Reminder
Dishonest hands betrayed the trusts of the holy religion of Islam and
fabricated this traditional report against authentic lengthy traditional report
narrated by Ibne Abbas from Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) regarding his purified
brother, Ameerul Momineen (a.s.), in which the Prophet said to Ali (a.s.): “You
are my Wali in the world and the hereafter.”
Ahmad has narrated this tradition in his Musnad,1 through a chains of
narrators all of whose reporters are reliable, as was hinted before this.2
And some Hafiz scholars and a number of authors have narrated it, like:3
1. Hafiz Abu Abdur Rahman Nasai (d. 303 A.H.) in Khasais.
2. Hafiz Abul Qasim Tibrani, (d. 360 A.H.), as is mentioned in Al-Faraid, Majuma and other books.
3. Hafiz Abu Abdullah Hakim, (d. 405 A.H.); in his Mustadrak, he has regarded the report to be authentic.
4. Hafiz Abu Bakr Baihaqi, (d. 458 A.H.); as is mentioned in Manaqib of Khwarizmi.
5. Hafiz Abul Qasim bin Asakir, (d. 571 A.H.); as mentioned in Arbaeen atTiwal and Al-Marafiqat.
6. Hafiz Mohib Tabari, (d. 694 A.H.); as mentioned in Riyazun Nazara and Zakhairul Uqbah.
7. Hafiz Ibne Kathir Damishqi, (d. 774 A.H.); in Al-Bidaya wan Nihaya.
8. Hafiz Ibne Hajar Asqalani, (d. 852 A.H.); in Isabah.
5. In his Tabaqat,4 Ibne Saad has narrated from Muhammad bin Umar from
Amr bin Abdullah bin Anbasa bin Amr bin Uthman from Muhammad bin
Abdullah Ibne Amr bin Uthman from Ibne Labiba that he said: When Uthman
was besieged, he looked at them from the window of his house and said: “Is
Talha present among you?” “Yes,” they said.
He said: “I adjure you by God, do you know that when the Messenger of
Allah (s.a.w.a.) established brotherhood among Muhajireen and Ansar, he
instituted brotherhood between me and himself?”
Talha said: “By God, yes.” Thus Talha was asked that when he heard this
from Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.), why he wanted to eliminate Uthman? He
said: “He made a pledge to me, but should I not testify to what I see?!”
Problem with the report: Ibne Labiba himself did not witness the siege upon
Uthman and he has also not narrated it from companions, therefore the report is
Mursal (having incomplete chain of narrators). Ibne Saad is well aware that the
invalidity of this falsehood is not concealed from anyone, whether he narrates it
through chains of narrators or without them.
Does the fabricator of this funny report not know that senior scholars of
traditions and historians have consensus that on the day Messenger of Allah
(s.a.w.a.) established brotherhood between Muhajireen and Ansar, he did not
choose for himself anyone other than his cousin, Ali Ibne Abi Talib (a.s.)?
It is also relevant that Ali (a.s.) is mentioned in Quran as the self of Prophet;
and both are from the household from which Almighty Allah removed all filth
and purified them. And the mastership (Wilayat) of Ali is equivalent to that of
Allah and Prophet.
And after the proof that: In excellence, Ali (a.s.) is like Prophet, in morals
and manners; and his equal in superior qualities and is equal in the Ummah as
narrated from Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.).5
And according to the clarification of the Prophet, Ali is to him like the head
is to the body.6
And as narrated from Abu Bakr: Ali is in relation to the Prophet
as the Prophet is in relation to God.7
And as narrated from His Eminence that those two are from one root and tree and other people are from different trees.8