Who are Ahlulbayt (a.s)?
"And whoever disputes with you concerning him (Jesus) that has come to you of knowledge, then say: Come let us call our sons and your sons and our women and your women and ourselves and yourselves, then let us pray for the curse of Allah on the liars" Al-Quran 3:61.
The above verse refers to 5 personalities, which were regarded by the Almighty, who were trusted by His lordship as his representatives, unanimously agreed by all sects of Muslims, capable of cursing the liars. History tells the fact that no other individual or group has ever been so explicitly mentioned in the Holy Quran. Who were the sons mentioned above, Al Hasan (A.S.), Al-Hussain (A.S.), referred above as our sons, S/O Ali B.Abi Talib (A.S.), Fatima, peace be upon her, referred as our women, Ali b.Abi Talib (A.S.), referred above as ourselves, and the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.W) himself.
The religious duty to love Fatima (as), 'Ali (as), Hasan (as) and Husayn (as)
Let us begin our discussion about the religious duty to love Ahlulbayt [as] by citing the incident
of cloak as recorded by Allamah Ibn al-Najar al-Hanbali (d. 972 H) in 'Sharh al-kawkab al-Munir' Volume 1 page 399:
Ahlulbayt are Ali, Fatima the daughter of Prophet [s] their sons who are Hasan and
Hussain [ra], according to what is in Tirmidhi (book) that when He [swt] revealed
{And Allah only wishes to remove all abomination from you, ye members of the
Family, and to make you pure and spotless.} the Prophet [as] covered them with a
cloak and said: 'They are my family and my own'.
Panj-tan-Pak (five revered personages) means the Holy Prophet Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa(s.a.w.w), Hadrat Fatima, Hadrat 'Ali, Hadrat Imaam Hasan and Hadrat Imaam Husain (may Allah be pleased with them all).
Allah (swt) says in Surah ash Shura:
Say: "No reward do I ask of you for this except the love of those near of kin."
Al-Qur'an, Surah 42, Ayah 23, translated by Yusufali
Sahih Muslim Book 031, Hadith Number 5914.
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba with the same chain of transmitters. Amir b. Sa'd b. Abi Waqqas reported on the authority of his
father that Muawiya b. Abi Sufyin appointed Sa'd as the Governor and said: What prevents you from abusing Abu Turab (Hadrat 'Ali), whereupon be said:
It is because of three things which I remember Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) having said about him that I would not abuse him and even if I
find one of those three things for me, it would be more dear to me than the red camel. I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) say about 'Ali
as he left behind him in one of his campaigns (that was Tabuk). 'All said to him: Allah's Messenger, you leave me behind along with women and children.
Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said to him: you being unto me what Aaron was unto Moses but with this exception that there is no
prophethood after me. And I (also) heard him say on the Day of Khaibar: I would certainly give this standard to a person who loves Allah and his Messenger
and Allah and his Messenger love him too. He (the narrator) said: We have been anxiously waiting for it, when he (the Holy Prophet) said: Call 'Ali.
He was called and his eyes were inflamed. He applied saliva to his eyes and handed over the standard to him, and Allah gave him victory.
(The third occasion is this) when the (following) verse was revealed:
"Let us summon our children and your children." Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) called 'Ali, Fitima, Hasan and Husain and said:
O Allah, they are my family.
Sahih Muslim Book 031, Hadith Number 5920.
Yazid b. Hayyan reported, I went along with Husain b. Sabra and 'Umar b. Muslim to Zaid b. Arqam and, as we sat by his side, Husain said to him: Zaid, you
have been able to acquire a great virtue that you saw Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) listened to his talk, fought by his side in (different)
battles, offered prayer behind me. Zaid, you have in fact earned a great virtue. Zaid, narrate to us what you heard from Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him). He said: I have grown old and have almost spent my age and I have forgotten some of the things which I remembered in
connection with Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him), so accept whatever I narrate to you, and which I do not narrate do not compel me to do that.
He then said: One day Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) stood up to deliver sermon at a watering place known as Khumm situated between Mecca and
Medina. He praised Allah, extolled Him and delivered the sermon and exhorted (us) and said: Now to our purpose. O people, I am a human being. I am about to
receive a messenger (the angel of death) from my Lord and I, in response to Allah's call, (would bid good-bye to you), but I am leaving among you two weighty
things: the one being the Book of Allah in which there is right guidance and light, so hold fast to the Book of Allah and adhere to it.
He exhorted (us) (to hold fast) to the Book of Allah and then said: The second are the members of my household I remind you (of your duties) to the
members of my family. He (Husain) said to Zaid: Who are the members of his household? Aren't his wives the members of his family? Thereupon he said:
His wives are the members of his family (but here) the members of his family are those for whom acceptance of Zakat is forbidden. And he said: Who are they?
Thereupon he said: 'Ali and the offspring of 'Ali, 'Aqil and the offspring of 'Aqil and the offspring of Ja'far and the offspring of 'Abbas. Husain said:
These are those for whom the acceptance of Zakat is forbidden. Zaid said: Yes.
Allah (swt) has made it incumbent upon al Muslims to love the close relatives of Rasulullah (s)
and the Sunni scholars are in agreement that the verse refers to loving Imam 'Ali (as), Sayyida
Fatima (as) and their children. As evidence we shall cite the following esteemed Sunni works:
1. Tafseer al-Qurtubi, volume 16 page 20 the verse of Muwaddat
2. Hilayat al Awliya page 201 Volume 3 the verse of Muwaddat
3. Tafseer Durre Manthur page 7 Volume 348, the verse of Muwaddat
4. Tafseer Kashaf Volume 1 page 1156 the verse of Muwaddat
5. Tafseer Kabeer Volume 7 page 309 the verse of Muwaddat
6. Tafseer Ruh al Ma'ani, Volume 25 page 31 the verse of Muwaddat
7. Tafseer Gharaib al Qur'an Part 25 the verse of Muwaddat page 28
8. Tafseer Fathul Qadeer Volume 4 page 472 the verse of Muwaddat
9. Tafseer Jauhar page 129
10.Tafseer al-Baghawi, Volume 1 page 190
11.Tafsir al-Nasafi,.Volume 4 page 101
12.Tafseer Khazan Volume 6 page 104 the verse of Muwaddat
13.Mustadrak al Hakim Volume 3 page 172
14.Sawaiq al Muhriqa, Volume 2 page 427l
15.Ya Nabi al Muwaddah Bab Saneeh wa Salehsoon page 106
16.Usdul Ghaba, Volume 1 page 1292
17.Kanz al-Ummal page 217 Volume 1
18.Ma'ani al-Quran, Volume 6 page 309
19. T afseer Ibn Katheer, verse of Mawwaddah
20. T afseer Tabari, verse of Mawwaddah
Gharab al Qur'an comments on the verse as follows:
Saeed bin Jabayr narrates after the descent of this verse Rasulullah (s) was asked
'who are your kinfolk who are these close relatives whose love had been made
compulsory?' Rasulullah said they are 'Ali, Fatima, and their sons'. The commentator
then added 'Verily there is no doubt that that this verse descended with regards to
the Ahl'ul Bayt (as) as a matter of pride and superior rank.'
We read in Sawaiqh al Muhriqa:
Abdullah Ibne Abbas narrates 'When this verse descended the people asked who are
these close relatives whose love had been made compulsory?' Rasulullah said they
are 'Ali, Fatima, Hasan and Husayn'. One narrator in this chain was an extremist
[Ghali] Shi'a yet he is very truthful. Hadhrat 'Ali said a verse in Surah Shuara
descended in our honour and every believer is required to act upon it, he then
recited the verse 'Say: "No reward do I ask of you for this except the love of those
near of kin."
And for those who may bring the excuse of the incident being 'weak' let us provide the
testimony of Imam Hassan [as] that the verse 42:23 was revealed for His [as] blessed family.
Imam al-Hasan Ibn Ali (AS) said the following in a discourse which he delivered on the
martyrdom of Imam Ali:
"... I am among Ahlul-Bayt whom Allah has made their love obligatory for any
Muslim when He revealed to His Prophet (s): "Say: I don't ask you any wage except
to love my near kin. And if anyone earns any good We shall give Him an increase of
good." Thus earn the good deed through loving us Ahlul-Bayt."
Ibn Hajar Makki al-Haythami states about this tradition:
"Narrated al-Bazar and al-Tabarani from al-Hassan may Allah be pleased with him
through various chains of narration some of them are 'Hasan'."
Let us now read a testimony of Imam Zain al-Abdeen [as] from Tafseer Durre Manthur that is
also in Tafseer Ruh al Ma'ani, Tafsir Ibn Kathir and Tafsir Tabari that after the murder of al-
Husain [as] when his family were taken prisoners and were moved to Damascus, a man in the
city (who among others was looking at the passing of prisoners in the city) said to Zain al-
Abideen (Imam Ali Ibn al-Husain) that "Praise be to Allah who destroyed you and made
you helpless and cut the root of sedition." On that, Zain al-Abideen said:
"Didn't you read 'Tell I don't ask you any wage except to love my near kin'?" The
man answered: "Are you those?" He (Zain al-Abideen) said: "Yes."
Allah (swt) had made love of Sayyida Fatima, Imam 'Ali (as) and their children compulsory in
the Holy Qur'an, hence anyone that bears enmity towards them has rejected the Qur'an. Hence
we read:
Umamah al-Baheli reported that the messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: 'Allah has
created the prophets from different trees but He created me and Ali from one tree, I
am the root Ali is the branch, al-Hassan and al-Hussain are the fruit and our Shia are
the leaves, whoever holds a branch amongst its branches will survive and whoever
turns away will go astray, if a slave worshiped Allah between al-safa and al-marwa
for thousand year then another thousand year then another thousand year without
possessing love of us Ahlulbayt, Allah will throw him in the hell'. Then (the
messenger of Allah) recited: 'No reward do I ask of you for this except the love of
those near of kin. [042.023 ]'
Tafsir Shawahed al-Tanzeel, by al-Haskani al-Hanafi, volume 1 page 554
Also:
1. Ibn Asakir recorded it in Tareekh Damishq, Volume 41 page 335 and in Volume 42 page 65
and page 66
2. Dur Bahr al-Manaqib, by Allamah Jamal al-Deen al-Hanafi
3. Wasilat al-Maal, by Allamah Bakthir al-Hadhrami, page 61
5. Arjah al-Matalib by Allamah Amritsari, page 457
2. One who hates Imam Ali (as) is a hypocrite
We have this tradition in Sahih Muslim, Book 001, Number 0141:
Zirr reported: 'Ali observed: By Him Who split up the seed and created something
living, the Apostle (may peace and blessings be upon him) gave me a promise that
no one but a believer would love me, and none but a hypocrite would nurse grudge
against me.
We also have the testimony of Abu Said al Khudri:
"We recognized the hypocrites by their hatred of Ali."
1. Fada'il al-Sahaba, by Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, volume 2 page 639 Tradition 1086
2. al-Isti'ab, by Ibn Abd al-Barr, volume 3 page 47
3. Al-Estidkar, by ibn Abdulbar, volume 8 page 446 (narrated from Jabir)
4. Muwadeh awham al-Jame wa al-Tafriq, by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, volume 1 page 41
5. Al-Manaqib, by al-Khawarezmi page 232
6. Dakhaer al-Uqba, by al-Tabari page 91
7. Tarikh al-Khulafa, Imam-Suyuti page 66
8. Meftah al-Naja, by Allamah al-Bedakhsi, page 43
9. Al-Qaul al-Fasl, by Alawy al-Hadhrami , volume 1 page 448
10. Arjah al-Matalib, by Allamah Ubaidallah Amrtsri, page 513
11. al-Riyad al-Nadirah, by al-Muhibb al-Tabari, volume 3 page 242
The margin writer of the book 'Fadail al-Sahaba' namely Dr. Wasiullah Muhammad Abbas
graded the tradition as 'Sahih'.
i am quoting from the following authentic books of Ahle Sunnah:
1. Musnad Ahmad Ibn Hanbal Volume 6 page 323 Hadith 25523
2. al Mustadrak al Hakim Volume 3 page 130
3. Sunan Nasai Volume 5 page 133
4. M ajma al Zawaid Volume 9 page 130 Hadith 14740
Holy Prophet [s] said: "Whoever abuses Ali, abuses me"
Shu'aib al-Arnaoot in his margin of Musnad Ahmed, Imam Hakim in Mustadrak while Imam
Dhahabi in his margin of Mustadrak graded this hadith as 'Sahih
Various Sunni scholars have recorded the following Hadeeth:
Prophet [s] said to Ali: "You are master in this world and hereafter, Whoever loves
you (Ali), loves me and my lover is Allah's (swt) lover, your enemy is my enemy and my enemy is Allah's enemy, woe to who will hate you after I pass away"
1. Al-Mustadrak volume 3 page 128
2. Nadhm Durar al-Semtain, by al-Zerandi al-Hanafi, page 102
3. Tarikh Baghdad, by al-Khatib, volume 4 page 261
4. Tarikh Damishq, by ibn Asaker, volume 42 page 292
5. Al-Manaqeb, by al-Khawarezmi, page 70
6. Ma'arej al-Wusol, by al-Zerandi al-Shafeei, page 40
7. Al-Fusul al-Muhyma, ibn al-Sabagh al-Maliki, volume 1 page 594
8. Yanaby al-Muwada, by Qandozi al-Hanafi, volume 1 page 272
9. Manaqeb amir al-Mominin, by ibn al-Mghazli al-Shafeei
10. Tadkirat al-Khawas, by Sebt ibn al-Jawzy, page 54
11. Al-Ryadh al-Nadhyra , by Muhib al-Deen al-Tabari, volume 2 page 177
12. Dayl al-leale, by al-Seuti, page 61
13. Al-Manaqeb al-Murtadhwya, by al-Kashfi al-Hanafi, page 112
14. Noor al-Absar, by al-Sheblanji, page 74
15. Sulh al-Ekhwan, by Sheikh Dawoud Naqshebandi, page 117
16. Meftah al-Naja, by Allamah al-Bedakhshi page 54
Al-Hafiz ibn al-Sidiq al-Maghrebi proved the authenticity of the hadith in his book 'al-Rad al-
Muqnea' pages 7-8 while Imam Al-Hakim said about the tradition:
"Sahih according to the method of two Sheikhs (Bukhari & Muslim)"
One who hates the Ahl'ul bayt (as) dies a Kaafir
We read in Tafseer Kashaf, under the commentary of the verse of Mawaddah:
"One who dies in the love of the progeny of Muhammad dies with complete Iman,
one who dies with a hatred of the progeny of Muhammad dies a Kaafir".
Allamah Ahmad bin Sawda al-Edrisi, the preacher of Makka shrine said about this tradition:
"The narrators starting from Muhammad bin Aslam till the end are reliable"
Rafe al-Labs wa al-Shubahat, page 98
Tradition can also be read in:
1. Tafseer Kabeer, Published in Egypt (1357/1938), Part 27, pp. 165-166.
2. Tafseer ibn Arabi, Volume 2, page 219
3. Tafseer al-Thalabi, Volume 8, page 314
4. Yanabi al-Muwada volume 2, page 333
5. Tafseer al-Qurtubi, Volume 16 page 23
6. Tajhiz al-jaish, by Allamah Hassan al-Dehlawi, page 13
7. Al-Sharaf al-Muabad, by Allamah al-Nabhani, page 74
8. Arjah al-Matalib by Allamah Amritsari page 320
9. Nuzhat al-Majalis, by Allamah Sheikh Abdulrahman al-Safoori, volume 2 page 222
10.Fasl al-Khetab, by Allamah Muhammad Khawaja parsa al-Bukhari, page 399
One who hates the Ahl'ul bayt (as) shall rot in Hell
We read in Fadhael al-Sahaba by Ibn Hanbal, Volume 2 page 661 and also in Tafseer Dur al-
Manthur by Allamah jalauddin Suyuti who under the commentary of Ayah Mawwaddah clearly Page 8 of 72
records:
Narrated Ibn Uday in report of Abi Saeed that the messenger of Allah of said:
"whoever hated us ahlulbayt, verily he is hypocrite."
We also read in Tafseer Dur al-Manthur:
Narrated Ahmad and Ibn Habban and Al-Hakim, in report of Abi Saeed that the
Messenger of Allah said: "By Him in whose hands my life is, anyone who hates us
ahlulbayt will be sent to hell by Allah."
Shaykh Shu'aib al-Arnaoot graded the tradition as 'Hasan' while Imam Albani al-Wahabi said:
"The chain is sahih according to Muslim's condition"
Silsilat al-ahadith al-Sahiha, volume 5 page 643, Hadith number 2488
This tradition can also be read in:
1. Sahih ibn Haban, Volume 15 page 435
2. Imam Hakim graded it 'Sahih' in al-Mustadrak, Volume 3 page 162
3. Tafseer Ruh al-Ma'ani, Volume 25, page 32
In 'Tazkirah Imam Hussain' page 78, Mufti Ghulam Rasool records:
Ibn Abbas narrates that Rasulullah (s) said 'If any individual prays in the Kaaba in
between Rukn and the place of Ibraheem, fasts, and then dies in such a state that
he hated the Ahl'ul bayt of Muhammad that person shall go to Hell ' [Dakhair al
Ukba page 51]"
T azkirah Imam Hussain, page 78
One who hates the Ahl'ul bayt (as) is of illegitimate stock
Mohibuddeen al Tabari in Riyad ul Nadira Volume 3 page 117 Chapter 116 narrates this
tradition from 'Abu Bakr:
Rasulullah (s) said, "Love of 'Ali, Fatima, Hasan and Hussain is a sign of one being
legitimate, hatred of them is the sign of one being illegitimate".
When we see these Nasibi bearing enmity towards Imam 'Ali (as) and the other members of the
Ahl'ul bayt (as) blame should be apportioned to the pre marital activities of their mothers.
Conclusion
If we bring together these Hadeeth, we see that in the eyes of the Prophet (s) those that bear
enmity towards Prophet Muhammad's (s.a.w.w) Ahlulbayt [ Imam 'Ali (as), Hazrat Fatima Zehra (a.s) Imam Hasan (as) and Imam Husayn (as)and the other members of the Ahl'ul bayt (as) ie. the progeny of Imam Ali (a.s) and bibi Fatima (a.s) are:
? Hypocrites
? Kaafirs
? Going to rot in Hell
? Illegitimately conceived
When Rasulullah (s) has described such individuals in such harsh terms, what should be our
religious duty to such individuals. Rasulullah (s) showed no mercy towards such individuals and
placed them in the category of Hell bound Kaafirs, it is common sense that we should steer Page 9 of 72
clear away from such people, particularly if we claim to love the Ahl'ul bayt (as). With this in
mind we shall now delve into matters and determine whether the Ahe Sunnah (who claim to be
the true followers of the Ahl'ul bayt (as) have kept the words of Rasulullah (s) in mind and
ensured that their religious teachings were never contaminated by such filthy creatures.
In the last i just want to add one more hadith:
Prophet Muhmmad (s.a.w.w) said : "The case of "Ahle Bait" is like Noah's Ark that the one who boarded it was safe and annihilated was he who avoided it."
Translation " Ahle bait ki misal Noah's (a.s) ki kashti ki manind hai, soo jo koi b is mein sawar hoa wo nijat pa gya aur jis nay isay chora woi gumrah o barbad hogya"
Research work by:
[ Ghulam- Muhammad (s.a.w.w)
and Ghulam-e-Ahlul-e-bayt (a.s) ]
Jawad Nawaz
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