Quran and several sahi narrations explicitly shows that wives of prophet (pbuh) are ahlebayt
Quran and several sahi narrations explicitly shows that wives of prophet (pbuh) are ahlebayt
يَا نِسَاءَ النَّبِيِّ لَسْتُنَّ كَأَحَدٍ مِّنَ النِّسَاءِ إِنِ اتَّقَيْتُنَّ فَلَا تَخْضَعْنَ بِالْقَوْلِ فَيَطْمَعَ الَّذِي فِي قَلْبِهِ مَرَضٌ وَقُلْنَ قَوْلًا مَّعْرُوفًا وَقَرْنَ فِي بُيُوتِكُنَّ وَلَا تَبَرَّجْنَ تَبَرُّجَ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ
الْأُولَى وَأَقِمْنَ الصَّلَاةَ وَآتِينَ الزَّكَاةَ وَأَطِعْنَ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ إِنَّمَا يُرِيدُ اللَّهُ لِيُذْهِبَ عَنكُمُ الرِّجْسَ أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ وَيُطَهِّرَكُمْ تَطْهِيرًا O Consorts of the Prophet! Ye are not like any of the (other) women: if ye do fear (Allah), be not too complacent of speech, lest one in whose heart is a disease should be moved with desire: but speak ye a speech (that is) just. And stay quietly in your houses, and make not a dazzling display, like that of the former Times of Ignorance; and establish regular Prayer, and give regular Charity; and obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah only wishes to remove all abomination from you, ye members of the Family(ahlebayt), and to make you pure and spotless. And recite what is rehearsed to you in your homes, of the Signs of Allah and His Wisdom: for Allah understands the finest mysteries and is well-acquainted (with them) (33: 32-34)
Allah Almighty clearly addresses the wives of the Prophet(saw) in this verse with the term ahlebayt, we base this on the simple fact that the context of the verse starts with O wives of the Prophet, How can we say that this verse refers to Ali(ra) and the Infallible Imams when none of them are mentioned here, but only the wives are addressed, in the initial and the later verses(i.e 33:32-34) where the term ahlebayt was used.
This verse from surah ahzaab is so clear and explicit in declaring wives of prophet(Saw) as ahlebayt that a person with unbiased approach will never deny this crystal clear proof as it is apparent from the whole passage(33:32-34) right from the beginning to the end that addressees are wives of prophet(Saw). But those who love their self made beliefs and concepts made by their fathers more than the word of Allah they cling to those farfetched arguments and interpretations which the quran(3:7) warned against.
Now let us quote some authentic narrations which are in agreement with quran and backup the explicit verses of quran which shows us that wives of prophet(Saw) are ahlebayt.
قال أنس: وشهدت وليمة زينب. فأشبع الناس خبزا ولحما. وكان يبعثني فأدعوا الناس. فلما فرغ قام وتبعته. فتخلف رجلان استأنس بهما الحديث. لم يخرجا. فجعل يمر على نسائه. فيسلم على كل واحدة منهن سلام عليكم. كيف أنتم يا أهل البيت؟ فيقولون: بخير. يا رسول الله ! كيف وجدت أهلك ؟ فيقول بخير
1. Anas(ra) said: I also saw the wedding feast of Zainab, and he (the Holy Prophet) served bread and meat to the people, and made them eat to their hearts content, and he (the Holy Prophet) sent me to call people, and as he was free (from the ceremony) he stood up and I followed him. Two persons were left and they were busy in talking and did not get out (of the apartment). He (the Holy Prophet) then proceeded towards (the apartments of) his wives. He greeted with as−Salamu alaikum to every one of them and said: Members of the household, how are you? They said: Messenger of Allah, we are in good state How do you find your family? He would say: In good state. (sahi muslim Bk 8, Number 3328)
(Similar narration is present in Sahih Bukhari, Volume 6, Book 60, Number 316)
Comment: In the above narration prophet(saw) terms his wives as ahlebayt as Prophet [saw] greeted his wives as Assalamualaikum. Kaifa antum ya Ahlal Bayt
2.
وهو على المنبر: (يامعشر المسلمين، من يعذرني من رجل قد بلغني أذاه في أهل بيتي، فوالله ما علمت على أهلي إلا خيرا، ولقد ذكروا رجلا ما علمت عليه إلا خيرا، وما كان يدخل على أهلي إلا معي
2. Sahi bukhari (Volume 6 hadith 274)So Allahs Apostle got up (and addressed) the people an asked for somebody who would take revenge on Abdullah bin Ubai bin Salul then. Allahs Apostle, while on the pulpit, said, O Muslims! Who will help me against a man who has hurt me by slandering my family(ahli bayti)? By Allah, I know nothing except good about my family, and people have blamed a man of whom I know nothing except good, and he never used to visit my family except with me,
Comment: In the above narration prophet(saw) terms one of his wife as ahlebayt. Prophet (S.A.W.) said to one of his wife Ahli Baytee (my family) on pulpit, during the incident of Ifk.
3.
وحدثنا زهير بن حرب وإسحاق بن إبراهيم. كلاهما عن جرير. قال زهير: حدثنا جرير عن منصور، عن إبراهيم. قال:
قلت للأسود: هل سألت أم المؤمنين عما يكره أن ينتبذ فيه؟ قال: نعم. قلت: يا أم المؤمنين! أخبريني عما نهى عنه رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أن ينتبذ فيه. قالت: نهانا، أهل البيت، أن ننتبذ في الدباء والمزفت
3. Sahi muslim (Bk 23, Number 4918) Ibrahim reported: I said to Aswad if he had asked the Mother of the Believers (in which utensils) he (the Holy Prophet) disapproved the preparation of Nabidh. He (Aswad) said: Yes. I said: Mother of the Believers, inform me about the utensils in which) Allahs Apostle forbade to prepare Nabidh. She (Hadrat Aisha) said: He forbade us, the members of his family [Ahlal Bayt], to prepare Nabidh in gourd, or varnished jar. I said to him: Do you remember green pitcher, and pitcher? He said: I narrated to you what I have heard; should I narrate to you which I did not hear?
Comment: In the above narration wife of prophet(saw) too considers herself to be ahlebayt.
4. (Sahi muslim Bk 4, Number 0804) Ibn Abi Laila reported: Kab b. Ujra met me and said: Should I not offer you a present (and added): The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) came to us and we said: We have learnt how to invoke peace upon you; (kindly tell us) how we should bless you. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Say: O Allah: bless Muhammad and his family as Thou didst bless the family of Ibrahim. Verily Thou art Praiseworthy and Glorious, O Allah.
Comment : In this narration you find that prophet(saw) just mentioned his family and showed how we should bless him and his family. However in the next narration you will notice that prophet(saw) explained that from whom his family was formed.
(Sahi muslim Bk 4, Number 0807) Abu Humaid as−Saidi reported: They (the Companions of the Holy Prophet) said: Apostle of Allah, how should we bless you? He (the Holy Prophet) observed: Say: O Allah! bless Muhammad, his wives and his offspring as Thou didst bless Ibrahim, and grant favours to Muhammad, and his wives and his offspring as Thou didst grant favours to the family of Ibrahim; Thou art Praiseworthy and Glorious.
Comment: In the above narration though he taught us how to send blessings on him and his family as in previous narration,But here prophet(saw) in a crystal clear manner teaches us that his wives and his progeny collectively forms his family. And they too are part of his family, because if he wanted to include his wives in the blessings and they were not from his family(aal) , Then the wordings would have been his wives and his family(aal) which was not the case here and It seems that he knew that there will be some ignorants who will deny wives of prophet(saw) to be part of his blessed family, that is why prophet(saw) in an explicit manner in the above narration showed that his wives and his progeny collectively forms his family. Thats why instead of using family as in previous narration here prophet(Saw) elaborated that who his family were. Prophet(saw) here used family for hz ibrahims(as) family as he knew that there will be no dispute of his wives being from his family but for his own he had to clear that his wives and his progeny collectively forms his family because he didnt want to leave people to be misguided by some deviants who might say that wives of prophet(Saw) were not from his family. Thus instead of using family like he used for hz ibrahim(as)s family , he used wives and offspring.
5. In Musnad Ahmad (Hadith no. 18464), Zaid ibn Arqam(ra) said: His wives are the members of his family(ahlebayt) but here the members of his family are those for whom acceptance of Zakat is forbidden. (Ahmad, Hadith no. 18464)
Comment: hz zaid(ra) clearly said that wives of prophet(Saw) are his ahlebayt. And regarding that zakat is forbidden for ahlebayt, then this rule even applies to wives of prophet(Saw) as we see in the next narration.
6. Musannaf ibn abi shaybah (chapter Laa tahillu al-sadqa ala bani hashim)
ابن أبي مليكة أن خالد بن سعيد بعث إلى عائشة ببقرة من الصدقة فردتها وقالت إنا آل محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم لا تحل لنا الصدقة
Narrated with sahi sanad From Ibn Abu Malika [narrated] that: Khaled Ibn Saeed sent a cow from the Sadaqah to Aisha, so she sent it back and said: We are the Aal (the family) of Muhammad Salah Allah Alaihi wa Salam the sadaqah is not permissible for us
Comment : This narration from musannaf ibn abi shaybah also proves that the wives of prophet(Saw) did consider themselves to be not eligible to receive sadaqa and they were from aal e muhammed(Saw).
p.s. aal and ahl both implies the same meaning and can be called as synonyms.
7.
أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال لها يا عائشة هذا جبريل يقرأ عليك السلام فقلت وعليك السلام ورحمة الله وبركاته وذهبت تزيد فقال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم إلى هذا انتهى السلام فقال رحمة الله وبركاته عليكم أهل البيت
الراوي: عائشة المحدث: الهيثمي المصدر: مجمع الزوائد لصفحة أو الرقم: 8/36
خلاصة حكم المحدث: رجاله رجال الصحيح
7. The Prophet PBUH told Aisha RAA: This is Gabriel and he delivers Salam to you she said: Wa Aleykum el Salam wa rahmatu Allah wa Barakatuhu (And she wanted to Say much more) The prophet PBUH then said: Until here the Salam ends he PBUH told her He(Gabriel) said The Mercy of Allah and his blessings be upon you O AhlulBayt.
Muhaddith: Al haythami from Mujamaa al Zawaid
Hadith Rank: Rijal of Sahih.
8. عن ابن عباس : ?إنما يريد الله ليذهب عنكم الرجس أهل البيت ( [ الأحزاب : 33 ] . قال : نزلت في أزواج النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم خاصة .
الراوي: عكرمة المحدث: الذهبي المصدر: سير أعلام النبلاء لصفحة أو الرقم: 2/221
خلاصة حكم المحدث: إسناده صالح
8. Ibn Abbas RAA: Allah intends only to remove from you the impurity [of sin], O people of the [Prophet's] household, He said: It was revealed especially about the wives of the prophet PBUH.
Siyar Aalam al nubalaa
Rank: Good Isnad.
9. في بيتي أنزلت : ? إنما يريد الله ليذهب عنكم الرجس أهل البيت ويطهركم تطهيرا ? قالت : فأرسل رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إلى فاطمة وعلي والحسن والحسين ، فقال : هؤلاء أهل بيتي ، وفي حديث القاضي والسمي : هؤلاء أهلي ، قالت : فقلت : يا رسول الله ! أما أنا من أهل البيت ؟ قال : بلى إن شاء الله تعالى
الراوي: أم سلمة المحدث: الحاكم المصدر: السنن الكبرى للبيهقي لصفحة أو الرقم: 2/150
خلاصة حكم المحدث: صحيح سنده ثقات رواته
Umm Salmah said: In my House it was revealed 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. So the Prophet PBUH sent after Fatima, Ali, Hassan, Hussein and said: They are my ahluLBayt and in another narration by Al Qadi and al Summy: They are My Ahel She then said: O prophet of Allah! Arnt I from ahlulbayt? He said: inshallah yes.
Narrator Umm Salamah
Sunan al kubrah
Rank: Sahih.
Note: In this narration prophet () clearly links a wife to inshallah because it is contingent upon her staying his wife. Whereas the others will remain his family. So, the wife is ahl bayt as long as she is wife and she stops being so when and if you are divorced. Moreover, Saying inshallah does not have to mean doubt. There is an occurrence in the Quran of this term where clearly it is not doubt.
Some other narrations to prove that wives of prophet(Saw) are his ahlebayt
حدثنا أبو كريب، قال: ثنا خالد بن مخـلد، قال: ثنا موسى بن يعقوب، قال: ثنـي هاشم بن هاشم بن عتبة بن أبـي وقاص، عن عبد الله بن وهب بن زمعة، قال: أخبرتنـي أمّ سلـمة أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم جمع علـياً والـحَسنـين، ثم أدخـلهم تـحت ثوبه، ثم جأر إلـى الله، ثم قال: هؤلاء أهل بـيتـي ، فقالت أمّ سلـمة: يا رسول الله أدخـلنـي معهم، قال: إنَّكِ مِنْ أهْلِـي
1. On authority of Abd Allah bin Wahb bin Zamah, Umm Salamah informed me that the Messenger of Allah SAWS assembled Alii and the two Hasans (Husayn and Hasan), he brought them under his thawb, then supplicated to Allah and said: These are the people of my household. Then Umm Salamah said: Oh Messenger of Allah, bring me in with them. He said: Indeed you are from my household. (Tabari in Tafsir)
2. Tabarani in al-Kabir:
حدثنا بكر بن سهل الدمياطي ثنا جعفر بن مسافر التنيسي ثنا ابن أبي فديك ثنا موسى بن يعقوب الزمعي عن هشام بن هاشم عن وهب بن عبد الله بن زمعة : عن أم سلمة أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم جمع فاطمة و حسنا و حسينا رضي الله عنهما ثم أدخلهم تحت ثوبه ثم قال : اللهم هؤلاء أهل بيتي قالت أم سلمة : قلت يا رسول الله أدخلني معهم قال : إنك من أهلي
2663 On authority of Wahb bin Abd Allah bin Zamah (this name is flipped from the previous chain), on authority of Umm Salamah that the Messenger of Allah SAWS assembled Faatimah, Hasan, and Husayn, then brought them under his thawb, and said: Oh Allah, these are the people of my household. Then Umm Salamah said: Oh Messenger of Allah, bring me in with them. He said: Indeed you are from my household.
3. ومن حديث هاشم بن هاشم بن عتبة بن أبي وقاص ، عن عبد الله بن وهب ابن زمعة قال : أخبرتني أم سلمة رضي الله عنها ، أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم جمع وفاطمة ، والحسن ، والحسين ، رضي الله عنهم ، ثم أدخلهم تحت ثوبه ، ثم جأر إلى الله تعالى وقال : هؤلاء أهل بيتي . فقالت أم سلمة : يا رسول الله أدخلني معهم ، قال : إنك من أهلي
Umm Salamah رضي الله عنها reported to me that the Messenger of Allh (صلى الله عليه وسلم) collected Ftimah, al-Hasan, al-Husayn رضي الله عنهم then he entered them under his cloak, then he called upon Allh Most High and said: These are the members of my household. Then Umm Salamah رضي الله عنها said: O Messenger of Allh enter me with them, he said: Verily, you are form my family. [Maqrizi Fadail ahlalbayt p 26]
4 . حدثنا عبد الله حدثني أبي حدثنا أبو النضر هاشم بن القاسم حدثنا عبد الحميد يعني ابن بهرام قال حدثني شهر بن حوشب قال سمعت أم سلمة زوج النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم حين جاء نعي الحسين بن علي لعنت أهل العراق فقالت: قتلوه قتلهم الله غروه وذلوه لعنهم الله فإني رأيت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم جاءته فاطمة غدية ببرمة قد صنعت له فيها عصيدة تحمله في طبق لها حتى وضعتها بين يديه فقال لها: أين ابن عمك قالت: هو في البيت قال: فاذهبي فادعيه وائتني بابنيه قالت: فجاءت تقود ابنيها كل واحد منهما بيد وعلي يمشي في أثرهما حتى دخلوا على رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فأجلسهما في حجره وجلس علي عن يمينه وجلست فاطمة عن يساره قالت: أم سلمة فاجتبذ من تحتي كساء خيبريا كان بساطا لنا على المنامة في المدينة فلفه النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم عليهم جميعا فأخذ بشماله طرفي الكساء وألوى بيده اليمنى إلى ربه عز وجل وقال: اللهم أهلي اذهب عنهم الرجس وطهرهم تطهيرا اللهم أهل بيتي اذهب عنهم الرجس وطهرهم تطهيرا اللهم أهل بيتي أذهب عنهم الرجس وطهرهم تطهيرا. قلت يا رسول الله ألست من أهلك قال بلى فادخلي في الكساء قالت: فدخلت في الكساء بعد ما قضى دعاءه لابن عمه علي وابنيه وابنته فاطمة رضي الله عنهم.
Shahr narrated to us, he said: I heard Umm Salamah, when the news of the death of Al-Husien ibn Ali came to her, she said: They killed him, May Allah kill them, and they humilated him May Allah curse them. For I saw the Messenger of Allah [Salah Allah 'Alaihi wa Salam] and Fatima had come to him one day with a Burmah (a pot, pan, or jar was made from stone in the past) of hers from which she made a Asida (a dish made by mixing flour with ghee, butter, etc and then cooked) carrying it in a plate of hers, until she placed it in front of him.
He told her: Where is your cousin? She said: He is at home. [So] he said: go and call him, and bring forth your sons.
She (i.e. Um Salama) said: she came leading her sons each one of them, and Ali walking on their trail, until they entered upon the Messenger of Allah [Salah Allah 'Alaihi wa Salam]. He sat them (i.e Al-Hasan & Al-Husien) on his lap, and Ali sat on his right, and Fatima sat on his left.
Umm Salama said: he pulled a cloak (a Kisa) from under me and then he [Salah Allah 'Alaihi wa Salam] wrapped it around them all, taking the edges of the Cloak by his left hand, and pointing with his right hand towards his Lord [Exalted and Glorified is He] and said: O Allah, remove from them the Rijs (evil deeds and sins, etc.), and purify them with a thorough purification, three times.
She said: [So] I said: O Messenger of Allah, am I not [also] from your Ahl?
[So] he said: Yes, Indeed, [you are].
He said: So enter the Kisa (the cloak) [too].
She said: So I entered after he completed his supplication to his cousin Ali, his sons, and his daughter Fatima ['Alaihim Al Salam]. (Musnad ibn Hanbal, v6,p298)
5 . Reported Ali ibn Harb Mausuli, from Zyed ibn Habab, Husayn ibn Vakad, Yazeed Nakhu, from Ikrima, from ibn Abbas, that he said about this verse: O people of the House! and to purify you a (thorough) purifying it was revealed concerning to wifes of prophet . (see also Siyar alamun nubala by Zahabi 2/208) (Ibn Kasir in his commentary (6/410))
And the same was reported by Suyuti in Durr al mansur with refference to ibn Asakir and Abu Hatim.
6 . Abul-Qasim Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad al-Sarraj informed us> Muhammad ibn Yaqub> al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Affan> Abu Yahya al-Hamani> Salih ibn Musa al-Qurashi> Khusayf> Said ibn Jubayr> Ibn Abbas who said: This verse was revealed about the wives of the Prophet, Allah bless him and give him peace (Allahs wish is but to remove uncleanness far from you, O Folk of the Household, and cleanse you with a thorough cleansing).
7 . Aqil ibn Muhammad al-Jurjani informed us (through a verbal authorisation)> al-Muafa ibn Zakariyya al-Qadi> Muhammad ibn Jarir> Ibn Humayd> Yahya ibn Wadih> al-Asbagh> Alqamah> Ikrimah who said, regarding the words of Allah, exalted is He (Allahs wish is but to remove uncleanness far from you, O Folk of the Household): This verse was not revealed about whom you think it was revealed. Rather, it is about the wives of the Prophet, Allah bless him and give him peace. Ikrimah used to proclaim this in the marketplace.
8.Imam Suyuti (rah) quotes this hadith:
وأخرج ابن سعد عن عروة رضي الله عنه ** إنما يريد الله ليذهب عنكم الرجس أهل البيت ** قال: يعني أزواج النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم نزلت في بيت عائشة رضي الله عنها
Imam Ibn Sad (ra) narrates from Urwa (ra) who said: Ahlul Bayt refers to wives of Prophet (Peace be upon him). This verse was revealed regarding Hadrat Aisha (ra). (Tabaqat, Ibn Sad narrated in volume 8, p 199)
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