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The Reward of Loving Ahlul-Bayt 2 - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief The Reward of Loving Ahlul-Bayt 2 2022-12-05 619 Views In this part of the article titled “The Reward of loving Ahlul-Bayt”, we shall focus on other relevant information from Sunni scholars on the reward of loving Ahlul-Bayt (a.s).

Sunni scholars also narrated that Imam al-Hasan Ibn Ali (AS) said the following in a discourse which he delivered on the martyrdom of Imam Ali: “… I am among Ahlul-Bayt whom Allah has made their love obligatory for any Muslim when He revealed to His Prophet (PBUHH): “Say: I don’t ask you any wage except to love my near kin. And if anyone earns any good We shall give Him an increase of good (1). “Thus, earn the good deed through loving us Ahlul-Bayt” (2).

Furthermore, it is narrated from Ibn Abbas: Ibn Abbas said: “The good deed in the verse: ‘And if anyone earns any good We shall give Him an increase of good (3) is the love of family (Aal) of the Muhammad (PBUHH).” (4) Sunni traditionists also narrated that: After the martrydom of al-Husain when his family were taken prisoners and were moved to Damascus, a man in the city (who among others was looking at the passing of prisoners in the city) said to Zain al-Abideen (Imam Ali Ibn al-Husain) that “Praise be to Allah who destroyed you and made you helpless and cut the root of sedition.” On that, Zain al-Abideen said: “Didn’t you read ‘Say, I don’t ask you any wage except to love my near kin’?” The man answered: “Are you those?” He (Zain al-Abideen) said: “Yes.” (5) Contrary to all the above traditions, Yusuf Ali has a very strange commentary for the verse (42:23).

He wrote: Yusuf Ali> No sort of tangible reward does the Prophet of Allah ask for Yusuf Ali> proclaiming the Glad Tidings of Allah. At least he has the Yusuf Ali> right to ask that his kith and kin should not persecute him and Yusuf Ali> put all sorts of obstacles in his way, as did the Quraish Yusuf Ali> against the holy Prophet. (6) What Yusuf Ali implied was that, by the above verse, the Prophet was asking his kin not to prosecute him and they should love his kin, i.e., the Prophet.

The fact is that the above-mentioned traditions of the Prophet regarding the revelation of verse 42:23, contradict what Yusuf Ali commented. I wonder if we should take the opinion of the Prophet or the opinion of Yusuf Ali?!