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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books All Solutions are with the Prophet’s Progeny The Ahlul Bayt are the natural continuity of the Mission of their grandfather When we say ‘the Ahlul Bayt’, we mean the twelve Imams of the immaculate progeny of the Prophet (S) whom we have studied in full in the previous books. The Shia and the Sunni have agreed that the Messenger of Allah (S) said: The Imams after me are twelve; all of them are from (the tribe of) Quraysh.

The tradition mentioned in the Sahih of al-Bukhari reads: This matter (caliphate) shall remain in Quraysh even if (only) two people remain alive. [^1] We know necessarily that Allah the Almighty has chosen Adam, Noah, the family of Abraham, and the family of Imran and preferred them - a progeny of one from the other - to the rest of mankind. The (S) has taught and declared to us that Allah the Almighty chose him from among all the Hashimites, who were the choicest of choices.

In the Sahih of Muslim - the book of ‘Virtues’, chapter of ‘The preferring of our Prophet to all Creation’ - it is mentioned that the Prophet (S) has said: Allah has chosen Kinanah from the children of Ishmael, the Quraysh from Kinanah, the Hashimites from Quraysh and me (the Prophet) from the Hashimites. The meaning of this tradition, as understood by every reasonable person, is that the Hashimites were a family that had been chosen and preferred among all mankind.

Allah chose Muhammad (S) from the Hashimites to be the best of all mankind. This shows that the Hashimites came second after the (S) in preference with no separation. Likewise the (S) chose Ali and his progeny from all of the Hashimites[^2] to be his successors by the command of the Revelation, and made it obligatory on all Muslims to pray to Allah to send His blessings on them.

We have found that the most tafsirs (commentaries) mention their names and confirm that it is they who are referred to in the Qur’anic verses of ‘ Purification 33:33 ’; ‘ Love, mawaddah 42:23 ’; ‘ Guardianship, wilayah 5:55 ’; ‘ Choosing and bequeathing of the Book 35:32 ’; ‘ The people of remembrance 16:43 ’; ‘ Who are firmly rooted in knowledge 3:7 ’ and the Sura of al-Insan (or ‘hal ata’) 76 .[^3] As for the Prophet’s traditions that have been agreed upon as true traditions by all Muslims and in which the Prophet (S) has referred to the Ahlul Bayt (a.s.) with preference and virtues saying that they were the Imams of guidance, are too many.

So, here we mention just two of them.