Appearance
The Caller
وَنَادَىٰٓ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْجَنَّةِ أَصْحَـٰبَ ٱلنَّارِ أَن قَدْ وَجَدْنَا مَا وَعَدَنَا رَبُّنَا حَقًّا فَهَلْ وَجَدتُّم مَّا وَعَدَ رَبُّكُمْ حَقًّا ۖ قَالُوا۟ نَعَمْ ۚ فَأَذَّنَ مُؤَذِّنٌۢ بَيْنَهُمْ أَن لَّعْنَةُ ٱللَّهِ عَلَى ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ
(7:44) The inhabitants of paradise will call out to the inmates of the Fire, ‘We found what our Lord promised us to be true; did you find what your Lord promised you to be true?’ ‘Yes,’ they will say. Then a caller will announce in their midst, ‘May Allah’s curse be on the wrongdoers!’
The question
Who is the caller who will announce between the people of paradise and the people of the Fire, “May Allah's curse be on the wrongdoers!”?
Views answered: reports naming the angel of the Trumpet, Mālik or another angel (Rūḥ al-Maʿānī), al-Ālūsī and al-Manār on the narrations naming ʿAlī
Al-Mizan's argument
The verse does not name the caller. Al-Mizan argues from the Qur'an that the caller will be a human being, not a jinn or an angel: the Qur'an never mentions jinn among the intermediaries in human affairs on that day, and the only role it explicitly gives there is to humans, such as the men on the Aʿrāf. In the narrations, Imam al-Riḍā and Imam al-Bāqir say the caller will be ʿAlī. Al-Ālūsī reports the other views (the angel of the Trumpet, Mālik, or another angel) and questions the narrations from Shia transmitters; al-Manār answers that the experts on transmitters did not judge narrators by their school. Al-Mizan calls this a good answer, adds that a solitary report is not authoritative by itself outside jurisprudence, and explains what it means for the Imam to be the caller in this world and the hereafter.
Reading guide
Each part opens the commentary at that point.