Ali Ibn Abi Talib - Volume 2 of 2

'Ali ibn Abi Tilib 405
from Qays, from al-A'mash, from Sa'eed ihn Jnhayr, from Ibn
'Ahhis (&), who said: 'When the verse dSay [0 Muhammad]: 'No
reward do I ask of you for this except to be kind to me for my kinship
with yon') (Qur'an 42: 23) was revealed, they said: "0 Messenger of
Allah, who are these whom Allah has enjoined us to be kind to?" He
said: "Fitimah and her two sons, may Allah be pleased with
them.""' But the chain of narration of this report includes someone
who is dubious and is not known; he narrated from a fanatic Shiite
shaykh, namely Husayn al-Ashqar, whose reports cannot he accepted
in this context. Stating that this verse was revealed in Madinah is farfetched,
because it is Makkan, andat that time Ficimah (&) did not
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have any children at all, since she did not get married to 'Ali (&)
until after the battle of Badr in 2 AH. The correct interpretation of this
verse is the one given by the scholar of the Ummah and the
interpreter of the Qur'an, Abdullah ibn 'Abbh (&). Ibn Hajar also
discussed the weakness of the reports mentioned and the fact that
they are contrary to the sound hadith~.~"
Their evidence from the Sunnah
1. The speech at Ghadeer Khunun
Ghadeer Khumm is located between Makkah and Madinah at
al-~uhfah,~" twentysix miles to the east of Ribigh. Now it is called
al-~hurhah.~'~ It is said that in this place, the Prophet (g) addressed
the people and mentioned the virtues of 'Ali (&). The R%@s used
this event as the basis for their extremist views concerning him on the
one hand, and they relied on it with regard to his entitlement to the
caliphate on the other hand. They gave this incident more importance
than any other incident during the era of the Prophet (@).513 A book
of eleven volumes was written concerning it, entitled Kit6b al-
Ghadeer (The Book of Ghadeer); this is a hook whose author filled it
with fabricated and weak hadiths.