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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Hadith Al-Thaqalayn, the Deposed Will of the Last Prophet to Humanity The Sahabah And The Ahl Al-Bayt: Hadith Al-Hawdh (Part 2) ============================================================= As expected, our ‘ulama from the Ahl al-Sunnah have offered various explanations for Hadith al-Hawdh, some of them deliberately aimed at saving certain famous Sahabah. Al-Hafiz (d.

852 H), for instance, states: وقال الخطابي لم يرتد من الصحابة أحد وانما ارتد قوم من جفاة الاعراب ممن لا نصرة له في الدين وذلك لا يوجب قدحا في الصحابة المشهورين ويدل قوله أصيحابي بالتصغير على قلة عددهم Al-Khattabi said: “None of the Sahabah ever apostatized. It was only a group from the Bedouin Arabs, among those who had no help in the religion.

Therefore, this does not constitute a blemish on the well-known Sahabah; and his statement usayhabi (“my Sahabah”) with tasghir points to their small number.[^1] Imam al-Mubarakfuri (d.

1282 H) also submits: قال القاضي يريد بهم من ارتد من الأعراب الذين أسلموا في أيامه كأصحاب مسيلمة والأسود وأضرابهم Al-Qadhi said: “He intended by them those who apostatized among the Bedouin Arabs who had accepted Islam during his lifetime, like the companions of Musaylamah and al-Aswad and their likes.”[^2] He further adds concerning the ahadith: قال النووي هذا مما أختلف العلماء في المراد على أقوال أحدها أن المراد به المنافقون والمرتدون ….

والثاني أن المراد من كان في زمن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ثم ارتد بعده …. والثالث أن المراد أصحاب المعاصي الكبائر الذين ماتوا على التوحيد وأصحاب البدع الذين لم يخرجوا ببدعتهم عن الاسلام Al-Nawawi said: “This is part of what the scholars dispute about its meaning, submitting various opinions: One of them is that those intended were the hypocrites and apostates....

The second opinion is that those intended were those who lived during the lifetime of the Prophet, peace be upon him, and then apostatized after him.... The third opinion is that those intended are the major sinners who die upon al-tawhid (i.e.

as true Muslims) and the heretics whose heresy does not take them out of Islam.”[^3] Therefore, the various Sunni explanations of the ahadith can be summarized in this manner: The “Sahabah” mentioned in the reports were the Bedouin Arabs who renounced Islam during the rule of Abu Bakr. None of the Muhajirun, Ansar or other major Sahabah were involved or included. Or, rather, those “Sahabah” were the hypocrites and apostates during the lifetime of the Prophet (and perhaps beyond).