Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

سئل رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم:‏ من آل محمد؟ فقال:‏ كل تقي،‏ وتال إنْ‏ أَوْ‏ لِيَاؤُ‏ هُ‏ إِلاَّ‏ الْمُ‏ تاَّقُ‏ ونَ‏
Nabī H was asked, “Who is the household of Muḥammad H?” He
said, “Every pious person,” And thereafter recited the following verse: Its
[true] guardians are not but the righteous 1 . 2
The answer to this proof is that it does not qualify as evidence. 3
Proof 2:
Allah E ordered Nūḥ S to carry his Ahl with him in the verse:
قُلْنَا احْ‏ مِ‏ لْ‏ فِيْهَ‏ ا مِنْ‏ كُ‏ لٍّ‏ زَ‏ وْ‏ جَ‏ يْنِ‏ اثْنَيْنِ‏ وَ‏ أَهْ‏ لَكَ‏
Load upon it [i.e., the ship] of each [creature] two mates and your family. 4
And when his son drowned he beseeched Allah E saying:
رَ‏ بِّ‏ إِناَّ‏ ابْنِيْ‏ مِنْ‏ أَهْ‏ لِيْ‏ وَ‏ إِناَّ‏ وَ‏ عْ‏ دَ‏ كَ‏ الْحَ‏ قُّ‏ وَ‏ أَنْتَ‏ أَحْ‏ كَ‏ مُ‏ الْحَ‏ اكِمِ‏ يْنَ‏
My Lord, indeed my son is of my family; and indeed, your promise is true; and you
are the most just of judges! 5
And Allah E rejected that:
إِناَّهُ‏ لَيْسَ‏ مِنْ‏ أَهْ‏ لِكَ‏
O Nūḥ, indeed he is not of your family. 6
1 Sūrah Anfāl: 34.
2 Al-Ṭabarānī: Al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr: ḥadīth no. 318.
3 Ibn Taymiyah has deemed the narration baseless in Majmūʿ Fatāwā 22/462; likewise al-Haythamī
has graded it as weak in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid 10/269; Ibn Ḥajar has deemed it very weak in Fatḥ al-Bārī
11/161; and so has al-Sakhāwī in al-Qawl al-Badīʿ p. 194.
4 Sūrah Hūd: 40.
5 Sūrah Hūd: 45.
6 Sūrah Hūd: 46.
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