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The Excellences of Imam Husain in Sunni Hadith 3 - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief The Excellences of Imam Husain in Sunni Hadith 3 2023-02-20 438 Views Imam Husain , Status of Imam Husain In this part of the article titled “The Excellences of Imam Husain in Sunni Hadith”, we shall make reference to other Sunni hadiths on the superiority of Imam Husain (a.s).

Imam Hasan and Imam Husain Islamic tradition has preserved numerous anecdotes depicting the tender care and love which the Prophet showed Hasan and Husain. They were both born in Medina, and thus knew the Prophet only as children. It is therefore with the intimacy and love of a grandfather that the early life of the two Imams is coloured.

Once more, these family anecdotes also reflect clearly the theological and political tension within the community, a tension which largely centred around Hasan and Husain. One such anecdote is the following. One day, we are told, Hasan and Husain were lost, and their mother Fatima came to the Prophet greatly alarmed. The angel Gabriel, however, came down and told the Prophet that the two youths were asleep in an animal fold some distance away.

God, the angel reassured the anxious family, had charged an angel to keep watch over them. The Prophet went to the spot and found the angel had spread his two wings: one under them and the other over them as cover. The Prophet stooped over the two children and began to kiss them until they awoke. He then carried them on his shoulders back to the city. A large crowd of Muslims followed the Prophet and his two grandsons to the mosque.

The Prophet then addressed the assembled people and said: ‘O Muslims, shall I inform you of those who have the best grandfather and grandmother of humankind?’ ‘Yes, O Apostle of God’, they all replied.

‘They are Hasan and Husain’, he said: ‘Their grandfather is the Apostle of God, the seal of the Messengers, and their grandmother is Khadija, daughter of Khuwaylid, mistress of the women of Paradise.’ The Prophet then declared Hasan and Husayn to have the best maternal uncle and aunt: Jafar and Umm Hani’, son and daughter of Abu Talib.

Their maternal uncle and aunt were likewise the best of all uncles and aunts: they were al-Qasim, son of the Messenger of God, and Zaynab, daughter of the Apostle of God.