions they are referred to as the two idols of Quraish.
In Summary, Paul along with others will be thrown and coffin and thrown to the lowest pit in hell covered by a Rock.
6 months after the prophet (pbuh&hf) passed away, a gang led by Umar ibn Al-Khattab the 2nd khalif surrounded the house of Ali & Fatima (as) and threatened to burn the house down if Ali did not come out and pledge his allegiance to the first Khalif, Abu Bakr.
The gang broke the door down, tied Ali’s hands and dragged him and his followers out of his home to the mosque to force his pledge of allegiance to the new Khalif, while at the mosque and after his allegiance was forcefully extracted, the following exchange took place.
Ali (as) said to Umar: O son of Sahak, we don’t have a right (in this matter) yet you and your companion (abu bakr) do?
Omar replied: stop it now that you have given the allegiance. The people are pleased with my companion and were not pleased with you, so what’s my fault?
Ali said: But God and his Prophet were not pleased except with me, so rejoice, you and your companion and whomever follows you two with God’s anger, punishment, and humiliation. Woe to you ibn Al-Khattab, if you only knew what you brought on yourself and your companion.
Abu Bakr interjected: Oh Umar, so long as he gave us his pledge, let him say what he wants.
Ali continued: I won’t say any more than this, I remind you of what the prophet (pbuh&hf) had said. I heard him say, “a coffin in helfire, with 12 men inside it, 6 of them are from the earlier generations and 6 from the latter generation. In a coffin that is locked in a pit inside hellfire. The pit, covered by a rock. When God wishes to intensify the hellfire, He would remove the rock from the pit and the hellfire would burn more intensely from the heat of the pit.”
so I asked the messenger of Allah (pbuh&hf) about the 6 people from the earlier generation, while you were witnesses and he said, "the early ones are: 1. The son of Adam who killed his brother, 2. The Pharaoh, 3. The one who disputed with Abraham (as) about his lord. 4,5. and two men from the children of Israel who changed their books and ways, the first one Judified the Jews and the 2nd one Christianized the Christians. 6. And Iblis/Satan/Lucifer is the 6th.
From the later generations, the anti-christ and these 5 companions of the scroll & book, including their two idols whom they agreed and contracted against you, my brother, and their mutiny against you after you. This one, and this one" until he named and counted all of them for us.
Salman answered: you spoke the truth, we testify that we heard this from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh&hf)…
Source: Kitab Salim bin Qais, Page 161.
My commentary: the Pharaoh referred to is the one who persecuted Moses and the children of Isarel, Judify is not a word I know, but I couldn’t think of anything else to translate it to, and I don’t know who that person is. The one who Christanized the Christians is Paul. The 5 people of the scroll and book is a reference to Umar, Abu Bakr, Ma’az and 2 others who wrote a document agreeing with one another about their plans to remove Ali from any leadership role after the Prophet’s death. The two idols are a reference to Abu Bakr and Umar, in other traditions they are referred to as the two idols of Quraish.
In Summary, Paul along with others will be thrown and coffin and thrown to the lowest pit in hell covered by a Rock.
In any case, “the man who Christianized the Christians” is way too vague for us to know who he was, even assuming he really existed. Well actually his name was Jesus of Nazareth. And I’m surprised that Muslims as a whole seem a lot more concerned about the name of the specific guy who allegedly corrupted Christianity, while they don’t seem all that concerned about discovering the identity of this specific guy who “Judaized Judaism.”