Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

As for after their acceptance of Islam, everyone who has common sense and
knows even a little of the history of both people will know that they were very
united in the time of Nabī H, Abū Bakr, and ʿUmar L. 1
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muʿallimī 2 has made this fact very clear in his following
statement:
شمل اإلسالم الفريقين ظاهرا وباطنا،‏ وكما أسلم قديما جماعة من بني هاشم فكذلك من بني أمية كابني
سعيد بن العاص وعثمان بن عفان وأبي حذيفة،‏ وكما تأخر إسالم جماعة من بني أمية فكذلك من بني
هاشم،‏ وكما عاداه بعض بني أمية فكذلك بعض بني هاشم كأبي لهب بن عبد المطلب وأبي سفيان بن
الحارث بن عبد المطلب،‏ ونزل القرآن بذم أبي لهب ول نعلمه نزل في ذم أموي معين،‏ وتزوج النبي صلى
الله عليه وسلم بنت أبي سفيان بن حرب الموي ولم يتزوج هاشمية،‏ وزوج إحدى بناته في بني هاشم
وزوج ثالثا في بني أمية،‏ فلم يبق في اإلسالم في أحد الطرفين حتى يحتمل أن يستمرهدفا لكراهية الجانب
اآلخر،‏ بل ألف الله بين قلوبهم فأصبحوا بنعمته إخوانا.‏
Islam included both tribes internally and externally. Hence just as a group
of the Banū Hāshim accepted Islam at a very early stage, likewise did a
group of the Banū Umayyah accept Islam at a very early stage, like the two
sons of Saʿīd ibn al-ʿᾹṣ, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, and Abū Ḥudhayfah. Similarly,
just as a group of the Banū Umayyah only entered the fold of Islam much
later, so too was there a group of the Banū Hāshim who embraced Islam
much later. 3 Also, just as some of the Banū Umayyah opposed him, so did
some of the Banū Hāshim like Abū Lahb ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib and Abū
Sufyān ibn al-Ḥārith oppose him. Furthermore, the Qurʾān was revealed
condemning Abū Lahab and we do not know of any section of the Qurʾān
being revealed condemning a specific individual of the Banū Umayyah;
1 Minhāj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah 6/168.
2 ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī al-Muʿallimī. An expert ḥadīth scholar. He was born in 1313 A.H.
in village a Yemen. He was appointed as a judge in Jāzān for Idrīsī. Thereafter he travelled to India and
worked on correcting manuscripts of ḥadīth in the Dāʾirah al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmāniyyah. He thereafter
went to Makkah and settled as the trustee of the library of the Ḥaram. He passed away in 1386 A.H.
Some of his works are: al-Tankīl, al-Anwār al-Kāshifah, Ighāthah al-ʿUlamāʾ. See: the introduction of al-
Tankīl 1/9 which is written by ʿAbd Allah al-Muʿallimī.
3 Actually most of them, as is stated by Ibn Taymiyyah in Minhāj al-Sunnah 4/398.
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