In his book of Sawaiq,1 Ibne Hajar has mentioned the verse:
إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَمَلَبِكَتَهُ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ – يَأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا صَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمُوا تسليمان
“Surely Allah and His angels bless the Prophet; O you who believe! call for (Divine) blessings on him and salute him with a (becoming) salutation.”2
And mentioned a number of authentic reports regarding this verse. Among
them being that when the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) was asked how salutations must
be recited on him, the Prophet recited salutations on himself and his progeny.
Then he writes:
“This is a clear evidence that the implication of this verse is command of
invoking blessings on the Ahle Bayt of His Eminence and his surviving progeny;
otherwise people would not have asked him about invoking of blessings on them
after the revelation of the verse and what was mentioned in reply to them would
not have been mentioned.”
Also, it is narrated that: “Do not invoke incomplete and tail-cut salutation
upon me.”
They asked: “What is ‘incomplete and tail-cut salutation’?”
He replied: “It is your saying: ‘O Allah, bless Muhammad’ and that’s all. On
the contrary, you should say: O Allah, bless Muhammad and the progeny of
Muhammad.”
Nishapuri in his Tafseer,3 says regarding the exegesis of the verse:
قُلْ لَّا اسْلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ أَجْرًا إِلَّا الْمَوَدَّةَ فِي الْقُرْبِي
“Say: I do not ask of you any reward for it but love for my near relatives.”4
It is sufficient for the pride of the progeny of Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) that it is obligatory to invoke blessings on them in the Tasha-hud of every prayer.
Mohibuddin Tabari has narrated from Jabir in his book of Zakhair:5
“If I recite prayers and in that I don’t invoke blessings on Muhammad and
Aale Muhammad (a.s.) I don’t think it would be valid.”
Statement of the poet: “Except with their remembrance,” hints at a report mentioned by Dailami6
that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) said:
“Supplication remains behind the veil (it is not accepted) till blessings are
not invoked on Muhammad and his Ahle Bayt (a.s.): O Allah, bless Muhammad
and his progeny.”
In his Awsat,7 Tibrani has reported from Ameerul Momineen Ali (a.s.) that
he said:
“Every supplication is under a veil (and it does not rise up to the heavens),
except till blessings are invoked on Muhammad and Aale Muhammad (a.s.).”
As for the statement of the poet:
“If they had not been the best of those, who stepped on the earth, Jibraeel would not have said to those below the cloak.”
This couplet hints at the tradition of the cloak, which is authentic, widely
narrated and there is consensus on its veracity and is accepted by all the sects of
Islam. It is that the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) admitted Jibraeel and Mikaeel in the
cloak along with his Ahle Bayt (a.s.).8
As for the statement of the poet:
“Indeed, Jibraeel the trustworthy, asked the two recording angels [of Ali (a.s.)] regarding his.”
In his book of Tarikh,9 Hafiz Khatib Baghdadi has narrated from Ammaar bin Yasir that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) said:
“Two recording angels appointed on Ali Ibne Abi Talib (a.s.) boast over all the other angels as they never had to report anything to God, which infuriated Him.”
Some other verses of Abdi
- Ahle Bayt of the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) are folks of excellence and positive qualities. 2. They are guides from blindness (on light) and those, who save from hardships. 3. The truthful, speakers and preceders in pursuit of good intentions and acts. 4. Thus, their Mastership (Wilayat) is made obligatory by Almighty Allah in Quran. 5. They are the right path as opposed to the deviated one. 6. Truthful lady is created from the truthful one of a noble lineage. 7. Allah selected that man and woman while they are pure of all blemish. 8. The names of these two are inscribed in a single line under the shade of the throne (Arsh) near to each other. 9. Almighty Allah is her (Fatima’s) guardian and her trustworthy one, Jibraeel, was the reciter of her marriage formula. 10. And her dower is onefifth of the earth and this is a gift, which is great among all the gifts. 11. And her showering is from the tree of Tooba, a purified showering.10