The Ahlul Bayt (The Family of our Beloved Prophet)
Sa’d bin Abu Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) said that when this verse came down, “Let us call our sons and your sons…”* Allah’s Messenger (may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him) called Sayyidina ‘Ali, Sayyidah Fatima, Sayyidina Hasan and Sayyidina Husain (may Allah be pleased with them) and said, “O Allah, these are the members of my family.” (Muslim)
*Qur’an, (3:61)
Mother of faithful believers, Hadrat ‘A’isha (may Allah be pleased with her) said that the Prophet (may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him) went out one morning wearing a striped cloak of black goat’s hair. Al-Hasan bin ‘Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) came and he took him under it, then al-Husain (may Allah be pleased with him) came and went under it along with him, then Fatima (may Allah be pleased with her) came and he took her under it, then ‘Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) came and he took him under it. He then recited (the following verse): “Allah only desires to remove abomination from you, members of the family, and purify you.” Qur’an, (33:33) (Muslim)
Zaid bin Arqam (may Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah’s Messenger (may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him) as saying, “I am leaving among you something of such a nature that if you lay hold of it you will not go astray after I am gone, one part of it being more important than the other: Allah’s Book, a rope stretched from heaven to earth, and my close relatives who belong to my household. These two will not separate from one another till they come down to the Pond, so consider how you would act regarding them after my departure.” (Tirmidhi)
Abu Dharrr (may Allah be pleased with him) while holding the door of the Ka’ba, said that he had heard the Prophet (may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him) say, “My family among you are like Noah’s ark. He who sails on it will be safe, but he who holds back from it will perish.” (Ahmad)
Zaid bin Arqam (may Allah be pleased with him) said that Allah’s Messenger (may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him) said of Sayyidina Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), Sayyidah Fatima (may Allah be pleased with her), Sayyidina al-Hasan (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyidina al-Husain (may Allah be pleased with him), “I am war to him who makes war on them and peace to him whom makes peace with them.” (Tirmidhi)
