Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss First Fascicle

his hadîth-i-sherîfs. None of the Ashâb-i kirâm or the Tâbi’în-i
’Izâm thought of Âzer as the father when they heard this âyat-ikerîma,
nor did any of them say so. They inferred that he was his
uncle. This is the belief held by the Ahl-i sunnat.
It is written in the final part of Fatâwâ-i Khayriyya: “It is
written in Qâmûs that Âzer is the name of Hadrat Ibrâhîm’s uncle.
His father’s name is Târuh. It is written as Ibrâhîm bin Târûh in
Târîh-i Hanbalî. It says that Âzer is the nickname of Târûh. In The
Tafsîr of Jalâlayn it is written that the name Âzer in the âyat is
Târûh’s last name. Ibni Hâjar writes in his revision of Hamziyya:
‘Âzer was a disbeliever. It is declared in the Qur’ân that he was
Hadrat Ibrâhîm’s ‘’alaihis-salâm’ father. People with heavenly
books say that Âzer was not Hadrat Ibrâhîm’s ‘’alaihis-salâm’ own
father, but he was his uncle, for the Arabs call the uncle father. So
the uncle has been called father in the Qur’ân. Hadrat Ya’qûb has
been addressed: ‘The creator [Allah] of your father Ibrâhîm and
Ismâ’il.’ However, Hadrat Ismâ’îl was Hadrat Ya’qûb’s uncle, not
his father. When the words of savants do not conform with one
another, it is wâjib to explain an âyat in a manner agreeable with
hadîths. Choosing the easier way, Baydâwî and others did not
make ta’wîl of the âyat.”
’Abdul-Ahad Nûrî Bey wrote a special booklet for proving the
fact that Rasûlullah’s parents were Believers. This booklet is in
Turkish and consists of eighteen pages. It is kept with the call
number ‘3612’ in the Es’ad Efendi section in the library of
Süleymâniye, Istanbul.
Hadrat Imâm-i Suyûtî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’ proves that
Âzer was not Hadrat Ibrâhîm’s father, and that he was his uncle,
through documents in his book Kitâb-ud-derj-il-munîfa. This book
exists in the Süleymâniye library. Its call number in the Raîs-ulkuttâb
Mustafa Efendi section is 1150.
It is written in Anwâr-ul-Muhammadiyya that it is stated in the
hadîth-i-sherîf quoted by Hadrat ’Alî: “From Hadrat Âdam to my
father ’Abdullah, I always passed through married fathers and
mothers. None of my fathers had any child through adultery,
without nikâh.” Rasûlullah stated the names of his twenty-one
fathers back up to Adnân, as follows:
His father is ’Abdullah. The fathers of ’Abdullah successively
are ’Abdulmuttalib, Hâshim, ’Abdu-Menâf, Qussayy, Kilâb,
Murra, Kâ’b, Luwayy, Ghâlib, Fihr, Mâlik, Nadr, Kinâna,
Huzeima, Mudrika, Ilyâs, Mudar, Nizâr, Me’add and Adnân. All
of them, with a brief description of each, have been written in
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