Hadith al­Thaqalayn

 Hadith al­Thaqalayn

The Assorted Occasions Related to Hadith al­Thaqalayn:

The assorted narrations of Hadith al­Thaqalayn aswell announce the break on which the Prophet (S) proclaimed it publicly. `Allamah `Abd al-`Aziz Tabataba'i, who has advised the assorted narrations of Hadith al-Thaqalayn as recorded by assorted traditionists mentions four occasions on which the Prophet (S) proclaimed it publicly. First of these is the break if the Prophet (S) proclaimed it during his endure hajj at `Arafat. On this occasion, the Prophet (S) was accompanied by added than a hundred thousand Muslims. The additional break relates to his announcement at Ghadir Khumm, during the advance of his acknowledgment adventure to Madinah. The third break relates to his announcement in the Mosque of Madinah. The fourth one relates to his advertisement of Hadith al­Thaqalayn in his alcove during his endure illness. All these occasions lie aural a aeon of ninety canicule and affect to the Prophet's endure days.

There are, however, abounding narrations of the hadith - in fact, a lot of of them - which do not accommodate any clue about the time and abode of its pronouncement. In the afterward are accustomed instances of the narrations of Hadith al­Thaqalayn apropos to anniversary of these occasions, accompanied by the sources which almanac them.[2]

1. At `Arafat

Al­Tirmidhi in his Sunan (v, 662, no. 3786) annal the afterward tradition

....Jabir ibn `Abd Allah said: "I saw the Messenger of Allah - aloft whom be God's accord and benedictions - in the advance of his hajj crusade on the day of `Arafah. The Prophet (S) was built-in on his camel, al­Qaswa', and was carrying a sermon. I heard him say: 'O people, I am abrogation a allotment of you that which if you authority on to you shall never go astray: the Book of Allah and my kindred, my household."

Al­Tirmidhi states that the aforementioned attitude has been anecdotal by Abu Dharr, Abu Sa`id, Zayd ibn Arqam and Hudhayfah ibn Usayd.

Among others who accept recorded this attitude are:

al­Hafiz Ibn Abi Shaybah, as in Kanz al­`ummal (1st ed.), i, 48;

al­`Uqayli in al­Du`afa' al­Kabir, ii, 250;

al­Hakim al­Tirmidhi, Nawadir al-'usul, 68, 50th asl;

al­Tabarani, al­Mu`jam al­kabir, iii, 63, no. 2679;

al­Khatib, al­Muttafiq wa al­muftariq, cf. Kanz al­`ummal, i, 48 and Majma' al­zawa'id, v, 195; ix, 163, x, 363, 268;

al­Baghawi, al-Masabih, ii, 206;

Ibn al­'Athir, Jami` al­'usul, i, 277, no. 65;

al-Rafi`i, al­Tadwin, ii, 264 (in the biographical annual of Ahmad ibn Mihran al­Qattan; this hadith has been deleted in the Indian print, but is present in the manuscripts of the book ! );

al­Mizzi, Tahdhib al­kamal, x, 51, and Tuhfat al­'ashraf, ii, 278, no. 2615;

al­Qadi al­Baydawi, Tuhfat al­'ashraf;

al­Khwarazmi, Maqtal al­Husayn (A), i, 144;

al­Khatib al­Tabrizi, Mishkat al­masabih, iii, 258;

Ibn Kathir, Tafsir (Bulaq edition, on the allowance of Fath al­bayan), ix, 115;

al-Zarandi, Nazm al­durar al­simtayn, 232;

al­Maqrizi, Ma`rifat ma yajib li Al al­Bayt al­Nabawi, 38.

2. At Ghadir Khumm:

Al­Nasa'i in his al­Sunan al­kubra, 96, No. 79, annal the afterward attitude in the affiliate "Khasa'is `Ali":

Al­Nasa'i narrates from Muhammad ibn al­Muthanna, he from Yahya ibn Hammad, from Abu 'Uwwanah, from Sulayman, from Habib ibn Abi Thabit, from Abu al­Tufayl, from Zayd ibn Arqam, who said, "When the Messenger of Allah (A) alternate from the endure hajj and came down at Ghadir Khumm....

"Then he declared: 'I am about to acknowledgment the alarm (of death). Verily, I accept larboard two adored things (thaqalayn) a allotment of you, one of which is greater than the other: the Book of God and my `Itrah, my Ahl al­Bayt. So watch out how you amusement them afterwards me. For, indeed, they will never abstracted until they acknowledgment to me by the ancillary of the Pond.' Again he said, 'Verily, God is my adept (mawlaya) and I am the wali of every believer.' Again he took `Ali's duke and declared, 'To whomever I am his wali, this one is aswell his wali. My God, advise whoever befriends him and be adverse to whoever is adverse to him.'" Abu al­Tufayl says: "I said to Zayd, 'Did you apprehend it from the Prophet(S)?' He replied, 'There was no one in the band who did not see it with his eyes and apprehend it with his ears,'"

Khasa'is `Ali is allotment of al­Nasa'i's al­Sunan al­kubra as apparent by the 3rd aggregate of the MS in the king's accumulating in Morocco, accounting in 759/1358 folios 81-117. See aswell in this attention the addition of al­Khasa'is (Kuwait: Maktabat al­Mu`alla, 1406), ed. by Ahmad Mirayn Balushi. The editor states that this attitude is sahih and its transmitters are thiqah.

Among others who accept recorded it in their books are:

Al-Bukhari, al­Ta'rikh al­kabir, iii, 96;

Muslim, Sahih, bab fada'il `Ali, no. 2408;

Ahmad, Musnad, iii, 17, iv, 366;

`Abd ibn Humayd, Musnad, no. 265;

Ibn Sa`d, and

Abu Ya`la from Abu Sa`id, as mentioned in Jam` al­jawami` and Kanz al­`ummal;

Ishaq ibn Rahwayh, in his Sahih., as mentioned by Ibn Hajar in al­Matalib al­`aliyah, iv, 65, no. 1873, area he states that its isnad is sahih, and aswell by al-Busayri in Ithaf al­sadah (MS in Topcopi Library, vol. 3, F.55b) who, too, considers the isnad as sahih;

Ibn Khuzaymah, Sahih, MS in Topcopi Library, F.240;

al­Darimi, Sunan, ii, 310, no. 2319;

Abu Dawud, Sunan, as mentioned in Sibt ibn al­Jawzi, Tadhkirat khawass al­'ummah, 322;

Abu 'Uwwanah, Musnad, as mentioned in al­Shaykhani, al­Sirat al­sawi;

al­Bazzaz, from Umm Hani, as mentioned in Wasilat al­ma'al;

Ibn Abi 'Asim, Kitab al­Sunnah, 629, no. 1551, 630, no. 1555, 629, no. 1551;

al­Ya`qubi, Ta'rikh, ii, 112;

al­Baladhuri, Ansab al­'ashraf, 110, no. 48, the biographical annual of `Ali (A);

al­Hafiz al­Hasan ibn Sufyan al­Nasawi, the columnist of Musnad, from Hudhayfah ibn Usayd, as mentioned by Abu Nu`aym, al­Hilyah, i, 355,

al­Fasawi, al­Ma`rifah wa al­ta'rikh, i, 536;

Ibn Jarir al­Tabari, from Hudhayfah ibn Usayd, Zayd ibn Arqam (with al­Nasa'i's diction as able-bodied as with the diction of Muslim), Abu Sa`id al­Khudri, as cited in Jam` al­jawami`, ii, 357, 395, Kanz al-`ummal, 12911, xiii, 36441, 36340, 37620, 37621, 36341, Jami` al-'ahadith, vii, 14523, 15112, 15122, 15113, iv, 7773, 8072, 8073;

al­Dulabi, al­Dhurriyyat al­tahirah, no. 228;

al­Hafiz al­Tahawi, Mushkil al 'athar, ii, 307, iv, 368;

al­Hakim al­Tirmidhi, Nawadir al-'usul, from Hudhayfah ibn Usayd;

al­Tabarani, al­Mu`jam al­kabir, iii, 2679, 2681, 2683, 3052, v, 4969, 4970, 4971, 4986, 5026, 5028;

al­Hakim, al­Mustadrak `ala al­Sahihayn, iii, 109, 110 area he especially states, as mentioned above, that the attitude is sahih in accordance with the belief of al­Bukhari and Muslim; al­Dhahabi has accepted his judgement;

Abu Nu`aym, Hilyat al­'awliya', i, 355, ix, 64;

al­Bayhaqi, al­Sunan al­kubra, ii, 148, vii, 30, x, 114;

al­Khatib, Ta'rikh Baghdad, viii, 442;

Ibn al­Maghazili, Manaqib Amir al­Mu'minin (A), 23;

Ibn `Asakir, Ta'rikh Dimashq, ii, 45, no. 547, the biographical annual of `Ali (A), and v, 436 of Badran's copy in the biographical annual of Zayd ibn Arqam;

al­Baghawi, Masabih al­Sunnah, ii, 205 and Sharh al­Sunnah (MS in Topcopi Libary, vol. 2, F. 718), bab Manaqib Ahl al­Bayt;

Ibn al­'Athir, Usd al­ghabah, iii, 92 in the biographical annual of 'Amir ibn Layla, no. 2727;

Ibn Hajar, al­'Isabah in the biographical annual of 'Amir;

al-Mizzi, Tuhafat al­'ashraf, iii, 203, no. 3688 from Muslim and al­Nasa'i;

al­Diya' al­Muqaddisi, al­Mukhtarah, as cited by al­Samhudi and al­Sakhawi;

Ibn Taymiyyah, Minhaj al­Sunnah, iv, 85;

al-Dhahabi, Talkhis al­Mustadrak, iii, 109;

Ibn Kathir, al­Bidayah wa al­nihayah, v, 209, vi, 199, from al­Nasa'i, area he quotes al­Nasa'i's account that this account is sahih;

al­Khazin, Tafsir beneath verses 42:23 and 3:103;

al­Mulla, Wasilat al­muta`abbidin, v, 199;

al-Haythami, Majma` al­zawa'id, ix, 163 from Zayd, 164 from Hudhayfah.

3. In the Mosque of Madinah:

Ibn `Atiyyah in the addition of his tafsir, al­Muharrar al­wajiz, i, 34 annal the afterward narration:

...It is anecdotal that he (i.e. the Prophet) - aloft whom be accord - said in the endure address that he delivered during his illness: "O people, I leave abaft two adored things (thaqalayn) amidst you...: the Book of God - which is a braiding amid Him and you, whose one end is in His duke and whose added end is in your easily ­ so act according to its muhkamat and accept in its mutashabihat; accede as allowable that which it commendations as allowable and accede as banned that which it commendations as actionable - and my `Itrah and my Ahl al­Bayt, who are the additional thaql. So don't outstrip them (fa la tasbiquhum ), for again you shall perish."

Unfortunately in the printed versions of it fa la tasbiquhum has been adapted as fa la tasbi`uhum (a absurd expression). This attitude has aswell been anecdotal by:

Abu Hayyan in his tafsir, al­Bahr al­muhit, i, 12 (with identical wording, except that in a appear adaptation of it there is fa la tasubbuhum, i.e. so don't anathema them, instead of fa la tasbiquhum);

Ibn Hajar, al­Sawa`iq al­muhriqah, 75, 136;

Yahya ibn al­Hasan, Akhbar al­Madinah with his isnad from Jabir, as cited in Yanabi` al­mawaddah, 40.

4. In the Prophet's Alcove During His Endure Illness:

Ibn Abi Shaybah, as cited by Al­`Isami in Simt al­nujum al­'awali, ii, 502, no. 136, has anecdotal the afterward tradition:

The Messenger of Allah (S) said during his endure illness: "Soon I am traveling to canyon abroad and I accept continued to you my appeal of excuse. Lo, absolutely I leave abaft amidst you two adored things: the Book of Allah , the Almighty and the Glorious, and my affiliated (`Itrah)." Again he took `Ali's duke and aloft it, saying, "This `Ali is with the Qur'an and the Qur'an is with `Ali. The two will not abstracted until they acknowledgment to me by the Pond. Again I will ask the two as to how they were advised afterwards me."

Among the narrators of this attitude are:

al­Bazzaz, Musnad, as mentioned in Kashf al­'astar, iii, 221, no. 2612;

Muhammad ibn Ja`far al­Razzaz, from Umm Salamah (where she is absolute that the Prophet [S] fabricated this advertisement in his alcove which was abounding by the Companions), as cited in Wasilat al­ma'al;

Al­'Azhari, Tahdhib al­lughah, ix, 78;

al­Khatib al­Khwarazmi, Maqtal al­Husayn (A), i, 164, from Ibn `Abbas;

Ibn Hajar, al­Sawa`iq al­muhriqah, 89, from Umm Salamah.