And hold fast by the covenant of Allah all together and be...

And hold fast by the covenant of Allah all together and be not disunited… (Sura Ale-Imran 3:103) The Holy Prophet (S) said: O people! I am leaving behind me for you two great things who are my successors and caliphs among you. If you will adopt them and will act accordingly and follow them, you will never go astray after me. One of them is greater than the other. The greater one is the Book of Allah that is a rope stretched from sky to earth and another is my Ahlul Bayt (a.s.).

These two will not be separated from one another until they come to me on the Hauze Kauthar. Ibne Kathir has, in Jamiul Usool which is in vogue among the Ahle Sunnat, has quoted Tirmidhi wherein…