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He also prophesised that ʿUthmān I will encounter hardship 1 and that he will

be on the truth 2 and ordered him to exercise patience.

Amongst his prophecies and advices was that he exhorted the Ummah to treat

his Ahl al-Bayt with goodness, and more specifically ʿAlī I, the most virtuous

amongst them. He ordered that ʿAlī I be loved and warned against hating him,

he deemed him the bosom friend of any person who considered Nabī H

to be his bosom friend, 3 he informed that his killer will be the most wretched of

people, 4 and he told Zubayr I:

تقاتله وأنت له ظالم

You will fight him and you will be wronging him. 5

He also addressed the Mothers of the Believers saying:

كيف بإحداكن إذا نبحتها كالب الحوأب

What would be the condition of one of you when the dogs of Ḥawʾab will

bark at her? 6

1 Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 6/2499.

2 Musnad al-Ṭayālisī: ḥadīth no. 176; Muṣannaf Ibn Abī Shaybah 6/360; Musnad Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal 4/235.

3 Sunan al-Tirmidhī 5/633; Sunan al-Nasāʾī al-Kubrā 5/45; Sunan Ibn Mājah 1/45.

4 Musnad Aḥmad: ḥadīth no. 4/263; Musnad al-Bazzār 4/254; Musnad Abī Yaʿlā 1/377.

5 The narration of ʿAlī I which features in Mustadrak Ḥākim: chapter regarding knowing the

Ṣaḥābah: sub-chapter regarding the martyrdom of Zubayr I: ḥadīth no. 5574 (he deemed the

ḥadīth authentic); al-Bayhaqī: Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwah 6/377.

6 The narration of ʿĀʾishah J which appears in Muṣannaf ibn Shaybah: chapter of Jamal: sub-chapter

regarding the march of ʿĀʾishah, ʿAlī, Ṭalḥah and al-Zubayr M: ḥadīth no. 37771; Musnad Aḥmad:

ḥadīth no. 24299; Mustadrak Ḥākim: chapter regarding knowing the Ṣaḥābah: sub-chapter regarding

the Islam of Amīr al-Muʾminīn ʿAlī I: ḥadīth no. 3613; Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān: chapter of history: subchapter

of his prophecies regarding the tribulations which will befall the Ummah: ḥadīth no. 6732. Ibn

Ḥajr has stated that its chain of transmission meets the requirement of the Ṣaḥīḥ, and the ḥadīth has

been graded Ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albānī in his al-Silsilah al-Ṣaḥīḥah: ḥadīth no. 474. Ibn al-ʿArabī and Muḥibb

al-Dīn al-Khaṭīb who followed him, have both erred in discrediting this ḥadīth (see: al-ʿAwāṣim min al-

Qawāṣim p. 162. And also see the animadversion thereof by al-Qurṭubī in al-Tadhkirah 2/255). continued ...

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