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sufficient to note that Allah E revealed verses of the Qurʾān regarding him
which will be recited till the Day of Judgment. In fact no one else, besides Abū
Lahb and his wife, has been condemned by name in the entire Qurʾān. 1 Consider,
why would he deserve inviolable respect and regard which stem from the respect
and regard we ought to have for Nabī H when he himself disbelieved in him
and rejected his message.
Nonetheless, in light of this prophetic instruction regarding the Ahl al-Bayt, it is
the belief of the Ahl al-Sunnah that loving the Ahl al-Bayt is an obligation. The
fulfilment thereof will earn a person reward 2 and the abandoning thereof will
engender deficiency in his faith.
When ʿAbbās I, the uncle of Nabī H discerned that some people of the
Quraysh were being cold toward them, he complained to Nabī H. Nabī
H said to him:
والله ل يدخل قلب امرئ إيمان حتى يحبكم لله ولقرابتي
By Allah, īmān will not enter the heart of a person till he does not love you
for the sake of Allah and due to my relationship with you. 3
Hence the reasons for loving them are many:
1.
Owing to their Islam.
2. Owing to their relationship with Nabī H.
3. The exhortation of Nabī H regarding loving them. 4
1 Majmūʿ Fatāwā Shaikh al-Islām 16/602.
2 Majmūʿ Fatāwā Shaikh al-Islām 4/487.
3 Musnad Aḥmad: ḥadīth no. 1777; Musnad al-Bazzār: ḥadīth no. 2175. The ḥadīth has been graded as
weak by Shuʿayb al-Arnaʾūṭ in his Takhrīj of the Musnad.
4 Al-Saʿdī: al-Laṭīfāt al-Saʿdiyyah p. 94.
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