Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

He was followed by Ḥusayn I who went in with him as well. Then came
Fāṭimah J and so he covered her. She was followed by ʿAlī I and he
covered him as well. Thereafter he said, “Allah intends only to remove
from you the impurity [of sin], O people of the [Prophet’s] household, and
to purify you with [extensive] purification 1 . 2
In some narrations it appears that Nabī H pointing towards them said the
following:
اللهم هؤلء أهل بيتي
O Allah this is my household. 3
And in some narrations Rasūl Allāh H is reported to have resisted from
including Umm Salamah J under the shroud when she requested. 4
This view is weak due to the following reasons:
Firstly, the verses before and after the verse in question are all pertaining to
the wives of Nabī H. Hence it would not be correct to say that they are not
included therein. Otherwise the verse would be completely foreign to the context
wherein it appears, which in itself goes against the style of the Qurʾān. 5
1 Sūrah Aḥzāb: 33.
2 Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim: chapter regarding the merits of the Ṣaḥābah M; sub-chapter regarding the virtues
of the household of Nabī H: ḥadīth no. 2424.
3 The narration of Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ I which appears in Musnad Aḥmad: ḥadīth no. 17029;
There is a similar narration reported from Umm Salamah J: ḥadīth no. 26551; Sunan al-Tirmidhī
contains the narration of ʿUmar ibn Abī Salamah which appears in the chapter of Manāqib (merits):
sub-chapter regarding the merits of the household of Nabī H: ḥadīth no. 3787. The ḥadīth has been
deemed Ṣaḥīḥ by Shuʿayb al-Arnaʾūṭ in his Takhrīj of the Musnad and by al-Albānī in his Ṣaḥīḥ wa Ḍaʿīf
al-Tirmidhī.
4 Musnad Aḥmad 6/323; Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal: Faḍāʾil al-Ṣaḥābah 2/602; Musnad Abī Yaʿlā 12/456; al-
Muʿjam al-Kabīr 3/53.
5 Al-Jaṣṣāṣ: Aḥkām al-Qurʾān 5/230; Tafsīr al-Bayḍāwī 4/374; al-Jāmiʿ li Aḥkām al-Qurʾān 14/183.
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