[^12] Holy Quran, 42:23 [^13] Tashahhud is the last obligatory part of the prayer, in which performers (of prayer) send blessings to Prophet and his Household, by saying:اَللّٰہُمَّ صَلِّ عَلٰی مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ [^14] Taslim is the last obligatory pillar of a prayer referring to salutation [^15] Holy Quran, 37:130 [^16] Holy Quran, 3:31 [^17] Holy Quran, 42:23 [^18] Holy Quran, 3:33 [^19] Holy Quran, 33:33 [^20] Holy Quran, 42:23 [^21] Holy Quran, 33:33 [^22] After recording this Hadees, al-Bayhaqi commented: According to Abu-Abdullah al-Tirmizi, this Hadees is authenticated and its narrators are trustworthy [^23] In the Holy Qur’an (33:6), Almighty Allah says: النَّبِيُّ أَوْلَىٰ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ ۖ وَأَزْوَاجُهُ أُمَّهَاتُهُمْ“The Prophet has a greater claim on the faithful than they have on themselves, and his wives are as their mothers.” Accordingly, the Prophet’s wives were called ‘mothers of the believers.’ 2 This is an indication to Almighty Allah’s saying in the Holy Qur’an (9:128) “Certainly an Apostle has come to you from among yourselves; grievous to him is your falling into distress, excessively solicitous respecting you; to the believers (he is) full of pity and Merciful.” [^24] The Rukn is the corner of the Holy Kaabah, and Maqam is the standing place of Prophet Abraham (a.s.) near the Holy Kaabah.
[^25] The most reliable reference books of Hadees for our Sunni brethren are six each having independent criterion to decide a hadees’s degree of authenticity. Muslim is the compiler of one of these books and, hence, has his own criterion of a hadees’s degree of authenticity. [^26] The incident of Mubahalah invocation of Allah’s curse is very well-known, for it is mentioned in almost all the books dealing with the Islamic history.
[^27] The ‘Ashab al-Kisa’ (owners of the Cloak) is a name called on the Prophet (s.a.w.a.), Imam Ali, Fatemah al-Zahra, Imam al-Hasan, and Imam al-Husain (a.s.) because the Prophet (s.a.w.a.) covered these four individuals under a cloak and supplicated to Almighty Allah to remove uncleanness from them and purify them thoroughly. In this incident, the Prophet (s.a.w.a.) named them as ‘My Household’ (i.e. the Ahl ul-Bayt (a.s.).
[^28] Waqf is the endowment or settlement of property under which the proceeds are to be devoted to a Religious or charitable purpose.